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Two new exhibits — images from "These Days", by Palma Allen, and "Time and Place," paintings by Diane Santarella — will open with a reception from 5-8:30 p.m. Saturday at The Artists' Gallery, 4 E. Church St., Frederick. Exhibits will run through Nov. 29.

Paintings in Santarella's "Time and Place," are meditations on the elasticity of memory, of how moments, places and experiences become weigh stations in one's life. There are layers of color that suggest ariel maps, scribbled notes and equations buried by brushwork, bits of landscape, memory fragments recorded in paint.

The abstract expressionistic canvases are, for Santarella, "like the rock petroglyphs left centuries ago to record what was important or mysterious, or ordinary in the people's lives."

Santarella currently resides in Mount Airy. She was named one of "Twenty Emerging Artists to WatchÇ" by M. Stephen Doherty, editor-in-chief of American Artist Magazine in the 20th anniversary issue of Watercolor Magazine.

Allen's photography exhibit, "Images from These Days," is a personal study of dissolution and decadence. This is her sixth exhibit at The Artists' Gallery.

Allen began her career in events and photojournalism in 1986. After moving to Maryland in 1995 she worked her talent around family obligations, opened a studio and established a clientele in editorial, commercial, stock and portrait work. In 2002 she began exhibiting personal work at The Artists' Gallery in Frederick.

The gallery's extended holiday hours for the months of November and December are noon-8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and noon-5 p.m. Sundays.

For more information, call 301-696-8187. Visit www.the-artists-gallery.org.