Washington Print Club Members
Offered Complimentary Admission
to the April 5 Preview of the
Capital Art Fair
The organizers of the Capital Art Fair have generously offered Washington Print Club members free admission to the April 5 Fair preview. The preview will be 5:00 – 8:00 pm.
The Capital Art Fair will be held at the University Club at 1135 16th Street NW in Washington DC from April 5th to 7th. It will feature fifteen exhibitors offering fine works on paper representing Old Master, Modern, and Contemporary prints and drawings and Japanese prints.
The Friday preview night will feature wine, canapes, and first access to the prints. Admission will be free on Saturday from 10:00 am-5:00 pm and on Sunday from 11:00 am-5:00 pm.
WPC members wanting to attend the preview should use the blue “button” below to RSVP. WPC members may register themselves and one guest. The deadline is March 31.
Artist Member News
Carol Barsha’sGallery Neptune & Brown exhibition, A Piece of Magic will run March 5 – April 20. Opening reception on March 9. 5:00-7:00 pm.
Julia Bloom has work featured in the online gallery of the exhibition This is the Future of Non-Objective Art, hosted by the Atlantic Gallery, NYC. Until March 2. More information here.
Jacqueline Crocetta, Elzbieta Sikorska, and June Linowitz have work in the McLean Project for the Arts exhibition, Moving Beyond Beauty: Reverence and Reclamation. The exhibition runs through until February 17.
Jacqueline Crocetta has work in the exhibition Natural Blue at Montgomery College’s King Street Gallery (Silver Spring/Takoma Park campus). Through March 1. There will be a virtual artist talk on February 28, 11:00 am–12:00 pm. Click here to register for the talk. Once on the registration webpage, you will click on the button labeled ““Register for Streaming Arts Events.”
Susan Goldman, founding director of the Printmaking Legacy Project, has announced another screening of the documentary Black Printmakers of Washington DC: Percy B. Martin and Michael B. Platt on March 12, 6:00 – 8:00 pm at Busboys and Poets, 625 Monroe St NE, Washington, DC. Admission is free. The Printmaking Legacy Project is a non-profit dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and conservation of printmaking practice and history. More information here.
linn meyers will be part of a group show at Make Room in Los Angeles and in May will have a solo show with the Jason Hamm Gallery in Seoul, South Korea. Closer to home, linn will have a work in the Kreeger Museum’s 30th anniversary show, which will open on June 1.
Carol Ann Reed has had a hand-colored stone lithograph included in the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, January 25 – February 28, 2024. DNSPE has become one of the country’s foremost competitions for contemporary prints. The annual juried exhibition features prints from both national and international artists and has been held since 1996.
WPC board member Laura Roulet curated the Katzen Arts Center exhibition The Human Flood, which features the work of Sondra Arkin and Ellyn Weiss. See “Save the Dates” below for information about an upcoming WPC tour of exhibitions at the Katzen Center.
Susan Due Pearcy’s work is included in Strathmore Mansion’s, Prism:
2nd Strathmore Annual Juried Exhibit, juried by Zoma Wallace and Glen Kessler. The exhbition will be on view until March 2. More information is available here.
Deborah Schindler has an exhibition of her linoleum cuts and artist books at the Washington Printmakers Gallery. Expressive Impressions will be on view March 1 – 31. Reception March 10, 3:00 – 5:00 pm. Lecture and demonstration March 16, 3:00 – 5:00 pm.
Gail Shaw-Clemons is one of three artists selected for a residency at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her prints produced during the residency will become part of the University of New Mexico and Tamarind permanent collections.
Eve Stockton has work on view at Massoni Art in Chestertown, MD. Until March 18. More information here.
Caroline Thorington has two lithographs in The 8th Guanlan International Print Biennial China, located in the China Printmaking Museum in Guanlan, Shenzhen, China. The exhibition will be on view through February 2024. Her work was also in the XI Douro Biennial which opened in Portugal in August 2023 and in the Society of American Graphic Artists 88th Annual Members Exhibition in New Your City which just recently closed.
Ellen Winkler is having a showing of her work at the St. Alban’s High School gallery, 3001 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. The work includes paintings, prints, drawings and artists’ book. The exhibition is accessible by entering the Lane Johnston building. The secretary there will guide you to the gallery which is in the Steuart Building. The gallery is open during the school week from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm. Those wanting additional logistical information should email the print club for details.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery, Of Homage or of Hope, works on paper by Brian Dupont and paintings by Nathan Mullins. Until March 1.
Addison/Ripley, Stefanie Stark: The Strength of Her, until February 24.
Conrad GraeberFine Art will be a participating dealer at the Print Club of Cleveland Fine Art Fair, April 26 – 28.
Gallery Neptune & Brown, A celebration of 45 years of the Robert Brown gallery featuring work by Mel Bochner, William Kentridge, linn meyers, Joseph Solman, Max Beckman, Hannelore Baron, Oleg Kudryashov, Fifo Striker, and David Nash. On view through March 2.
Hemphill,Willem de Looper Paintings: 1972-1975, until March 2.
Morton Fine Art, Sculptural paintings by Jenny Wu, February 16 – March 15.
Pazo Fine Art, Geometrix: Encoded Abstraction, until March 16 at Pazo’s Washington, DC location.
Pyramid Atlantic Catalunya, Works in colored pulp by Lynn Sures. The exhibition runs until February 18.
Also of Interest
David Driskell Center, University of Maryland, David C. Driskell & Friends: Creativity, Collaboration, and Friendship. Opening reception February 23. More information here.
National Gallery of Art, Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, until March 31.
National Gallery of Art, Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, until March 31.
National Gallery of Art, The Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and its Legacy, February 11 – May 27.
National Museum of Asian Art, Whistler: Streetscapes, Urban Change, until May 4.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for the National Museum of Women in the Arts, until October, 2024.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Impressive: Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella. A series of 25 prints engraved in 1675 and published in 1787. Until October 20.
Artist Renee Stout will be doing a gallery talk at the National Gallery of Art on her work on paper currently on view at the NGA. March 9, 1:00 pm.
Save the Dates For These
WPC Member Programs
March 9, 11:00 am. Tours of two exhibitions at the Katzen Center, The Human Flood with curator Laura Roulet and The Tree Around the Corner with curator Vivienne Lassman.
March 20, 10: 30 am. Tour with Shelley Langdale, Curator of Modern Prints and Drawings, of the NGA exhibition the Anxious Eye: German Expressionism and its Legacy followed by a behind-the-scenes viewing of prints not included in the show.
April 22, 10:15 am. Behind-the-scenes print room presentation with Shelley Langdale and the artist Matthias Mansen focused on his work in the NGA’s collection.
April 27, 11:00 am. Tour with exhibition curator Helen Frederick of Eternal Paper at the University of Maryland Global College art gallery.
May 17, 11:00 am. Presentation by Alana Quinn, Senior Program Associate, Cultural Programs, of works on paper in the collection of the National Academy of Sciences.
June 1, 2:00 pm. WPC Annual Meeting at Pyramid Atlantic.