Boyd Realty Group:
Margery Albertini / Veiled Sentiments

Artspace continues its Satellite exhibition series at Boyd Realty Group, our neighbor in the Stratford Hills Shopping, with an exhibition of mixed media sculptures by Margery Albertini.

June 28 - July 20, 2024
Opening Reception:
6:00-9:00 p.m., June 28, 2024

Artspace Satellite Exhibition at Boyd Realty Group
6784 Forest Hill Ave, Richmond, VA 23225

Hours:
10-6 Tuesday-Friday
11-4 on Saturday
By appointment on Sunday and Monday

Call: 804-562-1978 | Email: office@boydrealtygroup.com

Artist Statement:
This series of artworks is inspired by feelings of love and progressive loss for my mother and her sisters. My deceased Mother and Aunts were role models that gave me guidance on inner/outer beauty, female achievement in male dominated society, and challenges of motherhood. Their resilience is captured in the works along with aspects of fragility related to their declining abilities and passing. These works are attempts to navigate my love for these women I have revered. Two have been stricken with Alzheimer's, one is in resident care due to brain injury, the eldest is suffering from mental limitations leaving her isolated.

I felt compelled to represent these matriarchs with lace dresses, satin gowns, and ribbons. I sculpt the pieces using medical tape, bandages and pins - mementos of pain and care. Finally, I adorn the misshapen forms with silk bows. The works convey contrarian themes of fragility, pain, healing, comfort and beauty. I have seen these women fight against traditional expectations to become leaders, educators and caregivers and now am also saddened to lose contact with them as time separates us. These sculptures are a reflection on their influence on me as woman, artist and mother.

Biography
Margery Albertini received an MFA in Sculpture from The Ohio State University and a BFA in Sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University. Her artwork has been shown nationally, including exhibits at the Columbus Museum of Art, The Organization of International Artists in New York, The Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven, The East Hawaii Cultural Arts Center, 1708 Gallery in Richmond Virginia, The Kansas City Stockyards Gallery, and The Hera Art Gallery in Rhode Island. Margery has also been selected to create and install sculptures in outdoor public spaces including the 20th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition in Boone North Carolina, The Manchester Sculpture Invitational in Richmond Virginia and The Glenview Mansion Art on the Grounds in Rockville Maryland. As a professor Margery taught Art for over 10 years at J. Sargent Reynolds and John Tyler Community Colleges. As a child educator, Margery worked with community children to create 2 large scale outdoor public murals for the City of Rockville Maryland and has taught art for children with the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Rockville Arts Space, Delaplaine Visual Arts Center. She has been awarded residencies in New York with the Chautauqua Institute for the Arts and in Maryland with the Rockville Commission of the Arts.