Who we are

Southside Contemporary Art Gallery continues to humbly grow since opening its doors in 2023. Located in the heart of Southside, Richmond, VA the gallery maintains an ethos centering exposure and accessibility of contemporary fine art.

We are dedicated to amplifying and honoring diverse, timely and underrepresented voices to include emerging and established artists. Committed to breaking barriers in the art world, the gallery fosters dynamic contemporary and post-modern dialogue through culturally informed processes ensuring equity, homage, authenticity and truth-aligning original art and community. At SCAG, art is not just exhibited—it is experienced, celebrated, and integrated.

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Meet the team

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Ra-Twoine “Rosetta” Fields

Founding Owner/Lead Curator

Nigel S. Richardson

Curator

Aleyah Grimes

Seminal Founder/Gallery Consultant

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Represented artists

Huey Lightbody

Huey Lightbody (b. 1992) is a multidisciplinary visual practitioner residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born in Jamaica, Queens, and raised in Virginia Beach, Lightbody turned to creative investigation after stepping off a conventional life path, finding in his practice both refuge and revelation. His work merges street-inspired gestures, abstract portrait fragments, and modernist impulses. More than form or decoration, his surfaces serve as communicative fields for exploring the human complex, with a particular focus on the mechanisms and emotions of addiction. Through every layer and abrasion, Lightbody’s practice seeks not only to reflect personal narrative but to spark collective reckoning—and to transform vulnerability into a sharpened shared language of renewal.