Current Exhibitions

“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”

“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”

Coming Exhibitions

“Lines of Descent”:
Ray Kass, Frank Hobbs
& Sarah-Faith Strait

Lines of Descent: Ray Kass, Frank Hobbs & Sarah-Faith Strait

Showing July 11 - August 25, 2025

Opening Reception, Friday, July 11, from 5-8pm
Artist Talk by Ray Kass at 6:30pm

Gallery360
310 1st Street SW, Roanoke, VA 24011

”Lines of Descent,” is an exhibition of work by Ray Kass, Frank Hobbs, and Sarah-Faith Strait that explores the intersections and influences between three generations of painters connected to each other through a lineage of teaching and mentorship spanning 50 years.

This exhibition is a collaboration with Gallery360, Roanoke, VA
https://gallery360art.com

Jim Muehlemann
”Out of My Head”