After School Matters at Las Manos Gallery!

Schurz High School students in the After School Matters photography program attended the youth-based show featuring their work at Las Manos Gallery on Sunday. The program is a part of a non-profit organization that encourages students to experience out-of-school activities including science, sports, tech and art. The students featured at the gallery shot film and learned to process by hand. Several students sold work during the opening. Thank you ASM for making the gallery's Sunday memorable!

Ashley Colon,17, stands with Michael, who purchased her piece at top center. Victor Castillo, 16, points the photograph that sold.

Michael McGuire's Collage

Gallery Artist Michael McGuire's collage photographs are true to form! Instead of his usual Photoshop wizardry, scissors, glue and paper became his prevalent tools. McGuire senses that the progression of the digital world has begun to accelerate beyond people's ability to grasp it. To slow down the process he took photographs of his urban environment and re-arranged them by hand, adding a human touch to the process...

A detail of Michael's collage- a whisper of the city behind the boarded-up apartment building.

Paul Clark and his Fuji Prints

Single image from Clark's Fuji Instaprint series

                         

Clark & Ainsle (Oct 9, 2011)

Paul Clark's brick series stems from his wanderings through Chicago alleyways. Fuji Instaprint camera in hand he captures light, pattern and geometric inconsistencies that give the brick walls he photographs  an abstracted look. Together in grid form they create a feeling of color and movement but fittingly enough recreate a wall, built up image by image...

Paul Clark is a Chicago Photographer that has shown in places such as the Silver Eye Center for Photography, PA., Fort Wayne Museum, IN., of Art and Rockford Art Museum, IL.

Michelle Peterson-Albandoz Solo Show in DC!

Michelle Peterson-Albandoz, owner of Las Manos Gallery, will have her third show at Long View Gallery in Washington DC in March.

Join us for a reception and the debut of a new body of work created from reclaimed wood found in Chicago.


Address:
1234 9th St NW Washington, DC 20001 202.232.4788


Date/Time

• Thursday, April 12, 2012

  6:30-8pm

  
  

Photographer Lara Dorsett

In the winding and graffiti covered streets of Berlin one can become lost and inspired by its rich and volatile history. Overgrown and often abandoned one ruminates on the delicate relationship this city has with its past and imagined future. Fluss Träumerei and Fluss Phantasie are meditations on precisely this complex relationship between one’s own malleable past and wildly imagined future.

Taken in Berlin in the spring of 2011 I found that even in the act of gazing into the river I found infinite possibility in both realms of reverie and fantasy that often become confused much like the distorted reflection of Maybachufer, a street I often walked.

Las Manos Gallery Opening Reception!

Artist Michael McGuire, left, chats with a gallery patron during the opening. McGuire uses multiple images of similar subject matter and stitches them together in collage-style photographs.

Work by Juan Fernandez

Images by Sloan Tomlinson (right), created by over-exposure, cross-processing and manipulation during printing.

Antonio Martinez stands with a few images from his new series "Self Help & Impractical Demands"

Young Sun Han with his work "Belated Ceremony" (left) and "Dance of the Cockatrice" (right).

Lara Dorsett stands with gallery patron Don McDevitt during the opening. Dorsett's work was taken in Berlin, Germany.

Paul Clark stands with one of his Fuji Instaprint grids.

Mark Pease with his "Underground" series.

Mieke Zuiderweg stand with some of her "Reflections" photographs, taken with a Holga camera on medium format film.

Antonio Martinez's work.

Photography Show Tonight!

7-10pm Tonight!