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The Art League Gallery opens a new juried group exhibit every month, and solo artist exhibits nine times a year. We post photos, videos, and behind-the-scenes news from our exhibits here.

For gallery hours and info on current exhibits, visit the Gallery home page.

Abol Bahadori Talks About the Creative Process

We asked Abol Bahadori to share some insight into Reverie, the concept of reflections, and how his creative process has evolved over the years….
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Reflections with June Award Winner Ron Colbroth

Ron Colbroth’s award-winning photograph of a sailboat crisply mirrored in the calm, blue waters of Southern Portugal is the very definition of “reflection.”…
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McSorley’s Extraordinary Collections of the Ordinary

Oil painter Michael McSorley brings together the unexpected, the ordinary, and the unassuming through carefully constructed three-dimensional assemblages in “Collections of Perceptions.”…
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Want to Enter an Art League Exhibit? Here’s How

With the 2018–19 exhibit year starting July 1, we wanted to put together an overview of how the juried exhibit process works….
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Stories Behind the Women in “A Sense of Herself”

The women Deborah Conn has portrayed on paper not only “speak” to us through strong color and composition, but also through their own narratives…
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Beverly Ryan’s Drones Reappear

Artist and Art League instructor Beverly Ryan’s ‘Drone Silhouette’ seems to be suspended in air, blades whirling off the ground and ready to strike….
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Feeling the Way Around “Uncertainty”

We sat down with Jackie Saunders, winner of Best in Show for 2-D Figurative Work in the May Open Exhibit, to discuss her piece…
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Deborah Conn Explores the Female Gaze

Watercolorist Deborah Conn’s paintings of women, when hung, seem to be inviting you into conversation. Conn celebrates inner resilience and strength in “A Sense…
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Q&A with Ikebana Arranger Tone Olsen

Tone Olsen, the Branch Director of the Washington, DC Sogetsu School, answered some questions about Ikebana, our show, and how she became involved in…
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Ikebana Meets Art on the Rocks

Spring arrives at The Art League May 1-6 with the return of our Ikebana Show, and creative cocktails at Art on the Rocks inspired…
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Looking Up: A Space Of Her Own Pop-Up

Who do you look up to? What do you look forward to?…
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Karen Schmitz, Resisting “The New Normal”

“It’s about resistance, a little bit of anarchy.”…
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On View: The Feeling of Manhattan

In our latest solo exhibit, artist Robert Gilbert brings bustling Manhattan into our gallery in Old Town Alexandria….
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Pay a Visit to this Abstract Villa

“I love to problem-solve which is fun in abstract art because it is easy to create unpredictable situations.”…
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Take a Journey to “Landscape” — No Ticket Needed

These windows into other places are yours to enjoy through the end of March….
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Weekend Homework: See the Student/Faculty Show!

The Student/Faculty Show is The Art League’s annual celebration of all the amazing artwork that gets created in our classrooms….
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Exhibit Preview: “Drone Zone,” Coming March 7

What’s artist Beverly Ryan doing with that plasma cutter? And what, exactly, is this inflatable creation?…
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Award Winners for the 2018 Patrons’ Show Fundraiser

With over 600 pieces and counting in the Patrons’ Show Fundraiser, this year’s judge had his work cut out for him. So did the…
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Sardar Aziz’s Cityscape in Flux

“I wanted to capture how we as humans build a city and then rebuild it, right from the ground up, again and again.”…
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Kathleen Best Gillmann’s Winter Landscapes

“My goal in painting March Thaw was to capture the briskness, barrenness, and beauty of this location.”…
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What’s in a Lenticular Picture?

In Shakespeare’s time and in the 20th century, lenticulars were manufactured as amusing distractions. Today, the technique is finding a home in fine art…
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How “Natura Morta” Came to Be

Many artists have a back burner where they hold onto ideas for years. This one just took a little longer than most to make…
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Terri Rea Paints “The Immigrants”

The Immigrants seemed to paint itself….
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Previewing Our 2018 Exhibits

2018 is near! Here’s some of what’s in store in our gallery….
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