As Richmond’s mayoral election approaches, one thing has become clear: the conversation about our city’s future is missing a key element—the Richmond Arts District on Broad Street. Despite its immense creative potential, this vibrant part of downtown has been...
Opening friday at Ghostprint Gallery: A retrospective of screen-printed posters, fliers, and handbills for bands and venues, from the late 70's to the present, that define the music scene in Richmond. Curated by Patrick Godfrey and Spencer Hansen. Opening friday at Ghostprint Gallery: A retrospective of screen-printed posters, fliers, and...
Nicolai's images here are one of the best complete photo series I have seen in years, down to the presentation in gallery (shown below). The presentation of these grisly, violent events was an exercise in brilliance; the setting makes the images all the more horrific by the surgical cleanliness of Martin Asbæk Gallery it was presented in. The...
Yes, the title is a bit confusing, but it's true; FAILE has designed and executed this work, which is obviously meant to be a brand new ruin. There are elements of Etruscan sculpture (in the horse-headed figure) and roman friezes, with modern casting work mixed in. The subject matter of the casts mock everything: from American monuments of Native...
Last Friday is RVA TV's monthly look back on the previous First Fridays in Richmond. This time we head over to Ghostprint Gallery for the FLUX show and meet Kevin Orlosky as he shows us how ordinary office toner can be quite beautiful. And then over to Art6 for the recycled fashion show called Worn Again before we wrap up the night at 1708...
We've been fans of Brien White's work since we first started out- he was featured in our first issue. He friended me on Facebook recently, and I admit I hadn't checked out his website in a good little while. His works are hyper-realist, and when I first saw his paintings submitted, I thought they were photographs. Needless to say, his digital...
Emerald Grippa is an illustrator in Richmond, VA. Her work combines graphite, color pencils, and digital manipulation, but in the end, it's all illustration. Are her works vain? I see elements of celebrity worked in (I'm pretty sure I've recognized some famous faces), and there's an almost disturbing cleanliness to her work that seems imposed on...
There's plenty of art that I've seen that creeps me out. Ever since I first learned of H.R. Giger's work via the Alien movies, I've enjoyed a good bit of creepiness in my visual stimuli. But I usually enjoy it in a gallery, or on a screen, and I must say, if I saw Dan Witz's work when I was walking down the street, I might jump out of my skin....
Jennifer Holloway has been working on a style that has a connection to fellow Richmond painters Tim Harriss and JPocklington. Their subject matter is slightly off and has a weirdness that is very distinct. You can find them represented by Richmond's Eric Shindler Gallery and more information on Jennifer Holloway can be found at www.jholloway.com....
Via Wooster Collective, from Best Ever. Multi-media works of faces that appear to melt and meld together; this appears as a dream sequence to me. The forms are certainly human, although I question that in some ways... Just because a work has a face and a body, is it definitely a human form that is being expressed? I'm not so sure in this case....
