Works by Rush Baker IV, Otho Branson, Willem de Looper, Tim Doud, Thomas Downing, Felrath Hines, Robin Rose, Lisa Scheer, Renée Stout, Julie Wolfe. Julie Wolfe's fifth solo exhibition with HEMPHILL will open in September 2022, followed by inaugural exhibitions for Otho Branson and Tim Doud in November 2022.

Rush Baker IV
Rushern Baker IV’s abstractions emerge from the chaotic world outside the canvas; the urban and suburban environment upended through steady degradation: bricks, plaster, metal and cement form the landscape as the built environment dissolves within its composition. These abstracted forms permeate from within the mindspace of his studio located in the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Otho D. Branson
Otho D. Branson (American, b. 1943) lives and works in Washington, DC. Branson’s works include acrylic on paper and panel. An underlying grid is defined with delicate graphite lines, then the composition of color unfolds.

Willem de Looper
Willem de Looper is most closely associated with the Washington Color School. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, de Looper eschewed graphic gesture and flooded his canvases with layer after layer of dramatically thinned acrylic paint, presenting atmospheric imagery without any reference beyond a purely visual experience.

Tim Doud
Tim Doud’s paintings and drawings address two seemingly distinct bodies of work, one figurative and one abstract. These bodies of works serve as a backdrop to broader discussions around constructed identities, branding, and commodity culture.

Thomas Downing
Thomas Downing was born in Suffolk, Virginia in 1928. Moving to Washington DC in 1951, he studied with Kenneth Noland, and later shared studio space with Howard Mehring. In the mid 1960s Downing began to experiment with shaped canvases, the resulting works such as “Twenty Two,” 1968 project into the room and across the wall, suggesting the infinite in a way foretold by his gridded dot paintings.

Felrath Hines
Felrath Hines (1913-1993) worked to create universal visual idioms from a place of complex personal experience. Hines’s figurative and cubist-style artwork morphed into soft-edged organic abstracts as he grappled with hues in his chosen oil medium.

Robin Rose
Rose’s complex encaustic surfaces often resemble earthly, organic, or terrestrial structures. By incorporating raw mineral and metallic pigments into the encaustic, which is repeatedly layered and manipulated, Rose sets a tone of suspense and mystery.

Lisa Scheer
Lisa Scheer works and lives in Maryland and Washington, DC. She creates sculptures that are abstract yet infused with subtle suggestions of imagery and narrative. Much of her works are large in scale and designed in response to specific architectural environments.

Renée Stout
Renée Stout (American, born 1958) is inspired by the African Diaspora, as well as everyday life in her DC neighborhood and current events. She employs a variety of media, including painting, drawing, mixed media sculpture, photography and installation in an attempt to create works that encourage self-examination, introspection and the ability to laugh at the absurdities of life and ourselves.

Julie Wolfe
Julie Wolfe is a multimedia artist whose work visualizes the diffuse, the immaterial, and the invisible. Wolfe’s work encourages its viewers to contemplatively meditate, on their own terms and within their own frame of reference, on that which confronts them.