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Washington D.C 20001
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Meg Schaap Paints Joie de Vivre

March 5, 2018 Touchstone Gallery
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In her first solo exhibition, Marie Antoinette, at Touchstone Gallery Meg Schaap explores the    personality, beauty and power of the last Queen of France.  This project began by a reading of Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser and then viewing Sophia Coppola’s 2009 movie Marie Antoinette.  Both portrayed the compelling story of an Austrian teen who was forced to enter a political marriage with King Louis XVI, an introvert, pretty much her opposite. Meg’s painterly portrayals explore the quandaries Marie faced as she was swallowed up by the new French Court environment bound by outlandish rules, extravagance, and unbending traditions.

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In Featured Artist Tags collaged paper, color, contemporary art, fashion, freedom, French Court, gold leaf, Gucci, HOlland, jewels, joie de vivre, kAcademy of Art Minerva, liberation, Marie Antoinette, masks, Meg Shaap, narrative, pearls, portraiture, St- Martin's College, Touchstone Gallery DC, transformation, Vogue Magazine

Rosemary Luckett: Uncovering the Unseen

April 4, 2014 Touchstone Gallery
Rosemary Luckett

Rosemary Luckett

Rosemary Luckett has been on good terms with the earth since she was a young girl weeding sugar beets and caring for the animals on her family’s farm in the desert plateau of south central Idaho.   These earliest experiences of taking care of the environment that then, in turn, took care of her, were the seeds of Rosemary’s sense of this relationship as vital and mutual.  Over time, she has developed a visual language--plastic ducky's, bones, tree forms, maps, and birds to express her love and worry for the earth through her artwork.  The techniques used varies with what she is exploring.  Sometimes collage.  Sometimes sculpture.  And more recently photography.

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In Featured Artist Tags birds, blanket, bones, bottles, broken fragments, collage, conundrum, decay, destruction, discomfort, disinterest, earth, environment, maps, photo collage, photography, Rosemary Luckett, rubber ducky, sculpture, seeds, softness, sparkling water, touchstone gallery, transformation, trash, trees, unseen
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