Virginia Beach, VA.- The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA – formerly the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia) is currently presenting 4 related shows themed around landscape and nature. Three exhibitions dedicated to contemporary artists Kim Keever, Jean-Pierre Roy and Sayaka Suzuki, are showing alongside a selection of landscape paintings by artists of the Hudson River School. All four exhibitions are on view through December 30th. The exhibition “Kim Keever: Mountains, Forests and Ocean Shores” features the artist’s luminous photographs from miniature, synthetic landscapes that he initially creates in 200-gallon aquarium tanks. Using props found at hobby stores, in combination with homemade plaster mountains, water, and pigment, the artist builds experimental dioramas that are then photographed. When water and pigment collide within the tank, cloud-like billows and rippling brooks are formed, and the artist must quickly capture the composed scene with his large format camera. Keever is a working artist currently living in Manhattan.