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Please Join Us for a
Curator-Led Tour of
Onchi Kōshirō
Graphic Artist: Picturing Postwar Japan
Friday, January 31, 11:00 am
University of Maryland
College Park
Please join us on Friday, January 31 for a private tour of Onchi Kōshirō
Graphic Artist: Picturing Postwar Japan at the Hornbake Library located on the University of Maryland’s College Park campus. The tour will be led by exhibition curator Kana Jenkins and Motoko Shimizu, coordinator of the university’s Gordon Prange Collection from which the works on view are drawn. Staff will also present a special display of Prange Collection holdings.
The Prange Collection comprises prints and printed publications produced during the 1945 – 1949 Allied Occupation of Japan. More information is available here. Onchi Kōshirō was a Japanese pioneer of abstraction, printmaking, and book and graphic design.
Paid onsite garage parking is available. The Hornbake Library is approximately one mile from the College Park Metro station.
Registration for this event is limited to 20 WPC members and their guests.
Please Join Us for Visits to the
Studios of Artists Amber Robles Gordon and
Gail Shaw-Clemons
Saturday, February 8, 11:00 am
Please join us on Saturday, February 8, 11:00 am for a visit to the studios of artists Amber Robles Gordon and Gail Shaw-Clemons.
Gail Shaw-Clemons, born in Washington, DC, received her Masters’ Degree in printmaking from the University of Maryland. She is a printmaker and mixed media artist and activist. She has exhibited extensively, with many works included in public and private collections in the USA, Brazil, Norway, Sweden, China, Florence, Italy, and the Republic of Ireland. Her work is also in the collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Library of Congress, and the Banneker-Douglass Museum. Shaw-Clemons prints at the Bob Blackburn Printmaking Studio in New York as well as the Pyramid Printmaking Studio in Hyattsville MD. Shaw-Clemons taught at the United Nations International School in New York for 24 years and is currently an adjunct professor at Bowie State University.
Amber Robles-Gordon is an interdisciplinary artist of Puerto Rican and Caribbean descent who resides in Washington, DC. Her creations reflect her hybridism: a fusion of her gender, ethnicity, cultural, political and social experiences, and concerns.
Currently Robles-Gordon is creating a multidisciplinary project titled Reclamando mi tiempo, reclamando lo mío which explores her maternal Puerto Rican heritage. Through the exploration of the Afro – Puerto Rican traditional dance, bomba, Robles-Gordon is navigating the connections between place, heritage and culture. Robles-Gordon is working in collaboration with Cultural DC, Washington, DC, El Cuadrado Gris Galería, Puerto Nuevo, Puerto Rico and Semilla Cultural, Washington, DC, to present a traveling exhibition upon completion of the project. You can find more information about Amber Robles-Gordon and her work here.
Both studios are located at STABLE Arts in DC’s NoMa neighborhood. There is limited on-street parking. The closest Metro station is NoMa.
Registration for this event is limited to 20 WPC members and their guests.
Events of Interest
LIVING ROOM | BOOK TALK, Radical Paper. Hosted by The Phillips Collection, WPC member Helen Frederick will engage in conversation with authors Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour about their new book Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp, which delves into art created with colored paper pulp. A Q&A will follow the panel conversation. February 14, 12:00 – 1:15. Registration required. Register here.
Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression. This new documentary will be screened at the National Gallery of Art, Saturday, February 20, 12:00. Registration required. Register here.
IFPDA Print Fair, March 28 – 30, Park Avenue Armory, NY,NY. WPC members Gallery Neptune & Brown and The Old Print Shop will be among the exhibitors. Tickets available here.
The WPC 60th Anniversary Collectors’ Exhibition
The DMV Collects the DMV
The Kreeger Museum
On View until February 1
Curated by Laura Roulet,The DMV Collects the DMV draws from the collections of WPC members and includes works on paper by an array of artists, showcasing the talent within the greater Washington, DC area and the collectors who support them.
Click here to view the online exhibition catalog which includes an extensive essay by the curator.
Member News
Carol Barsha will be exhibiting her screenprint, Garden in a Wheat Field in New Jersey’s Hunterdon Art Museum’s 2025 Juried Print Exhibition. The show runs from January 26 through May 4, 2025.
Organized and curated by artist Lenny Campello, a multi-venue exhibition of work by women artists in the DMV will be held Fall, 2025. WPC members participating in the exhibition so far include Julia Bloom, Rosemary Feit Covey, Jacqui Crocetta, Mary Early, Cianne Fragione, Helen Frederick, Jenny Freestone, Mira Hecht, June Linowitz, Isabel Manalo, Gail Shaw-Clemons, and Joyce Wellman. More information here.
Kristin Dennino will have a solo show at Washington Printmakers Gallery in February.
Cheryl Edwards will have work in the Zenith Gallery exhibition Hold On, Change is Coming, January 17 – March 1. Opening receptions Jan 17th 4:00 – 8:00 pm and January 18th 2:00 – 6:00 pm. Cheryl will also have a solo show, Magical, Mystical, Love at the Monte Azul Gallery in Costa Rica.
Cianne Fragione’s exhibition What Remains will be on view at Nunu Fine Art in New York. Opening reception March 21, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Helen Frederick. See “Events of Interest” above.
An exhibition of Susan Due Pearcy’s work, Ashes to Ashes: A Caregiver’s Journey, will be on view at the National Institutes of Health, January 12 – April 6.
Randi Reiss McCormack’s work Lift Off was selected for the State Department’s program “Art In Embassies” from October 2024-2027. The work is traveling now to the US Embassy in Ashgabat Turkmenistan.
Caroline Thorington’s work is being shown at The Midwest Art Exhibition; January 26 – April 20, 2025 at the Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery in Lindsborg, Kansas and Mini Gems at the SAGA Gallery in New York until January 4, 2025. In addition, Caroline had work in The Society of American Graphic Artists Members Exhibit at The Arts Center at Governors Island NYC. October 21 – November 4, 2024
Joyce Wellman has three works in the Phillips Collection exhibition Breaking it Down: Conversations from the Vault. Until January 19, 2025. More information here.
Gary Zuercher’s black and white photographs of the bridges of Paris at night, which were featured in his book The Glow of Paris, will be on display through January 21, 2025 at the Parc de Choisy in Paris. This is a continuation of his debut exhibition of the photos at Paris City Hall in October and November last year.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery An exhibition of works by Nathan Loda and Anne Smith inaugurate the gallery’s new space at 12115 Parklawn Dr, Rockville, MD. Until January 20.
Addison/Ripley Tom Bunnell: Romantic Comedy, until January 18.
Gallery Neptune & BrownArt Matters featuring works by Carol Barsha, Mel Bochner, Willem Boshoff, Stephen Estrada, Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Andy Goldsworthy, Janis Goodman, Paul Inglis, Erick Johnson, William Kentridge, Oleg Kudryashov, David X Levine, linn meyers, David Nash, Stone Roberts, Sean Scully, Foon Sham, Joseph Solman, Dodi Wexler, and Lisa Yuskavage. Until January 17. January 25 – March 1, Chinese Art Deco.
Hemphill, works by Sophia Belkin, until February 22.
Morton Fine ArtMeditations on Blue featuring the work of Michael Andrew Booker, Kesha Bruce, Natalie Cheung, Amber Robles-Gordon, Jaz Graf, Hiromitsu Kuroo, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Andrei Petrov, Prina Shah, and Liz Tran. Until January 18.
Pazo Fine Art, DC location. The Language of Patterns, work by
Jackie Ferrara, Alison Hall, Gloria Klein, Marilyn Lerner, and Andrea Way. January 25 – March 15
Pyramid Atlantic, Finding A Voice Through Printmaking, a retrospective of print work by Curlee Raven Holton. January 24 – March 2. Artist talk January 25, 3:00 pm, followed by a reception. Click here to register.
Washington Printmakers Gallery, Forest Women: Work by Suzanne Bartlett. Until January 26. Artist talk January 25, 3:00 pm.
Welcome New Member
A warm welcome to new WPC member Steven Clay, who share that he has a passion for art that has spanned over three decades. Steven is the founder and principle of Steven Clay Art LLC. which offers appraisal services for private, corporate, and institutional collections. Additionally, Steven provides personalized art advisory services to clients, including art selection, acquisition, and portfolio management. Steven is academically trained in Classics and Egyptology at Howard University and the University of Chicago. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Mosaic Theater. He resides in
Cottage City, Maryland, with his husband, Michael Smith.