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Lindsey Luna Tucker, artist
Lindsey LunaTucker (b. 1990) is an artist based in Charlottesville. Tucker received her Bachelor of Fine Art in 2017 from Georgia State University. Through an exaggeration of gesture, and manipulation of color + space, she uses the subject of landscapes as a point of departure rather than one of arrival. Gutierrez’s abstract landscapes favor emotional truth over visual realism and are an invitation to challenge our ways of understanding certainty and absolutes.
“My paintings are an invitation to explore our tendency as humans to want to name and be certain of anything and everything. We want to know we are right. We want to know we are going to be okay. We want resolutions, absolutes, security. Within all the uncertainty cast upon us is the very nature and beauty of life itself.” LTG
Dr. George Beller, photographer
Dr. George Beller is a landscape and wildlife photographer who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is an emeritus professor of cardiology at the University of Virginia Medical Center. After retirement in 2012, he began his journey in nature photography after completing a photography workshop in Teton National Park. Over the years, he has photographed mainly in national parks in the West and Appalachia, and during trips to Alaska, Iceland, the Arctic Circle and Patagonia. He cites as his main mentor, Bob Llewellyn, a renowned Charlottesville photographer.
In his landscape images, Beller tries to capture dramatic contrasts between light and shadows and the relationship of colors. He is especially drawn to the drama and beauty of clouds as they settle over mountain peaks. Most of his landscapes are taken just as the sun rises or sets; in these images he is compelled by the serenity that defines the beginning or end of a day. He is particularly inspired by reflections of mountains and trees in water, the contours and shadows of sand dunes, the beauty of fall colors and wildflowers emerging in spring. His close-up shots of wildlife create intimate portraits, whereas his longer-range photos depict wildlife as it is naturally encountered in the landscape.
