by Sam Bantly Taylor | Oct 17, 2022
There In the Air is a stunning exhibition. I mean that, to begin with, at complete face value. One cannot fail to be impressed at the technical excellence and detail Brooklynn artist Kyle Andrew Phillips has packed into a whopping 99 oil paintings completed in only...
by Sam Bantly Taylor | Oct 20, 2021
In response to Richard Haley’s exhibition at Shockoe Artspace, Inhabiting the Space Underneath the Skin: Things to Do In between Sleeping and Making Breathing a Voluntary Activity. Works 2003-2021 Richard Haley has been making art with and about his working body for...
by Sam Bantly Taylor | Aug 2, 2021
For a mid-sized city, Richmond contains an impressive variety of art repositories. We have our towering institutions, enduring commercial spaces, non-profits, pop-ups, and start-up ventures. One token of the city’s growing cultural ecosystem is the Blackburn Gallery...
by Sam Bantly Taylor | Jun 28, 2021
Coming up the hill on East Broad Street, one might not notice the sign hanging between two fluted columns designating Eric Schindler Gallery. I certainly never did, until I learned that one of the 19th century homes on that block contains the oldest operating...
by Sam Bantly Taylor | Feb 4, 2020
On Saturday, January 18th I made my first visit to Rump Gallery for the opening of artist Trish Gibson’s show, I Wore Her All Around Me. For this visit, I rode deep into Richmond’s South Highland Park neighborhood to a corner lot house with a small, dark tin...
