Works on Paper by Geraldine Kiefer/Sculpture by Michael Hough, The Arts Centre, Martinsburg, West Virginia, 8-29 August 2008
Exhibition announcement

Ninth Annual Juried Show, Nelson Gallery, Lexington, Virginia, 1-30 August 2008
Exhibition announcement

Nelson Fine Arts Gallery Ninth Annual Juried Show
(Mnemonic Keys II, recipient of the Clara Erdman Weaver Memorial Award, reproduced at lower right)







Panama Overlays/Portobelo Tempesta/Pangaea Portobelo, 2007, installation for Arteferia 2007, Portobelo, Panama, June 23, 2007



Local article for Panama Overlays, Miller Gallery, Bridgewater College, November 12-December 14, 2007


Tints, Tones and Overtones: Selections from the Nimrod Hall Series, Loudoun Street Gallery, Winchester, Virginia, 7-29 March 2008
Local article


Nimrod Venerable Tree Series, Messengers in the Tree I and II, exhibited in Manchester National Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Richmond, VA, 6 April- 4 May 2008

Nimrod Venerable Tree Series, Artspace Gallery, Richmond, VA, July 27-August 20, 2007



Nimrod Venerable Tree Series VIII and IX, 2007, charcoal, graphite, pastel pencil and pencil


Divine Inspiration: Religion; Meaning and Morals in the Modern World, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA, June 8-July 7, 2007

Nelson Fine Arts Gallery 8th Annual Juried Show: Interior Spaces II, Lexington, VA, 3-31 August 2007

VMRC 4th Annual Juried Exhibition Catalog
VMRC 4th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Harrisonburg, VA, 10 June-1 July, 2007

Artspace Members' Gallery Online




Between Two Spirits: Valleys of Virginia, Gallery 324, Cleveland, Ohio, April 14-28, 2007




'Twixt Two States: Landscapes by Bruce and Geraldine Kiefer, Gallery 732, Akron, Ohio, January 3-31, 2007



Since 2004 I have been collaborating with my husband, Bruce Kiefer, a fine art photographer, on an ongoing series of mixed-media works. His digital photographs of landscapes, landscape details, and rural architecture form the basis, or matrix, upon which I draw, write, and build collages. We site our work in the ridge and valley "province" of Virginia and in rural areas of Ohio--areas we have hiked into and explored--in order to tap into their inherent and latent meditative qualities.

Please navigate to the "Gallery" page of this site to view a comprehensive selection of recent work.





My drawings, collages, and assemblages are created on a variety of textured and tinted surfaces and in numbered or named series. The series structure, initiated in 1999, gives a sense of order and closure to work that, in effect, is really all about chaos and openness. Based on nature and my ongoing response to it as a vessel of power, intensity and release, the works are exhibited as nature installations, or more accurately, nature shrines. Entitled "altars," "shrines," "sanctuaries," "precincts," "caves," and most recently, "pastoral landscapes," these installations honor the presence and power of nature by posing and composing places of retreat and meditation, wherein the visitor may record emotions, memories, sensations and observations.






Abbreviated Curriculum vita

Artist's Statement and Recent Exhibitions

Artist's Biography

Listing of Artwork, 2004 to present

Listing of Artwork, through 2002

"Between Wilderness and Pastoral," Artist's statement








Nelson Fine Arts Gallery website



Peninsula Fine Arts Center website
Local article


Twixt Two: Landscapes by Bruce and Geraldine Kiefer, November-December 2005, December 2005-January 2006
SAC Press release - Announcement - Local article 1 - Local article 2 - Lord Fairfax Community College Press release - Local article 3

Nimrod Hall Reveries: Drawing and Mixed Media Works from the "Pastoral Landscapes" Series, Dancing Fire Gallery, Winchester, VA, Nov. 4 - 30, 2005
Announcement







Pastoral Landscapes Series 2005: Pasture Lands, Woodlands, and Waterways of Bath County, Virginia, 2nd floor gallery, Alson Smith Library, Shenandoah University, September 20-October 31, 2005
Reflections Slideshow - Interlacings Slideshow - Scrapbook Slideshow - Exhibition listing







Traces and Tracings: Landscapes of Mind and Memory, Blandy Farm Art Gallery, Rt. 50, Clarke County, VA, January 9 - February 28, 2005
Press release - Artist's biography - Slideshow - Blandy Farm Arboreteum website - Local article






Soul States, An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Installations with featured Artist, Ren Crawford, Dancing Fire Gallery, Winchester, VA, September 2004
Slideshow - Local article

Sacred Precincts, Bounded Chaos, Shenandoah Arts Council, Winchester, VA, January 2004
Slideshow - Introduction - Local article

Studio Shrine, Dancing Fire Gallery, Winchester, VA
Artist's studio Slideshow

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Cave, Spring and Shrine, The Edge Art Gallery and Lutheran Campus Ministry Center, Cleveland State University, July 2002
Exhibition text - Slideshow

Celebrations, Overlays, Matrices, Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mt. Berry, GA, April 2002
Harvest Altar - Paradise Altar

Altar of Peace, Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, OH, Advent 2002
Exhibition text




Nature Shrine: Spiritual Topographies and an Installation, Notre Dame College, South Euclid, OH, September 2001
Exhibition text - Nature and Art Retreat Slideshow






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