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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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ARTIST STATEMENT: What is "Natural?"
I've painted landscapes on site for a number of years and one of the main visual interests I've always had as a landscape painter is the forms, colors and growth patterns of different kinds of trees. I've drawn and painted trees in Scotland, Sweden, Virginia, New England and Virginia. While I've seen hints of a range of colors and graphic patterns in the tree landscapes I've painted from life, I've usually "greyed" their colors and modified their pattern surfaces to sit with the rest of the painted landscape as observed and perceived by me.
In the paintings currently on display, trees are exaggerated through abstracted patterns, textures, and colors; these are visual phenomena I've always sensed peripherally while observing and painting on site over the years but have done little with as I've worked with color ideas of what is natural for landscape. These paintings are studio invented; memory and different visual foci have led me to a stronger abstraction and exaggeration of local color as well as growth patterns of trees so that my woods do not appear natural but are painted with strong graphic markings and decorative color patterns more often seen in design. Can "nature" in its pure state ever be rendered in painting? Has it ever been? My paintings deal with visual factors exaggerated from hints of perceptions gained from site painting over the years; my imagination has cut loose with these hints.
Dawn Latané
Art lovers at Dawn's opening. Where were you?
MAIN ART GALLERY
| Ryan Boatright | Sep 2-30 |
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| Dawn Latané | Oct 7-28 |
| Lester van Winkle | Nov 4-25 |
| Small Work | Dec 2-Jan 20 |
| Annual Just Charcoal curated by Janet DeCover |
Feb 3-24 |
| Aleksander Garin | Mar 2-30 |
| Steven Glass and Ken Winebrenner | Apr 6-27 |
| Jeremy Witt | May 4-25 |
| Kerri Cushman | Jun 1-29 |
| Longwood Student exhibition | Jul 6-Aug 31 |
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| Josh Aubry | Sep-Nov |
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| Matt Lively | Nov-Jan |
| John Blatter | Feb-Mar |
| Heidi Field-Alvarez | Apr-May |
| Michael Lease | Jun-Aug |
Enjoy the rear deck during our First Friday's openings.
VISIT THE GALLERIES ON MAIN STREET