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First Fridays: May 5

“Epitaxy,” featuring steel sculpture by Lily Erb and cloth sculpture by Annie Dunckel, is on view at the Welcome Gallery at New City Arts through the month of May. Photo by Martyn Kyle

First Fridays: May 5

Lily Erb spends a lot of time outside, taking stock of the natural world for images, information and patterns to use in her steel sculptures, some of which are on view this month in “Epitaxy” at the Welcome Gallery at New City Arts.

Sometimes she’ll focus on abstracting a certain natural form—for example, she held the image of a bulbous, papery wasp’s nest in her mind while creating the piece “Growth Rings.” Other times, she’ll pull multiple forms together to see what the fusion summons from her subconscious—waves, symmetries, spirals and more.

“Many of the pieces are incubating spaces, hard shells with room for interior growth,” says Erb. “They emphasize the physical and emotional strength necessary to bring forth and sustain life.” For “Epitaxy,” Erb shares gallery space with cloth artist Annie Dunckel. The two artists collaborated on a pair of pieces for the show, and Erb says the juxtaposition of materials—the steel against the cloth—“more directly articulates the incubating spaces” that she aims to create.

What’s more, Erb often makes a piece out of several small, similar parts that are distinctly different from one another but clearly belong together. “I like making communities in my work. It’s reaching towards the joyful togetherness I feel when I’m surrounded by people I love,” says Erb.

FF Albemarle Cabinet Co. 309 E. Water St. An exhibit of oil paintings by Logan MacKethan. 5-7pm.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Hidden Realm,” oil paintings and mixed media by Marissa Minnerly. Opens Saturday, May 6, 1-3pm.

BozART Fine Art Collective 190 Rockfish School Ln., Afton. “Color Vibrations,” works in oil, watercolor and acrylic, photography, photo transfer and cattle markers by Carol Kirkham Martin, Kelly Oakes, Caroll Mallin and other artists.

FF The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative 209 Monticello Rd. “Macrocosmos,” Bolanle Adeboye’s immersive and interactive multimedia installation exploring the relationship between the inner voice and the vast universe that surrounds it. 5:30pm.

FF Central Library 201 E. Market St. An exhibit of work by mixed-media artist Sara Gondwe, who shaves crayon onto canvas and uses a household iron to melt, combine and shape the colors into a design. 5-7pm.

FF Chroma Projects Gallery 112 W. Main St., Ste. 10. “Nesting Materials,” sensitive bird paintings and mixed-media interpretations of avian activity by Suzanne Stryk. 5-7pm.

FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE, Market Street Garage. “ArtQuest,” featuring work from Charlottesville City Schools’ art students. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. Western Albemarle High School student art exhibit and sale, including clay, digital media, collage, photography and other media. Through June 1.

FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “Reflections of the earth from within and beyond,” featuring the work of glass fusion artist Mary Ellen Larkins. 6-8pm.

FF Fellini’s #9 200 Market St. “Portraits in the Color of Life,” oil paintings by Kelly Oakes. 5:30-7pm.

The Fralin Museum at UVA 155 Rugby Rd.  “Collect, Care, Conserve, Curate: The Life of the Art Object”; “Grasping at the Ephemeral: Explorations on Change from the Permanent Collection”; “Imagining Antiquity: Italianate Prints from the Langhorne Collection” and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

Firefly 1304 E. Market St. “First Impressions,” a series of paintings and digital collage by Julia Spong.

FF The Garage 100 E. Jefferson St. “Field Notes,” mixed media explorations of line on paper by Laura Josephine Snyder. 5-7pm.

FF Graves International Art 306 E. Jefferson St. “Roy Lichtenstein & Company: Post War and Contemporary Art,” featuring handmade limited-edition prints and exhibition posters by notable artists such as Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Ellsworth Kelly, Josef Albers and others. 5-8pm.

Hot Cakes 1137 Emmet St. N. Ste. A. “Maine Scapes,” Karen Jaegerman Collins’ oil paintings inspired by the coast of Maine.

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “Through Darkness to Light: Seeking Freedom on the Underground Railroad,” Jeanine Michna-Bales’ series of photographs that imagines an Underground Railroad route.

FF Kardinal Hall 722 Preston Ave. Ste. 101. Paintings by Dave Moore. 6-9pm.

Kluge-Ruhe Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “Body Ornaments,” objects by indigenous Australian ceramic artist Janet Fieldhouse; “Art and Country,” featuring works on canvas, paper and eucalyptus bark drawn from the museum’s permanent collection.

Leftover Luxuries 350 Pantops Center. An exhibit of paintings by Nancy Wallace.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. An exhibit of gestural abstractions painted by Peter Skinner. Opens May 12, 5pm.

Loving Cup Vineyard and Winery 3340 Sutherland Rd., North Garden. “Love the Virginia Landscape,” featuring oil paintings of central Virginia landscapes by Julia Kindred.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “Broken Lines,” work by Renee Balfour in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery; “Diving Deep: The Cellular Patterns of Plant Life,” featuring work by Erica Lohan in the Lower Hall North; “As Time Goes By,” featuring work by Lee Alter in the Lower Hall South; annual high school art show featuring art from local high school students in the Upper Hall North and South. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Mudhouse Coffee Roasters 213 W. Main St. “Looking Out, Looking In,” featuring mixed-media collage by Susan Greene. 6-8pm.

FF Piedmont Council for the Arts Gallery 112 W. Main St., Ste. 9. “Brought to Light,” large-scale moth portraits. 5-7pm.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “By the Ton,” mixed-media collage by Kirsten Stolle; and “School of the Abyss,” mixed media by Steve Miller. 5:30-7:30pm.

Shenandoah Valley Fine Art Center 26 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “Bumpy and Flat,” an exhibition featuring work from father/daughter artists Tom Elliott and Cheryl Elliott.

FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “Artists in Bloom,” featuring work by Trilbie Ferrell Knapp’s advanced art students. 6-8pm.

FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Interpret This,” featuring new, old and never-before- seen works by local artist and muralist Chicho Lorenzo. 5-7pm.

FF Telegraph Art & Comics 211A W. Main St. “Pantheon,” a series of four digital prints depicting figures of Greco-Roman mythology by Leslie Hung, Chris Visions, Sloane Leong and Chris Danger. 5-7pm.

FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Murmurations,” photography from Robin Eshleman. 5:30pm.

FF Welcome Gallery at New City Arts 114 Third St. NE. “Epitaxy,” sculpture by Anne Dunckel and Lily Erb. 5-7:30pm.

FF WriterHouse Gallery 508 Dale Ave. An exhibit of paintings by Elyssa Zimmerman. 5-7pm.

FF WVTF & Radio IQ Studio Gallery 218 W. Water St. “hurtsmyeyes,” featuring mixed media work by Nina Frances Burke. 5-7pm.

FF First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions.

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First Fridays: March 3

Mae Read’s exhibit of nudes drawn from photographs or life, “Drawings, Old and New,” is on display at the Downtown Mudhouse through the month of March. Photo by Amy Jackson

First Fridays: March 3

In “Drawings, Old and New,” at the downtown Mudhouse through the month of March, Mae Read exhibits a series of nudes, mostly women, drawn either from life, or from photographs. When Read draws, she connects deeply to her subject and herself.

“Spending that many hours staring at almost any person will create that, and it’s something we need more of. Or I do, anyway,” she says. Many of her drawings are so exquisitely executed that upon first glance they look like photographs, and they remind the viewer that we are all vulnerable, we are all flawed, we are all incomplete, and we all need to reconsider our notions of beauty.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “En Plein Air,” featuring Karyn Gunter Smith’s landscapes of the barrier islands and Virginia’s Eastern Shore. Opens Saturday, March 4.

FF The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative 209 Monticello Rd. “World Art Exhibition,” a collection of 33 drawings created by refugees living in Charlottesville. Light House Studio’s short film The Things They Carried will play during the opening. 5:30pm.

FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “Mending Souls One Stitch at a Time,” featuring functional and decorative quilts by Sally Mann. 6-8pm.

FF Chroma Projects Gallery 112 W. Main St., Ste. 10. “Deep Sea Calculations,” featuring drawings by Carolyn Capps that explore the relationship between chaos and order through the depiction of flotsam in the ocean. 5-7pm.

Crozet Library 2020 Library Ave., Crozet. “Botanical in Nature,” featuring landscapes, still lifes and florals by Jane Fellows.

Deese Hall 4133 Earlysville Rd., Earlysville. An exhibit featuring paintings inspired by nature from Deborah Rose Guterbock along with figurative paintings and comics illustrations from Aaron Arthur Irvine Miller.

FF Fellini’s #9 200 Market St. “Paintings of Italy,” featuring plein air oil paintings by Karyn Gunther Smith. 5:30-7pm.

The Fralin Museum at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “Rough and Unequal,” a commissioned work by Kevin Everson that documents, among other things, the waxing and waning of the moon; and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

FF Graves International Art 306 E. Jefferson St. “Roy Lichtenstein & Company: Post War and Contemporary Art,” featuring handmade limited edition prints and exhibition posters by notable artists such as Lichtenstein, Gerhard Richter, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Ellsworth Kelly and others. 5-8pm.

FF Jefferson-Madison Regional Library Central Library 201 E. Market St. “#BlackOwnedCville,” an exhibit of photography by documentary filmmaker and photographer Lorenzo Dickerson about African-American business owners in Charlottesville and Albemarle County. 5pm.

Kluge-Ruhe Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “Body Ornaments,” objects by indigenous Australian ceramic artist Janet Fieldhouse, whose residency at the collection begins March 10.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Big Heads and Small Giants,” an exhibit that pairs Megan Marlatt’s paintings and papier-mâché “Big Heads” with Margaret McCann’s paintings that explore wild scale dislocation and “headworks” portraits.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “Transformations,” featuring  work from Robin Braun, Roberto Kamide and Charlene Cross, three artists from different backgrounds who came together to transform and repurpose various materials into something new, in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery; “Horizons,” featuring mixed-media watercolor collage by Judy McLeod in the Lower Hall North; “At Play in the Fields of the Goddess,” featuring recent paintings and musings about the natural world on furniture, board and canvas by Dominique Anderson in the Lower Hall South; “Remote Sensing,” featuring mixed-media work by Christopher Headings in the Upper Hall North; and “Passport,” featuring colored pencil drawings on paper from Sophia Wideman’s forthcoming autobiographical graphic novel in the Upper Hall South. 5:30-7:30pm.

Mudhouse Coffee Roasters 213 W. Main St. “Drawings, Old and New” featuring a range from quick figure studies to intricately detailed charcoal on paper drawings by Mae Read.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “Memoria y Creencias Culturales/Memory and Cultural Beliefs,” featuring the work of José Bedia, a contemporary Cuban painter who explores cultural preservation through the research and collection of indigenous and African art, and adapts those forms in the visual language of his paintings and large-scale installations. 5:30-7:30pm.

Shenandoah Valley Fine Art Center 26 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “40Under40,” an annual juried exhibit featuring the work of Virginia artists age 40 and under.

FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “Denali: The Jagged Side of Alaska,” featuring photography by Pete McCutchen. 6-8pm.

FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “The Painted Violin Project,” featuring otherwise unusable instruments made into works of art to be auctioned off to support the Charlottesville High School orchestra string ensemble’s trip to Ireland in June. 5-7pm.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. An exhibit of Frank Simari’s digitally enhanced photos. Opens March 5.

FF University of Virginia Medical Center 1335 Lee St. “Spring on the Horizon,” featuring oil paintings by Randy Baskerville. 3:30-5pm.

FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “A thousand Wishes,” featuring Silvi Stefi’s acrylic paintings on canvas that incorporate recycled shredded paper, glass, metal, glitter and rocks. 5:30pm.

FF Welcome Gallery at New City Arts 114 Third St. NE. “Charcoal and Steel,” featuring paintings by Cate West Zahl and sculpture by Nick Watson. 5-7:30pm.

FF WVTF & Radio IQ Studio Gallery 218 W. Water St. “Papillon,” featuring abstract paintings by April Sanders and watercolors by Gina Langford. 5-7pm.

FF First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. Send gallery listings to arts@c-ville.com.

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First Fridays: January 6

Caroline Nilsson’s “Tides” evokes a sense of exploration and joy at VMDO Architects in January. Photo by Martyn Kyle

 Artist Caroline Nilsson says she is “fascinated by the idea of Eden as a place that is happening now, instead of this locked-away place that we may never be able to access.” Perhaps the only barrier between ourselves and paradise is how we perceive things, she says.

In “Tides,” a series of semi-abstract paintings currently on view at VMDO Architects, Nilsson offers up what she says are “echoes of the American wild,” a representation of her own memories and dreams of some of the country’s protected landscapes.

One of the pieces, “Painting #3,” “is a memory of the way a canyon in northern Arizona felt in the early-morning sunrise fog light, catching triangles of color as it filtered through rocks and boroughs,” Nilsson says. Meandering lines of metallic mineral ink form soft geometric shapes over the acrylic paint, echoing the patterns that her eyes traced as she tried to memorize the landscape.

Nilsson hopes that viewers “find themselves surrounded by an atmosphere where awareness is amplified, both the small feelings and the immense. I hope they are drawn to explore more, open their eyes wider, step outside, go for a walk and realize that Eden is happening now.”

First Fridays

January 6

FF Chroma Projects Gallery 201 E. Main St. “Green Mind,” a collective show featuring Sharon Fishel, Sonja Weber Gilkey, Lotta Helleberg, Alan Box Levine, Beverly Ryan, Linda Wachtmeister and James Yates. 5-7pm.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd. New artists featured in January include Alex Pettigrew (wood accessories), Barbara Shenefield (graphic artist), Bill Mauzy (photography), Jane Freeman (journals), Leah Olivier (ceramics) and Oana Moore (photography). Reception from 3-5pm on January 14.

FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. Mixed media and etching artist Marsha Heatwole’s travels to Africa form a whimsical representation of her gratitude for animals. 6-8pm.

The Fralin Museum at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “The Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne”; “Ann Gale: Portraits”; “The Great War: Printmakers of World War I”; “New Acquisitions: Photography,” featuring work from Danny Lyon, Shirin Neshat and Eadweard Muybridge; and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

Kluge-Ruhe Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “Art and Country” is a diverse selection of works on canvas, paper and eucalyptus bark drawn from the Kluge-Ruhe permanent collection.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “Emerge” featuring Ninni Baeckstrom, Carol Grant and Scott Smith. Three artists grapple with the notion of emergence. 5:30-7:30pm.

Mudhouse 213 W. Main St. Ten original works under the title of “Fractal” by Monty Montgomery. 6-8pm.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “Fly Away,” featuring works on paper by Rashaun Rucker; and “contested bodies,” a collaborative installation by Nikolai M. Noel and Matthew P. Shelton. 5:30-7:30pm.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 26 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. A juried exhibit of work from regional printmakers. Through January 28.

FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Tides” features semi-abstract landscape paintings by Caroline Nilsson. 5:30-8pm.

First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions.

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ARTS Picks: ‘Dappled Things’

The “Dappled Things” show, featuring “Axes” by Lisa Ryan, repurposes writings into new artforms for the final Garage event of 2016. Courtesy of the artist

The multimedia, multi-artist show “Dappled Things” is named for the opening line in “Pied Beauty,” a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins that speaks to the natural magic of pattern and rhythm. Local artists, including Dean Dass, Cate West Zahl and Stephanie Fishwick, source the written word for inspiration by transforming text such as love letters, a favorite quote or a song into a new artistic representation, be it sculpture, painting, weaving or video, in a collaboration with the Charlottesville Reading Series.

Friday, November 4. Free, 5pm. The Garage, 250 First St. thegarage-cville.com.

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First Fridays: November 4

Brielle DuFlon’s “We Made You This,” a series of composed collections of curated, discarded and lost items found around town, is at The Bridge PAI this November. Photo by Martyn Kyle

First Fridays: November 4

First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many downtown art galleries and additional exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions.

Brielle DuFlon enjoys making textured work that she says “stirs our basic responses and impulses,” and her exhibition “We Made You This”—a series of composed collections of curated, discarded and lost items plucked from sidewalks, roads and parking lots here in town and hand-sewn onto canvas—does exactly that. “I wanted to clean up the city a little and come to know the people of Charlottesville more intimately through the objects that they had lost and thrown away,” DuFlon says.

DuFlon organized the objects by color, which she says “places them in a new context that is approachable and enticing, where people are willing to reconsider the items and find beauty in them; that would be more difficult if they were clustered a little more haphazardly.”

She hopes that upon seeing “We Made You This,” viewers will experience a tenderness toward the city and the people who had a connection to the objects before them, and feel the desire to care for the city and one another. “In my ideal world, people would have flashbacks of seeing specific objects on the street from months ago,” she says, and “I imagine some fingers will be tingling to touch certain items.”

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “A Collection of Photographs,” featuring work by Stacey Evans. Opens Saturday, November 12.

FF The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative 209 Monticello Rd. “We Made You This,” an exhibition of nine hand-sewn assemblages on canvas, composed of found, discarded and lost items. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “A Colorful Journey: Adventures in creating with polymer clay and more,” featuring decorative and wearable sculpted pieces by Judith N. Ligon. 6-8pm.

FF Chroma Projects Gallery 201 E. Main St. “Tactility,” featuring sculpture by Alan Binstock and paintings by Kathleen Markowitz. 5-7pm.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Flowing Colors,” featuring watercolor paintings and hand-painted garments by Peg Sheridan. Begins November 12.

FF Fellini’s #9 200 Market St. “Let There Be Light,” featuring watercolors by Phyllis Koch-Sheras. 5:30-7pm.

The Fralin Museum at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “The Gift of Knowing: The Art of Dorothea Rockburne”; “Ann Gale: Portraits”; “The Great War: Printmakers of World War I”; “New Acquisitions: Photography,” featuring work from Danny Lyon, Shirin Neshat and Eadweard Muybridge; and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

FF The Garage 250 First St. N. “Dappled Things,” a group show featuring art inspired by the written word. 5-7:30pm.

The Green House 1260 Crozet Ave., Crozet. An exhibit featuring landscape and still-life paintings by the BozART Fine Art Collective. Through December 17.

FF Kardinal Hall 722 Preston Ave. “Heavy Air,” featuring landscape oil paintings by Elizabeth Flood. 4-6pm.

Kluge-Ruhe Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “On the Fabric of the Ngarrindjeri Body,” drawings, prints and photography by Australian aboriginal artist Damien Shen.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Annie Harris Massie: Lightness,” featuring landscape paintings that explore the qualities of light that reveal and obscure form, and “John Borden Evans: Red Cow,” featuring new paintings by landscape painter John Borden Evans, which opens November 18.

FF Lynne Goldman Elements 407 E. Main St. A show featuring the work of Susan Krieg. 5-8pm.

Martha Jefferson Hospital 500 Martha Jeffer-son Dr. “River,” featuring paintings by Linda Staiger of the natural landscapes of the James and Rivanna rivers in the first floor gallery. Bold and texture landscape paintings by Caroll Mallin hang in the main lobby floor.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “Faraway…so close,” featuring photographs by Will Kerner of India, Iceland and Haiti, in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery; “Summer in New York” by Kelly Oakes and new paintings from Jane Paul Angelhart in the Lower Hall North; “Pairings” by Cynthia Gusler and Ashley Sauder Miller in the Lower Hall South; “NOW! 2017 UVA Studio Art Majors” in the Upper Halls North and South. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “Digital Media Gallery,” a partnership with the Virginia Film Festival showcasing the works of intermediate and advanced UVA cinematography students, taught by Kevin Everson; local youth filmmakers from Light House Studio; and UVA photography professor William Wylie. 5:30-9pm.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 26 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. An exhibit featuring the artwork of the Beverley Street Studio School.

FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “Fortune Cookie Buddha Collages,” featuring work by Toni Gonchoroff. 6-8pm.

FF Studio IX 969 2nd St. SE.  Paintings that (r)evolved around each other over a long arc of time by Dave Moore.  5-7pm.

FF Telegraph Art & Comics 211 W. Main St. “The Chris Danger Art & Print Extravaganza!,” an exhibit featuring new prints and original work by illustrator and animator Chris Danger. 6-8pm.

FF Top Knot Studio 103 Fifth St. “Abstracts plus One,” featuring mid-size abstract paintings by James Brewer. 5pm.

FF Welcome Gallery at New City Arts 114 Third St. NE. “I Wish We Could Still Make Beautiful Paintings Of Muscular Horses,” featuring paintings by Hank Ehrenfried. 5-7:30pm.

FF WVTF & Radio IQ Studio Gallery 218 W. Water St. “Between the Two of Us,” featuring prints, drawings and paintings from Katie Wood and Nina Thomas. 5-7pm.

FF Yellow Cardinal Gallery 301 E. Market St., second floor. “Found & Lost: Objects and Abstractions,” featuring work by Mineko Yoshida, Andy Foster and Jane Goodman. 5-7pm.

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First Fridays: October 7

Sherrie Hunt’s pieces, on display at Chroma Projects Gallery’s new space, focus on mankind’s connection with nature. Photo by Martyn Kyle

First Fridays

October 7

“I have immense passion for nature and the well-being of our planet, from the tiniest of creatures and flora to the oceans and forest,” says Scottsville artist Sherrie Hunt. “The beauty and mystery of nature feeds my soul and awakens my creative spirit endlessly. On a daily basis, I’m reminded of its fragility,” she says. “I am an advocate of species in jeopardy.”

Most of Hunt’s oil paintings, photography and photographic montage pieces are laced with metaphor—some obvious, some less so—for humankind’s connection with nature. The floating flora and fauna remind the viewer that without attention and care, nothing is secure. By not fully finishing some of the forms, Hunt paints a frightening ghost of extinction into view. In one oil painting, “The Seer,” an intelligent hawk—Hunt’s harbinger for endangerment and extinction—looks into the distance as his form dissolves into the space behind him.

Find Hunt’s work in the new Chroma Projects Gallery space, nestled up against the west side of the Paramount Theater—ascend the short set of exterior stairs and continue to the second floor, then follow a long corridor. Keep an eye out for letterpress artist quotes to show you the way.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Reoccurring Images,” featuring collage by Rhonda Roebuck.

FF The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative 209 Monticello Rd. “Looking Forward While Looking Back,” a 10th anniversary retrospective of the Bridge PAI. 5:30-9pm.

FF Chroma Projects Gallery 201 E. Main St. “Floating Worlds,” featuring paintings, photographs and installation pieces by Sherrie Hunt. 5-7pm.

FF City Clay 700 Harris St. #4. An exhibit featuring paintings and Mishima ceramics by Jane Angelhart. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF CitySpace 100 Fifth St. NE “@tribute,” featuring collaborative self-portraits of 17 Computers4Kids youth, made with photographer Eze Amos. 5-7pm.

FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “Creations from my Head and Heart,” featuring knitted sweaters and innovative collage by Diane Goodbar. 6-8pm.

C’ville Coffee 1301 Harris St. An exhibit featuring acrylic paintings of landscapes, food and local subjects by Caroll Mallin. Through October 30.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Reclaiming Independence, Inspiring Craftsmanship,” featuring wood furniture and decorative items by Jacob Strong of StrongWood Designs.

FF Fellini’s #9 200 Market St. “Digital Art,” featuring digital prints by Perry Fitzhugh. 5:30-7pm.

The Fralin Museum at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “The Great War: Printmakers of World War I,” featuring prints depicting combat scenes in France and the Near East; “New Acquisitions: Photography,” featuring work from Danny Lyon, Shirin Neshat and Eadweard Muybridge; “Oriforme” by Jean Arp; and “On the Fly,” featuring sculpture by Patrick Dougherty.

FF GallerIX 522 Second St. SE. “Inspiring Connections,” featuring paintings of local artists, photographers, musicians and other performers by Aimee McDavitt. 5-7pm.

FF The Garage 250 First St. N. “Garage Sale,” featuring oil and watercolor paintings of second-hand items by Sharon Shapiro. 5-7pm.

FF Graves International Art 306 E. Jefferson St. “Masters of Contemporary Art,” featuring limited-edition original prints, exhibition posters, stone lithography, drypoint etching and more by Ellsworth Kelly, Salvador Dalí, Georges Braque, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Francis, Philip Pearlstein, John Chamberlain, Andy Warhol, Gerald Laing, Joan Miró, Josef Albers and more. 5-8pm.

FF Kluge-Ruhe Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “On the Fabric of the Ngarrindjeri Body,” drawings, prints and photography by Australian aboriginal artist Damien Shen. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Annie Harris Massie: Lightness” featuring landscape paintings that explore the qualities of light that reveal and obscure form. 1-5pm.

Loving Cup Winery 3340 Sutherland Rd., North Garden. An exhibit of photography, pottery and paintings by the BozArt Fine Art Collective. Through October 30.

Martha Jefferson Hospital 500 Martha Jeffer-son Dr. “River,” featuring paintings by Linda Staiger of the natural landscapes of the James and Rivanna rivers on the First Floor Gallery. Bold and texture landscape paintings by Carroll Mallin hang in the main lobby floor.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “Tablet & Cloud: Pilgrims in Cyberspace,” featuring work by Rosamond Casey in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery; “Flight,” featuring McGuffey member artists in the Lower North and South Hall galleries; “Fiber Transformed,” featuring work by contemporary Virginia fiber artists in the Upper North and South Hall galleries.

Mudhouse Coffee 213 W. Main St. “Water Like Memory,” featuring paintings that explore the patterns of surface water as reflections of states of mind and memory by Susan Willis Brodie. Through November 1.

FF Neal Guma Fine Art 105 Third St. NE. Fall show featuring work by Holly Andres, Julie Blackmon, Markus Brunetti, Julie Cockburn and Lois Conner. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St. An exhibit of oil paintings by Warren Boeschenstein. 5:30-7pm.

Scottsville Center for Arts and Nature 401 Valley St., Scottsville. “Another Day at the Office,” featuring Billy Morris’ photographs of the bucolic daily grind.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “Bitter, Sweet and Tender,” featuring photography, currency, sculpture and textile by Richmond-based artist Sonya Clark. 5:30-7:30pm.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 26 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. An exhibit featuring the artwork of the BozArt Fine Art Collective.

FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “Landscapes Near and Far,” featuring water-colors by Phyllis Koch-Sheras. 6-8pm.

FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Post Medium,” featuring work by UVA Aunspaugh Fifth Year Fellow Sandy William IV that challenges traditional art practices. 5-7pm.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church 717 Rugby Rd. An exhibit featuring the work of painter Deborah Rose Guterbock and painter and comics artist A.I. Miller.

FF Welcome Gallery at New City Arts 114 Third St. NE. “Look, Make & Do,” an exhibit featuring drawings, paintings, collages and collaborative installations by Emma Crockatt and Ryan Trott. 5-7:30pm.

FF WVTF & Radio IQ Studio Gallery 218 W. Water St. “Peace Doves,” featuring oil paintings and photography by Zuhal Feraidon. 5-7pm.

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First Fridays: September 2

Painter Lou Haney’s exhibit, “Ripe,” opens September 2 at The Garage. Photo by Katelyn Greer

“There’s something compelling about taking something small and making it large,” says local artist Lou Haney, whose gouache on yupo paper paintings of larger-than-life fruit at various stages of maturity will hang at The Garage in September. “When an object normally fits in your hand,” she says, you have to reconsider your relationship to it when you see that object blown up and bigger than your head. While looking at an enormous split fig or a gigantic cut strawberry, the viewer must consider many things—exterior seeds, interior cavities, taste memories—and lament the fleeting nature of freshness.

FF The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative 209 Monticello Road. “The Blissful Dark,” featuring work by Jack Graves III. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “A Modern Approach to Felt Making,” featuring whimsical felted art by Karen Shapcott. 6-8pm.

FF Chroma Projects Gallery 201 E. Main St. “Realism Unbound: Observation as Narrative,” featuring paintings by John Randall Younger and Elizabeth Crawford. 5-7pm.

The Fralin Museum at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “The Great War: Printmakers of World War I,” featuring prints depicting combat scenes in France and the Near East; “New Acquisitions: Photography,” featuring work from Danny Lyon, Shirin Neshat and Eadweard Muybridge; “Icons,” by Andy Warhol; and “On the Fly,” featuring sculpture by Patrick Dougherty.

Gallerix 522 Second St. SE. “Blue Ridge Landscapes,” featuring acrylic paintings by Laura Wooten. September 3-15.

FF The Garage 250 First St. N. “Ripe,” featuring paintings and drawings by Lou Haney. 5-7pm.

FF Graves International Art 306 E. Jefferson St. “Masters of Contemporary Art,” featuring limited-edition original prints, exhibition posters, stone lithography, drypoint etching and more by Ellsworth Kelly, Salvador Dalí, Georges Braque, Damien Hirst, David Hockney, Keith Haring, Roy Lichtenstein, Sam Francis, Philip Pearlstein, John Chamberlain, Andy Warhol, Gerald Laing, Joan Miró, Josef Albers and more. 5-8pm.

FF Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Picasso, Lydia and Friends, Vol. III” featuring prints by Pablo Picasso, paintings by Picasso scholar Lydia Gasman and work by William Bennett, Anne Chesnut, Dean Dass, Sandra Iliescu, David Summers and Russ Warren. 1-5pm.

FF Live Arts 123 E. Water St. “Intermission,” featuring oil paintings and work on paper by Nym Pedersen. 5-7pm.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “Going Beyond the Window,” featuring work from John A. Hancock’s “Shaped Landscape” series in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, and the 25th annual Central Virginia Watercolor Guild exhibition in the Lower and Upper halls. On view through Sunday, October 2.

Northside Library 705 Rio Rd. W. A group exhibit by BozART Fine Art Collective. Through September 30.

FF Old Metropolitan Hall 101 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Pastoral Propaganda,” featuring paintings about small-town life by Melissa Malone. 4-7pm.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 26 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. An exhibit featuring the artwork of the BozArt Fine Art Collective. Through October.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “Bitter, Sweet and Tender,” featuring photography, currency, sculpture and textile by Richmond-based artist Sonya Clark. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Studio IX 963 Second St. SE. “Broken is Beautiful,” featuring acrylic works by Aimee McDavitt. 5-7pm.

FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “Sea Life,” featuring oil on canvas by Leslie Wade. 6-8pm.

FF Welcome Gallery at New City Arts 114 Third St. NE. “I Am A Man,” an exhibit featuring photographs, sculpture, mixed media and paintings by Hank Willis Thomas. 5-7:30pm.

FF WVTF & Radio IQ Studio Gallery 218 W. Water St. “Wasteland,” featuring mixed media work by David Borszich.