With a fairly-to-very celebratory, raucous, and costumed week just behind us, I wasn’t entirely convinced there would be a lot going on for First Fridays tomorrow.

Well. Not to wax verbose, but . . .

McGuffey
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• MAIN GALLERY: Rose Csorba
• LOWER HALL 1: Ben Lock
• LOWER HALL 2: Inmates Show
• UPPER HALL 1: Michael Clark
• UPPER HALL 2: Margaret Embree

The Bridge PAI
6 – 9pm
Billy Hunt: A CLAW to Remember

This needs no introduction – you’ve got Straight Punch to the Crotch, a screening of a Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers film, and an arm-wrestling demo.  Says the Bridge: welcome to a ‘wiki-theater - CLAW is a spontaneously generated, self organized circus. A freak show of the highest order.’ Make yourselves at home. But keep your feet off the couch.

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Les Yeux du Monde
5:30 – 7:30pm
Annie Harris Massie: Light and Place

Rooftops, Early March Afternoon, 2008. Oil on panel, 24” x 36”

Massie paints landscapes in oil and attempts to hone in on the landscape’s essential character.  Says Massie, she is interested in seeking out the ‘unique character of a particular place; a particular time of day, a particular quality of light.’ Holding a Masters in Art History from Virginia Commonwealth University, Massie co-founded McKinnon and Harris, Inc., with her brother, William McKinnon Massie, Jr., to manufacture their original designs of garden furniture.  The ‘landscape furniture’ has been featured in Town & Country and Elle Décor.

Second Street Gallery
6 – 8pm; artist talk at 6:30pm
Corey Drieth: Small Scale Abstraction

Seed, 2008, gouache and watercolor on wood, 9” x 9” x 1”

Drieth uses gouache and watercolor on wood – gouache being a particular kind of paint in which pigment is suspended in water – to create small-scale works that are inspired by the natural world, art history, and traditions found both in Zen Buddhism and Quaker Christianity. The artist currently teaches at Colorado State University, where he received a BFA in pottery and a BA in religious studies. Drieth obtained his MFA from UNC – Chapel Hill.

Leah Bailis and Dragana Crnjak: The Slow Reveal

Leah Bailis, cinderblock, cardboard & acrylic. Photo courtesy libbyrosof of Flickr

Bailis and Bosnian-born Crnjak present an exhibit together that requests the audience to reconsider what is – and is not – considered contemporary sculpture. Bailis received a BA from Bard College, NY, and an MFA from UNC – Chapel Hill.

Crnjak creates site-specific pieces and uses the actual gallery walls as her medium in which to work with charcoal and paint. Try to look for the transition between construction and destruction. Crnjak has a BFA from the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron, OH, and an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is a recipient of the VMFA Professional Fellowship in drawing and is currently an Assistant Professor at Youngstown State University, OH.

Dragana Crnjak, At the Table, 2007, charcoal on wall, dimensions variable

What else is going on? It’s going to be beautiful out for First Fridays. Go outside and play.

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