Once more, bridge the gap, dear Richmonders, or close up the gap with our Monroe Park rats… But when the blasts of indie rock blow in our ears, then imitate the beaver and fill the river stage. - Griffin Shakespeare Smalley. Got a show coming up? New single? Simply...
The good people at RVA Art Blog attended the unveiling of the new, redesigned, larger, it-slices-it-dices Virginia Museum of the Fine Arts. The red carpet officially rolls out next weekend, but we're glad that RVA Art Blog got the inside scoop before hand! People have been talking for a while about what Richmond's identity should be and if it is...
When an exhibit is filled with objects dunked in industrial porcelain, male fantasy rattles, and adulterated flasks, “Not Particularly Precious” is an apt title. In j fergeson gallery’s newest exhibition, Adam Paulek and Kyle Houser transform perfectly functional forms into fabulously functionless sculpture. Their work varies in complexity and...
Actually I asked permission and it was granted - thanks to RVAArtBlog for allowing us to be lazy and not interview these interesting guys ourselves. Make sure and check out the flyer for their new exhibit at the bottom. - ed. How did “Reference Gallery” happen? Reference unofficially started in Conor Backman’s apartment on Monument Ave. in...
Our good friend and Richmond native Jordan Bruner is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. Our good friend and Richmond native Jordan Bruner is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. After attending VCU and receiving her BFA in Kinetic Imaging (video, animation, and sound), she moved to New York City to work at animation studio Asterisk. While there she...
We've had a great few years, but it's time to admit that RVA Magazine is stretched beyond it's capacity. After months of back-room negotiation, a deal was signed at the eleventh hour last night. As of this morning, all branding, logos, content, and subsidiaries of RVA Magazine (and parent company Baller Design LLC) are now owned by Norwegian...
Here we are everyone, ahem, the future! No flying cars and men on Mars but we have iPhones. Yeah, not what I imagined 2010 to be as a little kid, but life don't care about your dreams son. We live in the mundane reality most of the time. Luckily, there are people in this world that can take their imaginations and create something real for the...
Kris Kuksi, a visionary artist whose works combine techniques of sculpture, found art, crafting and painting, has been featured in RVA Magazine before. Needless to say, we're big fans of his work, and thrilled that his book will be coming out this year! Preorder is available here on BeinArt; BeinArt is a surreal art collective that is very much...
Galvanized Monstrocities is a three person exhibition of works by James Callahan, Matt Deans and Bizhan Khodabandeh. All of these illustrators have been highly influenced by the genre of sequential art, an art form frequently seen as low brow or ephemeral. This perception is changing through the recognition of prolific cartoonists through long...
In looking over Sam Chiver's artblog you can see that he is constantly evolving his ideas. The blog runs back to 2008 when he was screenprinting women vampires and fire mistresses, painting anonymous happy faces over old magazine photos, cut out collages of complete abstract landscapes to now doing digital work for clients from bands to...