The date is now official: I will be showing my architectural and landscape art at the newly relocated and renovated "Art and Frame" gallery in Falls Church Virginia in June of 2007. The opening day is June 1, 2007, which is one of the designated "First Fridays" for art shows, concerts, craft sales, and other community festivities. The theme of my show will be "Changing Falls Church." I will be featuring paintings which depict the overlooked but interesting commercial and industrial buildings of Falls Church. These buildings will most likely disappear in the next five years as developers move in and build big urban multi-use mid-rises on their sites. Regular readers of this Weblog have already seen some of the paintings which will be in the show, such as my rendition of "Sisler's Stoneworks," (entry of 20 September 2006) and the Home Paramount exterminators' building (entry of 19 November 2006). I need to paint a whole lot more of these. I will also be writing an article about the theme of "forgotten" architecture, which will be published in the monthly Falls Church arts newsletter.

I'll be talking much more about this, and previewing new paintings as they are made. It's a very local show with a very local theme, and I'm looking forward to it. Anyone who can get to Falls Church is cordially invited. Let's hope that everything works out well. As my Islamic co-workers would say, "Inshallah."

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