Critical Ground: Art and Environmental Justice

WASHINGTON SCULPTORS GROUP

Critical Ground: Art and Environmental Justice

Presented by the Washington Sculptors Group and Glen Echo Park Partnership for the Arts

February 21 - March 22, 2026

Opening Reception:

Saturday, February 21, 2026, 6-8pm

FEATURED ARTISTS

Esperanza Alzona, Joanathan Bessaci, Nizette Brennan, Leonardo Bruno, Sally Canzoneri, Chris Combs, Dianne Crosby, Nicholas Femia, Billy Friebele, McCleary Gallagher, Tom Greaves, Xiang Gu, Raina Hatcher, Kankel Jadon, Jean Kim, Joan Konkel, Heidi Lippman, Cat Lukens, Jon Lundak, Jacqueline Maggi, Samuel Miller, Davide Prete, Radhakund Ramnarine, Jim Roberts, Ira Tattelman, David Whitmore, Janet Wittenberg, Marcie Wolf-Hubbard

Juried by Tomora Wright Swann

JUROR & ARTIST TALK

Saturday, March 7, 2026, 1pm

Meet thirteen of the artists in Critical Ground in conversation with Tomora Wright Swann. Join us for a talk in the classroom on the third floor above the Popcorn Gallery.

More Information here.

What Passes Between Solo Exhibit by Clare Winslow

Everything that Rises, screenprint and acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48

March 5 - 29, 2026 Opening Reception – Saturday, March 7, 2-4 pm Artist Talk/demo – Sunday March 29, 2-4 pm

Washington Printmakers Gallery is pleased to present What Passes Between, a solo exhibition by Clare Winslow, opening March 7. What Passes Between brings together works in screenprint and acrylic that explore threshold, suspension, and the space between states. Soft, mottled grounds laid down in acrylic create atmosphere and depth; screen-printing builds across them with precise, repeated detail — mesh, lace, grid. Ribbons, chains, orbs, and sweeping forms move through these layered surfaces, suspended between weight and weightlessness, clarity and dissolution.



Large canvases let these tensions breathe across expansive fields, while small panels distill them into concentrated moments. In the street-facing window, Through, an installation of repurposed transparencies from two decades of printmaking, offers a visual archive that traces a passage from documentation to abstraction.

Join them for the opening reception on Saturday, March 7, 2-4 PM to experience this distinctive body of work.

See the work here. The gallery is located at 1675 Wisconsin Ave. NW, Washington DC 20007.

About the Artist:

Clare Winslow is a Washington, DC-based artist whose work investigates the shifting nature of time, perception, and memory through painting and printmaking. Working primarily in screenprint and acrylic, she creates layered abstractions that emerge through slow accumulation, tonal variation, and a deliberate interplay of surface and depth.

Winslow earned a degree in Fine Arts from The Catholic University of America and studied printmaking at the Corcoran College of Art. Her practice often incorporates experimental screenprinting techniques (including ribbon exposures, water disruptions, and overprinting without registration) alongside nontraditional materials such as polypropylene and wood. Rooted in sustained observation of the natural world, her work emphasizes transitions in light, texture, and rhythm, inviting reflection and attentiveness.

She is a four-time recipient of the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County's Artists & Scholars Project Grant (2016, 2019, 2022, 2025). She has completed residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and in Orquevaux, France. Her work has been exhibited widely in the Washington, DC region and beyond, and is held in private collections across the United States. Winslow works at her studio in Kensington and at the Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Hyattsville.

Asshole of the year: Jezabel Dabouis

If you watched the scam jurying at the Olympics,  it brought back memories of when the Soviet block judges used to screw all other athletes...

Jezabel Dabouis: fuck you!

The strange menagerie of sculptor Joan Danziger

It is behind its firewall, but the Washington Post has a spectacular three page spread on DMV legend Joan Danzinger.

It's a very good piece, and the kind of work that we wished the WaPo would do for area artists, maybe once every couple of years or so...

Read it here.

Woman sitting on a Mondrian Landscape

 This new painting will be at the next Affordable Art Fair in NYC this coming March!

Woman Sitting on a Piet Mondrian Landscape by F. Lennox Campello
32x40 inches - mixed media on paper

Sieglinde Huntscha and the Flounder

This new Bisque piece, done as an homage to Günter Grass will be at the Affordable Art Fair in New York City next March!

Sieglinde Huntscha and the Flounder by F. Lennox Campello 

Dialogues in Layers  Harriet Lesser & Sue Bikoff

Dialogues in Layers: Harriet Lesser & Sue Bikoff

Curated by Adah Rose Bitterbaum

February 6th - February 21st, 2026

Studio Gallery

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 14th from 4-6 pm

This exhibition presents the collaborative woodcarvings by Sue Bikoff and Harriet Lesser, merging traditions of printmaking and painting in richly layered reliefs. Imagery develops from photographs and preparatory drawings of tropical vegetation.

The wood, carved by Bikoff, who focuses on fine detail and texture. Lesser continues with layers of acrylic glazes, alcohol inks, and colored pencils. Mixed media photo transfers are frequently integrated into the relief.

Their process is free-associative and improvisational, each stage of carving and painting informing the next. The resulting works blur the boundaries between sculpture and painting, realism and abstraction, handcraft and conceptual art. The artists’ distinct styles—Bikoff’s structural intricacy and Lesser’s painterly depth—intertwine in works that evoke imagined ecologies and tactile atmospheres. 

Rooted in collaboration, their practice reflects the interdependence found in natural systems, artistic traditions, and human relationships. The journey itself becomes the medium, transforming process into a dynamic visual language.

See the show online here.

Receptions:

Opening reception: Saturday, February 14th, 2026 4-6 pm

Closing reception: Saturday, February 21st, 2026, 4-6 pm