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Parish Gallery Established since 1991

Herbert Gentry showing this month!

Sculptors Barbara Delany and Perci Chester coming soon!

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Works by Askia Muhammad .

US Postal Service issued stamp honoring journalist Ethel L. Payne.
Askia Muhammad

Thru The Door of No Return
Bruce McNeil's "Thru The Door of No Return" Elimina Castle. 
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Parish Gallery featured in NAACP's Crisis magazine November/December 2001 issue.

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Currently Showing

Opening July 18 - September 13, 2008

Herbert Gentry and Friends

Herbert Gentry




Coming Soon!
Opening September 19 - October 14, 2008

Sculptors
Barbara Delany and Perci Chester


Perci Chester          Barbara Delany

Parish Gallery primarily, but not exclusively, represents contemporary visual artists of significance from Africa and the African Diaspora.  In selecting art and artists, Parish Gallery exercises high ethical, curatorial and market selection standards, catering to the spirit of social preservation and regeneration in collecting the art.

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July 6, 2008                                                                                    Gwen Parish

 

Parish Gallery is pleased to present the exhibition entitled “Herbert Gentry and Friends”.  This exhibition will open with a reception from 6:00–8:00 PM on Friday, July 18th and will run through August 30, 2008. 

 

Herbert Gentry (1919-2003) arrived in Paris, France (courtesy of the GI Bill) in 1946 to study art; he remained because the climate provided him with the freedom to find himself as an artist in the world.  Paris gave American artists of African descent who ventured to Paris in the 1930s, ‘40s and ‘50s such as Ed Clark, Bill Hutson, Larry Potter, Lois Mailou Jones, and Beauford Delaney – a place to just “be.”  As Gentry stated “I paint what I experience, who I am, in the Black world, especially in America, there’s a thing that you can’t forget where you came from, you paint from your experiences and who you are.”

 

Gentry’s friendships illuminate his movement through the world; they were part of his rich experiences in Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm and New York.  His artist friends share his openness to other ways, which their thematic explorations reflect.  Travel, migration and mobility are sheer inspiration.  Ed Clark, records in his broad stokes the relation between place and expression, Vincent Smith’s narrative prints of his travels south of the Sahara document a deeper search,  Rachelle Puryear evokes in her representations of nature a texture of timeless endurance, while for Richard Mayhew’s landscape is a spiritual world and Romare Bearden mines the terrain of history and memory.

 

This exhibition “Herbert Gentry and Friends” includes artists: Hamed Abdalla, Skunder Boghossian, Romare Bearden, Nanette Carter, Ed Clark, Beauford Delaney, Robin Holder, Bill Hutson, Lois Mailou Jones, Wifredo Lam, Richard Mayhew, Sam Middleton, Toni Parks, Vicente Pimentel, Larry Potter, Rachelle Puryear, Mary Anne Rose, Merton Simpson, Vincent D. Smith, and Walter Williams.

We have hosted several events for various organizations, please feel free to contact us to schedule your event with Parish Gallery.

Parish Gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, from noon to 6 pm; other hours by appointment. We are located in Canal Square at 1054 31st Street NW off M Street in Georgetown.Click here to view map to come visit us!


If you would like any further information about Parish Gallery - Georgetown, please call us at 202-944-2310 or email us at parishgallery@bigplanet.com.