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Past Exhibitions
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Signal Boost II
New Voices from VCUArts MFA Program 4 - 19 June 2026Main Projects is pleased to present Signal Boost: New Voices from VCUarts MFA Program, the gallery’s second annual exhibition highlighting new voices from Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts.... -
Abbi Kenny
The Tasting Room 4 June - 9 July 2026The Tasting Room brings together new paintings by Abbi Kenny in which shellfish, martini olives, fruit, serving platters, and ornamental excess accumulate into layered compositions shaped by touch, preparation, and... -
Devin Cecil-Wishing
The Doors to Your Cage Shall Be Decked with Gold 30 April - 28 May 2026This exhibition examines systems of power, material desire, and the unstable construction of value and ownership. Working from direct observation, Cecil-Wishing builds each painting through an accumulative process, rendering forms... -
Holding Pattern
Alex Hutton & Leigh Suggs 30 April - 28 May 2026A two-person exhibition by Leigh Suggs and Alex Hutton exploring structure, suspension, and anticipation through painting and sculptural surfaces shaped by processes of layering, cutting, and removal. -
Bodies of Becoming
Corydon Cowansage, Camilla Engström, Tahnee Lonsdale, Brie Ruais 26 February - 18 April 2026Bodies of Becoming brings together works by Corydon Cowansage, Tahnee Lonsdale, Camilla Engström, and Brie Ruais that explore transformation through material, rhythm, and care. Working across painting, sculpture, and video,... -
The Body as Weather
Shuling Guo and Zuriel Waters 26 February - 18 April 2026The Body as Weather brings together new work by Shuling Guo and Zuriel Waters, two painters who approach the body as a shifting system rather than a fixed form. -
Order and Other
8 January - 17 February 2026Order and Other brings together fourteen artists whose abstract practices explore systems, structure, and the points at which order begins to give way. Across painting, photography, and mixed media, the... -
Sundown's Sowers
8 January - 17 February 2026Zachary Lank: Sundown’s Sowers presents a new body of paintings that examine masculinity, spirituality, and the inheritance of American myth. Lank depicts hollowed figures and disembodied garments set within pastoral... -
The God of the Bay of Roses
16 October - 18 December 2025This group exhibition brings together eighteen contemporary artists in response to Salvador Dalí’s 1944 masterpiece from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Painted during Dalí’s American exile, the work merges... -
Les Diners de Gala
16 October - 18 December 2025Inspired by Salvador Dalí’s 1973 cookbook—an opulent fusion of gastronomy and surrealist theater—Les Dîners de Gala gathers six artists who transform appetite into allegory. Revisiting Dalí’s decadent world through painting... -
Obstructed View
Cate Pasquarelli, Cait Porter, Sarah Schlesinger, Georgia-May Travers Cook 2 September - 8 October 2025In Obstructed View , four artists—Sarah Schlesinger, Georgia-May Travers Cook, Cait Porter, and Cate Pasquarelli—invite us to linger at the edges of a story. Each work offers a vantage point... -
Bloom States
Travis Boyer, Joseph Jones, Benjamin Langford 2 September - 8 October 2025A group exhibition featuring Benjamin Langford, Travis Boyer, and Joseph Jones, each reimagining the flower through sculpture, textile, and painting to explore its beauty, memory, and transformation. -
DEVRA FOX: Two in One
2 September - 5 November 2025Two in One is a solo exhibition of graphite drawings by San Francisco–based artist Devra Fox at Main Projects. The works explore themes of transformation, matrescence, and the interconnectedness of... -
Signal Boost: New Voices from VCU's MFA Program
30 July - 26 August 2025Signal Boost presents a curated selection of artists from Virginia Commonwealth University’s MFA programs, spotlighting practices that are already commanding attention far beyond the academic studio. The exhibition brings together... -
PIA BAKALA: Pageant Mom
A surreal exploration of identity and family by VCU MFA alum Pia Bakala 30 July - 26 August 2025Pageant Mom is a solo exhibition by Pia Bakala exploring gender, identity, and digital storytelling through painting and sculpture. Using The Sims 4 as a creative framework, Bakala constructs imagined... -
MALLORY PAGE
much to a nightmare's delight 6 June - 18 July 2025An exhibition of new paintings by Mallory Page exploring abstraction as a psycho-atmospheric practice. Drawing from the symbolic logic of dreams and memory, these layered works evoke emotional states through... -
DEBORAH BROWN
Traces 6 June - 18 July 2025A meditation on memory and materiality, Traces brings together Deborah Brown’s recent series—including Shadow Paintings and Haunted Houses—alongside expressive still lifes drawn from her home. From quiet Brooklyn streets to... -
Amy Lincoln: Monoprints
11 April - 23 May 2025A showcase of Lincoln's series of unique monoprints, created in collaboration with Main Projects. Blending screenprinting and relief printing, these works highlight the physical, hands-on nature of printmaking—an art form... -
Matter and Form
11 April - 23 May 2025Matter and Form considers the enduring relationship between material and structure, drawing from the philosophical concept that matter is the substance from which things are made, while form gives them... -
Lovers
7 February - 4 April 2025Inspired by Virginia's iconic slogan, 'Virginia is for Lovers,' our inaugural exhibition celebrates the many facets of love, exploring its diverse forms and interpretations through the perspectives of many artists...
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