The Warner Gallery welcomes visitors to the O'Brien Arts Center, which opened to the public in October 2004 with an exhibition of 20th Century American masterworks from the Payson Collection. Each year, four visiting artist exhibitions are on view to the St. Andrew's community and the public in the Warner Gallery. Each exhibition opens with a reception and gallery talk by the artist.

For more information, please call Mr. John McGiff at 302.285-4215.

Working Papers

David Ambrose
January 11 — February 15, 2013
Warner Gallery, O'Brien Arts Center
St. Andrews School

Artist Talk & Reception: Friday, January 11 at 6:45 p.m.

Artist Statement:

As an artist, paper has always been my safe haven. It's surface acting as a creative flint strip to my imagination. Paper is the first place I go to explore my thoughts and ideas. But paper does not only act as a place to find inspiration. For the past 10 years, much of my work has been executed almost exclusively on paper. Working Papers explores my relationship to paper as a surface for a work of art.

As a rule, I never leave a sheet unaltered. I have pierced, cut or stapled my paper throughout my career. I regard all of these activities as drawing techniques. Each as valid as putting pencil to paper. Each process has been fed by my desire to create as difficult an environment to work on as possible and as result, challenge myself as an artist. 

Between Cordoba and Granada, watercolor and gouache on pierced paper, 30"x22"

All Things Passing

Photography from Joshua Meier
October 19 — November 20, 2012

About the Artist: Joshua Meier is a photographic artist specializing in conceptual black and white imagery. He has exhibited extensively in museums and galleries across the United States. Meier utilizes many historical processes like wet plate collodian, photogravure, lith printing, and tintypes to create unique, one-of-a-kind, handmade works. Currently, Joshua is head of photography at St. Andrew's School.

Final Flight, Tintype, 8"x10"

Mystery & Magic in Nature

Christine Neill
September 1 — October 1, 2012

About the Artist: Nature has long been the subject of Christine Neill's large mixed-media paintings. Neill initially studied biology at Skidmore College, ultimately graduating with a B.S. degree in art and earning her M.F.A. in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. It was a natural transition for her from the examination of biological process to metaphorically visualizing those processes as imagery in paintings and prints. She dates her interest in environmental conservation to those early studies. 

Neill divides her time between Baltimore and New Hampshire. The garden behind her Baltimore home shares characteristics without duplicating those of the land in the country. She finds the two activities, painting and planting, support each other and influence her interpretation of art and nature. She is a professor in the painting department at Maryland Institute College of Art.