Zenith Gallery
1429 Iris Street, NWWashington, DC 20012
202-783-2963
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Zenith Gallery
2/25/2021 - 3/31/2021
Be Bold and Mighty Forces Will Come to Your Aid
Elissa Farrow-Savos
Polymer clay, oil paint, and found objects
26 x 26 x 11 inches (L x W x D)
Elissa Farrow-Savos’ sculptures are about storytelling, each a narrative of some woman somewhere, and every woman everywhere.
Brave Enough
Holly Boruck
Pen, color pencil, gouache on paper
18 x 12 inches (L x W)
Holly Boruck lives and works in the Los Angeles area. A common thread in her art making practice is a deep interest in the human psyche and earthly experiences.
Bridges of a Promise
Cheryl Elmo
Watercolor on aqua board
24 x 18 inches (L x W)
Cheryl Elmo, a signature member of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore Watercolor Societies, has shown her artwork nationally and internationally. Cheryl’s watercolors give the medium a new visual quality focusing on human connection.
Carla
Donna M. McCullough
Aluminum and steel
19 x 6 x 9 inches (L x W x D)
Donna McCullough forges steel, scrap metal, and found objects into feminine silhouettes of various fashions, lacking only the flesh and blood women whose presence they suggest, manifesting as an expression in contrasts and compliments.
Dupont Circle Maiden II
Joey Mánaplaz
Oil on panel
30 x 24 inches (L x W)
Joey Mánlapaz (MFA, George Washington University) is a contemporary realist painter, avid educator, compassionate art provider for the older community, noted curator and juror all rolled into one. She lives and works in Washington, DC, the main subject of her canvases, which are widely recognized and collected, most notably by the nation’s capital that owns 43 paintings and prints.
Greta Cares
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
Charcoal and encaustic on panel
14 x 11 inches (L x W)
Marcie Wolf-Hubbard has a love for drawing because it provides a connection to the world. The surface of encaustic paintings captivated her because it seemed more like a construction, a play of light, with a surface you wanted to touch.
Ironing Board is Out
Anne Bouie
Ironing board, wood, mixed, found object
48 x 12 x 3 inches (L x W x D)
Anne Bouie seeks to express the universal themes of order, harmony, growth, beauty and transcendence that under gird the art most pre-conversion religious and spiritual traditions. These traditions frequently employed symbols, which often served as a “shorthand” way of communicating truths and teachings.
Kayagum
Joan Konkel
Finely woven mesh, acrylic, on canvas
25 x 49 x 6 inches (L x W x D)
Joan Konkel describes her work as a visual labyrinth, active with shifting colors and patterns. Within the labyrinth she attempts to capture a bit of the magic and joy of phenomena, in essence one small facet of the complex, mysterious universe we inhabit.
Mee Too
Kristine Mays
Gold colored wire
28 x 13 x 6 inches (L x W x D)
Kristine Mays is aware of the impermanence of life. With metal wire she has timelessly captured a fleeting moment that will last for decades. Her artwork points to the soul and spirit, transporting the viewer into another place.
Michelle Obama - First Lady
Mihira Karra
Fabric collage on panel
24 x 24 inches (L x W)
Mihira Karra is a fabric collage artist who started sketching and using pastels as a child. She realized her passion for portraiture and figurative art as a twelve-year-old when she sketched her first portraits of her great aunt and grandmother.
Persist (Justice is Not Blind)
Rachael Bohlander
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
56 x 28 inches (L x W)
Rachael Bohlander work explores the space between geometric structure and expressive gesture, utilizing the tension between the two opposing forces to create new forms.
Sahle-Work Zuwde
Anu Narasimhan
Pastel on board
16 x 12 inches (L x W)
Anu Narasimhan was born in Southern India and was raised in the Netherlands before finally settling in Virginia. She holds a bachelor's in studio art from Virginia Tech. She started exploring pastels during her bachelors and it was love at first sight.
Sapience
Anne Marchand
Acrylic enamel on paper mounted on panel
14 x 14 inches (L x W)
Anne Marchand’s new work is underpinned by a structure of geometric fabrics embedded under translucent paint, anchoring paint, and other elements. Images of planets from the Hubble telescope inspired the painter to introduce circular imagery into her work. The nebulas and galaxies suggested biological structures.
Standing Up for What We Believe
Margery E. Goldberg
Padouk on mahogany base
74 x 24 x 7 inches (L x W x D)
Margery Goldberg makes art because that is who she is. Whether she carved, laminated, or fabricated wood for sculpture and furniture, like the ancient carvers, she let the spirit out of the wood. She considers herself a wood whisperer.
The Color of Change
Cheryl Elmo
Watercolor
19 x 25 inches (L x W)
Cheryl Elmo, a signature member of the Pennsylvania and Baltimore Watercolor Societies, has shown her artwork nationally and internationally. Cheryl’s watercolors give the medium a new visual quality focusing on human connection.
The Painting
Anna Podris
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 inches (L x W)
Anna Podris paints people, plants, animals, or buildings, creating quirky and mythic narratives. Unexpected color combinations along with a love of pattern are elements that denote her unique style of painting. Podris is committed to the transcendental nature of art.
The Parade of Untamable Spirits
Caroline Benchetrit
Acrylic, wax, pastels, and inks on canvas
20 x 20 inches (L x W)
Caroline Benchetrit’s signature style “is inspired by a world without rules, reminding us of a passionate moment in time where joy breaks all boundaries and dreams come true because you believe they do!”
The Protector
Carolyn Goodridge
Oil and gold leaf painting
60 x 48 inches (L x W)
Carolyn Goodridge’s paintings are emotional attunements to nature’s elements: sun’s fire, the wind, water and Mother Earth. Each work whispers a glimpse of an intelligent and relentlessly churning life.