GALLERY AT THE GALLERY: WENTWORTH GALLERY ART SALE AT THE GALLERY BETHESDA (PHOTOS)

Downtown Bethesda residents had the chance to browse more than 100 fine art pieces in the Sky Lounge at the Gallery Bethesda luxury apartment tower yesterday. Wentworth Gallery, located in Westfield Montgomery Mall, hauled over a large part of their collection, and invited residents and the public to view paintings by Peter Max, Michael Cartellone, Elena Bond, and more. If you missed the show, you can stop by Wentworth Gallery at the mall, and still get the sale prices currently offered. They are located on the upper level, outside of Nordstrom.

This was one of my favorites,
"New York Nights," by
Elena Bond - $4150

Remember Michael Cartellone's
4-piece "David" from the
Wentworth exhibit earlier
this year?

ART SALE AT GALLERY BETHESDA THURSDAY

This Thursday, November 20, from 1:00 to 8:00 PM, Wentworth Gallery will be hosting a pop-up art sale in the Sky Lounge at the Gallery Bethesda luxury apartment tower. Over 200 international artists will be represented with original paintings and limited-edition prints. The event is open to the public, and a chance for downtown apartment dwellers to tap into the vast Wentworth collection of fine art without leaving the neighborhood. 

Can't attend? You'll find Wentworth Gallery every other day in Westfield Montgomery Mall on the upper level, just outside of Nordstrom. They're currently having a sale with savings of 20-75% off.

Gallery Bethesda

4800 Auburn Avenue

(there is a Bethesda

Circulator stop nearby)

NEW MURAL UNVEILED IN WOODMONT TRIANGLE OF BETHESDA (PHOTOS)

Greenhill Capital has added a second public art mural to one of its Fairmont Avenue buildings in Bethesda's Woodmont Triangle. Notice the Greenhill signage, including a street sign reading "Greenhill Way.' There are even shout-outs to EagleBank and Bethesda Urban Partnership.

BETHESDA ROW ARTS FESTIVAL 2014 PHOTO GALLERY

Artists took over Bethesda Row this past weekend, for the annual Bethesda Row Arts Festival. Art displays, music and food from both nearby restaurants and guest vendors combined with sunny - if cooler - weather for another successful festival. Ford had a product showcase at the event, which was fitting, as the carmaker once had a dealership on Elm Street where part of Bethesda Row is today.

MEET ARTIST ALEXANDRA NECHITA AT WENTWORTH GALLERY IN BETHESDA THIS SATURDAY

An artist who has had a career's worth of output and success in barely 30 years of life, Alexandra Nechita was a child prodigy whose art hangs in the private collections of David Letterman, Oprah Winfrey and Calvin Klein. This Saturday, you can meet Nechita as she brings her new collection, The Living Picasso, to Wentworth Gallery at Westfield Montgomery Mall in Bethesda.

Winner of the Van Gogh Institute's Gold Key award, Nechita also has works on display in exhibits as diverse as Bill Clinton's office and The Vatican. Painting in an abstract, modernist style, the Picasso comparison is just the starting point for this collection.

The event will run from 1:00-4:00 PM Saturday. You can RSVP online here, or call the number below. Wentworth Gallery is located on the upper level of the mall, right outside of Nordstrom.

Wentworth Gallery

Westfield Montgomery Mall

7101 Democracy Boulevard

301.365.3270

Photos courtesy of Wentworth Gallery

DONOHOE GIVES BETHESDA ARTIST A MASSIVE CANVAS AT GALLERY BETHESDA PLAZA (PHOTOS)

The Donohoe Companies' Gallery Bethesda luxury apartment tower is known for its public plaza LED light sculptures. But the development is in the process of adding an additional public art piece to the outdoor space outside the 4800 Auburn Avenue building.

Jordann Wine, a Bethesda artist and Walt Whitman High School graduate, has been hired by Donohoe to further liven up the outdoor environment with a mural. Wine is now painting the 24' x 90' piece on the blank wall of an old building directly across the plaza from the Gallery. She just recently completed another mural downtown, on the side of the Quantum Building at 4912 Del Ray Avenue (see photo at top).

Wine says the Gallery mural will also utilize triangular shapes like the Del Ray piece. "I love working with triangles," she said Tuesday. "[T]hey are very geometric and sharp, but because of their three sides they have the ability to curve and create an organic sense of movement." The triangles on this new mural will fade from a very dark purple to a very light one, and there will be over 2000 of them in the finished work.

Wine has been working on the project for 5 days so far, and you can see the progress in these photos:

DAY 1

 DAY 3

DAY 5

You'll also notice that by Day 5 (yesterday), she had also painted a matching purple stripe along the top and bottom edges of the wall. Wine said when the mural is finished, it will be her largest work ever. Here is her own photo of her Del Ray Avenue work, to give you a sense of the direction she is going with this piece:

Photos: Robert Dyer @ Bethesda Row (top)
All others courtesy Jordann Wine