As mentioned in an earlier post about events on the 1st Friday in April, the neighborhood was jam-packed with residents and visitors alike who were out and about in the CWE, some to meet Chelsea Clinton at Left Bank Books and others who were drawn to the multiple gallery openings on McPherson Avenue. Some also ventured eastward off-the-familiar-path to the grand opening of Horsley Arts , 4374 Olive St., to view Bill Christman’s quirky robot sculptures, above and below, and Linda Horsley’s paintings, (one of which is shown behind Bill in photo above).
Back on McPherson an exhuberant Philip Slein is photographed with some of the many people who stopped by his gallery to see works by artists Chuck Webster and Valerie Jaudon. One of Jaudon’s 54 x 54″ oil on canvas paintings is shown below.
projects+gallery’s current exhibition, Transparency Shade: Seeing through the Shadow, is no exception to what has become the rule at the gallery: expect the unexpected —you won’t be disappointed. Photographed above, from left, Susan Barrett, founder of projects + gallery, chess champion & author Jennifer Shahade and filmmaker Daniel Meirom who were in town for the U. S. & Women’s Chess Championships hosted at the Chess Campus March 28 through April 10.
Transparency Shade features work by contemporary artists Philip Aguirre Y Otegui, Zoë Buckman, Kendell Carter, Kahlil Irving, Ayana V. Jackson, Michael Riedel, and Hank Willis Thomas, above.
CWEnder Nancy Newman Rice, left, greeted many friends at Duane Reed Gallery, 4729 McPherson Ave., where her latest intricate paintings, right, will remain on view until May 13.
Also at Duane Reed Gallery are Nancy Callan’s glass pieces, top photo, and Irina Zaytceva’s lovely hand-rolled porcelain sculptures, below. Proprietor Duane Reed said he is heading off to the Art Market in San Francisco at the end of April to show some of the artists’ work from this current exhibition.
A view from outside looking in at Houska Gallery, 4728 McPherson Avenue.
Houska Gallery is exhibiting Larry Torno’s photographs, left, and Tony Cray’s beautiful blown glass, right.
The sweet sounds of the Landolfi Quartet (courtesy of the CWE-North Community Improvement District) drifting in the background added to a very special evening.