Along with art by with some big names in the Art World and pop culture like Yoko Ono, Viggo Mortensen, Bruce Conner, Loren J. Munk, Grace Graupe Pillard, Nina Levy, and more named on the SHEN MoCA website
The main venue is at 411 E. King Street (Rt.55) in Strasburg, VA, a couple doors north of the well-known Strasburg Emporium. The site annex is at 338 W. Queen St. in the old municipal pumphouse. The biennial ends 1 Dec. 2018.
Map: https://goo.gl/maps/w9KajuVL1c12
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v In the next 15 or so photos, realistic sculpture is by Nina Levy, long skinny painting-panels are by Terry Ward, dark lead-coated squares are by Les Ayre.
v Artist Nina Levy's giant child head hung at the National Portrait Gallery prior to hanging from the ceiling of exhibit room with art on the walls by Terry Ward (non-objective abstract paintings) and Les Ayre (wall-mounted metal squares).
v The bright orange 13-foot-long painting piece is part of Terry Ward's Series 462, one panel of which is in a different museum solo show thru mid-2019.
v An experimental Terry Ward multi-panel photo-painting blend has a white stripe 
v An experimental Terry Ward multi-panel photo-painting blend has a white stripe 
v The groundbreaking conceptual artist Yoko Ono (originally of John Lennon / Circle of "The Beatles" fame) has an interactive piece at the biennial's annex: a white-painted special interior space with a white table, chair, shelf-unit, and a lot of broken porcelain. Mend Peace (2008, mixed media installation) invites visitors to attempt repairing shattered vessels with glue while (she hopes) noticing that after violent breakage happens, attempted mending may only be partial at best because there is always lasting evidence of the damage, 
v The repair-attempting hand is of the 9-year-old daughter of artist and prominent biennial participant Terry Ward (see above, long skinny abstract painting panels).
v *** The repair-attempting hand is of artist and prominent biennial participant Terry Ward (see above, long skinny abstract painting panels), in mid-November of 2018 gluing together smashed ceramics while participating in Yoko Ono's 2008-designed Mend Peace. Note: this image and the two below it (*** marked) are from mid-November rather than from at the event opening. Publication-permission still freely given.
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v Modestly, artist Yoko Ono put the peace concept first and signed the artwork on the unseen underside of one of the installation's furniture pieces. One would never know at first glance that a famous celebrity name was involved. The artist signature on this piece is published here for the first time.
v In the next half-dozen photos, the black paintings with the Jolly Roger skull, US flag, and CSA rebel flag (plus the bronze Lincoln portrait heads) are by artist German Pitre.
v Art World darling Loren J. Munk's art-historical diagram paintings with a tall panel from Terry Ward's PTSD-inspired Series 337, some of whose panels are in Ward's solo show at the nearby museum thru mid-2019 in a mash-up titled Think Back To Iraq.
v Loren J. Munk's oil-on-linen painting Institutional Blinding I
v A Banksy-inspired Terry Ward Happy Duck stencil-tag spraypaint graffiti piece on the contemporary art museum exterior.
v A Banksy-inspired Terry Ward Happy Duck stencil-tag spraypaint graffiti piece on the curator's art-delivery van.
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Photos below from "the annex," a disused municipal pumphouse and water quality testing station at 338 W. Queen St., Strasburg, VA
v The Annex venue conveniently has an old emergency eye wash station, possibly of use to those of conventional sensibilities who can't tolerate edgy art. (The actual fountain is not yet officially art, but it might be declared so any time in the spirit of Marcel Duchamp 
v Images below from back at the main venue, SHEN MoCA.
v SHEN MoCA director and Strasburg Biennial curator Rupert Ravens, right, at the venue with artist Terry Ward, left, in front of Ward's Sandy painting-panel series with a lower-left corner photobomb by a Nina Levy sculptural face. Ravens moved to the Shenandoah Valley in recent years after a long history running a huge gallery in the greater-New York City area.
v SHEN MoCA director and Strasburg Biennial curator Rupert Ravens, right, at the venue with artist Terry Ward, left, in front of Ward's Sandy painting-panel series with a lower-left corner photobomb by a Nina Levy sculptural face. Ravens moved to the Shenandoah Valley in recent years after a long history running a huge gallery in the greater-New York City area.
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More WARD ART here.
Exhibit views.
Unusual art processes.
Studio Visit video page.
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^ See? That's "art fun VA"
