“FOR LOVE OF KENSINGTON” JURIED EXHIBITION

Starting this Labor Day weekend and continuing through the entire month of September, we offer a love letter to Kensington, our gorgeous new home town. For the past 30+ years, the Montgomery Art Association has hosted its Kensington ‘Paint The Town’ Exhibition every Labor Day weekend. One stipulation to exhibiting artists has always been that they needed to produce at least one artwork with Kensington as the subject. Some incredible work has been produced, many of them only seeing the light of day for one weekend. So now we offer this encore exhibition for artworks that take Kensington as their subject. New Kensington works may also be submitted. We love our town!

This exhibition at Compass Gallery will be open from August 31 through September 26. A Meet The Artists Reception is scheduled for Friday, September 13th from 7-9pm. Food and wine available. Open to the public. Running in conjunction with “Friday The ART-teenth,“ Kensington’s new art walk which includes Girls Who Paint, Adah Rose Gallery, The Gallery at Chesapeake Framing, and Ricky Sears Art Studio. We will also be open the entire Labor Day weekend, so after you visit the MAA show, swing on by!

AMORETTA HOEBER

This August, artist Amoretta Hoeber is featured in a solo exhibition. Ms. Hoeber has been an artist all her life.  Her early artwork was in watercolor where she specialized in florals.  For the past fifteen years she has been a glassblower as well and for the past three years she has become a painter of acrylic abstracts.  Both her glass and her acrylic paintings have been in juried shows, and she also donates some of her art pieces to charity and political auctions.

In addition to her work as an artist, Ms. Hoeber is President of AMH Consulting, a Potomac, Maryland company and since 1991 she has provided consulting on a wide range of defense matters. Prior to founding her consulting company, Ms. Hoeber held several senior management positions at TRW’s Federal Systems Group in Fairfax, VA. Before joining industry in 1986, Ms. Hoeber served as Deputy Under Secretary of the Army in President Reagan’s Administration. Earlier she was on the staff of several defense think tanks, including the Rand Corporation, and was a leader in several professional groups including the Council on Foreign Relations and the NBC Industry Group. She has authored and co-authored numerous books on military strategy and other national security issues.

Ms. Hoeber was a member of the Board of Directors of Versar, Inc., and was Chairman of the Board of EAI Corporation.  She was also on the Board of the House of Ruth Maryland for more than a decade and was a co-founder of CLONE, an organization that focuses on mentoring young women in the defense business, both uniformed and civilian.

She was the Republican nominee for Congress in Maryland’s Sixth Congressional District in 2016 and 2018. She was also recently appointed by Governor Larry Hogan to be a Member of the Montgomery County Board of Elections.

This exhibition at Compass Gallery will be open from August 5 through 29. A Meet The Artists Reception is scheduled for Friday, August 16th from 7-9pm. Food and wine available. Open to the public. Running in conjunction with Friday The ART-teenth, Kensington’s new hot night for art running in conjunction with Girls Who Paint, Adah Rose Gallery, and The Gallery at Chesapeake Framing.

COMPASS ATELIER INVITATIONAL JURIED EXHIBITION

This July, we are celebrating the great artwork made at The Compass Atelier. Since 2013, The Compass Atelier has been training artists in the DMV and beyond. A bastion for realism as well as avant garde art-making, The Compass Atelier has quickly become a hotbed for artistic growth. This exhibit promises to inspire and awe, as it features work from current and former class and workshop participants.

This exhibition at Compass Gallery will be open from July 5 through 28. A Meet The Artists Reception is scheduled for Friday, July 19th from 6-8pm. Food and wine available. Open to the public. Running in conjunction with Friday The ART-teenth, Kensington’s new hot night for art running in conjunction with Girls Who Paint, Adah Rose Gallery, and The Gallery at Chesapeake Framing.

Dynamism

An exhibition of artworks by Andrea van den Heever, Bo Woo, Cathy Abramson, Christine Merry, Isabella Martire, Kara Lin, Karash Payne, Ken Bachman, Lillian Klein, & Nan Dawkins

This exhibit showcases 10 incredible local artists who have burst onto the scene in the past few years. Each of their works is powerful in its own unique way.

This first exhibition at Compass Gallery will be open from April 1 through May 17. An Artists' Reception is scheduled for Friday, May 17th from 6-9pm. Food and wine available.

FACULTY EXHIBITION

This exhibition features the art of the Compass Atelier faculty. Our faculty represent some of the strongest figurative and representational artists in the area. Founder and Director Glen Kessler exhibits alongside Dora Patin, Lamine Hamdad, Lisa Denison, Jennifer Lynn Beaudet, Sam Guindon, Sameer Sharma, Samantha Stover, Suzi Balamaci, & Vicky Zhou

This first exhibition at Compass Gallery South will be open from April 1 through May 31. An Artists' Reception is scheduled for Friday, May 17th from 6-9pm. Food and wine available.

You may also find many of our Faculty in attendance at our Grand Opening on Saturday, April 13th 12-6pm. Some faculty will be performing demonstrations or holding free mini classes.