CALEDONIA – The work of photographer Robert Sulkin, a friend and former colleague of Village Gallery owner Bill White, will be featured at the Caledonia gallery during October.
The exhibition opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Oct. 6 at the Gallery, 3119 Main St. Sulkin is expected to talk about his work at the reception.
Sulkin’s work is both beautiful and mysterious, said gallery owner Linda White, and has been described by art historian Genevieve Hendricks as “creatively conceived, complex, and carefully composed works that reveal a world of surreal juxtapositions blending micro and macro, fact and fiction.”
Sulkin, from Roanoke, Va., was a colleague of Bill White’s and taught photography at Hollins University in Roanoke, Va.
Bill White, a painter, is a professor emeritus from Hollins University, where he taught for more than 40 years.
Bill White and his wife Linda came to Caledonia in 2016 to visit their daughter and son-in-law, Heather and Jay Hunt, and their grandchildren, and returned to open the Village Gallery, which debuted in 2017.
During his 2016 visit, Bill White mentioned that he was looking for a space to bring his artwork and library. He looked at a vacant Main Street building and decided it was the right place for him. Contractors spent a year renovating the interior and transforming it into a suitable gallery to exhibit White’s collection of small, mid-size and large oil paintings.
Since opening, the gallery has regularly hosted exhibitions featuring the work or artists and art groups, and has hosted informal gallery conversations and workshops. White maintains an art library at the gallery and also has a studio in a back room of the gallery where he works with an easel, lots of brushes and paints.
Sulkin’s work will be on view at the Village Gallery through Oct. 29.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.
For more information, go to www.thevillagegallerycaledonia.com or email [email protected].
