Join us for First Friday on November 1, 5-7:30PM, as Second Street Gallery hosts a special opening reception with artists from our October/November exhibitions! Both shows will remain on view through November 22, 2024.

Second Street Gallery is pleased and honored to present Out of Context, a group exhibition featuring a selection of work by Paul Brainard, Miriam Carothers, Hyunjin Park, Jean-Pierre Roy, Michael Ryan, and Amber Stanton. Out of Context revolves around the idea that an artwork should have the autonomy to exist and relate to viewers on its own terms, without the interference of descriptive or theoretical text that might shape its interpretation. The exhibition thus emphasizes visual art’s inherent ability to communicate as a unique language. The featured artists in Out of Context express themselves primarily through painting and drawing, placing figurative art within the context of contemporary existence. .

Second Street Gallery will also present What’s Coming Is Already On Its Way, a solo exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist, Barnaby Whitfield. Barnaby Whitfield’s masterfully executed oil paintings are an imagined portrait of an American sub culture where queer autonomy is achieved through regenerative agricultural practices. Whitfield utilizes historical painting as motif to present another newly coded language through wary subjects imbued with the beauty of individuality and action — bodies busied by hope and bolstered by acceptance. Portraits of a strength not yet defined by collective consensus.

Out of Context is generously sponsored by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Barnaby Whitfield: What’s Coming Is Already On Its Way is generously sponsored by Blake Sirach and Jonathan Nguyen, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.