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901 New York Avenue NW
Washington D.C 20001
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dana brotman: capturing the confluence of humble materials & insightful gaze

October 1, 2017 Touchstone Gallery
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If we each open our eyes a little wider and really look at our environment, we begin to see a lot of packaging “stuff” that might be falling to the floor as we open a gift or other everyday objects--the worthy and useful objects we think important.  We throw that packaging away mostly without really looking at it. But, even if the rest of the world ignores it, Dana Brotman does not.  She’s actually attracted to many of those “stuffs” and now actually uses it in her art processes.

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In Featured Artist Tags art, artists's community, attitude, boxes, charcoal, corrugated cardboard, Dana Brotman, drawing, eyes, faces, packaging, paint box, painting, portraits, psychology, simplification of forms, textured surface, The Art League School, Touchstone Gallery DC

Wheeler, Shaw, Luckett, Frazier, Brotman: Creating in 3-Dimensions

January 5, 2014 Touchstone Gallery
5 sculptors posing web

5 sculptors posing web

Touchstone sculptors Wheeler, Shaw, Luckett, Frazier and Brotman transform earthen materials and detritus into elegant sculptural forms using fire, colorants, adhesives, carving tools and imaginations keyed into limitless possibilities of three dimensional construction. They share a love of materials, storytelling, and an internal inclination to  build--to transform one form into another form.

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In Featured Artist Tags 3-D construction, alabaster, ancient, ancient artifacts, androgynous gourd shells, bark, branches, ceremonial construcitons, clay, contemporary vision, Dana Brotman, discovery, equality, expressive, eyes, fetish-like figures, figurative, found objects, glazes, hieroglyphics, Hosho paper, images inside images, janathel shaw, Janet Wheeler, justice, layered meaning, life-size figures, metal, metaphor, Michele Frazier, nature, oil paints, physicality, primeval mother tongue, psychology, raffia, raw, Rosemary Luckett, seed pods, soapstone, social themes, spiritual outlook, spirituality, storytelling, textures, totems, Touchstone Gallery DC, vocabulary of forms, wood
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