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EXHIBITION: Portals II

Candela Gallery is excited to announce a solo exhibition by Richmond, Virginia-based artist Susan Worsham, opening November 1st. Renowned for her vibrant use of color, Worsham’s upcoming show, Crystals of Silver, draws inspiration from her extensive collection of microscope slides and will feature a limited edition series of rarely seen black-and-white photographs.

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EXHIBITION: Crystals of Silver

Candela Gallery is excited to announce a solo exhibition by Richmond, Virginia-based artist Susan Worsham, opening November 1st. Renowned for her vibrant use of color, Worsham’s upcoming show, Crystals of Silver, draws inspiration from her extensive collection of microscope slides and will feature a limited edition series of rarely seen black-and-white photographs.

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GALLERY TAKEOVER: Abstract Land & Filing Co.

Candela Gallery is thrilled to announce a gallery takeover by Charlottesville, Virginia-based artist and community organizer Morgan Ashcom. Titled the Abstract Land & Filing Co. (ALFC), this exhibition will be Ashcom’s second at Candela, continuing to showcase his love for parafiction and collaboration.Since 2018, Ashcom has operated his studio practice out of an industrial warehouse in Charlottesville, Virginia. At one time, employees at this commercial building manufactured products for the analog data industry, commonly referred to as the visible records industry. While the factory is no longer in operation, Ashcom has spent the past seven years reimagining this property to feature a community-directed commons and art space called Visible Records, nestled within a constellation of blue-collar workers. 

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EXHIBITION: I am an unruly wind

Candela gallery is excited to share the monumental, colorful mixed media works of Massachusetts based artist, Daisy Patton. Patton utilizes scale, color, and presentation to elevate the found photograph to an iconographic status, breathing life and distinction into forgotten faces. The gallery will be featuring 14 pieces in Patton’s exhibition, I am an unruly wind beginning Friday, May 3 and remaining up through Saturday, June 22.

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ARTIST FEATURE: Nick Lenker’s IRL OBJECTS

Nick Lenker’s IRL Objects are made from a slab ceramic technique with a photo-ceramic decal process. Lenker creates objects made with the visual language of video games and 3D modeling, utilizing found and created imagery inspired by gaming, religion, art history, and personal relationships. Learn more about Philadelphia artist Nick Lenker's mixed media objects, on view at Candela Gallery through April 20.

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NCECA WEEK EXTENDED HOURS:

Candela Gallery is pleased to present a fresh selection of inventory by mixed media artist Holly Roberts, one of three solo features by artists incorporating the photographic image from the perspectives of ceramics and painting. These exhibitions open Friday, March 15th, running alongside the 2024 NCECA ceramics conference (March 20 – 23) and closing Saturday, April 20th, 2024.

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EXHIBITION: THE WHITE HOUSE CHINA

Candela Gallery is pleased to present images from Kathleen Clark’s series, The White House China. Clark’s is one of three solo features by artists incorporating the photographic image from the perspectives of ceramics and painting. These exhibitions open Friday, March 15th, running alongside the 2024 NCECA ceramics conference (March 20 – 23) and closing Saturday, April 20th, 2024.

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EXHIBITION: Big Head (Thinking)

Candela Gallery is pleased to present a fresh selection of inventory by mixed media artist Holly Roberts, one of three solo features by artists incorporating the photographic image from the perspectives of ceramics and painting. These exhibitions open Friday, March 15th, running alongside the 2024 NCECA ceramics conference (March 20 – 23) and closing Saturday, April 20th, 2024.

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EXHIBITION: IRL OBJECTS

Candela Gallery is pleased to present Nick Lenker’s ceramic exhibition, IRL OBJECTS, one of three solo features by artists incorporating the photographic image from the perspectives of ceramics and painting. These exhibitions open Friday, March 15th, running alongside the 2024 NCECA ceramics conference (March 20 – 23) and closing Saturday, April 20th, 2024.

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EXHIBITION: Angle of Draw

Through the lenses of the natural landscape and propaganda imagery, Angle of Draw examines the intersections of power, sustainability, and whiteness in the United States. Bush draws from propaganda imagery from the 1960s and 1970s to create starkly lit black-and-white photographs in the studio and the physical landscape. Throughout his process, Bush considers the impact of the fossil-fuel industry on the natural environment, local economy, and future prospects of those left behind by corporations.

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EXHIBITION: High Water

Candela Gallery is thrilled to present High Water, a debut solo exhibition by Richmond, Virginia based photographer, Emily White. In response to our modern world, inundated by digital diversions and perpetual tail-chasing, Emily White has staked out essential and reverent landscapes. White approaches the landscape genre using a mix of 19th century and contemporary processes and manages to bridge the nostalgia for a familiar place and the discordant emotions of the southern wilds.

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EXHIBITION: Stranger in the Village

Candela Gallery is pleased to present Stranger in the Village by Connecticut based artist and educator, Gary Burnley. Titled after a seminal essay by James Baldwin, Burnley's series, comprised of formal collages, challenges and re-imagines historical portraiture and other narrative, painting conventions emblematic of western culture and history. The artist's process is intuitive, drawing from personal, historical, and collective experiences; each piece is cut from reproductions of traditional portraits, sketches, family archive imagery and yearbook photographs, then carefully reconstructed allowing new meanings to emerge.

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EXHIBITION: Primitive Visions

Candela Gallery is excited to announce Primitive Visions, the gallery’s debut solo show by mixed-media artist and educator, Holly Roberts. Applying both photography and painting to her practice, Robert’s newest exhibit presents dream-like portraits of the recognizable: familiar places, scenes, and subjects that have been reconstructed and embellished by Robert’s use of collage.

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