The 34zero9 gallery is located on the eastern side of the 9th street extension in Arlington. Photo by Matthew Grimes
Barbara Januszkiewicz wants people to have the “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” Holly Golightly experience at the new 34zero9 gallery in Arlington. Much like the Tiffany’s window in the opening scene of the 1961 classic, a large glass window lends an openness to the 60-square-foot space, so that “anybody can walk by and see the artwork…,” she said.
Januszkiewicz was trained by Chinese master Mun Quan in the ‘70s. However, she said, “the work I was doing was very common, but good. I could draw with both hands, upside down, but I had no passion.” Parisian jazz clubs inspired her to approach her art differently. She now makes art inspired by music, mostly jazz, with watercolors and acrylics.
The space is part of a nest of studios in the rear of the Arc 3409 condo building on the eastern side of the 9th street extension. The “micro-gallery” will rotate the work of Januszkiewicz and her studio-mates, John M. Adams, Matthew Grimes, and Paula Bryan.
The four, who operate independently of each other, plan on collaborating enough to hold regular open houses, and give the gallery some level of 24-hour access with work for show and for sale.
Grimes, who works with clay, but mostly produces multimedia collages of varied sizes out of his studio space at 34zero9, hopes that the gallery will bring people into the studio experience. His work is inspired by and constructed with street flyers from Chile.
“What’s great about the gallery is that it has constraints. Immediately you’re hit with the size constraints. But then, as artists, all we do is creatively problem solve…,” said Grimes. “Once it’s set up and you see the diversity of work that’s in there you see it as this great little geode if you will. It’ll stop you.”