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anne's Visual Art Studio gallery invites you to “Mystery of Mysteries” by Chris Semtner on display September 6- October 26, 2024. Please Join us for the Opening Reception September 6, 2024 from 6-9PM with Book Signing “Haunted Pie” by Chris Semtner & Live Music by “True Tonic & The Medicinals,” performing Rock-n-Roll with Blues and Soul in our small lot beside the gallery.
Please join us First Friday October 4, 2024 from 6-9PM Meet & Greet with Richmond, Va artist & Enjoy Live Music by “The Approach.”
Mystery of Mysteries: Recent Paintings by Chris Semtner
About the Artist:
Visual artist, author. and Curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Chris Semtner has curated and designed critically acclaimed exhibits for museums and galleries across the country. Semtner has also written several books and chapters on topics including Poe, visual art, cryptography, and crime fiction in addition to contributing articles to Biography.com, Crime Writers’ Chronicle, and other publications. He has been featured in publications including the New York Times, Forbes.com, and Rue Morgue Magazine, in addition to appearing in documentaries in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Venezuela, and Japan. He regularly speaks about strange and macabre subjects at various venues from the Steampunk World’s Fair to the Library of Congressand as far away as Japan. His art has been exhibited internationally and entered several public and private collections including the Virginia Historical Society, the University of Maryland, and the Poe House and Museum of Baltimore.
About the Exhibit:
“Mystery of Mysteries” at anne’s Visual Art Studio gallery brings together a selection of Semtner’s recent paintings of dreams, memories, and mysteries. Drawing inspiration from nineteenth-century art and literature, silent horror films, and old Virginia architecture; Semtner’s work evokes a sense of mystery through the merging of dream and reality into images that suggest open-ended narratives or mysteries without solutions. This will be Semtner’s first show at anne’s Visual Art Studio gallery since 2019.
During the opening reception, Semtner will be signing copies of his most recent book, “Haunting Poe: Edgar Allan Poe’s Afterlife in Richmond and Beyond,” the stranger-than-fiction story of Poe’s ghost drawn from legends, lore, and first-hand accounts of those who claim to have seen the disembodied spirit of the nineteenth-horror century author in houses, forts, libraries, museums—and even bars—from Providence to Charleston.
“The Bride” by Chris Semtner (above), 20" x 16” Acrylic on Wood Panel.
True Tonic & The Medicinals perform Rock-n-Roll with Blues and Soul in our small lot beside the gallery for the
Opening Reception of Mystery of Mysteries by Chris Semtner
First Friday September 6, 2024 from 6-9PM.
More information please contact Anne Hart Chay by reply or (804) 644-1368.
Thank you for your continued support!
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Visual Art Studio, Richmond, Virginia, United States
