Exhibition on view November 7, 2025 – January 3, 2026
Wednesday - Saturday | 10 am- 4 pm
Exhibition Events
Meet The Artist
Friday, November 21 from 2 – 4 PM at Zach Gallery
17 S. Washington Street, Easton, MD
This is a complimentary event.
Screening of American Animals / followed by Q & A with Spencer Reinhard
Friday, November 21 at 6 PM in The Ebenezer Theater
Tickets for purchase through PragerArts.com
Bird Walk with Spencer Reinhard
Saturday, November 22 at 8 AM
Pickering Creek Audubon
Attendance is free, with reservations required at zachgalleryeaston.com
Also on view in Zach Gallery there will be selected works by artist Susan Hostetler.
Spencer Reinhard is a distinguished painter and mixed-media artist whose multilayered works expand upon the rich tradition of avian art. His pieces pay homage to masters like John James Audubon while simultaneously engaging with contemporary artistic expression.
“My work as a contemporary painter is rooted in personal transformation, shaped profoundly by a six-year period of incarceration in federal prison. During that time, I developed a highly technical ink transfer process—using gel medium to transfer imagery from magazines onto paper. The layered, translucent fragments that emerged became a way to explore the fractured nature of memory, identity, and time.
This exhibition brings together work spanning from 2006, created while I was still incarcerated, to the present. It traces my ongoing effort to realize the full potential of those years and the lessons they offered, revealing how both my practice and perspective have evolved.
The most recent series reinterprets John James Audubon’s Birds of America through a lens of confinement, resilience, and reclamation. Rendered first in acrylic, the birds are then layered with ink transfers, creating images that hover between the real and the fragmented, mirroring the disjointed experience of our contemporary social and technological environment. By working with Audubon’s legacy, I seek to transform a darker personal history with the artist into something fluid and creative: a reframing, a reconciliation, and, ultimately, a gesture toward redemption.” – Spencer Reinhard
Spencer Reinhard’s attempted burglary of John James Audubon’s Birds of America is documented in the 2018 film American Animals. Spencer Reinhard is an avid Birder and conservationist. He lives with his wife and two children in Cali, Colombia.
Susan Hostetler is a Washington, DC based eco-artist whose work has been shown in group and solo shows throughout the region including galleries and art centers in Washington, DC; Alexandria, Arlington, McLean and Reston, VA; Bethesda, Silver Spring and Chestertown, MD. Her work comprises 2-dimensional drawings and paintings on various substrates, 3-dimensional clay forms, as well as wall and room installations using clay forms.
Zach Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Prager Family Center for the Arts, 17 S. Washington Street, Easton MD. Gallery hours are Wednesday – Saturday from 10 AM – 4 PM, and by appointment.
