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TRANSITIONS
Doug Hochberg, Kristine DeNinno, and Catherine Rubin

October 3 - 27, 2024
Opening reception: Friday, October 4, 5:30-7:30 pm
Closing reception: Sunday, October 27: 2:30-4:00 pm
Artist talk: October 12, 2:00 pm, Kristine DeNinno
Artist talk: October 27, 2:00 pm, Catherine Rubin

Welcome to Transitions, an exhibition that celebrates three artists new to the Washington Printmakers Gallery. This collection features moments in time caught and captured by photographer Doug Hochberg, abstract prints of Kristine DeNinno that create a dialogue between two-dimensional surfaces and three-dimensional space, and woodblock prints of Catherine Rubin woven from moments of revelation and introspection.

Each piece invites viewers to explore techniques and mediums that all reveal transitions of time and and emotion.

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constructed prints & photographs by Kate Lowman
August 29 - September 29, 2024
Reception: Sunday, September 8, 2-4:00 pm
Artist talk: 3:00 pm

I always begin with photography, but I never know what the end result of my work will be. Inevitably, my photographs end up modified or cut up / rearranged. Even those prints in leaf & luminosity which I call "photographs" have been radically edited. The content of these prints is the natural world: leaves, trees, flowers, parks. I work with the light and data in my photographs to find the essence of what I thought I saw (or perhaps what I wanted to see,) rearranged in the service of my own vision of the world and in service of the best print on paper I can achieve.

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National Small Works: including work from 36 artists, representing 22 states, including DC

August 1–25, 2024
Reception: August 10, 2:00-5:00 pm

It is with great pleasure that we announce the 26th year of the National Small Works Show. The exhibit honors Peggy Doole (1934-2021), long-time resident of the DC area who shared her love of art by giving lectures, sponsoring exhibits, and leading tours at the Hirshhorn, the National Gallery of Art, and other museums throughout Europe and the U.S. Her post-graduate museum work led her to a focus on, and a special passion for, printmaking.

The exhibition includes 36 pieces – fine art prints, photographs, and printed objects chosen by our juror Ann Shafer, an independent curator, art historian and writer.

In the Drift
Recent Prints by Curtis Bartone
July 4 - July 28, 2024
Closing Reception: Friday, July 26, 6-9:00 pm

Curtis Bartone’s work examines how human beings fit into the fabric of the contemporary landscape—a landscape that can no longer be seen as “pristine” or “natural” as it reflects centuries of manipulating the environment to fit our immediate needs.

His work seeks to redefine our perception and role as we battle between stewardship and overconsumption. Through Bartone’s process of creating collages and sketches, and by further developing the composition on the print matrix, preconceptions about what “belongs” and what doesn’t are re-examined. Similarities and connections begin to emerge in these constructed, diorama-like landscapes, giving a view into possible futures—both despairing and hopeful—as we consider the outcomes of our behavior. The division between native and invasive, wild and domestic, desirable and useless, destruction and regrowth, becomes less clear, as does our role in this web of life.

Where will this ultimately lead? We are at a crossroads—a pivotal point. In evaluating the balance between need and want, between what we find beautiful or repugnant, there is a chance to grow—to develop a new way of perceiving and to redefine our relationship with our environment and other living things.

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Lost Causes & American Landscapes – Fine Art Photography by Dan Berkovitz

May 31 - June 30, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 1, 5-8:00 pm
The photographer will be at the Gallery on June 1, 2, and 30

Lost Causes & American Landscapes presents photographs with two distinct themes. Lost Causes displays images from the aftermath of two American wars: the Iraq War and the Civil War. With respect to the Iraq War, the exhibit presents portraits of leaders of the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein that were taken by Mr. Berkovitz while those individuals were held in captivity following the invasion of Iraq in 2003 by U.S. and coalition forces. This is the first time these portraits of officials, functionaries, and enablers in Saddam’s regime have been displayed publicly. On the domestic front, the photographs of civil war battlefields capture the interplay between the present and the past at these hallowed grounds, a dialogue that remains alive nearly 160 years after the armed conflict ended. The black-and-white images in American Landscapes reflect the contrasts between sunlight and shadow, mountains and valleys, ancient and modern, and human and artificial in our natural and man-made landscapes.

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Woodblock & Monotype Prints by Leslie Rose

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 18, 2024 from 3-5pm

I was captivated by these gentle creatures on a visit to the Galapagos in 2023. Their role in intellectual history, their environmental vulnerability, and their exotic appearance and behavior all spoke to me.

Photography by Claire Wright

Opening Reception: Sunday, April 7, 2-4 pm | The artist will be at the gallery on April 6, 12, and 28

Secret Places weaves the macro and the micro, the static and dynamic, the cold and the warm. Each image in this collection represents a special place, special in a personal sense. Wright believes places are primarily experienced, and the best pictures are taken in familiar places that are truly known. A place can be a memory, a feeling, a physical experience; and the image created is an effort to convey these feelings or experiences. In addition to the external aspects of weather and the season, every photograph carries with it traces of mood, the worries and pleasures of that moment. These places are secret because, even if you knew the location, your experience there would be different. Wright uses classic macrophotography techniques, drone photography, multiple exposures and intentional camera movement to create her interpretation of ephemeral glimpses of her world.

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Opening Reception: Sunday, March 10, 3-5 pm

Whether the subject matter is sheep or the graphic artist Jaques Callot, tiled walls or manhole covers, Deborah Schindler brings her unique vision of the world to light through linoleum cuts that come to life in a joyful array of patterns, textures and contrasts. Expressive Impressions, a compilation of recent original hand-pulled prints and artist books on a variety of themes, will be on display at the Washington Printmakers Gallery in Georgetown through the entire month of March 2024.

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Works by William Demaria, Erin Owen & Oliver Stern

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 20, 2-4 pm

After Thought explores overlooked aspects of the landscape with personal significance for each of the three artists, recording emotional experiences as opposed to simple observation. Demaria and Stern look to the past to understand the present, Owen looks to the present to understand the future. While all three of these artists have different perspectives on the landscape, they share a focus on the overlooked / afterthoughts of the landscape, which tell the most about humanity and the real state of our world.

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Works by Members of the Washington Printmakers Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 9, 2:00-4:00 pm

“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape.

Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”

—Andrew Wyeth, American painter.

As we move toward winter, a certain quietude falls over us. It is time for contemplative thought and a different perspective. We dream and we reflect. Then, as the Solstice arrives, and days lengthen, a new vision begins. Sometimes it takes the eyes of an artist to usher us into this quieter world. We at Washington Printmakers Gallery offer up our visions of this introspective time as we invite you to celebrate this season and its sense of promise.

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.

All Member Group Exhibition

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 5, 2:00-5:00 pm

August is a golden month. Many have left home and are exploring our country, whether in National Parks, at the seashore, or in other hidden corners of this nation. It is a time to reflect on the beauty and complexity of America. Woody Guthrie’s famous song, This Land is Your Land, speaks of this beauty with his iconic words, which Bruce Springsteen once said comprise “the greatest song ever written about America.” Our printmakers and photographers offer their views of Guthrie’s ballad, each from a personal perspective. This rich collection of images promises to make you reflect on our country’s glory as we look deeper into our souls."

Including work from 36 artists representing the DC and 17 states

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 8, 2:00-5:00 pm

It is with great pleasure that we announce the 23rd year of the National Small Works Show: the first since 2019, due to covid cancellations.The exhibition includes 36 pieces – fine art prints, photographs, and artist books chosen by our juror LuLen Walker, Art Curator for Georgetown University. "

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 Reception: Saturday, April 1, 3-5pm

Variation: a different or distinct version

Join the associate member artists of the Washington Printmakers Gallery as they present Variations, an exploration of the printed arts: ink on paper from nine different points of view.

Members’ Exhibit

Gala Celebration for WPG’s New Location: Saturday, February 11, 4-8pm

It’s a new year, and we have a new gallery! 2023 is the Year of the Rabbit in the Chinese Horoscope of the Moon, and this animal is the luckiest in the 12-year cycle. Rabbit is a symbol of longevity, peace and prosperity. 2023 is predicted to be a year of hope. People born in the Year of the Rabbit are believed to be vigilant, witty, quick-minded and ingenious. We hope for the same with our new beginning at Washington Printmakers Gallery, now located at 1675 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, D.C.

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.