Cafferata | Cross | Freiman | Green | Boothby | Janto | Phillips | Brown | Sloane | Tatarsky | White

Aartvark Revisited

Group Show featuring gallery partners

May 28 - June 27
Opening reception Friday, May 28th 5-8

AARTVARK REVISITED: Downtown Gallery Opens 14th Season
 
Washington's Downtown Gallery begins its season with "Aartvark Revisited", a group show by Gallery partners.  The "Aartvark" image of the Gallery's mascot, a busy arrdvark artist,was an original design by Gallery partner Paula Green.  The nine artist-partners are dedicating this season to Paula, friend and colleague, who died early this spring after a long struggle with cancer.  Paula was one of the founding partners of the Gallery.  Artists who created the Gallery fourteen years ago, as well as those who became new partners  over the years, remember gratefully Paula's enthusiasm, hard work, humor, gentleness and tolerance of her partners' foibles. Paula Green's expressive paintings and whimsical mixed media sculptures were always of great interest and delight to gallery goers.  An ongoing selection of works by the artist will be exhibited throughout the season in a special space.
 
In the main gallery, the group show presents new work by the nine artist/partners and includes: graphite drawings by Megan Cafferata, prints by Mary Boothby, collages by Ieva Tatarsky, prints and "Small World" drawings by Cynthia White and paintings of "Medomak River in Winter" by Suzanne Phillips. New  gallery partner Carolyn Brown will exhibit in this show and in a three person show in July.
 

How's The Water?

Carol Sloane
Megan Cafferata
Carolyn Brown

July 2 - August 1
OPening reception Friday, July 2, 5-8

"HOW’S THE WATER?" DOWNTOWN GALLERY ARTISTS ASK IN NEW SHOW

At Washington's Downtown Gallery, opening Friday, July 2nd, three artists present works that are all about water. Carol Sloane's oil paintings follow the interaction of tidal waters with shoreside piers, piles, docks. Carolyn Brown explores in acrylic paintings the shifting patterns of water movement. Megan Cafferata's watercolors picture water's world and its inhabitants.
In addition, a new exhibit of works by the late Paula Green will open in the area now named Paula's Gallery. The opening reception for artists and the public takes place on July 2, from 5 to 8pm. The Gallery's regular hours are Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Holidays, from 11 to 5.

Horizon Lines

Ieva Tatarsky
Cynthia White
Suzanne Phillips

Artists Explore "Horizon Lines" in New Downtown Gallery Show

Suzanne Phillips, Ieva Tatarsky and Cynthia White define their personal horizons in a new exhibit opening at the Downtown Gallery in Washington on Friday, August 6th and continuiing through September 6th.

In watercolor and acrylic paintings and in her carved black clay bird sculptures, Suzanne Phillips shows the horizons of her summer island world. "Many of my paintings explore the rocks and shoals where these birds and their landscape intersect," says the artist. Sometimes the intersection is violent: "I have a piece called 'armored gull', another of the remains of a Marsh Hawk called 'warrior'."

Ieva Tatarsky deals in the intimate horizons created by the flow of wire lines as she constructs her "painterly collages". "Wire becomes a sort of handwritng, "she says,"or a looped and spiralled weaving." In her small collages, the metallic brightness of wire lines plays with and defines the settings of paper and fabric.

"I'm in awe of these far horizons and in love with the small horizons very near at hand," says printmaker Cynthia White. She will exhibit prints and paintings of canyons and mountains as well as watercolors of close-up "small desert worlds", all based on her time each year in the desert southwest of Nevada.

August 6 - September 6
Opening reception Friday, Aug. 6, 5-8

Inspired by Matisse
Group show featuring gallery partners

September 10 - October 11
Opening reception Friday, Sept. 10, 5-8

As a tribute to Paula, our newly renamed "Green Gallery"
(formerly the Corner Gallery), will feature artwork by Paula Green throughout the 2010 season.