Hey, have you heard about InLight this weekend? It’s happening at Pine Camp out in Northside, and it’s going to be an immersive community / art experience. Every year, 1708 Gallery puts on this big nighttime art show where they take over a different spot in Richmond...
FOR MORE RVA #1 CLICK HERE The road to Lunenburg Correctional Center is a ribbon of pavement pulled through trees that crowd the shoulders and open suddenly into hillside farmlands, dilapidated barnyards, the great American South lounging on the sloping grass of counties with no memory of urban progress. There is no hint of cosmopolitan...
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Matt Hawthorne, one our favorite Richmond artists has new work hanging in at Gallery 5 until this weekend. Matt Hawthorne, one our favorite Richmond artists has new work hanging in at Gallery 5 until this weekend. The works in Richmond native Matthew Hawthorne’s upcoming series, Gut Feeling- comprised of a selection of his older and newer works-...
Name Tag stickers go back to the origins of graffiti. An easy way to mass-produce a tag and quickly place them, they were they accomplished all the goals of stencils but faster. They're still a prevalent form of graff, faster than stencils, faster than writing, and captured en masse here by photography great Martha Cooper. From Mark Batty...
A pretty self-explanatory tumblr account, these fake science posters make me giggle. They're drawn in the style of classic science posters seen on the walls of biology and physics classes in high school classrooms across America. They haven't been posting for very long, but already some of their posts are making light of A pretty self-explanatory...
JOHN: How did you get started? As far as art in general? JESSE: I used to copy Garbage Pail Kids and skateboard designs out of thrasher magazine and pretty much my dad would ground me, he’d send me up to my room and I would just spend the whole time copying stuff. JOHN: Really? What age was that? JESSE: I got this sketchbook that I started when I...
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Found via Wooster, badass stencils from HZG. Individual works and works in series, it's nice to see stencil work that's largely apolitical and presented on canvas. Not that I don't love seeing quick-up work on walls; to scoff at such work would be to piss on the origins of stencils as art. Found via Wooster, badass stencils from HZG. Individual...
Picasso. Matisse. Warhol. Dali. There's no doubt in my mind that anybody with even the briefest acquaintance with art history knows these names, and knows them well. Picasso. Matisse. Warhol. Dali. There's no doubt in my mind that anybody with even the briefest acquaintance with art history knows these names, and knows them well. That being said,...
It pains me to write this but illustrator Frank Frazetta has passed away leaving the world a bit colder. His work was the supernova that created the visual standard for the sword and sorcery fantasy story. Fearless heroes in untamed worlds surrounded by impossible situations and ungodly creatures of the nigh. His villians were pure evil and his...
