July Exhibitions

Wednesday 7/2 – Sunday 8/17 McGuffey Art Center presents a collection of summer shows covering lepidoptera, nostalgia, and the human form. In the Sarah B. Smith Gallery, Deborah Davis’ “Drawn to Light” offers a collection of moth portraits in acrylic on canvas, capturing subjects observed at the artist’s home in southern Albemarle County. In the […]

February Exhibitions

February 7–March 21 Second Street Gallery presents two new exhibitions from artists with local ties engaging the overlap of abstraction and figuration. In the Main Gallery, “Liminal” offers mixed-media works by Charlottesville-based artist Cassie Guy (artwork pictured above). In the Dové Gallery, “Signs of Life” shows paintings and drawings exploring grief and the cyclic nature […]

January Exhibitions

Botanical Fare Restaurant 421 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. “Recent Landscapes in Oil,” paintings by Randy Baskerville, presented by the BozART Fine Art Collective. January 6–March 3.  Chroma Projects Inside Vault Virginia, Third St. SE. In the micro gallery, “Still Life with Uncertainty,” paintings by Richmond-based artist Sally Bowring. Through February. In the Great Halls […]

Down under, up above: A wealth of Indigenous Australian art comes to Charlottesville this winter

This week, something extraordinary will happen in Charlottesville: Four exhibitions of contemporary Aboriginal Australian art will open in four different venues across town, bringing the total number of such exhibitions currently on view to six. And a seventh will open in mid-February. Having this many concurrent shows of contemporary Indigenous Australian art in one locale […]