Lapse Grasp, a solo exhibition containing six recent works from artist Jason Hackett, opens up a richly allusive space to consider the spiritual output of human hands–the grounded piety baked into the act of making along a full spectrum of labors. Hackett’s sculptural...

One of art’s special properties is its capacity for suggestion. Materials such as charcoal, earthen pigment, and binder, can be spread on pulped or sliced tree and then that embodied expression can be understood or felt with real (though not positivistic) meaning....

As I passed by the enormous side window of Richmond’s ADA Gallery, three miniscule paintings, no more than 6 by 8 inches, managed to quicken my pace to the entrance. Cartoonish, yet painterly, with bold color and playful style, these three were just a foretaste of...

Alfred Stieglitz once remarked, "where there is light, one can photograph". The quote is a helpful reminder for photographers, artists, and living human beings as the days shorten too quickly and the final decisive blow of daylight "savings" time ends. In a stroke, we...

In the moments before Jennifer Small’s artist talk for her exhibition Extra in the Ordinary, a friend mused to me, "This show is for folks who really like paintings." I can certainly relate to that sentiment. After all, punchy color, roller-coaster levels of movement,...

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...

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...

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...

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...