Category — Gallery Exhibits

Friday, August 28, 2009 | 6-8pm

Come join us as we celebrate and view works from The Southwood Sandbox Summer Workshops. This one-night-only event will include collages, off stage theatre and photography created by youth in the community of Southwood through the Sandbox Summer Workshops.

Select prints and copies of the new iConnect Southwood Youth Photography book will be available.

Reception | Saturday, August 22, 2009 | 3-6pm
Gallery Hours | Sunday August 23, 2009 | 12-3pm

To celebrate and share the StoryLine Project with the campers’ families and community members, The Bridge | PAI will host a micro-exhibit from August 22 to 23 in the gallery at 209 Monticello Road in Belmont. The exhibit will show drawings, photographs, studies and ephemera from the Story|Line project. An opening reception and celebration will be held from 3-6pm on Saturday, August 22nd, and the exhibit will be on display from 12-3pm on Sunday, August 23rd or by appointment.

Opening Reception: Friday, December 4, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through December 23, 2009

This December be on the look out as we transform the gallery windows – 5th Ave. style – to present a collection of prints by local, regional and national talents – all shapes, sizes, prices and styles – FOR SALE just in time for the holidays.

Stay tuned for updates and details.

Opening Reception: Friday June 5th 6-8pm at The Bridge PAI

Exhibition (in conjunction with the LOOK3 Festival Of The Photograph) through Saturday June 27th

During the Fall of 2008, the iConnect Photography Workshop taught basic digital photography skills to six students between the ages of 11 and 16 and then let them loose. Their goal was to visually record, interpret and generally tell the story of the place where they live, Southwood mobile home park in Charlottesville, Virginia.

This exhibition will showcase select images from El Barrio: The Neighborhood a book created for the iConnect Southwood Project. Copies of the book will be also be on display and for sale as part of this exhibition.

Opening Reception Friday, May 1, 7-9pm | Exhibition up through May 30

This years 4th year Photography Exhibit at The Bridge will be a group showing of all graduating photography majors in the Studio Arts Program at UVA and the Annspaugh Fifth Year Fellow in Photography. Each student will include 2-3 works selected from their thesis project. The exhibiting students are Allison Harbin, Anna Kreyling, Ellie Frazier, David Schneider, Adam Barkley, Carter Ward, Alix Baycroft, James Scheuren (Fifth Year Fellow).

Opening Reception Friday March 6, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through March 29, 2009

“Empty Nest” is a collaborative installation by Sebastijan Jemec and Jocelyn Spaar and others of projections and light and sound that explores the objectification and spatialization of memory and human presence. The presence of a person or the memory of a person gives physical and metaphysical significance to a space making it a place. Making it specific. People define spaces, and when the people leave, their memory and objects give presence. “Empty Nest” is a deconstruction and reconstruction of place and memory using photography, projection, and sound. It is somewhat site-specific and constantly being redefined and refined.

Opening Reception January 2, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through January 31, 2009

In January, we are pleased to present an exhibition of outsider art, featuring work in many media: charcoal drawings, watercolor, acrylic, decoupage, abstract art, oil, and ceramic pieces. These were created by inmates at Dillwyn and Buckingham Correctional Centers for Men, and Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women. The Show contains work from McGuffey Art Center Classes which are offered to inmates through the Programs Department at the Regional Jail. Local artists Rose Hill and Lindsay Michie-Eads have volunteered as the instructors participating in this outreach project to the local inmates. The show features work from Thomas Caudle, Toni Love, Marcus Sandidge, G. Batterby, Izzy Severich, Chuck Montague, G. Barker, Joseph Sigafoo, George Carroll, A. Harper, and William Weller.

Opening reception July 3, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through the end of July

Born from poverty, from police citation, from literature and narcissism and inward analysis, fluctuating hate and love for Charlottesville and the world, a phenomena of over consumption and masochistic tendencies, confusion, and both
acceptance and the refusal to accept, described through a group photograph, paint, audio, and video exhibition curated by Riley Duncan. The exhibition seeks to find a medium, to find soul in the chaos and cacophony of our eclectic lives in this madness.

Opening reception Friday, December 5, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through December 20, 2008

Three photographers, local Aaron Farrington, Jenny Bagert, and Zack Smith, met in New Orleans in 2002. What they share is a sense for the dramatic, or the quirky. Between photos that seem to document the curiosities caught by the side of the road, and more dramatic, sharply staged photos is a sense of the somewhat bizarre that emerges in snatches. New Orleans courses through this exhibition, but don’t take that as a dividing characteristic. What shows is the light filtered through an umbrella, the thousand pinpricks of light constellating a festival, a girl’s stage-lit shoulders, and what is tattooed on the inside of a lip. It’s that familiar rule—that compelling things are hidden in plain sight—but peeled open and held up to the light.