Rehoboth Art League to host opening receptions Jan. 9
The Rehoboth Art League will ring in the new year with three exciting exhibitions throughout January and February: the 11th Regional Juried Photography Exhibition; Nocturne in Blue: Work by John Steck Jr.; and Recent and Past Paintings: Work by Frederica Noland.
The art league will host receptions for all three exhibitions from 5 to 7 p.m., Friday, Jan. 9, inviting anyone interested to visit the Corkran, Tubbs and Ventures galleries to see these new shows.
The Corkran Gallery will display the 11th Regional Juried Photography Exhibition through Sunday, Feb. 8. The annual exhibit invites artists from Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and Washington, D.C., to submit their latest photographic work. This year, artists were selected from a large pool of applicants, and their work represents a wide array of techniques and content, from traditional modernist approaches to contemporary and alternative media.
The exhibit is juried and judged by regional photographer John Steck Jr., who has a concurrent solo show in the Ventures gallery. Steck will award prizes to selected artists. He will host a free public gallery talk at 10 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 10, in the Corkran Gallery to discuss his award decisions and his own career as an artist.
A visual artist and educator residing in Baltimore, Steck is a maker of photographic images and ephemeral objects. Using light-sensitive emulsions, he creates photographs that both fade and form over time. His work addresses viewers’ complex relationships with time, memory and impermanence. Nocturne in Blue consists of images made from cyanotypes. In one process, Steck uses long-duration cyanotypes that are in process, which are exposed/made during the entire exhibition. He also features recently made cyanotypes. The prints are made with flowers and plant materials foraged from the local area.
The Tubbs Gallery will host Frederica Noland’s solo show, Recent and Past Paintings. Noland is a longtime Henlopen Acres artist and resident, and has been a part of the Rehoboth Beach art community for decades. Her work showcases vibrant landscapes, abstractionism and floral themes from the local area.
