Celebrating the Opening of Michelle Hegyi's Show

Michelle Hegyi's exhibit at WSG Gallery was celebrated Friday, August 6 on a lovely evening in Ann Arbor. Her show is up through Labor Day weekend. "Do You Remember the Shape of the Trees..." is a show of her new body of work. Gorgeous blues, greens, yellows capture elements of nature - trees, rain, sky, leaves - and are presented to the viewer in Michelle's continuously evolving innovative methods and materials.

WSG artist teaches at Traverse City this week

If you happen to be out in the Leelenau Peninsula area or somewhere around Traverse City and the bay area of Traverse this week, you may see some enthusiastic landscape painters led by our own talented landscape painter Nora Venturelli. She teaches an intensive landscape painting class for Eastern Michigan University each summer Up North. Look for some of her gorgeous northern Michigan work at the gallery when she returns!

Check out the blog the students created: http://landscapewithnora.blogspot.com/

WSG artist and friend exhibit at Brighton District Library

WSG Gallery artist Alvey Jones and painter Gail Sanchirico host an opening reception for their exhibit at Brighton District Library on Sunday, August 1, 2 - 4pm. The show runs through September 8. Alvey will have over 50 books on display! Stop by, say hi and see some cool work!

Images from Tubingen, Germany show

If you happen to be in Tubingen, Germany, stop by the Kunsthalle, adjacent to the Kulturhalle, and see some of your favorite WSG artists' work on display in this lovely space. A gorgeous, spacious, natural light-filled gallery, the Kunsthalle is about 30 feet from floor to ceiling with concrete floors and white stone and concrete walls. It's a very modern-feeling space in a city hundreds of years old, with cobblestone streets just outside the door. The above piece, by Valerie Mann, is one of the pieces that traveled across the pond for the exhibit.

Clothesline Show

WSG has a lot going on! Our artists returned from Tubingen, Germany from the Sister City Exchange last week. Our German hosts were most gracious and the Kunsthalle (city art gallery) is a gorgeous space for the show of our work "Ann Arbor Artists in Tubingen".

Also, our Clothesline Show is up for another week - through July 24! There are many smaller, more affordable pieces hung throughout the gallery on clotheslines for a fun shopping experience in celebration of the Ann Arbor Art Fairs!

And lastly, gallery artists Alvey Jones and Barbara Brown are doing an Artists' Residency at Hollander's in Kerrytown through July 24 - STOP IN AND SEE THEM! Hours for the residency are 10 - 5 weekdays.

Clothesline Show

WSG is trying something new for our next show!
We're having a "Clothesline Show" to celebrate summer in Ann Arbor and the Ann Arbor Art Fairs. What's a clothesline show? Well, it's a great way to buy some great art for great prices from some of your favorite Michigan artists. We've dug deep in our studios to bring out work - some "never before seen", even. The work will be strung through the gallery on clotheslines, in clear bags for you to browse and priced for you to take home!

Check out Lynda Cole's image above. It's a digital, archival print and full of color to brighten up your living space!

The "Clothesline Show" goes up this weekend, opens to the public June 28, 2010 and goes through July 25. We'll be having a closing reception July 23, 7 - 10 pm. Yep, it's during Art Fair, so come enjoy some refreshments and air-conditioning! And take home some art!

WSG Artists' work to appear on the set of Scream 4

5 artists from the gallery will have several pieces gracing the set of the movie "Scream 4", filming in the Ann Arbor area starting June 28. We are excited, but we are not rookies to the movie business! Several WSG artists have had pieces purchased for movies filming in the area in the past couple of years, and Adrienne Kaplan even advised on the movie "Flipped" and her studio tools, brushes, etc. appeared in the movie, too! That movie is being released this summer, so watch for Adrienne's brushes!!!