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Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
New Exhibit of Photographs by J Riley Stewart Opens at
Leesburg Town Exhibit Hall on Friday, May 4, 2012
Leesburg, VA (April 25, 2012) – A
new exhibit of works by
photographer J Riley Stewart will
open in the Leesburg Town Exhibit
Hall on Friday, May 4, 2012, as
part of the monthly First Friday
arts celebration. There will be an
artist’s reception at 6:00 p.m. The
Leesburg Town Exhibit Hall is
located on the first floor of the
Leesburg Town Hall at 25 West
Market Street in downtown
Leesburg.
Jim Stewart has been
photographing since 1975, but only recently began to apply his art commercially. For over 30 years,
he created black and white photographs in a traditional wet darkroom. Like many of his generation,
studying monochrome landscapes by well-known 20th Century greats helped Jim understand how
light, exposure, development, and creativity in the darkroom can merge to produce beautiful
images full of light and depth and story. More recently, Jim has concentrated on incorporating color
in his artwork, mastering the emotional value of hue and contrasts in conjunction with the
attributes of natural light and depth in traditional monochrome photography.
Jim retired from Federal Service in 1999 after more than 30 years in medical technology research
and development. He continued to follow his passion in photography, and decided to make that
passion a full-time enterprise in 2010, when he began doing business as J Riley Stewart Fine Art
Photography in Leesburg, Virginia. He specializes in landscape photography and offers scenics that
provide the viewer a sense of "standing at the bottom edge of the frame, only having to take one
step to find themselves in the midst of the beauty – or the danger, as the case may be." His
technical and artistic approaches allow him to create large wall-sized images that can literally “fill a
room” with beauty. For more information about Jim and his photography, please visit
www.jrileystewart.com.
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The Leesburg exhibit includes both monochrome and color photographs, primarily from Jim’s Spring
2012 portfolio. Many of the photographs feature luminous landscapes from Loudoun County and
surrounding areas, in all seasons. The exhibit will be on display until July 21, 2012.
The Leesburg Town Exhibit Hall was established by the Leesburg Commission on Public Art in
December 2009 to provide a public venue for local artists to display their work. Artists
interested in having their work considered for a future exhibit should contact Nancy Fixx, the
staff liaison to the Leesburg Commission on Public Art, at 703-771-2707 or
nfixx@leesburgva.gov.
Contact:
Nancy Fixx
Human Resources Director
nfixx@leesburgva.gov
703-771-2707
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