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"Any Season Will Be The Finest Hour" - with the spectacular work of Maremi Andreozzi and Sheila Giolitti at Adah Rose!
February 8-March 9
Opening Reception: Saturday Feb 8 5-7pm
Open All Week..please call first
301-922-0162
Adah Rose at Art Seen/Tri Graphics
12115 Parklawn Drive
Rockville Md 20852
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| Anthology of memories #8 by Sheila Giolitti 20”x40” |
Artists & Makers Studios in Rockville Presents
Steve Wanna and “Line, Circle, Ground”
for the Month of February
Opening Reception
5:00pm – 8:00pm, Friday, February 7th, 2025
Artists & Makers Studios
11810 Parklawn Drive, Suite 210
Rockville, MD 20852
Artists & Makers Studios on Parklawn Drive in Rockville is thrilled to host Steve Wanna in the Invited Artist Gallery for the month of February 2025. The exhibit runs from February 5th through February 26th, with an opening reception on First Friday, February 7th, 5 – 8pm. This exhibition features experimental techniques that push materials past their limits to yield unexpected, not entirely controllable results. Almost all the works use paper, pigment, and water as active mediums in an almost performative process.
There’s a defining element shared among all the works of pigment that is pulled apart in unexpected fractures and bifurcations, creating organic patterns reminiscent of those in nature, such as in lightning or the branches and roots of trees. These works also speak to the behavior of water in different terrains such as sudden river formation in arid land. In some cases the paper is treated similar to soil, at times approached while completely dry and other times presoaked, each causing dramatic changes as the paper and the media that is applied to it react to water.
"In keeping with my general approach of balancing elements of chaos and order in my work, I wanted to create in this series works that teeter on the edge of chaos while seeming to appear confined to simple or repeating shapes. This helps showcase the process by highlighting the myriad variations that unfold to create unique results in the same underlying shape. An important aspect of my aesthetic is to give up control over the process and end result without completely giving up agency and to negotiate with the materials and media to generate works in a collaborative process, which I find exciting despite inevitable frustrations."
Enjoy additional exhibits “Languaging Feelings in the Month of Hearts and Flowers” with Resident Artists, a mini-solo with Elizabeth Davison in the Lounge Gallery, Pop-Up with Naan Pocen, along with nineteen Gallery 209 Member Artists exhibiting their latest work. Open Studios building wide will welcome visitors to visit and learn. Shop and support local working artists, makers, and professionals. Light fare is sponsored monthly by The Chesapeake Framing Company – celebrating their 45th year. Wine by the glass and bottle by Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard.
Steve Wanna - “Line, Circle, Ground”
“Languaging Feelings in the Month of Hearts and Flowers” with Resident Artists
Mini-Solo with Elizabeth Davison
The 19 Member Artists of Gallery 209
Theremin Music by Arthur Harrison
Opening Reception
5:00pm – 8:00pm, Friday, February 7th, 2025
Artists & Makers Studios
11810 Parklawn Drive, Suite 210
Rockville, MD 20852
Meet the Artist 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Saturday, February 15th, 2025
Hold On, Change is Coming
January 17 – March 1, 2025
CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH
ARTIST TALKS AND BOOK SIGNING
SATURDAY, February 8, 2:00 PM
Artist Talks: Julee Dickerson-Thompson, Francine Haskins, and Luther Wright
Book Signing: Adrianne Lind, CYT, MSc, MA, BA “Wellness on The Weekly: 52 Fun
Prompts for Mindfulness, Movement, and a Whole Lot Less Stress!”
FEATURED ARTISTS: Doba Afolabi, Ram Brisueno, Julee Dickerson-Thompson, Buzz Duncan, Cheryl Edwards, Carolyn Goodridge, Francine Haskins, Paul Henry, Bernie Houston, Hubert Jackson, Ibou N'Diaye, Sabiyha Prince, Qrcky, Patrick Smith, Curtis Woody, Luther Wright
SAVE THE DATES:
Saturday, Feb 15, 2:00 PM
Artist Talk: Paul Henry
Book Signing & Author Talk: Kellee Baker & Clifford William Jr. "In God We Trust"
How to use trusts to create, build, and protect your financial legacy." Authors Kellee Baker, Esq. and Clifford Williams, Jr. will reveal the conventional and lesser-known uses of trusts for wealth-building and asset protection. In a special black history lesson, they will breakdown the hidden wordplay used in the 14th Amendment that denies US residents the inalienable rights reserved for the "people" in the Declaration of Independence—unless you know how to operate through trusts, that is.
Saturday, Feb 22, 2:00 PM
Artist Talks: Cheryl Edwards, Carolyn Goodridge, Hubert Jackson
Book Signing: Adrianne Lind, CYT, MSc, MA, BA
At 1429 Iris Street NW, Washington DC, 20012 | Hours: Wed-Sat 12-6 PM, or by Appointment
About 20 years ago I wrote about Rosemary Feit Covey that "if there's a better wood engraver on the planet, I do not know who he/she is... as far as I am concerned, no one is better than this modern master, who continues to surprise me, gross me out, enlighten me, and always impress me with both her enviable technical skills and her super-sharp ability to cut deeply into my psyche."
And over the decades, I continued to be awed by the extraordinary printmaking super powers of this fantastic artist.
Behold "Lisa at twenty-two with Baby," c. 2003, 14 x 10 inches, wood engraving on paper.
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| Rosemary Feit Covey - "Lisa at twenty-two with Baby," c. 2003, 14 x 10 inches, wood engraving on paper |
Artists & Makers Studios in Rockville Presents
Steve Wanna and “Line, Circle, Ground”
for the Month of February
Opening Reception
5:00pm – 8:00pm, Friday, February 7th, 2025
Artists & Makers Studios
11810 Parklawn Drive, Suite 210
Rockville, MD 20852
Artists & Makers Studios on Parklawn Drive in Rockville is thrilled to host Steve Wanna in the Invited Artist Gallery for the month of February 2025. The exhibit runs from February 5th through February 26th, with an opening reception on First Friday, February 7th, 5 – 8pm. This exhibition features experimental techniques that push materials past their limits to yield unexpected, not entirely controllable results. Almost all the works use paper, pigment, and water as active mediums in an almost performative process.
There’s a defining element shared among all the works of pigment that is pulled apart in unexpected fractures and bifurcations, creating organic patterns reminiscent of those in nature, such as in lightning or the branches and roots of trees. These works also speak to the behavior of water in different terrains such as sudden river formation in arid land. In some cases the paper is treated similar to soil, at times approached while completely dry and other times presoaked, each causing dramatic changes as the paper and the media that is applied to it react to water.
"In keeping with my general approach of balancing elements of chaos and order in my work, I wanted to create in this series works that teeter on the edge of chaos while seeming to appear confined to simple or repeating shapes. This helps showcase the process by highlighting the myriad variations that unfold to create unique results in the same underlying shape. An important aspect of my aesthetic is to give up control over the process and end result without completely giving up agency and to negotiate with the materials and media to generate works in a collaborative process, which I find exciting despite inevitable frustrations."
Enjoy additional exhibits “Languaging Feelings in the Month of Hearts and Flowers” with Resident Artists, a mini-solo with Elizabeth Davison in the Lounge Gallery, Pop-Up with Naan Pocen, along with nineteen Gallery 209 Member Artists exhibiting their latest work. Open Studios building wide will welcome visitors to visit and learn. Shop and support local working artists, makers, and professionals. Light fare is sponsored monthly by The Chesapeake Framing Company – celebrating their 45th year. Wine by the glass and bottle by Sugarloaf Mountain Vineyard.
Steve Wanna - “Line, Circle, Ground”
“Languaging Feelings in the Month of Hearts and Flowers” with Resident Artists
Mini-Solo with Elizabeth Davison
The 19 Member Artists of Gallery 209
Theremin Music by Arthur Harrison
Opening Reception
5:00pm – 8:00pm, Friday, February 7th, 2025
Artists & Makers Studios
11810 Parklawn Drive, Suite 210
Rockville, MD 20852
Meet the Artist 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Saturday, February 15th, 2025
"Participating in Art Fairs 101" with yours truly as the host - 12 February at 8pm on Google Meet.
I'm going to go over the process and answer questions about entering outdoor art fairs. I will cover applications, logistics, sales and much more!
Contact info@artomatic.org to register and submit your questions in advance.
Google Meet joining info: Email info@artomatic.org for Video call link or dial: (US) +1 551-900-1744 PIN: 447 552 265#
At the risk of repeating myself, artists have many super powers, and a lot of them center around the simple (to others) power of observation at a level that escapes most ordinary humans.
Let me repeat the story told in art school by one of my professors - either Alden Mason or Jacob Lawrence. He used to tell the story of how Manet was once painting outdoors at a park and looking and depicting a water scene. A man approached him, observed the painting, looked at the scene, looked back at the painting and commented to Manet, "I don't see all those colors there," he said, pointing to the water and trees. Manet, looked at him and responded, "Dont' you wish you did monsieur..."
Bria Edwards has the super power of observation, and the refined technical abilities to transfer that super power to a substrate and create works of art that take our mind on a worldwide tour of nuances and tones, and light shifts that to most ordinary eyes only exist as a diluted background, but to an artist like Bria Edwards, speaks in high volumes.
She notes about this piece:
This painting is an illustration of a friend. I was visiting her New York City apartment. The room featured beautiful large windows with a wonderful view filled with natural light. I'm constantly fascinated in how black bodies occupy space in relation to light. I enjoyed being a fly on the wall in her home and capturing the essence of that moment.
Behold "On A Saturday Morning" by Bria Edwards, Oil, gold leaf on canvas, 46x49 inches, c. 2022
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| "On A Saturday Morning" by Bria Edwards Oil, gold leaf on canvas, 46x49 inches, c. 2022 |
