Please Join Us for a
Visit to the Studio of Artist
Mira Hecht
Saturday, December 9, 11:00 am
Members of the Washington Print Club and their guests are invited to visit the Chevy Chase, MD studio of artist Mira Hecht, who shares with us this about her work:
“Through abstract visual language, repetition, and layering, I find meaning in form and process. I apply paint with a light touch choosing to remove any sign of a brush mark. My technique of overlapping transparent layers of oil paint — wet on dry — creates a sense of shifting kaleidoscopic pattern and a tension between surface and depth. Also, working on paper, Infinite Connections, my most recent and ongoing series is created with gouache, graphite, and collage.
At the heart of my work is an embrace and expression of our universal truths: life is fragile, impermanent, and interconnected — a mystery — where much of what I yearn to understand is beyond my grasp. It is also an expression of gratitude and a perpetual reaching toward light. The circular form symbolizes wholeness, unity, and the cyclical nature of being. I hope to offer the viewer an uplifting space of order and calm in our fast moving and chaotic world.”
Registration is limited to 12 members and their guests. Refreshments will be served.
Members may register for up to two people.
Member News
Curated by WPC member Helen Frederick, Eternal Paper brings together 20 artists who have collaborated to create hand-formed art in and on paper. Their approaches range from representation to abstraction and address political, ecological, and social issues. These artists honor past traditions while inventing new concepts of materiality. The exhibition includes work by WPC members Soledad Salame, Helen Frederick, Randi Reiss McCormack, and Gretchen Schermerhorn. More information is available here.
Jacqueline Crocetta, Elzbieta Sikorska, and June Linowitz will have work in the upcoming McLean Project for the Arts exhibition, Moving Beyond Beauty: Reverence and Reclamation, opening December 7 and running until February 17. Opening reception is December 7, 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
The Fred Schneider Gallery in Arlington, VA will be hosting a solo show of the paintings and drawings by member Delna Dastur. Delna will be giving a talk at the gallery on Saturday, December 9th, 5:00 – 7:00pm. The show runs through December 30. More information is available here. Delna was also interviewed by “Embracing Arlington.” You can hear that interview here.
Susan Due Pearcy has work in the Maryland Pastel Society Signature Member Show at the Washington County (Maryland) Arts Council. Through December 5. More information here. Susan is also participating in the Holiday Countryside Artisans Studio/Gallery Tour, December 1 – 3. More information is available here. Susan is “Sugarloaf Studio,” #16 on the map.
Julie Wolfe has a number of works on view in the Georgetown University Library exhibition Scientific Illustration.
Julia Bloom, Jacqueline Crocetta, and Gail Shaw-Clemons are among the artists whose work is included in DC Art Now! 2023, the exhibition of finalists for inclusion in the 2024 DC Art Bank. On view until December 15. More information here.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery, Works by Susan Stacks and Maggie Gourlay. Until December 20.
Addison/Ripley, Dan Treado Double Platinum, until December 2.
Gallery Neptune & Brown, Foon Sham, until December 2. Works by Joseph Keiffer, December 9 – January 6.
Hemphill, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, until December 22.
Morton Fine Art, Ink on paper drawings by Hannelie Coetzee, until December 19.
Pazo Fine Art Pazo’s Kensington location hosts Proximities with works by artists Olivier Mosset, Michael Scott, and Blair Thurman until December 7. At Pazo’s DC location, work by Kate Sable, until January 13.
Pyramid Atlantic’sBig and Little Inks features large-scale relief prints selected from past BIG INK events across the country paired with nearly 100 “little inks” curated from an open call for small relief prints. Until November 26. The annual 10×10 exhibition will run December 9 – 24. Information about workshops and classes is available here.
Washington Printmakers Gallery’s Confluence of Energies: Film, Print, Painting and Projection by Donna Cameron, until November 26. WPG has also announced an array of workshops and classes.
Also of Interest
Georgetown University Galleries, Kara Walker: Back of Hand will be on view in the de la Cruz Art Gallery and Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies will be on view in the Spagnuolo Art Gallery, until December 3.
American University Art Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Cushner, featuring the works of Steven Cushner, including many works on paper. Until December 10.
National Gallery of Art, Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840-1940. Until February 4.
National Gallery of Art, Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, November 5 – March 31.
National Gallery of Art, Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, November 19 – March 31.
The Art Newspaper recently published a very interesting article about prints and printmaking. You can read it here.
An Inquiry Regarding Artist Aline Feldman
UK-based galleriest Gordon Cooke is looking for contact information for whomever is handling the estate of artist Aline Feldman. If you have such information, please email Gordon Cooke.