Upcoming events

Bend Your Ear Artist Salon Sunday, May 18, 2008, 3 to 5 p.m. Artists of all disciplines come together to share their work among peers. Bring a new piece of work, a previous piece of work, or something in development. Visual artists, poets, spoken work, musicians, dancers...come to explore, share, and grow. Free and open to all.

The Pinkney Near Memorial Lecture in Art History Friday, May 23, 2008 at 8 p.m. $5 suggested donation
Dr. Mitchell Merling, Paul Mellon Curator and Head of the Department of European Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, will present a slide talk based on the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts' newly acquired prints by Théodore Géricault, French painter and lithographer who was one of the leaders of the Romantic movement.

Short Works Friday and Saturday, May 30 and 31, 2008, 7 p.m. $10 admission
Project Project presents Short Works, seven dances crafted by four talented choreographers from around the country. Each composition represents a dedication to the art of dance and a passion for life and community.

Hafla Monday, June 9, 2008, 7 to 9 p.m. $3 admission
Bring your drums, zills, scarves, musical instruments, and favorite CDs to art6 and have some fun. Held on the second Monday of each month, our Hafla is a free-form, unstructured happening for belly dancers, drummers, and musicians to come together and share their styles, to network and dance and try something new.

SoulFire Music Saturday, June 14, 2008. Doors open at 7 p.m. SoulFire Music presents Summer of Soul music series featured artist Miss Gina. Free and open to the public.

Current Exhibitions

Connie Maass: Recent Paintings Friday, May 2 through Sunday, June 1, 2008 Connie Maass was born in Summit, New Jersey, and studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art (now the University of the Arts), Drew University, and the Frij Academie Den Hage, The Netherlands. She has exhibited in the north and southeast United States and in Europe and her works are in corporate and private collections.

Vincent Wrenn: Geometric Wood Reliefs Friday, May 2 through Sunday, June 1, 2008 Vincent Wrenn was born in Memphis, Tenn. and currently resides in Asheville, N.C. Influences on his work include Western alchemy, the art of the Kuba tribe, quantum physics, and microtonal music. He has exhibited throughout the southeast United States.

David Turner: Defiant Silence: Shoah and the Collage Friday, May 2 through Sunday, June 1, 2008 David Turner has a private psychotherapy practice in Richmond. He was born in New York City at the dawn of the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Germany. For Turner, Auschwitz is ever present and informs his being and his art. In viewing his art, he states that "with patience and study, the observer will expand the limits of understanding and appreciation."

Upcoming Exhibitions

Gloria Blades: Harbor Sentinels First Friday opening June 6 from 6-10 p.m. Through June 29, 2008 Gloria Blades oil and wax paintings focus on the artist's memory and response to nine partially sunken concrete ships in the Chesapeake Bay on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Located at Kiptopeake State Park, the boats' hulls are still visible and have become beautiful rust-colored sculptures.

Ken Hamilton: Paintings First Friday opening June 6 from 6-10 p.m. Through June 29, 2008 "Glimpses of perceived reality" is how Ken Hamilton describes his paintings, which use line economically while concentrating on form and its relationship to space. Says Hamilton: "I am constantly scanning my surroundings, noticing the relationships of industrial objects with nature."

Phillip Bowles: Richmond Scenes First Friday opening June 6 from 6-10 p.m. Through June 29, 2008 A graduate of VCU's Communication Arts program, art6 member Phillip Bowles presents a series of colorful drawings which experiment with space by using line to define different aspects of the subject. Bowles' says that his work "is influenced by a wide variety of art including classic comic strips, new and old comic books, illustration, film and fine art."

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