Mike Haubenstock from Glen Allen, Virginia, engages viewers with his captivating oil paintings of landscapes and still lifes. For this show at Richmond Library, Eat Your Art Out, Mike highlights his vibrant still lifes of fruit and vegetables. The show also includes landscapes and some of his reflection series of store windows and the reflections of the scene opposite.

“My life as an artist started when I was 5 years old. I was inspired by the cartoons I watched on TV and I wanted to draw my own. As I got older, I got into writing and drawing words in a graffiti style which was inspired by seeing it all around my neighborhood and throughout D.C. Over the years I got tired of writing the same words over and over and slowly my style became abstract. My abstract art is heavily influenced by street art and cartoons from the 1990s.”
-Jackson Sheehy

Babs Mohammed grew up in Northern Ghana, in the city of Tamale. As a boy, he often spent time away from the city in his grandfather’s village where he learned to appreciate the traditions and cultures of his people. Later, Babs joined the Center for National Culture in Tamale, Ghana and learned traditional drumming and African dance, which he performed throughout Ghana. After immigrating to the United States in 2011, Babs used his paintings to continue to remember and celebrate the cultural traditions of his homeland. His artwork celebrates traditional African dance, music, village life, hard work, and family.