Current Exhibitions

Edmond Praybe: “Family of Things”

Edmond Praybe: “Family of Things”

Showing May 2 - May 31, 2025

Opening Reception and Artist Talk
Sunday, May 4, 1-4pm

Located at SFFA Main Street Gallery
1200 Main Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504

Steven Francis Fine Art is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Edmond Praybe.

Of primary concern in these works is a genuine response to the observed world, whether taken as it is in the landscape or manufactured in a still life arrangement, filtered through the formal abstract language of painting. The structural relationships between the seemingly disparate elements of a composition, bound together by geometry, color, value, line and shape, takes precedent over most desires to fully illustrate individual forms. The paintings aim to create their own internal logic, drawing from the natural world, but skewing our preconceptions about recognizable objects and spaces. With this attitude towards representation, the unexpected color of a squash or the obscured edge of a tree trunk becomes the catalyst for translating perception into a painterly experience.

Edmond Praybe (b. 1982) is a painter whose work spans all the traditional genres, from still life and landscape, to portrait and figural compositions. He received his B.F.A. from Maryland Institute, College of Art and his M.F.A. from the New York Studio School. His work has been shown widely in exhibitions throughout the U.S. and abroad, and he teaches painting classes and workshops at various institutions and art organizations regularly. He lives in Arnold, MD with his wife and son, who are frequent models for his paintings.

This exhibition is part of “The Philip Geiger Project”

Jim Muehlemann:
Thoughts and Feelings

Jim Muehlemann:
Thoughts and Feelings

In collaboration with Alexander / Heath
Contemporary Gallery

Located at Alexander / Heath
109 Campbell Ave SW / Roanoke, VA 24011

OPENING
Friday, May 2, 2025 / 5-9pm
Artist conversation at 7pm

CLOSING
Friday, May 30, 2025 / 6-9pm

Jim Muehlemann earned a B.F.A. from the University of Illinois and an M.F.A. from Syracuse University. He was awarded a CAPS Grant from the State of New York in 1980, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome in 1982, and a grant from the Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation in 1995. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions in New York at Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Penine Hart Gallery and Althea Viafora Gallery as well as in Philadelphia at Paul Cava Gallery. His work has been featured in many solo and group exhibitions in the United States and Italy, including one-person exhibitions in Virginia, at the Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, the Craddock-Terry Gallery, Lynchburg, and at the Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Muehlemann has most recently exhibited work at Steven Francis Fine Art in Lynchburg, Virginia. Jim Muehlemann is Professor Emeritus of Studio Art, at Randolph College. He lives and works in Virginia.

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, NC
Aggie Zed - Gordonsville, VA

Upcoming Exhibitions

“Observation & Invention”

Co-Curated with David Campbell

Observation & Invention

Showing May 28 - July 26, 2025

Opening Reception
Saturday, May 31st, 2-5pm

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

Featured Artists:
Victoria Barnes, David Campbell, Linda Carey,
Peter Van Dyck, Elizabeth Geiger, Philip Geiger,
Lincoln Perry, Brian Rego, Elise Schweitzer

”The common thread for each painter in this show is the idea of making work based on a visual encounter that comes before the outset of the painting…Invention has been used throughout art history, and there are several ways it can be manifested in the work: Painters can augment color, obscure the space, and break or warp the perspective. Some painters conjure forms or figures that are incorporated into the observed painted space. The artist can arrange the observed motif, giving the viewer permission to participate in inventing their own reality. While each painter in this show prioritizes, edits, and develops the work in their own way, the driving force is from the love of looking.” - David Campbell

This exhibition is part of “The Philip Geiger Project”

 

“Father & Son”

Philip Geiger and Martin Geiger

Father & Son
Philip Geiger and Martin Geiger

Showing June 6 - July 19, 2025

Opening Reception:
Sunday, June 8th, from 2-5pm
Artist Talk by Martin Geiger at 3pm

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

Philip Geiger is a retired Professor of Art who t aught at the University of Virginia for over thirty years. He earned his B.F.A. from Washington University and received his M.F.A. from Yale University. Geiger is a noted realist painter. His work has been reviewed by the New York Times, Art in America, ARTnews, and The New Criterion. He has exhibited at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York City, and his work is in a number of prominent collections. His paintings have been described as having “lustrous light, loose brushwork and subtle color” which “tellingly captures the nuances of mood and feeling that make up the more peaceful moments of contemporary family life.”

Martin Geiger lives in Staunton, Virginia, and has studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 2019. He has won numerous grants and awards over the past several years, including the Franklin C. Watkins Grant, the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, the Jimmy Lueders Prize, the Charles Toppan Drawing Prize, the Earl T. Donelson Painting Award, 2018, the Gilbert M. Cantor Scholarship, and most recently, the 2019 Lauffer Prize. He has exhibited work in Virginia, Philadelphia, and Ohio.

This exhibition is part of “The Philip Geiger Project”