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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
Cookies, a tin tea set, an instrument panel, a kitchen towel, a tomato seedling, a chocolate cake, and a clock—source material is captured from the domestic environment of the artist. Contingent patterns emerge from random assembly. A rigid formal structure secures a plane of tessellated, equilateral pyramids, the presence of which defies cold order with mesmerizing movement.
Jim Sconyers, Jr.
This work reminds me of mathematics, which displays structure and beauty. Although it is very orderly, it isn't static or cold. It feels like it has life in it. It also reminds me of a documentary I had seen on TV when I was younger about biologists (geneticists I assume) who had somehow connected DNA to a musical sequence. There was amazing complexity, order and structure but emotion and beauty.
Sébastien Benicourt
Art lovers at Jim'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 |
Enjoy the rear deck during our First Friday's openings. Live music provided by DJ Trainset.
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