Running Girl by Rosemary Luckett.
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 1 from 4pm to 7pm
Meet the Artist: Sunday, April 23 from 2pm to 4pm
Her Garden House: Unearthed Metaphors by Rosemary Luckett
Colorfully portrayed collage, poems, and painted figures keep company with mixed media sculptures in Rosemary Luckett’s solo exhibition, Her Garden House: Unearthed Metaphors.
Her poems and figures are metaphors unearthed from “those countless wild gardens and natural biomes in need of restorative care on the island house of gardens we call Mother Earth. Human gardeners, in tandem with the insects, birds and other wildlife, nurture their small individual plots while also being healed in the process; thus, perpetuating this magnificent web of seen and unseen, physical and spiritual life,” states Luckett.
Her Garden House will be on view from March 29 through April 30, 2023. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 1 from 4:00 – 7:00 pm. There will also be a Meet the Artist event, in conjunction with Mary Ott, on Sunday, April 23 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
Rosemary Luckett has over 40 years of studio experience in painting, drawing, collage, and sculpting. She taught at The Art League (Alexandria, VA) for more than 20 years before moving both her household and her Second River Studio to Wilmington DE in 2018. She has exhibited at the Woman Made Gallery (Chicago, IL), Hoyt Institute of Art (New Castle, PA), National Museum of Women in the Arts, Catholic University, Delaplaine Art Center, Grounds For Sculpture, Visions Gallery (Albany, NY), Arden Village Center (DE), and many other galleries and venues around the country. She has been a member of Touchstone Gallery since 1997. Her most recent solo exhibition at Touchstone was The Terrain Within (2018).
Blue Bouquet Series #17 by Mary Ott.Nature’s Bounty: Original Prints by Mary D. Ott
Printmaker Mary D. Ott’s latest solo exhibition at Touchstone Gallery features more than 30 monotypes and intaglios celebrating the beauty of grasses, trees, and leaves.
The intaglios include both drypoints and etchings. Some of the etchings are monochromatic, while others such as Sweet Gum Leaves I (pictured) are multicolored. Her Blue Bouquet Series of monotypes was created using inked ornamental grasses as stencils. “My work is inspired by the design of ornamental grasses, the stately structure of trees, and the variations in color and subtle details of leaves” says Ott.
Nature’s Bounty will be on view from March 29 through April 30, 2023. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 1 from 4:00 – 7:00 pm. There will also be a Meet the Artist event, in conjunction with Rosemary Luckett, on Sunday, April 23 from 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
Mary D. Ott was born in Northeast Ohio and obtained academic degrees at Seton Hill University and the University of Chicago. After a 20-year career in educational research at Cornell University and the University of Maryland, she became a visual artist in the early 1990s. Her arts education includes painting and printmaking courses at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, The Art League (Alexandria, VA), Pyramid Atlantic, and Montgomery College. She has been a member of Touchstone Gallery since 2001. Recent solo exhibitions at Touchstone include Branching Out (2019) and Metallics (2017).
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- Wednesday – Sunday: 12pm – 5pm
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*Touchstone Gallery will be closed on Sunday, April 9
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