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Free Fall

Group show featuring gallery partners
Opening reception Friday, September 9th, 5-8

Downtown Gallery’s final show of the season, Free Fall, will be opening on September 9th with a gathering and great food from 5-8 pm. This show features new original artwork from the gallery partners in a variety of mediums and styles. Downtown Gallery partners are also excited to present, in the Paula Green Gallery, a show of 6”x6” drawings that will be available to purchase throughout the remaining season. These drawings were inspired by the Maine Drawing Project, a statewide collaboration of museums and galleries that will offer exhibitions that focus on the process of drawing and how artists use it as a vehicle for creating diverse forms of visual expression. These shows run from September 9th through October 10th at the Downtown Gallery at 2 Old Union Road, Washington Me.

* Carolyn Brown, "Mouse"

Carol Sloane, "Floating"

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The Downtown Gallery has an exciting show opening on August 5th featuring the work of Joan Freiman and Barbara Vanderbilt. 'Reflections' features two gallery members; Freiman, whose paintings have been called "forceful" and "animated" by leading critics, is showing a new collection of landscapes. These capture her unique vision and love of her surroundings and bring the viewer directly into her world, letting them experience the rhythm and textures of the scene.

Vanderbilt is showing images from both Florida and Maine in which she continues to explore the mood and textures of roots, trees and rocks, focusing on the fine detail and the unusual forms found in nature.
In the Paula Green Gallery the partners have created 6x6 ceramic tiles, which can be hung on the wall or used for trivets, reflecting scenes of Washington, past and present, in honor of Washington's Bicentennial.
The Gallery is notorious for their lively openings and excellent food and we hope you will join us for the opening reception on Friday, August 5th from 5 to 9. For further information please visit our website at downtownartgallery.com.

Vernal Pool Exploration, Acrylic, Joan Freiman

Fakahatchee Strand, pastel, Barbara Vanderbilt

Medomak Trail

Group Show featuring gallery partners

May 27 - June 26th
Opening reception Friday, May 27th 5-8

The Downtown Gallery in Washington, Maine is kicking off another inspiring and fun filled season with their opening show on Friday, May 27th from 5 to 8pm. The theme of this first show is the Medomak Trail and will feature paintings, fabric, found object collages, pastels and drypoints.
The old Medomak Trail, called “the alternate route Downeast” follows route 220 from Waldoboro to Route 3 in Liberty and was the road the original settlers pioneered to open up the interior of the state.
In addition The Downtown Gallery has invited artists affiliated with other galleries on the trail to show works in the Paula Green Gallery following the same theme. Included are Audrey Bechler, Pam Cabanas, Karen Jelenfy, Julian Sachs, and Carolyn Wiley. Collages by Deb Arter and Anne Metcalf and sculpture by Richard Whittier will also be shown.
The Downtown Gallery is known for their lively openings and wonderful food. In keeping with the theme the gallery has invited trail members to have samples of their products at the opening, which will include specialties from John’s Ice Cream, Washington Farmer’s Market, Sweet Season Farm and Sweetgrass Winery. Please join us for this opening event. Gallery hours for the season are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11 to 5.

Restraint, Release

Mary Boothby and Carolyn Brown
with invited artists Andra Cough, Greg Strom & Tyler Pope

July 1st - 31st
Opening reception Saturday, July 9th, 1-4

The Downtown Gallery, 2 Old Union Rd, Washington, opens its second show of the season, ‘Restraint, Release’, with a diverse group of artists. The show features gallery partners Carolyn Brown and Mary Boothby with their newest work in painting and printmaking, along with several invited artists.
Brown, who is an art teacher at Camden Hills Regional High School, described what influences her when painting. “I'm inspired by patterns and colors in nature, and found objects picked up on hikes to abandoned camps and trails. Recently I've been looking at designs formed by water, ice, and growth of lichen on rocks. Rather than painting direct observations of nature, I'm using nature as a springboard to abstract work. I'm also intrigued by subtle evidence of people in the landscape, as evidenced by what is left behind: rusting tools, cleared paths, fire rings. Old neglected homesteads, campsites and trails take on an almost iconic sense when encountered on hikes through the woods and fields of Maine.”
Boothby, a printmaker from Waldoboro, has been working on a group of self-portraits done in the drypoint technique. “I’m trying to move away from my more controlled, tight mezzotints and loosen up! With drypoints you are working directly on the copper plate, using anything from a dentist tool to sandpaper to create line and texture. The rich, dark lines of the drypoint really lend itself to figure study and I’m working on much larger plates than I have in the past, it’s been a fun process.”
Also showing their work will be local artists Andrea Cough, Greg Strom and Tyler Pope. Cough came to Maine in 1996 to do a ceramic residency at Watershed Center for Ceramic Arts. Her ceramics studies began at Eastern Michigan University where she received her BFA and certification to teach art. For the past thirteen years, she has taught art at Bristol Consolidated School. Her home studio is in Damariscotta where she makes sculptural ceramics and prints. Strom is originally from Camden, and now lives in Portland, Maine. He has been a photographer and photo teacher for over 20 years, originally working in black and white film, and then moving to digital. His recent work explores the photographic capabilities of an iphone. The advantages of using such a simple, unobtrusive camera are similar to working with a Holga- chance and intuition play a big part in this recent series of work. Pope lives in Whitefield with his family where he works with copper to create masks and sculptures, forming them with hammers, punches, wood, fire and water to an amazing end result.
Together these artists have created an energized atmosphere of line, texture, shape, light and dark in all different mediums. The show will be running from July 1st to July 31st with the opening reception on July 9th from 1-4pm.

Unsure
Drypoint, Mary Boothby

Ice Painting
Acrylic, Carolyn Brown

Ibis
Copper, Tyler Pope

Encircling
Ceramic balls, Andrea Cough

Ft. William
Photograph, Greg Strom

Annual Holiday Show

December 8 - 11

Opening Thursday, December 8th