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Touchstone Contemporary Art Gallery

901 New York Avenue NW
Washington D.C 20001
202-682-4125

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Remembering Tim Johnson

October 26, 2021 Patricia Williams

Long-time Touchstone Gallery member Tim Johnson was a talented artist whose knowledge and quirky sense of humor infused his paintings. His passing in December 2020 was a loss to his family, his many friends and the artistic community.

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Tags portrait, narrative, humor, figures, oil, acrylic
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The Return of Teresa Roberts Logan

September 5, 2021 Patricia Williams

Comic, cartoonist, writer and artist, Roberts explores feminiist iconography in multiple media and genres with humor and panache.

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Tags ink, drawing, figures, women, graphite, acrylic, acrylic gouache, humor, comedy, African masks
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Marcia Coppel Figures of Speech

May 5, 2013 Touchstone Gallery
Marcia Coppel 1

Marcia Coppel 1

You might not have guessed it, but the quiet  artist we know as Marcia Coppel spent many years as a speech pathologist in the Montgomery County Public Schools.  As a child she was drawn to the visual arts, graduating high school with a major in art.  After that her studies at George Washington University took her in the direction of speech therapy, which became her major and her field of expertise after securing a post-graduate degree from the University of Maryland.

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In Featured Artist Tags abstract painting, amusing figures, cafe table, classroom, color, communication, Corcoran Gallery of Art, creating art, DC art museums, drawing, figure, Greece, happy, humor, Italy, laugh, Marcia Coppel, Mexico, non-verbal, San Miguel de allende, sketching model, speech, speech terapist, Touchstone Gallery DC, travels, verbal, visual arts
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Timothy Johnson's Single Figure Narratives

March 5, 2013 Touchstone Gallery
Tim paints a friend in the company of Mondrion and Wyeth

Tim paints a friend in the company of Mondrion and Wyeth

Tim could be your ordinary picture framer during the day, or a master of disguise at night--or maybe both. You never know with Tim Johnson. He's a painter of human complexities using friends for models or capturing himself in mirrors and lenses.  What transpires in his imagination as he stands before a blank canvas and opens tubes of paint is anybody's guess.

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In Featured Artist Tags canvas, caps and gowns, contemporary, disguise, Greco-Roman myths, heartbreak, humor, imagination, irony, It's Greek to Me, models, naratives, Narcissus, painting demonstration, picture framing, portrait, Rembrandt, road less traveled, Sargent, small town, storytelling, symbolism, Tim Johnson, Titian, toaster, Touchstone Gallery DC, tubes of paint
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