SMALL STORIES, Fine Art Photography Exhibit : July 1 - August 3, 2025

Blake is here by Irina Lawton

We are pleased to announce our latest fine art photography exhibition, SMALL STORIES, on view from July 1 to August 3, 2025. This unique exhibition features 14 frames from 14 photographers, with each frame containing three or more photographs that together tell a "small story." These thoughtfully composed groupings offer a glimpse into intimate moments, layered narratives, and visual connections that reveal more than a single image alone.

Exhibition Dates: July 1 - August 3, 2025
Exhibition Hours: 11am - 5pm daily
Location: Multiple Exposures Gallery | Torpedo Factory Art Center | #312 [map]

Exhibition Artists
Russell Barajas, Stacy Smith Evans, Soomin Ham, Eric Johnson, Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton, Francine B. Livaditis, Maureen Minehan, David Myers, Guillermo Olaizola, Van Pulley, Sarah Hood Salomon, Alan Sislen, Tom Sliter, Fred Zafran

Contact Information For Media & Purchase Inquiries
High resolution images for media use are available upon request. All images are available for purchase through the gallery. 

Eric Johnson’s Urban Landscapes By Rindy O’Brien at HillRag

“Dumsers Dairyland” is part of the 40th anniversary exhibition that opens on June 8. Many will recognize the ice cream parlor from the boardwalk at Ocean City. Photo: Courtesy of Eric Johnson

Capitol Hill is home to one of the Washington area’s outstanding photographers, Eric Johnson. Working in black and white, he photographs buildings we all know and love. He captures the architecture and unique spaces of places like RFK Stadium and Key Bridge. His work reflects the passage of time with images that flood you with memories. Johnson’s art is often shown at Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) at the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria, and most recently at the Hill Center’s Regional Art Exhibition.

On June 8, the gallery will celebrate its 40th anniversary. Johnson is the president of the gallery, a 15-member organization of local photographers. MEG is one of the last dedicated photo galleries left in the Washington area. Johnson says that “carrying the flag for photography” in the region is something the gallery takes quite seriously.

Read more here.

MEG is turning 40!

In June 1985, MEG opened its doors at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Now, 40 years later, we invite you to join us in celebrating four decades of photography, creativity, and community! 

As part of the celebration, you’ll also have the opportunity to meet Crista Dix, Executive Director of the Griffin Museum of Photography, and experience LUMINOUS, the terrific juried exhibition she curated for MEG.

RSVP BELOW!

Multiple Exposures Gallery
Torpedo Factory Art Center, #312
105 North Union Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
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LUMINOUS, Fine Art Photography Show juried and curated by Crista Dix

Northern Lights © Francine B. Livaditis

Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG) is pleased to present LUMINOUS, a fine art photography exhibition juried and curated by Crista Dix, Executive Director of The Griffin Museum of Photography.

In curating LUMINOUS, Dix sought images where the heart defines what we see. With her discerning eye, Dix has curated an exhibition that captures the interplay of specular highlights and diffuse reflections— illuminating not only the world but what we leave in the shadows. The exhibition feature 20 works by 12 photographers, demonstrating how light can sculpt form, reveal texture, and stir emotion.

Opening Reception and 40th Anniversary Celebration
An opening reception for LUMINOUS will take place Sunday, June 8, 2025, from 2pm-4pm at Multiple Exposures Gallery in conjunction with MEG's 40th Anniversary celebration. The reception is open to the public, and we encourage you to RSVP

Exhibition Artists: Russell Barajas, Stacy Smith Evans, Soomin Ham, Eric Johnson,  Francine B. Livaditis, Maureen Minehan, David Myers, Guillermo Olaizola, Van Pulley, Sarah Hood Salomon, Tom Sliter and Fred Zafran

Exhibition Dates: June 3 - June 29, 2025
Exhibition Hours: 11am - 5pm daily
Location: Multiple Exposures Gallery | Torpedo Factory Art Center | #312 [map]

Contact Information For Media & Purchase Inquiries
High resolution images for media use are available upon request. All images are available for purchase through the gallery.

CITYPAPER EXHIBIT REVIEW: David Myers’s ENDURING ROOTS by Louis Jacobson

Enduring Roots: A Solo Photography Exhibit, Myers’ 30-photograph exhibit at Multiple Exposures Gallery, documents olive trees and their surroundings, mostly on the Greek Island of Naxos, which seems to be a land of eternal, gentle sunlight. Some of Myers’ images echo Lee Friedlander’s desert landscape photographs of brambles and bushes; others capture the ancient rock walls or weathered industrial-age detritus. One image depicts circular buds dancing on slender stems, set against a clear sky, an homage to works by Harry Callahan.

One wide-angled landscape offers a bracing contrast between an inky black hillside and the blankness of the sky above; two others include a flock of flying birds that echo a notable image from John Gossage’s “The Pond.” One repeated motif involves fences, some made of wood but mostly of metal; in one image, a gridded fence suggests latitude and longitude lines, bent into a compellingly rippled surface. One of Myers’ most notable photographs features velvety-textured grass in which a roughly circular patch stands out as darker than the rest.

ENDURING ROOTS, a New Solo Exhibit by David Myers

#18 © David Myers

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present ENDURING ROOTS, a visual meditation by David Myers on resilience, time, and the relationship between people and the land they tend. 

"Olive trees are among the oldest living beings on Earth, embodying strength and continuity. Some have stood as silent sentinels for millennia, bearing witness to the trials of history—wars, political upheaval, natural disasters, and the ever-changing climate. Through ENDURING ROOTS, I invite you to stand before these magnificent entities and reflect on their endurance, their cultural significance, and the profound connection they share with their custodians." — David Myers

Alongside the collection of more than 30 photographs in the exhibition, Myers' book Wandering Among Them offers further depth, featuring 13 images, some of which are exclusive to the book and not part of the gallery display. The limited edition book will be available for viewing and purchase at the gallery throughout the exhibition. 

EXHIBITION DETAILS

Dates:  April 22 - June 1, 2025
Hours: 11am-5pm daily

Location: Multiple Exposures Gallery, Studio 312, Torpedo Factory Art Center [map]     
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MEET THE ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

  • April 26

  • May 3, 4, 17, 26

  • June 1                          

David will be at Multiple Exposures Gallery from 11am-5pm on the dates above. We invite you to visit the gallery to experience the exhibition in person and speak with David about the power of endurance, heritage, and the landscapes that shape us. Bring friends and fellow art lovers—everyone is welcome! 

Email: davidmyers3@mac.com
Website: davidmyersphotographs.com
Instagram: @davidmyersphotographs

PURCHASE INQUIRIES 
To purchases images from ENDURING ROOTS or the limited edition book Wandering Among Them, please contact the gallery by email or by phone (703-683-2205). 

MEDIA INQUIRIES 
High resolution images for media use are available upon request.

Multiple Exposures Gallery (MEG)
The Torpedo Factory Art Center
105 N Union Street, Studio 312
Alexandria, Virginia  22314
Phone: 703.683.2205
Email:  info@multipleexposuresgallery.com
Website: www.multipleexposuresgallery.com
Instagram: @multiple_exposures_gallery

THE SILENT NARRATOR, a New Solo Show by Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton

“Four Women” by Irina Lawton

Multiple Exposures Gallery is pleased to present THE SILENT NARRATOR, a solo exhibition of photographic work by Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton. The exhibition opens March 11 and runs through April 19, 2025. 
 
THE SILENT NARRATOR explores the relationship between time and memory, storytelling, and the power of photographs and photo albums. “Sometimes, especially those with notations and marks, photo album pages are skillfully crafted and edited to tell a powerful visual story where all the members are at the same time familiar and unrecognizable. As the final page is turned and the cover is closed, what remains is not just a physical object, but an intangible, layered impression. It's a mystery, a merging of realities between the narrator and the spectator, leaving us with a lingering curiosity about the stories that lie within," Dakhnovskaia-Lawton says. 
 

EXHIBITION DETAILS

Dates:  March 11 - April 19, 2025
Hours: 11am-5pm daily

Location: Multiple Exposures Gallery, Studio 312, Torpedo Factory Art Center [map]     

About Irina Dakhnovskaia-Lawton

Born in Latvia, raised and educated in Moscow and presently working as a visual artist DC area, Irina Lawton is attracted to the examination of different subject matters. These vary from the psychological intensity of portraiture to the complex political and social consequences of regime change in Post-Communist Russia to the sensibility and techniques of pictorial aesthetics at the turn of the 20th century. These concepts are linked together through the use of a common style. Multiple layers of meaning convey a complex narrative in one frame.

Irina holds MFA in photography from the Maine Media College, Maine

While living in Miami in 2004-2021 Irina was an artist in residence at the Bakehouse Art Complex. Her work participated in Miami Art Fair, Toronto art Fair, Affordable art Fair, Agua Art Fair, The Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Baker Museum of Art, Naples, FL, Bienes Rare Book Collectioons. Her work was featured in The Miami Herald and Sun-Sentinel newspapers among others. Irina’s works included in the Arthur Jaffe Rare Book Collection, NOVA University Permanent Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts Printmaking Department Collection and several important private collections.

In 2022 Irina relocated to the Washington DC area and became a member of the Multiple Exposure Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center.

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MEET THE ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES

  • March 15, 21, 30

  • April 5, 12                               

Irina will be at Multiple Exposures Gallery from 11am-5pm on the dates above. We invite you to stop in to see the exhibition, meet Irina, and engage in conversation about the collective memories and personal stories that surface when looking at images suspended in time. Multiple Exposures Gallery is located on the 3rd Floor in the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, VA. [map]

MEDIA + PURCHASE INQUIRIES
High resolution images for media use are available upon request. All images are available for purchase through the gallery

DisCerning Eye, Known but Unseen: Art Review of Tom Sliter’s show by Mark Jenkins

THE HEAVY STONES IN THE FOREGROUND OF TOM SLITER'S photographs appear implacable and invulnerable. But the forces that have shaped them over millennia can be discerned in the backgrounds of the pictures in "Chiseled by Time: Sculpture of the Mojave Desert," the local artist's Multiple Exposures Gallery show. Hot sunlight, soft clouds, and dark skies represent the environment that has gradually eroded the rocky landscapes into their current forms.

Sliter's statement calls his subjects "nature's own Zen gardens," and stones do dominate the pictures in this series. The photographer conveys both the sheer bulk of the boulders and their intricate textures, which he accents by adding sepia toning to the black-and-white digital images. The gently grainy surfaces are set off by shadowy crevices and occasional scraps of spiky or prickly vegetation, blooming improbably from the rock.

Above are skies, presumably blue to the naked eye, that often verge on black. Whether this effect is achieved with filters or computer imaging, the ebony heavens dramatically frame the gray stones and white wisps of cloud. They also suggest the power of wind and rain that, over time, wear and gouge the chunky stone loaves and near-orbs.

All the pictures are medium shots that verge on closeups, save for one widescreen composition. Intriguingly, Sliter carefully tears the edges of his prints. The ragged borders echo the violence of erosion and tectonic shifts, but they also show the presence of the creator. In the digital age, Sliter demonstrates the power of still doing some things by hand.

Tom Sliter: Chiseled by Time: Sculpture of the Mojave Desert

Through March 9 at Multiple Exposures Gallery, Torpedo Factory, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. multipleexposuresgallery.com. 703-683-2205.

City Lights: Tom Sliter’s CHISELED BY TIME: SCULPTURES OF THE MOJAVE DESERT by Louis Jacobson

Ongoing: Tom Sliter at Multiple Exposures Gallery

Rarely does a photographer’s choice of using sepia toning rather than standard black and white make as much of a difference as it does with Tom Sliter’s exhibit, Chiseled by Time: Sculptures of the Mojave Desert. For the project, Sliter parked himself in California’s desolate Mojave Desert, capturing a mix of landscapes and close-ups of boulders and desert flora. In the desert’s overwhelmingly beige environment, Sliter’s sepia palette works better than either color or black and white could. Sliter’s fine-grained digital images pay off the closer the viewer gets to the photograph, revealing mottled, dimpled, and crevassed rock surfaces and the delicate spikes of yucca fronds. One image gainfully pairs rough rock surfaces with an angular, starburst-shaped portrayal of the sun; other photographs portray smoothly weathered boulders as if they were fleshy skin pics. The shade of sky varies from image to image, alternating between wispy cirrus clouds and inky black vacuums. Sliter’s standout image is “Joshua Tree Boulders,” a sharply horizontal landscape that combines gently undulating layers of sky, mountains, boulders, and shrubbery and offers enough detail to somehow show every individual clod of earth. Chiseled by Time: Sculptures of the Mojave Desert runs through March 9 at Multiple Exposures Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center, 105 N. Union St., Alexandria. Daily, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. multipleexposuresgallery.com. Free. —Louis Jacobson