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. "

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.

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.”

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.

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

This winter, the artists of Washington Printmakers Gallery explore this extraordinary color – how to use it, how to shape it, and how to interpret the many things the color red connotes.

Sea Change features guest artists as well as WPG printmakers and photographers, and focuses on climate change, and the present environment, whether political or sociological.