Karen Newton wrote a piece on Artemis Gallery’s new glass and ceramic vases
and was impressed with the Contemporary Contradictions in Glass going on at the same
time as Dale Chihulys show at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art.
Below is the link to Bell magazine online!
http://issuu.com/styleweekly/docs/belle_oct_2012/5#print
A Runway Fashion, Photoshoot, & Music Event First Friday May 4th.
Artemis Gallery presents a Fashion Runway show featuring
hand-painted Cavalli inspired boots used for rain or fashion wear.
We are calling artists from all over the Richmond area assemble
for an intense workshop on April 21st. Then the fun begins by
creating outlandish and creative galoshes and fashion boots
designed to make heads turn when walking down the street!
Haven’t you been at a rainy summer outdoor music festival?
Or been caught in a rainstorm only to wish you had some
knee high boots instead of your soaking wet sneakers covered
in mud? Let this be your problem solver!
Artemis Gallery, in a long tradition of workshops like our
decorated bras or our outlandish sunglasses, even our
Mardi Gras masks, let us present Fashion Runway Boots!
Artists such as Anna Zaccaria, John Crutchfield, Debbie
Talman, Lindsey Phillips and Tunde Hidvegi will feature
these boots in a runway show on First Friday, May the 4th.
We will walk every hour, on the hour from 7 until 9pm.
Artemis Gallery’s Eros & Arrows show was featured in the Richmond Times Dispatch’s Thursday Weekend edition. Jo Lord, their arts writer did a great job describing our event; you’re most welcome to review or read what she had to say!
Article:
“In a nod to Valentine’s Day, Artemis Gallery is showing “Eros & Arrows,” a show of Valentine cards made by local artists. The idea was to avoid the saccharine-sweet messages of store-bought cards and to express the emotions associated with love in a different way. One card, for instance, shows a handsome young man on the cover. Inside, there’s a vampire and references to romance sucking the blood out of lovers.
Artists represented in the show include Emily Creery Thomas, John Crutchfield,Laura Goetz, Charles O’Donovan, Ginger Pennington, Jessica Pittman Jones, Awest Subagja, Debbie Talman, Dawn Vass and Dennis Wymer.
The gallery will add new cards to the show until the end of its run.
The exhibit runs through March 2 at 1601 W. Main St.
Hours are Wednesday through Friday from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturday from noon to 5 p.m. and on First Fridays.
For details, call (804) 353-2676 or visit www.artemisgalleryrichmond.com.
– Jo Lord”
Thanks to those who came out and if you missed the opening, be sure to make an appointment in the gallery before the show ends March 1,2012!
Artemis Gallery
1601 W. Main Street
Richmond, VA 23220
804-353-2676
Link to article: http://bit.ly/yMCl3r
Art Opening Snapshots on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/zmxLrF
Despite the cold weather and holiday hangovers, there is still an imperative need for artistic inspiration!
Start the new year by coming to Artemis Gallery for our first show of the year on Jan.6th, 5-10PM!
See colors and designs you can see nowhere else!
Pick out gifts for yourself that no one thought you would like…
Enjoy a stroll around the 10 Fine Art galleries and specialty restaurants on Main St.!
See you soon,
The wonderful staff at Artemis Gallery
Ginger & Debbie & Sharon
Yours,
John Teal Crutchfield
www.artemisgalleryrichmond.com
After weeks of discussion and graphic design collaboration with all 10 Gallery members of the Main st Gallery group,
the results are here to be seen in this weeks Style weekly magazine. All the Galleries and their art shows are listed with their events!
Main st is really the happening Arts District!!
This holiday season Artemis Gallery will be featuring new regional artists in our December group exhibition. Works will be fun, light-hearted, funky, interesting, challenging, creative, one of a kind pieces which make great affordable gifts. As one of the top 100 galleries in the country, we are extend this exciting exhibition opportunity to new artists in the area!
Every December, Artemis Gallery hosts a holiday party featuring a unique selection of works for the discerning shopper. We will have a preview on First Friday Dec 2nd and an opening Dec 16th.
In the art world, juries and galleries sometimes reject visionary artists based entirely on a jumble of preestablished standards and politics. On the other hand, here at Artemis Gallery we hold adamantly to our belief that no artist can rightfully or accurately be judged by any jargon of preset criteria, and likewise on December 2nd we will be presenting the Richmond public with our show, the Mixed Media Salon. Artemis Gallery is providing a unique opportunity for artists to display their work, which may have been rejected from previous art exhibits.
Stop by this December 2nd First Friday on Main Street to see our new talented artists display their pieces, engage the general public, meet the artists face to face, and to learn the history of the creation process!MixedMediaSalon2011
This holiday season Artemis Gallery will be featuring new regional artists in our December group exhibition. Works will be fun, light-hearted, funky, interesting, challenging, creative, one of a kind pieces which make great affordable gifts. As one of the top 100 galleries in the country, we are extend this exciting exhibition opportunity to new artists in the area!
Every December, Artemis Gallery hosts a holiday party featuring a unique selection of works for the discerning shopper. We will have a preview on First Friday Dec 2nd and an opening Dec 16th.
In the art world, juries and galleries sometimes reject visionary artists based entirely on a jumble of preestablished standards and politics. On the other hand, here at Artemis Gallery we hold adamantly to our belief that no artist can rightfully or accurately be judged by any jargon of preset criteria, and likewise on December 2nd we will be presenting the Richmond public with our show, the Mixed Media Salon. Artemis Gallery is providing a unique opportunity for artists to display their work, which may have been rejected from previous art exhibits.
Stop by this December 2nd First Friday on Main Street to see our new talented artists display their pieces, engage the general public, meet the artists face to face, and to learn the history of the creation process!
Ever since Harvey Littleton during the ‘40s created the first at home studio furnace, independent glass artists have struggled with originality. Glass can be both hard and soft depending on its temperature. Two totally different glass artists use the molten material to create sculptures of the most original and creative styles.
Grant Garmezy, with his expert glass sculpting talent, creates creatures of nature both loved and hated. In his words, “For the past six years I have been making sculptural glass objects with the intention of pushing the boundaries of glass sculpting to create something new and original. My most recent pieces are re-creations of familiar animal images that bring out human emotion and expression through movement and personality. By using these familiar images, I’m able to take my viewers into a scene where the relationship between human and animal become blurred.”
Corey Pemberton on the other hand is inspired by the great Venetian Glass Blowers whose vessels bring back the beauty of classic antiquity. In the artist’s words, “My work is a sort of meditative process. It is a way for me to zone out and forget about anything troubling or burdensome that may be happening in my life or in the world. It is a way to escape, mentally, if only for a moment. It is an escape from all of the absurdity that surrounds us everyday.”
Artemis Gallery
1601 W Main St
First Friday Oct 7th
5pm – 10pm
804 – 353 – 2676
These past two Fridays at Artemis Gallery were a blast! Ceramics Artist Valerie West made her appearance both nights and spoke with friends, family, professors, and art enthusiasts about her work and her many techniques! She even brought honey from her own bee hive!
If you did not get a chance to make it out either nights to the show, feel free to stop by during the rest of this month during our weekly hours of W – F between 2 and 7pm and Sat 12 – 5pm! We’d be happy to show you around!
Also featured both evenings were the lovely ladies of Sueños Gitanos playing flamenco guitar outside the gallery.
To view more images from our opening, click the link below!
In 1951 Peter Voulkos smashed his pottery, making it the first
nonfunctional ceramics piece ever made. Ever since then
ceramics artists like Valerie West have strived to find beauty
in pure and simple forms and colors; rather than making its
functionality the main focus.
For her the integration of the hand in the clay and the final
shape become inseperable. Just like the words of a poet, the
clay artist finds solace in the curvalinear shapes and colors;
creating organic plant-like apendages and vessels. She explains:
“To elaborate, I take the basic ideas behind traditional
pottery techniques: throwing, trimming, pulling and attaching
handles; then build the pieces together into unconventional
shapes pushing the balancing ability of the clay to turn
functional vessels into nonfunctional forms.”
As an accomplished exhibiting artist Valerie West will show
her work at Artemis Gallery in a solo show Sept 2nd – Oct 3rd
with a reception First Friday the 2nd as well as Friday Sept 9th.
First Friday Sept 2nd & 9th
Artemis Gallery
1601 W Main St
804 – 353 – 2676
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Last week CBS invited us to be featured on Virginia This Morning to talk about our show “Sunglasses & Rock N Roll” at Artemis Gallery! John Crutchfield brought some of the sunglasses we made to the studio along with hand decorated well crafted guitars to showcase during the interview. We put a lot of time into this work and were proud to be interviewed by local television. The show was aired live Thursday morning at 9:00 AM. Take a look at the interview!
Click Here to see Our CBS Interview!
This year as the school year ends, the gallery season slows down, and
the Summer heats up, John Crutchfield & MAG take to the road to be
featured in some of the top music festivals and fine art craft shows.
This year’s lineup includes:
Gold Coast Fine Art Show (Amdur Productions) Chicago July 7th – 10th
The WXPN Xponential Music Festival in Philadelphia July 21st – 24th
FloydFest Music Festival in Floyd, VA July 28th – 31st
Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, RI August 5th – 7th
Philadelphia Folk Festival August 18th – 21st
At each of these juried music & art festivals, John Crutchfield will display
his mixed media Fine Art and Accessories including his famous Decorative
Inlaid Graphic Guitars. Last year several famous musicians like Chris Botti
signed his guitars and mandolins, while Robert Francis who was touring
with Jason Mraz at the time had commissioned a White Falcon Guitar
(featured on Jay Leno & Vogue Magazine).
This year we are looking forward to some stellar music and exciting
exhibition possibilities for our new designs. Hope to see you there!
For more info contact John Teal Crutchfield
804 – 353 – 2676
www.metallicartgraphics.com
www.artemisgalleryrichmond.com
Check out Images from the Xponential Music Festival and FloydFest!
Xponential Music Festival 2011
Artemis Gallery, the gallery of Fine Art & Crafts in Richmond, VA is looking
for a couple of artists to do solo exhibitions in September and October 2011.
Due to unexpected circumstances we have a few openings for individual
artists to be Artist of the Month. This consists of prominent exposure in the
central part of the gallery. You would be the featured artist in our press
release and publicity exposure, as well as the main element in our First
Friday artist reception.
If you have exceptional artwork, design, craftsmanship, original concept &
execution, and are willing to be an exhibitionist, please send us your resume
along with photo samples of your work to MetallicArtGraphics@gmail.com
Artemis Gallery presents a decorative sunglasses show in tribute to the summer and music festivals!
During the Summer months of travel, beach vacations, music festivals, and poolside parties, you need a good pair of sunglasses to shield you from the glare of the sun.
This year with a fashion runway show behind us and hit music festivals coming up all summer, John Crutchfield and a team of talented artists will make and create high fashion decorated sunglasses to wear all summer to the beach, to the swimming pool, and to the music festivals.
During a live studio session at the Metallic Art Graphics Studio, several artists will create these high fashion outrageous glasses to be exhibited at Artemis Gallery July 1st.
Over the last several years, Galleries on West Main has developed into an eclectic community of galleries, restaurants, and independently owned businesses. You can browse the wide variety of artwork while enjoying lunch or coffee in the afternoon. If you prefer a night on the town, experience the gallery openings and indulge in dinner and drinks afterwards. With so many exciting places to see and to choose from, you’re bound to find something to suit your taste.
This summer, Artemis Gallery has an amazing show lined up! We
have planned live music, photography, and a fashion show! After all
summer is all about the heat, so we’re showing you what’s hot! This
is one show you don’t want to miss! Come see some amazing hand
made clothing designed by local designers Jessica Lemmer, Samantha
Smith, Jasmine Mills, and more! Featuring everything from recycled
fashion to wearable art to everyday wear!
Paul Beverly and Sandy Dyche are leather artisans. Every single part of every piece they make is made from leather, all the way down to the tiniest of details! They make everything from your standard leather accessories like belts, bags, and jewelry, to motorcycles, sheep, doll houses, even swords! You name it, they make it out of leather!
This month we are featuring their work at Artemis Gallery! Come join us for adventures in leather and see the endless uses of this medium there really is!
Their techniques to creating these creative works involve just three simple steps. “We create paper patterns as guides for cutting out the leather. The type of leather chosen is
important. Different types of leather are needed for different textures, looks and overall feel of the finished product.” Once the leather is cut, they use various tools and dyes to
create different colors and textures. After creating a shape through wet molding, the finishing touches are then added.
Paul started doing leather work in the 60s, but in meeting Sandy added a nice creative flare to his work and they have been making these wonderful leather pieces together for 15 years.
Don’t miss this special event at Artemis Gallery this First Friday May 6th and pick out a last minute Mother’s Day gift! Food and drink will be provided, and as always we’d love to see
you there at Artemis Gallery!
For images from the event, click the link below!
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Take a look at this great article promoting the galleries of Main Street!
Richmond Family Magazine tells people about Artemis Gallery by saying:
“For downright audacious objets d’art and unrepentant slashes of humor, Artemis tops the list. Like Main Art, this gallery favors the young at heart, mind, and attitude, and leans toward pop culture. The craftsmanship is evident, though, and all items in the eclectic outlay rate as legitimate aesthetic works. On [First] Friday nights, weather permitting, guitarists and dancers perform on the sidewalk in front”.
This April we will be celebrating the beginning of Spring with “Wired Realities” at Artemis Gallery! This show will be featuring the work of local artists Guy Barnard and Bob Early and their wire sculptures.
Their work is often described as three dimensional blind contour drawings. As if they drew it on paper and turned it into a sculptural piece of work.
In Bob’s own words he says, “The inspiration for my art comes from a lifetime of relentless curiosity of how things work and what’s inside. From my need to take things apart comes the wonderment of finding ways to make the parts into something new and amazing. Also a big part of my inspiration comes from
nature and my fascination of bugs and wildlife. Combining the two I try to achieve works of art which inspire their own curiosities and fascinations. Whether it is complex as with Musical Gears or as simple as my Reflecting Fish, my overall goal is to achieve an emotion connection to my work.”
The show will also be featuring live music and will run until May 5th. So come celebrate the birth of Spring with us at Artemis Gallery!
View photos from the event here!
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It has become an annual tradition at Artemis Gallery to celebrate Mardi Gras and the festival that started it all, the Venice Carnival! This year we are hosting a Masquerade in style as Keith Deringer, professional photographer, will be photographing the entire event!
The Sunday prior to our First Fridays we are also hosting a mask making workshop specifically for this show! And it’s free! Come be a part of a fun community project and don’t be the one without a mask!
This year we are sure to have a blast as not only will we have hand made masks, but also jewelry and accessories! A perfect gift for any loved one or even yourself! So go ahead, live a little, and have a ball with us at Artemis Gallery!
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In celebration of Mardi Gras and the Venice Carnival, we invite you to participate in our free mask making workshop!
Just like last month with the bras, they will be exhibited and/or worn for our March First Friday Masquerade Show! Supplies will be provided but if you have a specific look you’re going for, feel free to bring your own. Basic white masks will be provided.
Here’s a preview of our mask workshop from last year! See you there!
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NOTE: The workshop is NOT at Artemis Gallery, but at the Metallic Art Graphics Studio one block down on the corner of Floyd & Lombardy. It’s a big blue building directly across from the laundromat.
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Venetian Mask Making Workshop!
Take a look at what you might have missed on the night of First Fridays at Artemis Gallery on our Facebook Page!
Click Here to View the Photo Album
Thank you all who came out and supported us that night! We look forward to seeing everyone next month!
Click Here to View Photos from the Show!
This February, Artemis Gallery will be celebrating Valentines Day with new and exciting housewares and accessories that will simply tickle your fancy!
Featured in this month’s show will be hand made jewelry by Jennifer Melton, 1920s inspired hair accessories by Decouture, home decor items by Tiques, and some hand made items to spice up your Valentines Day!
For those of you looking to add some excitement to your life, we will be fe…aturing work from Deanna Danger Designs! Her work includes mini hats, fascinators, and burlesque pasties! All of which are sure to steam up your evening!
We will also be featuring a selection of hand decorated bras from our own Bra Decorating Workshop! Women and artists alike are participating in an interactive session to make these one of a kind hand decorated bras inspired by one’s own inner beauty. They are all enough to make any woman feel like the goddess of love herself.
So come and indulge your taste for romance this First Friday February 4th and enjoy some chocolate and wine while finding the perfect Valentines Day gift for that special someone at nowhere else but Artemis Gallery!
Artist Karmalita Bawar has had her hand made paper flower pins and brooches featured in our gallery in the past, and now has been featured in the last issue of Style Weekly! Her recent batch of paper flower brooches were actually made from pages of Style using a paper technique she learned while living in Japan. Read the article below!
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Sculptor does her art with Style. Literally.
by Julie Geen
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Of the many possible fates for old issues of Style Weekly, what Karmalita Bawar does with them may be the most attractive. Instead of using the publications to start fires or line bird cages, she fashions them into flower brooches. “They look nice on hats, scarves, purses,” Bawar says. “They’re just a nice, unique accessory.”
A Suzuki piano teacher since 1989, Bawar periodically travels to Japan to study this type of paper art. Last April she stayed with a Japanese family in Matsumoto. The grandmother taught her the craft of making paper flowers, sending her home with a bamboo skewer, templates cut out of a discarded box, and the “green electrical plastic tube things” that she uses to crimp the paper. They promptly broke, so she took them to Lowe’s, replacing them with something she found near the nuts and bolts section. Exactly what the new plastic tubes are called or what their given purpose is remains a mystery.
The flowers started out as something she just made and gave away. “After six hours a day of teaching piano, I want silence,” Bawar says. “So this is a really quiet, personal thing.” People began asking if they could buy them, “and next thing you know, I’m cranking them out.”
She adds her own touch to the process, using glitter in the form of nail polish to accent the flowers. “When I got my hands on them, I thought I needed to make it American and fun and colorful,” she says. “The grandmother who taught me would just scream if she saw these. These are very gaudy for Japan.”
Style works as a medium, she says, because of the colorful photos and because she can pick up a free one anywhere. (She swears that she reads the issue first and then chooses pages based on color combinations.) Carefully cut shapes from the Dec. 8 issue feature centenarian Virginia Ann Henry Shelton, actor Katrinah Lewis and musician Prabir Mehta. Under her deft fingers, they quickly become a paper flower. “It’s a great group of local people,” Bawar says. “You can’t get them together at a party, but you can get them together in a brooch.”
Karmalita Bawar’s handmade Japanese flower brooches are featured at Artemis Gallery, 1601 W. Main St. For information, call 353-2676.
Recently at Artemis Gallery, art collectors and professors of Sociology from Oxford, England came to visit us while on a business trip in DC to pick out a piece of work for their home. Doctor Teresa Harms and husband Johnathan Gershuny FBA took a particular interest in the work of Cynthia Erdahl and picked out two of her paintings.
Now much to her satisfaction, Cynthia can say her work is appreciated by an international audience!
To see more of her work on our website, click here.
This December, Artemis Gallery is hosting a Holiday Mixed Media Show on First Friday featuring a unique selection of works for the discerning holiday shopper. This year we are providing gifts with a touch of vintage and burlesque!
Come to the Holiday Mixed Media Show and take a stroll back to the Roaring ‘20s – ‘40s! Some of Richmond’s local burlesque bombshells will be there to provide entertainment and atmosphere dressed as cigarette girls while you pick out the perfect gift to spice up your holidays!
This Season we are providing a wide selection of accessories such as brooches, hair pins, fascinators, hand made hats, jewelry and jewelry boxes, and more! We will have a reception for these works on First Friday December 3rd and our End of the Year Christmas Party on Friday December 17th. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to pick out a gift you won’t find anywhere else but Artemis Gallery!
Contact Asst Director Holly Sullivan for more info!
This December Artemis Gallery is looking for craft artists with original work to be featured in our juried Holiday Mixed Media Show. We are looking for fun, light hearted, funky, affordable gift items. Every December, Artemis Gallery hosts a Holiday party featuring a unique selection of works for the discerning shopper. We will have a reception for these works on Friday December 3rd and Friday December 17th. If you think you have artwork that would make a perfect gift for the holidays, let us know!
Artists may submit up to 4 pieces and can reach us by email or come by the gallery. Art submissions can be a variety of media such as metal, glass, ceramics, wood, accessories, jewelry, textiles, mixed media, etc. and cannot exceed one square foot. If interested, please contact our Assistant Director Holly Sullivan by email at holly.sullivn@gmail.com or by phone at 804-353-2676. Applications for the show will be provided at Artemis Gallery or by request can be sent to you via email. Submissions can be submitted as digital images via email, or can be dropped off at the Gallery along with your completed application.
Any other questions or comments, don’t hesitate to contact us!
Artemis Gallery
1601 W Main St
Th – F 4 – 7pm, S 12 – 5pm
804 – 353 – 2676
In the art world, juries and galleries sometimes reject visionary artists based entirely on a jumble of preestablished standards and politics. On the other hand, here at Artemis Gallery we hold adamantly to our belief that no artist can rightfully or accurately judged by any jargon or preset criteria, and likewise in November 2010 we will be presenting the Richmond public with our show … the Salon des Refuses.
Following in the footsteps of such artists as Manet, Cezanne, and Monet who in the late 1800s, after being refused admittance to the politically oriented Academies Francais, opted instead to establish their own unofficial presentation of “reject art”. Artemis Gallery is providing a unique opportunity for both local and visiting artists to display their work, which may have been rejected from previous art exhibits.
At our Salon des Refuses, we plan to deliver not only the opportunity for magnificent artists to display their pieces, but also for the general public to engage in the show, meeting the artists face to face and learning the history and creation process of each piece.
Come join us in our celebration of art for art’s sake! This year we will also be featuring live saxophone along with guitar music as well as a live painting demonstration by local artist Cynthia Erdahl.
For more info, contact Holly Sullivan or John Crutchfield.
First Fridays Nov 5th
1601 W Main St
5pm – 10pm
804 – 353 – 2676
This October, Artemis Gallery is looking for artists interested in contributing to an outdoor interactive wall painting. We will have a large scale sheet of canvas provided which will allow up to four artists to create their own works of whatever they like! The paintings will be displayed on the outdoor side wall of Artemis Gallery for the month of October for everyone to see!
Anyone who is interested in applying must submit a completed 8″ x 10″ full color sketch by Monday September 27th to holly.sullivn@gmail.com. After reviewing all submissions, we will contact the artists we decide to select by the 29th. Those artists who are selected will come to the gallery on our First Friday opening night (Oct 1st) to paint their selected piece as a part of the opening!
For more info about the show or submission guidelines, please email our Assistant Director Holly Sullivan at holly.sullivn@gmail.com
The term “Trompe-l’oeil” is French for “trick of the eye”. It is also a commonly used art technique which utilizes realism to such a level, one might think the portrayed object itself is real. When we first laid eyes on the works of Kaolin Ceramics, trompe-l’oeil was naturally the first word that came to mind.
Husband and wife team Sandy and Missy bring inanimate objects to life; making clay items like oranges, pears, and chocolate look so real you could mistake it for an afternoon snack!
Each piece of clay made with total dedication to realism such that one would not believe it is clay until they actually picked it up in their hands.
The Kaolins use every technique imaginable including hand forming, wheel throwing, carving, and painting to create these wonderful works. They are nationally well recognized artists living in Great Barrington, Massachusetts and have exhibited in SOFA New York, Chicago Art Expo, and the Norman Rockwell Museum. Now is your chance to see them here in Richmond, VA at Artemis Gallery!
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That’s correct! Artemis Gallery’s new website is now live and running. Not complete, but definitely on the way! Check back often to see all the changes!
To view images from the gallery please click the following link
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