Real and Imaginary Worlds Collide at Glenview

This month's exhibit at brings together three artists who work in multiple media, finding inspiration in the natural world, dreams and everyday objects.

Digital photographer Marlene Frazier began taking photos five years ago. She visits zoos and wildlife habitats to shoot animals close-up.

"The most challenging part of wildlife photography is the time it takes," she said, citing an occasion when she had to wait for two and a half hours to get a snapshot of a wild buck in the Blue Ridge mountains.

"Wildlife don't come out very easily. That's why sometimes you have to go to the zoo," she reflected.

Frazier prints her photographs on gallery-wrapped canvas in a photo lab in Richmond, Virginia.

"I find that the canvas brings out the colors more," she said, comparing her experience printing on canvas with printing on photo paper.

Several of her landscapes, two of which depict the Washington Monument and the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., are also part of the show.

Rachel Sultanik, who has a background in painting and paints portraits on commission, is exhibiting prints - etchings, lithographs and monoprints created with water-based media.

Among them are langurous portraits, rodeo scenes and a series of dreamscapes depicting figures in imaginary landscapes and stream of consciousness imagery that references the surreal aspects of the mind.

Sultanik recycles her sources, returning to old studio drawings, family photos, childhood memories, old advertisements and postcards, Japanese prints and art history, to glean material for her subject matter.

Bobbi Shulman combines densely patterned papers with bright colors redolent of Matisse's in her painted collages of still lifes.

"When I am attracted to a painting, it is generally because it interests me enough from afar to get up close and see how it is put together. I approach my own paintings in the same way...," she writes in her artist's statement.

Frazier, Sultanik and Shulman's works are on view at Glenview Mansion through Oct. 2.

Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday and 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Tuesday and Thursday.