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.

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.

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.

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.

Candela Gallery is excited to announce the open call for our thirteenth annual UnBound! Exhibition. The selected and invited artists for UnBound13! will have works on display at Candela Gallery from Friday, July 5th - Saturday, August 3rd, 2024. Submission will be open through March 29, 2024 at 11:59PM.

Please join Candela Gallery for the exhibition coinciding with our latest book project, Memory Orchards, from January 19th-March 2nd

A letter (three, actually) from Candela founder, Gordon Stettinius, as we wrap up 2023 and look to 2024.

Candela Gallery is pleased to announce Conjuring the Composition, a photography and painting exhibition by Richmond artist Willie Anne Wright, opening November 3, 2023.

Candela Gallery is pleased to announce Conjuring the Composition, a photography and painting exhibition by Richmond artist Willie Anne Wright, opening November 3, 2023.

Through various meticulous assemblage techniques, ALTERED features fabricated environments, imaginative dialogues, and memorials while examining alternative approaches to image-making.

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.

Candela Gallery is pleased to announce ALL CONSUMED, a photography solo exhibition by Colorado-based artist Gary Emrich, opening May 12, 2023.

Candela Gallery is pleased to announce Next to Myself, a mixed media photography solo exhibition by artist Liliana Guzmán, opening May 12, 2023.

TWO WEEKS LEFT TO SUBMIT: Candela Gallery is hosting an open call for our twelfth annual UnBound! Exhibition! UnBound12! will be on display in person and online at Candela Gallery, from July 7 - August 12, 2023.

Candela Gallery is excited to announce the open call for our twelfth annual UnBound! Exhibition! UnBound12! will be on display in person and online at Candela Gallery, from July 7 - August 12, 2023.

Candela Gallery is excited to announce Machine Vision, a group exhibition exploring our evolving creative relationship with new technologies. These works blur the boundaries between the observed and imagined, the artist and the machine. Machine Vision will be on view between Friday, March 3rd and Saturday, April 29th.

Candela Gallery is pleased to announce Vernal, a photography solo exhibition by VCU MFA graduate Caroline Minchew, opening January 6, 2023.

Candela Gallery is pleased to announce Passport Cancelled, a photography and mixed media solo exhibition by Priya Kambli, opening January 6, 2023.

Blue Hour Artist Feature: Raymond Thompson Jr