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Sinel and Farrell at Wohlfarth in PTown

July 25, 2009

GessoHead has been a woefully neglectful bad bad girl and needs punishment. Do I have any volunteers?
It has been a freakish year meteorologically (try saying that one a few times) on beautiful Cape Cod, as I gather it has been most other places as well. Cold rain – on July 24 it was wet and down in the 50’s – punctuated by tragically infrequent days of sun. I feel positively soggy, like I need to be wrung out periodically. BUT, I do digress.

opening reception at Wohlfarth PTown

The proud proprietor, Vinnie Wohlfarth

Soggy notwithstanding, I have been to see some art. First, appropriately, the PTown branch of Wohlfarth, the eponymous gallery run by Vinnie Wohlfarth with a longtime location on 9th Street NE in Washington’s Brookland neighborhood. For many years, Wohlfarth up here was largely known for the lush American impressionist work of the Cape Cod School and its modern landscape progeny, but 2009 has brought a big and interesting change. The gallery has moved to a new location in the East End of PTown, closer to some of the good contemporary galleries, and is featuring a small group of diverse contemporary artists, including Ellen Sinel and Lisa Farrell from DC.

Ellen Sinel and work

Lisa Farrell and work

Ellen (whose studio, I must reveal, is so close to mine that I could throw a rubber chicken into it on a good day) is showing some of her gorgeous trademark Truro grasses, along with a large and impressive painting of birch trees shining in the sun that I watched her develop over the winter. Alas, for you fans, that one has already sold.
Lisa has several large, dense black and white landscape drawings, wintry and prickly and looming. It's just really nice to see a little outpost of DC thrive up here, so you go, Wohlfarth.

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