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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.