We are in the final week of our tenth annual summer juried + invitational exhibition, UnBound! We’re making one last push to get to our goal of $10k so we can continue to support the artists participating in this year’s show. Continue below to hear from Founder Gordon Stettinius and Director Ashby Nickerson about the origins and mission of our beloved summer group show.

We are in the final week of our tenth annual summer juried + invitational exhibition, UnBound! We’re making one last push to get to our goal of $10k so we can continue to support the artists participating in this year’s show. Continue below to hear from Founder Gordon Stettinius and Director Ashby Nickerson about the origins and mission of our beloved summer group show.

Candela Gallery is excited to announce the artist lineup for this year's UnBound! exhibition. This summer marks the TENTH anniversary of UnBound!, our annual juried & invitational exhibition, featuring a wide range of photographic artworks, fine art photography, and artist books. Our hope is to honor UnBound's TENTH year by reaching a fundraising goal of $10,000. All funds raised will go directly to supporting participating artists. So we hope you'll join us as we kick-off and celebrate this show on Thursday, July 1st for a Preview & Fundraising Happy Hour.

Candela Books + Gallery is announcing a special juried exhibition: Photography is Dead…Long Live Photography!

Submissions open October 1, 2020 at 8:00am EST and will close October 22, 2020 at 11:59pm EST

THANK YOU to this year's UnBound9! participating artists and to those of you who supported our online fundraising efforts. The gallery was able to acquire 8 photographic artworks and 2 artist books from this year's virtual UnBound9! exhibition. 100% of the money raised goes directly into the hands of the artists below. We're humbled that during these difficult times we were still able to raise some funds and support artists through the mission of UnBound!

The team has been in a lot of discussion so far this year about the UnBound! show: how to encourage submission, how to jury, how to make the show virtual, how to fundraise, what we choose from the Collection, where the Collection should go.

Before we get to the reasons for writing, we truly hope that you and yours are well. Personally, I am deleting a lot of Coronavirus related emails every day and I don’t write this one lightly. We hope the best for you and in some small way we hope to keep on supporting artists and their works, especially in this difficult time.

With that said, we’re writing because we are extending the submission deadline for Unbound9! to May 1st, to create a little room for you should you happen to need it.

AND WE WANT TO TELL YOU THE SHOW WILL GO ON.

Candela Books + Gallery is excited to share with you the new additions to the Candela Collection. THANK YOU artists, contributors, attendees, volunteers, friends and family! This years’ UnBound8! fundraiser was the most successful one to date!

Candela Gallery is excited to announce UnBound7!, Candela’s annual juried & invitational exhibition. UnBound! features a wide array of photographic techniques from both emerging and established artists, both locally and abroad. We are very proud to bring you a compelling selection of photographic work for the seventh year in a row!

A huge THANK YOU goes out to all who have submitted work to our UnBound7! exhibition. Again this year, we had a ton of great submissions to consider and we appreciate the opportunity to bring such an ambitious show to our audience here in Richmond.

Good Thursday, All!

I want to take a moment to write a thank you and issue an update from the director’s chair. I used to write all of these Candela newsletters with an irreverent air, tucking in a photo koan or limerick but as with so many things, our operation has matured somewhat over the last 7+ years. And so have I, maybe? …pausing for the wave of existential nausea to pass… but we have been dancing pretty hard, trying to pull you onto the dance floor with us. And so, our general goal is to put out the most effective PR and messaging we can for the artists and institutions with whom we are partnering.

Candela Books + Gallery is excited to announce the UnBound5! participating artists. This inaugural summer exhibition, features work from over 40+ contemporary fine art photographers! The 2016 UnBound5! exhibition will open Friday, July 1st, from 5-9pm at Candela Gallery.

Candela Gallery will celebrate the summer exhibition by hosting our perennial fundraising gala on Saturday, July 23rd from 7 to 11 pm. The proceeds raised will be used to purchase select photographic works from the UnBound5! exhibition. Our UnBound! events allow us to continually build the Candela Collection and generate unique opportunities and exposure for participating artists. Candela intends to donate the collection to a notable art institution.

Subject to Change centers around seven artists who use traditional photographic processes to revive lost or discarded everyday objects. Each appropriated piece offers it’s own course in which to channel history, precipitating new stories through a range of alternative processes including wet plate collodion, silver gelatin prints, image transfers on film, collage, and 3-D mixed media objects.