Glenview Mansion Art Gallery features Mary Ott

Mary Ott
“European Prints”
August 2- August 25, 2009
Reception: August 2, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm.

The exhibit “European Prints” by Mary Ott comprises hand-pulled prints, including intaglios, screenprints, photogravures, and maybe even a lithograph. The artist’s reception will be on Sunday, August 2, from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. The exhibit will continue through August 25.

Gallery hours are 9 am to 4:30 pm Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and from 9 am to 9 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The only weekend hours are for the reception on August 2.

There will be a free concert the afternoon of the reception from 2 to 3 pm by “Big Jim Scotty’s Antique Song Show,” a tin-pan alley group.


Glenview Mansion Art Gallery
Rockville Civic Center Park
603 Edmonston Drive
Rockville, MD 20851.
240-314-8682.
For recorded directions, call 240-314-5004.

Mary Ott

Solo Show

Resident Artist Gallery at Montpelier Arts Center
June 3-June 25, 2007.

The reception is Friday, June 8, from 7 to 9 pm.

Mary Ott will be showing many types of prints--monotypes printed using dried grass to create the image; intaglios and screen prints of images from the US and Europe, and colorful relief surface prints that incorporate oil paint and wax.

Montpelier is located at 9652 Muirkirk Road, very close to the Laurel-Bowie exit of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway. It is accessible and has ample free parking. The gallery is open daily except major holidays from 10 am to 5 pm.

Directions: Baltimore-Washington Parkway to Laurel-Bowie exit (Route 197). Exit toward Laurel on Route 197 and turn left at the first traffic light onto Muirkirk Rd. Turn right at the first driveway to Montpelier Art Center.

Montpelier Arts Center
9652 Muirkirk Road, Laurel, MD 20708
301-953-1993, 410-792-0664

Touchstone Gallery opened two new exhibitions of work by Mary Ott and Melissa Widerkehr

April 11 - May 6, 2007

Mary Ott is showing a series of intaglio prints and luscious sunflower oil and wax screenprints at the Touchstone Gallery. Mary Ott's exhibit, "Prints of Old Europe," shows another dimension of her work. "Traveling with a digital camera in hand, Ott captured images that she has made into original, hand-pulled prints. Although the images are modern, her screen prints evoke a sense of history. Impressions of Crete are shown in overlays of colors and designs. Sunflowers from Slovenia glow in screen prints that incorporate oil paint and wax. Intaglios* present architectural details from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Italy." The sunflowers were some of my favorite images, showing a luminous surface quality. As in her grasses paintings, Mary Ott continues to investigate forms of nature as source of inspiration for these screenprints.

At the opening reception last night, I overheard Melissa Widerkehr speaking of how a group of her paintings were done in reference to a friend who was very ill. The pieces are unsettling and lyrical at the same time. Figures engage the viewer in distorted exaggerated gestures. Her work addresses psychological and angst issues of being human. The exhibiton runs through May 6.



Opening Reception: Friday, April 13 6:00-8:30 pm
Third Thursday Reception: Thursday, April 19th 6:00-8:00 pm

Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-2787

Touchstone Gallery Openings

New Paintings by Melissa Widerkehr
Prints from Old Europe by Mary D. Ott
Engel Licht by Maria Schmidt in the Annex

On exhibit April 11 - May 6

Opening reception April 13, 6:00 – 8:30pm
3rd Thursday reception, April 19 from 6:00 – 8:00pm

Upstairs on 7th:
Carolyn Zapp Trunk Show - Friday, April 13, 5-8pm and Saturday, April 14, 12-5pm
Epperson Trunk Show - Friday, April 20, 5-8pm and Saturday, April 21, 12-5pm

Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-2787

Gallery hours:
Wednesday - Friday 11-5
Saturday & Sunday 12-5

"Prints of Old Europe"

April 11– May 6, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, April 13, 6—8:30 PM
Third Thursday Reception: April 19, 6—8 PM

Mary D. Ott's exhibit at Touchstone Gallery, "Prints of Old Europe," shows another dimension of her work. Traveling with a digital camera in hand, Ott captured images that she has made into original, hand-pulled prints.
Although the images are modern, her screen prints evoke a sense of history. Impressions of Crete are shown in overlays of colors and designs. Sunflowers from Slovenia glow in screen prints that incorporate oil paint and wax. Intaglios* present architectural details from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Italy.** Intaglio refers to printmaking techniques in which an image is incised into the surface of a printing plate. The plate is then inked and the excess ink is carefully wiped from the plate. Finally the image is printed onto dampened paper using a printing press. Multiple copies may be made, each one inked and printed separately.
Ott uses a technique called "polymer intaglio" in which a photopolymer film is affixed to a copper printing plate. The image, contained on a transparency, is then transferred to the photopolymer film using ultraviolet light. The resulting photopolymer surface holds the ink and is wiped and printed like other intaglio plates, yielding a printed version of the image.
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-2787
http://TouchstoneGallery.com