UNEXPECTED FINDS AT UNEXPECTED PLACES
AT 3 GALLERIES, DECEPTIVELY PERCEPTIVE SHOWS
By Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, December 21, 2007; Page WE17
The art of Albert Schweitzer -- no, not that Albert Schweitzer; this one is a contemporary artist from Baltimore -- seems a little out of place at Gallery Neptune, amid the shops and restaurants of downtown Bethesda's Woodmont Triangle. With its funky, folk-art vibe, it'd be far more at home at, say, Baltimore's American Visionary Art Museum than in this enclave of high-end home furnishings.
Not that Neptune's proprietor, Elyse Harrison, harbors any illusions about what people like to buy in this upscale Montgomery County community. When she showed the work of painter John Aquilino recently, his show of coolly dispassionate cityscapes sold out, the first time that has happened at the gallery. As for sales of Schweitzer's subtly gay-themed paintings and papier-m