Over 200 contemporary artists and artisans will travel from across the country to present original handmade artwork to share with Festival audiences.
Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art offers public programs that encourage the interconnectivity of art and ideas. Setting the stage for meaningful dialogue, these events engage artists, art practitioners, historians, and other experts in creative fields globally. Most programs are free and open to the public.
The Richmond artist’s “Metopic Ridge,” on display at Tephra ICA at Signature, features gray-heavy oil paintings on panels and a few gentler-hued watercolors.
We are pleased to launch the Tephra ICA at 50 Capital Campaign in celebration of our 50th anniversary.
Two expressive painting shows hosted by apartment buildings reveal just how much color a gallery presentation can bring to residential living — and vice versa.
The D.C.-based Haitian American artist is constantly traveling to teach and learn. His art is currently on display at Reston’s Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art.
Visit the Tephra ICA Arts Festival (formely Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival) this weekend at the Reston Town Center where over 200 contemporary artists and artisans will travel from across the country to present original handmade artwork to share with Festival audiences. A headlining performance will be presented by multidisciplinary artist Hoesy Corona, and a Family Art Park with be on-site offering free family-friendly art projects.
Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA) presents Metopic Ridge, an exhibition of work by artist Eleanor Mahin Thorp.
More than 300 volunteers help make this event possible each year. Your dedication helps Tephra ICA enrich community life. Our volunteers are critical to the success of the event and would not be possible without your support!an 300 volunteers help make the Tephra ICA Festival possible each year and their dedication contributes to enriching the community. Festival volunteers fulfill a variety of roles and each task contributes to the success of the event.
"A current exhibit of photography by Laurel Nakadate, which touches on the loss of her mother and familial relationships, exemplifies the kind of provocative work you can expect here."
Laurel Nakadate (American, b. 1975) explores self-representation, identity formation, relationships amongst strangers, and loneliness.
A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, an exhibition of works by Andrea Limauro, is currently on view at Tephra ICA at Signature.
Most of Gisela Colón’s abstract sculptures are shimmery, translucent and bulbous, suggesting eggs, cells and chrysalises. Yet the style the Los Angeles artist calls “organic minimalism” relies on high-tech materials.
The tightly interlocking lines in Judith M. Pratt’s abstract drawing-paintings suggest tectonic faults and topographical maps, which the local artist intends. But “(Un)disclosed,” her show at Tephra ICA at Signature, also refers to something else that underlies Virginia: racism.
Join us as Nathalie Johnston, Founder and Director of Myanm/art gallery space in Yangon, discusses the exhibition 3AM: Time Sensitive.
Now in its 30th year, the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival will take place on September 10–12, 2021 and will highlight 200 artists who are creating unique, handmade works in the fields of fine art and craft.
“LIFE IS FRAGILE + TENUOUS / & so is the work / Delicacy + vulnerability are / things I explore.” So reads, in part, an undated handwritten note by Moira Dryer, an elusive and often poignant artist who certainly knew something of life’s frangibility.
This exhibition provides an exciting starting point for exploring artists' personal sites, statements, and YouTube videos.
Moira Dryer’s talent as a painter was to draw poignancy out of an almost generic pictorial vocabulary—stripes, blotches, drizzles of drippy color—and to put her formal reticence at the service of an intense playfulness, playing on the edge of sculpture.
As interested in the art of the Renaissance as the contemporary, and mentored by both Elizabeth Murray — an abstract painter known for her cartoonish shaped canvases — and the conceptualist Joseph Kosuth, Dryer assimilated multiple points of reference, only to disavow them. In her short but prolific career, the artist, who died in 1992 at 34, was a student of many, and as a result, derivative of no one.
