2833 Main Street, Hot Springs, Virginia
On view October 18, 2026 – January 31, 2027
Questions
Illumination is presented by Bath County Arts at The BEAR. If you have any questions about the exhibit or the preview, please reach out to us at director@bathcountyarts.org.
Illumination — About the Exhibit
The call
As the days shorten, light becomes rarer
As the days shorten and the nights grow longer, our relationship with light changes. The glare that once woke us from sleep is gone. The threat of sunburn all but disappears. Light becomes something rarer — a visitor we rush to greet in its few appearances as fall folds into winter.
Stars blinking in a black sky. Gilded letters on a parchment page. A candle in the dark. The crackle of a fire that warms against the cold.
Illumination is a juried, open-medium exhibition inviting artists to explore not just light itself, but what its presence reveals — and what stays hidden without it.
The dawning of an idea. The turn of a camera's exposure. The moment a truth comes into focus.
