24 artists
From left to right: see names at right

June 27 - August 6, 2006

Opening Reception:

Friday, July 7, 7 - 9 pm

In a feast of creativity the Washington Street Gallery is repeating its 2004 hit exhibition, 12 + 12, in which each of the gallery's artist-owners invites another artist to show with them in this summer's (12 + 12) x 2.  The exhibition will run from June 27 through August 6 with an opening reception on Friday evening, July 7, from 7 to 9 pm.
 
Invited artists will be:  Sherri Smith, fibers, Lou Marinaro, sculpture, Beili Liu,  installations, Monica Wilson, clay, Carlye Crisler, painted metal masks,  Karen Gallup, found object sculpture, Ceevah Sobel, 3D mixed media, and painters Mary Morgan, Jim Cogswell, Margaret Davis, Michelle Rubarth and Sarah Innes.
 
Add these to the variety of works by gallery artists Norma Penchansky-Glasser, sculpture, Lynda Cole, installations, Jean Lau, pastels, Dee Ann Segula, encaustics and jewelry, Michelle A.Hegyi, digital paintings/encaustics, Barbara Brown, handmade books, and painters Kate Roesch, Alvey Jones, Martha Keller, Jennifer Thompson, Adrienne Kaplan and Ellen Moucoulis and you will find an extravaganza of media and styles to suit everyone’s taste in art.

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Selected work by invited artists in exhibit (12 +12) x 2

Strange Readers
sheet metal and screen
4.75"h x 10.5"w x 4.25"d
by Ceevah Sobel

Sobel, of Menlo Park, California, invited guest of gallery artist Michelle A. Hegyi, continues to delight with her whimsical 3D pieces constructed from such found objects as screen and sheet metal.

"The media I use is always changing and suggested by some impulse of transformation and development..... Guided by play, I travel on a path towards a spark and hope to create in others the feeling of delight that drives me." -- Ceevah Sobel

Charts
oil
36"h x 48"w
by Margaret Davis

Associate Professor of Painting at Eastern Michigan University, Margaret Davis, invited guest of gallery artist Kate Roesch, is currently represented by the River Gallery in Chelsea, Michigan.  She has previously exhibited with Louis Marinaro in a two-person exhibition at the 20 North Gallery in Toledo, Ohio as well as in the "69th National Midyear Exhibition" at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.

Evergreen With One Reflection
bronze
34"h x 15"w x 15"d
by Louis Marinaro

Professor Marinaro's sculptures have been shown in exhibits throughout the Midwest and in New York.  He has been a Professor at the University of Michigan, School of Art and Design since 1982. He is the invited guest of gallery artist Norma Penchansky-Glasser.

Drips
wax
94"h x 42"w x 18"d
by Beili Liu

Beili Liu, invited guest of gallery artist Lynda Cole, creates a rapt mixture of the colorful and the colorless that she connects with the sometimes fragile materials she uses and translates into the symbolic tensions that constitute the framework of her art.

That
oil on canvas on panel
48"h x 17"w
by Jim Cogswell

"These current works (in alkyd, enamel, varnish, graphite, and charcoal on wooden panels and oil painting on canvas) are based on a set of twenty-six compositions originating in response to the letters of the alphabet.  Each image is also its own dramatic fragment." -- Jim Cogswell

Jim Cogswell is the invited guest of gallery artist Martha Rock Keller.

Reading
graphite on paper
9"h x 12"
by Sarah Innes

Painting in deep muted colors in tempera and gouache Ann Arbor artist Sarah Innes creates evocative abstract images on paper.

Sarah Innes is the invited guest of gallery artist Adrienne Kaplan.

India 2001
paper clay
11"h x 11"w
by Monica Wilson

Working in clay, Monica Wilson, invited guest of gallery artist Jennifer Thompson, creates monumental appearing sculptural pieces with wonderfully textured and glazed surfaces.

Red
mixed-media assemblage
18"h x 7.5"w
by Mary Morgan

Ann Arbor artist Mary Morgan, invited guest of gallery artist Alvey Jones, works in mixed media assemblage and collage, creating subtle yet provocative explorations of her past and present-day world.  Earning her MA degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, she has lived and taught in China and served in the Peace Corps in Africa.

Combustion
textile
by Sherri Smith

Creating large fiber works that have been included in a spectrum of exhibitions and publications, Professor Smith, of the University of Michigan School of Art and Design, continues to explore nature and the universe in her current collection Lunacy.

Sherri smith is the invited guest of gallery artist Jean Lau.

Harry Hybalz
by Karen Gallup

Having taught Jewelry and Metalsmithing at the College of Creative Studies in Detroit and been a Continuing Education Instructor at Eastern Michigan University until 1995, Karen Gallup is now finding delight in using her skills in the creation of beautifully crafted but whimsical sculptures of handmade and found objects.

Karen Gallup is the invited guest of gallery artist Barbara Brown.

Anemone
acrylic on bannercloth
49"h x 35"w
by Michelle Rubarth

Continuing her art studies as a student of Ellen Moucoulis, Rubarth’s current paintings are works in acrylic and crayon on banner cloth.

Rubarth is a guest of gallery artist Ellen Moucoulis.

Blue Mask
welded steel painted with beads
28"h x 19"w x 7"d
by Carlye Crisler

Versatile Ann Arbor artist, Carlye Crisler, is showing her painted metal masks at the Washington Street Gallery for the first time during the (12 + 12) x 2 exhibit.

Carlye Crisler is a guest of gallery artist Dee Ann Segula.