Art Gallery

Drink Living Water

watercolors of Mary Lee Barker

on view from May 22, 2010 to August 28,2010

No Tenas Miedo, Don't be Afraid

Michael

Stephanie Olney

Now That We Found Love

Mary Lee Barker began watercolor and cello at the age of 13. At age 69, she began to study voice! The process of painting, music, and friendships continue to grow together. She studied at Adele Hepbron, High School of Music and Art, Oberlin College, Rochester School of Technology, and Corcoran School of Art.

About the Show

Three Wise Men Looking for a Change

Everyone who is thirsty, come! Leave behind all that does not satisfy and drink Living Water. Come and drink so that you can truly live . These painting grew from our life together at Loaves and Fishes; year 2009 - 2010. I play cello and sing every Saturday at this Weekend Food Program at St. Stephen and Incarnation Episcopal Church located at 16th and Newton St NW in Washington, DC where folks come to eat, talk and some ask for paintings. In March, Leon asked for a portrait to celebrate a year of sobriety. Next came Three Wise Men looking for a Change. My pastor suggested I send a print to President Obama telling him how we are all praying for is wise use of power. I wrote a letter that we four signed. From that energy came the photograph with the The Wise Men and three others that grew into the painting, Now That We Found Love. The last portrait, No tenas miedo, Don't be afraid, completes this show. This Lenten poem above links us together. I sense we are all thirsty for the Living Water of faith-filled choices that sustain our lives day by day.

See popular Art Shows from the past....

The Paintings of Elizabeth Black, December 2009 - March 2010

The Paintings and Drawings of Artis Murphy Jr., June 15 - August 30, 2008

Homeless Children Playtime Project, May and June 2008

Anne Brink, February thru April 2008

Milagros Phillips, December 2007 thru January 2008

History of the Gallery

Our Mission

Young Mary Cosby,
speaking

Honoring the co-founder of The Church of the Saviour, whose vision, forty years ago, was to include exhibitions of art work in a faith context as part of the mission of hospitality to the community, the gallery's mission is to nurture the capacity to experience meaning and beauty through the visual arts, and to be drawn to a deeper appreciation of beauty in all that is and of the depth of mystery in all that has been given.

Seeing As Believing

Quilts made by a fabric Arts class
taught be artist Lee Porter, in the
Seeing As Believing mission group.

The "Seeing As Believing" mission group of Friends of Jesus Church currently supervises the exhibitions at the gallery, presenting artwork which is an expression of and response to the artist's relationship to God. By exhibiting faith-sourced artwork, the Gallery hopes to invite viewers to dialogue visually with, and to be nurtured by images of a God-penetrated world.

Religious Art

John Booty writes "At its best, religious art represents a way of knowing which is different from mere verbal communication ... The finest examples of art are revelatory, opening a window to eternity, engaging the spectator in a kind of communication which is holy communion, in which the spectator becomes a participant not only in the work of art, but in the meaning, the essence the work reveals, so that as a consequence the spectator—now participant—experiences some further understanding, previously unknown."

THE POTTER’S HOUSE