Art Works,Inc. Richmond, VA. August 2007 Art Shows Openings

The monthly 4th Friday Art Show opens April 25th, 2008 with a reception by the artists, music by Pam McCarthy upstairs and Ted Sanderson downstairs. Click on the show titles to learn more about each exhibit.

ALL MEDIA SHOW Marjorie Perrin is the juror for this multi-media show. Cash prizes are awarded for first, second and third place. Submissions are accepted from any artist and any medium. For more information about submitting entries to this monthly art show click here.

1st Place All Media Show

Grand Canyon at Dawn by Andrew Sherman

Acrylic, $1,250

2nd Place All Media Show

Charleston Door by Margaret Bucher

Oil, $800

3rd Place All Media Show

Late Afternoon by Jane Porter

Watercolor, $120

Honorable Mention All Media Show

The Artist's View by Janet Visser

Pastel on Paper $300

Honorable Mention All Media Show

Bird of Paradise by Gary Yaw

Mixed Media, $200

About the Juror

Marjorie Perrin has been painting and teaching in the Richmond, Virginia area since 1985. She graduated with honors from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1984 and received awards for landscape painting in oil and figurative work in watercolor. She has been awarded two fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has also studied at the Art Students League of New York, New York; The Frudakis Academy of Sculpture, Philadelphia, PA; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA and Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA.

Her work has been shown at the Amos Eno Gallery, New York, New York. The Pandion Gallery, Fishers Island, New York; The Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; The Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA; The Art Students League Of New York, New York. In Richmond, Virginia her work has been shown at the following Galleries; Shockoe Bottom Arts Center, The Eric Schindler Gallery, The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School, The Christian Brydon Gallery, The Lodan Gallery, The Florence Gallery, The Richmond Center,The Bank of America Gallery and The Art Works Gallery. Her works are included in numerous private and corporate collections in Richmond including: The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, C.S.X. corporation, E.R. Carpenter Corp., The Medical College of Virginia and Mutual Assurance.

Marjorie has been teaching painting and drawing at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Studio School in Richmond since 1989. She has also taught at the Hand Workshop; John Tyler Community College and the Torres School of Sculpture.

Scary Wonderland and Other Thought Provoking Works of Art

by James Torres

"Baby Girl Gina" Mixed Media, $150

Torres is from New York and now living in Richmond. He has studied art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn as well as Virginia Commonwealth University. His contemporary, mixed-media works will be on display in the Sylight Gallery.

Echoes

by Geraud Staton

Innocence Lost II 24x30 Oil, $1,200

Staton's works present a modern vision that reflects many of the same issues and fears that were felt in ancient society. Most of his paintings are related to stories from ancient Greece. However, the themes and feelings are not out of place in today’s society. These works will be on display in the Corner Gallery.

The Zabronskys

Esther, Henry, and Leo Zabronsky are

native of Israel. The Zabronskys bring their own individual style and personality to this show, however their mutual influence is easy to see. This would be their first show as a family. They bring different points of view and different styles but, most of all they hope to bring joy to your life.

Henry, an avid photographer since early age, also picked up painting; first, oil on canvas and now works with color pencils on paper. His ideas and attention to detail are what separates him from his wife, Esther and their son Leo.

Leo considers himself a balance between both his father, which is tight and cartoon like illustrator and his mom, which has more of a free flow brush strokes. Leo's art is influenced by music, landscapes, color and most of all people.

Esther is showing her long time love for biblical characters as she celebrates the women from the biblical time.

Works by Matt Bass

.Matt Bass brings us oil paintings based on landscapes which border abstraction in their unconventional compositions.

Centre Gallery East.

Mixing Bowl 22x24 Oil, $200

Sun Up to Sun Down 3'x6' Oil, $2,000

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