Previous exhibitions and events
2008 2007

June

Gloria Blades: Harbor Sentinels June 6 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 June 6 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 June 6 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."

MENSPEAK Sunday, June 29, 2008 from 4 to 6 p.m. $3 admission
Male writers read prose, poetry, and short essays about being men in today's world.

Rattlemouth Friday, June 20, 2008. Doors open at 8 p.m., music starts at 9 $10 admission
Dance the night away to the energetic and exotic sound of local world music favorites Rattlemouth, with opening act Unity Sound, a reggae band featuring O.J. Hunter on keyboards.

May

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

DeXdance presents SWELL: a showing, not a show Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. $5 admission
SWELL presents four new dance works featuring the choreography of DeXdance's artistic director, Kristin Dexnis, in addition to guest choreographers Jessica Danser of JD/Dansfolk (Bronx, N.Y.) and Alie Vidich (Wall, N.J.) SWELL takes you on a ride through many different perspectives about dance and performance, ranging from post-modern abstract dance to physical theater.

Kristin Dexnis explores childhood and its effects on the adult persona in Jessica Danser's solo work An Original Half Done Story. Corporate Realities, made in collaboration with Alie Vidich, explores a reality where the small man gets lost competing against big business. In And With my Eyes..., Dexnis presents her ideas surrounding rebirth in a solo inspired by the poem "Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Vidich presents authentic evening, a new solo that explores the sensation of being vulnerable and the act of covering it up.

SoulFire Music Launch Party Saturday, May 3, 2008. Doors open at 7 p.m. Come and celebrate the official launch of SoulFire Music, with performances by Miss Gina with Chkn Grease and other special guests.

April

Nancy Strube: 1000 Paper Birds Friday, April 4 through Sunday, April 27, 2008 Nancy Strube has been teaching matrix perspective at V.C.U.'s department of graphic design for a number of years and has developed a matrix perspective computer software systems as well as a hands-on drawing system. For 25 years, she has been working with the Richmond Public Schools to improve environmental graphics and has also worked with Fortune 500 companies, where she played an intricate role in the invention of many consumer products.

Janine Turner: Celebration of Form Friday, April 4 through Sunday, April 27, 2008 Following 25 years as a psychotherapist, Janine Turner sold her private practice and devoted herself to the exploration of creativity and expression in the visual and performing arts. She teaches advanced classes in digital manipulation at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and the Cultural Arts Center at Glen Allen.

Rattlemouth with Special Guests Friday, April 25, 2008. Doors open at 8 p.m., music starts at 9 $10 admission
Dance the night away to the energetic and exotic sound of local world music favorites Rattlemouth, with a performance choreographed by Frances Wessels.

Poetry Readings Sunday, April 6, 2008 from 3 to 5 p.m. National Poetry Month Reading, featuring poet Derek Kannemeyer and others. Open mic at art6. Thursday, April 17, 2008 from 6 to 8 p.m. National Poem in Your Pocket Day: visit art6 for a poem to take home.

March

Serial Witness: The Sequential Prints of Mitzi Humphrey Friday, March 7 through Sunday, March 30, 2008 VCU professor Barbara Tisserat has said of Mitzi Humphrey's art: "it is fascinating to note the persistent recurrence of certain formal strategies and thematic interests...one becomes aware of similarities that are sometimes masked by differences in style and format. Ideas and images appear, fade, and are resurrected in altered versions; new contexts providing fresh meanings. Demonstrating an evolving sophistication and complexity, refinements of intention and execution, the art reveals a mind engaged in the serious play of disciplined studio practice and a heart open to the suggestions of intuition and the adventure of life experience."

Books, Broadsides, et alia Friday, March 7 through Sunday, March 30, 2008 Print invitational featuring works by Kelly Nelson, David Freed, Walter Garde, Jacob Urbanski, Stephanie Brody Lederman, Jamie Mahoney, Sandra Wheeler and others. Curated by Mitzi Humphrey.

International Prints from Virginia Collections Friday, March 7 through Sunday, March 30, 2008 Featuring prints by Bruce Onobrakpeya, David Freed, Gail McKennis, Eleanor Rufty, Jack Solomon, Sister Mary Corita (aka Corita Kent), Laura Pharis, Julyen Norman, Sheryl Humphrey, Norman Ackroyd, Tanja Softic, Aristide Maillol, Mary Holland, Crispin Vayadares, Jack Glover, Janet Gilmore Bryan, Francisco Londono and many others. Co-curated by art6 founders and printmakers Henrietta Near and Mitzi Humphrey.

Southern Graphics Council Conference Reception Friday, March 28, 2008 from 6 to 10 p.m. art6 is a Southern Graphics Council CommandPrint venue. An additional March 28 public reception for "International Prints from Virginia Collections" is timed to coincide with the March 27-29 Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference in Richmond.

Spring into Printmaking Saturday, March 15, 2008 from 9 to 12 noon A free printmaking workshop for grades 2-5. Limited enrollment, currently full; please call art6 gallery at (804) 343-1406 for more information.

Garth Newel Piano Quartet Sunday, March 9, 2008 from 3 to 5 p.m. Admission: $20. Limited seating. Call 343-1406 to reserve your tickets today.
The Garth Newel Piano Quartet is known for high-energy performances, virtuosity, and offering fresh insight into both standard and new repertoires. Their concerts are informal, conversational, and even interactive. As artists-in-residence at Garth Newel Music Center, one of the premiere and most active chamber music organizations in the United States, they perform over 50 concerts each year.

This event is funded by the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Richmond Piano and art6 gallery.

February

John Bailey Friday, Feb. 1 through Sunday, March 2, 2008 John Bailey's site specific installation involves thirteen floor to ceiling crayon drawings on polyester chiffon that create an architectural space to be viewed from all sides. Bailey has received enthusiastic reviews for his skillfully and sensitively drafted figure studies of the male nude. His graceful drawings celebrate the marriage of the physical and the spiritual.

Lewis Bailes Friday, Feb. 1 through Sunday, March 2, 2008 Lewis Bailes' new series of photographs, entitled "Wars Without End," is shot at the abandoned site of the old McGuire VA hospital on the southside of Richmond two days prior to its demolition. The series is dedicated to America's war veterans, especially America's wounded.

"Wars Without End" was made possible by corporate sponsorship from Excalibur Legal Staffing, Washington, DC.

Brigette Newberry On exhibit through Sunday, March 2, 2008 Brigette Newberry exhibits new work in the upstairs gallery.

2X2X2 Friday, Feb. 22, 2008 from 8 to 10 p.m. Writers read about couples, love and loving.

January

Gayle Stott Lowry Friday, Jan. 4 through Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 Gayle Stott Lowry's show in the main gallery, titled "Endurance," is composed of large oil paintings, landscapes that focus on the theme of loss. The paintings were inspired by the austere northwest coastal regions of Scotland, which she sketched during a visit to her ancestral land. In her artist's statement, Lowry notes that "the expansive views of earth, water and air depicted in these large-scale paintings serve as metaphors for the forces that bear down upon us as we journey through life."

Lowry studied art at East Carolina University and has pursued additional study with Wolf Kahn and Sidney Goodman.

Marsden Williams Friday, Jan. 4 through Sunday, Jan. 27, 2008 Marsden Williams show, "Oils and Small Water Colors," celebrates the nature of color and gesture. A relatively new member of the gallery, Williams says of her work: "Painting requires the distillation of experience through feeling and form. Using different media, I have become more and more involved with the mystical power of color, regardless of the scale of the painting, and with the ability of color to transcend the particular."

"The Fat Lady Sings!" Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008 at 8 p.m. $10
Shann Palmer sings Sondheim, Doris Day, Judy Garland, a little bit of Wilco and Todd Rundgren—and tells barely believable tales about her wild Texas childhood.