First Fridays 10.3.08

Posted by Cortney on October 2nd, 2008 11 Comments

Here’s what’s up and what’s going down for all you First Friday-ers.

Shelby Fischer exhibits a collection (”The Eternal Now”) at Les Yeux du Monde. I implore you to go see her pieces: the Hook touches briefly on her “always-interesting” shows, but I don’t think their meager description does her justice.

Scrumtrulescent - Shelby Fischer
Scrumtrulescent (mixed media collage)

5:30 - 7:30pm. 500 W. Main St.

Shelby is also featured in Feast on Art’s Lunch with the Artist Series. Wednesday, 15 October at 12 noon. Go, go, go, but you must make a reservation: 434.973.5566 or email LesYeuxduMonde@aol.com. Lunch with the Artist Series are $10/person.

me myself and i - Shelby
me myself and i (mixed media collage)

Charlottesville native Kiki Slaughter features “Simple Thrills” at Siips Wine Bar - go by there tonight from 6 - 8pm. Slaughter pours, scrapes and layers paint to create highly texturized, abstract oil pieces. These remind me of Willem de Kooning, but mellowed out - the kind of canvases I covet for my house.

Kiki - Cherry Blossom
Cherry Blossom (oil on canvas)

212 E. Main St. on the Downtown Mall. 434.293.8224

Second Street Gallery is featuring Gina Ruggeri in the Main Gallery and Jeff Eisenberg in the Dové Gallery. Tomorrow’s reception runs from 6 - 8pm; an artist talk begins at 6:30.

New York-based Ruggeri has created an imaginary landscape at SSG with large-scale surreal paintings and drawings. Using oil on Mylar or charcoal on paper, Ruggeri produces oversize (think 47 x 79 inches) pieces that she adheres to the wall.

Ruggeri - Upturf
Upturf

Her renditions of organic material, suspended weightlessly, evoke a super-charged naturalism. Strange and wonderful, indeed.

Eisenberg’s “Internal Logic” exhibit at SSG uses free association and technology (digitally modeled CAD drawings) to examine engineered reality. In drawing these images on multiple layers of Mylar, Eisenberg realizes “an absurd and playful way to depict a universe of collapsing subjects and objects.”

A Journey to the General’s Map Reverse Engineered - Eisenberg
A Journey to the General’s Map Reverse Engineered

115 Second Street SE. 434.977.7284

What say you? Where else are you headed tomorrow?

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11 Responses to “First Fridays 10.3.08”

  1. 02 Oct 2008 at 12:26 pm1charmed said:

    Jeffery Stockberger (oil paintings) at the Gallery 1

    Coca-Cola Bottling Works
    124 10th Street NW

    Large, striking paintings… and a chance to see inside the old bottlng works! This is the one on 10th street not Preston.

    Friday 6-9

  2. 02 Oct 2008 at 2:22 pm2Cortney said:

    Thanks, Charmed - sounds great.

    Also - Migration: A Gallery opens the exhibit “While Rome Burns” tomorrow night that featuring a series of new oil paintings by Jan Aronson. The reception (also attended by the artist) begins at 5:30pm.

    Aronson is a Pratt Institute graduate and has focused this series on large-scale water images.

    Check out more: http://www.migrationgallery.com/

  3. 02 Oct 2008 at 2:36 pm3artPark said:

    Thanks for the listing, Cortney. For more information on Jan and her paintings, go here:
    http://artpark.typepad.com/artblog/2008/10/jan-aronson—while-rome-burns.html

    Hope to see everyone at the opening tomorrow.

  4. 02 Oct 2008 at 3:24 pm4Pinkie said:

    The Shelby Fischer show looks like it will be fun. Is that the artist who did all those little pieces covered in glitter or sequins that I saw at Les Yeux one time? I stopped in my tracks and pressed my little face on that window to see those. Sorry for the smudges, LYDM. Wish you had longer hours though.

  5. 03 Oct 2008 at 4:31 am5nicu said:

    looks good- any MUSEer’s want to meet up earlier and travel the art?

    /restaurant worker all the time, all my other friends are working…

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  7. 03 Oct 2008 at 11:08 am7James said:

    I’m monumentally excited about the Bridge show tonight:
    http://www.nailgunmedia.com/blog/?p=1264

  8. 03 Oct 2008 at 12:05 pm8Kyle said:

    Cortney, great preview! I’m going to be in DC, but I’ll be wishing I went thanks to you.

  9. 03 Oct 2008 at 1:46 pm9Shaun Harvey said:

    @7. A friend was just giving me the low down on that one James. I’m thinking of popping my head in for awhile. But I also must see Dressy Bessy at the Gravity. Maybe I’ll see you there. (at the Bridge). Either way I expect a full report on the Gun. Don’t forget to share it. Cheers.

  10. 03 Oct 2008 at 5:03 pm10MayorOfTuesday said:

    Probably too late for anyone to see this comment but oh well…

    This First Friday also introduces a new performing group in town, the Charlottesville Ballet. They’ll be performing at McGuffy at 6pm and again at 7pm. It’s going to be a great show!

  11. 05 Oct 2008 at 4:37 am11ditto said:

    Did anyone see the Jon Golden photo show…across the street from XLounge?

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