Despite growing up in the Jim Crow era, Malley was unaware of the racial divide between herself and her tenant farmer and migrant playmates. As an adult, she addresses racial inequality through compelling figurative paintings. As a child, she was immersed in nature on her grandparents’ farm. Today, she expresses her concerns for the environment through intriguing abstracts and advocating for climate change legislation.
Read moreChris Tucker Haggerty Expresses Spirituality Through Paint and Found Objects
Influenced by Native American and Catholic traditions, Haggerty uses found objects and often circles to create mixed media artworks that explore spirituality.
Read moreTake a Closer, Deeper Look at the Urban Landscape
Claudia Samper explores our relationships with each other in the urban community and the urban community’s relationship with nature in Urban Nest, her October 2019 mixed-media show. The delightful hide-and-seek images challenge the viewer to consider modern issues, such as gentrification and isolation.
Read moreAmerica Is… on Display at Touchstone Gallery
America Is…, Touchstone Gallery’s third national juried exhibition, explores the question of how we define our national identity and values during a time of divisive politics and social change. Gallery Director Ksenia Grishkova shares a behind the scenes look at the show.
Read moreSeeing Between the Lines
Thick line? Thin lines? Wavy lines? Curly lines? Plain old straight lines? Touchstone artists use all these and more to create shape, pattern, form, structure and rhythm in Lines.
Read moreRosemary Luckett: exploring the terrain within
In her February 2018 solo exhibition Landscapes: the terrain within, Rosemary Luckett steps back from exploring the environmental landscape to make art about the archetypes she recognizes in her interior landscape. Over time she discovered the inner guides or archetypes portrayed in art, literature, mythology, and religion, heroes that have been with humanity everywhere since the dawn of time. Inspired by female contemporary heroes and writer Carol S. Pearson's book on the topic (Awakening the Heroes Within), she constructed collages about the twelve archetypes, putting herself into the picture. They percolated in a drawer for years until she decided to explore them further in larger format.
Read moreRima Schulkind: Dancing With Change
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Rima Schulkind, a native of New York City, came to Washington DC at age 15 and has remained ever since. In 1972 she obtained a sociology degree before realizing the profession was not for her. Wondering what to do next, she “almost accidently took a ceramics class with the worst teacher in the world.” Rima recalls. “But the clay felt heavenly to my hands, and I knew I wanted to make things with it.” Serendipity #1.
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