WSG gallery presents

Lynda Cole 

2024 New Work

Silver and Gold 

March 13 - April 20, 2024 

Reception: Friday March 15, 2024, 5-7 pm,

free and open to the public. 

also featuring Guest Artists

Sarah Innes and Graceann Warn

Artist Statement: 

Silver and gold leaf, encaustic, oil painting and 3D suspended Rain Drops. These materials come with feelings of peace, nature’s work - Rain, dawn, sun. 

Karin Wagner Coron

They all have Pink

January 31 - March 9, 2024

also featuring Guest Artists

Sarah Innes and Graceann Warn

An opening reception for the artist will be held at the gallery on

Friday evening February 2, from 5-7 pm.

All are invited to the opening reception, which is free and open

to the public.

About the artist:

Karin Wagner Coron is an artist based in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She works

mainly with drawing and painting, creating vibrant scenes which explore

the theme of tension and harmony. Her landscape-based compositions

unify opposing colors and forms, resulting in a harmonious tension. She

carefully layers warm and cool hues to bring light and atmosphere to her

art, introducing pink as an unexpected complement and advancing visual

adversaries. Karin values the interesting friction that these scenarios

create, believing that this combination can produce something unique,

and harmonious. She is captivated by the creative tension generated with

the right selection of colors, shades, and forms, allowing her to delicately

construct complex scenes of beauty.

WSG 2024 14+14 Show

January 3 - January 27, 2024

Opening Reception: Friday, January 5, 5-7pm.

Free and open to the public.

Each year during the month of January, WSG Gallery presents its annual 14+14 Show.

This show features artists that have been invited by WSG members to share the Gallery

Sara Adlerstein ~ Katie Shulman Cathryn Amidei ~ Debbie Grifka Barbara Brown ~ Margaret Parker Lynda Cole ~ Terri Marra Karin Wagner Coron ~ Darcy Bowden Connie Cronenwett ~ Russell Bloomfield Michelle A. Hegyi ~ Dylan Strzynski Adrienne Kaplan ~ Denise Rohde Valerie Mann ~ John Rizzo Ted Ramsay ~ Marcia Polenberg Elizabeth Schwartz ~ John Lilley Takeshi Takahara ~ Sarah Innes Nora Venturelli ~ Janice Martin Monica Wilson ~ Elliott Kayser

Hours:

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Sunday 12pm-5pm

Saturday 10am-5pm

Special hours Friday January 5: open 12pm-7pm

Closed Monday and Tuesday

WSG Annual Holiday Show

November 22 – December 29, 2023

Midnight Madness Celebration

Friday, December 1, 2023

Open till 11 p.m.

Celebrate the Season with ART

In addition to the WSG artist partners, we have invited:

Jenneva Kayser  Laura VanCamp  Kate Uleman Elliott Kayser Paloma Nunez-Regueiro  Jaye Schlesinger Harold Borkin Nina Hauser Janet Kelman Susan Robinson-Heaslip Alvey Jones Marcia Polenberg Julie Sunstein Linda Heckenkamp Carol Furtado Jennifer Krcic Ann Whitney

WSG Gallery is pleased to present

Ted Ramsay

The Paper Quest: Global Journeys Making Handmade Paper

October 11 - November 18, 2023

An opening reception for the artist will be held at the gallery on Friday evening October 13, from 5-7 pm. 

All invited to the opening reception, which is free and open to the public.

Artist Talk: Sunday October 15, 2023, 2 pm, free and open to the public.

Masks are optional

Artist Statement:

The Paper Quest: Global Journeys Making Handmade Paper is

an exhibit about my work as an artist and papermaker, teaching as well as

attending paper making workshops around the world. Materials and techniques

of sheet forming reflected the location of the mills I visited, ranging from ancient

paper making villages in Thailand, Myanmar, and China, to contemporary mills

in Spain, the Netherlands, Australia, Tasmania, Japan, and the United States.

My interest in paper began as a search for unique surfaces on which to draw

and paint. This led me to study the history of paper and to acquire my own

Hollander beater with which I created my own paper surfaces. As I researched

the development and technical processes of paper I realized I could make

art images on or in the surface or make the paper itself become the

art image with unique possibilities beyond my original conceptions. And so the

quest began. A selected group of these paper making art works are presented

in the this exhibit.

— Ted Ramsay, 2023

WSG Gallery is pleased to present

Nora Venturelli

Terrain

Artist Statement:

“I identify myself with the Michigan landscape, it grounds me...it has become my terrain.”

I moved to Michigan 25 years ago. Before then, I never anticipated I

would be so compelled to draw and paint the landscape. My attention

had always been immersed solely in figurative work. However, after my

second long winter here, I was anxious to be outdoors and, of course, I

brought my paints with me. I have not stopped painting the landscape

since! Although I continue to draw and paint the figure, I am an active

Plein Air painter from Spring to Fall.

I find an extraordinary, therapeutic tranquility while painting outdoors, and

a spontaneity that does not happen in the studio. The rush of the breeze,

the heat of the sun, the sounds of the fields. It all adds freshness and

vivacity to my work. I am usually drawn to long vistas and wide-open

spaces. I’m attracted to subtle changes in color and textures, the

overlapping and layering of planes. My goal is to capture the visual rhythm

of the landscape around me.“

— Nora Venturelli, 2023

WSG Gallery is pleased to present

Takeshi Takahara
Back to Work
June 7 - July 15, 2023

An opening reception for the artist will be held at the gallery

Friday June 9, 2023, 5-7 pm,

All are invited to the opening reception, which is free and open to the public.

Masks are optional

Artist Statement:

"I wanted to take a slightly different approach in making intaglio prints for this exhibit.

An idea and challenge was to create a set of prints by reusing the same plate

repeatedly by scraping it after printing. This created a palimpsest, a ghost of the

previous image, which caused me to look and ask the question, ‘what next?’.

The physical Key plate was used throughout the 9 intaglio prints in the exhibit. Each

print required an additional set of color plates. The printmaking process is about

continuation, not as a means to an end. It raises lots of questions and demands

revisions in the process.

So what do I ask of a print?

I ask it to surprise, agitate, seduce, mystify, and perhaps convince.

One quality these prints share is that they all make me want to go back to work.”

— Takeshi Takahara

WSG Gallery is pleased to present

Michelle A. Hegyi
wild skies
April 26 - June 3, 2023

An opening reception for the artist will be held at the gallery

Friday May 5, 2023, 5-7 pm,

during Ann Arbor’s Gallery Art Hop

All are invited to the opening reception, which is free and open to the public.

Masks appreciated.

Artist Statement:
I never know what a piece will look like before I begin.  Sometimes I start with a blank slate, other times with bits of photos here and there of things around me.

The most fun part is seeing what evolves as each mark inspires another or sometimes requires taking something away.

As always I paint by hand on the computer with a pressure-sensitive tablet and then print the work myself on heavyweight cotton rag paper to be sure to get the colors right.  A couple of the pieces in this show were experiments in painting using updated software.  For these pieces the brushstrokes flowed so smoothly and felt so natural that I could get lost in the piece, everything just flowed.

I especially love color and line.  The colors and the shapes in my work evolve into the abstract from things I see around me, from the gorgeous combination of colors in my granddaughter’s dresses to the new cloud formations inspiring me to make a piece with all over ‘floating’ colors.

Most of my pieces in this show were created while in the Bay Area of California, during one of the worst winters in decades.

Even though a lot of my work is abstract, it is mostly inspired by the landscape.  My favorite part of each day is taking a walk in nature — I revel in the slow looking at the little things that surprise and delight me:  colors, shapes, lines, light and shadows each catch my eye. How beautiful it is when a gentle breeze blows the blossoms off the trees as they scatter along the ground or as they float slowly down while flickering in the sunlight. But things are not always as they seem.  Many times this winter the skies became wilder with high winds and torrential rain.  This has added a new dimension to my relationship with trees.  How something so beautiful and awe inspiring can now also be life-threatening.  Even on a windless day, the shallow roots of the redwoods and the eucalyptus become saturated with water, and the tallest trees can fall.

In the process of making wild skies, no. 1, I felt the piece needed something more (which is what usually happens as I go through many iterations of each of my pieces!).  It definitely needed some other colors, and I felt like it needed some yellow-orange and a touch of salmon. I absolutely needed to add some linear elements to make it complete.  Having recently learned about the Japanese art of Kintsugi, ie, the repair of broken pottery by using gold to put the pieces back together (built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece) led me to paint the gold line through the “cloud” shape in the piece — in my hope that humanity will take seriously the repairing of the climate so we might  soon bring the climate back to the way it used to be, or to aspire to an even better state than it was in before.  — Michelle A. Hegyi

WSG Gallery is pleased to present

Heap

an exhibition of

photography

and

ceramic sculpture

by

artist Monica Rickhoff Wilson.

An opening reception for the artist will be held at the gallery

Friday evening March 24,  from 5-7 pm.

All are invited to the opening reception, which is free and open to the public.

Artist Statement:

Monica Rickhoff Wilson - Heap

"I am a ceramic sculptor and I formulate my own glazes. I bridge chemistry, geology, and art to create objects relating to comfort and desire. This current body of photography and sculpture stems from working at home during the pandemic. Close physical quarters fed the photography and the photography now feeds the ceramic sculpture. My ceramics are conglomerates of porcelain and terracotta, layers of color and pattern, and are fused with high and low temperature glazes. I use movement, weight, and the impulses to hold and keep, to build tactile sensations in both image and object.” -Monica Rickhoff Wilson, January 2023

WSG Gallery is pleased to present

Movement and Stillness,

an exhibition of

paintings, wall sculpture, and installation work

by artist

Valerie Mann

February 1 - March 11, 2023

Reception: Friday February 3, 2023, 5-7 pm, free and open to the public.

Artist Statement:

“My work is largely materials, process and idea driven, with my sculptural work taking

the form of either wall-hung object or installation work. I am also a watercolor artist,

but the connective thread through all of the work is a high expectation of

craftsmanship and an underlying sense of freedom and play. I aim to remove

boundaries to creativity as I work, and sometimes those boundaries are the ones

between 2D and 3D and sometimes they are the boundaries between traditional and

non-traditional media or methods of making. And sometimes those boundaries are

simply preconceived ideas of what something 'should' be. Always important is an

element of visual beauty, whatever form that takes.

I was mulling over a title and theme for this show...thinking out loud with my

professional opera-singing sister recently. (We often have deep conversations about

the arts, artistic process, professionalism, the interior and exterior life of an artist.) She

suggested showing a progression of work, specifically showing the translation of ideas

through media and ideas. We forget that our own process might be interesting to

someone outside our own heads! The title refers, on one level, to the act of making

and the need for contemplation to generate ideas/responses to those ideas.“

— Valerie Mann

WSG gallery artists invite an artist they admire to show with them

January 4 - January 28 2023

Opening Reception: Friday, January 6, 5-7pm

Free and open to the public.

Sara Adlerstein + Susan Crowell ~ Cathryn Amidei + John Gutoskey ~ Barbara Brown + Alvey Jones Lynda Cole + Matthew Shlian ~ Karin Wagner Coron + Angelis Jackowski ~ Connie Cronenwett + Russell Bloomfield ~ Michelle A. Hegyi + Helen Gotlib ~ Adrienne Kaplan + Harold Borkin ~ Valerie Mann + Jill Jepsen ~ Ted Ramsay + Marcia Polenberg ~ Elizabeth Schwartz + John Lilley ~ Takeshi Takahara + Sarah Innes ~ Nora Venturelli + Rich Wiquist ~ Monica Wilson + Yiu Keung Lee

Click here to see work by our invited artists.

Works by the invited artists for this exhibit are only available for sale in the gallery (not online). To purchase work by the invited artists, please stop by WSG in person.

WSG Gallery Annual Holiday Show

November 30 – December 29, 2022

Midnight Madness Celebration

10% off all opening night purchases

Opening Reception: Friday, December 2, 7-11 pm

Open till 11 p.m.

featuring all WSG Artists plus the following invited artists :

Alvey Jones, Marcia Polenberg, Janet Kelman, Idelle Hammond-Sass, Jaye Schlesinger, Margo West, Alberto Rojo, Anne Smith, Julie Sunstein, Susan Clinthorne

Winter Art Tour

December 9 - 11

Come visit us in our new brick-and-mortar location near Kerrytown!

We will have cider, lots of art, and fun conversation.

Friday 12 - 7

Saturday 10 - 5 p.m.

Sunday 12 - 5 p.m.

Winter Gallery Hours Thru December 30:

Closed Monday + Tuesday

Wednesday 10 - 5

Thursday 12 - 5

Friday 12 - 7

Saturday 10 - 5

Sunday 12 - 5

Connie Cronenwett

This Land - pastel paintings

October 19 - November 26, 2022

An opening reception for the artist will be held at the gallery on Friday evening

Ocotber 21, 2022 from 7-9 pm. All are invited to the opening reception,

free and open to the public.

Artist Statement: 

“Lake Michigan, summer and winter farm fields, seasonal rivers, a spring pond –  these are some of the subjects in this new group of pastel paintings. 

One could also say that light is the subject. I’m interested in how light  transforms the seemingly ordinary into something we respond to as beautiful. The rich pigments of soft pastels are the perfect medium to impart the pastoral  nature of these landscapes. “— Connie Cronenwett 

WSG Gallery is pleased to present

Color, Texture, Depth,

an exhibition celebrating new acrylic and ink paintings by artist Elizabeth Schwartz.

An opening reception for the artist will be held at the gallery on Friday evening

September 9, 2022 from 7-9 pm. All invited to the opening reception, which is

free and open to the public.

Artist Statement:

“From the first time I picked up a paintbrush, I was drawn to brilliant colors

and textures, often inspired by nature. Many of my paintings, however, are

not of nature, but rather, are abstract interpretations of the feelings and

memories elicited by what I have seen.

I have recently become interested in limiting my color palette in order to

explore and concentrate on more complex textural works through

monochromatic and black and white paintings. These paintings are

unplanned and are created intuitively. I use a paintbrush, a palette knife,

and even my hand to create complex textural layers.”— Elizabeth Schwartz

Portrait Landscapes

by

Sara Adlerstein

July 20 - September 3 2022

Opening Reception

Friday, July 29 7-9 pm

Artist Statement:

“The landscapes in this exhibit, created over two years, represent my

perceptions of Nature and incorporate personal stories; they are about how I

see, not what I see. I intuitively conceived these landscapes as portraits, the way

we represent people, with a sense of our human connection to another. After

all, Nature is not outside of ourselves: we are Nature. On the other hand, the

landscape genre is a human conception, constructed of our emotions and

aspirations, built from necessity, desires, invention and imagination.

I hope you experience the layers of Nature/human relationships in these

landscapes. I invite you to explore intricacies of the scenes in front of your eyes

and connect with emotion as you see new things that evoke your personal

memories, a sense of something to which you belong.” — Sara Adlerstein

WSG Gallery is excited to greet the summer with a new show:

WSG With Special Guests

June 8 - July 16, 2022

Opening reception Friday, June 10, 2022, 7-9 pm

Gallery Hours:

Wed: 10- 5 Thurs: 12- 5 Fri: 12- 7 Sat: 10-5 Sun: 12-5

These shows are always popular and filled to the brim with original art

including paintings, drawings, prints, jewelry, books, cards, ceramics, and

fibers.

WSG members +

Heather Accurso, Cathy Barry, Steven Coron,

Ellery Hatopp,

Alvey Jones, Seth Kaplan, John Lilley, Amanda Mealy,

Toby Millman, Colin O’Brien, Marcia Polenberg, Kate Uleman,

Jill Stefani Wagner

Signals from Noise

New Tapestries

from

Cathryn Amidei

April 27- June 4

Join us in the gallery for a reception Friday April 29 7- 9 p.m.

When I weave, I throw threads on trajectories through a “v” shaped space. As they interact with other

threads in the matrix, they are shaped into waves. Waves - like light or sound are moving all

around and thru us. The connections between how I make art and the world we live in are

constantly on my mind. Each of us is on our own separate path and yet we are all moving thru

the same matrix.

We are all like antennae searching and waiting for a signal.

Lynda Cole

Silver

an exhibition of oil paint and wax on silver leaf

March 16 - April 23, 2022

Join us at WSG Gallery on April 1, 7-9 PM for an Artist’s Reception for Lynda Cole’s exhibit - Silver.

“For me, silver brings to mind sunlight, reflection, quiet water in certain moods. It also generates ideas of stillness and an uncomplicated essence. I have used the Elements - earth, water, fire, air - as subjects for the space the silver provides.”

— Lynda Cole

Silver leaf is the bottom layer in most of the paintings in this exhibit. It plays through the oil paint and wax that are applied on top of it.

‘Gate, Gate’ are words taken from the Heart Sutra in Buddhism -

Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha!

Gone, gone, gone beyond, gone altogether beyond. Freedom, may it be so!

If you look carefully you can see 2 black birds flying out of the upper right corner.

Karin Wagner Coron

Among the Trees

an exhibition of oil paintings

February 2 - March 12, 2022

Karin Wagner Coron is a native of Michigan. She has worked as a practicing artist for over forty years. She considers herself a Great Lakes Region artist. Her great passion is in her painting and drawing work.

Karin works with oil paint, oil pastel, and various drawing media as a means of producing intensely colorful and active landscapes which might depict real or contrived places.

This work calls to mind our relationship to the land, and the manner in which we alter, transform and navigate the environment.

Coron’s constant exploration of color palettes and compositional principles of scale and proportion reveal her extensive foundational knowledge of painting and drawing.

Coron says, “This body of work is a reflection of my intense involvement and relationship with the landscape, particularly with trees.”

Annual 14+14

Show

WSG gallery artists invite an artist they admire to show with them

January 5 - January 29, 2022

Invited artists includes:

Helen Gotlib, Gary Horton, Janie Paul, Juliet Seignious, Kirsten Lund, Marlee

Hoffman, Martha Ceccio, Robert Platt, Sarah Innes, Susanne Stephenson,

Marcia Polenberg, Graceann Warn, Russell Bloomfield, and Diana Pancioli.

Selected Works from 14 + 14

Visit the gallery or click here to see more

WSG Annual Holiday Show

December 1 – December 30, 2021

Midnight Madness Celebration

Friday, December 3

Open till 10 p.m.

Celebrate the Season with us in our new space!

In addition to the WSG artist partners, we have invited:

Linda Heckenkamp, Alvey Jones, Marcia Polenberg, Maria Ruggiero,

Idelle Hammond-Sass, Jaye Schlesinger, Dylan Strzynski, Simon Waranch,

Cody Winter and Monica Wilson

Gallery Hours:

Closed Monday Tuesday

Wednesday 10 - 5

Thursday 12 - 5

Friday 12 - 7

Saturday 10 - 7

Sunday 12 - 5

WSG Gallery Grand Opening :

“New Beginnings”

September 15 - 19, 2021

Come see familiar faces and new work in our
New Gallery in Historic Kerrytown District of Ann Arbor. 

“New Beginnings”

is on view

September 15 - October 30, 2021

Participate in our raffle for a $100 gift card during our opening week

WSG Artists 

Sara Adlerstein, Cathryn Amidei, Barbara Brown, Francesc Burgos, Lynda Cole, Karin Wagner Coron, Connie Cronenwett, Michelle A. Hegyi, Adrienne Kaplan, Valerie Mann, Ted Ramsay, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Takeshi Takahara, Nora Venturelli.

Gallery hours:

Wednesday & Saturday 10am-5pm

Thursday, Friday, Sunday 12am-5pm

Closed Monday & Tuesday

Masks are required upon entering the space. 

We limit the number of visitors in the gallery at one time.

WSG Gallery | 111 E. Ann Street | Ann Arbor, Mi. | 48104 | 734-929-2621

June Show

Ann Arbor Art Center

117 W. Liberty

734 994-8004

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturdays 10 - 6

Sunday and Monday CLOSED

Masks are required to enter.

Parking is located behind the building.

May Show

Ann Arbor Art Center

117 W. Liberty

734 994-8004

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturdays 10 - 6

Sunday and Monday CLOSED

Masks are required to enter.

Parking is located behind the building.

April Show

Ann Arbor Art Center

117 W. Liberty

734 994-8004

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturdays 10- 6

Sunday and Monday CLOSED

Masks are required to enter.

Parking is located behind the building.

WSG gallery - Live Upstairs!

March Show

Ann Arbor Art Center

117 W. Liberty

734 994-8004

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturdays 10- 6

Sunday and Monday CLOSED

Masks are required to enter and the number of people will be limited to allow for social distancing.

The venue has excellent ventilation and plenty of free parking is located behind the building.

WSG gallery - Live Upstairs!

February Show

Ann Arbor Art Center

117 W. Liberty

734 994-8004

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturdays 10- 6

Sunday and Monday CLOSED

Masks are required to enter and the number of people will be limited to allow for social distancing.

The venue has excellent ventilation and plenty of free parking is located behind the building.

WSG gallery - Live Upstairs!

January Show

Ann Arbor Art Center

117 W. Liberty

734 994-8004

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturdays 10- 6

CLOSED

Sunday and Monday

Masks are required to enter and the number of people will be limited to allow for social distancing.

The venue has excellent ventilation and plenty of free parking is located behind the building.

WSG gallery - Live Upstairs!

December Show

Ann Arbor Art Center

117 W. Liberty

734 994-8004

Gallery Hours:

Tuesday - Saturdays 10- 6

CLOSED Sunday and Monday

Special Hours

Midnight Madness Fridays (Dec 4th, 11th, 18th)

open 10 am to 10 pm

*Christmas Eve Dec 24th

open 10 am to 2 pm

Closed Christmas Dec 25th and Dec 26th

Closed New Years Eve Dec 31

Closed New Years Day Jan 1 and Jan 2

Masks are required to enter and the number of people will be limited to allow for social distancing.

The venue has excellent ventilation and plenty of free parking is located behind the building.