UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming Exhibitions

January 3 – March 29, 2026

Jun Lee
Unbreakable Elements

Unbreakable Elements by Jun Lee explores printmaking through materials such as wood, paper, and glass – each chosen for its ability to withstand pressure. These works consider the ways we gather strength after moments of defeat and how we rebuild both individually and collectively amidst ongoing precarity. Lee’s work utilizes animals and the cultural narratives that surround them as an accessible entry point to consider our own social dynamics: we, too, are capable of both ruthless competition and compassionate collectivity in our struggles to survive. The reduction woodcut technique Lee employs to create layered imagery further reflects the themes of resilience and transformation. Each carved decision is irreversible: once material is removed, there is no turning back. What remains is a commitment to progress, an acceptance that life requires us to face the consequences of our choices, adapt, and continue.

My work evokes different facets of competition in our society and the spectrum of coping responses they provoke – from hiding away to preparing for a fight. The animals in my work serve as visual metaphors for the dueling desires and fears that arise under the pressures of survival. Animals have a competitive instinct to survive, which can manifest as isolating individualism, pitting one against the other in a zero-sum game. But animals also provide us with the model of collective safety and companionship in the form of the herd or flock. My work frequently invokes the rooster at various stages of life, from chick to fighting cock. The rooster embodies the complexities of survival, celebrating defiant resilience as well as asking what we lose in the process of fighting to be the last one standing.



Jun Lee (Washington, DC) is a printmaker who works in large format woodcut, utilizing animals as metaphors to convey competition in our daily lives. Lee was awarded the Arts and Humanities Fellowship and DC Art Bank grant from the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She has completed numerous artist residencies and fellowships and her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including: West Virginia University (WV), Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts (TN), Big Medium Gallery (TX), Pyramid Atlantic Art Center (MD), American University Museum (DC), Highpoint Center for Printmaking (MN), Insa Art Center (Seoul, South Korea), Daimler Financial Services Atrium (Berlin, Germany). Lee received her MFA in Print Media from Cranbrook Academy of Art (MI) and her BFA in Illustration, and a Post Baccalaureate in Printmaking from the Minneapolis College of Art & Design (MN).



Artist Talk with Jun Lee

Saturday, February 14, 1 pm

Inspired by her exhibition Unbreakable Elements, Jun Lee will an artist talk that explores printmaking through materials such as wood, paper, and glass – each chosen for its ability to withstand pressure. She will also address the visual representations in her work which explore the duality of fear and desire.



Calliandra Marian Hermanson
of permutations and patterns

of permutations and patterns draws inspiration from several sources including early modern botanical illustrations; the diagrams of plant circumnutation (the autonomous, cyclical movement of plants in response to environmental stimuli) done by Charles Darwin in the 1880s; and the engravings from Nehemiah Grew’s 1682  “The Anatomy of Plants,” some of the earliest studies of plant morphology through a microscope. 

By integrating these visual elements and putting them in touch with contemporary research in critical plant studies, Hermanson explores the changing ways that vegetal beings have been addressed in the development of western science through the lens of art. By integrating organic elements and organized, grid elements, she considers how the biological and the human can be entangled and how science and art can be beautifully synthesized.

Drawing on my background in anthropology, plant sciences and landscaping, my work engages with human-plant relationships, multi-species entanglements, scientific illustration, natural history, paleobotany, gardening and science fiction. It often takes the form of prints as well as sculptures, book art, mini-libraries, lists, videos, collaborations with plants and installations encompassing all these things. A current focus of mine is the relationship between the history of printmaking and the history of botany which has me thinking it's time to acquire some microscopes so that I can experiment with doing my own research and illustrations. 



Calliandra Marian Hermanson is a Baltimore-based printmaker, interdisciplinary artist and researcher. She completed her MFA in printmaking at the University of New Mexico in 2021 and has participated in artist residencies at the Penland School of Craft (NC), Walkaway House (MA), and most recently, Sable Projects (VT). She has been a visiting artist at Garden State Community College (KS), Fort Hays University (KS) and Towson University (MD). Her installation work has been shown in Baltimore and Albuquerque and her works on paper have been exhibited nationally as well as in Italy, Mexico and Australia.



Artist Talk by Calliandra Marian Hermanson

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Solo artist, Calliandra Marian Hermanson, will lead a relief printmaking workshop inspired by her exhibition of permutations and patterns. Hermanson's exhibition navigates the boundaries between plant and human forms, and explores how science and art can be beautifully synthesized.

Prescott Lassman
RESIST

To many, the United States is sliding into madness and autocracy. Fueled by a cult of personality to a grifter and a demagogue, half the country cheers the spreading authoritarianism while the other half looks on in disbelief.

But some are beginning to push back. “Resist” is an ongoing series that documents this growing backlash. These photographs highlight individual and collective acts of resistance by ordinary people peacefully protesting the creeping authoritarianism overtaking their country. Although the current political and cultural situation seems bleak, these acts of defiance can have a profound effect on our collective future. After all, a single grain of sand may be insignificant. But a million grains of sand can grind the gears of tyranny to a halt.

“Resist” is thus a celebration of resistance and a call to action. It asks viewers to ponder the question “What are you willing to do or risk to resist?”

I am a lens-based artist living in Washington, D.C. working in the areas of documentary, portrait, travel, and "freestyle" photography. Using an intuitive approach, I search for images that resonate, for moments of synchronicity in everyday life. My work focuses on those odd juxtapositions of elements that are connected not so much by logic or reason but rather by a deeper intrinsic meaning. Because this approach relies on unconscious triggers, my photographs often are richly symbolic, though their meaning is not immediately clear (at least not to me). For me, this is the essence of photography: capturing an image that resonates and then, over the course of months or years, figuring out why.



Prescott Moore Lassman has been pursuing photography seriously since college, when he took a summer school class with acclaimed street photographer Thomas Roma. Since then, he’s studied at the International Center for Photography and Photoworks at Glen Echo with many wonderful teachers, including Karen Keating, Patricia Voulgaris, and the late Tico Herrera.

Lassman has a masters degree in philosophy and wrote his thesis on Jungian symbolism and psychology, which he incorporates into his photographic practice. Indeed, he views his photographic approach as a cross between a sporting event and a psychological expedition, always searching for those Jungian moments of synchronicity that have a message to communicate.  

Lassman’s work has been exhibited and published widely nationally and internationally. In addition, his work is included in the permanent collections of the DC Art Bank, the DC City Hall Art Collection, and the DC Library's People's Archive.


Artist Talk by Prescott Lassman

Saturday, January 10, 2026, 1 pm

During our monthly "Second Saturday" program, Prescott Lassman will lead an artist talk about his exhibition titled "RESIST." The exhibition includes photographs that highlight individual and collective acts of resistance by ordinary people who are peacefully protesting against the spread of authoritarianism throughout the country.

Free to the public. Reservations are not required ($10 donation is suggested)