REHOBOTH BEACH, DE – On Friday, April 2, 2021, the Rehoboth Art League will kick off its spring exhibition season with three new shows, and a longtime member artist tribute on its historic Henlopen Acres Campus. “Visitors will be treated to colorful and bold abstract imagery, animation and sound, and mixed media. In addition, RAL pays tribute to long-time member and artist, Lee Wayne Mills, who passed away in 2020,” says Nick Serratore, RAL’s Exhibition Director.
In the Corkran Gallery visitors are greeted with The Old and the New: A Retrospective of Aina Nergaard-Nammack. The body of work spans over 75 years of the artist’s life and represents the different phases of her artistic development. This year marks the artist’s ninety-first birthday and over the course of a lifetime her style has fluctuated between representational and abstract. This exhibit illustrates her different approaches, and will include her first painting, a still life, painted at the age of twelve.
The Tubbs Gallery hosts Pipes of Perception, a multi-media display of drawings and animation by Tad Sare. “This is a first for RAL where the artist will display 2-dimensional work that will interlock with video and sound,” says Serratore. Sare is an experimental animator and educator who uses the storytelling medium of animation to explore our understanding of perception, interpretation, and juxtaposition of sequential images. He employs hand-drawn techniques while collaging photographs, live action video, and sound elements digitally. Sare will lead a Virtual Gallery Talk for RAL on Saturday, April 3 at 10am, where he will discuss his creative process and his current exhibition. This Gallery Talk is free, but registration is required through RAL’s website.
The Ventures Gallery features Micro/Macro, an exhibition of the mixed-media work of Caitlin Gill. This work explores the relationship between the hierarchy of humans and animals with an emphasis on making large what we perceive as small. Gill uses printmaking, sculpting, drawing, painting, collage, and fiber to create artwork.
Finally, RAL honors the life and artistic achievement of Lee Wayne Mills with a collection of the artist’s abstract pieces in the DeWitt Gallery. Mills was a longtime RAL member artist who served on both Exhibition and Collection Committees and twice held the leadership role of Interim Executive Director.
Due to ongoing health and safety concerns, there will not be an opening reception for this series of exhibits. Instead, the public is invited to visit our spacious campus to view the artwork during the normal operating hours of Monday through Saturday, 10am to 4pm and Sunday, noon to 4pm. RAL’s galleries are closed for Easter Sunday.
The Rehoboth Art League is a membership-based nonprofit arts organization dedicated to teaching, preserving, and inspiring the arts in the region. For information on the Art League, its classes, events, and exhibitions, visit the website at rehobothartleague.org or call 302.227.8408. Connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
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This organization is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.