Upcoming Exhibition: Monday Alchemy
Rachel Jeffers
Opening: Friday April 3rd, 5-9pm (in conjunction with First Fridays)
April 3 - May 29th
Foyer is excited to present Monday Alchemy, an exhibition of new works by Rachel Jeffers, opening April 3rd from 5:00-9:00pm at 16 W Broad street and up through May 29th.
Rachel Jeffers finds her subject matter close at hand, in the rhythms of daily life and the objects that populate a home. Her paintings carry the evidence of their own making: revised, reconsidered, and rebuilt until each one arrives at its own logic.
In her words: "A home provides an endless collection of motifs. Daily routines create rhythms. In these paintings, as on our tabletops, everyday objects are composed, rearranged, multiplied, and removed. Paint is smudged on, covered over, scraped away, and reiterated, as pictorial arrangements are reconsidered, revised, tilted, and shifted. As the painted atmosphere emerges, each painting develops its own idiosyncratic logic, until a fleeting semblance of harmony is established. Through the interaction of form and color, ordinary matter is transformed. Like alchemists experimenting to change essential elements into superior form, the painting becomes a visual container of time."
Artist Bio:
Rachel Jeffers holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art's Mount Royal School of Art and a BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design. She studied with Turps Correspondence Course and is now a course mentor. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Eastern US, with recent appearances at Shockoe Artspace, Stay Home Gallery, and My Pet Ram. She is a member of Zeuxis: A Collective of Still Life Painters. She lives and works in the Richmond, VA area.
Current Exhibition: Bubble Gum Garden
Natan Lawson
Opening: Friday Jan. 9th 5:30-8:30pm
January 9th - March 27th
Foyer is excited to present Bubble Gum Garden, an exhibition of new works by Natan Lawson, opening January 9th from 5:30-8:30pm at 16 W Broad street and up through March 27th.
Bubble Gum Garden presents a landscape where play is carefully engineered. Using a CNC plotter to apply paint to canvas, Natan Lawson translates the logic of needlepoint and textile patterns into physical form. Repeating motifs (flowers, grapes, spirals, and bubble gum) are rebuilt as “analog pixels”—individual marks of paint mapped to a grid, collapsing distinctions between domestic craft and modern technology.
The paintings shift between clear imagery and dense pattern; some reading as cheerful icons and others dissolving into abstraction. Bright color and repetition make the work feel playful and immediate even as the underlying structures remain rigid and controlled.
At the center of the exhibition is a functioning gum ball machine. Like the paintings, it works through repetition and visibility; dispensing color, one piece at a time, through a fixed mechanism. Rather than acting as a symbol, it simply extends the systems already present in the work into the gallery space.
Artist Bio:
Natan Lawson received a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design. His work has been featured in exhibitions at 11 Newel Gallery, New York, NY (2022, 2021); Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College, Towson, MD (2021); Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2020); and Resort Gallery, Baltimore, MD (2018), among others. Lawson’s paintings have been featured in multiple HBO and Netflix productions and are represented in collections such as Kadish, Paris and San Francisco, CA; Fidelity Investments Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA; and Capital One, McLean, VA. In addition to other honors, he received an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council (2016). He lives in Baltimore, MD.
2026:
Natan Lawson
January 9th - March 27th
Rachel Jeffers
April 3rd - May 29th
Mike McQuade
June 5th - August 21st
Bruce Wilhelm
September 4th - October 30th
Nikki Painter
November 6th - December 19th
Dead Trees and Other Pretty Things
Andy Harris
November 7th - Dec 20th
Foyer is excited to present Dead Trees and Other Pretty Things, an exhibition of new works by Andy Harris, opening November 7th from 5:00-9:00pm at 16 W Broad street, through December 20th.
Dead Trees and Other Pretty Things continues Harris’s ongoing exploration of collage as a painterly language rooted in the transformation of everyday materials. Each work begins with hand-painted paper – cut, torn, and reassembled – creating layered compositions where structure and spontaneity coexist. The surface becomes a record of actions: painting, cutting, arranging, revising and layering.
In this new body of work, fragments of the observed world; branches, shadows, man-made structures, are abstracted into rhythmic fields of color and form. The push and pull between geometry and gesture animates the compositions, revealing Harris’s ongoing dialogue with modern abstraction and the material poetry of collage.
If “dead trees” refers to paper itself, these pieces give that material new life: evidence of renewal, attention, and the quiet persistence of making.
Artist Bio: Andy Harris is Norfolk-based educator and collage artist whose work explores the tension between control and spontaneity through the process of painted paper. He has exhibited widely across Virginia, North Carolina, and New York, with recent solo shows at Assembly Norfolk, and Virginia MOCA. A two-time VCCA resident, Harris has collaborated with Apple, EA Sports, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and his work appears in the Dollar Tree Corporate Collection. His art has been featured in Contemporary Collage Magazine, Abstract Mag, and on NPR’s Arts Undercurrent.
FEATURED ARTISTS
Cassandra Arthur • Katy Becker • Corinna Cowles • David Eaton • Jody Fausett • Andy Harris • Jodi Hays • Ian C. Hess • Amy Hill Hyman • Rachel Jeffers • Amelia Jones • Nelly Kate • Maddy Keener • Natan Lawson • Adrian Meyer • Curtis Newkirk Jr. • Nikki Painter • Christopher Peterson • Allison Reimus • Virginia Samsel • Sharon Shapiro • Sam Taylor • Ashley White • Ben White • Bruce Wilhelm • Joshua Williams
Past Exhibitions:
Burn Blue: Patrick Beran
Foyer is excited to present Burn Blue, an exhibition of new works by Patrick Berran, opening September 5th from 5:00-9:00pm at 16 W Broad street. Burn Blue marks a continuation of Berran’s multi-media painting practice which incorporates drawing, transfer processes and collage. In this new body of work, the hand is evident not only in the drawn or painted line but in the physicality of the surfaces; revealing collage’s ability to keep a record of actions such as cutting and building. Drawing on the history of modern painting, two different and opposed organizational structures emerge: that of the grid vs organic abstraction. Tension both within and between the paintings draws the viewer into an experience of varying degrees of resolution. All while Berran uses a completely new color palette; one that borders on the effusive if not purely celebratory. This dynamism is bolstered by his inclusion of large-scale painting for the first time in almost a decade. As a flame burning blue indicates pure combustion where nothing is wasted, Burn Blue chronicles a striving towards distillation in art and a full-hearted embrace of life.
Bio: Patrick Berran lives and works in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Recent solo exhibitions include Chapter NY, New York City, NY, White Columns, Hunter Whitfield, London UK, and Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA. Recent group exhibitions include The American Academy of Arts and Letters New York, NY, Southampton Art Center, the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, VT, Rod Bianco, Oslo; M+B Gallery, Los Angeles; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis; and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York. Patrick has completed artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center Johnson, VT, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts in Ithaca, NY, Dial House in Essex, United Kingdom as well as the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Hyperallergic, the Brooklyn Rail and his work has been featured in Bomb Magazine, New American Painters, and Architectural Digest. In 2012 Berran was named one of Modern Painters’ 100 Artists to Watch. Patrick Berran’s work is in numerous private and public collections; Hall Art Foundation, Fidelity, Capital One and Morgan Stanley among others. Patrick is represented by CHAPTER NY in New York City.
This Must Be The Place: A group show about Home
June 6th - August 2nd 2025
Seth Bauserman, Garreth Blackwell, Sophie Copeland, Corinna Cowles, Casey Criddle, Andy Harris, Jodi Hays, Ian C. Hess, Rachel Jeffers, Ryan Lauterio, Natan Lawson, Curtis Newkirk Jr., Allison Reimus, Sam Taylor