May
3
to May 31
Apr
5
to Apr 26
Mar
1
to Mar 29
Feb
2
to Feb 23
Jan
5
to Jan 26
Cyd Black: Ordered Worlds
Artist Statement:
Ordered Worlds is the culmination of many years of immersing myself in the fashion & interior design industry
I am drawn to fabrics and environments that are richly textured with hints of the unusual
My career as a retail owner and merchandiser of stores and restaurants as well as designing spaces for large events and private clients has served as my creative outlet for years
Previously I was a production potter in Ireland and taught ceramics in New York
lately, however I have turned to painting
Behind everything i compose whether it be a canvas , garden or a table-scape is my desire to shape & choreograph the experience…..
making it memorable and satisfying
Working abstractly with mixed media allows me the freedom to experiment with my creative process.
Inspiration is right outside my window - my garden of many
textures, shapes, colors and light are transformed into “Ordered Worlds”on canvas.
Nov
3
to Nov 30
Oct
6
to Oct 27
Oct
6
to Dec 29
Sep
1
to Sep 29
Aug
4
to Aug 25
Emma Knight: Garden of Unearthly Delights
The First Place Winner of the StreetLight Magazine’s ArtSearch Competition, Emma Knight is a Richmond painter with an imaginative perspective on nature, introducing and enlarging the microorganisms that carry on their business behind the curtain, into a seemingly larger landscape. The result is a playful sort of globular and/or prickly in-toxic-ation.
Jul
7
to Jul 28
Frederick Nichols: Wilderness Reassembled
“My work is concerned with beauty and the picturesque landscape: the clear, blue day
that warms the soul; the waterfall that flows with sound and movement; the
peacefulness of an afternoon stream; the colors of a tree changing seasons. The
challenge is to present these experiences in a way that engages the viewer. The artists
who have most influenced my work are the great American landscape painters of the
19th Century, the European Impressionists, and the landscape painters of China and
Japan.
My method is to go into the wilderness and photograph, returning to the studio to paint.
Working with the photograph allows me to capture a place, one moment in time, one
season at a time. The photograph is the starting point of a search for a new reality. I
take apart the photograph and reassemble it in a painterly manner, and a new
landscape evolves. I project slides on the canvas, and paint as though I am looking
through a window. This window allows me to constantly view and experience what I am
painting. It also serves as a reminder of the atmosphere that I have witnessed, its
sounds and its smells.
Printmaking has always been a special medium to me. I have been fascinated by the
qualities and the possibilities inherent in the various printmaking processes, and the
ability to make multiples of an image. Early in my career I was exposed to relief printing,
particularly woodcuts. Although now I do more silk screens, the two mediums have
much in common. Silk screens allow a painterly approach to printing, along with a rich
color unobtainable in any other process. My approach to printmaking has not been to
reproduce a painting, but to recreate the image in a new and exciting medium.”
Frederick Nichols
Jun
2
to Jun 30
Symbiotic Tango: Beatrix Ost & Michelle Gagliano
Michelle Gagliano and Beatrix Ost began an artistic collaboration together in the months following the start of the Pandemic. Neither artist knew the other very well at the outset. Both artists had very different aesthetic and working styles. Ost was a narrative painter with lush, sensual iconography that bordered on surrealism, occasionally with a hedonistic flavor, or cautions about those pursuits, always rich in color and motion. Gagliano’s work focused more on abstractions of nature, glimpsing the sacred hidden in shadow and light; in undulating water and air movement; in immediate experience and distant consciousness. Each artist would paint a canvas and then give it to the other to complete. The theme that both artists shared was a reverence for bounty and fragility of the earth. The process required the abandonment of control and ego- to surrender one’s art to another’s decision and handling. The collective result is a fascinating study of works made by two separate minds and hands. The exhibition in Chroma’s Microspace is a small and exquisite sampler of the outcome of this two+ year project between these two women.
May
5
to May 26
You have to Break Your Heart Until It Opens: Sophie Gibson & Amie Oliver
Paintings by Amie Oliver paired with sculpture by Sophie Gibson
Apr
7
to Apr 28
Mar
3
to May 21
Everything is Extraordinary: Tom Chambers and Fax Ayres
Chroma Projects is also curating an exhibition in the Great Hall of Vault Virginia. We are pleased to open another March show for First Friday - "Tom Chambers and Fax Ayres: Everything is Extraordinary". Both artists are photographers, working with theatre and light to describe the fantastical.
Tom Chamber's photographs are concerned with safeguarding the exquisite beauty, in youth's acceptance of magic and maintenance of innocence. With innocence often holding its ground in the character of a young girl making her way amid the less than friendly circumstances of a paradise pretty much lost.
Fax Ayres's compositions are assemblages of cast off scraps and abandoned artifacts, often anthropomorphised through juxtaposition. Objects convene in light, staged upon dark, into imagined fables and curious environments, resuming their forsaken value and proposing the paradoxes of the extra-ordinary.
The title is lifted from a quote by Aaron Rose “In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.”
Mar
3
to Mar 31
Karen Duncan Pape: The Deep Heart’s Core
“The Deep Heart’s Core”, captures Connemara, Ireland, along the Galway Bay, and celebrates that liminal space and honors my genetic memory as well. It is a place that is wild, windy and a reminder of those who went before me.
My desire to explore the unseen has led me to experiment with in-camera motion and multiple exposure to refine emotional landscapes that are drawn from reality but may not always be seen there. It is a long process with many failures, but the results
can be satisfying. Most of these photographs involve either movement or layering of images.
Above all, it is joy in this present world that propels much of my work, and it is the search for the unknown that refines it. K.D.P.
Jan
6
to Feb 24
Jane Skafte: A lifetime isn’t long enough for the beauty of this world
Jane Skafte's work reflects her profound appreciation for the natural world, the seen and unseen, with a primary focus on art's ability to transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Her paintings and drawings are a poetic statement about plants, flowers, leaves, rather than a literal botanical representation.
Nov
5
to Dec 17
Aggie Zed, Listen
Aggie Zed's paintings and sculpture come from a very active imagination that thrives on storytelling. Her works are ineffable fables on the mysteries of real life, transported on the wings of dreams. They are myths that mix the mundane with the magic, merging human and animal worlds, to equally delight, challenge, and offer proposals to our perceptions of what is exactly going on.
Sep
2
to Sep 30
Light: Illusions - Recent Work by Beverly Ress
For the past couple of years, I’ve been experimenting – developing drawings, based on ideas
begun during the pandemic, that explore dreams and memories. They require visual forms that
are slippery, sometimes random and disconnected. I work in colored pencils and oil pastels, on
Arches paper and vellum. The imagery includes shadows, color, objects drawn as if seen under
vellum – hazy and indistinct. I am currently drawing exclusively using photo images, rather than
drawing by direct observation, as I had in my previous body of work. The images remain
representational, but their subjects are less solid – shadows, windows with reflections and
objects partially seen under vellum. I’m playing with scale and color. I’m interested in creating a
delicate sense of dislocation – is that element real, or an illusion? – as in remembering a dream,
or a past place or event - just as you think you have it, it starts to slip away. B.R.
Sep
2
to Oct 28
Light: Illuminations and Interventions: Part II - Works by Beverly Ress
Beverly Ress’s show Light:Illusions has been renamed, expanded and extended through the month of October! Please come visit if you haven’t already, and view the new work on exhibit, if you already have.
Aug
5
to Aug 26
Suppression: A group response to the overturn of Roe v Wade, supporting the Blue Ridge Abortion Fund
Rebecca Silberman: from the Murmurations series
Jul
1
to Jul 29
Melange: works across time by Chuck Scalin
Chuck Scalin is a Professor Emeritus and former Assistant Chair of the Department of Communication Art + Design at Virginia Commonwealth University. His works have been exhibited and received honors in over 250 exhibitions in both the U.S. and abroad. He obtained his BFA degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an MFA degree from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
After 35 years, Chuck retired from teaching at VCU but continued to teach for another 15 years in the Studio School at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. His work is included in the permanent collections of many institutions, including VMFA, VCU, Pratt Institute, the Fralin Museum, the Muscarelle Museum, Reynolds Community College, and Capital One, as well as numerous private collections worldwide. He received seven residencies at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, where he was honored with a solo exhibition of his urban street photography, “Unsung Views of Paris.”
Chuck Scalin lives and works in Richmond, Virginia.
Jun
3
to Jun 24
Amanda Smith: Sanctuary
SANCTUARY - a sacred space. A moment of stillness, reflection, and release. It is here that we can touch wonder. My paintings are an attempt at gathering that and sharing it with the world; noticing the details and recognizing the Divine in all things.
Encaustic - an ancient medium that combines beeswax, raw pigment, and resin - allows me to build a painting sculpturally. I fuse layers upon layers that rise and fall with the pull of a brush and the heat of a torch.
Each painting is an altar piece, calling the viewer to a sacred space.
May
6
to May 27
Kim Boggs: High-Wire
I have elaborate memories of the circus and carnivals. The olden celebrations of oddities, and the fascination with the extraordinary and unique. The pure joy of rides that haul you to the heights, and those that test your skills and abilities. Watching the artistry of acrobats, and hearing the infectious laughter of a clown. My work draws from remnants of history. Pieces of grand machines; paint collecting on wood for a century. The incredible beauty of the broken, reborn. This show is a celebration of public revelry, of traveling companies of entertainers. A presentation of objects and feelings that arose from the imagination, since the Circus Maximus in Ancient Rome. We all love a show.
Apr
1
to Apr 29
Mar
4
to Mar 25
Stillness: Ana Marie Liddell & Fran Smith
Two artists who tease forth the subtlest, minutest details from nature in graphite on paper.
Feb
4
to Feb 25
Robert Schultz: Against the Dark
Camera-less photography, with writings and gleanings from nature, including the author’s photo journaling of one year of the pandemic, “Specimens of the Plague Year”, and a series of chlorophyll leaf portraits of writers who pressed forward through their own conditions to find and shed light.
Jan
7
to Jan 29
Dec
3
to Dec 18
Nov
5
to Nov 26
J.M. Henry: The Land Between
J.M. Henry's paintings incline towards landscape vistas without necessarily portraying landscape. Most landscape is engaged in articulated planes, capturing the experience and the details of the scenery being expressed. Henry focuses primarily on the floating horizons and indefinite margins; the penumbra of form and atmosphere that light and color reveal, reflect, or contrast through shadow, rather than any specific place. They are akin to awakening from a dream with just the vaguest, haunting sense of where you were.
Henry practices a painting technique that he calls "interference". Building up and wiping down his surfaces with thin layers of pigment that influence the subsequent layers, he creates nuances and resonances that shift as ambient light touches them, and the viewer slowly takes them in. The margins around the artist's twilit forms usually radiate with evidences of some of the vivid colors he has used to arrive at the final determination. Often they are surprisingly garish and playful, inspired by nail polish choices. and nature's more dramatic and fugitive moments.
Oct
1
to Oct 29
Pandemonium: Postcards from the Edge Artist List
Participating Artists include:
Theresa Antonallis (Mount Holyoke, Massachusetts)
Mary Atkinson (Richmond, Virginia)
William Atwood (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Susan Bacik (Charlottesville, VA)
Lisa Beane (Regensburg, Germany)
Karen Bell (New York, New York)
Karen Blair (Crozet, Virginia)
Sally Bowring (Richmond, Virginia)
Polly Breckenridge (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Cary Brown (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Pam Brown (Stony Brook, New York)
Cynthia Burke (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Maisy Byerly (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
Carolyn Capps (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Carolyn Case (Baltimore, Maryland)
Suzanne Tanner Chitwood (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Travis Childers (Fairfax, Virginia)
Warren Craghead (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Trish Crowe (Madison, Virginia)
Dean Dass (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Alonzo Davis (Hyattsville, Maryland)
Gray Dodson (Lovingston, Virginia)
Jessica Dunne (San Francisco, California)
Craig Dennis & Susan Eder (Falls Church, Virginia)
Megan Endy (Richmond, Virginia)
Peter Eudenbach (Norfolk, Virginia)
John Borden Evans (North Garden, Virginia)
Stacey Evans (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Nick Farhi (Camden, Maine)
David Farrar (Glasgow, Scotland)
Michelle Gagliano (Scottsville, Virginia)
Lara Call Gastinger (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Alex Gould (Barboursville, Virginia)
John Grant (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Kathryn Gray (Richmond, Virginia)
Rose Guterbock (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Kylie Heidenheimer (New York, New York)
Megan Hillary (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Ty Hilton (Richmond, Virginia)
Katina Huston (Alameda, California)
Blake Hurt (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Kris Iden (Richmond, Virginia)
Blinn Jacobs (Branford, Connecticut)
Orlando Johnson (Rockland, Maine)
Abby Kasonik (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Angela Kehlenbeck (Brooklyn, New York)
Leslie Kerby (Brooklyn, New York)
James Kienitz-Wilkins (Brooklyn, New York)
Tulsa Kinney (Los Angeles, California)
Gwenessa Lam (Vancouver, Canada)
M P Landis (Portland, Maine)
Scott Lyman (Scottsville, Virginia)
Dan Mahon (Crozet, Virginia)
Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann (Washington, D.C.)
Nancy Manter (Brooklyn, New York)
Megan Marlatt (Orange, Virginia)
Annie Harris Massie (Lynchburg, Virginia)
Jenny Lynn McNutt (Brooklyn. New York)
Allyson Mellberg-Taylor (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Anton Merbaum (Fairfax, Virginia)
Tim Michel (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Lilianne Milgrom(Fairfax, Virginia)
Dave Moore (Louisa, Virginia)
Nancy Mooslin (Los Angeles, California)
Marley Nichelle (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Susan Northington (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Karl Nusbaum (Brooklyn, New York)
Alex Nyerges (Richmond, Virginia)
Akemi Ohira (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Miriam de Olloqui (Lewisburg, West Virginia)
Amie Oliver (Richmond, Virginia)
Trisha Orr (Charlottesville, Virgina)
Beatrix Ost (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Barbara Page (Trumansburg, New York)
Nym Pedersen (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Jen Pepper (Cazenovia, New York)
Vincent Pidone (Kingston, New York)
Craig Pleasants (Amherst, Virginia)
Ana Rendich (Spotsylvania, Virginia)
Sean Samoheyl (Portland, Oregon)
Sharon Shapiro (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Anne Slaughter (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Robert Strini (Scottsville, Virginia)
Robert Stuart (Staunton, Virginia)
Seiko Tachibana (San Francisco, California)
Rob Tarbell (Richmond, Virginia)
Krista Townsend (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Julia von Eichel (Brooklyn, New York)
Linda Wachtmeister (Scottsville, Virginia)
Derrick J. Waller (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Russ Warren (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Priscilla Whitlock (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Melinda Whitmore (Oak Park, Illinois)
Ashley Eliza Williams ( North Adams, Massachusetts)
Clay Witt (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Laura Wooten (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Cate West Zahl (Charlottesville, Virginia)
Aggie Zed (Louisa, Virginia)
Therese Zemlin (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Jurgen Ziessman (Harrisonburg, Virginia)
Chuxin Zhang (Fairfax, Virginia)