Lovers

“Virginia is for Lovers,” as they say, or at least since 1969 when an advertising firm came up with the slogan for the Commonwealth, drawing on a national movement of love-ins, a summer of love, and the activist slogan, “make love not war.” An expansive commitment to love was written into law just a few years earlier in Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage in the United States. Main Projects has chosen the intersection of love and Virginia as a Venn diagram between the multiplicity of meanings in each to gather artists for its inaugural exhibition. - Written by Noah Simblist

Participating artists include Diana al-Hadid, Amanda Baldwin, Gina Beavers, Holly Coulis, Matthew F Fisher, Laird Gough, Loie Hollowell, Sandy Williams IV, Sacha Ingber, Tahnee Lonsdale, Liz Nielsen, Chris Oh, Veronika Pausova, LaRissa Rogers, Cat Spilman, and Meghann Stephenson. With exclusive editions by Ryan McGinness, Leigh Suggs & Daniel Rickey.