Warner Gallery

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.

Two Different Worlds

Paintings by Constance Simon and Pahl Hluchan
January 6 - February 14, 2011
Warner Gallery, O'Brien Arts Center
St. Andrews School

About the Artists:

Pahl Hluchan and Connie Simon have been friends and colleagues for over ten years. Although their work is visually very different, they share a similar passion for constructing from their visual imagination. Each creates a unique world from their private dreams and visions. The space, forms, light, and colors of the observed visual world are explored as means to express individual poetry and iconography. Each artist draws on different art movements from the past to forge a personal style and express individual ideas and narratives.

 

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2010-2011 Exhibitions

Catherine White Ceramics

In this exhibition White explores physical connections and visual links between multiple ceramic objects. Exploiting surface and form while remaining within the sphere of use, her work ranges from the handheld to large coiled jars. Objects are often roughly layered with white slip and celadon glaze or reduced to the austere palette of a wood-fired kiln.

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Paint On!

Anita Peghini-Raber

April 15 - May 7, 2011 (Artist Talk & Reception Friday, April 15 at 6:45 p.m.)

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I believe visual art is a strong nonverbal communication tool. It transcends the meaning of words. it expresses the unsaid. I am interested in creating mystery and mood conceived in color and found in the full expression of aggressive paint application. My joy is focused on sharing this collective consciousness in the here and now.  

 

 

Apron Strings

Susan Sterner

Director of Photojournalism, Corcoran College of Art + Design

January 12 - February 18, 2011

Web Article on Opening

 


Light Passing

Catherine Drabkin

October 22 - November 19, 2010

ARTIST STATEMENT:

A chair left in the yard unattended, forms of trees reflected in a Breton river, or a stalk of celery in a glass become memorable for me because of the light, or the echo of a human presence. These experiences feel like visual poetry. Painting is a way for me to join the mystery of observed reality, the life of imagination and memory. The forms, colors and shapes of intimate or deep spaces help me learn not just about a cherished place, but about myself as well.

 

 

Constructions and Collages

David Barnett 

Courtesy of the Denise Bibro Gallery
Chelsea, New York

September 17 — October 17, 2010

ARTIST STATEMENT:

I begin much the way I would envision an author starts a piece of fiction. A character is born or a story line begins. If you listen carefully enough, the subject will help you to travel thru the entire journey. Whether it's a rusted piece of metal, branches from an oak tree, or a torn scrap of typography...the right juxtaposition can always find its way into one of my constructions. The more absurd the better. The end result happens when these various found or created elements come together to form a believable vision. 

Past Warner Gallery Exhibitions Muriel Hasbun Vessels & Vestiges, Syd Carpenter Still Processing, Barry Nemett Language of Landscape: Works from Italy, Lauren Scott and Thomas Walton Selected Works