The exhibition is the third iteration of "Direct Sow," as in the process of planting seeds directly in the ground, rather than transplanting starts. Direct sowing can feel a little riskier because you start with something that seems impossibly small and dormant (a tiny seed). It is also the most rewarding, however, when full plants eventually grow out of the ground like magic. The title is a nod to the beginnings of Visible Records, with little idea of how things would unfold, as well as our hopes that this space nurtures a lot of possibility and productivity for local artists.
aBOUT THE ARTISTS:
/Morgan Ashcom is an artist and founding director of Visible Records, a small community and arts non-profit based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Ashcom works across mixed media, photography, film, installations, and social practice. For the past ten years Ashcom’s work has consistently drawn on William Fualkner’s methods for creating fictional composite places and characters, along with Ariella Azoulay’s theory on the creation of potential histories that open new possibilities for the future.
Lucky, Murray & Francis
Wood, Tape, Rubber, Acrylic, Aluminum, Pigment Prints on Reclaimed Paper
47" x 33"
2025
Abstract Land & Filing Company Book Maquette
Reclaimed Computer Paper, Die Manual Pages, Pigment Prints, Tape
11" x 14"
2026
Abstract Land & Filing Company Installation
Mixed Media
Variable dimensions
2026
/Roderick Coles expounds on the human condition through strong narratives and storytelling. Often digging into the subconscious for emotional themes and exposing them upon a surface. The Virginian artist maintains that everyone is worthy of being the hero of a tall tale every so often. Currently creating a body of abstract paintings and select whimsical interior works by commission.
TV (Spirit) GUIDE
68" x 174" (triptych)
2026
/Thomas Dean is a visual artist, screen printer and designer, now living in Staunton, Virginia. He is organizer and founder at Infinite Repeats in Woolen Mills. Copies of a copy, many repeats.
zzz
Mixed media on board
41” x 23”
2026
/Stephanie Germosen Salazar / Utilizing highly tactile materials, Stephanie Germosen Salazar creates work to communicate the urgency of remembering under conditions of displacement. These objects address notions of geographical belonging and visibility. By shifting the emphasis from the immaterial to the material, Germosen Salazar repurposes objects of enigmatic origin, giving disembodied histories physical form. Her practice retraces memory, gathers time, and mends new moments that reference both the past and the future.
repository
wild clay harvested in Gordonsville, VA, two steel pails, leaves from my backyard, inkjet prints on vellum
2026
untitled (flux continued)
Jabón de Cuaba, steel, inkjet prints on vellum
2026
/Will Green is a digital fabricator with a speciality in manipulating light. His undergraduate degree in neuroscience led to a natural skepticism of sensation and perception that informs the subjectivity of truth and art. He attended the UVA School of Architecture during a faculty collapse, and so preoccupied himself with learning how to use machines and automation whenever possible. He currently practices digital fabrication and lithography as a freelance product designer.
Oxbow Guilloche
Photons on Tempered Glass
44" x 16" x 3/8"
2019
/AV Légère is a multimedia and performance artist dedicated to reclaiming narratives and discovering new possibilities in what has been lost, forgotten, or rejected. Rooted in conceptual work, their practice interweaves photography, harvested objects, and repurposed materials to reveal metaphors that reframe reality. With a background in media studies, theatre, and psychology, Légère explores the interplay between materiality and memory through collage, photography, painting, and storytelling.
Compostempulation
Installation with harvested objects
Variable dimensions
2026
Ripple
Matte print
8” x 10”
2021
Transient Joy
Matte print
8” x 10”
2021
/Alyssa Manalo is an interdisciplinary artist creating work exploring intrapersonal identity conflicts and psychological and physical transformation. The photographs she produces often depict herself in alternate consciousness, while her sculptural objects materialize her inner world into the physical world. In 2025, she graduated with a double B.A. in Studio Art and Cognitive Science from the University of Virginia, and she is currently the Director of Studio and Community Programs at Visible Records.
Do I seem as I did when I first met you 3 karmic cycles ago?
Stoneware, glaze, and flower ashes
Variable dimensions
2026
Through it all, I still want to feel beautiful
Stoneware, glaze, and flower ashes
Variable dimensions
2026
Imaginal Woman (1-3)
Stoneware, glaze, and flower ashes
Variable dimensions
2026
/Will May is a multimedia artist working with photography, drawing, and video. He is primarily interested in how images are interpreted, changed, and carried in the imagination. He lives and works in Charlottesville VA.
Snow Cycle Two - from the series Avalanche
Vertical looping video in frame
15" x 10" / Variable dimensions
2026
Bees and Bird - from the series Avalanche
Horizontal looping video in frame
15" x 10" / Variable dimensions
2026
/Kweisi Morris attended the Herberger Institute’s School of Art at Arizona State University. After a career detour through the corporate maze, he rediscovered his muse on a warm Saturday morning at an artist’s market in Accra, Ghana. He crafts cut paper creations celebrating the lives of the African Diaspora through figurative, abstract, and nonrepresentational art.
Joyful Zephyrs
Hanji paper and color paper
20” x 24”
2026
/Peter Russell / My practice is rooted in inquiry, exploring the entanglement of perception, landscape, and climate. It is defined by three framing questions:
How does the sociocultural lens through which we view landscape shape our experience of place?
How does climate interact with the landscape to affect changes in perception or experience?
What does it mean to ‘view’ the landscape, and how can we understand landscape as a visual medium with the power to inform/shape experience?
Processed View at Washington Park
Acrylic on canvas
48”x48”
2026
$1,600
Idyllic Reflection
Acrylic on board
24”x47”
2026
$400
/Autumn Samone is an interdisciplinary creative, uses their identities as a neurodivergent black person to explore tensions existing in, and pushing against, systems that are designed to contain an individual's state of being. By its nature, the constant flux between being inside and outside a system unfolds itself in the work. Themes of absent place and porous confinement find themselves emerging as a mirror to lived experiences of internal conflict and eternal curiosity. Architectonic motifs, pseudo-spatial imagery and flesh adjacents serve as proxies that are used to invite and release the material conditions of the psyche’s tenuous existence.
Barking up water and terra-cotta, a sea of fluff
Acrylic and oil on canvas
72” x 52”
2026
Potency, it lingers
Ceramic, fiber, and acrylic on wall
Variable dimensions
2026
/Gabe Walker is a Special Education Teacher at Mountain View Primary School. In his free time, he enjoys creating his work here at VR. He has been working with tape and exploring how to add wonder and whimsy into ordinary materials, images, and ideas. His focus for this work is to highlight the material by exceeding its expectations.
Tape-vid
Tape on Black Poster Board
30” by 60”
2026
Venus de Tape
Tape on Black Construction Paper
24” by 43”
2026
Portrait of Howard Fuller
Pencil on Cardstock
12” by 10”
2026