"Totemic Magic: Suzanna Biro and Frederick Chiriboga."
2004-10-01 until 0000-00-00
ART6 Gallery
Richmond, VA, USA United States of America

art6 gallery in Richmond, Virginia presents the exhibition “Totemic Magic” from October 1st to 31st, 2004, featuring sculpture by Suzanna Biro of Marshall, N.C. and sculpture and painting by Richmond artist, Frederick Chiriboga. The theme explores the many facets of totemic imagery with its dynamic emphasis on magic.

Suzanna Biro studied and traveled in Colombia, S.A. for more than three years learning weaving, pottery and painting from artists in villages throughout the country. She also studied sculpture and drawing in New York City. Her mixed media sculptures with added skulls and animal bones (found in the N.C. mountains) have been her main focus for the past 4 years. She says: “My work is meant to honor all living things in this world of plants, rocks, water, air, animals and man.”

Frederick Chiriboga has shown many times in Richmond and nationally, and for several years ran with his wife Birthe, the Aquiles Adler Gallery on Broad Street. He studied at Wayne State University in Detroit and spent every summer of his childhood visiting his grandfather’s farm in the Andean Mountains of Ecuador. Chiriboga spent time with the local carpenters and farmers, who tilled the land with oxen and harvested wheat by hand. He also spent time at the forge and at cobbler’s shops where he acquired a love for leather work. He enjoys the art of the early Surrealists, Goya, Velasquez, Duchamp --and often (he says) his own.

To expand on the themes of this exhibition, art6 will present a lecture on Friday, October 22 at 8 p.m.by Art Historian, Mia Reinoso Genoni from NYU. A reception will follow the lecture, and art6 requests a $5.00 donation. Ms. Genoni will inaugurate the “Pinkney Near Memorial Lectures in Art History”, a new series at art6 featuring art historians from within and outside the Richmond area.

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