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.