1810 Gallery Grand Opening

Front facade, great view to the interior.

On May 9, 2015 1810 Gallery had its grand opening for Second Saturday, this is a milestone because this is the first gallery to open at the Warehouse Artists Loft (WAL) located on R Street. The WAL is newly built/renovatted building near historic R Street that focuses on occupying its apartments with artists of all kinds, to build a creative communal downtown area.

Selfie with gallery founders artwork.

1810 Gallery displayed the works of gallery founders John Horton and Shaun Burner. The gallery, although not huge and may become cramped easily when there is a crowd, still provided a nice display space and I believe there are movable walls to adjust the space. The best feature of the gallery is the whole front facade is glass and provides easy viewing of the works inside even after operation hours.

The art of John Horton is very visually stimulating in terms to question the viewer what is real and is it really a painting? The paintings are a mix of photo realism and graphic interruptions would be my way of describing the style. They feature some form of the human whether its eyes or a person from the torso up but added to it is the illusion of a digital/graphic element. It's beautiful work that highlights the great amount of detail the artist has as well as the ability to break up the image with painted interruptions or static. Personally it gave me an excited feeling, almost as if sensory overload.

Painting by John Horton

The art of Shaun Burner on the other hand gave me a more calming feeling and has more of a whimsical characteristic emphasized by earth tone colors and the flow of lines in the paintings. I really liked the appearance of layers within all the patterns and line work.

Paintings by Shaun Burner

The gallery also displayed a collection of very intricate skull sculptures made from a 3D printer, the artist I cannot determine although. The sculptures were fairly small in size but contained high detail as well as varying in style from realistic to cubic to deconstructive.

3D printed head.

3D printed heads and objects.

Various interpretations of skulls.

Mixed  media painting by Shaun Burner.

Diptych by Shaun Burner.

Photo realistic painting b y John Horton.

Painting by John Horton.

Painting by John Horton.

Painting by John Horton.