Natural Progressions
Natural Progressions is a three-person exhibition at the Popcorn Gallery in Glen Echo Park, on view from August 7 through September 27, 2026. The show brings together Janet B. Waters, Nicole Fall, and Blake M. Conroy, three established artists from the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region, whose work draws on natural imagery to explore themes of beauty, the human condition, and abstraction. Together, their practices demonstrate a range of materials and approaches, from watercolor painting and welded steel sculpture to layered laser-cut paper and metal.
The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, August 7, from 6 to 8 PM, held during Glen Echo Park’s Art Walk. The reception is free and open to visitors, with RSVPs preferred but not required. Throughout the run, the gallery highlights how each artist translates observations of the natural world into expressive, conceptually layered works that reflect personal and ecological narratives.
When: August 7 through September 27, 2026.
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7, 2026, 6–8 PM, during Art Walk; RSVPs preferred but not required.
Venue: Popcorn Gallery at Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries, Glen Echo Park.
Artists: Janet B. Waters, Nicole Fall, and Blake M. Conroy.
About Janet B. Waters: A Baltimore, Maryland artist who creates abstract paintings in watercolor, gouache, acrylic, wax pastels, and ink. Her work depicts evocative imaginary landscapes that evoke the sea, land, and the energy of life, using unpredictable interactions between water and pigment to create intuitive yet structured compositions.
About Nicole Fall: A Washington, DC-born sculptor working in welded steel, clay, and cast bronze. Her practice explores the complexities of the human condition through organic forms and cycles of life, emphasizing form, color, movement, and conceptual depth while reflecting on humanity’s contradictory relationship with nature and the contemporary sociopolitical landscape.
About Blake M. Conroy: Originally from Aberdeen, Maryland, Conroy creates laser-cut images from multiple layers of paper as well as hand-cut metal pieces. His work merges environmental concerns with family relationships, using physical layering, surface, shadow, and negative space to consider how memory overlaps, shifts, and endures and how identity is shaped by place and recollection.
Tickets: Price not available; no admission charge is listed for the exhibition or opening reception.
Ages: Not specified in the provided information.
Note: The opening reception takes place during Glen Echo Park’s Art Walk, and visitors may also encounter other ongoing exhibitions at the park during their visit.