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HOME - V i s u a l A r t S t u d i o Visual Art Studio is an artist run Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery and Working Studio representing Established and Emerging Local, Regional and Nation Artists. Rotating Exhibitions open with an Artist Talk followed by a showcase of Painting, Photography, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Mixed Media. Museum Quality Pieces and Installations create something for everyone when combined with Exceptional Emerging Talent. The Gift Shop features a fun selection of Handmade Jewelry, Ceramics, Prints, Cards and Decorative Art. Consultations with Curatorial and Design Services, Drawing and Painting Classes, Portraits, Commissions, Scenic Art and Set Decorating can also be arranged with the gallery. Visual Art Studio, established in 1990, registered in 1996 and currently celebrating over a decade on Broad St. is located at 208 West Broad St. in Historic Downtown Richmond, VA proudly along the First Fridays Art Walk. Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday,Noon-6p.m. Saturday Noon - 4 p.m. Appointments (804) 644-1368. Convenient Off-Street Parking. Click on EXHIBITION and ARTWORK PAGES at the BOTTOM. In memory of my brother, Hunter Hart who lived at Good Neighbor Village in Founders Cottage for 12 years, Visual Art Studio proudly presents the premier Good Neighbor Village Desk Top Calendar 2008 created by the residents of Good Neighbor Village along with an amazing showcase of artwork from which it was created through November 30, 2007. In my Brother's Memory opened First Friday, November 2nd from 7-10pm with special thanks to Diane Inman, Judy Knauf and the Board of Good Neighbor Village for their help with coordinating this project and the Sponsors who made printing the calendar possible: All About Family, Inc. www.allaboutfamilyinc.com George Athy Upholstery, Inc. 214 W. Broad St. 804.648.8095 MCS Design & Production, Inc. www.mcsdesignandproduction.com Precious-Images Photography www.precious-images.net Visual Art Studio www.visualartstudio.org Special thanks to Consignment Connection for donating their frames. Please visit them at 5517 Lakeside Ave. 804.261.3600 - Anne Hart Chay The Good Neighbor Village Desk Top Calendar is $25 with 100% of the proceeds benefiting the art fund for the residents of GNV. This fund will pay for supplies, materials, visiting artists & future art related activities for the residents of GNV. www.goodneighborvillage.org Second Saturday, November 10th Klezmer, Yiddish and Gypsy music graciously provided by My Son the Doctor from 3:30-5:30PM. Doors open at Noon. Light refreshments. Free and open to the public until 6PM. The residents of Good Neighbor Village enjoy living in a family like setting that allows them the pleasure of friends, activities, work and leisure. Art has always been a valuable tool to unlock hidden talent and emotional resources within people of all ages. These special individuals have eagerly met the challenge of creating art as they envision it; they paint using clay, pottery or pencil. They are truly artists because they have used the tools of art to transform the images in their minds into those that we can see, touch and enjoy. To learn more please visit www.goodneighborvillage.org ______________________________________________ Softly September, oil by Cathyann L. Burgess and 3 Dimensional oil on panel by Michael Gettings with sculpture by Allen Jessee was on display Sept/Oct. 2007. There is still some great artwork available from this exhibition. Please visit the gallery or call 804.644.1368 for more information. Michael Gettings - Artist Statement I am striving to create a new method to visually express figurative storytelling. I combine this with a traditional approach to the figure in oils while using a Baroque sensibility. I am looking for the height of the drama, as the story begins to unfold. As part of this new method, my paintings also explore the discrete nature of human vision; how we focus on individual parts of a scene, while the brain filters the gestalt. This is expressed in the composition by using multiple panels and viewpoints. Thematically, my works focus on western myths, legends and biblical stories. Like many artists in the past, I aim to update these stories to conform to contemporary times and culture. “History, myth, vision, and memory” My inspirations are: Caravaggio for his reach into the viewer’s space, mastery of drama and light, and how stories were depicted as contemporary scenes. Frank Stella and Elizabeth Murray’s fracturing of the traditional pictorial space inspire the physical structure of my works. The “New Media” by constantly bombarding us with numerous images and messages through the use of multiple windows, scrolls and changing content. Cathyann L. Burgess - Softly September from the River Watch Series In the midst of turmoil, I am drawn to the river. Acknowledgements of life, constant yet ever-changing abound. The open skies and water invite contemplation of things greater than me. Today the water shimmers, a golden backdrop for the meeting of two indigo cormorants scoping their next dive perched on a giant river stone. Tomorrow, the morning hush will be presented in veils of Prussian blue. There before me is order in the chaos of my days. Timeless in its beauty, the river ordinary becomes a glorious song of joy which beckons me and heals. Wonder widens as the river, crowding out despair. I live near the banks of the James River. I spend each day walking its course, driving over it at the golden hours and wanting to paint the moments in which I am most struck with awe. I have tried to be honest in my translations through oil paint of the world I presently inhabit. I hope it soothes the viewer and satisfies in some small way the craving for beauty and peace that seems to us all too elusive these days. Cathyann L. Burgess - Artist Statement One of art’s functions is to vivify the particular. Primarily, my art is figurative; exploring light and color through people or objects that interest me. It is all about the light. Most often it is the light that attracts me; how it plays on form, enlivening or defining shapes and colors. Most recently, I have come to love painting the natural world as much as portraiture and still life. Painting is delightfully magical. In this riverside series called River Watch, I wanted to depict the river’s significance to me. The titles also reflect either a direct description or the allusion to the feeling that comes over me as observer. If I can succeed in moving but one person through my efforts then my time would have been well spent. ________________________________________ Interviews & more Information available by calling Anne at (804) 644-1368 or visiting www.cathyannstudio113.com GALLERY HOURS: Tuesday - Friday, Noon - 6 P.M. Sat. Noon - 4 P.M. HOME

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Website about Digital Art - online portal of Art gallery worldwide. Other useful information: Enter a brief description of your site here " River Watch Series" by Cathyann L. Burgess from the previous exhibition "Softly September." Burgess, a Fulton Hill Studio artist, has taken a leap of faith with this exhibition, quitting her full time teaching position to pursue her artwork full time. She has artwork in the permanent collection of Media General and the Federal Reserve Bank. Three Dimensional Panels by Michael Gettings, Dragonfly patio and sculpture by Allen Jessee in the main gallery from the previous exhibition "Softly September." Please visit the gallery to see selected work or call (804) 644-1368 for more information and to show your support! Get your 2008 Desk Top Calendar created by the residents of Good Neighbor Village Now! 100% of the proceeds Benefit their art fund. Please call Anne at 804.644.1368. Please join Visual Art Studio Second Saturday, November 10, 2007 for "In my Brother's Memory," benefit exhibition for the residents of Good Neighbor Village, a Special Place for Special People from Noon-6PM . Klezmer, Yiddish and Gypsy Music graciously provided by "My Son the Doctor" from 3:30-5:30PM. Free and Open to the Public. Selected artwork is still available from "Softly September," the previous exhibition of oil by Cathyann L. Burgess, 3 Dimensional oil on panel by Michael Gettings and Sculpture by Allen Jesse. Please visit Visual Art Studio or call 804.644.1368 for more details. Allen Jessee - Artist Biography/Statement Richmond Sculptor Allen Jessee is featuring his nature-inspired wall hangings and sculpture through Friday, October 26, 2007 at Visual Art Studio. Jessee's works, known for incorporating flora and fauna, often with humorous and whimsical titles, are geared to the garden element, working mostly in aluminum and bronze, and creating timeless pieces such as garden gates, wall hangings, benches, screens and tabletop sculptures. His most recent commissions include a series of ten Egyptian-inspired bronze screens for the new Healing Garden at the Massey Cancer Center, and a limited series of James River-inspired tabletop sculptures titled "King of the James", for Virginia Commonwealth University. A native of Southwestern Virginia and graduate of VCU, Jessee spent his early years exploring the nature-laden banks of the Clinch River, where he developed a lifelong love of nature, and a deep reverence for its beauty. Most recently, he introduced "Walks of Art", taking his sculpture onto the ground in the form of custom designed, colored and textured concrete walkway art. Checkout more of Allen Jessee's work at http://www.mcsdesignandproduction.com/allenjessee/ _______________________________________ "Braided Reins" and "Sweet Smell of Power" June 1-August 3, 2007 Both artists infuse current events and daily life with artistic humor and, at times, a touch of cynicism. Check out "The Fourth Party" article on James Williams from Style Magazine's July 4th issue at http://www.styleweekly.com/article.asp?idarticle=14679 "Braided Reins" by Dan Rhett was featured in the art calendar section of the Richmond Times Dispatch Sunday June 3, 2007. DAN RHETT has many artistic talents ranging from card game creator and painter to the cover artwork on the premier (current) issue of CAVE WALL. See the issue and read poetry from it at www.cavewallpress.com . RHETT primarily works in oils with figurative subject matter often working back and forth from sketchbooks and paintings to develop ideas. Most notably, he paints from his imagination rather than sketching from life or photographs. He earned a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from VCU in 1990. More of Rhett's artwork is available to view at: http://gallery.cafe64.net/ His work is represented in private collections throughout Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic Region. JAMES WILLIAMS always has been interested in the artistic delineation of human behavior. He has studied drawing, painting and computer graphics in formal as well as informal settings. In particular he studied portraiture with Tony Ryder, and pastel technique and portraiture with Herbert Slapo, of the Pastel Society of America in North Carolina, and with Dorcas Moulton in Oakland, CA. He is past President of the Pastel Society of North Carolina; an Exhibiting Member of the Associated Artists of Winston-Salem, member of the Durham Art Guild, the Visual Art Exchange in Raleigh, the Fine Arts league of Cary, and the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. He shows a sample of his work on his website, http://www.artofjameswilliams.com His work is represented in private collections in various parts of the United States, Mexico and France. _____________________________________________ "Twist and Shout" April 6 – May 25, 2007, gestural paintings by D.C. Artist Rosetta DeBerardinis and mixed media sculptures by Richmond Artist Guy Barnard. Images below. ROSETTA DeBerardinis, a Washington, D.C. artist, has just been accepted into the competitive School 33 studio program in Baltimore, Maryland. This is a 20 year old art program with an excellent reputation. Earlier this year in January she won the Liquitex Artist of the Month Award. http://www.liquitex.com/awardprograms/aotm/aotm.cfm You can also check out her blog for Mid Atlantic Art News (formerly DC Art News) at http://dcartnews.blogspot.com/ Her interview published by Contemporary Art Gallery Magazine titled "Action Painter: ROSETTA DeBERARDINIS" from Friday, 19 January 2007 by Tia Marks - begins "I was looking for some contemporary action painters recently and found the interesting portfolio of Rosetta DeBerardinis." Please read more at www.cagzine.com GUY Barnard, a Richmond, Va artist, has been creating feverishly since his recent successful exhibitions at Artemis Gallery (Wired Reality, September 2006) and Visual Art Studio with selected work in the Artistic Gifts Exhibition. He, like DeBerardinis, has unveiled many new pieces created just for this exhibition at Visual Art Studio. Some are still on display so please stop by! ROSETTA DeBerardinis - Artist Biography Rosetta DeBerardinis is an abstract expressionist painter whose work requires no narrative. Her paintings merge energy, form, texture, space and color. She paints with the freedom of expression and a gestural style distinctly her own. DeBerardinis paints for a living and lives to paint. Her work has been exhibited and sold at commercial art galleries and venues around the Mid-Atlantic region. One of her ceramic sculptures was juried into the International Festival of Postmodern Ceramics and exhibited at the City Museum of Varazdin in Croatia in 2002. She served two years as an art tour guide in Bethesda, Maryland and Washington, DC. She was a volunteer for the Corcoran Gallery of Art's 47th Biennial and worked as a museum assistant at the Phillips Collection. The artist and her paintings have been included in the recent book, Thinking About Art: The One Word Project and featured in the Voice of the Hill and the Hill Rag. She is a member of Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran and Americans for the Arts and donates work to charity art auctions. In 2004, she granted MotoPhoto, Inc. a one-year licensing agreement to reproduce a limited number of her images on promotional merchandising products. In 1998, the Washington Sports and Entertainment Center (aka the MCI Center) commissioned her to design a historic permanent installation for its lobby. Her art instruction began at age five, when her mother enrolled her at Pratt Institute in New York. Her interest in the creative process continued while obtaining degrees at Vassar College, the University of the District of Columbia and University of Baltimore School of Law and the London School of Social Research. Seven years ago, the Maryland resident transitioned from attorney, editor and published writer to become a full-time artist. Today, she regularly exhibits and sells her work and has a roster of collectors; some own as many as ten paintings. Her future exhibitions include the Visual Art Studio, Richmond, VA; Design Within Reach in Bethesda, MD; and Sprint/Nextel Corporate Campus, Reston, VA. DeBerardinis currently works and resides in Baltimore, Maryland. GUY BARNARD - Artist Biography Not long after Guy was born in Baltimore, Maryland he realized that his world would always revolve around the arts. A self taught artist, Guy feels he has realized the dreams that many artists can only hope to follow. Throughout his development as an artist, his media has ranged from drawing and painting, photography, fine wood carving, collage, mixed media 3-D design, digital art, as well as wire sculpture. He has received commissions from a wide variety of prominent Richmond area citizens, including patrons from Shockoe Bottom Art Center, Visual Art Studio, and Artemis Gallery, Thalhimers Real Estate INC, and the Ukrops family. Each medium has opened new vision toward what he feels to be an ongoing growth, essential to the artist. His most recent work has encompassed two of his greatest loves: wire and wood. Those closest to him feel that these figurative works have brought him to a new level. In presenting this work to the public, he has received Best In Show from the Petersburg Art Center, as well as Honorable Mention from Artworks Gallery. For his future works, he plans to follow the path that these figurative sculptures in wood, clay, and wire have taken him. As the journey continues, he feels each sculpture developing it’s own personal story. He invites the viewer to discover the hidden message that each of his works carries within, and to offer their own insights as to what they discover. It is from these discoveries and suggestions , that his art will continue to grow and develop. Art Forum is a place to meet for all art lovers. It is our new free online service, which is donated to the art community. There are several art cafes as places to make new friends and chat about anything to do with art. The Art Events part allows to announce and share any information about exhibitions, art competitions, awards, etc., with the art community. The third part of the forum is the exhibitor support forum.