DON’T FORGET to come out this THURSDAY and FRIDAY!
- Charlie Westbrook
- Apr 29
- 3 min read
The ANTENNAE gallery at 8 E. Broad Street
On April 30, a preview at Antennae will be followed by FREE FALL (with music by Armistead & Andrew) at Manchester Contemporary Studio & Gallery.
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FRIDAY MAY 1, 2026
Mayday! Fall of Freedom5pm - 10pm
ANTENNAE gallery
8 E. Broad StreetRichmond, VA 23219
As I have mentioned in my previous newsletters, Fall of Freedom is a coordinated national event of resistance against repression and state violence, emphasizing immigrants rights and the preservation of democracy.
THURSDAY April 30, 2026Preview 5 pm - 7 pm @ Antennae
&
FREE FALL 6 pm - 9 pm @ Manchester Contemporary
2223 Park Ave hosted by Charlie Westbrook,
featuring live music by Armistead & Andrew
Art Matters. Courage is Contagious.
DONATIONS are welcome to Richmond Community Legal Fund, providing direct assistance to Richmond residents who face immigration and civil rights cases. CLICK HERE TO GIVE!
Continued from my last newsletter, below are the remaining artist profiles of the artists who will be showing at FREE FALL:
~ MEET THE ARTISTS ~ |
Todd Hale (b. 1973) is a mixed media artist and photographer based in Nags Head NC and Richmond VA. Since 1996 he has lived part of the year on the Outer Banks working as a portrait photographer while finding inspiration in the ocean and developing his art. In the off-season he is part of the vibrant art community in Richmond where he runs a working studio and gallery called Antennae.
The gallery is host to solo and group shows and is part of the First Friday Art Walk in the Historic Arts District downtown. In 2003, Hale was among the founding group of artists and galleries that established a presence in downtown Richmond, leading to its eventual designation as a nationally recognized arts district. Todd Hale’s artwork is in international corporate and private collections.
In his words: In my work I experiment with a vast array of methods and media including drawing, painting, sculpture, collage, and photography. Recurring motifs and themes include forms and patterns which reference natural and mystical phenomena.
Cid Cher
Cidney Cher is an artist living and making in Richmond, Virginia. She holds a BFA in Artist Books and Printmaking from Longwood University. In her words: Her studio practice of silk marbling is rooted in the Eastern history of papermaking and book arts. A reverence for textiles comes from the hands of her grandmother who was a farmer on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with a remarkable love for quilting and fabric. The focus of her current research centers on women in rotorcraft aviation and the spiritual history of Persian marbling and art making in Iran, where her father was from. Her work has been acquired by Capital One Arts and CoStar for their corporate collections. This selection of marbled silks (example above) inspired by The Last Time she Saw Amelia Earhart by Gabrielle Calvocoressi, a call on memory and a landscape painted by passing time. Each silk is rooted in exploring desire, marksmanship, and grief by imagining x-rayed bone positionings. |
Anne Westbrook
Anne is committed to the arts as an artist, gallerist , collector, and friend of the artistic community of Richmond. She has been engaged in her own artistic practice for over 40 years. She's engaging the power of letters and words to frame the experience of the “fall of freedom”. The title of her 9 paintings is “He is…”. In her words: 81 letters/9 words naming our current leadership. The arrangement of the 81 stenciled letters creates weight, emphasis and organization allowing us to process and absorb what we are experiencing. Pattern recognition allows us to examine a set of circumstances and experiences more wholly. Any one of these labels should be disturbing, but have become normalized in our current construct. Experienced together, the artist hopes to emphasize the severity of the disturbing trends and patterns in our current cultural framework. |
Looking forward to seeing everyone this week!! #ExpressionAsActivism
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