October 23 – December 19, 2026
Duets at Artspace Gallery
Artspace Gallery is delighted to present "Duets," a unique and engaging exhibition celebrating collaboration, unexpected connections, and the shared human experience. From October 23 to December 19, 2026, our galleries will showcase works presented in dynamic pairs, bringing together the artistic visions of our Artspace Artist Members with the fresh perspectives of their selected artist guests that are not currently affiliated with Artspace.
This innovative exhibition invites each Artspace Artist Member to choose an artist from their life – a friend, family member, colleague, or anyone whose unique viewpoint inspires them – to exhibit alongside their own work. The pairing is intentionally open to interpretation, encouraging a diverse range of thematic, material, or conceptual dialogues between the two pieces. This could manifest in several ways:
Complementary Visions: Two works that, despite different creators and backgrounds, share a common thread or theme.
Contrasting Dialogues: Pieces that, through their differences, create an intriguing conversation or highlight a particular idea.
Inspiration and Response: An artist's work shown next to a piece by their guest that directly influenced or was inspired by the artist's creative process, or vice-versa.
Shared Narratives: Works that tell a story or explore an idea from two distinct angles.
"Duets" is more than just an exhibition. We aim to foster new conversations and build bridges between Artspace and the wider arts community.
For Artspace Artist Members, this is an exciting opportunity to showcase their work in a fresh context and to engage with their creative community in a new way. For our guest artists, it's a chance to share their unique contributions in a potentially different gallery setting. This exhibition also serves as an invitation for new artists to discover the supportive and inspiring community at Artspace.
Join us at Artspace Gallery to experience the intriguing pairings and unexpected harmonies of "Duets." Discover how art, through collaboration, can illuminate shared experiences and introduce us to new ways of seeing.
Artspace Artist Members & Their Guests
Dandridge Davis & Johanna Carrington
Tubing on the Cow Pasture
acrylic on canvas
24 x 24 inches
$975
Dandridge Davis
Viewer, viewer, what do you see
a Swimming Hole
a River, a Stream
Bubbling, Deep Holes, Various Temperature Degrees
Acrylic poured to create
a Background
an Adventure
a Friendship forged
Color enhances, brush marks express
Rocks, Ripples
Tubes Floating, Drift, then Congregate
an Organic Bond
Trickled lines … dappled light
Back and forth the canvas went
Two friends, two styles collaborate
Johanna Carrington
I paint with vibrant colors, layering, and scraping to capture joy and honor nature. This collaboration celebrates our mutual love for the Cowpasture River. Much like these currents, our long friendship has endured through both calm and rough passages. With multiple textured layers, this piece celebrates the deep bond and shared love for the renewing force, pristine water and dappling light of the river
Alice Anne Ellis & Janis O’Grady
Alice Anne Ellis
Spring Magpie 2
pigmented ink and rice paper collage on panel
8 x 8 inches
$175
One for sorrow -- Two for joy -- Three for a girl -- Four for a boy -- Five for silver -- Six for gold -- Seven for a secret never to be told.
Janis and I, both British, quickly settled on our theme. Birds delight us. Folklore surrounds magpies. Instantly recognizable, they are clever birds, given to collecting shiny things. Using ink wash on crinkled rice paper provided a way to capture some unpredictable magic. Working with fragile paper was a bit like building a nest – planning, tucking, layering, fitting.
I created the paintings in pairs -- “two for joy.”
Janis O’Grady
Carolina Wrens
watercolor on paper (mounted on wood panel)
8 x 8 inches
$175
Our creative styles differ but our inspiration comes from the same natural observations.
Using watercolor’s wide variety of treatment possibilities, from washes to dry-brush, offered a suitable approach to the subtlety and delicacy of my subject matter.
It was Springtime when I started to paint these birds. Many were already in pairs, busy nesting. This prompted me to include two birds on each panel, which is most fitting for our theme — two for joy.
Steve Ferretti & Zachary Reid
Zachary Reid
Front and Center
photo & artwork assemblage
41 x 41 inches
$2,750.00
The majority of my work is abstract acrylics, cold wax, oils, and photography. I strive to capture transient yet memorable moments of time, place, mood and thought. I focus on what is often overlooked and bring it to the forefront. Sometimes my intent in beginning an artwork is clearly defined but more often I begin blindly and allow intuition to lead me to an unexpected solution.
Abstraction, to me, is a very personal visual expression, with the unique ability to emotionally connect in a manner individual to each viewer. My art is a visual record of personal exploration and growth.
Steve Ferretti
Coming & Going
acrylic on wood panels
40 x 43 inches
$3,500.00
My art is an examination of how people are essential to life itself, and yet also a nuisance beyond belief. How we’re utterly forgettable, and then suddenly as memorable as anything anyone has ever known. I create figural work, usually a person at a time, occasionally in pairs or at parties, almost always with distance between subjects, as well as between them and the viewer — a visualization of the space we create to protect ourselves from each other.
Elisabeth Flynn-Chapman & Douglas Hayes
Douglas Hayes
Learning to Fly
digital photography
11 x 14 inches
$300
I have been photographing dance since the 1980s. Dance is the perfect synthesis of my interest in photographing the athletic human form and capturing movement. This photo is one of many works produced in collaboration with choreographer Starrene Foster.
No matter where I am, there is always space defined by line, color, shape, and light. Fortunately for a photographer, architecture is stable — all of its movement implied within the quiet organization of those basic elements. I am thrilled that Artspace has given me the opportunity to show my work alongside those of my long-time friend and colleague, Doug Hayes.
Elisabeth Flynn-Chapman
Looking at Space
digital photography, inkjet print
17 x 11 inches
$300
Kay Franz & Susan Lamson
Susan Lamson
Afternoon Around the Tea House
digital, mixed media on watercolor and rice paper (triptych total)
20 x 36 inches
$425
Although Kay and I have different approaches in our work, we’ve discovered common ground in our media and style through our shared respect of Japanese art.
My work is completed using my photographs, digital processes, and natural media hand detailing.
As an artist, I strive to capture a moment in time that represents the culture of my community. In collaborating with Kay, my horizons have broadened to embrace her finely tuned visions with my own
Kay Franz
Morning at Junko's
ceramic, mixed media
11 x 11 x 1 inches
$275
I chose Susan Lamson, a neighbor, friend and fellow artist as my Duets partner. Susan is a retired Chesterfield art teacher and mixed media artist. Her colorful, energetic style sharply contrasts with my more earthy, muted and quiet three-dimensional clay works. We worked independently to create work inspired by each other. The collaborative talks we had led to an exciting direction and approach from my original idea/premise. It was a rewarding challenge to incorporate and alter Susan’s work into my own, and atypical of past work I have done with mixed media.
Dana Frostick & Adele Castillo
Adele Castillo
Minerva
acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 inches
$1,750
My painting is done in many layers of acrylic to reach a dense, rich saturation of color. Most of us have a deep connection with animals and over the years I’ve been capturing the personalities of beloved pets. Dana Frostick and I have vastly different, yet complementary, ways of interpreting the same subject for Duets.
Dana Frostick
Calm Before the Storm
Sharpie and acrylic on canvas
30 x 30 inches
$1,750.00
What is universally shared by us all? In my "Elaborate Doodles" series (2007-2023), I asked the paintings to lead me in their own creation bringing forth symbology that is recognizable across cultures.
Since 2023, I’ve added images of cats and their interactions to the abstract base of my artwork. The completed works present a narrative while simultaneously illustrating how closely feline emotions and behaviors are to those of humans.
Adele Castillo’s fine art animal portraits have inspired me for many years. Our duet is an examination of the same cat from two different artists’ perspectives.
Lee Hazelgrove & Erika Russ
Image to come
Erika Russ
Crown and Form
saggar fired, wheel thrown stoneware, saggar fired
34 x 12 x 12 inches
$590
As a chemical engineer and a potter, my work is a fusion of precision and passion. I aspire to create pieces that are testament to the meticulous nature of engineering and the boundless creativity of art. My journey, between the structured worlds of chemistry and engineering and the fluidity of clay, has taught me that both disciplines require a deep understanding of working materials and a respect for the processes that transform them.
Lee Hazelgrove
Tessella
saggar fired, hand built, white stoneware
4 x 6 inches
$1,150.00
My work with clay focuses on surface and its relationship to large forms and wall pieces. I continually search for an elusive balance between the form and surface duality, the raw, visceral nature of the medium juxtaposed against texture, color, movement and brushwork. My hope is that in that successful balance lies a sense of contemplation, calm, and even transcendence. Erika and I bring common elements to the table, and share the same, complementary approach to that duality, perhaps coming close to finding that “balance.”
Image to come
Hilaire Henthorne & Joan Malone
Joan Malone
Geometric Jazz II
mixed media on canvas
36 x 24 inches
$600.00
I'm a Midlothian-based mixed media and watercolor artist who enjoys exploring new techniques and materials. My goal is to remember the importance of play in my work. I've approached formal learning by working with diverse instructors and perspectives. Making art calms me and provides the opportunity for multiple forms of visual expression. I’m excited to see what happens next in my journey!
Hilaire Henthorne
Geometric Jazz I
mixed media on canvas
36 x 24 inches
$600.00
My partner and I are Richmond-based artists who share a love for mixed media. When taking classes together, I've been struck by the elegant way she renders everything from common alphabetic symbols to geometric shapes. We approach our adventures in art with humor, granting grace for our learning curves.
We work intuitively, after deciding on a palette. Our work piques a viewer’s curiosity about what they can discover within our layers of paint, paper and paste. We celebrate the beauty found in ordinary materials and present them from new, inventive perspectives.
Caroline Huggins & Sandra Halpin
Sandra Halpin
Marks
photographic print
10 x 8 inches
$275
Wonderful exploration! Friends for 20 years, we learned more about each other’s work than all those years prior. Despite different mediums, we found that our approach and content are surprisingly similar, and we discovered a new way to connect as friends by comparing and contrasting our work -- piece by piece, through various filters like subject, color, sense of place. Illuminating conversations resulted, providing further insight into art, our work and our process making it.
Caroline Huggins
Untitled oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
$900
I’m drawn to the complexity of kitchen messes, groups of people, and tangles of branches and grasses. Working directly on site or from original references, I seek 3 or 4 tones and shapes or marks to create some space. Painting and more painting is my path forward.
I picked my friend Sandra because our approaches to making art seemed pretty different. Together, though, we found subjects that were similar and shared an abstract pictorial sense. In this duet, her close scrutiny of nature and my gestural response express our pleasure in looking and seeing.
Mitzi Humphrey & Sheryl Humphrey
Image to come
Sheryl Humphrey
Daisy
oil on canvas
12 x 9 inches
NFS ($10,000.00)
"Daisy" comes from a series, "The Sisterhood of Flora" which consist of small portraits of girls and young women surrounded by flowers, fruit, or vegetables. The subjects gaze directly at the viewer with peaceful, yet powerful and intelligent expressions. I paint these positive depictions to show the strength, beauty, and the inherent power of young women, and to portray a respect for Nature and the world around us.
Mitzi Humphrey
Elsewhere I
etching, monoprint, letterpress on paper
14 x 9 inches
$800.00
"The medium is the message" rings true for me. Take a slice of wood from a fallen tree: I can ink it, put paper on it, rub it with a tablespoon and make a print. With leaves from a geranium, I can do the same, or with a press, make an etching. If there is no white, I may use black. Even a pencil can lead to art. Art is ultimately about connection, and I am delighted Artspace has given me this opportunity to exhibit my work alongside my daughter's.
Image to come
Richelle Kaufman-Anderson & Jamal Wallace
Jamal Wallace
Model T
acrylic on canvas
20 x 16 inches
$200
Working alongside Richelle through the ASK program has opened up a whole new world for me as an artist. Being able to take my passion for art and turn it into a shared project has been incredible. Drawing from the 1920s and the energy of Harlem allowed us to create pieces that feel vibrant, hopeful, and full of life—and I’m proud to share our vision with everyone.
Richelle Kaufman-Anderson
Industrial Age
pen, ink, and graphite
30 x 20 inches
$950.00
My artistic partner for this project is Jamal Wallace, a young artist I met while leading painting workshops with the ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation. From our earliest sessions, Jamal stood out not only for his keen interest in the visual arts, but for his natural talent and drive. Together, our collaborative work draws inspiration from the energy of the 1920s—capturing the spirit, optimism, and creative joy of the Harlem Renaissance and the Industrial Age.
Michael A. Pierce & Frederick Fulmer
Memory, identity, and self-invention converge through layers of paint, collage, and photographic transfer. Imagery emerges and recedes beneath gestural color, suggesting the fluid nature of recollection. This interplay between painterly abstraction and photographic traces creates a dialogue between past and present, observation and imagination. Rather than a fixed portrait, the work offers a meditation on becoming — exploring youth as a space of possibility, uncertainty, and creative formation.
Michael A. Pierce
twenty years later
oil pastels and graphite with gold leaf, glitter, rubber stamping and cold wax on paper mounted on cradled wood panel
24 x 30 inches
$2,000
Frederick Fulmer
Artist As A Young Man - 2026
acrylic, photo transfers, photo collage on canvas
20 x 26 inches
$750
On February 24, 1974, I met the love of my life at my friend Frederick Fulmer’s birthday party at our little house at 307 South Laurel Street in Richmond. Ron Lee and I awoke the next morning covered in gold glitter from sleeping under Frederick’s solid gold glitter painting for his “Mood Indigo” project. The image in my piece is based on a photo of us with 20 white roses, taken the day after our wedding at Richmond Friends Meeting twenty years later.
