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Photo of the Day: November 27, 2009
On an up-and-coming section of H Street NE, tucked behind jersey barriers that surround the trolley line construction, is a nondescript building with a fitness center on the ground floor. On the second floor is the new home of Studio H Gallery and Workshop.
The small, 500 square foot exhibit space opens this Saturday with an inaugural exhibition, helping expand the art footprint of the city. While not as large, or well established as Conner Contemporary, which moved into the neighborhood last year, this little gallery has big plans, including monthly exhibits and a lecture series.
Owner Philip Hutinet opened the gallery to help local artists that don't have representation. The long-term plan for the gallery is to become a non-profit resource for artists. The gallery will provide these artists exposure to the art market, help teach business processes and practices and, most importantly, expose artists to these experiences.
The opening exhibit, Portraits and Landscapes in Oil, will feature paintings by Sarah Griffin Thibodeaux, a portrait painter. A teacher at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop, Thibodeaux is a 5th generation painting student of John Singer Sargent. Her work is exemplary of Sargent's wet on wet technique, and that of a classic painter through and through.
The inaugural exhibit is small and takes up only the two largest walls in the main room. Hutinet plans on expanding the gallery space into the second room that is directly off of the front. The third floor of the building will be rented out as an artist studio, and the gallery space itself will also be offered as a community meeting space.
Hutinet did not curate the opening show and plans on being hands off when it comes to exhibits. He acknowledged this as atypical, but believes that artists know what they are doing in that regard. He sees his role of that of director, or facilitator.
"We'll see if it works or not," he said.
Portraits and Landscapes in Oil will open Studio H Gallery and Workshop on Saturday from 6 to 8 p.m. The gallery is located at 408a H St NE.
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