Ritual & Relief: Woodblock prints and works on paper by Amy Guadagnoli
April 1–April 30, 2022
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.

Common Thread
March 4-27, 2022
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
January 7–February 27, 2022
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.

Clara Young Kim — Songs of Serenity: Landscape Photographs
December 3, 2021 – January 2, 2022
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.”

Kim has collected peaceful moments she encountered on the road while traveling. You may hear the songs of each landscape.

Deborah Schindler— Variation and Repetition
October 1–31, 2021
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.

Marie-B Cilia De Amicis — Moments Exceptionnels
September 3–September 26, 2021 • 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. 

Eclectic Expressions: Washington Printmakers Gallery Associate Members’ Exhibition
July 31–August 29, 2021 • 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. 

Jessie Nebraska Gifford— Carving Color: West to East July 1–July 25, 2021
Reception: July 10, 3:00–5:00 pm
For more than six decades, Jessie Gifford's myriad artistic styles reflected her Nebraska past, in landscapes, color choices, the ubiquity of cows represented in her work. But her creative expression has also been informed by her many, many years as a New Yorker, which gives her work a certain gritty exuberance, a uniqueness born from her surroundings, her quirky imagination, and the many challenging circumstances she wrangled with throughout her life.

Her career has encompassed a great diversity of styles and techniques. She has worked in printmaking, drawing, painting and sculpture, and her style has moved from the lyrical abstract to the figurative and iconographic. As an artist, she has always been brave: juggling motherhood and the intensive labor of creating art, managing the financial challenges of making a living as an artist, and showing unabashed fearlessness in the unearthing of childhood trauma and expressing her newfound memories in her work.

Linda Behar: I AM WOMAN – June 5–June 27, 2021
Linda Behar is interested in the female form, specifically how it is manifested in different media and how it highlights the dissonance between “the expectations of society and an individual’s sense of self.” Body language, for Behar, is a visual form of communication that helps the viewer understand human behavior. The artwork for this exhibit is titled “I AM WOMAN” and is a poetical representation of the woman’s body. As Behar notes, her goal is “embracing the freedom to be herself.”

Born in Venezuela, Behar immigrated to the United States in 2000. Behar was trained originally as a civil engineer before attending the Academia Taller Arte y Fuego in Caracas. In 2014, she received her MFA from Florida Atlantic University with an emphasis on printmaking. Behar’s works incorporate a variety of techniques and processes, including glass casting, woodblock prints, laser cutting, and páte de verre (a form of kiln casting). Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, winning numerous awards and honorable mentions.

Contexture – May 8 - May 30, 2021
The term contexture signifies an interwoven mass, a fabric, a constructed and continuous text. In this group exhibition, WPG artists explore surfaces—both literal and metaphoric. Through tapestries of textures, layers of objects, strings of text, or examinations of course and polished visual conversations, artists weave together their ideas into the unified whole.

Spring Ahead — March-June, 2021
March 20 - June 13, 2021
To proclaim the arrival of Spring, Washington Printmakers Gallery is offering an online celebration: a place to find color and delightful artwork to share while staying at a safe distance. This is an entirely online exhibit.

Metamorphosis – March-May, 2021
An exhibition which brings new vistas into printmaking and photography. Respecting centuries old techniques, we transform our work using 21st century methods.

Eye Candy Small Works Show – November/December 2020
We are offering an online feast. Treats for your eyes if not your tummy. A place to find color and delightful things to share while staying at a safe distance.