Please join us Friday, May 6 for the art opening of Carl Meet Virginia by our friend Jesse Wells whose newest work explores impossible connections and unifying totems. Mapping the interpersonal aesthetics of the quest, it features prints and works on paper, zines, crochet, and embroidery.

Daniel Perry, local Jam maker, fills the Garage with hand-cut prints exploring the interrelated dynamism of nature and the human form. Please join us at what will surely be a delightful opening this Friday with wine, bread, cheese and plenty of jam from 5:00-8:00PM. Music to follow afterward.

We’ve had a heavy dose of great shows this month. Here are some highlights:

Students from the undergraduate painting and sculpture programs at Virginia Commonwealth University present new works that look to investigate the relationships between perception and memory, the romantic and ordinary, identity and ambiguity, and these themes collective portrayal in the illusion of art mediums.

Friday, March 4 // 5:00-8:00PM // Refreshments Served

In her first Charlottesville solo show, Kristin Smith returns with new work depicting an unnatural version of the natural world.  Strange clouds and stalactites are the backdrop to unfamiliar plants and puddles formed by a mysterious substance.  Revealed in cross-sections of the earth’s layers, this suspicious muck seeps and collects around the roots of plants that seem to survive in spite of their dripping surroundings.  The show is inspired by nineteenth century infographs, unusual vegetation, and underground interiors.

First Fridays Art Opening: Friday, February 4, 5:00-8:00PM.