RVA Artblog: VMFA

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Monday, October 4, 2010

Finally Feels Like Fall Link Monday

Now showing at Main Art: "Limited Reading Required"

Lots of great coverage last week for First Fridays:

Style Weekly on First Fridays’ 10^th season

Richmond.com on new additions to First Fridays programming

First Fridays’ Season 10 Free Parking sponsor

First Fridays' new website is up and running- see how you can help support Richmond culture (VOLUNTEERS WANTED!)

Other good stuff around town:

RVA Magazine on Joan Gaustad at ADA

Bill Fischer is currently showing paintings at the Pauley Center

New Richmond Art Space/Organization: The Highpoint-Project

Check out the Highpoint-Project's "Yet Another Roadside Attraction"- did you get to see it this past weekend? (scroll over to page 2 of videos and click on "Billboard Art Project Coming to Richmond")

If you missed Chuck Close's talk at VMFA last Friday, be on the lookout for a YouTube video in the near future from VCU MATX dept (via VMFA's twitter)

Close’s show at VMFA closes Nov. 14^th

Recently opened at Main Art

Susan Singer (and more) now showing at Visual Art Studio

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Major Picasso Exhibition Slated for this February at VMFA

Congratulations to VMFA on being the only east coast institution to snag this traveling Picasso exhibition, culled from a massive collection of the artist's works housed in the Musee National Picasso in Paris.

VMFA's website details many reasons for the United States to get excited for this visual arts coup:

"...'This exhibition is without a doubt a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the American public,” says Alex Nyerges, director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. “An exhibition this monumental is extremely rare, especially one that spans the entire career of a figure who many consider the most influential, innovative, and creative artist of the 20th century.'

...

Renowned worldwide, the collection from the Musée National Picasso, Paris is unique because it represents the pieces that Picasso set aside for his own personal collection. Acting almost as a curator for his art, Picasso kept some of his most iconic pieces from each phase of his work, including the Blue Period, Rose Period, Cubism, the return to Classicism, Surrealism, and his later work..."

See VMFA's website to read the specifics and to see some of the masterpieces included in the exhibition, and check VMFA out on fb, as they do a great job keeping their friends updated on the museum's myriad of upcoming events.

Richmond is so fortunate to have this institution and the people running the show within it who continue to evince their great expectations for our city's identity within the scope of the global art world.

Friday, September 17, 2010

Opening tonight at VMFA Studio School

detail of Sara Clark's "Gyroid"

An opening reception will be held tonight from 5-7 PM for this exhibition featuring work by the following VMFA Studio School faculty members:

Jeffrey Allison, Jessica Bauserman, Jodi Bock, Sally Bowring, Ann Chenoweth, Sara Clark, Diana Detamore, Karen Eide, Joan Elliott, Dawn Flores, Jennifer Foley, Regi Franz, Steven Glass, Mim Golub, Andrew Hess, Mary Holland, Shelley Jones, Greig Leach, Matt Lively, Jeanne Minnix, Phil Nesmith, Piper Nichole, Chris Palmer, Marjorie Perrin, Julia Pfaff, Alyssa Salomon, Diego Sanchez, Frank Saunders, Chuck Scalin, Jude Schlotzhauer, Georgianne Stinnett, Susan Svendsen, David Tanner, Kendra Dawn Wadsworth, Rudi Winebrenner

Sunday, August 22, 2010

Back to Reality Link Monday

Gallery 5's "Self Titled" will include this work by James Callahan and Nick Kuszyk

Teachers learn to incorporate arts in general classrooms at UR

RVA Mag on "Self Titled" at Gallery 5, opening Sep. 3rd

Studio Two Three garage sale Aug. 28th- help them get ready for their big move!

Steve Hedberg- opening at Glave Kocen Sep. 3rd

Nice write-up in Style about Richmond Renaissance man Ward Tefft and the many faces of Chop Suey

Style reports on "Strassen Kunst" at Artspace

Edwin Slipek on “Historic Photos of Richmond” book

Reference noted in Art Fag City June post (the "rise of the online gallery")

Congrats to RVA artist Katie Baines on show at UVA

Dr. Sketchy’s Richmond branch

VMFA show tapped by FT of London as must-see

Richmond Sightseeing Examiner on VMFA

Aug. 27th: Sponge opens at Anderson Gallery

Fall CLASSES!!:

At VMFA

At Visarts

At Petersburg Area Art League

Friday, August 20, 2010

This Weekend...

Diana Bagby is exhibiting with "New Pictorialists" at 1212 Gallery

RAGE has the scoop on 1212's "New Pictorialists," opening this Sunday.

VMFA's "Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa Since 1950" and its counterpart exhibition at Visarts open this Saturday.

Additionally on Saturday, Keith Ramsey will be giving an artist talk about his show "Dilluted Loss" at the Black History Museum and Cultural Center.

First Friday's website also has info on more events for the weekend and beyond.

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

"Reflecting and Collecting" at Linden Row Inn

on view until August 25th

Kendra Wadsworth

Don Crow

Ruth Bolduan

Diana Detamore

Karen Kincaid

Sonya Clark

Aimee Joyaux

Sally Bowring

Lauri Luck

Michael Lease

Javier Tapia

Craig Pleasants

This may be my favorite show of the summer for the ways it emphasizes the strength of Richmond's arts- Virginia(ish) artists responded to works found in the VMFA's collections by creating artworks. The resulting exhibition held within Linden Row Inn is especially savvy for its assertion of the significance of Richmond visual arts culture to out-of-towners.

"Reflecting and Collecting" not only educates viewers about the vitality of Richmond visual arts culture and practice (there are illuminating print-outs next to each work, depicting the VMFA work selected and describing the artist's intent in his/her response), but this show also serves as an ambassador and an advocate for the importance of the arts in the way Richmond should be viewed by visitors. In turn, the exhibition reminds us of how we should view ourselves: contemporary and innovative, while acknowledging and building upon the strengths of our traditions and history.

**HUGE apologies to artists whose works are not pictured above- this was an oversight on RVA Artblog's part.

Read more about the exhibition and view works by David Choi, Andrew Kozlowski, Jeff Majer, Amie Oliver (who is also curator of the show), Charles Ponticello, John-Phillip Sheridan, and Aggie Zed at 1708's website. And check out Linden Row Inn's fb page, too, for info on upcoming exhibitions and other Richmond stuff.