Artists Featured in Making Our Mark
As the Richmond Art Center celebrates its 80th Anniversary year, it is preparing a major exhibition in tribute to its history and its mission. The exhibition, Making Our Mark, looks to artists who have had a history with the Art Center: artists who have exhibited, supported, and enriched the programs over the years. In selecting these artists, we reflect on the scope of interest—media as richly varied as painting, ceramics, fiber, sculpture, and photography—and themes as diverse as the cultural backgrounds at the foundation of the community.
We have also asked each of the invited artists to put forward a younger artist: someone whom they have taught or mentored or whose work they have felt should be shown and promoted. This, too, is in line with our history and our mission—giving voice to new artists and opening the galleries to new visions. We have presented the artists as they will be paired.
Christopher Brown and Megan Atherton
| Christopher Brown Downtown Oil on canvas, 2008-2016 80 x 110 ½ in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Megan Atherton Grass is Greener Oil and acrylic on canvas, 2016 17 x 22 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Squeak Carnwath and Dru Anderson
| Squeak Carnwath Big Tiny Oil and alkyd on canvas over panel, 2012 75 x 65 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Dru Anderson Five Years I Chalk pastel on paper, 2016 13 x 18 ½ in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Enrique Chagoya and Yvette Deas
| Enrique Chagoya Untitled (after Yves Saint Laurent) Color etching, 2016 22 ¼ x 38 ¼ in. Courtesy of Magnolia Editions and the Artist |
Yvette Deas American Pie Mixed media on panel, 2008 48 x 60 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Lia Cook and Kate Narker
| Lia Cook Connectome Woven cotton and rayon, 2013 72 x 51 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Kate Narker Exit Plan Jacquard woven cotton, 2013 18 x 24 in. Courtesy of Jack Fischer Gallery and the Artist |
Allan deSouza and Shari Paladino
| Allan deSouza Scratch Series: Farrah Digital print, 2007 24 x 18 in. Courtesy of Talwar Gallery and the Artist |
Shari Paladino Transient Hypo Frontality Aluminum sculpture and video installation, 2015 Dimensions variable, Duration: 1:01 min. Courtesy of the Artist |
Mildred Howard and Johanna Poethig
| Mildred Howard I’ve Been Witness to This Game IV Monoprint/digital and chine collé, 2016 20 ½ x 15 in. Courtesy of Shark’s Ink and the Artist |
Johanna Poethig Password Houdini Spraycan and oil on Pellon and wood, 2016 60 x 48 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Hung Liu and Michael Hall
| Hung Liu Zhan Ma – War Horse Oil on canvas, 2011 80 x 80 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Michael Hall Lookout Oil on canvas, 2015 12 x 9 in. Courtesy of Realreal Art Collection |
Bruce McGaw and Scott Hewitt
| Bruce McGaw Temptation Oil on canvas, 2013 66 x 85 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Scott Hewitt Family Portrait in a Boat Oil on canvas, 2013 48 x 72 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
James Melchert and Ethan Caflisch
| James Melchert Vertices for Dancing Broken and glazed porcelain, 2016 24 x 24 in. Courtesy of Anglim Gilbert Gallery and the Artist |
Ethan Caflisch For Holding Acrylic, chalkboard paint, brass brads on canvas, 2016 36 x 30 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Richard Misrach and Sofia Córdova
| Richard Misrach Untitled, 2012 Archival pigment print, 2012 Printed 2016 60 x 80 in. Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery and the Artist |
Sofia Córdova ¡Auxillo! ¡Socorro! Installation, 2016 Gouache and acrylic on magazine, newspaper, and photographs, 2012-2016 Courtesy of the Artist |
Deborah Oropallo and Nathan Dollarhite
| Deborah Oropallo Nurse Photomontage and acrylic on wood panel, 2015 58 x 48 in. Courtesy Catharine Clark Gallery and the Artist |
Nathan Dollarhite K Oil on masonite, 2016 13 ½ x 13 ½ in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Richard Shaw and Ehren Tool
| Richard Shaw Still Life with Open Drawer Porcelain with overglaze decals, 2013 33 x 13 ½ x 14 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Ehren Tool 50 of Thousands Stoneware, 2016 Dimensions variable Courtesy of the Artist |
William T. Wiley and Mary Hull Webster
| William T. Wiley Goat & Raven Chewin the Corner in Whack & Blight Acrylic and charcoal on canvas, 2011 61 x 73 ½ in. Courtesy of Hosfelt Gallery and the Artist |
Mary Hull Webster Interior Steel, wood, plastics, carpet, light, sound, mixed media, 2015 40 x 60 x 32 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
Wanxin Zhang and Nicholas Makanna
| Wanxin Zhang What a Fantasy World Fired clay with glaze, 2015 78 x 25 x 20 in. Courtesy of Catharine Clark Gallery and the Artist |
Nicholas Makanna Ruin I Glazed ceramic, 2015 13 x 11 x 10 in. Courtesy of the Artist |
