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Main Art Gallery: Upstairs
Like Main Art Framing, Main Art Gallery is located on the second floor of Main Art Supply. Our curatorial staff presents both established and up-and-coming artists from the Richmond region and the Southeast—artists working in a wide variety of mediums, from painting and sculpture to photography and installation. Every month we showcase a new artist or group of artist at an opening that coincides with other gallery openings in the city, the ever-popular First Friday series. Please join us on the first Friday of every month for an opening reception (hors d'oeuvres courtesy of Baja Bean Company) from 7 to 9 pm.
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Originally, the arrangement of the vertical forms in my work was inspired by the layout of pig iron moulds*. In my painting, pig iron served as a starting point for abstraction. From this beginning the work has become a means to blend stasis with change, order with chaos, and presence with absence. It is a metaphor for family, identity, and existence.
All art is about existence.
*Pig Iron is a crude iron formed by the initial melting of iron ore. It is cast into uniform ingots or bars usually for transport to a distant location for further refinement and manufacturing. Before the automation of the Industrial Revolution, the ore was melted in blast furnaces and the molten iron would flow down a channel and into a mould dug into hard packed sand. The large channel would feed smaller perpendicular channels which when cooled and hardened would form the bars. The arrangement reminded the iron workers - who were mostly from agrarian backgrounds - of a sow nursing her piglets so they called the bars pig iron, and the name stuck.
Art lovers at Daniel's opening. Where were you?
MAIN ART GALLERY
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE 2009-2010
| Georgianne Stinnett | Sep 4-28 |
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| Jake Urbanski | Oct 2-31 |
| Jorge Benitez | Nov 6-30 |
| Maruta Racenis | Dec 4-Jan 31 |
| The Figure in Print x 6; Mary Holland-curator |
Feb 5-28 |
| Daniel Calder | Mar 5-29 |
| Heidi Field-Alvarez | Apr 2-30 |
| Jim Sconyers, Jr. | May 7-31 |
| Jeremy Dunn | Jun 4-28 |
| University of Mary Washington Students | Jul 2-Aug 30 |
