a non-profit gallery for the visual and performing arts

2833-A Hathaway Rd., Richmond, VA 23225
in the Stratford Hills Shopping Center

Gallery hours beginning Saturday, January 22, 2022:
Noon to 4pm, Tuesday - Sunday
Free and Open to the Public
Purchase artwork from our online store

Nick Candela was born in Michigan but now lives with his family near Richmond. He received his MFA in painting in 2017. The subject matter of his work comes from varied sources. His work has elements of dissonance, with images that seem familiar before they swerve away! His work is held in private collections across the country, and permanent collections at the University of Mary Washington and at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

Based on an idiosyncratic process, my work is a reorganization of the vulgar into dynamic iterations that emphasize the strangeness of the references' origins and functions. Illogical spaces, inconsistent scales, and ambiguous transitions become the principles for paintings whose resultant erraticism belies the calculated intent of the original.

nickcandela.com