| When | Thursday, September 22 at 7:30 pm |
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| Location | 1812 West Main Street, Richmond, VA 23220 (804) 353-0094 | |
| Film | FREE SCREENING |
| More Info | It all began in a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. Herb and Dorothy presents the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal clerk, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in the world with very modest means. In the early 1980s, Herb and Dorothy Vogel purchased over 40 works by Martin Johnson, a Richmond-based artist whose exhibition, Martin Johnson: FORward, is now on view in the True F. Luck Gallery of the Visual Arts Center (visarts.org/exhibitions). |
 The 43rd Street Festival of the Arts Saturday, September 17th 43rd Street, Forest Hill Neighborhood Seventy selected regional artists and craftsmen will show and sell their work accompanied by live music, locally grown food, and special activities for children. Proceeds from the festival will benefit Freedom House, a philanthropy that provides shelter for the homeless. The festival features long time exhibitors Cris Pool, Lee Hazelgrove, Steven Glass, Foust, and Robin Cage. New artists provide variety and fine craftsmanship in the following media: paintings, prints, pottery, sculpture, jewelry, glasswork, and more. Music: 10 am Rachel Leyco 11:30 am Susan Greenbaum 1:00 pm Blue Line Highway 2:30 pm Bluz Catz 4 pm OminOtago |
| Time | Friday, September 16 · 7:00pm - 9:00pm Opening reception for the artists |
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| Location | 1514 West Main Street Richmond, VA |
| On View: | Chris Gregson "Recent Work" Jon-Phillip Sheridan "Complicated Matter" Jennifer Lauren Smith "February" September 16 - October 29, 2011 also on view: Recent acquisitions: John Baldessari, Siemon Allen, Kiki Smith, Sally Mann, Willie Anne Wright, Teresita Fernandez, Gerald Donato, |
| Time | Monday, September 5 at 10:00am - October 21 at 4:00pm Artist Reception: Sunday, September 18, 2011 from 3-5 PM. Free and open to the public. Regular gallery hours: 10AM-4 PM, Monday through Friday and by appointment: 804-752-3018 kshaw@rmc.edu The gallery is closed during all college holidays. |
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| Location | Flippo Gallery, Pace-Armistead Hall, Randolph-Macon College A campus map is available at |
| More Info | Artist Biography Johnston Foster’s work is, in his own words, created from an “alchemic process”. He is a hunter and gatherer of sorts, finding and then reconfiguring objects and other materials most would consider to be trash. There is a thoughtful yet immediate quality to Foster’s work. His work is highly imaginative. In this particular installation, Foster explores the conversation between formal and narrative qualities of objects. Foster received a MFA from Hunter College located in New York City in 2005, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, located in Richmond, VA in 2001. In 2003 he attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Foster has shown internationally including exhibitions in France, the Czech Republic, and Germany. His national exhibitions include San Francisco, Los Angeles, Utah, and New York City. Foster teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is represented by RARE Gallery, NY. All works in this exhibition are courtesy of the artist and RARE Gallery, NY. |
| Time and Location | Thursday, September 8 5 - 6:30 pm VCU Grace Street Theatre 934 W Grace St Richmond, Virginia |
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With artists Viye Diba and Bright Ugochukwu Eke, exhibition co-curators Lisa Aronson and John Weber and VCU Professor of Art History Babatunde Lawal. In conjunction with the exhibition "Environment and Object, Recent African Art," on view at VCU's Anderson Gallery September 9 - December 11. Panel discussion and exhibition are free and open to the public. | |
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| Join artist Steve Hedberg for the opening reception of "Land & Sea" at The Gallery at UNOS.
A series of landscapes and seascapes, along with another 15 existing works will be on display at UNOS Gallery. The show will run through Oct. 29. Steve will donate 30% of sales to UNOS, a national non-profit organization based in Richmond that helps save lives by managing the organ donation system, which includes transplant waiting lists, organ matches and transit, along with educating and advocating the importance of organ donation. Also featuring works of transplant recipient Marian Bowers, a Petersburg resident who sketches in pencil and illustration markers. He has produced a piece a week during his recent battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma cancer. Opening reception: Friday, September 2, 5-8 p.m. First Fridays reception: Friday, October 7, 5-8 p.m. The Gallery at UNOS, 700 N. 4th Street, Richmond, VA 23219 Free Parking. Open to the Public. Invite your Friends & Family. To view Hedberg's paintings, visit http://www.stevehedberg.co |
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Pushing Boundaries: Art as Metaphor in Love and War, 1708 Gallery’s latest satellite exhibition at Richmond’s historic Linden Row Inn, features artists from across Virginia. Curated by local artist and 1708 Gallery Board Member Amie Oliver, Pushing Boundaries will be on view through the month of October. The proceeds from all art sales benefit the artist and the exhibition programs of 1708 Gallery, with the exception of Roberto Ventura and Joshua Poteat’s “For Lucy and Yardsale.” The proceeds from the sale of this installation will be donated to the Daily Planet, a non-profit organization that provides services to those at risk of, or experiencing, homelessness.
CURATORIAL STATEMENT:
“Pushing Boundaries: Art as Metaphor in Love and War" consists of painting, prints, sculpture, drawing and installation work by artists who contribute to the rich cultural landscape in Virginia. This exhibition coincides with the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War and presents artists who push the boundaries of their medium and as well as reveal personal interpretations of themes embedded in our history, landscape and literature.
Boundaries are often referred to as something that indicates the farthest limit, as of an area; border in the context of team sports as well as national defense. The department of defense determines a boundary to be a line that delineates surface areas for the purpose of facilitating coordination and deconfliction of operations between adjacent units, formations, or areas on land or in airspace.
Other references to this term explore the importance of setting personal boundaries. It is a term which refers to the political, personal and public space and one which has resulted in physical and symbolic lines of demarcation that have inspired some of the greatest propaganda, cartography and historical dramas the world has ever known.
Line, and its implied role in the sand or on the map, is an elemental component for each of the artists presented here.Genesis Chapman's (Bent Mountain) ink drawings of Bottom Creek are a primary example of this duality with each strata of earth implying a generation of farmers, fathers, sons, mothers and daughters. Chapman's sense of "loss" and his investigation of its "sense of place" are evident with each mark of his pen or brush.
Ed Dolinger (Roanoke) created a series of mixed media paintings which imply maps, parables and theorems on fields of color. The history of the surface sets the tone of each panel and our reading of it. Kris Iden (Charlottesville) has created the series of color intaglio printed titled "…the world is round" inspired by the Gertrude Stein children's book of the same name. This poetic sequence of 15 prints emphasizes the circularity of time and identity and the ability for each to fold it back upon itself. Iden explains "This intensely personal work is a reflection of the feelings of being caught between two cultures, two dearly held landscapes, and the process of constructing an intimate hybrid-geography." Greg Kelley's (Richmond) mixed media sculptures are totem like "combines" which reflect a hybrid iconography of our history and culture.
Joshua Poteat and Roberto Ventura (Richmond) created the installation "For Lucy and Yardsale". They present fragments of Poteat's poetry as an unconventional memorial consisting of wooden strips of text, collage, light boxes and other media. This work is an ode to the relationships that form and are lost within the invisible boundaries in which Richmond's homeless residents reside.
-Amie Oliver, 1708 Gallery Satellite Exhibition Liaison and Curator
For more information on the artists or 1708 Gallery's Satellite Exhibition Program visit this link.
| Time and Location | 3:30 - 9:00pm 1708 Gallery 319 W. Broad St. Richmond, VA 804-643-1708 |
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1708 GALLERY'S 2ND ANNUAL LIVE DRAWING EVENT Part performance, part art-bazaar, Monster Drawing Rally is a rare opportunity to watch your favorite local artists at work. The event will consist of 4 one-hour shifts with up to 14 artists drawing simultaneously per hour. Watch art come to life then purchase the completed works for only $65. Come hungry and enjoy Nate's Tacos for dinner with a selection of cold Virginia micro brews on tap! Kids can take part in the action by creating art of their own at the wall-sized coloring station. All funds raised support 1708 Gallery, a non-profit space for new art. ADMISSION: $5 Donation, Kids 12 and under are free. Sign up for a 1708 membership at Monster Drawing Rally and receive $20 off one drawing! Visit www.1708gallery.org for more details! | |
