About this Event
About the Event
Join us for a Q&A with artist Grace Statwick! We encourage guests to arrive at 5PM and walk around the space to familiarize themselves with Grace's work. Around 5:30PM, we'll sit down and enage with Grace about her creative process & the meanings behind her paintings.
More about Grace Statwick
Raised in Springfield, Missouri, Grace grew up drawing and painting and dreamed of being a‘professional artist’ someday. She graduated from Vassar College with a film degree and setconstruction experience from working for the school’s drama department. She proceeded towork in prop and set construction for film, and then as a sculptor for Bass Pro Shops, buildingwaterfalls and trees and traveling across the country.
In 2016 she moved to Busan, South Korea to teach English, where she began to exhibit inearnest with a group of expat and Korean artists called The Exotic Beasts. After a few moreyears of artist residencies and natural building projects in the States, she started a quest to findand build community. After spending a pandemic year and a half growing her painting businessout of Dancing Rabbit ecovillage in rural Missouri, she moved to Twin Oaks community in ruralVirginia. She has since landed in Richmond, Virginia, where she now works as a muralist.
She paints her collectors’ dreams and dreamscapes. And cats, she paints cats. Sheincorporates portraits of her collectors into imaginative and colorful landscapes. She providesportals, for your wall, into places where wondrous things happen. Her paintings reflect herbackground in cinema and theater, with an eye for both composition and storytelling. They areimpressionist, high chroma, high contrast, and magical. They energize a room.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
2601 Semmes Ave, 2601 Semmes Avenue, Richmond, United States
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