Main Gallery - Small Works: 1995-2009
Benjamin Jones is an internationally acclaimed artist whose small drawings are full of deep emotion and intricate, yet ambiguous, story lines. The images walk a line between humor and horror, seducing the viewer as he sees bits of themselves, the artist, and the fictional collide.
His unique presentation of small graphite drawings invite you to step inside the sketched lines and meet Jones' characters. Anthropomorphic figures dance throughout complex webs of lines, scribbles, and psychologically loaded etchings. Often eliciting references to children's art, outsider art, and art brut, Jone's work is distinctly recognizable as his own.

Jones' drawings are included in prominent museum collections including the Whitney Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Morris Museum of Art, as well as significant corporate and private collections. He is represented by the Barbara Archer Gallery in Atlanta.

Shop Show - Maggie Smith: My House
An intimate look inside Maggie's house features needle felted plant life housed in vintage containers. A perfect representation of the wonderful world of Maggie Smith.

Vault Project - Elizabeth Kendall
Kendall transforms clay into different shapes, and is challenged to express the duality of her material—that it is at the same time hard and soft, rigid and flowing. These components frame a story and are a story in their own right---a language spoken in three dimensions. Vault Project show continues through September 12.

First Fridays: September 4, 6-10pm
Exhibition: September 4 – October 17, 2009

Additional Events:
Antiques on Broad – Saturdays, September 12 & 26

Alternate Saturdays, between 9am – 3pm finds an outdoor flea market in the parking lot next to Quirk. Shop for Mid-Century Modern, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Primitives, Costume Jewelry, Vintage Clothing, Decorative Arts, Fine Art, 18th & 19th Century Antiques, Ephemera, Architectural Elements and much more.

http://www.antiquesonbroadstreet.com

Studio/Gallery 6 will be closed for the September First Fridays and will reopen on October 2, 2009. Keep up with the activities and new work of gallery owner and mixed media artist, Todd Hale, at his blog: http://patternsearchinganimals.blogspot.com/

First Fridays: Closed September 4, 2009

First Fridays:

Labyrinth: John Bailey
A prominent figure in Richmond’s arts community, John Bailey is recognized as an artist who constantly challenges our perceptions and takes drawing to its sensitive best. Presenting selections from his Labyrinth series, Bailey presents a progressive, site-specific installation of drawings, rendered with crayon on panels of polyester chiffon, each 7 feet tall and varying widths. Ordinarily, the drawings are hung with the bottom touching the floor and placed in the space away from the wall, creating a translucent maze of images, with passages through which the view moves freely; however in this installation, the drawings are hung on the wall to take advantage of the Library’s warm yellow light.

Collages: The Virginia Collage Society
The Virginia Collage Society, an affiliate of the National Collage Society, was formed in September 2005 to bring together artists with a mutual interest in the paper arts.
Their first group exhibition at the Richmond Public Library embraces their mission to foster appreciation and interest in the recognized medium of collage, assemblage, and mixed media. For further information visit the VCS website at www.virginiacollagesociety.com

Art Exhibit: A Series of Dynamic Narrative Photographs
William Connally’s work strives to depict locations and characters on the threshold between two different states. The moments depicted are periods of suspension, just before or after an unseen event has occurred, and change is inevitable. All attention is directed to a certain point in each image, which his either concealed by the placement of the objects, figures, and shadows in the scenes, or outside of the frame, and it is up to the audience to construct narratives, given the elements in the photographs.

Voices for Change
In 2008, nearly 8,000 of Virginia's children and youth were in foster care.  More than half of those youth are eleven years of age or older, and far too many of them live in group homes and other facilities without any connection to a permanent family. The artwork, photography and writing vary in style, personality and voice, but all of the pieces represent triumphs and struggles of children in foster care.
 
The "Voices for Change" project invited youth in foster care between the ages of 12 and 21 to submit original artwork, photographs and writing that depicted their experiences across Virginia's foster care system.  The competition was sponsored by the Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC), Voices for Virginia's Children, ART180, and FACES of Virginia Families.

Winners from the "Voices for Change" competition were chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, including authors, artists and professors from Virginia.  Honorees include youth from: Alexandria, Arlington, Charlottesville, Chesterfield, Richmond, Fairfax, Jonesville, Lawrenceville, Lynchburg, Martinsville, Mechanicsville, Portsmouth, Stafford and Waverly.
                  
First Fridays: September 4, 7-9pm
Exhibition: September 4 - 30, 2009

Additional Events:
Voices for Change Reception & Panel Presentation
September 16 between 4pm-6pm features a reception and panel presentation by some of the young artists featured in the Voices for Change exhibition project.

Come enjoy a variety of live music, beautiful and thought-provoking art and photography displays, a full bar, and an atmosphere saturated in Richmond’s history. Our open lobby space is perfect for enjoying an evening out on the town with friends or simply meeting new ones. Please also feel free to take a peek inside our beautifully restored and preserved Empire Theatre. Enjoy the architecture and detail of our theatre that reflects an age of art that is rare, even in our own city. Come Inside. We’re Open!

First Fridays: September 4, 7-10pm

First Fridays Hours: 6-10pm

First Fridays: September 4, 7-10pm

Little Creatures
Little Creatures will feature painting, sculpture and drawing by artists from Virginia, Florida and New Jersey.  Art inspired by the animal kingdom will invade the public spaces of the Linden Row Inn when Linda Dennis, Joan Gaustad, Leah Jacobson, Rob McAdams, Jamie Pockington and Rob Tarbell exhibit creatures great and small - and their toys - this fall.


First Fridays: September 4, 6-11pm
Featuring: Cash bar with premium wine and beer selections and the gorgeous coutyard.
Exhibition: September 4 – 26, 2009