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ART WORKS BY AMY BARKER-WILSON

Shows: Current, Recent and Upcoming, On-Going

Current:

• CURRENT:
  • ABSTRACT PAINTING & HANDCRAFTED JEWELRY will be shown just in time for the holidays! Please join 8 local painters and jewelry designer for this festive, fun event. Amy’s small works with be included in this sale.
    Friday December 9th, pm
    Saturday December 10 11 -7 pm - with artist's reception from 5- 7 pm
    Sunday December 11th, 12 - 5 pm.
    
    At: Shaune Bazner Accessories
    5117 MacArthur Blvd. NW Washington DC 20016 (above Chen' Gourmet Restaurant)
    Questions: call 202 537 2980
    
• ONGOING:
  • New works on display at the monthly member show at The Foundry Gallery, 1314 18th St., N.W., Washington D.C. 20026. Openings and monthly reception first Friday evening of the month 6 - 8 pm , as part of the Dupont Circle Art walk. Call to meet artist.
  • New and ongoing work at the Art League, at the Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA
  • Rotating works in bins with presentation archival book and other stored works are available

Recent:

• Foundry Gallery solo show Journeys: New Works. Press Release. Exhibit Dates: Wednesday, November 2- Sunday, November 27, 2011
• Group show, Outloud Painters, at Glenview Mansion, Rockville Civic Center Park, MD July 10 - August 2, 2011: 3 paintings
• Group show, Group 93, curated by Luciano Penay, art professor at American University, at theKatzen Arts Center of the American University, Washington DC - August 6 - Sept 3, 2011: 8 paintings
• Works by Amy Barker-Wilson and Robert Weiner, The Bethesda Library, June 1 - 30. See picture
• Outloud Painters at River Road Unitarian Church, Bethesda MD
  June 4 - June 30, 2011, opening reception June 12
• Solo show, Alchemical Transformations, Foundry Gallery, May 5 - 30th, Opening Reception, May 7, 6-8 pm.
• Solo show: Luminous Metaphors: Metaphysical Landscapes. Recent works by Amy Barker-Wilson will be shown at the Daystar Gallery, Shrine of the Blessed Scarament, 3630 Quesada & Western Aves., Chevy Chase MD 20015 from Wed. Jan. 13 - Fri Feb 12, 2010. (gallery open 8:30 - 4 pm daily, call ahead, 202 966 6575). Please join us for the Opening Reception Sunday January 17th, 2-4 pm. We look forward to seeing you!
• Art Is A Gift 50 Artists, Touchstone Gallery And Foundry Gallery
  December 10,11 and 12 at Go Mama Go's"!
  1809 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
  Monday 12 - 7, Tuesday - Saturday 11 - 7, Sunday 12 - 5
  202-299-0850
  Reception: Friday, December 11, 6:00 - 8:00pm
• Foundry Gallery's annual holiday show -- fundraiser for the gallery - works for sale at gift prices -- Come see our last show before we change locations......December 2 - 27, 2009. Opening reception is December 4, 6-8 pm.
• HUSH! The Foundry Gallery's Second Annual Auction Benefit, for the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, ongoing silent bidding, Closing reception Sept. 26th . One work donated by the artist, A Pair of Pears. See Foundrygallery.org
• Transluminescent Metaphors, Works by Amy Barker-Wilson will be on view at the Amsterdam-Whitney Gallery in New York City, from July 10 through August 4, 2009. Amy Will exhibit some works from her exhibit Last Wild Places and other new works. Join us for the Opening Reception Thursday July 16th, 6-8 pm. See Amsterdam-Whitney Gallery website for details. See Press Release.
• SMALL MYSTERIES, multiple small works by the artist on canvas, paper and wood, Gallery 3, FOUNDRY GALLERY, June 3-28, 2009. Opening receptions: Friday and Saturday June 5th and 6th, 6-8 pm.
• THE OUTLOUD ARTISTS a group of award-winnning non-representational painters who work and show together will hold our SPRING EXHIBITION at the Sandy Springs Museum, Sandy Springs MD 20860 April 1 - May 31, 2009. Join us for a reception Sunday April 5th, 3-5 pm. Contact Sandy Spring Museum at sandyspringmuseum.org or call 301-774-0022.
• December Members' Show at Foundry Gallery, December 3-28, 2008; opening reception is December 5 from 6-8 pm. 2-3 new works exhibited.
• Members' Show, Foundry Gallery, July 30 to August 31, Opening reception: Friday August 1, 6-8 pm. 3-4 piece of new work.
• Group Show with The Outloud Painters at The Black Rock Center for the Arts:
  Living Outloud—in the Abstract!
  Abstract painting; mixed media
  May 7–June 6
  Join us for the Artist reception: May 10 (5:30–7:30 p.m.) With a quote by Emile Zola as their credo—“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, I will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”—the OUTLOUD painters firmly establish their collective vision, represented through abstract works that are best described as bold, explosive, breathtaking, monumental. In short, out loud.
• RECENT WORKS, Solo Show, Foundry Gallery, March 5 to April 3, 2008. Opening reception Friday March 7, 6-9 pm., 1314 18th St., N.W., Washington D.C. 20026. Click to read Press Release.
  Artist will speak about abstract art and her process of creating for this show: Saturday March 29, at 4 pm at the gallery. All welcome!
• 17th Annual Strathmore Membership Juried Exhibition group show. February 23, 2008 - April 5, 2008, MICHEALE HARRINGTON, JUROR, MANSION, FIRST FLOOR GALLERIES & GUDELSKY GALLERY, Rockville MD (selected pieces)
• Foundry Members Holiday Show -- exhibit dates: December 5 - 30^th, Opening Reception: Friday, December 7 from 6 to 8 PM. Works include canvases and framed paper mixed media work of deep space abstracted landscapes, focusing on 'the essential point where In and Out meet.'
• Three Women Abstract Show, with Mary Wagner and Patsy Fleming, Landow Gallery, Landon School, Bethesda MD 20817: Sept. 14, to Oct. 12, 2007 - opening reception Sept. 16^th, 5-7 pm.
• New Works, Members of the Foundry Gallery Gallery, 1314 18th St., NW, Washington DC, August 1 - September 2. Opening reception: Friday, August 3, 6-8 pm. Several works including work on invitational card by the artist will be on display.
• All-Media Membership Show, The Art League, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA: opening July 8^th (juror Michael Pierce, Nat. Gall): Improv (for Miles)
• Small Works: Silkpaintings and oils, abstracts and florals: Foundry Gallery, Gallery Three, July 2 through July 29; reception with Spanish guest artist Sarragua Leyva, July 6 from 6 to 8 pm
• All-Media Membership Show, The Art League, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA: April 3 - May 4, 2007: Honorable Mention for Swing (see Juror's statement on web site Jurors: Clifford Chieffo, Nat. Gall)
• All-Media Membership Show, The Art League, Torpedo Factory, Alexandria VA: Mar 7 - April 2, 2007. Painting in show - SOLD.
• New Members' Show at Foundry Gallery: Jan.31-Feb.28, 2007, 2007, Washington DC 20025; Wed-Sun, 12-6 pm: 8 major paintings and drawings on display by the artist with 5 other members, sculpture, photography and paintings.
• Visualize Peace: Works by Gallery members, Foundry Gallery, Dec.1, 2006 - Jan. 3, 2007. Four works by the artist
• Paintings of the Bahamas Group exhibit at Glen Echo Park, Yellow Barn Gallery, 7300 MacArthur Blvd.. Glen Echo, MD . September 2 to 4, 2006
• Red Group Show, Foundry members, July 2006,. Foundry Gallery, Washington DC