Foundry Gallery Begun by four students of Gene Davis in 1971, Foundry Gallery encourages and promotes Washington, DC area artists. Foundry offers an alternative gallery experience to artists by allowing artists greater control over the exhibition and sale of their work.
Members are primarily local artists who pool their resources to support the gallery and who work in diverse media.
Foundry Gallery Hush! Group Show/Auction September 3 - September 27
Silent Auction to Benefit Duke Ellington School for the Arts
Purchase prized artwork by Foundry Gallery artists offered at very low prices and support the budding artists at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts and emerging artists at Foundry Gallery!
From September 3rd through September 27th, Foundry Gallery will be holding its first Silent Auction with portion of proceeds going to Duke Ellington School for the Arts. Opening reception will be held Friday, September 5th, from 6 pm to 8 pm. Closing/ Final Bidding reception will be held September 27th from 6 pm to 8 pm.
More than 30 works - paintings, drawing and photographs, - are in the exhibit, which spans a wide range of styles and subjects.
Participating artists include Amy Barker-Wilson, Shaune Bazner, Daniel Bell, Jenny Brake, Brett Davis, Patsy Fleming, Holly Foss, Mina Oka Hanig, Donna K. McGee, Debra Naylor, Steve Nordlinger, Marina Reiter, Ronald Riley, Bobbie Salthouse, Martin Slater, Luba Sterlikova, Kathryn Wiley, Patricia Zannie.
Here's how the Silent Auction works: Artwork will be on exhibit September 3–27. The bids can be placed anytime prior to 7pm, September 27 when the bidding closes. If the bid has won, the winner can collect the artwork after 7pm September 27, or anytime noon until 6pm, September 28. Bids can be placed in person or by calling the Foundry Gallery during opening hours (bids left by message on the answering machine are not accepted). Artwork can also be purchased at a "buy it now" price anytime.
Foundry Gallery Interpretive Realms Members' Show July 30 - August 31 Members exhibiting in the show are Mina Oka Hanig; Patsy Fleming; Donna McGee; Marina Reiter; Ron Riley; Marty Slater; Luba Sterlikova; Kathryn Wiley; Amy Barker-Wilson; and Patricia Zannie. "Interpretive Realms" includes images of places real and imagined.
Kathryn Wiley notes that while her work is often based on actual landscape, it moves beyond that to create a broad sense of space or movement in the painting. "Confluence II, the painting on the invitation, depicts an interpretive realm where what might have been the C&O Canal becomes a scene viewed perhaps from a fast moving train, recalling water and reflections and sky, giving the viewer the sense of moving into space."
Patsy Fleming's three paintings of Elbow Cay are "named after the island in the Bahamas where I have been going every January for about six years. They reflect the calmness, the water and sky and the Bahamian colors that I love so much."
Ron Riley says as he works on his non-representational, mixed-media paintings, "I find inspiration all about me whether it be in the aged surface of a time weathered piece of bark or in the beautiful patina of an old and rusting piece of tin or copper whose beauty only increases with the passage of time. ... Not surprisingly, I take from these sources those things that I feel will best suit my needs in any given piece so that it is not unusual to see in a finished piece a coming together of sorts from many places.
Donna McGee's cathartic abstracts create a cerebral moodiness, as they undulate in tone and palette to reveal layers and depths of intensity. Evoking the technique of latter-day Gerhard Richter and the color choices of Mark Rothko, the paintings speak in meditative and restrained voices. With subdued hues, McGee creates not merely composition but atmosphere.
Amy Barker-Wilson says, "I enjoy painting as a reflection of an unfolding process of discovery, a metaphor for perception and awareness of inner spiritual seeing, unfolding in the medium of life. I clear my mind of any preconceived ideas of what should happen, what I might find, and dive into that holding field of the empty canvas. Letting the painting dictate what happens next, I feel my way along the journey, step by step."
Luba Sterlikova explores shape and color to evoke in each composition an expression that is both provocative and poignant. Characterized as intense and exotic, Luba's floral compositions strike a balance between the bold and the graceful; they are simultaneously intense and delicate. Her work has been referred to as provocative and sexually charged, although she prefers to call it romantic.
Patricia Zannie says, "for me, collage is the Jazz of the visual art forms: improvisational, spontaneous. I 'paint' with paper, snippets of various hand made mulberry, banana, and rice papers from the Orient, papyrus from Egypt, classic prints from Paris and London, Origami from Japan and vibrant colors and contemporary images from Haute Couture magazines of today. The world is my palette and trinkets, as well as dried flowers, and mementoes find their way into my collages."