Current Exhibitions

A Show of Portraits

A Show of Portraits

Showing March 23 - May 10, 2025

Opening Reception
Sunday, March 23rd, 2-5pm

Located at
SFFA Tradewynd Gallery
102b Tradewynd Dr., Lynchburg, VA

Steven Francis Fine Art is pleased to present “A Show of Portraits”, a group exhibition featuring portrait paintings by an array of artists from Virginia and beyond. This exhibition is part of SFFA’s “The Philip Geiger Project”. The project was inspired by the figurative work of noted realist painter, Philip Geiger, and the multitude of artists his work has influenced.

Featured Artists

David Baird, Robert Bricker, Penelope Brigman, Jeffrey Carr, Daniel Dempsey, Dean Fisher,
Eric Fitzpatrick, Emily Flint, Martin Geiger,
Philip Geiger, Kathleen Hall, Lovey Hertzberg,
Frank Hobbs, Margaret McCann, Janet Niewald, Scott Noel, Lincoln Perry, Edmond Praybe,
Carolyn Pyfrom, Ephraim Rubenstein,
Allen TenBuscchen, John R. White,
Rosalie Day White, Yuval Yosifov

6 Voices

6 Voices

Showing March 10 - April 27, 2025

Opening Reception & Artist Talk
Wednesday, March 9th, 5:30pm - 7:30pm

Located at
The Baker Gallery, The Woodberry Forest School
898 Woodberry Forest Rd., Woodberry Forest, VA 22989

Steven Francis Fine Art and The Woodberry Forest School are pleased to present “6 Voices”, a group exhibition featuring the work of six gallery artists of SFFA.

This show is a testament to the versatility of art-making and its use as a tool of expression. Through disparate subjects and media, these artists have discovered and found a visual language to work through personal experiences and obsessions.

Featured Artists

Lucia Coates - Lynchburg, VA
Kathy Cudlin - Lynchburg, VA
Fabiola Deodato - Argentina
Nancy Dahlstrom - Fincastle, VA
Janet Stapelman - Outer Banks, VA
Aggie Zed - Gordonsville, VA

Gallery360, “The School of Beauty & Goodness”

“The School of Beauty & Goodness” at Gallery360

Showing March 7 - April 25, 2025

Opening Reception & Gallery Talk
Friday, March 7th, 5-8pm
Gallery Talk by Steven Francis Coates at 6:30pm

Located at
Gallery 360
310 1st Street SW, Roanoke, VA, lobby entrance

”The School of Beauty & Goodness” is a group exhibition that as travelled from Steven Francis Fine Art (Lynchburg, VA) to Gallery360 (Roanoke, VA), featuring the work of renowned American Realist Painter Philip Geiger and fine artists he taught, mentored and influenced.

Please join us at Gallery 360 for the opening reception on March 7th, from 5-8pm. Steven Francis Coates, gallery owner of Steven Francis Fine Art, will be giving a talk on the current show and “The Philip Geiger Project” in the gallery at 6:30pm.

Featured Artists

Benjy Barnhart, James Erickson, Philip Geiger, Kathleen Hall, Randall Stoltzfus, Aaron Thompson, Laura Wooten

Upcoming Exhibitions

David Baird:
FIGURES, FLOWERS and FRUIT

David Baird:
FIGURES, FLOWERS and FRUIT

Showing April 2 - April 26, 2025

Opening Reception: Friday, April 4th, 5-8pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 5th, 12pm

Located at SFFA Main Street Gallery
1200 Main St., Lynchburg, VA

Steven Francis Fine Art presents “Figures, Flowers and Fruit”, featuring the most recent work by David Baird. The paintings exhibit a fundamental interest that has occupied the artist since he began to paint: the translation of perceptual experience into pictorial representation. In this conversion of perception to painting, the portrayal of the visible world is in constant tension with the materiality of the paint and the flatness of the surface. Any pretense of fidelity to the visual experience is inevitably betrayed by the artifice of painting. Resolving this tension between the object of perception and the fiction of representation becomes, in a sense, the subject of every work.

David Baird (b. 1986, USA) is an oil painter and draftsman focused primarily on figurative work. With an education spanning both the US and Europe, the artist has traveled broadly, benefitting from extensive exposure to some of the world’s greatest works of art. In 2024 he joined the faculty of the Lyme Academy of Fine Art in Lyme, Connecticut, where he lives and works today.

This exhibition is part of “The Philip Geiger Project.”