UPTOWN#American Painting5118 MacArthur Blvd. NW, (202) 244-3244. Open Wed-Sat 11-7 & by appt.www.classicamericanpainting.com.Paintings by American artist AndreiKushnir, Michele Martin Taylor, BarbaraNuss, Michael Francis, Carol Spils, StevensJay Carter, Roger Doyle, and local artistswith national reputations. To April 28:Remembering Ross Merrill. An exhibithonoring the late Ross Merrill, artistmember of the Washington Society ofLandscape Painters, a founder of theMid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Associationand Chief of Conservation, NationalGallery of Art. Mr. Merrill, and artistsfrom both group with guest artist BobGamblin, exhibit works created at amemorial paint-out in June 2011 on theEastern Shore.! American University Museumat the Katzen Arts Center4400 Mass. Ave NW, (202) 885-1300. Tues thru Sun 11-4.www.american.edu/museum.Opening April 3: Lou Stovall: VerticalViews, Floating World: 19th CenturyJapanese Woodblock Prints, TomokazuMatsuyama: Thousand Regards, andDepartment of Art First-Year MFA StudentExhibition. Opening April 21: Departmentof Art MFA Thesis Student Exhibition.Opening on April 28: Like. Comment.Share; and Undergraduate Honors StudentExhibition.$ Kathleen Ewing GalleryVintage and Contemporary Photography,3615 Ordway St NW, 202-328-0955. Byappointment convenient to your schedule.www.kathleenewinggallery.com.Master and Contemporary Photography,including A. Aubrey Bodine, Esther Bubley,Willy Ronis, August Sander, Phil Borges, JohnGrant, Adriel Heisey, Alex MacLean, DarrowMontgomery, Mark Power, Rosamond Purcell,John Reef, Steve Szabo and others."Foxhall Gallery202-966-7144E-mail: foxhallgallery@foxhallgallery.comwww.foxhallgallery.comExhibiting artwork thru select privateshowings, and an online virtual gallery.#LaLuna Gallery5171 MacArthur Blvd NW(347) 549 - 0551Mon - Sat, 11am to 6pm; Thurs to 7 pmLalunagallerydc.comRoisin Fitzpatrick, Artist of the Light,contemporary Irish artist bringing beautyand nature together. Intricate patterns ofSwarovski crystals on slipper satin producinginspiring art.18 ■ galleries ■ APRIL 2012
% Wisconsin Avenue Studio4622 Wisconsin Ave, 2nd floorBy appointment, tel: 202-244-4331www.thecabinetart.weebly.comWAS specializes in contemporary art by WashingtonDC Metro Artists. Art to fit your styleand your budget.Paintings by Luciano Penay continues, seeMarch listing. Penay's emphasis on experimentationreverberates though his work. AtWAS, mixed media paintings and collagesmove seamlessly from 2 to 3D. Two rareblack and white etchings are on view.THE CABINET: WORK ON PAPER. Landscapes,seen and imagined, in diverse media.BETHESDAchevy chase"Clinical Research Center <strong>Galleries</strong>National Institutes of Health, Building 10,Bethesda, (301) 402-0115.Open daily, 7 am-9 pm.www.lillianfitzgerald.blogspot.com.Thru May 4: Mark O Hatfield Clinical CenterNorth Gallery- Krista Townsend. West Gallery- Elizabeth Floyd. East Gallery- JoellenMurphy. East Alcove Gallery- Rose O'Donnell.West Alcove Gallery- Martha Spak, SculptureCases- Nan Rothwell.! Waverly Street Gallery104600 East-West Highway, Suite 120(entrance on Waverly St.), Bethesda(301) 951-9441, Tues-Sat 12-6.www.waverlystreetgallery.com.Quietude, Paintings by Loriann Signori andNew Work by Gallery Artists.April 10 - May 5.Demonstration: Saturday, April 14, 4-6 pm.Inthis exhibit Loriann Signori showcases hernewest paintings, along with each painting’sTop Drawer: Classic black and white printsin linocut and intaglio etching technique.Developed during the Renaissance, thesetechniques were used first to copy famouspaintings and then for original compositions.Linocut, the original graphic technique, isprinted in relief. In intaglio, the ink is pulledfrom shallow grooves in the plate onto thepaper. Classic prints in The Cabinet are portableand prized for their intimate size.Portfolios: N. Ungar (digis), Vess (monotypes),Valk (mixed media), Segnan (prints), Katzen(watercolors), Huff (silkscreens),, Cusick (figuredrawings), Blankstein (prints), / A. Banks(collage) and others.O L D G E O R G E T O W N R DWILSON LAMOORLANDEDGEMOORHAMPDENELM STB A T T E R Y L AR U G B YAUBURNNORFOLKARLINGTONplein air and color harmonyBETHESDAstudies, beautiesin their own right. Signori’s paintingsare haunting. The poetic nature of her choiceof subject and the profound sensitivity shebrings to her work is outstanding. She isa painter with a soulful connection to hersubject. Her approach is best described as apoetic realism.Indeed, Signori is a painter of luminosity. Hermost recent works are quite large and richwith deep, jewel-like color. She says that toachieve such luminescence she must workin thin layers of paint, allowing each layer todry before the next is applied. In this way, thecolors come to resonate with one another andproduce an overall depth of hue. Like an opal,each color vibrates from its separate plane.The effect is a world of beauty, glowing frominside the painting.APRIL 2012 ■ galleries ■ 19B R A D L E Y B L V DST ELMO"W O O D M O N TW I S C O N S I N A V EM!L E L A N DEAST - WEST82 1146