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.

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 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.

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: 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. "

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 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.”

From her art student days on, Lila Oliver Asher has been making pictures of musicians. This exhibit gathers together music themed prints made throughout her long career.

Washington Printmakers Gallery presents DC Deconstructed, an exhibit of lenticular pictures and sculptural paper works by Sally Canzoneri.

In this show, Tillman presented depictions and installations of individual, self-as-a-subject, double and multiple portrayals of the human.

This body of work explores the nature of physical, psychological, and emotional time.

Using a labor-intensive process, Amy Guadagnoli creates layers of bold but ambiguous shapes which cross over and cancel out one another.

Mi Viaje y las Batallas (My Journey and the Battles) solo exhibit by Marco Hernandez, grand prize winner of the 2018 National Small Works Competition.

As a printmaker, I carve wood and linoleum blocks, etch copper in acid, and create lithographs to roll under the press.

Cynthia Back's new exhibit, R E L I E F, continues her exploration of the reduction relief process (also known as a suicide print) inspired by the excitement of travel.

Bob Burgess employs digital techniques and tools to present what he sees. His series, Surfaces, is a collection of found painted walls and surfaces from many places during many trips.

Cole Swavely's exhibit What I Tell Myself explores the themes of power, service, narrative, and empathy through printmaking.

In the tradition of great landscape artists and photographers, Clara Young Choi seeks to capture the sublime — that sense of awe and wonder we feel in extraordinary places.