REHOBOTH BEACH, DE – The Rehoboth Art League is pleased to present three new exhibitions in the month of April: “Susan Callahan: Kitchen Stories,” “Kate Meyer Fitzpatrick: The Abstraction of the Eastern Shore, Land & Sea,” and “Brandon Hirt: Monochromatic Delaware.”
On the evening of April 1st from 5-7 pm, the art league will be hosting receptions for all three exhibitions, inviting anyone interested to visit the Corkran, Tubbs, and Ventures galleries to see these new shows.
The Corkran Gallery will be displaying “Susan Callahan: Kitchen Stories – Landscapes in a Professional Kitchen.” Susan Callahan worked as a professional chef for 30 years, combining her passion for culinary art with three-dimensional craft. Callahan’s kitchen landscapes are made from digital photographs printed onto cotton, then hand-painted and machine stitched. The series starts early in the day and tells of the daily activities of working on a kitchen production line. The collection is primarily black and white to resonate with the stainless-steel landscape of a commercial kitchen.
Works by Kate Meyer Fitzpatrick will populate the Tubbs Gallery for the artist’s solo show, “The Abstraction of the Eastern Shore, Land & Sea.” Kate Meyer Fitzpatrick approaches her work by inventing from nature, combining a variety of textures and shapes blended with quick brush strokes to achieve a sense of lost and found. Fitzpatrick says, “while I have a vast fascination with the changing seasons, I like to push the boundaries of realism to abstraction. My work will move from loose realism to the more abstract aspects of each piece’s composition.” She is constantly drawn to the sea, salt marshes, and coastal lands, with the Eastern Shore’s natural beauty being the perfect place for her to find inspiration.
Finally, the Ventures Gallery will turn black and white for “Monochromatic Delaware,” a collection of photographs by Brandon Hirt. Pulling away the colors brings more attention to the things that are basic and mean the most to us, with nature being the most basic and most essential. Spending the past year and a half as a volunteer photographer for Delaware State Parks, Hirt has been able to spend quality time in nature, seeing the changes in the environment from the sands at Cape Henlopen to the big trees at Brandywine Creek State Park.
We invite the public to an opening reception for all three shows on Friday, April 1, from 5-7 pm. The exhibitions are free and open to everyone during the regular gallery hours of Monday through Saturday, 10am to 4pm and Sunday, noon to 4pm. The Rehoboth Art League will continue to follow all local and CDC COVID safety guidelines for operating.
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The Rehoboth Art League 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.
The Rehoboth Art League is a membership-based non-profit arts organization dedicated to teaching, preserving and inspiring the arts in the region. For additional information about this exhibit, the Art League, its classes, memberships, events and exhibitions, please visit the website at RehobothArtLeague.org or call 302.227.8408. You can find us on Facebook and Instagram @RehobothArtLeague.