If you’d like to get an idea about the variety of prints available at Fine Impressions Gallery, you merely need to compare its two most recent featured exhibits: Asian Art in March, and now this month’s Historic Images of the Civil War and Lincoln.
Even from the displays visible from outside of the gallery and frame shop, located at 8300 Fifth Ave. N.E., you know you’re in for a feast on the eyes. When you enter, it’s impossible to know where to start, with the gallery’s vast selection of original antique pieces, as well as contemporary works by artists employing traditional printmaking techniques.
If that’s too much of a mouthful for you to digest, the store includes a tutorial on the process the artists use to make each individual print. And no, they’re not simply Xeroxes created in bulk.
Because each piece truly is a piece of art, the gallery also offers conservation framing that will protect the art you purchase there, or pieces that you bring from home.
The owner of Fine Impressions Gallery, Carol Maurer, has lived in Maple Leaf since 1978, and she moved her business here in 2000 from the Greenwood location she had opened in 1981.
If you’d like to get a better idea of what the gallery has to offer, more than 5,000 works are visible on its Web site. The gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, or by appointment.
