ADA Gallery | Opening Friday, August 1. Stephanie Serpick , Chicago artists, decorative paintings & drawings. Sharon Shapiro, figurative painter from West Virginia living in Charlottesville. Kirsten Kindler, Richmond artists working in cut paper from magazines.  Tarek Abu Hageb, burns Goya drawings into carpet. Barbara Weissburger, N.Y. painter .. exhibits some backyard, summertime “burger” paintings. 5-9 pm. 228 W. Broad St. 644.0100.
http://www.adagallery.com
Art Space | Opening Friday, August 1.  Main Gallery: Jordan Kasey ‘Two Worlds in One,’ Oil on canvas. Davis Gallery: Jane Vaught “Italy: Shadows and Reflections,” Photography. Frable Gallery: Elisabeth Flynn- Chapman “Organic and Geometric in Black and White with a touch of color,” photography. 7-10pm. Zero East 4th Street. 232.6464.

Art Works | Opening Friday, August 1. ‘DOG DAYS OF SUMMER & STRAY CATS’ – A Richmond SPCA & Art Works Partnership, ‘2008 MEMBERS & RESIDENT ARTISTS SHOW’, ‘HAVE YOU SEEN MY DOTS LATELY?, by Vinnie Gonzalez, ‘SEIZING THE MOMENT’ by Irwin Shisko, ‘TINTS, TONES and OVERTONES’ by Geraldine Keifer . 320 Hull St. 291.1400. 
http://www.artworksrichmond.com

Contract Associates, Inc. | Opening Friday, August 1. Michael O’Neal:  Abstract Puzzles joins the landscapes already on view by Virginia artists Ruth Buhrman and Greg Osterhaus. 6:30-8:30pm. 1519 West Main St. at Main and Lombardy. http://www.gingerlevit.com.

Ghostprint Gallery | Opening Friday, August 1. Patricia Murphy: ‘Cast a Cold Eye’ A series of oil paintings featuring a swimming pool in different modes and seasons. 220 W. Broad St., 344-1557.
http://www.ghostprintgallery.com

The Henry Gallery | Opening Friday, August 1. “Jamaica 1979-2008,” During the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, Sue Miles lived throughout the island of Jamaica. Her work showcases the faces and culture of this era, as well as pieces from more current visits in the 1990’s and 2000’s. Medium: Photography / Film. Please come and enjoy refreshments and reggae music from that era. 212 W. Broad St. 344.5315
http://www.thehenrygallery.com/

Main Art Gallery | Continuing through August 30. “The Spore Collective,” featuring 10 sculpture students from the University of Mary Washington.
1537 W. Main St. 355.6151.
http://www.mainartsupply.com

Quirk Gallery | Opening Friday, August 1. “Vault Project 2008” by Anat Grozovski. 311 Broad St. 644.5450.
http://www.quirkgallery.com

Richmond Public Library | Opening Friday, August 1. “Making Cultural Connections,” works in mixed media/collage by Richmond artist Dare Boles; “Equilibrium,” abstract paintings in oil by Richmond artist Chet Naylor; black-and-white photographs of landscapes and historical sites along canals and railroads by Philip de Vos; and “Negative Spaces,”  gesso on canvas by Richmond artist Brigette Newberry.  Opening reception 7 pm. 101 E. Franklin St.  http://www.richmondpubliclibrary.org

Transmission | Opening Friday, August 1. New work by VICTOR VAUGHN (Richmond, Va) and BEN KEHOE (Pittsburgh, Pa). 7-9 pm. 321 Brook Rd. 200.9985.
http://transmissionrva.blogspot.com/

Virginia Center for Architecture | Continuing through October 5. “Italian Dressing: Palladio and American Classicism.” What does an Italian who lived 500 years ago have to do with homes in America today?” 2501 Monument Avenue. 644.3041. http://www.virginiaarchitecture.org

Virginia Historical Society | Continuing through Sepember 22. “Moonshining in the Blue Ridge,” This exhibition, organized by the Blue Ridge Institute of Ferrum College, is believed to be the largest exhibit ever mounted on moonshining in the United States. Covering more than a century of moonshining in the mountains of Virginia, it tells the story of illegal alcohol distilling in defiance of the federal government’s excise tax. 428 N. Boulevard. http://www.vahistorical.org