Art and Frame of Falls Church’s new location features a gallery dedicated to two local artists who were instrumental in owner Tom Gittins’ career. The Eileen Levy & Andrzej Żmudzki Art Gallery will feature works from various Falls Church artists.
The dedication ceremony, which took place on Sunday, June 25, featured music from the Andrew Acosta Trio and appearances from most of the artists who have studio space in Art and Frame.
“The gallery is something that’s brand new [and] will add another dimension,” Gittins said.
Eileen Levy was the first artist to rent space at Art and Frame’s original location on Broad Street.
“[Levy] painted and taught with joy and inspired her students to explore their creative nature,” Gittins said.
Andrzej Żmudzki, who also celebrated his 92nd birthday on the day of the dedication, is a print artist who had his first show at Art and Frame in 2016 and is a friend and mentor to Gittins.
“[Żmudzki] stubbornly creates visual representations of something invisible: words, meanings, phrases that characterize us, human beings,” Gittins said.
In a letter to the News-Press, Żmudzki had similarly fond words for Gittins.
“In Falls Church City, Tom Gittins created and operates one of the vital centers of activity of our local artistic community, where your artwork, and you, matter,” Żmudzki wrote. “All four consecutive iterations of Gittins center worked, and still work, in rented buildings. He rents a building, but the foundation — integrity — is always his own.
Photos from the event are shown below:
