Beth Argent Inlight 2010

October 22, the third annual public exhibition "Inlight Richmond" took place as described below. 

Beth Argent
Untitled, 2010, High fired stoneware, candles

Beth Argent's untitled piece is comprised of wheel-thrown luminaries containing tea lights arranged in an interior space. As viewers pass the space, the subtle wind affects the light cast by the flames.  The effect of the dim, flickering light creates a calming presence, soothing the worries of the viewer, providing an environment that allows for cathartic release of stressful thoughts. Argent is currently working towards her BFA in Craft and Material Studies and Virginia Commonwealth University. This is her debut exhibition.

Beth was excited with how the installation transformed as the night went on, the candles lowering and how the wax melted over the stairs...

About Inlight Richmond, by 2010 Juror Amanda McDonald Crowley:

Inlight Richmond takes as its inspiration Nuit Blanche, Light Night, or White Night events now held in over 125 cities around the world. While borrowing conceptually from the phenomena of midsummer White Nights and Festivals of Light, for Inlight Richmond,1708 Gallery invites artists from around the world to specifically respond to a different geographic location in Richmond, this year, for the third manifestation of InLight Richmond to the historic Shockoe Slip district. Artists were asked to respond to the existing urban infrastructure, bringing art out of the gallery or museum and inserting it into the cultural fabric of the city, inviting artists and audiences alike to explore a specific urban environment in creative, engaging and playful ways.

Shockoe Slip will be transformed by 39 temporary artworks and installations created by 60 artists. Taking as their referent light as a medium but also as an evocation, these works aim to activate the facades, walls, storefronts, doorways, parking lots, and alleyways of Shockoe Slip. While literally lighting up the city, in addition to light artists will employ sound, performance, ceramics, video, electronics, photography, animation, sculpture, and even surveillance technologies to help us re-imagine the urban streetscape in new ways. Inlight Richmond promises to stimulate our senses, as well as guide us in thinking about ways to re-map the city and re-imagine our future in it."

 The Exhibition took place in the four-block region approximately in the center, a cobblestone courtyard with a circular fountain marks the south-western arm of the intersection.

[Video soon!]