I recently met with Sare Harvell, a local florist and owner of Warm Flowers, following their floral feature via the Hirschler Flower Fund at the VMFA. We had a long conversation that stemmed from our mutual appreciation of flowers and their language. I have known Sare...
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....
The VMFA is opening Chuck Close: People Who Matter to Me, a collection of two dozen works by Chuck Close spanning thirty-five years of the artists career from 1974 to present. The show opens July 10th and run through Oct. 17th in the 20th century galleries of the museum. Local collectors Sydney and Frances Lewis enjoyed a warm friendship with the...
Tatiana Suarez will be showing at DC's street art gallery Art Whino. She was nice enough to answer a few questions for RVA on the upcoming show and approach to her work. If you are in the harbor area swing through and check the place out, its definitely worth it. Megan Laurine: Tell us a bit about yourself; what are you into, what do you like to...
The Process is our ongoing series profiling local artists. Episode 21 of The Process is with painter and collage artist Courtney Elizabeth Ford. She sat down with Director Ben Muri and host Parker to discuss her work and much more in this episode. CLICK HERE FOR THE PROCESS The Process is our ongoing series profiling local artists. Episode 21 of...
Jason Levesque, who was profiled in RVA #1 (CLICK HERE) will be teaming up with illustrator Erik Jones at ArtGallery on July 10th. Since we have shown you Jason's work before, here is a selection of Erik's stuff for you to oogle. Again, this is NSFW. Jason Levesque, who was profiled in RVA #1 (CLICK HERE) will be teaming up with illustrator Erik...
AFROFUTURISTA by Kombo The Former British Empire Several months ago I met someone at the Japanese Rock Garden in Castleberry. He described a sculpture he’d recently seen as ‘Afro-futuristic.’ His obvious excitement and the term itself piqued my interest instantly and got my mind racing. ‘What is that? Is that like sci-fi, or retro gone-neon? Does...
