Opening Reception: Sunday, March 10, 3-5 pm

Whether the subject matter is sheep or the graphic artist Jaques Callot, tiled walls or manhole covers, Deborah Schindler brings her unique vision of the world to light through linoleum cuts that come to life in a joyful array of patterns, textures and contrasts. Expressive Impressions, a compilation of recent original hand-pulled prints and artist books on a variety of themes, will be on display at the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Georgetown through the entire month of March 2024.

View works from members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery.

Works by William Demaria, Erin Owen & Oliver Stern

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 20, 2-4 pm

After Thought explores overlooked aspects of the landscape with personal significance for each of the three artists, recording emotional experiences as opposed to simple observation. Demaria and Stern look to the past to understand the present, Owen looks to the present to understand the future. While all three of these artists have different perspectives on the landscape, they share a focus on the overlooked / afterthoughts of the landscape, which tell the most about humanity and the real state of our world.

View works from members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery.

Works by Members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 9, 2:00-4:00 pm

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape.

Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”

—Andrew Wyeth, American painter.

As we move toward winter, a certain quietude falls over us. It is time for contemplative thought and a different perspective. We dream and we reflect. Then, as the Solstice arrives, and days lengthen, a new vision begins. Sometimes it takes the eyes of an artist to usher us into this quieter world. We at Washington Printmakers Gallery offer up our visions of this introspective time as we invite you to celebrate this season and its sense of promise.

Film, print, painting & projection works by Donna Cameron

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 4, 2-4 pm. Artist’s Talk: 3:15 p.m.

Film, print, painting & projection works by Donna Cameron

Ron Meick — Recent Work

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 30, 1-4 pm

The Washington Printmakers Gallery is pleased to present Anomaly, recent prints by Ron Meick. Anomaly celebrates the duality of technique and concept, the intermingling of the tangible and the intangible. The human imperfections, wrinkles, registration of color, or inconsistencies of the process are like finding revelations of the extraordinary that lie beneath the surface of everyday experience. They are visual landscapes where we can extend personal narratives and context.

Constructed prints by Kate Lowman

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9, 2-4 pm

These prints retain the memory of the sun, wind, and water where they began. Constructed from multiple photographs of radio-operated model sailboats, they keep the texture and detail of their originals, but the end result moves wholly or partly into abstraction. Printed on Japanese “cloud dragon” paper, many with a deckled edge, they are happy colors on a delicate paper.

All Member Group Exhibition

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 5, 2:00-5:00 pm

August is a golden month. Many have left home and are exploring our country, whether in National Parks, at the seashore, or in other hidden corners of this nation. It is a time to reflect on the beauty and complexity of America. Woody Guthrie’s famous song, This Land is Your Land, speaks of this beauty with his iconic words, which Bruce Springsteen once said comprise “the greatest song ever written about America.” Our printmakers and photographers offer their views of Guthrie’s ballad, each from a personal perspective. This rich collection of images promises to make you reflect on our country’s glory as we look deeper into our souls."

Including work from 36 artists representing the DC and 17 states

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 8, 2:00-5:00 pm

It is with great pleasure that we announce the 23rd year of the National Small Works Show: the first since 2019, due to covid cancellations.The exhibition includes 36 pieces – fine art prints, photographs, and artist books chosen by our juror LuLen Walker, Art Curator for Georgetown University. "

Prints exploring antiquity, abstraction and love of the medium by Susan J. Goldman

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 3, 1-4 pm

Susan J. Goldman's works on paper are bright and bold. These images are inspired by the ancient Greek idea of “squaring the circle,” as an expression of balance and beauty. Driven by the formal qualities of color interaction and a sense of geometrical playfulness, Goldman’s prints, encompass a spirit of experimentation and expanded logic. Transparent and opaque color blocks shield and reveal delicate, illustrative line drawings of flowers, among fragmented patterned textures, creating contrasts of fragile and strong, intense and subdued. Boundaries are nudged outward, new territory is created. "

Works on paper by Catherine Small

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 13, 4-7 pm

My prints have been called narrative portraiture. Each work functions as a story, but one that changes with every viewer. The series explores emotions, ranging from the extremes of joy and loss to the gentler zones of contentment and restlessness. The figures are bound with color and pattern which enhance and underline the emotions they surround. Together, the figure and pattern create an observable beauty supporting a complex, intangible emotion.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 1, 3-5pm

Variation: a different or distinct version

Join the associate member artists of the Washington Printmakers Gallery as they present Variations, an exploration of the printed arts: ink on paper from nine different points of view.

Members’ Exhibit

Gala Celebration for WPG’s New Location: Saturday, February 11, 4-8pm

It’s a new year, and we have a new gallery! 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese Horoscope of the Moon, and this animal is the luckiest in the 12-year cycle. Rabbit is a symbol of longevity, peace and prosperity. 2023 is predicted to be a year of hope. People born in the Year of the Rabbit are believed to be vigilant, witty, quick-minded and ingenious. We hope for the same with our new beginning at Washington Printmakers Gallery, now located at 1675 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, D.C.

Opening receptions: Friday, January 13, 5-7pm and Saturday, January 14, 1-4pm

My imagery is meant to express the industrial aesthetic of printmaking, which is repetition. I strive to present these images with clarity and control, but because the reproduction process is indirect, there is always mystery. Adding new layers and colors to a print can profoundly change the end result, modifying the print or creating variation in a series.

Opening reception: Sunday, December 4 from 2pm–4pm | Closing reception: Sunday, January 8 from 1pm-3pm

The prints in this show are constructed from bits and pieces of multiple photographs (my own.) Essentially, I use the image to edit itself by lifting bits of color or components of design from one area and adding it to another. The end result can be a long way from the original image, but I always feel the integrity of the original object is respected, even enhanced.

Opening reception: Sunday, November 6 from 2pm–4pm | Closing reception: Sunday, November 27 from 2pm–4pm

In this solo exhibition, artist Susan Wooddell Campbell embraces a variety of different media. She has studied paper making, painting, printmaking, and sculpture at the Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, The Art League of Alexandria, Washington Studio School, and the Corcoran School of Art, all in the greater Washington DC area. She says, “I began as a painter, and then found printmaking techniques opened up new opportunities for layering and compositional flexibility. Today, whether it is intaglio, gel press, linocut / woodcut relief, or even digital, each dive fuels exploration that invariably begets combinations I couldn’t have imagined beforehand.” The pieces in this show share movement and gesture, all pursued in a variety of different techniques. In terms of tools, the artist says she’s “all over the map,” but it is all in pursuit of discovering new ways to express herself as she breaks down and translates essentials of the observed world."

Opening reception: Saturday, October 1, 2022 from 6pm–8pm

Washington Printmakers presents artworks of Rosemary Cooley, in her 5th solo exhibition at the gallery. Her painterly monoprints and collages reflect thoughts from the unconscious mind, a personal archeology based on a lifetime of world travel and cross cultural experiences, coupled with a love of art history and the materials of art making.

Opening reception: Saturday, September 10 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

In the end, a photo extends beyond this moment. I may not feel the same way about it later. Some photos need editing, while others need to be left alone. As time passes, some images become more interesting, while others won’t make it. Nature draws me outside. It guides me and my camera through the seasons. It fuels my desire to look for lasting impressions and perfect imperfections.

Opening reception: Saturday, July 16 from 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Life is a constant flow. Water is the essential element that makes life flow. Without Water, there would be no life on earth. Water is the essence of life.

In this exhibition the artists of the WPG, through their printmaking, photography and digital art, depict their understanding of this theme in its external and internal form, in its symbolic and real form through their various interpretations of what this mighty element means to them.

Woodblock prints by Leslie Rose

Opening Reception: Friday, June 24, 5:00-7:00pm

The solidity of iron and steel: maybe the ephemeral nature of the past two years attracted me to these solid objects. In any case, I’m entranced by the strange structures of electric towers, bridges and fire escapes, and I've used the medium of woodblock printing to describe them. These carved woodblock prints are softer than their cousins – the metal originals. In recent weeks, the bombardment of the people and land of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin has focused on the Azovstal Steel Factory as a target of destruction. The symbolism of flattening the plant is troubling and crystal clear. Sheer blunt power and its abuse. In contrast to this haunting obliteration, electric towers, bridges and fire escapes represent bastions of domestic peace we can’t take for granted.

Photographs & Digital Drawings by Naurya Pelletier-Bacquaert

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 7 from 3-5pm | Closing Reception: Sunday, May 29 from 2:30-4pm

This exhibition is an invitation by French photographer and artist, Naurya Pelletier-Bacquaert, to reconnect with joy, colors, poetry, and desire. The title of the exhibition comes from the French saying: “In April, don't remove a thread (of your clothing), in May, do what you like!” Pelletier-Bacquaert explains, “the thread of April, which we cannot remove, reminds us that in the spring, gloomy days can still appear! The beautiful escape of spring comes fully with May, which finally tells us: do what you like, the sun is there! After the bad days, happiness comes! We can believe it!”"

Woodblock prints and works on paper by Amy Guadagnoli

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 9, 3-5 pm

Join us this April for Ritual & Relief, Amy Guadagnoli’s second solo exhibition at Washington Printmakers Gallery. From the opening set of intimately scaled drawings to sweeping, totemic woodblock prints, Guadagnoli invites us to embrace color, form, and texture as a means to mental and emotional survival and transformation during unprecedented times of anxiety and loss. Guadagnoli’s art explores how ambiguous forms coupled with detailed textures and jewel-colored surfaces spark multiple narratives that weave together the mundane and the mythical. After the past two and a half years, the artist acknowledges that what was familiar is forever lost and through each piece she asks the more pressing question, “Where is the vitality and joy in the unfamiliar?” The ritual of making art, both the drawings and relief prints, anchored her to each moment, helping her understand how, even completely cut off from one another, by distance, disease, isolation, and death, what we do with each minute matters—we all have agency and the power to connect.

Opening Reception: March 13th, 2-4pm (rescheduled due to inclement weather)

(Masks and vaccinations required)

The Washington Printmakers Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibit, Common Thread. Displaying from March 4th through 27th, eight members of the printmakers' gallery join together to display recent and choice work. Ranging from monoprints to digital works and photography to intaglio, the work is diverse and expansive. The gallery space will showcase an extensive variety of intent and ideas that will make visiting exciting as connections and juxtapositions appear and shift between works.

Harmony - 15 Interpretations describes our artists’ responses to the present disharmony, created by polarizing politics, the lingering pandemic, climate change challenges…and our response as we seek to achieve harmony in our own distinct ways.

Reception Postponed: Our previously advertised reception on January 15th is being postponed to a later date, still to be determined.

Opening reception: Saturday, November 11th, 2-5pm

Photographs can stop time and capture the sights, feelings, and moments of our lives. Photographs thus become a record of our journey through life. For Clara Kim, who travels far and wide, the record of the journeys includes stunning, spectacular scenery displayed in this exhibit. The exhibit traces her journey, yet the images have a universality. As Kim puts it, “There are paths that naturally arise from the movement of living things or the paths of human civilization created around rivers in history. There are paths that we often take for life. But like the desert, where there is no path, my footsteps become someone's path.”

Opening reception: Saturday, November 6th, 1-4 pm

The Washington Printmakers Gallery is pleased to present Illuminations, Ron Meick…recent work. This show explores illumination as both a phenomenological characteristic of light and enlightenment of information or wisdom acquired from visual objects. Illumination also refers to the traditional definition of any decorated or illustrated religious manuscript. Many of these prints are printed on or over other prints. The juxtaposition of these images is intended to amplify the content of these objects or to impart meaning.

Opening Reception: Sunday, October 3, 2:00-4:00 pm | Demonstration: Sunday, October 10, 3:00-4:00 pm

From October 1st to October 31st, the Washington Printmakers Gallery presents an exhibition of linoleum cuts by Deborah Schindler, one of the gallery's founding members. The prints distinguish themselves by numerous patterns, rich textures, and lively shapes. Ms. Schindler creates a topsy-turvy world, where plants and animals have personalities, where tango dancers and comic actors turn into games and where gravity is defied as figures float into and out of a variety of spatial arrangements."

Reception: September 11, 2:30-6:00 pm

Marie-B whistled before she talked. She was born in Africa where there is no winter, where colors are magnificent, where the spices tickle the nostrils, where birds always sing, and where sugar has a central role in one’s life.

When Marie-B was twelve, she received a camera for Christmas. The camera looked like a black soap box, without lenses or flash. That was the beginning of a long series of experiments to capture the light and the bliss of the moment, starting with processing film classes in the dark chamber.

Moments Exceptionnels is a series of photographs which captures fleeting moments which a second later cease to exist; moments where the light, the colors and the creatures are in perfect harmony and become an exceptional whole. "

Opening Reception: July 31, 3-5pm | Etching demonstration presented by Nina Muys on Saturday, August 14, 2-3 pm

This exhibition showcases the diversity and uniqueness of each artist through their individual artistic expression. At the root, all artists share the same innate desire to express their creativity. Our individual journeys define how we branch out and create artworks through our unique experiences. Eclectic Expressions is a group show by the associate members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery displaying their unity in creativity through their varied eclectic expressions using the medium of printmaking and photography.