Welcome to Amy Kaslow Gallery, where concrete floors give way to wide open industrial space bathed in natural light. We began in NW, Washington, DC and moved a few miles north where our Bethesda location showcases a wide range of emerging and leading contemporary artists.

As longtime journalists, we recognize the essence of the story. And there is none more powerful than the life experience and perspective of each of the nine artists featured in “Art and Autocracy in the Americas,” our most important exhibition to date. DC TRENDING calls it “a cultural reckoning wrapped in exceptional artistry.” Each magnetic piece is accompanied by a storyboard providing context, history and trajectory.

The gallery is also filled with an array of other works. Dairan Fernández de la Fuente delights us with his oils on canvas and poster-sized wood block prints. The Havana-based artist probes contemporary issues in his beloved 1930s and 1940s design, painting charming shapes in beautiful tones that celebrate a freer time and belie the difficulties of today’s Cubans.

Our collection of Joseph Holston's distills the artist's past half century of creativity. His finest screenprints, etchings, and oils on canvas show simple, daily doings of men, women and children. His rich color combinations and tone on tone pigment make the ordinary evocative. This exhibition followed our retrospective of another leading American Artist, Mimi Herbert, whose acrylic sculptures delighted visitors and can be viewed, like Holston's paintings at the National Gallery of Art, among other top museums.

Original artist-in-residence Jane Kell returned to the gallery with a gorgeous, immersive collection of abstract paintings called "Skyline,” including small studies on paper and large oils on canvas. Her work pays homage to open skies, sumptuous in color and form.

We proudly show the ethereal landscapes of Ukrainian painter Jarolsav Leonets, who frantically covered his country to capture its rugged beauty before Russia’s ravaging invasion.

New work from Panama's talented young Pascual Rudas, celebrates the expanse of naked figures gliding through water and space with lightness and limitlessness.

We’ve added more Aboriginal Dreamings, too. Deep in color and detail, these  canvases are topographical views of the lives and ancestral influences among the world’s longest existing people.

It's all about the grain and the burl in the sinewy three dimensional wall works of wood sculptor Renee Balfour She whittles, files and sands from roughly cut American Walnut and Cherry. Smithsonian awardee John Geci’s blown glass vessels dress our tables and windows. Noah James Saunders mystifies and mesmerizes with his lifelike steel portraits in 3-D steel wire. Andrew Kaslow’s piano tables, topped with rare woods, grace the gallery floor.

Always incoming (and outgoing): elegant clay vessels from Africa's Zulu Nation, miniatures from Uzbekistan's Davron Toshev and watercolors from Martina Dalla Stella in the foothills of the Italian Alps...

Explore these treasures and enter another world on Bethesda’s Norfolk Avenue.

OUR ROOTS

Amy Kaslow’s love of botanicals stems from growing up along Beach Drive, where great swaths of her mother's colorful spring flowers spilled down into Rock Creek Park. Today, the gardener’s daughter trains a lens on Mother Nature’s best. Striking images come from her own soil, where she and family tend beds of 65-year-old shade-loving heirlooms to this season’s new cultivars. 

Nature is her palate as she creates large format, limited edition fine art prints for collectors and designers. Welcome to the garden!