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PARISH GALLERY - GEORGETOWN "Norman Parish opened his gallery in 1991 in Georgetown's secluded Canal Square complex of galleries, restaurants and offices with the idea of focusing his exhibitions primarily on paintings, works on paper and sculpture by African American and African artists. He has succeeded admirably, organizing strong shows in the gallery's single, large room by big-name American artists such as Lois Mailou Jones, Lorenzo Pace and John Scott, as well as Esther Mahlangu, an acclaimed Ndebele painter from South Africa. The gallery's prices range from several hundred dollars to around $40,000. Although he emphasizes art inspired by African culture, Parish also shows work by artists from other ethnic backgrounds. And he has proved to be one of a handful of gallery owners in Washington willing to give exhibitions to relative unknowns, such as Alex Bay, a Virginia-based artist who built a small cottage in the Canal Square courtyard in 1996 for his interactive installation titled "Canaletto's House." "The landlord nearly flipped over that," says Parish, who was born in New Orleans, raised in Chicago and graduated with a degree in painting from the Art Institute of Chicago. "But it brought a lot of people down here." Such shows have not always been commercially successful and their quality has been inconsistent, but they have boosted the artists' careers and livened up Georgetown's art scene. An accomplished painter, Parish has also shown some of his free-flowing, figurative work, which is heavily influenced by the sites and sounds of his birthplace. That emotional connection to New Orleans has brought some prominent Louisiana-based artists, such as Dr. Samella Lewis, to his gallery. Unlike many other gallery owners, Parish, a jazz buff, is friendly, low-key and often has the stereo on in his establishment, playing jazz giants like John Coltrane, Johnny Hartman and Dexter Gordon. On occasion, the sights and sounds form one harmonious groove." Ferdinand Protzman, Washington Post Tayo Adenaike • Alex Bay • Barry Boyle • Elizabeth Byrd • Antonio Carreno • M. Erol Catal • Robin Chander • Patience Nelson-Cole • Floyd Coleman • Cathy Marolot Conn • Cecil Cooper • Lucilda Dassardo Cooper • Sheila Crider • Mary Reed Daniels • Ernest Davidson • Jeff Donaldson • Helen Elliott • Ron Flemming • Ausbra Ford • Bob Freimark • Gale Fulton-Ross • Alemayehou Gabremedhin • Fiagziase Glover (Ghanaian)• Jenne Glover • Pamela Green • Estella Gullatt • Dorothy Hawkins • Kathryn Henneberry • Brece V. Honeycutt • Marilyn Horrom • George Hunt • Wadsworth Jarrell • Lois Mailou Jones • Devabil Kara • Kofi Kayiga • Joanne Kent • Ephren Kouakou • Peter Wayne Lewis • Roy Lewis • Samella Lewis • Karen Mayer • Elena Maza • Bryan McFarland • Naza McFarren • Lloyd McNeil • Bruce McNeil • Bodil Meleney • Ronald Mevs • Sandi Ritchie Miller • Martial Molitor • E.J. Montgomery • Robert Morassi • Keith Morrison • Barbara Tyson Mosley • Betty Murchison • Nature • Oggi Ogburn • Lorenzo Pace • William Pajaud • Norman Parish • Raquel Partnoy • James Phillips • Myrtle Pierson • Adao Pinheiro • L. Poitit (Haitian) • James A. Porter • Maggie C. Pratt • Jan Richardson • Floyd Roberts • Nelson Santiago • Deanna Schwartzberg • Elizabeth T. Scott • John Scott • Joyce J. Scott • Suzanna Bryan Singer • Judy Skolnick • Frank Smith • Di Stovall • Richard Suib • Terciliano, Jr. • Tessafaye Tessema • William Tolliver • Dikki Van Helsland • Ernest Onewin-Walker • Jose Williams • Todd Williams • Shirley Woodson • Kosrof Woesene • Ken Young BRANDYWINE WORKSHOPS: Original Fine Art Prints: Elizabeth Catlett-Mora • Ernest Onewin-Walker • Gwen Knight-Lawrence • Junji Amano • Michi Itami • Heleki Kimura • Sam Gilliam • Keith Morrison • Alvin Loving • Gwen Knight-Lawrence • Orisegum Bennett Olomindum • Herb Gentry • John E. Dowell • Camille Billops • Ichiro Matsuo • Hiroshi Murata • Hitroshi Nakazato • Helen Ogi • Nori Sata • Rieko Seto • Rumiko Tsuda PARISH GALLERY - GEORGETOWN 1054 31st Street, NW Washington, DC 20007 Tuesday - Saturday, 12 noon - 6:00 pm 202-944-2310 email: parishgallery@bigplanet.com www.parishgallery.com
