In It Was Real To Us, both Jemec and O’Hearn alter original images to produce a “manufactured reality.” The photos quietly show how recorded history is held captive by the imagination and turned into something that is only loosely based on real-life experience. Not only is it all aesthetically stimulating, but it serves as a thoughtful reminder of how imperfect and unpredictable our human understanding actually is.

Please join us Friday, February 5, from 5:00-7:00pm. And dress warmly! We’ll be stocked up on coffee and hot chocolate for when you get there.

We’re very excited about October’s installation as our friend, James Ford, will be displaying a selection of his 6000+ Polaroid photographs, taken over a period of eight years. Narrowing it down to a mere 2000 (!), he’ll be displaying the photos on a wall-sized grid in chronological order in a way that not only proves his remarkable eye for photography but also his passion for both film and comics.

Please join us Friday October 2 from 5:00-7:00pm for the opening reception and check out James’ artist statement below:

“Cumulatively, the photographs represent an ongoing work which functions as both observation and autobiography; the work is both lyrical and documentary, and contains portraits, landscapes, personal moments, famous landmarks, nostalgic instances, puzzling obscurities, messy fragments, eye-catching distractions, humorous gags, bacchanalian mistakes, and a few brief moments of unexpected beauty. This utterly disposable, imperfect, impermanent (and now largely extinct) medium allows us to capture brief and similarly impermanent moments and preserve them for a little while longer, and to share the experience with others.”

Join us on Friday, September 4 from 5:30-8:00pm for the opening reception for “FOLLY.” The show features the collaborative work of Corey Kitzke and Dave Moore and will be on display this month at the Garage with a partner show happening at Chop Suey Books in Richmond

Aside from the many possible forms and implications of the word FOLLY, it is also an actual place; you can physically go there. This show, and it’s continuation in (Richmond/Charlottesville) is about that place and all those other forms and implications..

Come by the Garage Wednesday, August 26th from 5:00-7:00pm for a drawing party and closing reception for “The Suitcase Show.” Come draw, hang out, and purchase art (pay what you can, take what you want). Bring supplies! It should be a really intimate, enjoyable night.