By Louis Jacobson
June 22, 2023

Anne Rowland works from Northern Virginia, but her latest creations span the globe, thanks to the explosion of satellite and aerial images available to those who wish to look. Rowland uses these as grist for works as large as 74 inches x 56 inches, first putting the raw images through an almost literal blender of Photoshop-type software. The resulting works look different up close and afar; seen from inches away, details like stands of trees, suburban housing developments, and even location tags are visible, but from a distance, they offer a patchwork of circular forms.

Open to the public

Join us at HEMPHILL for an informal gallery tour with artist, Anne Rowland to discuss her current exhibition, Pictures.

Exhibition on view May 20 - July 1, 2023

In the spring of 2017, Anne Rowland documented Arlington’s waterfront beginning with the County line at Chain Bridge all the way to Four Mile Run. Comprised of multiple images digitally assembled from both an iPhone and a remotely-triggered point-and-shoot camera attached to a 20-foot-tall bamboo pole, Rowland’s photographs capture the diversity of Arlington’s Potomac River waterfront from bucolic forests to urban parks. The boundary defined by the Potomac is part of Arlington’s network of public spaces and a future potential focus area for public art. View North from Chain Bridge was acquired by Arlington Public Art’s Portable Works Collection and can be viewed in the County Board Room at the Bozman Government Center, 2100 Clarendon Boulevard. 

Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post

Two of the area’s best art photographers have made striking vistas of the county’s suburban landscape.

Stephanie Rudig, Washington City Paper

"This isn’t just a Color School roundup, however: The show includes artists deploying color to completely different ends, like the trippy pattern-based work of Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, as well as some varying landscape photography artists like Anne Rowland and William Christenberry."

Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post

"Several mini-shows nestle within “Represent,” Hemphill Fine Arts’s 20th-anniversary exhibition."

Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post

"If the personal is political, these grandiose, dysfunctional structures are calling artist-citizens to take to the streets (or, more likely, cul-de-sacs)."

Matthew Smith, Washington City Paper

"The show focuses on artistic civic engagement—artists that are out of their studios and walking the streets. Mostly culled from the gallery’s stable of artists, 'Artist-Citizen' presents works that speak through the city itself."

Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post

"Working primarily in western Loudoun County, not far from her childhood home in Great Falls, Rowland began by photographing simple rural scenes."

John Anderson, Washington City Paper

"The only trouble with Anne Rowland’s exhibit at Hemphill is that you may find yourself fighting between looking at her images and looking at how they were made."