Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery and Gallery Fraga are opening nature-themed shows for March, while Roby King Galleries are hosting an “art of tea” party. All three shows open with a reception during First Friday, 6-8 p.m. March 3.

“The Abstracted Landscape,” opening at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery, 151 Winslow Way E, is a juried group show by the Women Painters of Washington, and features works by 33 women artists, with their take on landscapes.

Victoria Josslin, BAC education director and an art historian explained, “Modern artists have long exploited the emotional and structural aspects of landscape painting. Such artists as Cézanne, Picasso, Kandinsky, Dove, O’Keeffe, and de Kooning have pushed the landscape — bending it, stretching it, and bringing it to the brink of pure abstraction. The work in ‘The Abstracted Landscape’ ranges from beautiful landscape with hints of abstraction to beautiful abstraction with hints of landscape.”

In other words, some of the works look like they are viewed through frosted glass, while others are like looking through a kaleidoscope.

Josslin will give a talk on the abstract work and its setting in the context of modernist painting at 2 p.m. March 4.

Women Painters of Washington has been around since 1930, and works to open doors for women artists through exhibitions and outreach to other organizations, including donating art supplies to women’s shelters.

The group has sponsored exhibits in countries around the world, including Germany, Japan, Ireland and Kuwait.

Gallery Fraga, 166 Winslow Way E, is showing artist Alicia LaChance’s show “Modern Nature,” oil and fresco paintings influenced by Japanese prints, nature and the “joyful honesty of folk art.”

“My work intends to create a story of continuity between the past and present by combining contemporary graphic symbolism with nature references,” she said.

LaChance’s work also reflects an abstract modernist perspective, and could easily have been included in the BAC Gallery show. Her work can be seen online at http://hoffmanlachancefineart.com.

Just down the street at the Roby King Galleries, 176 Winslow Way E, six gallery artists are showing works in oil, pastel, collage and assemblage mediums, with the theme of “Painted Tea Party.”

The gallery hosts a tea tasting and demonstration during First Friday, with Sina Caroll, a San Francisco-based “tea aficionado,” who will discuss the pleasure and ceremony of tea making.

Participating artists are Raenell Doyle, Pam Ingalls, Patty Rogers, Hidde Van Duym, Jane Wallis and Lael Weyenberg.

All three shows run through April 1. wu