resort, verb. (kitchen #47), 10x10x.75 in. acrylic, spray paint, chalk pastel, graphite, and charcoal on wood panel. 2021. $900
gentle puppy, 8x10”, acrylic, spackle, pony beads, thread, and keyring on canvas, $300
my sunshine 1998, 16x20”, acrylic, spackle, pony beads, thread and keyring, ironed bead flower, mini rubber cat, and graphite on canvas, $600
half past, 6x6x.75 in. ink, paper, colored pencil, chalk pastel, and graphite on wood panel. 2021. $350
never enough (clock no. 7), 8x8x1.75 in. acrylic, paper, colored pencil, charcoal, and clock mechanism on wood panels. 2021. $500
goodbye bryan, 3x3x.75 in. acrylic, photo, and charcoal on wood panel. 2021. $300
precious sheet cake, 11x14”, acrylic, spackle, polymer, and special item on canvas *toy is display only*, $450
rolling, 8x10x1 in. acrylic, ink, oil, photo, paper, staples, colored pencil, and graphite on wood panel. 2021. $250
always too much (clock no. 8), 6x6x1.75 in. acrylic, spray paint, oil, ink, charcoal, and clock mechanism on wood panels. 2021. $400
tent failure 10x10x.75 in. acrylic and charcoal on wood panel. 2021. $150
UNOPENED, 24x30”, acrylic, spackle, polymer, collectible McDonald’s teenie beanie baby in (original packaging) on canvas, framed, $1,250
shopway junction, 16x16x.75 in. acrylic, paper, shopping bag, thumbtack, colored pencil, oil pastel, tape, staples, sticky note, heat, charcoal, and graphite on wood panels. 2020. $500
pedestal, polymer, varnish, $175 *teenie beanie is display only*
just enough (clock no. 9), 10x10x1.75 in. acrylic, charcoal, and clock mechanism on wood panels. 2021. $600
חוצפה (chutzpah), 24x18”, acrylic, spackle, and graphite on canvas, $500
miseraville, 3x3x.75 in. acrylic, glow in the dark acrylic, spray paint, watercolor, chalk pastel, wood, charcoal, and graphite on wood panel. 2021. $300
SAMUEL RICHARDSON
Do you want to know when or how you die? My works exist as last chances; last chances to fix what you’ve done wrong, last chances to do anything you wish you would have. By creating these chaotic fantasies, I ask my audience “What would you do in this instance? Would you let it happen? Would you do everything you could to stop it?” The responses vary, depending on whether or not one has accepted their fate, or still has reason to avoid it. I don’t know what I’d do.. I think that’s why I make them. I’m bearing every possible way to go and the emotions that accompany them. The works become frozen timelines of these thoughts and feelings, existing only in boxes. In the end, the person who picks the piece may be manifesting their way out of this world! Samuel Richardson (b. 1998) is a visual artist based in Richmond, Virginia. Dabbling between painting, drawing, sculpture, and his new-found hunger for interior design, his current work is a product from technical elements that each practice possesses. By balancing calmness with terror in his own worlds, Richardson’s works document the commencement of the beginning of the end.
SAMI CRONK
These pieces reify a deep memory from somewhere I know very well and miss very much! I can see it/feel it when I hold these objects and see those shapes. Yes, it’s actually possible that my longing to return to this place of happiness has contaminated my memories of what it actually was. Swimming pools and sleeping on my stomach on the floor and eating crackers with strawberry spread. It’s a soft and safe (nonexistent??) world from the past that continues to remain intact through specific memorabilia. Personal items recovered from storage are both recreated and physically incorporated into these pieces (parts of that world and myself are literally contained in this body of work). Sami Cronk is a visual artist, illustrator, and designer based in NYC. She graduated from VCU Arts in 2014, and her work has been featured in various solo and group gallery exhibitions, private collections, and publications. Her sculptural paintings and art objects are an exploration of happier worlds than here— celebrating themes of homelife, Jewishness, innocence, and personal growth. Her designs attempt to create universally relatable cheer.