​New online exhibition: Snaps From My Home, curated by Stacey Evans and Kristen Chiacchia

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present “This Familiar Space”, an exhibition of work by Stacey Evans in collaboration with high school students from Charlottesville and our sister city of Besançon, France, Charlottesville artist Nina Burke, and Besançon artist Gabriel Hopson. The exhibition opened virtually on Friday, May 1, 2020 at thisfamiliarspace.com and will remain on view online through July 17, 2020. The gallery will offer a digital workshop with the artist on Wednesday afternoons from May 13-27. This three part workshop will feature an artist’s talk, a collage activity, and a virtual critique with the group.

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Bond/Bound, a new online-only exhibition set to open digitally on Wednesday, April 15, 2020.

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present “Tanya Minhas: Nature Tells Its Own Story”, on view from February 7 – April 24, 2020 in SSG’s Dové Gallery. An opening reception was held in the gallery on First Friday, February 7 from 5:30-7:30pm. Take a virtual tour of the exhibition HERE.

Note: the exhibition will be extended virtually through June 10, 2020. Contact the gallery for acquisition info.

Minhas grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, and moved to the United States to attend Princeton University. She subsequently attended graduate school at Columbia University, and the Arts Students League where she painted portraits in oils. Minhas ventured away from figurative painting, making repetitive drawings using ink, paint, and yarn about the unseen miniscule energies that subtly direct our lives.

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present “By The Strength Of Their Skin”, an exhibition featuring three senior and highly regarded female Aboriginal artists, Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, Mabel Juli and Regina Pilawuk Wilson. A special preview reception was held on Friday, January 24th from 5:30-7:30pm. The First Friday opening reception was held on February 7 from 5:30-7:30pm.

NOTE: the exhibition will be extended virtually through June 10, 2020. Contact the gallery for acquisition info.

Watch the full video tour HERE.

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present “Doug Young: The Slow Death of Rocks”.

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present “Illuminations & Illusions”, an exhibition spanning over four decades of Beatrix Ost’s career as a visual artist.

Second Street Gallery curator, Kristen Chiacchia, has invited a group of local artists to submit paintings using only black, white, and shades of grey (grisaille). Artists participating in the exhibition include: Pam Black, Jessie Coles, Gray Dodson, Sam Gray, Lou Haney, Krista Townsend, and Laura Wooten. “She’s in Monochrome” will be on view in Second Street Gallery’s Dové Gallery from October 4 to October 25. An opening reception with the artists was held on First Friday, October 4 and saw a great crowd.

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Teeny Tiny Trifecta 2, a juried group show to kick off the Gallery’s 46th season. The exhibition will open to the public at 5:30pm on Friday, September 6th and will remain on view through September 27, 2019 in the Dové Gallery.

Second Street Gallery is pleased to present Subculture Shock: Death, Punk & the Occult in Contemporary Art. The exhibition will feature the work of Jessicka Addams of Los Angeles, Peter Benedetti, Paul Brainard, Evie Falci, and Tamara Santibañez of New York City, Porkchop, a VCU grad who now lives and works in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and Danish artist, Frodo Mikkelsen.