It’s been a while since I’ve covered an art exhibition at Kultivate Magazine’s gallery spaces. Indeed, it’s been so long that the gallery spaces themselves have been remodelled in the intervening time; rather than occupying three separate buildings within the the half of the Kultivate region devoted to art exhibitions (the other half of the region being devoted to Kultivate events), the indoor gallery spaces – Windlight, Edge and Signature – have been combined into conjoined halls within a single building.
This change means that viewing the different exhibitions within the thee indoor gallery spaces is move fluid, with visitors far more likely to take all of them in than might have previously been the case, wherein visitors may have obtained the landmark / SLurl to one of the three galleries possibly at the expense of the other two. It also means that within this article, I get to offer information on three exhibitions rather than just one, and hopefully encourage you to visit all three.
The first of these exhibitions is the most recent to open (March 16th, 2025) and within the Windlight hall. Simply entitled the March Exhibition, and features the work of thirteen artists, with a lean towards Second Life landscape pieces, with digital art mixed into it. the layout of the gallery space allows each artiest to have a clearly defined space in which to display their work, each with the name of the artist clearly displayed and with the ability to offer a biography included as well.
These artists are: AuraLux, Alex Riverstone (Alex44 Riverstone), Dante Helios (Dantelios), Flicker Bayn, Hadiya Draper, Harlo Jamison (HarlowJamison), Jamee (Jamee Sandalwood), John (Johannes Huntsman), Milly Sharple, Myra Wildmist, Pi (Piggs Boucher), Rosie Riverstone (YsabellaRose), and Sheba Blitz. Together, and even with the lean towards SL landscapes, they offer a rich mix of art and approaches to their work, with the digital pieces from the likes of Milly (an artist whose work I particularly appreciate!) and Hadiya (to name two in the exhibition), again showing how SL can be used to bring art created in the physical world to a much broader audience than might otherwise be the case.
Three of the artists featured in the Windlight March 2025 exhibition can also be found within the Edge gallery hall. The Edge gallery is specifically reserved for black-and-white art, and at the time of my visit featured an engaging mix of SL landscapes and avatar studies with a touch of physical world art.
The three artists found both within the Edge exhibition (the title of which I do not have) and the Windlight hall, are AuraLux, Alex Riverstone (Alex44 Riverstone) and John (Johannes Huntsman). They are joined by Chic Aeon, Meycy (Meycy Bailey), Tempest Rosca, and Vee (Veruca Tammas). Again, all of the pieces are visually engaging, but I admit to having been particularly drawn to Tempest’s triptych-like series of black-and-white photographs from the physical world.
Facing the Edge gallery on the other side of the Windlight Hall is a smaller Signature Gallery hall which, at the time of my visit was hosting Expressions, a collection of themed abstract paintings by John (Johannes Huntsman) – who is, along with Tempest Rosca – the owner / operator of the Kultivate Galleries.
Expressions might be seen as a series of four sets of images, each of four individual pieces each, all of which are presented in predominantly primary colours – red, blue, yellow – with some of the pieces / sets mixing into themselves elements of secondary colours and tones present in some to present further colour and visual depth. Such is the thematic use of colours within the pieces, they stand as individual pieces suitable for hanging at home, or as complete sets or even mix-and-match sets.
The exhibitions for the price of one teleport – and all worth the time to visit.
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