Sophia Belkin uses dye painting, embroidery and textile collage to create dynamic compositions that reference natural processes. Her work is inspired by the lush, teeming, swamps in the Gulf South and the wetlands in the Mid-Atlantic. The paintings explore the interconnectedness of the environment and consider verdant futures for our ecological landscape in the face […]

A professional archivist is tasked with assessing materials of value, preserving them to the best of their ability with the technology available, and maintaining these collections so that the information can have an enduring impact on the communities and institutions that enshrine them. Franz Jantzen understands the responsibility implicitly, both professionally and in his artistic […]

The differentiation of visual artwork as abstract or representational stubbornly persists. Similar to the artificial divide between the conceptual and the beautiful. These have become tired and tedious arguments. Nevertheless, these designations resist dissolving one into the other. But are we not able to see both ways simultaneously? Is not every artwork both? Rather than […]

HEMPHILL is pleased to announce the exhibition, WILLEM de LOOPER: Paintings 1972 – 1975, opening on Saturday, January 27, 2024, from 2:00 p.m.–6:00 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through March 2, 2024. Each core Washington Color School artist created and became identified with their initial motifs and techniques: Morris Louis with pours, columns […]

Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi's connection to nature, landscape, and geography provokes themes through which the painter focuses her lens. With each poured work, Ilchi elicits a new environment or dreamscape from the undulating forms, as if divining a place of solace (or unease) from floes of thinned acrylic and watercolor. The artworks in this exhibition evoke […]