Nepenthe Gallery Pops Up in Rehoboth’s Lingo’s Market!
The owners of the Nepenthe Gallery, a well-known Alexandria, Va. fine art gallery, have opened a “pop-up” gallery for September in the old Lingo’s Market on the corner of 1st Street and Baltimore Avenue.
Carrie Garland, who owns the gallery with her husband, Jim, said they “talked to Dinah Lingo and asked if we could pop up here with a collection of original works by a famous Brazilian artist named Romero Britto. We’re going to have this exciting collection of works by Romero, who’s a globally known, phenomenal artist. That was the inspiration to hit the road and get his works into different communities throughout the month,” she says. They will be including works from a few other artists as well.
Here’s Jim and Carrie Garland with Dinah Lingo at this past Sunday’s opening!
In the spirit of pop-up, she says they plan to let it “twist and turn a little bit organically… So we’re going to keep it fresh so that if people wanted to stop by throughout the month, they would see something different.”
Their goal is to be open every day in September from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. with a weekly “Happy Hump Day Happy Hour” every Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m.
“They love art, but they love Lingo’s,” Garland explains. “So I think seeing colorful art in this space is making people feel good and that’s what art does right and in its best form,” she adds.
