Opening Reception: Saturday, August 4, 3 - 4:30 pm
Music by The Governor's School for the Arts, Orchestra Department
Open to Public
ANNEX BACK ROOM
Small Works by Touchstone Gallery Member Artists: Steve Alderton, David Alfuth, Linda Bankerd, Adam Bayard, Katherine Becker, Valerie Bernat, Joan Bixler, Jill Brantley, Richard Braswell, Dana Brotman, Marcia Coppel, Susi Cora, Tory Cowles, Charlie Dale, Mari DeMaris, Ryan Feipel, Elaine Florimonte, Betsy Forster, Jeanne Garant, Judith Giuliani, Robin Harris, Timothy Johnson, Carolyn Johnson, Anna Katalkina, Cookie Kerxton, Makda Kibour, Harvey Kupferberg, Michael Lang, Paula Lantz, Dee Levinson, Shelley Lowenstein, Rosemary Luckett, Kate McConnell, Pete McCutchen, McCain McMurray, Sonya Michel, Carol Moore, Georgia Nassikas, Mary D. Ott, Pamela Reynolds, BD Richardson, April Rimpo, Colleen Sabo, Amy Sabrin, Claudia Samper, Meg Schaap, Janathel Shaw, Jenny Singleton, Maureen M.Squires, Lisa Tureson, Rosa Vera, Gale Wallar, Patricia Williams, Jenny Wu.

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 4, 3 - 4:30 pm
Music by The Governor's School for the Arts, Orchestra Department
Artist in Attendance
GALLERY A, B and C
Enter the world of Japanese artist Yuki Hiyama. Due to a brain injury at birth, Yuki is able to communicate only through her raw, gestural abstractions. Press Release
A percentage of the sale proceeds will go to the YUKIEN SCHOOL for children with disabilities in Hiroshima, Japan.
To learn more about the artist please visit her website at www.yukiartusa.com

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 14, 2 - 4 pm
Chamber Jazz by Ethan Foote and Simone Baron
Mimosa Bar, Russian Iced Tea & Beignets by Acadiana Restaurant
GALLERY A
Taking landscapes to a new level, Touchstone artists present the “unexpected” scape--different spheres of activity within conventional landscapes scenes, political arenas, family groups or social media.  Artists sculpt, paint, photograph, make collage, formed clay, or hand pull their prints into surprising harmonious creations.

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 14, 2 - 4 pm
Chamber Jazz by Ethan Foote and Simone Baron
Mimosa Bar, Russian Iced Tea & Beignets by Acadiana Restaurant
GALLERY B and C
Dee Levinson's fascination with religion is revealed in a new series of oil paintings that attempt to capture part of the essence of a religion through individual portraits, symbolism and signs.

"Pair-ings" focuses on the chemistry between works of art.  A chemistry that is hard to describe -- but you know it when you see it.  Individual works (in this case, paintings from both new and earlier series), when combined, can highlight new elements in each other, expand on each other's narrative, or excite the senses perhaps because of an artful pairing of opposites.  It's an exploration of art-based synergy.

Touchstone Gallery Member Artists: Steve Alderton, Linda Bankerd, Valerie Bernat,  Jill Brantley, Dana Brotman, Marcia Coppel, Ryan Feipel, Elaine Florimonte, Judith Giuliani, Timothy Johnson, Anna Katalkina, Cookie Kerxton, Makda Kibour, Dee Levinson, Shelley Lowenstein, Rosemary Luckett, Kate McConnell, McCain McMurray, Sonya Michel, Carol Moore, Mary D. Ott, Pamela Reynolds, Colleen Sabo, Amy Sabrin, Claudia Samper, Meg Schaap, Janathel Shaw, Jenny Singleton, Gale Wallar, Patricia Williams, Jenny Wu.

The exploration of the natural beauty element of stone.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6 – 8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, May 20, 1 – 3 pm
Touchstone artists are depicting all types of boundaries -- visible or invisible, cultural, or political.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6 – 8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, May 20, 1 – 3 pm
Susi Cora’s Highwire is an invitation to explore how memories are coveted and nurtured. Personal histories and past events are gathered and precariously balanced on a highwire where one is forced to expend enormous effort to maintain balance or face the risk of freefall.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 4, 6 – 8:30 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, May 20, 1 – 3 pm
Original lithographic and intaglio prints that reflect artist's personal response to her encounters in the natural world.

Through the use of positive and negative space, motion and subject matter I explore infinite possibilities of gastronomic whimsy.

Touchstone Gallery Member Show

The art of biological exploration. Join Shelley Lowenstein as she ventures into mixed media to celebrate the mystery and wonder of a life-sustaining human cell. One that has been long underappreciated, but whose time has come.

Karen Waltermire presents a series of paintings exploring portraiture of women.

She Runs Wild by Makda Kibour

New colorful series of works on canvas representing Makda Kibour’s emotional journey towards peacefulness and fulfillment through her abstact art.

Touchstone artists focus on shape whether it be long of short, large or small. Working with constancy of purpose they sculpt, paint, photograph, collage, form clay, and hand pull prints into harmonious creations. Look for accord and wholeness within each composition whether exact or exaggerated, regular or irregular. Get in on the fun and see the shape of things to come at Touchstone.

An installation of an intimate portrait of France’s iconic queen “Marie Antoinette”, swallowed up by her environment, metamorphosing, rebelling, and breaking free through “wallpaper” customs and norms of her time period.

“In Transit” by Touchstone Gallery Member Artists
Americans have been on the move since they set foot on this continent. Whether by car, bicycle, airplane, boat, train, or walking. They get where they need to go by actually moving, studying, or making a career move. See Touchstone artist’s explorations of transitions and mobility in their photographs, paintings, collages, hand-pulled prints, sculptures, clay forms, and drawings.

Landscapes: The Terrain Within by Rosemary Luckett
In her 2018 solo exhibition, Landscapes: The Terrain Within, Rosemary Luckett shifts her topical focus from Earth house landscapes to archetypal guides in her own psychological terrain. Some of the colorful figurative works are large (paintings) and some are small (collages in niches), but all have a unique story to tell.

“The Pursuit of Balance” Landscape Paintings by Elaine Florimonte
In her current body of work, Elaine Florimonte is drawn to the simplicity and consistency of the horizon. The proportions of sky, water and ground are the subject of her solo show, The Pursuit of Balance at Touchstone Gallery. Through her use of acrylic media and collage, she creates landscape images in an effort to find balance in an ever shifting world.

MOSAIC: moments & methods

Photography by BD Richardson

The images in this body of work represent many decades and moods of a life behind the camera lens. The work features several continents, from Paris to Peru to Poolesville, depicting the iconic as well as the everyday.

Touchstone Gallery Member Show

Touchstone Gallery Member Artists: Linda Bankerd, Adam Bayard, Dana Brotman, Marcia Coppel, Susi Cora, Ryan Feipel, Elaine Florimonte, Judith Giuliani, Timothy Johnson, Anna Katalkina, Harvey Kupferberg, Michael Lang, Dee Levinson, Shelley Lowenstein, Rosemary Luckett, McCain McMurray, Carol Moore, Mary D. Ott, Roberto Salgado de Carvalho, Colleen Sabo, Claudia Samper, Meg Schaap, Maureen Squires, Rosa Vera, Gale Wallar, Patricia Williams.

I Belong Here - Art of the Shaw Community
Opening Reception: Friday, July 14, 6 - 8:30 pm

In April and May of 2017 Touchstone Gallery artists worked with youth and adults at New Community ArtSpace to create works of art in a variety of media through a program called Touchstone@ArtSpace. A vibrant selection of work from the workshops will be on display at Touchstone Gallery. Touchstone@ArtSpace is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts.

Touchstone Gallery Member Show
Opening Reception: Friday, July 14, 6 - 8:30 pm

Steve Alderton, David Alfuth, Linda Bankerd, Jill Brantley, Rick Braswell, Dana Brotman, Marcia Coppel, Susi Cora, Charlie Dale, Mari Demaris, Ryan Feipel, Elaine Florimonte, Betsy Forster, Jeanne Garant, Judy Giuliani, Carolyn Johnson, Timothy Johnson, Makda Kibour, Harvey J. Kupferberg, Michael Lang, Paula Lantz, Dee Levinson, Shelley Lowenstein, Rosemary A. Luckett, Kate McConnell, Pete McCutchen, McCain McMurray, Sonya Michel, Carol Moore, Georgia Nassikas, Mary D. Ott, Pamela Reynolds, BD Richardson, April Rimpo, Colleen Sabo, Amy Sabrin, Claudia Samper, Meg Schaap, Janathel Shaw, Jenny Singleton, Maureen Squires, Lisa Tureson, Rosa Vera, Gale Wallar, Patricia Williams, Jenny Wu.

“Jane Doesn’t Need Dick: Origin of Love” by Jo Ann Block
Touchstone Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellow (2015 - 2017)

Jo Ann Block's solo exhibition presents autobiographical collages, piecing together her trajectory from growing up queer and her struggle toward emancipation from social stigma. The collages are an amalgam of historical and personal imagery using a range of materials and methods to cut and paste a complex identity.

This month Touchstone artists explore the "Landscape" through painting, clay, photography, hand-pulled prints, sculpture, collage, and drawing. From representational landscapes to the more abstract inner landscape of the mind, these artists use shape, color, and tonal expression to redefine the american landscape.  

“Veiled Consciousness” by Lionel Daniels
Touchstone Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellow 2015 - 2017

This new series of large and small figurative paintings from Lionel Daniel's explores the double consciousness or veil worn by African Americans from the past and present, as expressed in W.E.B. Dubois's The Souls of Black Folk.

"275 Stripes" by Jeanne Garant
New series of work by Jeanne Garant created using numerous stripes, varying in width and color, but producing a serene rhythm within.

Touchstone Member Gallery Show
On display: May 5 - 28, 2017

Steve Alderton, David Alfuth, Linda Bankerd, Jill Brantley, Rick Braswell, Dana Brotman, Marcia Coppel, Susi Cora, Charlie Dale, Mari Demaris, Ryan Feipel, Elaine Florimonte, Betsy Forster, Jeanne Garant, Judy Giuliani, Carolyn Johnson, Timothy Johnson, Makda Kibour, Harvey J. Kupferberg, Michael Lang, Paula Lantz, Dee Levinson, Shelley Lowenstein, Rosemary A. Luckett, Kate McConnell, Pete McCutchen, McCain McMurray, Sonya Michel, Carol Moore, Georgia Nassikas, Mary D. Ott, Pamela Reynolds, BD Richardson, April Rimpo, Colleen Sabo, Amy Sabrin, Claudia Samper, Meg Schaap, Janathel Shaw, Jenny Singleton, Maureen Squires, Lisa Tureson, Rosa Vera, Gale Wallar, Patricia Williams, Jenny Wu.

"Connect/Disconnect" 2 Paintings by Marcia Coppel "Talk to Each Other. We don’t have wifi." This was a sign in an outdoor cafe in San Miguel de Allende, MX. The exhibition is about communication and the lack of it in our contemporary culture.