Document Type
Book
Original Publication Date
2018
Digital Publisher
VCU Libraries
Original Publisher
Reynolds Gallery
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21974/5q74-hn77
Date of Submission
February 2026
Subject
Carlyon, Richard, 1930-2006
Subject
Exhibitions
Subject
Exhibition catalogs
Subject
Art
Abstract
This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition, Richard Carlyon: A Network of Possibilities, Reynolds Gallery, January 19 - March 9, 2018. The exhibition, curated by Ashley Kistler, included a selection of Carlyon's work made over the span of fifty years, and focused on the "network of possibilities" that took shape from the artist's sense of experimentation, curiosity, and agile thinking. The selected pieces include painting, ink drawings, and collage.
Comments
Contributors:
Chris Burnside began dancing in Richmond in 1967 with Frances Wessells, which launched his professional career as a dancer with Bella Lewitzky, John Bernd, Jane Comfort, and Tim Miller. He taught in the Department of Dance and Choreography of the VCU School of the Arts for 20 years, serving as Chair in the mid-1990s, and was later appointed Assistant Dean of Student Affairs. Burnside has created more than 40 original works of choreography, and he has performed his solo movement monologues around the U.S. to wide acclaim. In his life, he has felt especially influenced by Nancy Smith Fichter and Richard Carlyon.
Independent curator and editor Ashley Kistler served as Director of the Anderson Gallery, VCU School of the Arts; Curator of the Visual Arts Center of Richmond; and Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She has organized dozens of exhibitions working with regional, national, and international artists, as well as a broad array of artist-based programs, residencies, and commissions. She has authored and/or edited numerous exhibition catalogues and the recent books Anderson Gallery 45 Years of Art on the Edge and Nancy Blum: Drawing, Sculpture, and Public Works.
A painter and art critic, Paul Ryan is Professor of Art at Principia College in Illinois. He is also Professor Emeritus of Art at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia, where he taught from 1992 to 2016. Ryan taught critical theory in the MFA program of the Department of Painting and Printmaking, VCU School of the Arts, from 2005 to 2016. He has been a contributing editor for Art Papers Magazine since 1990, and his writing has also appeared in other publications such as Sculpture Magazine and Art in America. He maintains studios in Virginia and Illinois, and is represented by Reynolds Gallery.