THREE, The Honfleur Gallery 3rd Year Anniversary

Opening Reception:
Friday, March 12th @ 7pm
3.12 - 4.23, 2010

Honfleur Gallery celebrates its third anniversary with the opening of the aptly named painting exhibition, Three, featuring paintings by artists Wesley Clark, Lance Wiggs & Jonathan Royce in Honfleur gallery's main exhibition space, highlights works by a younger cadre of local abstract painters inclusive of intense color, experimental techniques and an overarching predilection for the art of layering. Stop-action video and works on canvas, panel and found objects will be included.

Concurrently, a second level exhibition of new works by John K. Lawson, entitled NOW AND THEN will be showcased at Honfleur, which will highlight a new body of portraiture. John K. Lawson returns to Anacostia with his signature collaged encaustic works using salvaged materials. Building on his past works that emerged from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, NOW AND THEN instead draws material from the digital world, amalgamating text, image and pixels in an arrangement that both outlines and obfuscates the portrait’s subject. A metaphor for the contemporary experience, Lawson explores “the relationship between the interior psychic self and the modern exterior” though he warns that “they are rendered with a sense of futuristic urgency... and not of a sentimental longing for a simpler past life.”