Simin Parvaz

Lives in: Potomac, MD

Website: www.parvazart.com

Media and subjects:  Oil, Watercolor, Mixed Media, Photography.

Projects you’re currently working on: "Walking Through the Garden" is a series of oil paintings capturing quiet, contemplative moments in some of the world’s most famous gardens. "Seeing Words" is another series of mixed-media encaustic works that draws inspiration from poetry and incorporates written text into engaging visual settings.

Why you joined MAA: To be part of the local artist community, learn, and share the creative experience with others.

Something fun about you: While traveling through Japan, I learned Roketsu indigo dyeing, a traditional method of dyeing cloth originating in Kyoto.

Artist Biography: Simin Parvaz holds a B.A. in sociology from UC Berkeley. She has always held an appreciation for fine art and photography. As a teenager, she was encouraged to pursue her creativity in art class when her colored pencil drawing was selected for display at her boarding school.

As a full-time mom, she kept up with her drawings and explored oil painting, watercolor, watercolor pencil, pen & ink and photography.  What she puts on the canvas or a paper is what she wants to see and bring into her world.  For her, art is therapeutic and brings inner peace and serenity. Her photos reflect her observations of different facets of life, colors, and patterns, providing an opportunity to share with others.

by Sara Maddox

Congratulations to Dulce Moreno, a fine arts student at Montgomery College and the recipient of the 2019 Montgomery Art Association Scholarship.

MAA sponsors the annual scholarship in cooperation with the Montgomery College Art Foundation, awarding it a deserving Montgomery College student.

Dulce, who lives in Rockville and is originally from Mexico, has lived in the DMV area for about six years and says she has always had a love of color. When she turned 17, she began taking painting classes, and in 2017 she began working toward her goal of earning a fine arts degree at Montgomery College.

Although Dulce said that she has enjoyed all of the classes she has taken during her time at Montgomery College, she has come to recognize that painting is indeed her passion, and she looks forward to continuing to develop and hone her painting skills. Dulce also envisions a future in the art world that would include earning an M.A. in Art Therapy and working as an art therapist. She said that knowing the therapeutic value of art and “how it helps people’s minds and souls,” she would find great satisfaction as an art therapist helping other people find the same happiness that she finds in her painting.

Upon being awarded the scholarship, Dulce expressed her gratitude and said that in addition to being an honor, the scholarship award would be a great help to her in pursuing her studies next semester.

In addition, Dulce emphasized that beyond the financial support provided, “winning this scholarship has motivated me very much as a student, but mostly, as an artist,” and that being recognized by MAA means the world to her.

And a bonus for us? Dulce is now an MAA member!

Here's a sampling of her artwork:

Congratulations to the award winners of our 2019 Creative Expressions Show. The blind judging was conducted by Gaby Mizes, director of registration at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, on June 2, with prizes awarded during the artists reception on June 9.

Landscape

Jan Rowland - The Road to Lake Toba - 1st place

Irina Koren – Sunset - 2nd place

Lilian Camio - A Corner in Malta - 3rd place

Paula Eiblum – Quietude - Honorable mention

Carolyn Avery - Early Autumn, Jackson Creek - Honorable mention

Portrait

Irina Koren - Animal Within - 1st place

Lily Kak - Joy! - 2nd place

Elizabeth Elgin - 3 Moos for You - 3rd place

Miguel  Mitchell - Superman - Honorable mention

Dora Patin – Transformation - Honorable mention

Still Life

Jennifer Barlow – Dejeuner - 1st place

Carolyn Avery - The Bent Stem - 2nd place

Lilian Camio - Delicate Beauty - 3rd place

Abstract

Sarah Renzi Sanders - Harmony - 1st place

Gloria Miotto - Web of Peace - 2nd place

Martina Sestakova - Two Souls Embracing - 3rd place

Judy Stenger - Aurora - Honorable mention

Miniatures

Nar Steel - The Cottage and the Fence - 1st place

Debbie Miller - Hidden Garden - 2nd place

Jennifer Barlow - Petite Macarons - 3rd place

Elizabeth Stecher - Pears - Honorable mention

By Gaby Mizes
Judge, 2019 Creative Expressions Show

It’s important to make art that will have an impact or power over the viewer. One needs that connection but, of course, it can be subjective. What I might like or feel emotional about could be very different for someone else.

When I examine works of art, I look for originality, creativity, composition, technique, color and meaning. How does the artist use all these qualities? Some of the pieces in this show were quite original and creative, especially those with applications of ready-made materials. Some of the abstract and landscape pieces had texture that was different in a good way.

Also important to me is the initial reaction. Sometimes you need time to like an artwork, like you would with an opera or a musical. In other instances, you need to hear the explanation of the work from the artist. In my case, I tend to listen to my first instinct and reaction. You are either captivated by a work of art or you are not. I try to look for something different from all the other art I have seen.

Art must touch the mind, the soul, and the heart. Feel the muse inside you, get inspired, and don’t stop working!

Thank you, MAA members, for the opportunity to see your work!

by Judith Levine

This column is designed to provide you with art news and information about interesting shows at local art galleries and museums. If you are aware of an event, news or an exhibit 3 week or longer, large or small, that you think would be of interest, please email Judith Levine.

Museums

The Phillips Collection

1600 21st St. NW, Washington, DC; 202-387-2151; $12 -adults, $10 students and those 62 and over, free for members and visitors 18 and under; closed Mondays

• The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, June 22, 2019-September 22, 2109
• Aliza Nisenbaum, MOIA's NYC Women's Cabinet (2016)
• Intersections: Intersections is a series of projects that explores links between old and new traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and the spaces within the museum and its display of new artistic interventions.

The National Gallery of Art

4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC; 202-737-4215

• In the Library: Frederick Douglass Family Materials from the Walter O. Evans Collection (Library-East Building), April 22 – June 14, 2019

• The Life of Animals in Japanese Art (East Wing), June 2, 2019-August 18

• Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings (East Wing), through September 15
  

• The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists (West Wing), through July 21

• Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice, Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, and Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice  (West Wing), through June 9. The curators of these exhibitions will provide an authoritative view of this time in Venice’s illustrious art history.

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden 

Independence Avenue and Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC; 202-633-1000

• Manifesto: Art x Agency, June 15–January 5
• Enrico David: Gradations of Slow Release; through September 2. This is the largest exhibit of this contemporary sculptor’s work to date. The Italian artist uses the human experience and human form in amazing circular forms. Being placed in the circular corridors of the Hirshhorn just enhances these elements.
• Rirkrit Tiravanija: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green, through July 24; artist talk: May 16, 6:30-7:30 pm, obtain free tickets. Hungry for Thai food?  Then this exhibit is for you. In each of the Hirshhorn galleries a dining room made of objects by this contemporary Thai artist will serve visitors a dish of curry. Eat up and enjoy a visual treat at the same time.
• What Absence Is Made Of, through August. “What does absence look like? How can loss—of objects, of memory, of yourself—become a tool for artistic expression? In the face of today’s increasingly noisy consumer culture, What Absence Is Made Of answers these questions and more as it mines the Hirshhorn’s extensive collection in search of the mind-bending ways that artists surmount the limits of the material world.” (Hirshhorn catalog)

The Sackler & Freer Galleries

1050 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC; 202-633-1000

• For Love of Place: Japanese Screens (Freer) May 11, 2019–November 11, 2019
• Japan Modern: Prints in the Age of Photography (Sackler)
• A Glimpse of Ancient Yemen (Sackler)
• Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912 (Freer)
• The Way of the Kami (Freer)
• Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912 (Sackler), through June 23, 2019.

National Museum of the American Indian

Fourth Street & Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC; 202-633-1000

• Section 14: The Other Palm Spring, California. Section 14 forms the heart of the reservation belonging to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. This exhibit is about the fight to maintain their land as the city grows around it. Through January 2022
• Americans. Native American symbols and pictures have been used to represent a wide variety of products in the past. In some cases, such as the Indian Motorcycle, they were considered the epitome of the field. Others were demeaning, picturing Native Americans as picturesque savages. The visitor to this exhibit will experience the range and leave understanding how the people felt about these objects.
• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World

National Museum of African Art

950 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC; 202-633-1000

• Good As Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women

National Museum of African American History and Culture

1400 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC; 202-633-4751

• Ella's Books; Visual Art and the American Experience, through  June 30

Renwick Gallery

1661 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC; 202-633-7970

• Best, the designer of at least 8 of Burning Man’s temples since 2000, brings his gift to the Renwick’s Main Salon

National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian American Art Museum

8th and F streets NW, Washington, DC; 202-633-1000

• 75th anniversary of D-Day, ongoing
• Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975 (SAAM)
• Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is Prologue (SAAM), June 14-May 31
• Mary Ann Meade / Meade Brothers Studio / c. 1850, Sixth-plate daguerreotype
• In Mid-Sentence (NPG)
• Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (NPG)
• Yun Suknam: Portraits of the World: Korea (NPG)
• Recent Acquisitions (NPG)
• Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today (NPG)

National Museum of Women in the Arts

1250 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC; 202-783-5000

• More is More
• New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Betsabeé Romero

Other Shows & Galleries

Walters Art Museum

600 North Charles St., Baltimore, MD; Wednesday–Sunday, 10 am-5 pm; annex: 1 West Mount Vernon Pl, Baltimore, MD; 410-547-9000

• The 14th Annual Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Finalists Exhibition, June 15-August 11
• Animal Tales, through August 11
• Transformation: Art of the Americas
• Roberto Lugo at 1 West (Annex)

The Baltimore Museum of Art

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore MD; 443-573-1700

• Subverting Beauty: African Anti-Aesthetics

Goldman Art Gallery, Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington

6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville, MD; Sunday 1-5 pm; Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, 4-7:30 pm; 301-881-0100

Blackrock Center for the Arts

12901 Town Commons Dr., Germantown, MD; 301-528-2260

• 2019 Mid-Atlantic Watercolor Exhibition, June 8, 2019 - July 13, 2019; Reception -June 23,, 2019, 2:00PM- 4:00 PM.

The Mansion at Strathmore

10701 Rockville Pike, N. Bethesda, MD; Wednesday 10 am-9 pm; Sunday noon-4 pm; all other days 10 am-4 pm; 301-581-5146.

• 32nd Biennial Exhibition of the Creative Crafts Council. June 1, 2019–July 31

Art at Penn Place Gallery

4600 Waverly Ave, Garrett, Park, MD; 240-669-8549

• Robert LeMar. May 20, 2019 - June 15, 2019; Reception: June 2, 3-5 pm

Artists and Makers 1 & 2

11810 Parklawn Dr., Rockville, MD, 240-437-9573

• A&M 1: Steven Durow: Sins of My Fathers. Bill Lawrence: The Figure in Time- Alternative Worlds. Barbara Januszkiewicz: Asymmetric Harmony
• A&M 2: Kelly Posey: Psychedelic Environs. Carol Carey: Pondering to Paper
• Gallery 209: June 7-26 reception, June 7, 6- 9 pm

Adah Rose Gallery

3766 Howard Ave., Kensington, MD; Tuesday 1-6 pm, Thursday–Sunday noon-6 pm, and by appointment; (301) 922-0162

TAG of Frederick

216 North Market St., Frederick, MD; 301-696-8187; Friday-Saturday, noon–8 pm, Sunday noon–5 pm or by appointment.

• Kim Klabe: Barflies
• Julie Maynard: No Trouble Exists, through June 30; reception: June 1, 5-9 pm

VisArts at Rockville

155 Gibbs Street, Rockville, MD; 301-315-8200

• NextGen 6.0 (Kaplan Gallery)

Gallery Underground

2001 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington, VA; 571-483-0652; Monday–Friday 10 am-6 pm, Saturday 10 am-2 pm

• Thomas Mulczynski: Venice Show (Focus Gallery), June 1, 2019-June 30, 2019; Reception: June 7, 2019, 5:00-7:00 PM

Kentlands Mansion Gallery

320 Kent Square Rd., Gaithersburg, MD; Monday–Friday, by appointment; 301-258-6425

• Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association (GFAA), through July 7

Bohrer Park Gallery/Activities Center

506 South Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg, MD; Monday–Saturday 8 am-8 pm, Sunday 8 am-5 pm; 301-258-6394

Arts Barn Gallery

311 Kent Square Rd., Gaithersburg, MD; Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pm, Saturday 1:30 -5:30 pm; 301-258-6394

• Water, through July 14; Reception- June 9

Brookside Gardens Visitors Center

1800 Glenallan Ave., Silver Spring, MD; daily 9 am-5 pm, closed holidays; 301-962-1400

• Artists of the Atelier – Students of Glen Kessler, through June 22
• Brookside Gardens School – “Botanica” Exhibits, June 21-July 20

IONA Gallery

4125 Albemarle St, NW Washington, DC 20016-2105; 202-895-9448

Oasis Gallery

Montgomery Mall at the rear of Macy’s Home Store, second level, 7125 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda, MD; 10 am-4 pm, Monday -Friday; 301-469-6800, press 1 and x211

Our Creative Expressions show this year includes artwork from 31 members, including a few who are showing with MAA for the first time.

The annual show—one of two signature exhibitions each year—runs from June 2-29 at the Friendship Heights Village Center at 4433 S. Park Ave. in Chevy Chase, MD. The artists reception and prize ceremony will be Sunday, June 9 from 11:30 am-1 pm.

This show includes judging in five categories: Landscape, still life, portraits (people & animals), abstract and miniatures. Cash prizes will be awarded in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places, with honorable mention ribbons also awarded.

Gaby Mizes is serving as judge for the show, and will announce the winners at the June 9 reception. Gaby is the director of registration at the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, Maryland, and is the founder of Latin American ERA, a private consultancy company providing expertise in exhibitions and art management for national and international projects.

The MAA artists participating in Creative Expressions:

• Laura Aikman
• Carolyn Avery
• Jennifer Barlow
• Lilian Camio
• Paula Eiblum
• Elizabeth Elgin
• Pamela Gordimer
• Lily Kak
• Irina Koren
• Mary Kosterlitz
• Joanne Lamm
• Frankie Lydon
• Debbie Miller
• Gloria Miotto
• Miguel Mitchell
• Mary Morris
• Dora Patin
• Terry Pellmar
• Elissa Poma
• Sarah Renzi Sanders
• Alan Rich
• Louise Roth
• Jan Rowland
• Martina Sestakova
• David Sommers
• Elizabeth Stecher
• Nar Steel
• Judy Stenger
• Antonia Tiu
• Lea Truman
• Michelle Zugrav

By Judith Levine

An easy, infectious laugh and an interest in both animals and the natural world are among the first things one notices about Julie Smith. The artist was born in 1951 and grew up in New Orleans. She didn’t paint as a child but loved to draw. She majored in art in college. Following that, Smith went to work for the AFL-CIO, working in their political operations.

It was upon her 2001 retirement that Smith returned to the art world. She began by returning to her first love, drawing. At that time, she felt that “... painting was a good way to wreck a good drawing.”

It was one of her early teachers, Susan Herron, who showed her that a painting didn’t call for a destruction of the drawing. Herron taught her that the drawings could be done small with great attention to detail, enlarged to various sizes on a copier and using those copies to transfer to paper or canvas leaving the original drawing intact. Smith learned to paint in watercolor. From Herron, she learned the rules of working in watercolor.

We both agreed that while it is normal for artists to break rules, one has to know them first to successfully do so. Along the way, she took an acrylic workshop from Herron and fell in love with it.

“It was an entirely different way to paint than watercolor,” she said. Since she began to use acrylics and gotten the hang of it, Smith has not looked back. She admits the transition took a lot of work. 

In 2014, Smith took a workshop through the Baltimore Watercolor Society. This workshop, conducted by Nancy Barch, Philadelphia artist and teacher, offered some new insights to the artist. Barch’s class, “... opened my eyes not only to collage, but to abstraction.”

Some of the artists Smith named as favorites and influences included Vincent Van Gogh, Wolf Kahn, Nancy Barch, Susan Herron, and Richard Diebenkorn.

“It’s hard to say a primary influence. As artists, we are all influenced by each other,” she explained.

One thing her favorites do have in common is the use of a lot of blues, muted oranges and browns, something frequently found in her own work.  Smith finds the natural world which occurs in so much of her work is like a religion to her and fills her spirit.

Anyone who knows Smith’s work has also seen her animal paintings. “I paint animals because I love them and when I paint them ... I want for people to see they are not lesser beings.”

It is so easy to make animal paintings very sweet, but hers are not. They allow you to see the very souls of each one.

Smith said that when she first returned to the art world, she was painting every day. She has slowed down but her output is still large, and she continues to grow and explore. She is a current Artist in Residence at Sandy Spring Museum and is a member of Gallery 209 and MAA of course, along with being a signature member of the Potomac Valley Watercolorists and Baltimore Watercolor Society.

Will this be her life in 10 years? “I don’t have any idea how I’ll feel tomorrow.” Julie Smith doesn’t really plan ahead. “I respond to what comes.” And then she treated me to her beautiful laugh.

We are always excited to share your creative activities with fellow artists and subscribers of our monthly newsletter. Email the details to maaartists@gmail.com by the 20th of each month.

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By Judith Levine

This column is designed to provide you with art news and information about interesting shows at local art galleries and museums. If you are aware of an event, news or an exhibit 3 week or longer, large or small, that you think would be of interest, please email Judith Levine.

Museums

The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St. NW, Washington, DC; Information (202) 387-2151; $12 -adults, $10-62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under, closed Mondays

• Zilia Sánchez, through May 19. Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926, Havana) is a hidden treasure. This show includes paintings, sculptures and sculpted canvases. It follows her journey from Cuba, time in Europe and New York, and her eventual settling in Puerto Rico where she now lives.

• Intersections. Intersections is a series of projects that explores links between old and new traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and the spaces within the museum and its display of new artistic interventions.

• Ranjani Shettar: Earth Songs for a Night Sky, May 16, 2019-August 25

Oliver Jackson Lee: Recent Paintings
4th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC; Info: (202) 737-4215

• In the Library: Frederick Douglass Family Materials from the Walter O. Evans Collection (Library-East Building), through June 14

• Oliver Lee Jackson: Recent Paintings (East Wing), through September 15

• The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists (West Wing), through July 21

• Tintoretto: Artist of Renaissance Venice; Venetian Prints in the Time of Tintoretto, and Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice (West Wing), through June 9. The curators of these exhibitions will provide an authoritative view of this time in Venice’s illustrious art history.

Independence Avenue and Seventh Street SW, Washington, DC. (202) 633-1000

• Enrico David: Gradations of Slow Release, through September 2. This is the largest exhibit of this contemporary sculptor’s work to date. The Italian artist uses the human experience and human form in amazing circular forms. Being placed in the circular corridors of the Hirshhorn just enhances these elements.

• Rirkrit Tiravanija: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green, May 17-July 24;artist talk-May 16, 6:30 PM-7:30PM , obtain free tickets. Hungry for Thai food? Then this exhibit is for you. In each of the Hirshhorn galleries a dining room made of objects by this contemporary Thai artist will serve visitors a dish of curry. Eat up and enjoy a visual treat at the same time.

• What Absence Is Made Of, through August 31. “What does absence look like? How can loss—of objects, of memory, of yourself—become a tool for artistic expression? In the face of today’s increasingly noisy consumer culture, What Absence Is Made Of answers these questions and more as it mines the Hirshhorn’s extensive collection in search of the mind-bending ways that artists surmount the limits of the material world.” (Hirshhorn catalog)

1050 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC; (202) 633-1000 

• Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912 (Freer), through June 23; Empress Xiaoxian, Qing Dynasty, 1777; For Love of Place: Japanese Screens (Freer); The Way of the Kami (Freer), May 11-November 11. Shinto, the indigenous faith of Japan, centers on belief that everything possesses a kami (deity.) These spirits reside in rocks, mountains, trees-in everything within the landscape, natural phenomena, and deceased ancestors. This show will help visitors to better understand the Japanese people and how they view life.

• Japan Modern: Prints in the Age of Photography (Sackler) and Empresses of China’s Forbidden City, 1644–1912 (Sackler), through June 23.

• A Glimpse of Ancient Yemen (Sackler), through August 18.

Fourth Street & Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC; (202) 633-1000

• Section 14: The Other Palm Spring, California; through January, 2020. Section 14 forms the heart of the reservation belonging to the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians. This exhibit is about the fight to maintain their land as the city grows around it.

• Americans, through January 2022. Native American symbols and pictures have been used to represent a wide variety of products in the past. In some cases, such as the Indian Motorcycle, they were considered the epitome of the field. Others were demeaning, picturing Native Americans as picturesque savages. The visitor to this exhibit will experience the range and leave understanding how the people felt about these objects.

• Our Universes: Traditional Knowledge Shapes Our World, through September 2020

950 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC; (202) 633-1000 

• Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths

• World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean. Ongoing. “Swahili” comes from the Arabic word meaning “edge” or “coast”. This area of the coast of eastern Africa has been a crossroads for Asian, European, and African travelers for over a thousand years. This show showcases both individual cultures and the mixing that occurred during this time.

• Good As Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women, ongoing

1400 Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC; (202) 633-4751

• Ella’s Books, through December 31

• Visual Art and the American Experience, ongoing

• Cultural Expressions, Ongoing. A circular, experiential, introductory space to African American and African diaspora culture.

1661 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC; (202) 633-7970 

• David Best’s Temple, through January 5, 2020. Best, the designer of at least 8 of Burning Man’s temples since 2000, brings his gift to the Renwick’s main salon.

8th and F streets NW, Washington, DC; (202) 633-1000

• Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975 (SAAM), through August 18

• Tiffany Chung: Vietnam, Past is Prologue (SAAM), through September 2

• In Mid-Sentence (NPG), May 3-March 29, 2020

• Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence (NPG), through January 5

• Yun Suknam: Portraits of the World: Korea (NPG), through November 17. Feminist artist Yun Suknam explores the position and view of women artist in past and present in both Korea and the world.

• Recent Acquisitions (NPG), through November 3

• Eye to I: Self-Portraits from 1900 to Today (NPG), through August 18

• Daguerreotypes: Five Decades of Collecting (NPG), through June 2

• One Year: 1968, An American Odyssey (NPG), through May 19

Lady in K-Garden, Jiha Moon,  2017
1250 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC; (202)-783-5000

• More is More, May 3, 2019–September 22. Cindy Sherman, Mickalene Thomas, Barbara Kruger, Helen Marten, Jiha Moon are among the women who explore the whimsical connects between art and everyday objects that include textiles, ceramics, clothing, decorative objects and toys

• New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Betsabeé Romero, through September 20, 2020

Other Shows & Galleries
600 North Charles St., Baltimore. Wednesday–Sunday, 10:00 AM-5:00PM; Annex- 1 West Mount Vernon Place, Baltimore; (410) 547-9000

• Paintings for a Venetian Palace

• Animal Tales, May 18-August 11

• Transformation: Art of the Americas, through October 6

• Roberto Lugo at 1 West (Annex), through July 15

10 Art Museum Drive, Baltimore; (443) 573-1700

• Subverting Beauty: African Anti-Aesthetics

• Henri Moore: and the Pre-Colombian Past

• DIS: A Good Crisis

• Commons Collaborations: Get Your Life!, through November 17

963 Bonifant St., Silver Spring. (240) 670-7424

• Palette Knife abstracts by Vicki Lipov and The Human Figure by Rebecca Lipov, May 1-June 30

6125 Montrose Rd., Rockville; Sunday 1:00 PM-5 PM, Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 4:00 PM–7:30 PM; (301) 881-0100

• A Thousand Words: Revealing Meaningful Messages: Our Bender JCC, through May 9

• A Lifetime of Perspective: Art by Older Adults, May 19-June 16

12901 Town Commons Dr., Germantown; (301)-528-2260

• Dottie Campbell: Amped Up, through June 1

10701 Rockville Pike, N. Bethesda; Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10:00 AM-4:00 PM; Wednesday 10:00AM—9:00 PM; Sunday noon-4:00 PM; (301) 581-5146

• From the Artist’s Hand:Lis Zadravec. MAA’s own Lis Zadravec is showcased in the one woman exhibit. Zadravec is a well-known member of the Colored Pencil Society of America. Please come and enjoy seeing the unique way the artist blends the human expression with the spiritual one.

• Kaleidoscopes: Spectrum, through May 26

4600 Waverly Ave, Garrett, Park; (240) 669-8549

• Farhad Heidarian, through May 18

• Jennifer Beaudet’s Mountain Drive has been accepted into the 2019 Penn Place Invitational Show. Enjoy the work of your fellow MAA member, and then go treat yourself to a lovely meal at the Black Market Bistro.

• Robert LeMar, May 20-June 15; Reception: June 2, 3-5 PM

Gallery 1: 11810 Parklawn Dr., Rockville. (240) 437-9573/(240) 481-5031; Gallery 2: 12276, Wilkins Ave., Rockville

• Gallery 209: Tuesdays -Sundays, Noon-4:00 PM, 301-622-0546 or Artists@Gallery209Art.com.

3766 Howard Ave., Kensington. Tuesday 1:00 PM-6:00 PM, Thursday–Sunday noon-6 PM, and by appointment; (301) 922-0162
Marc Weinberg
216 North Market St., Frederick, 301-696-8187); Friday-Saturday, noon–8:00 PM, Sunday noon–5:00 PM or by appointment.

• Marc Weinberg: I Left my Heart …

• Chris Stovall: For the Birds, May 3-26; reception-May 4, 6-9 PM

155 Gibbs St., Rockville. (301) 315-8200

• Richard L. Dana: Here and Where (Kaplan Gallery), through May 26

• Really Large Numbers Laboratory (Gibbs Street Gallery), through May 19

• John Schlesinger (Common Ground Gallery), through May 19

• Cy Keener and Justine Holzman at 355 Pod Space, Rockville Town Square, through August 25

2001 Jefferson Davis Hwy, Arlington. (571) 483-0652; Monday–Friday 10 AM–6 PM, Saturday 10 AM–2 PM

• Risk—National Juried Exhibition, May 1-24; reception, May 3, 5-8 PM

320 Kent Square Rd., Gaithersburg. Monday–Friday, by appointment ; (301) 258-6425
506 South Frederick Ave., Gaithersburg. Monday–Saturday 8 AM–8 PM, Sunday 8 AM-5 PM. (301)-258-6394

• Artwork of Ouafae Taame, through June 24

311 Kent Square Rd., Gaithersburg. Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pm, Saturday 1:30 -5:30PM; (301) 258-6394
1800 Glenallan Ave., Wheaton. Daily 9:00 AM-5:00PM; closed holidays; (301) 962-1400

• Pate’ Painters, through May 27

4125 Albemarle St, NW, Washington, DC. (202) 895-9448 

• Dennis Crayon and Nadia Linda Goldstein, through May 30. IONA Gallery is open again. This space is not a traditional gallery. It is located within IONA Senior Services, and it is a lovely space, one I personally have enjoyed visiting.

Montgomery Mall at the rear of Macy’s Home Store, second level, 7125 Democracy Blvd., Bethesda. 10 AM-4 PM Monday-Friday; 301-469-6800, press 1 and x211

The Phillips Collection

The National Gallery of Art

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The Sackler & Freer Galleries

National Museum of the American Indian

National Museum of African Art

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Renwick Gallery

National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian American Art Museum

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Walters Art Museum

The Baltimore Museum of Art

Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe

Goldman Art Gallery, Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington

Blackrock Center for the Arts

The Mansion at Strathmore

Art at Penn Place Gallery

Artists and Makers 1 & 2

Adah Rose Gallery

TAG of Frederick

VisArts at Rockville

Gallery Underground

Kentlands Mansion Gallery

Bohrer Park Gallery/Activities Center

Arts Barn Gallery

Brookside Visitors Center Gallery

IONA Gallery

Oasis Gallery 

Lives in: Rockville, MD
Website:  paolaluther.com
Instagram: @lutherpaola
Facebook: facebook.com/paola.luther

Media and subjects:  Oil paintings of landscapes, portraits and still lifes.

Projects you’re currently working on: I am currently working on a few landscape and pet portrait

commissions as well as painting flowers for upcoming shows.

Why you joined MAA:  To enjoy meeting local artists and participating in local shows.

Something fun about you: My other artistic passion is cooking and I went to culinary school. I am a personal chef to my three children and husband.

Artist Biography

Paola Luther’s delicate touch and sense of light and color infuses her broad range of art styles and mediums.  Paola has been painting since childhood. As an adult she became a professional artist in fine arts and continues to expanded her skills under the tutelage of artists from Washington DC, Los Angeles, Spain, Peru and Central America.  Paola has attended multiple workshops with talented artists around the world. Traveling is a large part of Paola’s artistic inspiration. She has produced colorful plein-air pieces, commissioned paintings and portraits.  Paola’s original works can be found in private collections in the United States and Europe.