WSG Gallery Moves to Main Street ! !

March 6 - March 30, 2008

Grand Opening Celebration:

Friday, March 7, 7-10 pm

Four new artist members join the gallery:
Elizabeth Schwartz, Marlee Hoffman, Valerie Mann, and Middy Potter

Visiting artists exhibiting this month:
Vincent Galassi, Maria Ruggiero, Nina Hauser, Fran Wolok, and Jane Coates

With an exciting move to Main Street in downtown Ann Arbor, WSG Washington Street Gallery launches into its 10th year as one of southeast Michigan’s foremost art venues.  WSG Gallery will throw open its new doors at 306 S. Main Street  for a Grand Opening Celebration from 7-10 pm on Friday evening, March 7th.   There will be live music provided by the Community High School Jazz Band and refreshments will be served.

The WSG Gallery artist-owners worked with architect Seth Penchansky, AIA, from the Ann Arbor design firm of Penchansky Whisler Architects to develop a design concept that created dynamic exhibit space visible from Main Street and from the large atrium of the 306 South Main Building, historically known as the Pratt Block.
 
The gallery features contemporary fine art by regional artists:  handmade artist books by Barbara Brown; drawings and  bronze sculpture by Norma Penchansky-Glasser; textiles and prints by Marilyn Prucka; oil and acrylic paintings by Martha Rock Keller, Nora Venturelli and Adrienne Kaplan; jewelry, paintings and encaustics by Dee Ann Segula; assemblage, artist books and paintings by Alvey Jones; pastels and prints by Jean Lau;  encaustics and digital paintings by Michelle A. Hegyi and Lynda Cole; and works by new members Marlee Hoffman, Elizabeth Schwartz, Valerie Mann, and Middy Potter, joining this creative ensemble as they make the move.
 
Also showing at the first exhibition in its new space will be visiting artists Maria Ruggiero (watercolor), Fran Wolok (acrylic painting), Nina Hauser, (color photography) and Jane Coates (hand blown glass and oil painting) .
 
This is the second move for WSG  Gallery in nine years.  Begun in 1998 by 11 local artists in a small storefront on Washington Street,  the gallery made its first move in February 2003 to their larger gallery space at 120 E. Liberty.  Now, with this second move, this artist-owned gallery is adding new artist members and guests to its roster.

New Expanded Hours!!

Tuesday, Wednesday 12 - 6
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 12 - 10
Sunday 12 - 5

Sunset Breezes
quilt
44"h x 72"w
by Marilyn Prucka

Community Gardens 2007
acrylic on canvas
36"h x 36"w
by Adrienne Kaplan

Melange
acrylic on canvas
20"h x 24"w
by Elizabeth Schwartz

Tides 2
1/5
encaustic and pigment ink on rag paper
edition of 5
mounted with magnets on plexiglas strip
18"h x 24"w
by Michelle A. Hegyi

Pine on a Lake Michigan Bluff
acrylic on canvas
60"h x 40"w
by Martha Rock Keller

Measure of Strength
19"h x 13"w x 13"d
bronze
by Norma Penchansky-Glasser

 
Mumbles
encaustic over pigmented ink print
24"h x 46"w
by Lynda Cole

Vice Versa No. 9
acrylic on canvas
46"h x 34"w
by Nora Venturelli

Evening Bags for the Midwest Woman #8, with Matching Pumps
wood, vintage shoes, beeswax, cornhusks, corn, cord
8"h x 24"w x 9"d
by Valerie Mann