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Our Bethesda shows for 2002

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FEBRUARY 2002 - GRAND OPENING: GALLERY ARTISTS

February 8 - March 6

The grand opening show of the second Fraser Gallery, with over 1,600 square feet of space included work by most of the artists represented by the gallery as well as several invited artists. Artwork by Caroline Danforth, David FeBland, Tucker Bobst, Karin Rosenthal, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joyce Tenneson, Dianora Niccolini, STROM, Tamaki Obuchi, Mitsuou Suzuki, John deFabbio, Maxwell MacKenzie, Geoffrey Sinckler, Danny Conant, Jerry Johnson, Sally Mann, Tristan Schane and many others. A grand opening reception was held on Friday, February 8 from 6-10 PM and nearly 700 people attended. The show was reviewed by the Washington Post, the Washington Times and the Potomac Gazette.

Amor Township Farmstead by Maxwell MacKenzie

Amor Township Farmstead, Summer 1992
Silver Gelatin Print by Maxwell MacKenzie
$2500 16"x48" Silver Gelatin

Second Series by Tristan Schane

Second Series, 2001
Oil on prepared Aluminum by Tristan Schane
$6,000 36 x 36 inches


BETHESDA INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION
March 8 - April 10, 2002

Our annual photography competition designed to showcase the best of the emerging new photographers from around the world. $950 in cash prizes will be awarded as well as a solo show at our Washington, DC gallery for the Best of Show winner. The curator for this competition was well-known photographer Maxwell MacKenzie, who selected the below photographers from a field of over 300 entries. Awards will be chosen by MacKenzie at the opening reception, to be held at the gallery from 6-9 PM on Friday, March 8, 2002. See images of the accepted work here. To apply for the 2003 competition. Click here.

Award Winners

Great Falls

Great Falls
Forrest MacCormack - Best in Show


Chris Sidhall - First Prize
Christa Leonard - Second Prize
Dan Zaitz - Third Prize
Lyn Markey - Honorable Mention
Benjamin Espey - Honorable Mention
Amy Boles - Honorable Mention

Selected Photographers

William Atkins
Bob Axel
John Babineau
Bernard
Amy Boles
Zoe Campagna
Stacey Cramp
Stuart Diekmeyer
Gary Ell
Steve Ember
Benjamin Espey
Glenn Friedel
Andrew Z. Glickman
Micahel Hersey
Knut Hybinette
Carolyn Johnson
Richard LaBarbera
Elizabeth Magic Laser
Ralph Lindeman
Christa Leonard
Lynn Markey
Adrienne Mills
Andy McCormack
Forrest MacCormack
Patrick Ryan
Diana Schneider
Chris Sidhall
Dan Zaitz


BETHESDA LITERARY FESTIVAL
April 26 - April 28, 2002

Bethesda will celebrate the rich diversity of today's literature by hosting over forty nationally known novelists, poets, journalists, non-fiction and children's writers in venues throughout downtown Bethesda. The Fraser Gallery will host several events including book signings and presentations by Vaughn Sills, Karin Rosenthal, Joyce Tenneson, Maxwell MacKenzie, Wayne Schoenfeld, Danny Conant and others. All events are free and open to the public. Please call the gallery at (310) 718-9651 for more information. To reserve a book, click on the images below or call us at 301/718-9651 to reserve a copy of the Tenneson or MacKenzie books.



SCHEDULE

VAUGHN SILLS discusses and signs copies of her photography book "One Family," Friday, April 26 from 5:30 - 6:30 PM.

KARIN ROSENTHAL discusses and signs copies of her book "Karin Rosenthal: Twenty Years of Photographs," Friday, April 26 from 6:30 - 7:30 PM.

JOYCE TENNESON discusses and signs copies of her book "Wise Women," Saturday, April 27 from 2-4 PM. Talk starts promptly at 2:00 PM.

MAXWELL MACKENZIE discusses and signs copies of his books American Ruins: Ghosts on the Landscape," and "Abandonings: Photographs of Otter Tail County, Minnesota," Saturday, April 27 from 4-6 PM.

WAYNE SCHOENFELD discusses and signs copies of his books "Brittle Glory: The Face of Change: Photographs of Turkey and Cuba," and "Surface Tensions" Sunday, April 28 from 2-4 PM.

JOYCE TENNESON discusses and signs copies of the book "Exhalations, Exhalaciones," edited by Tenneson. Several of the photographers in the book (including local DC area photographer Danny Conant) will also be on hand to discuss and sign copies of the book. Saturday, April 27 from 2-4 PM.

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CHAWKY FRENN
April 12 - May 8, 2002

Born in Lebanon, and educated in the US and Europe, this painter is currently an Associate Professor of Art at George Mason University. Over 60 of his works have recently concluded a two year tour to various museums and universities and have received a string of superb reviews from newspapers such as the New York Times and art magazines. For this exhibition Frenn has created over 20 new paintings revolving around the human figure and various powerful social issues. A reception for the artist will be held on Friday, April 12 from 6-9 PM. To view many of the works on exhibition click here and to see additional, earlier works by Chawky Frenn here.

Frenn Requiem

"Requiem"
Oil on Panel, April 2001
$11,700

Frenn September 11

"September 11"
Oil on Panel, September 2001
30x30 inches
$7,200

JOYCE TENNESON AND KARIN ROSENTHAL
May 10 - June 12, 2002

Two of today's most innovative and well-known photographers shared the gallery walls this month. Karin Rosenthal creates landscapes using the human body as the anchor and focus of her imagery. Through her compositions, the body is often abstracted and reshaped, but always remains beautiful and sensual. Joyce Tenneson is considered one of the most influential photographers in the world, and her work has been published in seven books, most recently Wise Women. Published by Bullfinch Press, Wise Women is a celebration of the power and beauty of women in the third phase of their lives - ages 65 to 100 years. Through portraits and interviews with women from Maine to California, this remarkable book speaks to the core of what it means to have lived and grown in strength during the past three-quarters of a century. Many of the photographs from the book were on exhibit. Opening reception was on May 10, from 6-9 PM. To see more of Karin Rosenthal's work click here and to see more of Tenneson's work on exhibit, click here. To read the various reviews of this show by the Washington City Paper and the transcript from WETA TV "Around Town" arts show, please click here.


Coretta King by Joyce Tenneson

"Coretta King"
Joyce Tenneson

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"Vortex"
Karin Rosenthal

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Signed copies of Karin and Joyce's latest book are available through the gallery.


DAVID FEBLAND
June 14 - July 10, 2002

This is David FeBland's third solo show at Fraser and his first in our new Bethesda gallery. His past two solos have received superb reviews from the Washington Post, Art in America and other publications (read them here). An opening reception was held on Friday, June 14 from 6-9 PM, part of the new Bethesda Art Walk. See all the works on exhibit here.


Oil on Canvas by David FeBland

"Eurotrash"
Oil on Canvas $4,500

Oil on Canvas by David FeBland

"Indiana Love Triangle"
Oil on Canvas $7,000

Oil on Canvas by David FeBland

"Posers, Painters"
Oil on Canvas $2,800

Oil on Canvas by David FeBland

"Spike, Dime, Divine"
Oil on Canvas $7,500

SUMMER GROUP SHOW
July 12 - September 11, 2002

Our annual group exhibition of original paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture and prints by artists represented by the gallery and invited artists. Including work by Caroline Danforth, Adam Bradley, David FeBland, Elaine Hahn, George Bowles, D. Greg Denton, Helen Bayley, John Jacobsmeyer, Joyce Tenneson, Karin Rosenthal, Rachel Waldron, John DeFabbio, Lisa Egeli, Maxwell MacKenzie, Renee McGinnis, Sheila Giolitti, Tina Blondell, Tamaki Obuchi, Zygimantas Augustinas, Tristan Schane, Priscilla Young, Andrew Wodzianski, Robert Mapplethorpe, Niurka Inurrieta and Scott Hutchison. Also, work by award winners from the 2001 Georgetown International Fine Art Competition will be included in this exhibit. The opening reception was on Friday, July 12 from 6.00pm - 9.00pm. Read the review in the Washington Post.


Hatching the Secret

Hatching the Secret
Watercolor
Tina Blondell

Skippy Girl

Skippy Girl
Oil on Canvas
David FeBland

JOHN JACOBSMEYER
September 13 - October 9, 2002

The current birth of the New American Subversive Realism has a handful of leaders, most of them in New York, and former New England painter (now living in New York), John Jacobsmeyer is one of its most talented leaders. Works on canvas and wood engravings by this acclaimed artist will be on exhibit this month. An opening reception for Jacosbmeyer was held on Friday, September 13 from 6-9 PM. More works by John Jacobsmeyer can be seen online here. Read the Washington Post review here.


Oil on canvas by John Jacobsmeyer

St. Gregory (Homage to Gregory Gillespie)
Oil on Linen. Circa 2002.
John Jacobsmeyer

RENEE McGINNIS
October 11 - November 6, 2002

Chicago painter Renee McGinnis made her debut in the capital region with her first solo exhibition in the Fraser Gallery of Bethesda. McGinnis uses enviable technical skills with creative compositions and ideas that deliver intelligent paintings and graphite drawings.

Renee McGinnis constructs a body in her painting that exists at the intersection of multiple discourses. Its often full-frontal confrontation with the viewer establishes an iconicity that resonates with themes of Pop and mass culture--the comic book or action-film hero, the television body seen in series like Xena and Hercules. These hard bodies, with their smooth muscles and metallic clothing seen against landscapes reminiscent of primordial bogs or the surface of the moon, have a specificity that can make the viewer squirm. While the full availability of the body smacks of antecedents in classical art such as Mantagna's St. Sebastian or the figures of Sandro Botticelli, the hardness of these surfaces is almost impossible for the viewer to absorb. A reception for the artist was held on Friday, October 11 from 6-10 PM. Read the review of the show here.

Oil and goldleaf by McGinnis

"Held"
Oil, goldleaf on canvas - 30x20 inches
$2,300
Renee McGinnis



MAXWELL MACKENZIE
November 8 - December 11, 2002

The spectacular panoramic photographs of Washington, DC photographer Maxwell MacKenzie focus on the abandoned ruins of schoolhouses, barns and farmsteads built by the immigrants to the Western and Midwestern states. "MacKenzie brings something of the grand, celebratory tradition back to the subject of the landscape," wrote the Washington Post's Henry Allen about MacKenzie's work in a Pulitzer prize-winning art criticism review. In that same review, critic Henry Allen also wrote that "In Maxwell MacKenzie's gigantic... landscapes ...the moment in question isn't just the moment the shutter clicked, but a moment that slipped by decades or even a century before, when something went wrong and a farm began to edge toward ruin."

MacKenzie's work is in the collection of over one hundred major corporations and collections. A reception for the photographer was held at the gallery from 6-10 PM on Friday, November 8. To see more works, please click here.

Near Twin Bridges

Near Twin Bridges, Madison County, Montana, 1999
Silver Gelatin Print
9x28 inches, $1,500
Maxwell MacKenzie

Everts Township 2

Everts Township Homestead II, Minnesota, Summer 1993
Silver Gelatin Print
9x28 inches, $1,500
Maxwell MacKenzie
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