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New TAG exhibit, “Layers,” opens March 30

Come see the new TAG exhibit, “Layers,” opening on March 30. The artists reveal the depths of their art, which they achieve through layers of colors, lines, patterns, and images.

Ceramic artist Bev Andrews creates vessels of varying shapes often having lids with unique handles sometimes incorporating stones or wood. To achieve her unique forms and to add character to her work, she often layers clay, color, and patterns. Her goal is to create pieces that are complex but still maintain simplicity and grace. She has embraced the same concepts in her beaded art jewelry, which also will be on display.

As an artist versed in drawing, mixed media and painting, Ann Noel refuses to pigeon-hole herself in any one artistic form. She is known for her portraits, figurative, abstract, still life and landscapes.

Some tools and techniques speak to the art form. As a fine art photographer specializing in black and white film, Jo Ann Tooley opts to use her trusty medium format camera. Many of her images reflect isolation and solitude. Certain scenes, especially ones she remembers from her youth—flowers growing wild in open fields, empty roads with sun filtering through the trees, or a lone tree sitting in the middle of a field—evoke strong feelings that she tries to recapture with her camera. In each of her vignettes her images peel back a layer of our understanding about landscape and emotion.

Several images on view at the TAG Gallery by Gail Spencer Saour are part of her continuing “Oil Can Series”. Her use of oil pastel and cold wax reveals a ruddy, rich sometimes murky surface. Beginning with a gestural contour drawing she adds rich, dense color continuing with layers of wax and pastel. In addition to her technique, the images depict a depth of character as suggested in their quirky titles and humorous, almost human, point of view.

Layers will be shown March 30 through April 26. Open daily 11am-6pm in The Associates Gallery in studio 319 at the Torpedo Factory Arts Center, 105. N. Union Street, Alexandria, Virginia. Join us for Second Thursday on April 9th from 11am – 9pm!

The Associates Gallery March exhibit – FOUR

In this second month-long exhibit of The Associates Gallery or TAG, “FOUR” showing in March in studio 319 brings together painters Jill Finsen and Barbara Muth, Kara Hammond presenting a series of graphite drawings, with digital photographer Julie Patrick to celebrate four associate artists across four weeks revealing four truths about the formation of self-expression utilizing four unique palettes.

Painter Jill Finsen quests for constant artistic evolution. In a recent profile in the Art and the City section of the February edition of The Hill Rag she discusses “finding the suggestion of the original reality.” She uses a palette knife to create distinct and whimsical explorations on the surface of the canvas, seeking both composition and color to balance forms in a style that alludes to the works of the early 20th century American painters and Fauvists. “My paintings,” she notes, “embody a tension between familiarity and abstraction, drawing viewers in, yet leaving unresolved their placement within the imagined space.”

Artist Kara Hammond’s graphic works focus on isolated instances where natural forces intersect with the built environment to reveal unexpected alliances between technology and the flora and fauna. Even in the current state of a degraded pastoral ideal, our surroundings remain latent with unseen existences. By isolating and examining specific interactions through artistic observation, one can see the profound changes humans have made on the landscape and how nature persistently resists our sisyphean efforts to control it. )

Painter Barbara Muth is a people watcher, transferring these scenes to canvas. Her dramatic pieces tell portions of made up stories and contrivances about her subject’s lives, their emotions, and the dynamics of their relationships vis-a-vis each other.  Muth’s abstract forms are expressions of her interactions with the world around her.  “In general I prefer to leave very few cues about place and time in my works, enabling the viewer to create their own stories about what is happening.  They become a personal inkblot of sorts, a tool for the viewer to glimpse within themselves as look at the work.”

Digital photographer Julie Patrick paints with light, slowing down moments to the infinitesimal degree to showcase the dynamic palette of colors created through the interplay of light on water. She seeks in her abstract presentations to blur the viewer’s perception of photography with work reminiscent of paintings, stained glass and other mixed media. Her personal theme is serenity in chaos.

Join these artists daily 11am to 6pm in The Associates Gallery from Monday, March 2 through Sunday, March 29th in Studio 319.

Associates Gallery: November 17-30

Associates Gallery: November 17-30

Don’t miss the new exhibit in Studio 12. Four Associate Artists will be featured:

Erika Cleveland- fiber art
Brandon Newton – paintings
Susan Sherwin – paintings
Fierce Sonia – mixed media

Gallery hours are 11-5 daily. Please stop by!

Associates Gallery: The Artist Way, November 3-16

Associates Gallery: Nov. 3-16

Don’t miss the new exhibit, The Artist Way, in Studio 12. Four Associate Artists will be featured:

Bev Andrews – ceramics
Ellen Delaney – acrylic
Gail Saour– mixed media/acrylic
Jo Ann Tooley– photography

Gallery hours are 11-5 daily. A reception will be held Saturday, November 8, from 3pm-5pm. Please stop by!