May 2nd - June 20th, 2008
Opening reception with the artist on Friday, May 2, 5:30- 8:00pm

Suzanne Howes-Stevens

New paintings

Suzanne Howes-Stevens' current work combines beauty with a mission. Howes-Stevens paints scenes of the world at its edges, where water meets land, primarily images inspired by her life in the northeast. She often searches for inspiration in her kayak or canoe, taking her camera along to record what she sees. Then in her studio, she refers to these pristine images and creates worlds inspired by them. Using maps as a background or frame allows her to emphasize the borders that exist between water and land. Those spaces that we love so much are disappearing; this is often reflected in the water scene's drift into the map area. Hers is a potent imagery with a poignant feeling that still is so beautiful you cannot pass it by.

June 12th - June 15th, 2008

New York City, NY

Affordable Art Fair

We are pleased to have been selected to exhibit at the Affordable Art Fair in Manhattan this summer. Details are available at their website, www.aafnyc.com. We will be taking new work from Brian Mallman, Foust, Alan Dehmer, Arturo Mallmann, Joachim Knill, and Randall Stoltzfus. Please contact us if you would like to go, and we can send you complimentary tickets. All work at the fair is priced below $10,000, and 75% of each gallery’s booth must contain work for under $5,000. So for about the price of a new couch, you could have something much more meaningful!

July 11th - August 22nd , 2008
Opening reception with the artists on Friday, July 11, 5:30- 8:00pm

Clay Invitational


Tom Clarkson, Stan Hunter and Steve Mitchell will present new functional and sculptural clay work.

September 5th-30th, 2008

Robin Blackshire

Robin Blackshire has a B.A. in photography and has taken that foundation and built a unique and amazing vision on it. Much of the work we exhibit at our gallery has a strong narrative element, and Blackshire's automobiles are no exception. Her work tells a story we wouldn't have otherwise seen had it not been captured by her camera - a story of color and beauty in the natural cycle of decay of man made objects and their return to nature. Great art tells great, simple stories like this. Blackshire may manipulate an image to enhance its strengths, particularly by saturating a color, making these images a blend of the real and surreal that can only be called hyper real. This will be her first solo show.

October 3rd-31st, 2008

Jan Aronson

Jan Aronson is an artist's artist because of her love for and mastery of the materials she uses - brushes, oil paint, watercolor, graphite and more. Jan holds an MFA from the prestiguous Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY and a B.A. from the University of New Orleans and has enjoyed exhibitions and excellent reviews around the world. We are pleased to exhibit her work because of its unique muscular beauty and dynamism. As Jan says: "My paintings reflect my belief that while the forces of the universe are chaotic, they are also balanced."

November 7th-December 3rd, 2008

Tim Taunton

A professor of ceramics, a fly fisherman, a working artist, Tim Taunton is a complete renaissance man. Fueled by a powerful intellect, visible energy and an unyielding vision of the world, Taunton creates figurative clay sculptures that are personal interpretations of various human attributes and natural forces. You cannot view one without seeing a story, open ended though it might be. Taunton also has just started painting again, bringing his perfectionism and vision to a two dimensional surface. The paintings place his sculptures in scenes imagined and created. Taunton's work follows in a long tradition of classical figure work and brings in elements of the best of the surrealists, making his work fresh and vibrant, surreal but believable. Even when the subjects are posed in an uncommon way, they feel familiar, like folks you'd want to know or at least understand. We will be showing his newest paintings.

January 2nd-30th, 2009

Brian Mallman and Warren Craghead

Brian Mallman was a focus of our exhibit at the artDC and AAF NYC gallery fair and attracted attention and sales from a variety of sophisticated collectors and gallery owners. Mallman has been living and working as an artist in Los Angeles since 2003, where his prices are steadily rising as he gathers impressive kudos. He earned a BFA in drawing from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and was an artist-in residence at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center before launching his West Coast career. His mastery of the graphite line plus his choice of subject matter - relationships - make his work extremely resonant. "Human interaction and levels at which people are able, or not able, to connect with themselves and with each other has always fascinated me. Much of my recent work deals with the subtle hierarchies that are established when people interact and the posturing and gesturing that takes place to create and reinforce these hierarchies."

Warren Craghead III lives here in Charlottesville with his wife and daughters. He believes in the power of drawing as an expressive medium and has exhibited his work internationally. Warren is changing the face of the art world by merging comics and high art. He has also published many works including the Xeric Grant winning Speedy and several collaborations with poets and writers, one of which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2006. He received an MFA in 1996 from the University of Texas at Austin, and a BFA in 1993 from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and attended the Skowhegan School in 1993. Both Brian and Warren admire the other's work; we are excited to show them together and watch the conversation that arises.