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Richmond native and recent Radford grad, Mary Chiaramonte has been profiled in the newest issue of New American Paintings and is part of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Art After Hours series. She is currently taking commissions for portrait work. More of her work can be...

Russian painter Rinat Shingareev lives in a happily bizarre world. His plush pop paintings of world icons from George Bush to Lil Wayne are warm and inviting but have a sense of something weird. From Bush secretly shedding a tear for NASA to Putin against a backdrop...

Richmonder living in New York, Jason Laferrera will be showing at everyone's favorite local book store Chop Suey on July 9th. Jason takes old maps and creates digital collages, mostly of birds and forest animals, to be made into limited run giclee prints. His work has...

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ARTWHINO is a Baltimore gallery that reps the best street art between here and New York with shows regularly packing in thousands and pulling artists from the DC, Maryland, and Virginia regions. Their latest show features Tatiana Suarez and opens Saturday, June 17th...

The impressive Ryan McLennan has released his first collection of prints available though Triple Stamp Press. The local painter has been featured in RVA many times and we couldn't be happier to see this set available for his supporters to own. More info available...

'I could just cry, I'm so excited!" gushed a members-preview visitor who came upon American art curator Sylvia Yount at the newly installed, extravagantly opulent Worsham-Rockefeller Bedroom, an irresistible crowd magnet in the new McGlothlin Wing of the Virginia...