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 to Bethesda to showcase a wide range of emerging and leading contemporary artists.

As longtime journalists, we recognize the essence of the story and select artists with narratives as compelling as the works they create.

Come enjoy a respite from daily stress with an open, light feeling that only Mother Nature’s sensual beauty can arouse. Seductive landscapes and waterscapes from returning gallery favorites Lizzie Butler of the United Kingdom and Jaroslav Leonets of Ukraine draw us into the vistas themselves. Some are stark, others are abstract, and beckon with elegant, understated color in mesmerizing form. 

We’re proud to show astounding paintings from the founders of the Aboriginal modernist movement in Australia’s Central Desert. These are to-scale topographical views of the lives and ancestral influences among the world’s longest existing people.

Life experience lights up the magnetic pieces in “Art and Autocracy in the Americas” with some of the finest creatives across the continents, each accompanied by context, history and trajectory. DC TRENDING called our exhibition “a cultural reckoning wrapped in exceptional artistry.”

The collection of African American Artist Joseph Holston’s works distills a half century of creativity. His finest screenprints, etchings, and oils on canvas show simple, daily doings of men, women and children, with rich color combinations and tone on tone pigment make the ordinary evocative. This blockbuster followed our retrospective of another leading American Artist, Mimi Herbert, whose acrylic sculptures are found, like Holston's paintings, at the National Gallery of Art, among other museums.

Dairan Fernández de la Fuente always delights 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, with charming shapes and beautiful tones that celebrate a freer time and belie the difficulties of today’s Cubans. We just added five of his newest works –  an iron, crossed legs, ruby slipper, a silhouette, a soda and hot dog –  everyday symbols of an era he somehow turns into irresistible pop art. 

Looking for a way to relax? Take in Panama’s talented young Pascual Rudas, who celebrates the expanse of naked swimmers gliding through water and space with lightness and limitlessness.

It's all about the grain and the burl in the sinewy three dimensional wall works of wood sculptor Renee Balfour, who whittles, files and sands from roughly cut American Walnut and Cherry.

Smithsonian awardee John Geci’s striking 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 grand piano tables, topped with rare woods, grace the gallery floor.

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

Our America 250 celebration begins later this spring with “What’s So Funny?” a light, lyrical, at times lacerating  look at US society. through the hands of two Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists.

Jane Kell, our original artist-in-residence, returns to the gallery later this year with a gorgeous, immersive collection of abstract paintings including small studies on paper and large oils on canvas. A colorist, her sumptuous works are inspired by vast water bodies and open skies. 

Explore these treasures and so much more. 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!