Riley Goodman

"A Sentry In The Honeysuckle" 2024

12x16" unframed, 13.25x17.25" framed

Photographic, archival pigment print from ongoing series, To Cultivate A Magnolia. Series Statement: When I moved to Richmond, Virginia in 2014 I was an 18-year old, closeted queer boy, alone in an unfamiliar Southern city, looking to mature into a working artist and get to know myself along the way. The journey since hasn't been easy, but in times of uncertainty I have always found Richmond to be watching over me like a silent guardian. From wafts of gardenias or night-blooming tobacco, and historic greenspaces as locales of refuge or rendezvous - to glimpses of phantoms on midnight strolls and downtown streets turned Hollywood sets at golden hour, it is a place that recognizes its deeply rooted history, with a passion to continually blossom anew- much like I have over the past ten years.
As Benjamin Botkin mentions in A Treasury of Southern Folklore, "if at times…the immortals of Southern history seem to lack folklore appeal, that is because the folk stories have died with the people that told them or because the biographers have been more interested in erecting a marble monument than in portraying a flesh-and-blood creature." Thus, this ongoing series tells the story of my coming of age alongside the community I've found and a place imbued with an almost indescribable magic where past and present coexist. Referencing the hardiness of its leaves in tandem with the delicacy of its flowers, To Cultivate A Magnolia poetically visualizes the folklore and history of Richmond and greater Virginia, the complexities of queer identity, the endurance of the American Civil War, and reflections that come as we age.

Artist Bio:

Riley Goodman, raised in the Patapsco River Valley of Maryland, inquires folklore, American history, and humankind's relation to the environments they inhabit in an effort to understand what endures, and how this manifests through the passage of time. Informed by the compositional styles of cinema and painting, Goodman weaves a vast visual narrative inspired by everything from historical accounts and folk-based storytelling to dreams and familial legends. Goodman's work becomes an ever-occurring presentation of history via the use of artifact and ephemera. By establishing this crafted world, Goodman invites the viewer to question tenets of authenticity, leaving the idea of 'historical truth' in an undisclosed middle ground.

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Alex Nyerges

"James River Fog III, #9823, 11-17-13"

14"x11" (image), 20"x16"x1" (framed)

The beauty of the James River at dawn is accentuated by the heavy blanket of fog. A timeless moment captured on film; a fleeting moment never to be repeated.

Artist Bio:

Alex Nyerges is an internationally-award-winning photographer, curator, author, and photo historian who has exhibited across the United States, Australia, and Europe. His work is in collections in New York, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Ohio, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Palm Beach, Tampa, Richmond, Budapest, and elsewhere. His work has been exhibited in Atlanta, Budapest, Canberra, Houston, Richmond, Vienna, and Washington, D.C., among other places. A native of Rochester, New York, the home of George Eastman and the Eastman Kodak Company, he grew up with a family tradition in photography and music. He has been creating photographs in 35 mm, medium and large formats for more than forty years and digitally since 2002. Seeking out the elements of beauty that surround us, so often unseen and neglected in the built and natural worlds, his work uses sunlight and its shadows to create works that are both modern and timeless. Enjoy.

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Em White

"Arizona Wayside #4"

8 x 10 inches

A unique tintype of a wayside in the Sonoran desert. A tintype is a photograph made by hand using the wet plate collodion process, a direct exposure onto a sheet of enameled aluminum, made with silver and light.
*Does not include easel.

Artist Bio:

Em White is an artist and educator, specializing in large format photography and handmade photographic processes. Raised in rural Virginia, much of her work emphasizes personal relationships to land and how they impact identity. Primarily self taught, White's approach to photography has been shaped by personal experimentation and opportunities to learn from established artists. Her artwork is in the collections of the Library of Virginia, the Eleanor D. Wilson Museum, the Virginia Museum of History and Culture and the Candela Collection. She has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, Corcoran School of the Arts, Penumbra Foundation and various community arts organizations. When not in the darkroom, she can be found walking along the James River with her three dogs. She currently lives in Richmond, VA.

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Pam Fox

"Cougar Pigment Print"

29"x31"

Archival Pigment Print

Artist Bio:

Pam Fox is a Professor of Fine Arts at Hampden-Sydney College. She holds her B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in Communications Arts and Photography. She is the recipient of many awards and honors in the Arts, including two Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship Grants, two Virginia Museum Fellowships, and the Theresa Pollack Prize in Photography. Her work is represented in many corporate and museum collections, including the permanent collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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