A reception and gallery talk by Richmond artist Eleanor Rufty will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday, Oct. 5, in the Babcock Fine Arts Center Gallery at Sweet Briar College. Admission is free and the public is invited.
This drawing by Rufty is one of several on display through Oct. 14 in the Babcock Gallery.Drawings by Rufty are on display in the gallery through Oct. 14. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday, Monday and Friday and 1 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Admission is free.
SBC studio art professor Laura Pharis said she has been waiting “ages” for a Rufty exhibit at Sweet Briar. She described the artist’s work as “very reflective” and said the “compositions are really amazing and the subject matter is very evocative, too, about personalities, relationships, families, couples.”
Rufty’s work has appeared in dozens of solo and group shows in Virginia, North Carolina, New York City, Washington, D.C., Florida, Scotland, England, Wales and Peru.
Her work also can be seen in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Virginia State Legislature, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Federal Reserve Bank in Richmond, among others.
For more information, contact Nancy McDearmon, SBC galleries registraral assistant, at 381-6547 or
nmcdearmon@sbc.edu.
– By
Suzanne Ramsey,
SBC staff writer
