V i s u a l A r t S t u d i o / 208 W. Broad St. / Richmond, VA
Visual Art Studio is an artist run Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery and Painting/Photography Studio representing Established and Emerging Local, Regional and National Artists. Rotating Exhibitions open with an Artist Talk followed by a showcase of Painting, Photography, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Mixed Media. Museum Quality Pieces and Installations create something for everyone when combined with Exceptional Emerging Talent. The Boutique features an exclusive selection of Handmade Jewelry, Ceramics, Prints, Cards and Decorative Art. Consultations with Curatorial and Design Services, Drawing and Painting Classes, Portraits, Commissions, Scenic Art and Set Decorating can also be arranged with the gallery. Visual Art Studio, established in 1990, registered in 1996 and currently celebrating more than thirteen years on Broad Street, is located at 208 West Broad Street in Historic Downtown Richmond, VA proudly along the First Fridays Art Walk.
Summer Gallery Hours: Thursday-Friday Noon-6PM, Saturday Noon-4PM & by Appointment. First Fridays 6-10PM, Saturday Stroll (3rd Sat each Month) Please call for Appointments (804) 644-1368. Convenient Off-Street Parking.
HONORED as one of Style Magazine's RICHMONDERS OF THE YEAR and by the City of Richmond, Community Service Award, for our contribution to the Arts and the Revitalization of Downtown.
Click on ARTWORK-ARTIST STATEMENTS and PHOTOGRAPHY PAGES at the BOTTOM.
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Lamplighter Cafe, 13th April 2010 by Michael Mancuso. New Photographs by Mancuso currently on display and opening First Friday August 6th with Jewish and Gypsy music by My Son the Doctor and the Rock Band, Weeping Mollys from 7-10pm.
Michael Mancuso Statement: I've been taking pictures since 1973, got into photography more seriously in the mid-'80s, then after a lull of some years, found my way back into it last year ... and now I've got "pictures at an exhibition" for the first time ever anywhere.
A section near downtown Richmond has a custom called "First Friday Art Walk," in which a concentrated cluster of small shops and galleries open themselves during evening hours on the first Friday of the month to hundreds of patrons who look around, and even sometimes buy! Artists premiering new works are often in attendance at the places where these are being displayed.
So, indeed, I will thus be present from 8 pm - 10 pm on Fri. July 2nd at Visual Art Studio, where a reception (complete with a band!) is being held as several artists debut new works, in the usual First Friday custom.
Four of my more recent photos (see further down the event page) are featured as framed large prints, which Visual Art Studio is offering for sale (come by or contact the studio for relevant details).
If you can't be there this particular evening, don't worry. As I understand it, these will remain on exhibit through Fri. Aug. 6th.
Check out the raffle winners http://help4theo.weebly.com/index.html from the exhibition of art work to benefit Theodora Anne Merry during her cancer treatments. Thanks to you for helping her with more than $5,000 raised!
Visual Art Studio proudly announces the Richmond Premier of Pamlico, below, Greg Lewis' new Mermaid sculpture in 87,000 toothpicks! Check out Greg's statement and prepare to vote for him at ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI this September http://www.artprize.org/artists/public-profile/49258 Find Greg on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ToothpickMan
Gallery Window
Currently on display at Visual Art Studio Pamlico, Greg Lewis’ latest sculpture in 87,000 toothpicks. Lewis created Pamlico as his mermaid who stands watch over ship wrecks in Pamlico, the largest body of water on the East Coast, and carries the dead to the sea of souls at the bottom of the sea. His acclaimed mermaid, Hatteras, is in the permanent collection of Ripley’s Believe or Not in Orlando, Fl. and will be featured in the 2010 Ripley’s Big Book. Bosephus, Smoky Mountain Man, is in the permanent collection of the Gatlinburg, Tennessee Ripley’s Believe it or Not. Exhibition closes Friday May 28th. Lewis will be available at Saturday Stroll May 15th 11AM-4PM. Great Article: http://www.examiner.com/x-19122-Richmond-Art-Gallery-Examiner~y2010m3d3-Opening-reception-at-Visual-Art-Studio-for-Greg-Lewiss-Pamlico-among-several-for-this-Friday
Frank Hart Memorial Gallery
Currently on display at Visual Art Studio select work from Forgotten Memories, mysterious and hauntingly figurative paintings by Chris Semtner and new mixed media work by Greg Lewis, a.k.a. the Toothpick Man.
Boutique
Visual Art Studio is pleased to announce the release from comics creator and painter Dan Rhett of his new comics collection: CODEX DANIER. Sea monsters, snake monsters, great apes, and pirates populate three stories of humor and adventure. — Codex Danier (Paperback, 96 pp, 5½ x 8½, $3.00).
CODEX DANIER's seaside fantasies sort out relations between man, ape, monster, and mermaid. In the first story, a young historian looks to interview a local man about a pirate event, but instead is told sea creature yarns en-route to a rescue. The second follows an other-worldly visitor's attempt to win the affection of a murderous snake demon. And the final story chronicles the upheaval created by a pirate raid on a cargo ship loaded with zoo animals. Rhett's loose line art makes CODEX DANIER an expressive mix of cinema and doodle.
DAN RHETT of Chester, Virginia is a VCU fine arts graduate whose previous works include the card game HERO HOUSE and the comic collection DANZ COMIX DIGEST.
Please check out this great article: http://www.examiner.com/x-19122-Richmond-Art-Gallery-Examiner~y2010m3d17-Codex-Danier-by-comics-creator-Dan-Rhett-is-available-at-Visual-Art-Studio
Did you miss the Award Winning Project, Lighthouse_1:Jackson Ward reinstallation First Friday April 2 from 7-10PM by British architect Peter Culley and his extensive team? check out http://www2.richmond.com/content/2010/mar/31/going-light-house/
Frank Hart Memorial Gallery
Select work from Forgotten Memories, acrylic paintings by Chris Semtner. Semtner video interview follows Ghostprint Gallery with score provided by Visual Art Studio's First Fridays musicians, My Son the Doctor. http://rvamag.com/videos/clip/6731/last-friday-022010
Another Great Article: http://www.examiner.com/x-19122-Richmond-Art-Gallery-Examiner~y2010m3d11-Forgotten-Memories-exhibit-by-Chris-Semtner-at-Visual-Art-Studio-puts-spotlight-on-women
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Centaur, above, the signature piece from the exhibition of new paintings by Dan Rhett continuing through First Friday August 6th.
Please Join Us each Month for Saturday Stroll every 3rd Saturday from 11am-4pm for Live Music, Artist Talks, Demos and Sidewalk Sales.
- First Friday August 6th opens New Photographs by Michael Mancuso.
Reception First Friday 7PM-10PM. Doors open at 6PM.
First Friday August 6th Elana Hyner's femme fatale rock band, Weeping Mollys perform outside with My Son the Doctor performing Jewish and Gypsy music from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean in the gallery.
Light refreshments benefit Curated Culture, the nonprofit promoting First Fridays in the Historic Downtown Richmond Arts District. Chill, Artesian Water very generously donated by www.springrunbottling.com
Melinda Wheeler Artist Statement
Venice of the North: Stockholm is a city on water, with an outer archipelago of over 25,000 islands. I visited it in the summer of 2009, and photographed several of these outer islands including Värmdö, Vaxholm, Sandhamm, one of the oldest historic islands where people live year round, and Birka, a live archaeological site where an active Viking culture once thrived.
Stockholm itself is placed on several different larger islands. One may visit Södermalm to learn about 19th-century Stockholm, see a beautiful view of Stockholm Harbor from the islet of Riddarholmen, and the island of Stadsholmen, where the oldest part is called Gamla Stan or ‘Old City’. I recommend Sweden to anyone looking for something unique. It is an elegant part of the world with beautiful light, and dynamic history.
-Melinda Wheeler
Michael Gettings Statement
The human figure, allegory, myth, and the appropriation of other artist's compositions are elements in my work. I aim to update traditional stories to conform to contemporary times and culture. In addition, I am striving to create a new method to visually express figurative story telling. Breaking from the traditional flat painting surface, I use multiple shaped panels. The surface is broken into different shaped panels at varying distances from each other and from the wall. This allows for more exploration into shape and negative space while depicting the dramatic height of a story. As part of this new method, my paintings explore the discrete nature of human vision, or how we focus on individual parts of a scene while the brain filters the gestalt.
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/theatre_arts/article/W-GALL22_20100421-175807/339006/
Chris Semtner Biography
Chris Semtner is an internationally exhibited visual artist with works in several public and private collections including the collections of the City of Baltimore and the University of Maryland. He is the editor of four books, the co-author of one, and the author of another; and he has published a number of short stories and articles. His photographs and illustrations have appeared in several publications, including the London Daily Telegraph and the Washington Post.
Semtner is the Curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, a position he has held for nine years, and he recently served as curator of the Library of Virginia's new blockbuster exhibit Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster. Among his other museum exhibits is The Incredible Mr. Poe, the first-ever survey of Poe's presence in comics and graphic novels.
A graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Semtner also studied dental ceramics at the Tanaka Institute. He currently serves on the boards of Artspace Gallery, Curated Culture and the Greater Richmond Tourism Association. http://www.examiner.com/x-19122-Richmond-Art-Gallery-Examiner~y2010m3d11-Forgotten-Memories-exhibit-by-Chris-Semtner-at-Visual-Art-Studio-puts-spotlight-on-women
Anne's Studio
Lift, acrylic on canvas Triptychs by Richmond set designer and scenic painter Terrie Powers is located in Anne's Studio. In addition, an ever increasingly smaller selection of Paintings from D'Signs, paintings and prints of popular Richmond Signage by Terrie Powers is available at Visual Art Studio. Check out her prints in the boutique when you come in.
D'Signs by Terrie Powers Take another look at the old signs up and down Broad Street, Rt. 60 and Jeff Davis Highway. Terrie Powers salutes the designers of old Richmond signage in these colorful documentary depictions. She brings these neon-and-iron bits of nostalgia to life with cropping, color and an animated vibrancy, to make us see what many of us have merely looked at in passing all of our Richmond lives.
Select Items are still available with a donation to Theodora Anne Merry's Breast Cancer Fight. All Donations welcome. Help while you shop by picking up your Wish List and distributing to family and friends! For every item purchased from your Wish List, Visual Art Studio will donate 10% of the sale to Theodora Anne Merry's and Susan Brown's Breast Cancer Fight.
Just looking today? Why not put it on Lay Away? All work is one of a kind or Limited Edition. Once it's gone, it's gone.
Kris Krull's Aubrey Hepburn and Knockers lighted wall sculptures from found and metal objects are available in the gallery. more at www.kriskrull.com
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New Paintings are currently on display by Cathyann L. Burgess. She has artwork in the permanent collection of Media General and the Federal Reserve Bank. Interviews & more Information available by calling Anne at (804) 644-1368 or visiting www.cathyannstudio113.com _____________________________________________
Handmade Work Less than $25
Brandy Horvath has floral postcards and gift sets of her new photographs perfect for giving your loved ones for any occasion. Denise Bell, Katherine Benner and TH Collectibles have beautiful handmade jewelry with gemstone accents.
Miniature Paintings Less Than $100
Linda C. Hollett-Bazouzi, Phoebe Antrim and Terrie Powers have beautiful miniature landscape paintings for less than $100 currently on display. Come see for yourself or visit www.lindahollett.net Other items include pottery by Cindy Walker, jewelry by John Crutchfield and Katherine Benner, handmade scarfs, purses and, of course, lots of artwork!
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BOOKS!
Kathryn Starke's new book, "Amy's Travels" teaches lessons based on the Virginia Standards of Learning for kindergarten through 5th grade, including relative locations, cardinal directions, the seven continents, maps and varied world perspectives.
Dan Rhett has art work in the Cave press and his own comic book! New Comix by Dan Rhett on sale now!
Please check out previous press:
http://www.examiner.com/x-19122-Richmond-Art-Gallery-Examiner~y2010m1d6-Visual-Art-Studios-Artistic-Gifts-exhibit-continues-through-January-29
http://www.examiner.com/x-19122-Richmond-Art-Gallery-Examiner~y2010m1d8-Ceramics-show-at-Visual-Art-Studio-includes-Masterpiece-selection-by-Robert-Fugate
http://www.examiner.com/x-19122-Richmond-Art-Gallery-Examiner
http://www.richmond.com/arts-entertainment/24593
urge, read A Pearl for Your Thoughts
http://urgeonline.com/urge_2.asp?categ=Splurge
Article on paintings by Dan Rhett:
http://www.rvamag.com/view_article.php?article_id=843
Story about First Fridays in the Richmond Times-Dispatch June 6th: http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/entertainment/arts.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-06-06-0026.html
Gallery Hours: First Fridays 6- 10PM, Saturday Stroll (3rd Sat) 11AM-4PM, after hours by Appointment.
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Femme Fatale by Chris Semtner 40" x 42" framed $ 1,375 at Visual Art Studio. The New York Times called Chris Semtner’s recent exhibit Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster? “provocative,” and “a playful, robust exhibit.”
Semtner’s delicately rendered, mostly small-scale acrylic paintings on wood present a dark, mysterious, and dangerous world in which people are victims of their own fears and desires. His work has affinities with the surreal worlds of such writers as Kafka or Poe, but Semtner’s beautifully lyrical works simultaneously call to mind such disparate visual sources as Art Nouveau, Dutch genre painting, and ‘sixties horror movie posters. The show runs until Friday March 26, 2010. More: www.csmtner.com
Please Check out this recent article:
http://www.examiner.com/x-19122-Richmond-Art-Gallery-Examiner
Shop Visual Art Studio, pick up your Wish List, sign the registry or put it on Lay Away. Gallery sales up to 100% benefit Richmond Cancer fighter artist Theodora Anne Merry.
Previous RAFFLE: Winning Numbers! #708604 and #708576 2 unclaimed prizes below: Mary Kay Makeover Session with Bonnie Brooks (value $25) www.marykay.com/bbrooks1961 ,
Moy Yat Kung Fu Classes, (value $150) www.kungfurichmond.com
ALL money collected helped Theodora Anne Merry and Susan Brown during their Breast Cancer Fight. Visual Art Studio wishes to extend a huge Thank You to all volunteers and contributers!
Admission to Visual Art Studio is Free and open to the public.
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Pamlico by Greg Lewis at Visual Art Studio held over by popular demand.
Check out Terrie Powers's current exhibition and installation, Lift, in Anne's Studio behind the Frank Hart Memorial Gallery.
ARTIST STATEMENTS
DAN RHETT has many artistic talents ranging from card game creator and painter to the cover artwork on the premier issue of CAVE WALL. See the issue and read poetry from it at www.cavewallpress.com.
RHETT primarily works in oils with figurative subject matter often working back and forth from sketchbooks and paintings to develop ideas. Most notably, he paints from his imagination rather than sketching from life or photographs. He earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from VCU in 1990. More of Rhett's artwork is available to view at: http://gallery.cafe64.net/ His work is represented in private collections throughout Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Shellion, Rhett's previous exhibition of scenes cast with coastal creatures has almost completely sold out. Please visit Anne's studio in the gallery at Visual Art Studio to see more art work by this prolific and popular Chester artist.
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Out of the Shadows, new paintings by Chris Semtner closed Friday May 29th but select pieces remain for a limited time at Visual Art Studio! Statement below. More: www.csemtner.com
Allen Jessee - Artist Biography/Statement
Richmond Sculptor Allen Jessee is featuring his nature-inspired wall hangings and sculpture at Visual Art Studio. Jessee's works, known for incorporating flora and fauna, often with humorous and whimsical titles, are geared to the garden element, working mostly in aluminum and bronze, and creating timeless pieces such as garden gates, wall hangings, benches, screens and tabletop sculptures. His most recent commissions include a series of ten Egyptian-inspired bronze screens for the new Healing Garden at the Massey Cancer Center, and a limited series of James River-inspired tabletop sculptures titled "King of the James", for Virginia Commonwealth University. A native of Southwestern Virginia and graduate of VCU, Jessee spent his early years exploring the nature-laden banks of the Clinch River, where he developed a lifelong love of nature, and a deep reverence for its beauty. Most recently, he introduced "Walks of Art", taking his sculpture onto the ground in the form of custom designed, colored and textured concrete walkway art. Checkout more of Allen Jessee's work at http://www.mcsdesignandproduction.com/allenjessee/
CLICK on the PHOTOGRAPHY Page Below for PHOTOGRAPHY by ANNE HART CHAY and the ARTWORK-ARTIST STATEMENTS Page Below for IMAGES and Information FROM PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS.
Gallery Hours: Tues. - Fri. Noon-6PM, Sat. Noon-4PM. After Hours by Appointment.
MEET SOME OF VISUAL ART STUDIO ARTISTS FIRST FRIDAYS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. VISUAL ART STUDIO IS OPEN THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH.
Please call Visual Art Studio at (804) 644-1368 with your inquiries.
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