the show.
Join us on Friday, September 11th from 5PM-7PM for the opening reception of Land and Form, an exhibit Featuring watercolor paintings by Frank Wengen and sculpture by David Green
Land & Form brings together the work of artists Frank Wengen and David Green in an exploration of the natural world through two distinct artistic languages. Through watercolor and marble, the exhibition considers landscape, material, movement, and the ways artists interpret the forms found around us.
This show will display in our Lombardo Gallery from September 11th - October 2nd.
the artists.
A native of Northeastern Pennsylvania, Frank Wengen has worked in watercolor for nearly five decades. His paintings are rooted in observation, capturing landscapes and quiet moments with an appreciation for atmosphere, light, and the subtle character of place. A 1973 graduate of Wilkes University, Wengen received the American Watercolor Society Scholarship for outstanding achievement and has since exhibited throughout the United States and Canada. His work has earned numerous honors, including the Baltimore Watercolor Society Historic Figure Tribute Award for Gordon Grant for his painting Going Out, Coming In in the 2025 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition.
David Green approaches the natural world through three-dimensional form. Beginning his sculptural practice in his early twenties, Green is largely self-taught, developing his knowledge of tools, materials, and techniques through independent study and decades of experimentation. Over the past 50 years, he has worked in wood, bronze, steel, concrete, resin, and stone, with stone remaining his preferred medium. His marble sculptures distill the natural world into form, movement, texture, and abstraction, allowing the inherent qualities of the material to become part of the work itself.
Together, Wengen and Green offer two complementary perspectives: one capturing the landscape as it is observed and experienced, the other reducing nature to its essential shapes and gestures. Land & Form creates a conversation between surface and volume, softness and solidity, observation and abstraction—revealing the many ways the natural world can be seen, interpreted, and transformed.
