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January 18—March 10, 2013 | Opening January 18, 5-7 pm Read more →

January 18—March 10, 2013 | Opening January 18, 5-7 pm Read more →

September 7—December 9 | Opening September 7, 5-7 pm Read more →

September 7 – December 9 | Opening September 7, 5-7 pm Read more →

September 13-October 18, 2012
OFF SITE: Virginia Center for Architecture

This exhibition offered an in-depth look at the design process for the new Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, created by Steven Holl Architects. Coordinated by the Anderson Gallery for the VCU School of the Arts, Forking Time included more than 30 study models with numerous concept drawings and digitally animated renderings. Read more →

May 24–July 29, 2012

Fiore employs unconventional, process-oriented methods of production to explore the tension between unpredictable and premeditated elements in her artwork. Read more →

May 24-July 29, 2012

Using large-scale video projections, Steinkamp creates motion-and-color-filled spaces in which lush virtual images of blooming flowers, dancing trees, or purely abstract forms sway and twist as if propelled by unseen forces. Read more →

May 24-July 29, 2012

Summer Mixer: From the Collection of Eclectic Electric features small appliances—manufactured between 1920 and 1970—that range from the highly practical to the whimsically novel. These examples highlight the era’s unique design aesthetic and the mid-century American fascination with electrical appliances of all kinds. Read more →

March – May 2012 | Undergraduate Juried Exhibitions | MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Rounds I & II Read more →

Curated by Michael Jones McKean | January 20-March 11, 2012

You, your sun and shadow introduces to Richmond audiences the work of ten sculptors—both veterans and relative newcomers to the international art scene. This exhibition offers a singular opportunity to explore a significant aspect of contemporary sculpture from the personal perspective of an artist who is himself highly regarded as an innovator in the field Read more →

A collaboration between photographer Sascha Pflaeging and author Laura Browder, this series of photographic portraits and accompanying oral histories gives a powerful presence and voice to military women returning from war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more →

September 9 – December 11, 2011

Organized by the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, this exhibition examines recent African art according to two fluid and often intertwined aesthetic and conceptual frameworks Read more →

May 26 – July 31, 2011

The human presence in its many guises infiltrates works by 34 artists, selected from the collection of Richmonders Paul and Sara Monroe. Read more →

April – May 2011 | Undergraduate Juried Exhibitions | MFA Thesis Exhibitions: Rounds I & II Read more →

November 19, 2010 – February 20, 2011
Invoking what the philosopher Gaston Bachelard identifies as “working reverie,” each artist in this exhibition turns an extraordinary and precise attention to physical elements of the world and of landscape, opening spheres of thought and imagination that produce receptive quiet, free play, and deep reflection.
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August 27 – October 31, 2010
This exhibition offered the most comprehensive presentation to date of South African artist Siemon Allen’s “collection projects.” Over the last decade, Allen has created expansive installations of various mass-produced ephemera that he has methodically acquired and catalogued. Read more →

May 28 – August 1, 2010
Organized collaboratively with Colgate University, this exhibition presented the stunning photographs of Moroccan-born, New York-based artist Lalla Essaydi. Read more →

May 28 – August 1, 2010
Social Skin- the third in a biennial series of exhibitions collaboratively curated by VCUarts Museum Studies students-included an eclectic mix of artworks and objects that present, explore, and delight in the body as cultural artifact. Read more →

April & May 2010 Read more →

November 20, 2009 – February 21, 2010
Amy Hauft combines shifts in scale and perspective, the arcane craft of sculpting sugar, art-historical references, and metaphor to create a rich perceptual experience for viewers of her installation. Read more →

November 20, 2009 – February 21, 2010
The sculptures and images making up Francis Cape’s exhibition stem in part from his experiences as a disaster-relief worker in New Orleans. Read more →

September 11 – November 1, 2009
This exhibition and an accompanying catalogue documented the artistic career of Richard Carlyon (1930-2006), a pivotal figure in the Richmond arts community. Read more →

May 29 – August 1, 2009
Artists’ response to place covers wide terrain in this exhibition, which featured work by Martin Parr, Michelle Van Parys, Olaf Breunning and Theresa Pollak Read more →

March – May 2009 Read more →

January 16, 2009 – March 1, 2009
This companion exhibition on the Gallery first floor was initiated in 1998 by artist Sonya Clark, who is chair of the VCUarts Department of Craft/Material Studies. Now comprising over 5,000 sealed beaded packets made by individuals from 35 countries Read more →

January 16, 2009 – March 1, 2009
This nationally traveling exhibition explores the relationship between art and the spiritual world in Yoruba culture through nearly 70 extraordinary works in diverse media. Read more →

September 19 – December 7, 2008
Featuring the work of eight contemporary artists who explore the seductive surface, luminous colors and layered images that are unique to encaustic, the ancient medium of pigment mixed with wax. Read more →

September 19 – December 7, 2008
Best known for his exploration of the interstices between art, science and photographic illusion, Barcelona-based artist Fontcuberta created these 40 large- scale prints using computer software that transformed well-known paintings and photographs into virtual landscapes. Read more →

June 20-August 2, 2008
Fiona Ross interprets the concept of “threading”- a meditative journey one would take walking through labyrinth, with a site-specific installation. Ross’ sometimes delicate, sometimes heavy-handed use of Japanese Sumi ink line proves reminiscent of both ancient calligraphy and airy traditional Japanese landscape. Read more →

June 20-August 2, 2008
Rob Matthews’ haunting narrative drawings are based loosely on actual murders in Knoxville, Tennessee and on the Appalachian ballad, “Knoxville Girl.” He creates a morality tale through use of only intricate graphite line and stark white backgrounds. Read more →

June 20-August 2, 2008
Portraits: More Than Just a Pretty Face is an exciting, diverse display of artworks in a range of media including contemporary works by internationally renowned artists Cindy Sherman and Chuck Close, celebrated regional artists Thomas A. Daniel and Theresa Pollak, emerging artists Timothy Rusterholz and Chinonyeelu Amobi, and pieces from the Anderson Gallery’s permanent collection. This exhibition was co-curated by VCU Art History students. Read more →

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January 18-March 2, 2008
Curated by Sonya Y.S. Clark | Featuring work by Lia Cook, Kim Kamens, Devorah Sperber, Na-Jung Kim, and Xiang Yang
This exhibit brings together the work of five national and international artists who capitalize on two truths: 1) we are innately wired to identify faces and 2) we are constantly in contact with cloth. Read more →

January 18-March 2, 2008
Toronto’s Gord Peteran has launched a boundary-crossing career, opening up the category of furniture to an unprecedented range of psychological and conceptual content. This exhibition was organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Chipstone Foundation with generous support from The Windgate Charitable Foundation. Read more →

September 28 – December 9, 2007
Named for Ixchel, the Maya patron goddess of weaving, healing, and childbirth, Ixchel’s Thread showcases selections from the Bowdler Textile Collection of Maya weavings from Guatemala. Read more →

June 15 – August 11, 2007
Transformer featured dynamic artists who address issues of role-playing, racial and gender stereotypes, and gender identity through employing alter egos in their work. Read more →

2007 Student Exhibitions
March-May Read more →

January 26 – March 4, 2007
Featuring over forty years of this celebrated artist’s paintings, drawings and prints. Through his trademark emblematic icons, “Mr. Man”, “moon face” and other mysterious images, Donato pulls the viewer into his out-of-kilter world with an always-inventive approach. Read more →

September 15 – October 29, 2006
Curated by John B. Ravenal
Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla | Spencer Finch | Ceal Floyer | Ivan Navarro | Nathaniel Rackowe | Douglas Ross
Using the theme of “light as sculptural material,” the exhibition will feature dynamic new work by emerging and underexposed international artists whose primary material will be various forms of light—natural and artificial. Read more →