Gallery B

Gallery B

The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District and Bethesda Urban Partnership manage Gallery B in downtown Bethesda! The gallery, a non-profit arts space, is available to interested artists and arts organizations for one-month rentals. All media including, but not limited to, painting, photography and sculpture is eligible to use the space. Gallery B does not take a commission on any artwork sold during the exhibition.

Gallery Phone: (301) 215-7990
Rental Inquiries: (301) 215-6660 or info@bethesda.org 
Interested in Exhibiting in 2026? Apply Here, deadline August 29, 2025

Exhibitions

“Color + Light, Part Two” by Jennifer Howard & Kathleen Byrnes

November 6, 2025 – November 30, 2025
Gallery Hours: Thursdays-Saturdays, 12-5pm; Sundays 11am-4pm
Opening Reception: Friday, November 7, 5-8pm

Kathleen Byrnes has taken to working plein aire, challenging her to work quickly and spontaneously. Byrnes uses the environment to infuse the canvas with mood and emotion. Working in predominantly oil, Byrnes has produced works that explore the light and structure of urban Washington DC, the Virginia and Maryland country side, as well as the inlets, bay, ocean and marshlands of Southern New Jersey. Jennifer Howard is a painter and graphic designer who has lived and worked in Washington, DC for over 37 years. Her paintings are about the moment, the immediacy of paint applied honestly, thickly and emotionally on canvas. She strives to convey a textural quality to the surface with layers of color and an emphasis on capturing light.

“What Lies Beneath” by Chris Chernow, Elizabeth Curren, and Carolee Jakes

December 5, 2025 – January 4, 2026 (Closed December 26-28)
Gallery Hours: Fridays & Saturdays, 12-5pm; Sundays 11am-5pm
Opening Reception: Friday, December 12, 6-8pm

Three artists explore the concept of surface. While Chernow, Curren, and Jakes share an educational background, having earned degrees in Fine Art from the Corcoran College of Art + Design, their approaches to art are distinctly different. They come from three fields of study: Book Arts, Painting, and Printmaking. Although they have all worked with these three mediums, their approaches to the surface and to art production are strongly affected by their initial angle of approach. Elizabeth earned a BFA and then an MFA in Book Arts. Chris earned her BFA with a concentration in painting, but has worked with installation and printmaking. Carolee’s BFA concentrated on painting, screen printing, and woodblock printing. Over time, they’ve all come to see surface as integral to their work, but each in their own way. “What Lies Beneath” will be a body of work that is an investigation of surface.

Location

Gallery B is located in downtown Bethesda at 7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E.
The Bethesda Metro is two blocks south of the gallery, and public parking garages are located on Wisconsin Avenue and Old Georgetown Road.

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