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Exhibitions
Sea Legs
Sept. 7 — Oct. 27, 2024 ∙ Lisa Sheirer
Lisa Sheirer has been creating art for over 40 years. She works in a wide variety of mediums. The natural world has long been the foundational concept of her work. Awareness of the flora, fauna, microflora, water, and soil comes from hiking in her neighboring watershed, the ancient Catoctin Mountains. Sheirer goes almost daily into the watershed, documenting life there. Her work concerns our local, regional, national, and world environments. Sheirer’s focused study and artistic expression of our natural environment helps us gain awareness of ecological rhythms and change, as we gain our sea legs in an evolving world.
Lisa Sheirer has been creating art for over 40 years. She works in a wide variety of mediums. The natural world has long been the foundational concept of her work. Awareness of the flora, fauna, microflora, water, and soil comes from hiking in her neighboring watershed, the ancient Catoctin Mountains. Sheirer goes almost daily into the watershed, documenting life there. Her work concerns our local, regional, national, and world environments. Sheirer’s focused study and artistic expression of our natural environment helps us gain awareness of ecological rhythms and change, as we gain our sea legs in an evolving world.
Esquivando las Miradas
Jul. 6 — Aug. 30, 2024 ∙ Juan Santos
Juan Santos was born in the Bronx, New York City, and later lived in a community of Puerto Rican single mothers in inner city Boston. Santos earned his MFA in Visual Art at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and now teaches art at Boston Day and Evening Academy, an alternative high school in Boston. His students often live in dystopian worlds of their own. Using the visual language of cartoons and the street language of graffiti, Santos is able to relate to his students about contemporary fears and trauma. He uses the language of comics and the recurring image of a cartoonish bird to address the difficult themes so many young people are facing.
Juan Santos was born in the Bronx, New York City, and later lived in a community of Puerto Rican single mothers in inner city Boston. Santos earned his MFA in Visual Art at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and now teaches art at Boston Day and Evening Academy, an alternative high school in Boston. His students often live in dystopian worlds of their own. Using the visual language of cartoons and the street language of graffiti, Santos is able to relate to his students about contemporary fears and trauma. He uses the language of comics and the recurring image of a cartoonish bird to address the difficult themes so many young people are facing.
BEING WITH MY SUN:
a grieving mother’s pinhole photographs
Apr. 6 — May 26, 2024 ∙ Deb Todd Wheeler
Deb Todd Wheeler’s BEING WITH MY SUN exhibition features pinhole photographs on silver gelatin photo paper. Also on view is an excerpt from the video NO SLEEPING: dedicated to the dedicated, a silent video that explores other bedrooms preserved for generations in historic homes across the country.
Deb Todd Wheeler’s BEING WITH MY SUN exhibition features pinhole photographs on silver gelatin photo paper. Also on view is an excerpt from the video NO SLEEPING: dedicated to the dedicated, a silent video that explores other bedrooms preserved for generations in historic homes across the country.
The House on Jonathan Street
Feb. 10 — Mar. 31, 2024 ∙ Graffdummy, Mellah Nix, 3 Roads Communications
Quielan Gantt AKA GraffDummy resides in Hagerstown, MD. He was born to guide others through art with colorful and powerful creations using spray paint, acrylics, and various other mediums. His largest collection to date...
Quielan Gantt AKA GraffDummy resides in Hagerstown, MD. He was born to guide others through art with colorful and powerful creations using spray paint, acrylics, and various other mediums. His largest collection to date...
Ninety Degrees
Nov. 4 — Dec. 31, 2023 ∙ Isabel Manalo
Isabel Manalo is an Artist’s Artist. She is a pro who not only maintains her own studio practice and exhibition schedule, but also guides countless other artists with aesthetic and academic counsel. Manalo’s paintings possess an uncommon transcendence and mysticism. Yet they are essentially simple and familiar in their subject matter, often with her two young daughters engaged in exploration and wonder amid the natural world. The jewel-like glances of vivid translucent color so musically applied to the picture plane provide a sense of hopeful providence and even joy. Manalo has been exhibiting her work internationally since 1999.
Isabel Manalo is an Artist’s Artist. She is a pro who not only maintains her own studio practice and exhibition schedule, but also guides countless other artists with aesthetic and academic counsel. Manalo’s paintings possess an uncommon transcendence and mysticism. Yet they are essentially simple and familiar in their subject matter, often with her two young daughters engaged in exploration and wonder amid the natural world. The jewel-like glances of vivid translucent color so musically applied to the picture plane provide a sense of hopeful providence and even joy. Manalo has been exhibiting her work internationally since 1999.
The Solitary Figure
Aug. 5 — Oct. 15, 2023 ∙ Homer Yost
A beloved sage in the vibrant Frederick, MD art community, Homer Yost has been drawing and sculpting for more than four decades. His work is a love affair with the human form, the classical subject of artists for centuries. Narratives about his personal world and the larger world are conveyed in the subtle gestures or posture of his subject. He describes his work as “figurative humanism,” and captures more than a representational likeness. He captures the essence of their spirit in drawings and sculpture.
A beloved sage in the vibrant Frederick, MD art community, Homer Yost has been drawing and sculpting for more than four decades. His work is a love affair with the human form, the classical subject of artists for centuries. Narratives about his personal world and the larger world are conveyed in the subtle gestures or posture of his subject. He describes his work as “figurative humanism,” and captures more than a representational likeness. He captures the essence of their spirit in drawings and sculpture.
The Architecture of Transition
What is going on and what are we becoming?
May 6 — Jul. 30, 2023 ∙ Paintings by Nora Maccoby.
May 6 — Jul. 30, 2023 ∙ Paintings by Nora Maccoby.
Berliner
Mar. 4 — Apr. 30, 2023
Dr. Haya Al-Hossain is a Saudi multimedia artist; a painter, poet, and filmmaker currently based in Berlin, Germany. Her paintings address the inner landscape of multi-culturalism with a unique visual language exploring cross cultural directions and choices with Arabic and English language overlays. Her figures are painted gestures, moving in foreign and familiar places.
Dr. Haya Al-Hossain is a Saudi multimedia artist; a painter, poet, and filmmaker currently based in Berlin, Germany. Her paintings address the inner landscape of multi-culturalism with a unique visual language exploring cross cultural directions and choices with Arabic and English language overlays. Her figures are painted gestures, moving in foreign and familiar places.
African Americans of Excellence
Feb. 4 — Feb. 26, 2023
Multi-media portraiture of prominent Frederick MD citizens, portrayed in digital art by Yemi Fagbohun, photographs by Dr. Laura Sherwood and video by Russ Hodge of 3 Roads Communications.
Multi-media portraiture of prominent Frederick MD citizens, portrayed in digital art by Yemi Fagbohun, photographs by Dr. Laura Sherwood and video by Russ Hodge of 3 Roads Communications.
Life in the Theatre & Café Society
Dec. 3, 2022 — Jan. 1, 2023
Johnny Memphis is an artist who has traveled the world as a musician, photographer, painter, journalist, teamster and jack of all trades. He began his artistic journey busking on Beale Street in Memphis. He moved on to New Orleans, Cape Cod, and west...
Johnny Memphis is an artist who has traveled the world as a musician, photographer, painter, journalist, teamster and jack of all trades. He began his artistic journey busking on Beale Street in Memphis. He moved on to New Orleans, Cape Cod, and west...
Kristie's World
Nov. 5, 2022 — Nov. 27, 2022
Featuring work by Gillian Grozier, a painter and writer who hails from Great Britain. She came to America as a young adult and trained at the Students League in New York City. Kristie’s World provides a glimpse of our familiar town from the gaze of an empathetic outsider.
Featuring work by Gillian Grozier, a painter and writer who hails from Great Britain. She came to America as a young adult and trained at the Students League in New York City. Kristie’s World provides a glimpse of our familiar town from the gaze of an empathetic outsider.
Thacher & Rye: Sculpture in the Courtyard
Sept. 22, 2022 — Jan. 1, 2023
Discover twenty sculptures by eleven regional artists in the Thacher & Rye courtyard.
Discover twenty sculptures by eleven regional artists in the Thacher & Rye courtyard.
Unshuttered
Sept. 10, 2022 - Oct. 30, 2022
Opening Reception: Sept. 10, 2022
Produced and curated by Nancy Luse, a Frederick News Post journalist from “back in the day,” Unshuttered celebrates the contributions of photojournalists to understanding the world around us. Luse’s presentation of archival images in magazine-style layouts, are presented in very large scale aluminum prints. Luse draws from Frederick News-Post photos from back in the days before digital cameras, cell phones and websites. Unshuttered celebrates photojournalists from the 1970s to the 90s in her unique presentation of black and white images that harken back to a pre-digital world.
Opening Reception: Sept. 10, 2022
Produced and curated by Nancy Luse, a Frederick News Post journalist from “back in the day,” Unshuttered celebrates the contributions of photojournalists to understanding the world around us. Luse’s presentation of archival images in magazine-style layouts, are presented in very large scale aluminum prints. Luse draws from Frederick News-Post photos from back in the days before digital cameras, cell phones and websites. Unshuttered celebrates photojournalists from the 1970s to the 90s in her unique presentation of black and white images that harken back to a pre-digital world.
drifting through debris and rain
Jul. 2, 2022 — Aug. 28, 2022
Carolyn Sirois is an interdisciplinary artist from the Boston area, who works with a range of materials – paper, canvas, cement, found text, newspaper, vintage books, twine, ink, acrylic, weathered wood, flashing, radiator covers, dried fruit and plants. Carolyn erases, embeds and reconfigures.
Carolyn Sirois is an interdisciplinary artist from the Boston area, who works with a range of materials – paper, canvas, cement, found text, newspaper, vintage books, twine, ink, acrylic, weathered wood, flashing, radiator covers, dried fruit and plants. Carolyn erases, embeds and reconfigures.
It Speaks for Itself?
May 6, 2022 — Jun. 26, 2022
Wen-hao Tien is an artist and educator living in Cambridge, MA. Her studio practice is rooted in language and cross-cultural observations. She notices what many do not see, and her multi- disciplinary work brings out narratives of our changing societies, and life-in-flux. She was recently featured on NPR’s The World radio program for her project, Teach Me Your Song where she invited the public to teach her a song at her solo show in Boston’s Pao Arts Center. The result is a collection of recordings that portrays the plurality of our society. Her exhibition at Gaslight Gallery showcases her investigation of a wide range of mundane materials, and how she interprets line, sculpture and painting in the inescapable beauty of nature. She says, “Although my artistic process is about honing and evolving my thoughts and emotional senses, I am more interested in how you see it. How does a particular piece speak to you? What will you say back?”
Wen-hao Tien is an artist and educator living in Cambridge, MA. Her studio practice is rooted in language and cross-cultural observations. She notices what many do not see, and her multi- disciplinary work brings out narratives of our changing societies, and life-in-flux. She was recently featured on NPR’s The World radio program for her project, Teach Me Your Song where she invited the public to teach her a song at her solo show in Boston’s Pao Arts Center. The result is a collection of recordings that portrays the plurality of our society. Her exhibition at Gaslight Gallery showcases her investigation of a wide range of mundane materials, and how she interprets line, sculpture and painting in the inescapable beauty of nature. She says, “Although my artistic process is about honing and evolving my thoughts and emotional senses, I am more interested in how you see it. How does a particular piece speak to you? What will you say back?”
Of Dreams and Life
Mar. 5, 2022 — May 1, 2022
Johan Lowie is an internationally acclaimed artist living and working in Frederick, MD. A venerable professional in the vibrant Frederick art scene, he has an MFA from the Royal Academy in Ghent Belgium, his country of origin. He has shown extensively in Europe and the United States. A heart transplant recipient, Lowie explores diverse subjects in his work but returns repeatedly to the intangible, yet deeply emotive spaces that shape human feelings and memory. His works provoke consideration of the liminal spaces between life, death, and dreams.
Johan Lowie is an internationally acclaimed artist living and working in Frederick, MD. A venerable professional in the vibrant Frederick art scene, he has an MFA from the Royal Academy in Ghent Belgium, his country of origin. He has shown extensively in Europe and the United States. A heart transplant recipient, Lowie explores diverse subjects in his work but returns repeatedly to the intangible, yet deeply emotive spaces that shape human feelings and memory. His works provoke consideration of the liminal spaces between life, death, and dreams.
Isolation Celebration
Feb. 5, 2022 — Feb. 28, 2022
Kara Pugh Smith was on her way home to Baltimore from Mexico, eager to start a new project creating props for a theatrical production, when the pandemic hit. Things shut down. She was searching for some creative activity for her own peace of mind. Late in the spring she found various Easter eggs on a clearance rack. These have become her “Peeps.” Kara repurposes materials such as tissue paper, fabrics, jewelry, beads and more for her Peep population.
Kara Pugh Smith was on her way home to Baltimore from Mexico, eager to start a new project creating props for a theatrical production, when the pandemic hit. Things shut down. She was searching for some creative activity for her own peace of mind. Late in the spring she found various Easter eggs on a clearance rack. These have become her “Peeps.” Kara repurposes materials such as tissue paper, fabrics, jewelry, beads and more for her Peep population.
Light of Hope
Dec. 4, 2021 — Feb. 4, 2022
Tan Armentrout paints all night to capture the images that fill her mind. Rivers and flowers of her native Thailand, reflective waters and forests of her Virginia home, oceans and skies of an enchanted land––Tan captures her visions of nature in land and seascapes, and still life oils on canvas. Her treatment of light and reflections inspire a sense of hope after a long night.
Tan Armentrout paints all night to capture the images that fill her mind. Rivers and flowers of her native Thailand, reflective waters and forests of her Virginia home, oceans and skies of an enchanted land––Tan captures her visions of nature in land and seascapes, and still life oils on canvas. Her treatment of light and reflections inspire a sense of hope after a long night.
Dreams During the Long Peace
Nov. 6, 2021 — Dec. 3, 2021
Leigh Cortez is both an Army veteran and spouse of an active-duty combat soldier. She served on active duty with the 10th Mountain Division from 2001 to 2004. After leaving the military she pursued a tattoo apprenticeship and has tattooed professionally in addition to building a fine art career. As a multidisciplinary artist and married to an active-duty soldier, she has lived and worked in various military towns in the United States as well as overseas. The experiences of military life and tattooing in military towns influenced the medium and message of her painted works. Cortez’s work has recently been featured at Dulles International Airport and at the Military Women’s Memorial, formal entrance to Arlington National Cemetery.
Leigh Cortez is both an Army veteran and spouse of an active-duty combat soldier. She served on active duty with the 10th Mountain Division from 2001 to 2004. After leaving the military she pursued a tattoo apprenticeship and has tattooed professionally in addition to building a fine art career. As a multidisciplinary artist and married to an active-duty soldier, she has lived and worked in various military towns in the United States as well as overseas. The experiences of military life and tattooing in military towns influenced the medium and message of her painted works. Cortez’s work has recently been featured at Dulles International Airport and at the Military Women’s Memorial, formal entrance to Arlington National Cemetery.
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