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March galleries guide

It’s lit: Billy Hunt at Studio IX

Through dexterous utilization of non-traditional lighting techniques such as lasers, LED wands, programmed projections, and various other homemade light sources, photographer Billy Hunt creates transcendent images for his new portrait series. And he does it all without the use of digital editing techniques. Hunt is known for his photographs of the Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers, and as the inventor of the Screamotron 3000, which takes a picture when the person in front of the camera screams, and his latest series is just as interactive as his previous ones. When “Laser Portraits” opens at 5:30 Friday evening at Studio IX, Hunt will be there to demonstrate for anyone who wants to play with light—or strike a pose. —Erin O’Hare

First Fridays: March 6

Openings

Artful Living Popup The Shops at Stonefield. An exhibition of acrylic paintings, ceramics, found art, and photography by Susannah Wagner, Linda Hollett, Noah Hughey-Commers, Keith Ramsey, Susan Patrick, Alex Solmssen, Keith Ramsey, and Diana Eichles. 5-7:30pm.

The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative 209 Monticello Rd. “Americans Who Tell The Truth: Youth Speaking Truth,” an exhibit of 120 portraits made by Charlottesville High School students alongside some of the portraits from Robert Shetterly’s “Americans Who Tell the Truth” series. 5:30-8:30pm.

Chroma Projects Inside Vault Virginia, Third St. SE. “FIGMENTS,” featuring mostly constructions and collage work by Bill Atwood, all demonstrating the artist’s signature expressions of joyful, chaotic eccentricity. 5-7pm.

CitySpace 100 Fifth St. NE. An exhibit of student art from Albemarle County Public Schools. 5-7pm.

C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Storytelling with Paint,” a show of dreamlike works by Milenko Katic. 6-8pm.

IX Art Park 522 Second St. SE. “ECSTASIS,” a series of surrealist figure paintings in oil by Kathryn Wingate. 4-6pm.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, works by Renee Balfour; in the Lower Hall Gallery, a show by Fred Crist; and in the Upper North Hall Gallery, an exhibition related to the Virginia Festival of the Book. 5:30-7:30pm.

Milli Coffee Roasters 400 Preston Ave. #150. “Busker,” photographic prints by Eze Amos. 5-7pm.

Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the Main Gallery, “By the Strength of Their Skin,” paintings by Regina Pilawuk Wilson, Mabel Juli, and Nonggirrnga Marawili, three of Australia’s most acclaimed women artists. In the Dové Gallery, “Nature Tells Its Own Story,” featuring paintings by Pakistani artist Tanya Minhas. 5:30-7:30pm

Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Laser Portraits,” a photography exhibition and demonstration (everyone is welcome to model) by Billy Hunt. 5:30-7:30pm.

Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Sin & Salvation in Baptist Town,” an exhibition of archival pigment prints from photographer Matt Eich. 5-7:30pm.

WVTF Radio IQ 216 W. Water St. “Book Art,” featuring Eugene Provenzo’s eclectic collages, assemblages, and sculpture that compliment the Virginia Festival of the Book. 5-7pm.

VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “What,” an exhibition of paintings by Ryan Trott. 5:30-7:30pm.

Other March shows

Albemarle County Circuit Court 501 E. Jefferson St. An exhibition of work by members of the Central Virginia Watercolor Guild.

ALC Copies 156 Carlton Rd. #104. “Favorite Places: Home and Abroad,” recent oil paintings by Randy Baskerville.

Annie Gould Gallery 109 S. Main St., Gordonsville. A show featuring work by Cecelia Schultz, Annie Waldrop, and Chuxin Zhang closes March 8; a show of works by Jeannine Barton Regan and Kathy Kuhlmann opens March 14, 4-6pm..

Charlottesville Tango 208 E. Water St. “Stillness,” a show of pencil sketches by David Currier.

City Clay 700 Harris St. #104. “Recent Work by Faculty and Members of City Clay,” featuring ceramics by Randy Bill, Sam Deering, Sophie Gibson, Judd Jarvis, Julie Madden, and others; and “Visual Investigations,” featuring the work of South Carolina-based ceramic artist Virginia Scotchie. Opens March 24, 5-7pm.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. A show and sale of ceramic bowls, jars, plates, teapots, and other functional items by Stephen Palmer.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “Select Works from the Alan Groh-Buzz Miller Collection”; “The Inside World: Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Memorial Poles,” and “Figures of Memory.”

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “A Place Fit for Women,” part of Robert Shetterly’s “Americans Who Tell The Truth” portrait series.

The Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “Tithuyil (Moving with the Rhythm of the Stars),” featuring linocut prints and sculptural works by Brian Robinson, a Torres Strait Islander artist who combines Torres Strait cultural motifs with references to Western Classical art and popular culture; and “With Her Hands: Women’s Fiber Art from Gapuwiyak.”

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Same Difference,” featuring paintings by Dorothy Robinson and sculpture by Kurt Steger. Opens March 14.

Live Arts 123 E. Water St. “Reimagined,” a show of Polaroids as well as a few lightboxes, prints on wood and mixed media pieces by Cary Oliva.

Mudhouse Coffee 213 W. Main St. “Du Temps Perdu,” featuring paintings by Brian Geiger.

New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “A Tribute to Eloise,” an exhibition of works by the e salon watercolorists.

Northside Library 705 Rio Rd. W. “Bold,” featuring acrylic paintings by Novi Beerens and collages by Karen Whitehill.

PVCC Gallery 501 College Dr. “Bloom: In Honor of the Centennial Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage,” a group show with paintings, sculpture, photography, and more by a roster of notable local artists.

Quirk Hotel Charlottesville 499 W. Main St. “Hello There,” a show of work by a variety of artists intended to introduce the community to the new hotel. Opens March 5, 5-8pm.

The Rotunda UVA. “Munguyhmunguyh (Forever),” an exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the John W. Kluge Injalak commission and featuring both new and older works commissioned from the Aboriginal community of Kunbarlanja in western Arnhem Land, Australia.

Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital 500 Martha Jefferson Way. “In Another World,” featuring works by members of the BozART Fine Art Collective, including Carol Barber, Frank Feigert, Craig Lineburger, Juliette Swenson, and others.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “40 Under 40,” featuring the work of 40 Virginia artists under age 40; and “Orange,” a themed show by SVAC members. Opens March 7, 5-7pm.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. “Umbrellas,” an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Donna Redmond.

Vitae Spirits Distillery 715 Henry Ave. “Go Wahoos,” a show of UVA-themed acrylic works by Matalie Deane.

First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many area art galleries and exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. To list an exhibit, email arts@c-ville.com.

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First Fridays: August 2

"Memorial," an immersive audio-visual installation, at Chroma Projects Gallery. Image by Bolanle Adeboye

Openings

Chroma Projects Inside Vault Virginia, Third Street SE. “Memorial,” an immersive audio/visual installation by Bolanle Adeboye, Richelle Claiborne, and Leslie Scott-Jones, with music from Lou “Waterloo” Hampton and Mike Moxham, that considers the African American perspective and makes space for communal creation, remembrance, awareness, and compassion. 5-7pm, performance at 5:30.

CitySpace 100 Fifth St. NE. “Gone But Not Forgotten: Unearthing Memories at the Daughters of Zion Cemetery,” featuring photos from the Holsinger Portrait Project. 5:30-7:30pm.

C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Brilliant Botanicals,” featuring earthenware jewelry textured with pressed plants by Jennifer Paxton. 6-8pm.

Eichner Studios Gallery 2035 Bond St. #120. A show of work by Anita Severn and a number of local artists working in a variety of media. 6-8pm.

The Garage 100 E. Jefferson St. “Remedios caseros,” featuring Karina Monroy’s works in acrylic paint and embroidery thread on muslin. 5-7pm.

IX Art Park 522 Second St. SE. “Start to Finish,” an exhibit of spray paint, oil, and acrylic paintings, each with a solvable maze, by Bernie McCabe. 7-11pm.

New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Poetry in Color,” an exhibition of watercolor calligraphy and oil and acrylic paintings by Terry M. Coffey. 5-7pm.

Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Wellspring,” featuring 12 original Risograph prints by Justseeds Artists’ Cooper- ative members, each exploring our contemporary relationship to water. 5:30-7:30pm.

VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Wanderings and Wonderings,” a show of original paintings and drawings in a wide variety of media by Lindsay Knights. 5:30-7:30pm.

Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Swarm,” Rayne MacPhee’s exhibition about the plight of the honeybee, presented in graphite, ink, and bee taxidermy on paper. 5-7:30pm.

The Women’s Initiative 11o1 E. High St. “Serenity,” a show of watercolors, acrylics, and oils by Terry Coffey. 5:30-7:30pm.

Other July shows

Albemarle County Circuit Court 501 E. Jefferson St. An exhibition of work by members of the Central Virginia Watercolor Guild.

Annie Gould Gallery 109 S. Main St., Gordonsville. Work by Joan Griffin, Frances Dowdy, Anne de Latour Hopper, and 30 other artists, both local and national, through August 11; and a show of work by Linda Verdury opening August 15, 5-7pm.

Carpediem Exhibit 1429 E. High St. A perpeptual group exhibit, this month including works by David Amoroso and Nina Ozbey. Opens August 18, 2-5pm.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Romeo Glass,” a show of blown glass by Minh Martin. Opens August 10, 1pm.

C’ville Coffee 1301 Harris St. “Cosmic Views,” featuring oil and acrylic paintings on canvas by Patty Ray Avalon. Opens August 1.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “Of Women, By Women,” an exhibition curated by the university’s museum interns that explores the power inherent in the act of taking a photograph; “Asian Art from the Permanent and Select Private Collections”; “Otherwise,” exploring the influence of LGBTQ+ artists, opening August 9; “Time to Get Ready: Fotografia Social,” opening August 9; and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “Ernest Withers: Picturing the Civil Rights Movement 1957-1968,” a show of 13 works from the African American photojournalist best known for capturing 60 years of African American history in the segregated South.

HotCakes Gourmet 1137 Emmet St. Ste. A, Barracks Road Shopping Center. “Local Landscapes,” featuring work by Julia Kindred, through August 17; and “Wake the Dreamer,” featuring watercolors by Kari Caplin, opening August 18.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “Shane Pickett: Djinong Djina Boodja (Look At the Land that I Have Traveled),” featuring work by one of western Australia’s most significant contemporary Aboriginal artists; and “With Her Hands: Women’s Fiber Art from Gapuwiyak: The Louise Hamby Gift.”

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Landscape Reimagined & Summer Sculpture Show,” featuring the work of 27 painters and 10 sculptors who take landscape as their subject or use their art to literally inhabit and intersect with nature, through August 11; and “Arrivals,” by Sanda Iliescu, opening August 24, 4:30-6:30pm.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, “Un-Becoming Peter Allen,” a show of works in colored pencil and collage that explore the nature of identity; in the North and South and Downstairs Hall galleries, the McGuffey member artists summer group show.

Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Aerial Colors,” featuring mixed-media pieces by Remmi Franklin.

Sri Kodakalla at Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. “Entries of Thought,” featuring the wood and fiber works of Sri Kodakalla. Opens August 1, 11:30am.

Vitae Spirits Distillery 715 Henry Ave. “Winding Down,” a show of work by Judith Ely. Opens August 5.

First Fridays is a monthly art event featuring exhibit openings at many area art galleries and exhibition venues. Several spaces offer receptions. To list an exhibit, email arts@c-ville.com.

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Galleries: May 2019

Ros Casey's "In Those Days There Was No River Here (A parable in 8 pictures)" is on view at Chroma Projects gallery through the month of May. Chroma has a new location, on the main floor of Vault Virginia, the entrance of which is off Third Street SE, directly across from The Front Porch. Photo by Amy Jackson Smith

Ros Casey gets deep at Chroma

It was only toward the end of painting her latest body of work that Ros Casey understood what it was all about: rising water.

The scenes in her series, “In Those Days There Was No River Here (A parable in 8 pictures),” on view at Chroma Projects gallery this month, are “cast into the future,” says Casey, into a post-disaster world in which humans and animals both wild and domesticated exist in close proximity with one another.

Each painting includes at least one animal, “which seems to feel that whatever has happened has been going on for a long time”; one child, “wanting reassurance of some kind”; and one adult, “implicated and exhausted, somewhat resigned” when faced with the reality of how, by not acknowledging or acting upon the threat of climate change and rising sea levels, he failed to secure a future for his children, says Casey.

The creatures’ expressions drive the series, and Casey chose to render their sadness in serene, undramatic fashion in order to better convey a sense of tragedy. “There’s something really powerful about a passive expression, because it provides a lot more ambiguity, in terms of the interpretation of the story,” she says. “And it contains so much turmoil.”

Casey painted with vivid hues like cadmium red and cobalt blue that create a sort of “irradiated light that feels kind of toxic and poisonous,” she says. The colors, like the world they shape on Casey’s canvases, are so intense that the witness cannot help but look, even though they’re almost too much to bear.

Says Casey, “I’m not so interested in the cataclysmic, movie version of these events as I was in the settling-in phase of the disaster, once it had already happened, and we’re there, and we’re just sort of used to this now.”

Openings May 3

The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello Rd. The Revel auction preview, featuring work by local artists Ryan Trott, Brian Knox, Jum Jirapan, Jesse Wells, Thomas Dean, Sahara Clemons, Allyson Mellberg Taylor, Jeremy Taylor, and others. 5:30pm.

Central Library 201 E. Market St. “The Art of Resilience and Recovery,” a show of hundreds of individually crafted banners showcasing journeys to wellness in the community. 5-7pm.

Chroma Projects Inside Vault Virginia, Third Street SE. “In Those Days There Was No River Here (A parable in 8 pictures),” by Rosamond Casey. 5-7pm.

CitySpace 100 Fifth St. NE. Charlottesville City School’s ArtQuest student gallery exhibit. 5:30-7pm.

C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “The Magic of Fusion,” featuring works in fused glass by Mary Ellen Larkins. 6-8pm.

Dovetail Design & Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. “Fancy of Feast,” acrylic paintings on canvas by Robin Harris. 5-7pm.

Fellini’s 200 Market St. “Que Vivan Los Animales,” an exhibition of works in acrylic, pen, and watercolor by Natalie Reyes. 5:30-7pm.

The Garage 100 E. Jefferson St. “Diaspora,” a series of paintings by Kathleen Free, inspired by people geographically displaced, and the objects and places left behind. 5-7pm.

IX Art Park 522 Second St. SE. ArtIX, featuring 50 pieces of artwork created by 50 different local artists. 7:30pm-midnight.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, “Melting Point: Contemporary Encaustic Works,” a selection of pieces by mid-Atlantic artists who use encaustic in their work in dynamic ways; in the Downstairs North Hall Gallery, “Still,” oil paintings by Kelly Oakes; in the Downstairs South Hall Gallery, “unknown thoughts,” a Maddie Rhondeau-Rhodes’ show exploring memory as it slips between the real and the imagined; in the Upstairs North and South Hall Galleries, the annual local high school exhibition. 5:30-7:30pm.

Milli Coffee Roasters 400 Preston Ave. “The Long Table,” featuring John Borgquist’s photography of the Milli community. 7-10pm.

New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “The Art of Nina Thompson,” an exhibition of oil paintings. 5-7pm.

Peacock Auto Service 205 Meade Ave. “The Human Head,” studies in oil and charcoal by Vanthi Nguyen. 6-8pm.

Roy Wheeler Realty Co. 404 Eighth St. NE. An exhibition of experimental works in oil, watercolor, and digital formats by Blake Hurt; and a show of dry pastels on sanded paper by Nancy Galloway. 5-7:30pm.

Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Land and Sea,” featuring small and large works by Abby Ober. 6-8pm.

Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Turbulent Season,” painter Dave Moore’s exploration of springtime as a time of transition, growth, and rebirth. 5:30-7:30pm.

Top Knot Studio 103 Fifth St. SE. “May Flowers,” a show of Cary Oliva’s dream-like floral imagery created with Polaroid transfers. 5:30-7:30pm.

VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. An exhibition of drawings made by Melissa Goldman, Matt Johnson, Jack Hatcher, Matthew Gordon, and Michael Tucker, UVA’s architectural robotics research group. 5:30-7:30pm.

Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Garden Variety,” featuring acrylic works on vinyl by Lou Haney. 5-7:30pm.

WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. An exhibition of photography by David Cook. 5-7pm.

WVTF RadioIQ 216 W. Water St. “Sediment,” featuring a collection of Amanda Smith’s encaustic paintings and monotypes that evoke escape into tiny worlds. 5-7pm.

Other April shows

Annie Gould Gallery 109 S. Main St., Gordonsville. A show of paintings by Jane Skafte and Sue DuFour.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “The Quiet of Nature,” oil paintings and intaglio prints by Tom Tartaglino. Opens May 11, 2-4pm.

Buck Mountain Episcopal Church 4133 Earlysville Rd., Earlysville. “Energized Spring,” featuring works in melton crayon by Sara Gondwe.

Carpediem Exhibit 1429 E. High St. A multimedia rotating, expanding exhibit of works by local, regional, and out-of-state artists.

The Center 491 Hillsdale Dr. “Being in the Moment,” a show of paintings by Judith Ely.

Commonwealth Restaurant 422 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Linear Motion,” featuring illustrations by Martin Phillips.

Connaughton Gallery McIntire School of Commerce at UVA. “Looking In and Looking Out,” featuring works in watercolor, pen, and ink on canvas by Kaki Dimock, and works in acrylic on canvas by Brittany Fan. Opens March 18.

Crozet Artisan Depot 571 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Being Outside,” a show of oil paintings by Linda Staiger.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. Vanessa German’s installation, “sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies”; “The Print Series in Bruegel’s Netherlands: Dutch and Flemish Works from the Permanent Collection”; “Of Women, By Women,” an exhibition curated by the University’s museum interns that explores the power inherent in the act of taking a photograph; and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

Java Java 421 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. Acrylics and watercolors by Matalie Deane, and oils by Julia Kindred.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “Simply: The Black Towns,” a series of images by Jamelle Bouie, New York Times columnist and political analyst for CBS News, of the remains of African American towns founded after Emancipation. Opens May 11, 6pm.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “Kent Morris: Unvanished,” a series of digitally constructed photographs that explores the relationship between contemporary Indigenous Australian identity and the modern built environment, through May 5; “Shane Pickett: Djinong Djina Boodja (Look At the Land that I Have Traveled,” featuring work by one of Western Australia’s most significant contemporary Aboriginal artists, opening May 14; and “Beyond Dreamings: The Rise of Indigenous Australian Art in the United States.”

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Places in Time,” new paintings inspired by Key West, Maine, and Staunton, Virginia, by Lincoln Perry; and “Interiors and Landscapes,” featuring oil and watercolor pieces by Kathryn Keller. Opens May 4, 4:30-6:30pm.

Live Arts 123 E. Water St. A show of light boxes by Bolanle Adeboye.

Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the main gallery, “OBJECTify,” a joint show of work by painters Michael Fitts and Megan Read; and in the Dové Gallery, “Michelle Gagliano: Murmurations,” an exhibition of paintings that also features sculpture by Robert Strini. Through May 17.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. An exhibition of mixed media, photography, and film by Staunton artist Angus Carter. Opens May 4, 5-7pm.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. “Painting to Heal the Soul,” featuring work by Marissa Minnerly.

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April Galleries

Born and raised in Philadelphia, Andy Faith’s favorite thing to do as a kid was visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art to look at Marcel Duchamp’s found art pieces. She’s been making her own work from found materials since 1994, the latest of which are on view at McGuffey Art Center throughout the month of April. Photo by Martyn Kyle

Soft morning light filters in through the window of Andy Faith’s studio in the basement of McGuffey Art Center, and try as it might, the light can’t possibly illuminate every object on every shelf in the place.

There’s an old Monticello Dairy ice cream carton, yellowed and full of rusty nails; tea bags; rough slabs of wood; metal cages; doll eyes she found in Paris; plastic dice of many colors; scraps of cheesecloth; jars of doll pieces labeled “breasts + other body parts,” or “penises”; aging clockworks; various animal skulls; and a small box of tiny bones that tinkle when Faith runs her hands gently through them.

She laughs as she looks around at her beloved materials—she can hardly find anything when she wants it, but still manages to create. It helps to have a deadline, says Faith, like the one for “untitled,” her show on view in McGuffey’s Upstairs South Hall Gallery throughout the month of April.

“Protector” is one of the pieces featured in Faith’s show at McGuffey this month. Photo courtesy of the artist

“It’s sort of political,” she says about the show, with pieces like “Even If You Don’t Believe, Please Pray for Them,” dedicated to the children who have been, and continue to be, separated from their parents at the U.S. border. There are pieces on racism, on incarceration, on sexism, and a few totems. “But that’s what it is. That’s what’s happening,” she says, and these things are on her mind constantly.

For Faith, making this work is healing, and she hopes it will be for the viewer, too. Some folks may think it’s scary, and she understands that, but it’s protective and beautiful in its raw vulnerability.

Sometimes, art has to break a viewer’s heart in order to heal it. —Erin O’Hare

Openings

Chroma Projects Gallery Inside Vault Virginia, Third St. SE. “Luminous Structures,” a show of works by glass artist Emily Williams and painter Elaine Rogers. 5-7pm.

CitySpace 100 Fifth St. NE. “It’s A Music Town,” a multimedia exhibition curated by Rich Tarbell and Coy Barefoot that explores the sights, sounds, and stories of Charlottesville in the modern rock era. 5-8:30pm.

C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Once Upon a Time: Clocks with a Story,” featuring clocks made by tinkering guru Allan Young. 6-8pm.

Dovetail Design & Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. “New Home: Same Mountainside,” watercolor and mixed media works by Leah Claire Larsen. 5-7pm.

Home Sweet Home Realty 1050 Druid Ave. Ste. A. “Reflections, Illusions and Dreams,” a show of work by Casey Woodzell. 5pm.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Picasso, Lydia and Friends, Vol. IV,” featuring 12 Picasso prints as well as works from seven friends of the late modernist art professor and painter Lydia Gasman. 1-5pm.

Live Arts 123 E. Water St. A show of light box works by Bolanle Adeboye.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, “Albemarle in Winter,” a show of watercolor images of Albemarle County; in the Downstairs North and South Hall Galleries, “Pink,” a group show of 11 artists examining how pink is relevant to their work; in the Upstairs North Hall Gallery, “Under Pressure,” an exhibition of experimental monotype prints by Polly Breckenridge; and in the Upstairs South Hall Gallery, “untitled,” featuring works that are an offering of witness, compassion, and protection for all those who suffer in the world, by A. Faith. 5:30-7:30pm.

Milli Coffee Roasters 400 Preston Ave. An exhibition of original works in oil on canvas by Kris Bowmaster. 7-10pm.

Music Resource Center 105 Ridge St. “Meditative Reflections,” a show of work by Sara Gondwe, who uses crayons, an iron, and fabric paint to create her pieces. 5-7pm.

New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “The Art of Marion Roberts,” featuring photo manipulations. 5-7pm.

Roy Wheeler Realty Co. 404 Eighth St. NE. An exhibition of work by Laura Heyward, who creates in oil, acrylic, pen and ink, printmaking, and collage. 5-7:30pm.

Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. “NewArt,” featuring paintings by Ell Tresse. 6-8pm.

Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Recalibration: New Paintings by Mike Ryan,” in which the artist explores pattern and shape, creating without restraints. 5:30-7:30pm.

VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Myths, Monsters, and General Mayhem,” an exhibition of acrylic works on masonite board by Sara Knipp. 5:30-7:30pm.

Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Sculpture and Color,” featuring works by sculptor Robert Strini and painter Ken Horne. 5-7:30pm.

WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. “A Place To Call,” a show of photography and mixed- media pieces by Alden Myers and Liza Wimbish. 5-7pm.

WVTF RadioIQ 216 W. Water St. “Love Breathes in Two Countries,” featuring work by local landscape artists Christen Yates and Brittany Fan. 5-7pm.

Other April shows

Annie Gould Gallery 109 S. Main St., Gordonsville. A show of paintings by Jane Skafte and Sue DuFour. Through May 26.

The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello Rd. “Desencabronamiento,” an exhibition of Federico Cuatlacuatl’s sculptural kites and video that explore tradition and culture as political weapons. Kite workshops, exhibition, talk, and mural paintings throughout the week of April 8, in conjunction with the Tom Tom Founders Festival. Exhibition officially opens April 14, 7-10pm.

Buck Mountain Episcopal Church 4133 Earlysville Rd., Earlysville. “The Ten,” featuring multi-media abstract paintings by Philip J. Marlin.

Commonwealth Restaurant 422 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Linear Motion,” featuring illustrations by Martin Phillips.

Crozet Artisan Depot 571 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Jake’s Clay Art: Animation and Energy,” a show of Jake Johnson’s colorful pottery.

Fellini’s 200 Market St. “Owned,” an exhibition of pastels by Cat Denby.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “Pompeii Archive: Recent Photographs by William Wylie,” through April 21; Vanessa German’s installation, “sometimes.we.cannot.be.with.our.bodies”; “The Print Series in Bruegel’s Netherlands: Dutch and Flemish Works from the Permanent Collection”; “Of Women, By Women,” an exhibition curated by the University’s museum interns that explores the power inherent in the act of taking a photograph; and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

Java Java 421 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. A multimedia show by the members of the BozART Fine Art Collective, including Carol Barber, Randy Baskerville, Betty Brubach, Matalie Deane, Joan Dreicer, Frank Feigert, Sara Gondwe, Anne de Latour Hopper, Julia Kindred, Julia Lesnichy, Amy Shawley Paquette, and Juliette Swenson.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW “Deborah Willis: In Pursuit of Beauty” examines how beauty is posed, imagined, critiqued, and contested. Through April 27.

Random Row Brewery 608 Preston Ave. A show of mixed media works in crayon and fabric paint by Sara Gondwe.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “Awakening,” Sandra Luckett’s multimedia exhibition that is a monument to spiritual rebirth. Opens April 6, 5-7pm.

Tandem Friends School 279 Tandem Ln. The Charlottesville Area Quilters Guild Biennial Quilt Show, featuring work from more than 135 members from four area chapters. April 6 and 7.

Vitae Spirits Distillery 715 Henry Ave. A show of watercolors, some incorporating calligraphy, by Terry M. Coffey.

Woodberry Forest School Baker Gallery, Walker Fine Arts Center 898 Woodberry Forest Rd., Woodberry Forest. “Seasons Of and In Mind,” featuring paintings by Linda Verdery.

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First Fridays: December 7

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Post date December 5, 2018
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Uzo Njoku’s “Out of the Shadows,” featuring vivid, large-scale paintings that bring black women to the forefront, is on view at the New City Arts Welcome Gallery during the month of December. Photo by Amy Jackson

While working on her newest series of paintings, Uzo Njoku learned the importance of telling a story through portraiture.

The story Njoku tells with “Out of the Shadows,” on view this month at the New City Arts Welcome Gallery, is one that has global reach and widespread effects, and is perhaps not told—or heard—nearly enough.

“Out of the Shadows” is a series of large-scale portraits of dark-skinned black women painted in front of vividly-hued, bold backgrounds that reference traditional West African Ankara print fabrics. By juxtaposing her subjects’ dark skin against a brightly colored background, Njoku pushes the women she paints to
the forefront, not just of the painting but of the viewer’s attention.

Njoku, who was born in Nigeria and immigrated to the U.S. with her parents when she was 7 years old, is making a point about skin lightening and skin bleaching, a practice the World Health Organization considers a global public health concern.

According to a 2011 WHO report on the effects of mercury in skin lightening products, up to 77 percent of women in Nigeria “are reported to use skin lightening products on a regular basis,” likely the highest proportion in the world.

These soaps and creams are heavily marketed to women in countries where skin-lightening products are not banned. When applied to the body’s largest organ—the skin—they can cause kidney damage, skin rashes, skin discoloration, and scarring, and can negatively affect the skin’s resistance to fungal and bacterial infections.

Njoku says the damage is more than skin-deep—it’s emotional and psychological, too. “In many countries, like Nigeria, whiteness is still connected to the old power structures of
British and European colonialism,” says Njoku, to a time when “’whiteness’ symbolized power and status.”

Njoku notes that in these countries (the U.S. included), women of color, and dark-skinned black women in particular, are often made to feel small or in the background. And so with her “intentionally black portraiture paintings of black women,” she aims not just to capture and emphasize their physical beauty, but their intellectual and emotional complexity as well.

“I’m hoping to captivate the viewer’s attention and evoke a sense of dominant power coming from the women in the paintings,” she says. —Erin O’Hare

The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello Rd. “P.O. Box America,” Curtis Grimstead’s photo series that captures the charm of America’s rural post offices as well as the grand architecture of post offices in major U.S. cities. 5:30-9:30pm.

Chroma Projects 103 W. Water St. “Uncle Drosselmeyer’s Other Gifts,” a group exhibition proposing ideas of magic, imagination, and transformation, featuring fantastical “toys” by Megan Marlatt, Sean Samoheyl, Beatrix Ost, Deborah Rogers, Barbara Iobst, and Aggie Zed. 5-7pm.

CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. “Looking Deep Into Nature,” featuring photography by George Beller, a doctor and former chief of the cardiovascular division at UVA Health System. 5:30-7:30pm.

C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “New Directions for Ben Greenberg Photography,” featuring new work by a photographer known for his dramatic and inspirational images of central Virginia. 6-8pm.

Dovetail Design + Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. “Winter Solace,” an exhibition of Melissa Malone’s oil and acrylic paintings on canvas of various bodies of water, meant to conjure feelings of contentment and quiet. 5-7pm.

Fellini’s Restaurant 200 Market St. “Celebrating the Season,” oil paintings by Marla McNamara. 5:30-7pm.

Joseph Joseph & Joseph Antiques 508 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. An exhibition of paintings by Edward Thomas. 5-7pm.

Malleable Studios 1304 E. Market St., Ste. T. An artisan soirée and sale featuring work by Tavia Brown, Mia van Beek, Rebecca Phalen, and Karen Eide. 5-8pm.

“Forested,” encaustic on panel by Giselle Gautreau

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, the annual holiday shop full of gifts made by McGuffey member artists; in the Downstairs, Upstairs, North, and South Hall Galleries, the annual cash-and-carry holiday members’ show, featuring work by both renting and associate McGuffey artists, including Tami Walker, Klaus Anselm, Jill Kerttula, John Trippel, Judith Ely, Giselle Gautreau, Charlene Cross, and others. 5:30-7:30pm.

Milli Coffee Roasters 400 Preston Ave. Ste. 150. An exhibition of landscape, portrait, and urban photography by Zach Phillips and Taylor Rigg. 7-10pm.

New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Summer Days,” featuring oil paintings by Blake Hurt. 5:30-7pm.

Piedmont Virginia Community College College Dr. “Let There Be Light,” a one-night-only outdoor exhibition of light-based artworks and performances that illuminate the darkened grounds surrounding the Dickinson Building. 6-9pm.

Roy Wheeler Realty Co. 404 Eighth St. NE. “Enter Nym’s World,” an exhibition of work by Nym Pedersen, who keeps in mind the approach of many great jazz artists when he makes paintings and sculpture: Paint what you feel, and keep it free. 5-7:30pm.

Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the main gallery, “Attraction,” an exhibition of new botanical work by John Grant, who collects blossoms from his personal gardens and across central Virginia, and brings them to his studio to scan at a high resolution; in the Dové Gallery, “TORN,” an exhibition of work focused on the modern portrayal of women by photographer Scott Irvine and artist Kim Meinelt, who together work as WAXenVINE. 5:30-7:30pm.

Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. Downtown Mall. “I Saw an Angel,” featuring paintings by Jane Goodman and Winston Wiant. 6-8pm.

Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Dear Lilith: A Body of New Work. Sincerely, Sam Gray,” an exhibition that shares the unfolding conversation between the artist, a self-described “modern angry feminist,” and Lilith, ancient mother goddess, proto-feminist, and original wife of Adam. 5:30-7:30pm.

Top Knot Studio 103 Fifth St. SE. “These Days,” featuring work by Susan Mills and Bethany Pritchard. 5:30-7:30pm.

VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Beads and Wood,” a multimedia show of work by the firm’s architects. 5:30-7:30pm.

Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Out of the Shadows,” featuring Uzo Njoku’s vivid, large-scale paintings that bring African women, who are often made to feel small or in the background, to the forefront. 5-7:30pm.

WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. “University Reflections,” an exhibition of oil paintings on canvas, textured with a palette knife, by Lauchlan Davis. 5-7pm.

WVTF/RadioIQ 216 W. Water St. An exhibition of landscape paintings by Nelson County artist Susan B. Viemeister. 5-7pm.

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

Other December shows

Annie Gould Gallery 121B S. Main St., Gordonsville. A holiday show featuring paintings, jewelry, photography, sculpture, textiles, and other unique gift items from more than 25 artists and artisans.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Looking West,” featuring Deliece Blanchard’s plein air paintings from national parks. Opens December 8, 4-6pm.

Buck Mountain Episcopal Church 4133 Earlysville Rd., Earlysville. “Hope: Prepare the Way,” featuring work by BMEC artists.

Create Gallery at Indoor Biotechnologies 700 Harris St. “Faces at Work,” an exhibition of Blake Hurt’s 40 small oil-on-canvas portraits of people who work at 700 Harris St.

Gift Forest 301 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. The Bridge PAI’s annual holiday pop-up market features handmade gifts, vintage finds, and vinyl records from more than 100 local purveyors.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “Reflections: Native Art Across Generations”; “Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu”; “Unexpected O’Keeffe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings”; “Camera Work: American Photography of the Early 20th Century”; “Highlights from the Collection of Heywood and Cynthia Fralin”; and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW “(W)here To Stay?!,” An exhibition of Magnus Wennman’s photographs of Syrian refugee children accompanied by artwork and writings by Charlottesville High School inspired by the stories of displacement of their classmates. Opens December 12, 6-8pm.

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection 400 Worrell Dr. “Freshwater Saltwater Weave,” a series of glass works by contemporary urban-based Arrernte artist Jenni Kemarre Martiniello; “Beyond Dreamings: The Rise of Indigenous Australian Art in the United States,” revealing the ways in which, since 1988, Indigenous Australian artists have forged one of the most globally significant art movements of our time.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Annie Harris Massie: New Paintings,” featuring work that captures the subtleties of color and light played over area landscapes.

Martha Jefferson Hospital Cancer Center, Second Floor 500 Martha Jefferson Dr. “Sunrises and Sunsets,” featuring work by Randy Baskerville. Opens December 11.

Piedmont Virginia Community College V. Earl Dickinson Building, 501 College Dr. In the North Gallery, “Possibilities,” featuring ceramic vessels and objects by Tom Clarkson; in the South Gallery, works by PVCC art faculty such as Fenella Belle, Ashley Gill, Lou Haney, Will May, Beryl Solla, Jeremy Taylor, and others.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. The annual winter contemporary juried exhibition, this year titled “Women’s Work” and featuring a collection of cutting-edge work from Inez Berinson Blanks, Colleen Conner, Eileen Doughty, Sarah Lapp, Peg Sheridan, Astrid Tuttle, and others. Opens December 8, 5-7pm.

Telegraph Art & Comics 211 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. Fourth annual picture show with Adrian Todd Webb, featuring small, original, framed pop-culture prints.

UVA Medical Center Main Lobby 1215 Lee St. “Distant Worlds,” an exhibition of 15 deep space paintings by Patty Avalon.

Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge 250 Pantops Mountain Rd. “Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water,” featuring 24 art quilts by the Fiber and Stitch Art Collective. Open daily, 9am to 5pm, during the month of December.

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First Fridays: November 2

Post author By erinohare
Post date October 31, 2018
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John Borden Evans's show, "John Borden Evans: Blue Moon" is on view at Les Yeux du Monde art gallery through November 11. Photo by Martyn Kyle

In the early hours of February 1, John Borden Evans was out for his regular run through Walnut Creek Park when he paused to memorize the landscape before him.

He noticed how the setting moon hung low and bright in the sky, how the moonlight radiated through striated clouds to bathe the mid-winter trees, grass, and distant mountains in a certain ether.

It was a singular scene—the moon in the sky was both a blue moon and a super moon, and it had gone through a total eclipse the night of January 31. Evans, a landscape painter, knew he wanted to capture it for a large piece he’d started with an “O” in the center. He figured it would eventually become some sort of celestial body.

Measuring seven feet wide and more than four feet tall, “Blue Moon” is one of the works currently on view in “John Borden Evans: Blue Moon” at Les Yeux du Monde art gallery.

Visitors to the gallery will see his “usual stuff,” says Evans, “paintings from the last three years that…go together because they’re a little bit wacky” in their incorporation of “imaginative elements” into central Virginia landscapes—things like imaginary stars, rainbow-coated woolly sheep, and whirls of light around a blue moon.

Evans, who lives on the border of Walnut Creek Park, usually starts a piece by writing something on the painting surface, then builds a picture with paint until it fits with one of the views he’s seen around the park. The views change constantly with the season, the time of day and quality of light, with new growths and recent deaths in the immediate flora and fauna—there’s always something new to see, or something familiar to see anew.

Most mornings, after his run, Evans loads his supplies into his truck, drives out to the view he’s working from, leans the painting against the parked truck, and gets to work.

“I paint like an abstract painter, worrying about texture and color and composition, and thick paint versus thin paint,” says Evans. “The landscape is just my means of exploring those same things.”

“All my paintings, almost all of them, are [set] just within walking distance of my house,” says Evans. “It’s endless, endless different landscapes and compositions. It’s amazing what’s there, right outside my back door.” —Erin O’Hare

First Fridays Openings

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

The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello Rd. “The People’s Portrait Project,” featuring Edward Miller’s portrait sculptures celebrating the individuality of Charlottesville residents. 5:30-9:30pm.

Chroma Projects 103 W. Water St. “Ruminant,” featuring prints of Tim Michel’s local and Maine landscapes that translate natural patterns into a consideration of the dynamic simultaneity of time; and “Documenting Fall and Winter,” featuring highly discerning, articulated botanical watercolors by Lara Call Gastinger. 5-7pm.

CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. An exhibition of work by BozART Fine Art Collective. 5:30-7:30pm.

C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Spirit of the Blue Ridge,” featuring 2-D and 3-D works on canvas, paper, and sculpted paper by Flame Bilyue. 6-8pm.

Dovetail Design + Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. “The Doors of Our Future,” an exhibition of work by ACAC preschoolers on kitchen cabinet doors. 5-7pm.

Firefly Restaurant & Arcade 1304 E. Market St. An exhibition of oil and watercolor paintings of landscapes by Ryan Arnold. 4-7pm.

McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, “Mi Selva Natal,” an exhibition of wildlife photography by Manuel Sanchez, who grew up in the rainforest of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica; in the Downstairs North Hall Gallery, “Collected Works on Paper,” a layered collection of acrylic, collage paper, and mixed media that creates movement between what is concealed and what is seen, by Lisa Macchi; in the Downstairs South Hall Gallery, “Fired Earth,” Carol Grant’s ceramic vessels that evoke a sense of landscape in flux; in the Upstairs North and South Hall Gallery, “On the Threshold,” a group show of work by UVA sculpture and post baccalaureate students. 5:30-7:30pm.

Milli Coffee Roasters 400 Preston Ave. Ste. 150. “Memory and Place, A Study of Light and Color” featuring ink, watercolor, oil, and pastel works by Joey Laughlin. 7-10pm.

Roy Wheeler Realty Co. 404 Eighth St. NE. An exhibition of work by Susan Patrick. 5-7:30pm.

Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the main gallery, “All The Time I Feel Like Crying,” an exhibition of work by Sandy Williams IV, including sculpture, film, and text that highlight the arbitrary nature of systems and explores the plurality that informs our concept of time; in the Dové Gallery, “siren x silence,” paintings by Madeleine Rhondeau. 5:30-7:30pm.

Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Almost Realistic,” featuring acrylic and mixed media paintings by Philip Marlin. 6-8pm.

Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Home is a Foreign Place,” featuring work by Dymph de Wild, who asks questions about where one belongs. 5-8pm.

Top Knot Studio 103 Fifth St. SE. “Keep It Like A Secret,” mobile photography by Chelsea Hoyt. 5-8pm.

VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Sketches,” a multimedia show of work by the firm’s architects. 5:30-7:30pm.

Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Language of the Land,” featuring oil paintings by Anna Bryant that speak of regional symbols that are distinctive to our area. 5-7:30pm.

WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. “World Horizons,” an exhibition of Judy McLeod’s paintings on paper that combine gouache, watercolor, cut papers, crystals, and wax. 5-7pm.

Other November Shows

Art Box 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. A show of paintings by Amy Shawley Paquette and photography by Tom Paquette. Opens November 10.

Buck Mountain Episcopal Church 4133 Earlysville Rd., Earlysville. “Native Botanicals,” featuring Judy Rodgers’ watercolor and colored pencil works on hotpress paper.

Create Gallery at Indoor Biotechnologies 700 Harris St. “Faces at Work,” an exhibition of Blake Hurt’s 40 small oil-on-canvas portraits of people who work at 700 Harris St.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Light, Color, & Clear Space,” an exhibition of blown glass art by Pat Ryan. Opens November 10, 3-5pm.

Fellini’s Restaurant 200 Market St. “Italian Memories,” an exhibition of watercolors by Linda Abbey.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “John Borden Evans: Blue Moon,” an exhibition of Evans’ otherworldly landscapes, through November 11; and “Annie Harris Massie: New Paintings,” opening November 17, 5-7pm.

Louisa Arts Center 212 Federicksburg Ave., Louisa. “Rhythm and Light,” featuring 2-D and 3-D works by amateur and professional artists. Through November 16.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “A Photographic Aggregation,” an exhibition of work by Steve Ashby, who uses the medium of photography to examine chance. Opens November 3, 5-7pm.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. “Winneba, Ghana,” a show of photography by Alpha Barry, Sara Gondwe, Sarah Cargile, and Don and DeTeasa Gathers, who traveled to Winneba with the Charlottesville Sister Cities delegation earlier this year. Opens November 4, 12:30pm.

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First Fridays: October 5

Michael “Doc” Doyle believes that the hardest thing you experience in life is your best chance to find out who you are.

For Doyle, a carpenter who studied metal sculpture in art school, that chance came in the form of jail time.

After battling addiction and depression, Doyle attempted suicide in such a way that he was charged with felony eluding, and because that act was considered a public danger, he was sentenced to more than a year in jail. He spent time in a psych ward, where a counselor introduced him to mindfulness. Upon returning to jail, he began meditating, practicing yoga, reading, and drawing. Art became part of his therapy—he’d ask the universe to send him an image as a means to understand and process what he was thinking and feeling, however difficult it was.

“These images feel gifted to me,” says Doyle of the few dozen pen-on-paper drawings exhibited in his show, “Drawings from Jail,” on view this month at the New City Arts Initiative’s Welcome Gallery. They are allegorical images of the psyche, exhibited semi-chronologically beginning to the left of the gallery’s entrance.

“Melancholia” is among the pieces on view in the show.

One of the drawings, “Melancholia,” was inspired by a 1514 engraving of the same name by German Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. A huddled figure hugs his knees to his chest, his back to the viewer. He’s surrounded by a host of symbols: an hourglass (time), scales (justice, balance), a gavel (a sentence), a book (knowledge), a pencil and a drawing (creativity), a sphere (the mystery of life, always right behind you). In the near distance, a tombstone (death), a ladder (a way out), as well as a village (human connection), a radiant sun, and a rainbow—hope.

Many of the drawings Doyle made while in jail aren’t on display; he used some to barter for cigarettes, food, or coffee, and gave away others that meant something to someone.

For Doyle, the show is a final send-off to a finished chapter of his life; he’s ready to move on. He hopes the messages contained in these works will encourage people to stop avoiding and start talking about addiction and depression.

After all, Doyle says, “even though these images are deeply personal, they are universal.”

October 2018 Gallery Listings

FF Angelo Jewelry 220 E. Main St. “Out of Season,” featuring Mae Read’s oil painting meditations on permanence/impermanence, perceptions of beauty, and solitude. 5:30-7:30pm.

Annie Gould Gallery 121B S. Main St., Gordonsville. An exhibition of works by William Van Doren and Erica Lohan, focusing on distant and intimate points of nature.

FF The Bridge PAI 209 Monticello Rd. “Gallery of Curiosities,” a community-curated wunderkammer showcasing the unique, bizarre, fanciful, sacred, ill-defined, celebrated, historical, alternative, supernatural, and otherwise curious collections and creations of central Virginia. 5-9:30pm.

FF Chroma Projects 103 W. Water St. “Embodying a New Narrative: A Visual Discussion between June Collmer and Aidyn Mills,” an exhibition of photography in which Mills chose her own poses for Collmer’s lens. And in the back room, “Drawing Together: Five Bay Area artists Reunite in Charlottesville.” 5-7pm.

FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. The Feminist Union of Charlottesville Creatives hosts its premiere exhibit with visual art and live performances from a variety of artists, including Candice Agnello, Mihr Danae, Eileen French, Sam Gray, Sri Kodakalla, Sabr Lyon, Jiajun Yan, and others. 5:30-8:30pm.

Create Gallery at Indoor Biotechnologies 700 Harris St. “Faces at Work,” an exhibition of Blake Hurt’s 40 small oil-on-canvas portraits of people who work at 700 Harris St. Opens October 12.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Copper Abstractions: Etched & Verdigrised Copper Art,” featuring work by Cathy Vaughn.

FF C’ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Fall Into the Arts,” a group show of original oil paintings, hand knit items, fused and stained glass, wood works, jewelry, and more. 6-8pm.

FF Dovetail Design + Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. “Blame,” featuring oil-on-canvas works by Adam Reinhard. 5-7pm.

FF Fellini’s Restaurant 200 Market St. “Italian Memories,” an exhibition of watercolors by Linda Abbey. 5pm.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “Reflections: Native Art Across Generations”; “Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu”; “Unexpected O’Keefe: The Virginia Watercolors and Later Paintings,” opening October19; “Highlights from the Collection of Heywood and Cynthia Fralin,” opening October 19; and “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

FF The Garage 100 W. Jefferson St. “Black and White and a Little In Between: 2018 Abstractions,” an exhibition of work by Sarah Trundle that explores a constantly shifting process of obscuring and defining, of complicating and simplifying. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Kardinal Hall 722 Preston Ave. An exhibition of work by Jesse Keller Timmons. 5:30-8pm.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Out of the Light Into the Light,” an exhibition of still-life paintings by art historian, critic, philosopher, and painter David Summers, closing October 5; and “John Borden Evans: Blue Moon,” an exhibition of Evans’ otherworldly landscapes, opening October 13.

Louisa Arts Center 212 Federicksburg Ave., Louisa. “Rhythm and Light,” featuring 2-D and 3-D works by amateur and professional artists.

Loving Cup Vineyard and Winery 3340 Sutherland Rd., North Garden. “Nippy Autumn Holidays,” an exhibition of work by the BozART Fine Art Collective.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, “This Strange World,” an exhibition of wet plate photography of fairy tales, monsters, and retaining walls, as well as portraits from the ongoing “People of Charlottesville/Know Your Neighbor” project, all by Aaron Farrington; in the Downstairs North Hall Gallery, “The Bonnet Maker,” a series of live photographs by Will Kerner and Rochelle Sumner, conceptualized and installed to tell the narrative of an Old German Baptist Brethren woman; in the Downstairs South Hall Gallery, “A Retrospective on the Escafé Operas,” oil on canvas murals by Dominique Anderson; in the Upstairs North Hall Gallery, a group show of works created during McGuffey figure drawing sessions; and in the Upstairs South Hall Gallery, “Paintings and Sculpture: Recent works in 2 and 3 dimensions” by David Currier.” 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Milli Coffee Roasters 400 Preston Ave. Ste. 150. “The Mind Blossom,” featuring mixed-media photography and paintings by Frank Donato. 7-10pm.

FF New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. An exhibition of pencil drawings by Jane Skafte. 5-7pm.

FF Radio IQ 216 W. Water St. An exhibition of floral paintings and landscapes by Nancy Wallace, and Joe Sheridan’s pencil-and-charcoal drawings of the chairs he’s designed. 5-7pm.

FF Roy Wheeler Realty Co. 404 Eighth St. NE. An exhibition of intuitive process paintings by Shirley Paul that explore, among other things, suspension of fear, expectations, and the analytical brain. 5-7:30pm.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the main gallery, “water. poison. drink. dive.,” an exhibition of paintings, works on paper, and puppets by Lana Guerra, through October 19; in the Dové Gallery, “siren x silence,” paintings by Madeleine Rhondeau. 5:30-7:30pm.

Sentara Martha Jefferson Hospital 500 Martha Jefferson Dr. An exhibition of five landscape paintings by impressionist artist Lee Nixon. Through October 9.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. The 47th annual “Virginia Fall Foliage Art Show,” featuring work from about 150 artists from across the country. Opens October 13.

FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St., Downtown Mall. “The World of Color,” an exhibition of Christopher Kelly’s acrylic and mixed-media works on canvas and wooden board. 6-8pm.

FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. An exhibition of new work, mostly paintings focused on the human form, by Cate West Zahl. 5-8pm.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. “Organic Geometry,” featuring paintings by Judith Townsend. Opens October 7.

FF Top Knot Studio 103 Fifth St. SE. “Keep It Like A Secret,” mobile photography by Chelsea Hoyt. 5-8pm.

FF Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “Drawings from Jail,” an exhibition of Michael “Doc” Doyle’s pen-on-paper works drawn over the course of a year spent in jail, exploring themes from isolation to redemption. 5-7:30pm.

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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See what’s on display at First Fridays

Post author By erinohare
Post date February 28, 2018
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Judy McLeod exhibits work from her career in three shows at three different galleries this month. She will give a progressive gallery talk beginning at 2pm on March 25 at McGuffey Art Center. Photo by Martyn Kyle

During the month of March, local artist Judy McLeod exhibits work from her oeuvre at three different galleries, each individual show representing a different phase in her 40-plus years of art-making.

“An artist works in series whereby an idea is pursued visually for months or years in terms of a medium,” says McLeod, and while selecting pieces for her retrospective, she sought to tell the story of her “art ideas and energies.”

On view in the Dickinson Galleries at Piedmont Virginia Community College is “Patterns of Life, 1980-2000,” which McLeod says takes a “me, my, mine” approach to looking at things. “Inspirations, 2000-2015,” at McGuffey Art Center’s Smith Gallery, offers a “we, our, others” perspective, while the show of her current work at Les Yeux du Monde Gallery includes ruminations on horizons as well as invented maps of history (her own and that of others), with an eye to a shared future.

Certain themes course through all of McLeod’s work, including life patterns and water, but the most notable is of womanhood. Many of the pieces look at what it means to be a woman, at feminism and the desire for independence while also embracing sisterhood with other women in the world.

First Fridays: March 2

Annie Gould Gallery 121B S. Main St., Gordonsville. An exhibition of works by Morganne Ashlie, Jennie Carr, Susan Graeber, Louise Greer and Valerie Sargent.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Tracy’s Folly,” a painting and printmaking series by Tracy Knight. Opens March 10.

FF The Bridge PAI 2019 Monticello Rd. “Beasts!,” a show about imagining and creating wild creatures featuring the work of sculptor and costume designer Annie Temmink. 5-7:30pm.

Buck Mountain Episcopal Church 4133 Earlysville Rd., Earlysville. “Our Town,” featuring photography by Melody Robbins. Opens March 4.

Charlottesville Senior Center 491 Hillsdale Dr. “Local Scenes,” a multimedia group show featuring the work of the BozART Fine Art Collective.

FF Chroma Projects 103 W. Water St. “Sacred and Profane,” featuring Leigh Anne Chambers’ sculptural paintings about salvaging the materials beneath our feet. 5-7pm.

FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. Artwork by students of Albemarle County Public Schools. 5:30-7:30pm.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Juxtapositions,” featuring pen and ink drawings by Laura Grice. Opens March 10.

FF C’Ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “The Wonders of Wood,” an exhibition of boxes, chef boards, cheese boards, pepper mills and more by woodworker Alex Pettigrew. 6-8pm.

FF C’ville Coffee 1301 Harris St. An exhibition of oil paintings by Caroline Planting. 4:30-6pm.

Darden Art Gallery Alumni Lounge UVA Darden School of Business Camp Library, 100 Darden Blvd. “Lexicon of Landscapes,” featuring work from Michelle Gagliano’s VMFA fellowship exhibition.

FF Dovetail Design + Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. “Exploratory Journey,” featuring mixed media art by Sri Kodakalla. 5-7pm.

FF Fellini’s 200 Market St. An exhibition of assemblage and collage work by Catherine V. Ratliff. 5:30-7pm.

The Fralin Museum of Art at UVA 155 Rugby Rd. “Feminine Likeness: Portraits of Women by American Artists, 1809-1960,” featuring works from The Fralin Museum of Art collection; “A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb,” an exhibit of works from one of the original Abstract Expressionists; “From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson’s Architecture and Design”; “Oriforme” by Jean Arp.

FF The Haven 112 W. Market St. “August in Perspective: Creative Responses to #Charlottesville,” featuring theater, dance, music and visual art from area high school students, community organizations, UVA students and faculty. 7-10pm.

Indoor Biotechnologies 700 Harris St. An exhibition of paintings of local scenes by Richard Crozier.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “Ankhrasmation Symbolic Language: Earth,” an exhibit of illustrated scores by Pulitzer Prize-winning musician and composer Wadada Leo Smith.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Three Voices,” featuring work by Pam Black, Sally Bowring and Lou Jordan; and an exhibition of recent work by Judy McLeod.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “Inspirations 2000-2015,” one of three shows in a retrospective of Judy McLeod’s artistic and emotional paths and experiences, in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery; “Elements of a Landscape,” S.h. Wolf’s show reflecting an evolution elapsing several years, in the Lower Hall North Gallery; “For the Love of Science: Imaginary Views through the Microscope,” an exhibition of work by Jurgen Ziesmann, in the Lower Hall South Gallery; “Books As Art & Art For Books,” an exhibition of books and book illustrations by 15 artists in the Upper Hall North and South Gallery. 5:30-7:30pm.

Mudhouse Coffee Downtown Mall 213 E. Main St. “Fruitbodies,” a show of sculpture by Lily Erb that uses repeated organic forms to create a language of a new and alien plant colony.

FF Music Resource Center 105 Ridge St. “The Chinese Zodiac in Mixed Media Collage,” featuring the work of Sigrid Eilertson. 5:30-7pm.

FF Old Metropolitan Hall 101 E. Main St. “Wind Marks,” a series of Nina Ozbey’s large-scale vibrant paintings inspired by the continual flux, new growth and abundance of nature.

Piedmont Virginia Community College V. Earl Dickinson Building 501 College Dr. “Patterns of Life,” featuring works created by Judy McLeod between 1980 and 1998 as part of a multi-venue retrospective of McLeod’s work.

FF Roy Wheeler Realty 404 Eighth St. “Places You May Know,” featuring contemporary paintings and abstract landscapes by Judith Ely. 5-7pm.

FF Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. In the main gallery, “Language of the Heart,” a combination of installation, sculpture, video, photography, drawings and collaborative performance by Adejoke Tugbiyele; in the Dove Gallery, “Point of Origin,” featuring an interactive installation by Judith Pratt; and in the back room, an exhibition of encaustic works by Kristie Wood. 5:30-7:30pm.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “40 Under 40,” featuring work from Virginia artists aged 40 and under. Opens March 3.

FF Spring Street Boutique 107 W. Main St. “Between the Lines,” a show of mixed media work by Jennifer Ansardi. 6-8pm.

FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Magic Flight,” featuring recent illustrations by Charlottesville author and illustrator Laura Lee Gulledge. 5-7pm.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. An exhibition of landscape paintings by Billy Williams. Opens March 4.

FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. An exhibition of oil paintings by former art educator Bettie Dexter. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF WriterHouse 508 Dale Ave. An exhibition of watercolor and charcoal abstractions by Emma Brodeur; and “Tendresse,” an exhibition of photography by Emmanuel Ndenguebi-Essimi. 5-7pm.

FF Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “The Practice of Process,” featuring large-scale abstract sketches and studies by Frank Phillips. 5-7:30pm.

FF WVTF and Radio IQ 216 W. Water St. A show of work created by the artists’ group Matter of Color, which promotes understanding through art and supports an annual visit by Richmond dancers who unite Israeli and Arab school kids through the Minds in Motion program. 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: February 2

Post author By erinohare
Post date January 31, 2018
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Sigrid Eilertson’s “Star Creatures: An Exploration of Astrological Signs in Mixed Media Collages” is at Studio IX this month. Photo by Martyn Kyle

Sigrid Eilertson likes to paint surrealistic images of creatures that straddle the line between the realistic and the fantastic, like larger-than-life goddesses and wild animals. She always works in a series, and she tends to work large—many of her paintings are 6 feet or taller.

But for her most recent series, “Star Creatures: An Exploration of Astrological Signs in Mixed Media Collages,” on view this month at Studio IX, she painted the 12 signs of the Western zodiac on a different scale:
None of the works is more than 20 inches on one side, and she says this series was unusually intimate, not just in scale but in subject matter.

“Star Creatures” explores in animal form the traits embodied by each zodiac sign. Some of the Western zodiac signs are already represented animalistically, and for those signs, she says the challenge rested in painting the intangible traits: How to represent, in fish form, the highly emotional, deep-thinking Pisces (her own sign)?

For the signs that are usually depicted in human form, Eilertson had to be a bit more creative, seeking out an animal on her own. When she thinks of Virgo, she thinks of strength, attention to detail, perfection: a horse with a moon in the center of its forehead. A Gemini, like her son, is social, curious, chatty: a talkative half-purple, half-white cat.

Eilertson, an art therapist, is compelled to paint animals because they’re closer to the earth, to survival and primal instincts. They don’t get caught up in the emotional minutiae that consumes humans, and that purity is alluring. It’s part of what gives these paintings an otherworldly feeling, says Eilertson. “I feel like there’s magic in this series.” —Erin O’Hare

Annie Gould Gallery 121B S. Main St., Gordonsville. An exhibition of works by Morganne Ashlie, Jennie Carr, Susan Graeber, Louise Greer and Valerie Sargent.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “Flight,” featuring Phil Radcliffe’s watercolor paintings that show an affection for aircraft and adventure with a love of nature. Opens Feb. 10.

FF The Bridge PAI 2019 Monticello Rd. “Face to Face: Portraits of our Vibrant City,” an exhibit of work that uses the intimate process of portraiture to connect artists and community members who have different life experiences. 5:30-9:30pm.

FF Chroma Projects 103 W. Water St. “Still: Photographs by Fax Ayers,” a showing of playfully composed scenes conveyed in a 17th-century Dutch manner. 5-7pm.

FF City Clay 700 Harris St. Ste. 104. An exhibition of recent work by ceramics artist Rebekah Wostrel. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. “Main Street Project,” a photography show; and “Redesigning Emancipation Park,” an exhibit of design proposals developed by UVA School of Architecture students. 5:30-7:30pm.

Crozet Artisan Depot 5791 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “The Art of Chocolate,” featuring the edible work of Cocoa & Spice chocolatier Jennifer Mowad.

FF C’Ville Arts Cooperative Gallery 118 E. Main St. “Fanciful Felted Fashions,” an exhibition of wearable work by fiber and felting artist Karen Shapscott. 6-8pm.

FF Dovetail Design + Cabinetry 309 E. Water St. “Paintings of Italy,” featuring oil paintings of outdoor scenery in the villages of Umbria and Tuscany by Karyn Gunther Smith. 5-7pm.

The Fralin Museum of Art 155 Rugby Rd. “Feminine Likeness: Portraits of Women by American Artists, 1809-1960,” featuring works from The Fralin Museum of Art collection; “A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb,” an exhibit of works from one of the original Abstract Expressionists, and “From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson’s Architecture and Design”; “Oriforme” by Jean Arp; and in the Joanne B. Robinson Object Study Gallery, a set of objects including Chinese bronzes, ceramics and sculpture, ancient Mediterranean coins, African masks and figures and more.

FF Indoor Biotechnologies 700 Harris St. An exhibition of paintings of local scenes by Richard Crozier. 5-7pm.

FF Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Cantos for the Anthropocene,” featuring Millicent Young’s work interested in altering perceptions and recognition in hopes of invoking change; and “Pelago d’Aria,” featuring work by Kris Iden inspired by recent travels abroad to places of personal significance. 1-5pm.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. “To See and Be Seen, To Know and Be Known: Portraits of Resilience,” an exhibition of Kelly Oakes’ portraits of people dealing with hardship and trauma, in the Sarah B. Smith Gallery; “Vinyl Landscapes,” featuring Jeff Thruston’s multicolored silkscreens of Charlottesville landscapes printed on old vinyl album covers, in the Lower Hall North Gallery; an exhibition of new work by Jill Kerttula and Lorie McCown in the Lower Hall South Gallery; “Flora,” paintings of plants and flowers by Marcia Mitchell in the Upper Hall North Gallery; and “The World Art Exhibit,” featuring drawings by 33 refugees of all ages from 15 countries, all of whom live in the Charlottesville area, in the Upper Hall South Gallery. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Mudhouse Coffee Downtown Mall 213 E. Main St. “Fruitbodies,” a show of sculpture by Lily Erb that uses repeated organic forms to create a language of a new and alien plant colony. 6-8pm.

FF New Dominion Bookshop 404 E. Main St. “Glimpses of the River,” featuring oil on panel paintings and pastel drawings by L. Staiger 5-7:30pm.

Random Row Brewing Co. 608 Preston Ave. “Echoes,” featuring acrylic textures on canvas by Terry M. Coffey.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. A tribute to art education, featuring work from the Shenandoah Valley Governor’s School arts and humanities students in the invitational gallery, and work from the Blue Ridge Virginia Art Education Association in the hall galleries. Opens Feb. 3.

FF Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Star Creatures: An Exploration of Astrological Signs in Mixed Media Collages,” featuring work by Sigrid Eilertson that highlights the complexities of the human psyche. 5-7pm.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. “Grief Series,” oil paintings made by Downing Miller in the wake of her husband’s illness and death. Opens February 4.

UVA McIntire School of Commerce Connaughton Gallery Rouss Robertson Hall. “Land and Sea,” featuring mixed-media and fabric works by Jill Kerttula and Michelle Geiger.

FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Matt Celentano Abstract,” featuring tempera and spray paint works on canvas by Matt Celentano. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. “What Everything is Made Of,” featuring VM Fisk’s paintings and sculpture that simplify the confusion and discovery of daily life into shape, line and color. 5-7:30pm.

FF Yellow Cardinal Gallery 301 E. Market St. “Postcards from Italy,” featuring petite pen and ink watercolors by Jane Goodman; and “The Muse and Others,” petite woodcuts by M. Brunelle. 4-7pm.

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

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First Fridays: January 5

Martha Saunders at Chroma Projects Gallery. Photo by Eze Amos

As a painter, I’m always looking for the state of surprise and enchantment,” says Martha Saunders, whose “Transmutations” show is on view at Chroma Projects Gallery this month. Most of the paintings in the show will come from Saunders’ decade-long project Reading Series, a rumination on how the human system digests information. The series “started as a musing on the departure from words, slipping into a visual language,” Saunders says. “Later, the imaging or conjuring of the image-object-painting was involved with the concept of digesting printed information—this is when the figure of the page appeared as a recurring image.”

The paintings, rendered in beeswax and pigment, relate a constant state of flux, where the boundaries of space shift, dissolve, evaporate. “These materials allow for a suspended surface where the viewer is aware of matter which can change, creating a live surface,” says Saunders. “I work toward creating paintings that represent a verb, where the painting is in a state of becoming.”

First Fridays: January 5

Annie Gould Gallery 121B S. Main St., Gordonsville. An exhibition of work by Jane Angelhart, Jenifer Ansardi, Fax Ayres, Hallie Farley, Alex Gould, Jennifer Paxton and Peter Willard. Through January 8.

Art on the Trax 5784 Three Notch’d Rd., Crozet. “American Icons,” featuring acrylic paintings by Carrol Mallin. Artist reception January 13, 4-6pm.

The Bridge PAI 2019 Monticello Rd. “Coexist: A Prayer Flag Project,” featuring a creative participatory experience led by Jum Jirapan. Opening Friday, January 12 at 5:30pm.

FF Chroma Projects 103 W. Water St. “Transmutations,” an exhibition of Martha Saunders’ abstract paintings featuring her ongoing observation and interpretation of how information is processed and expressed. 5-7pm.

FF CitySpace Art Gallery 100 Fifth St. NE. “A VisionWest: Roadtripping Through American Nature,” a landscape photography exhibit. 5:30-7:30pm.

C’Ville Arts 118 E. Main St. Member artists slash prices on selective items; sale items will be marked with yellow “sale” stickers.

FF Firefly 1304 E. Market St. An exhibition of watercolor and charcoal abstractions by Emma Brodeur. 5-8pm.

The Fralin Museum of Art 155 Rugby Rd. “Oriforme” by Jean Arp. In the Joanne B. Robinson Object Study Gallery, a set of objects including Chinese bronzes, ceramics and sculpture, ancient Mediterranean coins, African masks and figures and more; “Feminine Likeness: Portraits of Women by American Artists, 1809-1960,” featuring works from The Fralin Museum of Art collection, opening January 12; “A Painter’s Hand: The Monotypes of Adolph Gottlieb,” an exhibit of works from one of the original Abstract Expressionists, and “From the Grounds Up: Thomas Jefferson’s Architecture and Design” opening January 26.

Jefferson School African American Heritage Center 233 Fourth St. NW. “Karma,” featuring work by Lisa Beane that addresses privileged racism. Through January 13.

Les Yeux du Monde 841 Wolf Trap Rd. “Cantos for the Anthropocene,” featuring Millicent Young’s work interested in altering perceptions and recognition in hopes of invoking change; and “Pelago d’Aria,” featuring work by Kris Iden inspired by recent travels abroad to places of personal significance.

FF McGuffey Art Center 201 Second St. NW. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, “Clay, Fiber, Wood,” an exhibit of collaborative work by Carol Grant, Jill Kerttula and Renee Balfour; in the upper and lower hallway galleries, a showing of work by new McGuffey artists; in the upper hallway gallery, “In the Shell: Midterm Works by McGuffey Incubator Artists,” featuring work by Alison Rose Berner, Daniella Chadwick, Jolene Dosa and others. 5:30-7:30pm.

FF Mudhouse Downtown 213 W. Main St. “siren x silence,” an exhibit of work by Madeleine Rhondeau inspired by the graphic nature of kabuki theater and the evanescent quality of memory. 6-8pm.

Second Street Gallery 115 Second St. SE. “Drawn to Charlottesville: A Group Exhibition of 12 Local Artists,” featuring work by Bolanle Adeboye, Chris Danger, Brielle DuFlon, Murad Khan Mumtaz, Clay Witt and other artists who moved to Charlottesville from elsewhere. In the back room, an exhibit of work from Aaron Eichorst.

Shenandoah Valley Art Center 122 S. Wayne Ave., Waynesboro. “Subversive/Domestic Textile and Fiber,” featuring cutting-edge textile and fiber pieces by American and Canadian artists; in the Members’ Gallery is “Small Works,” a show featuring work in a variety of media by SVAC member artists.

St. Mark Lutheran Church 100 Alderman Rd. “Our Underwater World,” featuring underwater photography of sharks, anemone fish, nudibranches, seahorses, manatees, sea otters and more. Artist talk January 10, 7pm.

Studio IX 969 Second St. SE. “Please Don’t Ask It Can’t Be Explained,” an exhibition of new collage works by Lisa A. Ryan.

Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church Unitarian-Universalist 717 Rugby Rd. A show of photographs by Rebecca George. Opening January 7, 12:30pm.

FF VMDO Architects 200 E. Market St. “Memory and Place,” featuring Joey Laughlin’s watercolors that serve as remembrances of uniqueness of place. 5:30-7:30pm.

Welcome Gallery 114 Third St. NE. A pop-up exhibit of original works by Charlottesville artists, including Brittany Fan, Carol Barber, Ézé Amos, Greg Antrim Kelly, Juliana Daugherty, Maggie Stein and others. Opening January 12, 5-7:30pm.

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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