Harvest Moon

stained ash and acrylic

24.5 x 29 x 2.5 inches

Guest curated by Ted Elmore

Leigh Suggs is a Richmond-based artist whose practice exists at the intersection of craft, painting, and sculpture, engaging with the themes of perception, ambiguity, and transformation. Her intricate works, created through a process of drawing, painting, and hand-cutting, transform the modernist grid into a site of tension and exploration, oscillating between positive and negative space, structure and fragility. Suggs' process is deeply tactile and methodical, combining layers of painted paper with painstaking cuts that evoke woven textiles or radial webs. These patterns mutate and evolve, engaging with light, shadow, and reflection to create works that shift and transform with the viewer's perspective. Rooted in the tradition of process-driven, labor-intensive craft, Suggs reimagines the grid as a flexible and ambiguous framework, asking viewers to remain active participants in their experience of the work.

Suggs' work is held in prominent public and corporate collections, including the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and Deutsche Bank. She has exhibited widely across the United States, with solo and group exhibitions at venues such as the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), Massey Klein (New York, NY), Abigail Oglivy (Los Angeles, CA), and Reynolds Gallery (Richmond, VA). Through her explorations of material and process, Suggs creates works that act as meditations on endurance, fragility, and the risks of desensitization in an overstimulated world. Her practice invites viewers to engage deeply with the interplay of structure, pattern, and perception, offering a reflective space to consider their own relationship to form and the act of looking.

Daniel Rickey has been making furniture in Richmond, VA since 2012. Daniel and his team of specialists design and build furniture that incorporates clean lines, is built to last, invites touch and is pleasing to be around. In addition to his one-off originals, he designs and builds custom pieces for residences as well as corporate clients both domestic and international.