Gallery5 kicking off May’s First Friday with “Open Inbox”

Gallery5‘s continuing mission is to be a cultural hub that celebrates diversity, creativity, camaraderie through all art mediums and avenues of expression.

For May’s First Friday reception we have a plethora of visual art, performance art and live music!

Upstairs/Main Gallery:
“Open Inbox” Exhibition of new work by Barry O’Keefe

“Open Inbox” is a series of five public sculptures, designed for five different neighborhoods. These sculptures are designed to function both as reverent monuments to neighborhood history and identity, and as functional community message boards and meeting points. At a time in our culture when traditional models of community are under threat, these sculptures provide neighbors a way to connect, communicate, and construct shared identity.”

“Open Inbox” will be on exhibit until May 27th.

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Upstairs/Rear Gallery:

“Tandem” Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity Show

“Tandem: team, organization, grouping. Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity at Virginia Commonwealth University has brought together work exploring themes of dualitites and parallels, balances and tensions.

Kappa Pi is a society of student artists across disciplines and majors who seek to support each other, to grow as individuals and as a collective, and have the same common goal of building a stronger artist community in Richmond. Kappa Pi at VCU is currently made up of 25 students from across the university that create in a wide variety of mediums and motives.”

“Tandem” will be on display until June 30th.

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Downstairs stage:

• Fat Spirit releases “Nihilist Blues” via Citrus City Records. You can check out their fresh single “Cave” on their bandcamp.

Accompanying them will be Richmond’s

• Big NO
• Slump