Featured Art Exhibits
Arden Shostak
1930’s Foyer
Arden Shostak is an interdisciplinary artist and writer from Virginia. He holds a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and has been awarded residences with VisArts, Wildacres, and Tabby Studio, among others. He explores themes of queerness, resilience, and climate crisis through observed and imagined scenes of the natural world. Many of his visual references come from the diverse ecology of his local area. Responding to landscape painting traditions, he works towards the use of the genre to repair and protect the environment, to provoke action towards collective liberation, and to emphasize beauty, spirit, and mystery.
Tyler Thomas
Gellman Room
Tyler Thomas was born in 1980 in Fort Dodge Iowa and has lived and worked in Richmond Virginia since 2003.
His work has been exhibited throughout the USA as well as shows in Japan and the UK.
Thomas has designed dozens of album covers, concert and event posters, band shirts, beer bottle/can labels, and logos for small businesses.
Marking 1999 as the first appearance of his iconic goony faces , the artist has been putting his hand made stickers and drawings up wherever he goes for over two and a half decades. Inspired by his own personal experiences and travels, he weaves his ideas with abstract mark making and signature cartoonish faces into depictions of the world around him . The artist’s intention for you, the viewer, is to invite you into his meditation practice, to inspect the tiny details and walk away with an interpretation of your own.
His work has been exhibited throughout the USA as well as shows in Japan and the UK.
Thomas has designed dozens of album covers, concert and event posters, band shirts, beer bottle/can labels, and logos for small businesses.
Marking 1999 as the first appearance of his iconic goony faces , the artist has been putting his hand made stickers and drawings up wherever he goes for over two and a half decades. Inspired by his own personal experiences and travels, he weaves his ideas with abstract mark making and signature cartoonish faces into depictions of the world around him . The artist’s intention for you, the viewer, is to invite you into his meditation practice, to inspect the tiny details and walk away with an interpretation of your own.
Michael Smith
2nd Floor Gallery
Michael Smith is a self-taught artist. He began painting as a way to relieve stress while in the US Air Force. Michael is a graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University. Michael has used a variety of mediums. He is primarily a painter in acrylics but has also been working with pencil.
