Call Me Chairmaker Garry Knox Bennett Features 52 one-of-a-kind sculptural chairs created by Garry Knox Bennett, one of the foremost contemporary studio furniture makers in America.
Love, Let Me Count the Ways Washington Print Club Biennial A compilation of approximately 100 prints, drawings, and pastels from print club member collections
Collaborations Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw More than 60 collaborative and individual sculptural works created during the 40-year careers of Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw. Highlighting the unique and inventive partnership of these renowned San Francisco Bay area artists, the exhibition features works in porcelain and glaze that challenge perceptions of art, craft, and the conventional modes of artistic production
June 27 - August 16
Sipriz: The Haitian Sailing Project Retraces a route of the Haitian “boat people.” The exhibition seeks to draw attention to the problems leading to the ongoing exodus from Haiti and create an understanding of refugees’ experience on the arduous—and often fatal—passage to Florida. The 21-foot wooden sailboat Sipriz left Haiti for the United States on March 16, the Sipriz will be on view along with text and images depicting its 800 mile voyage. The Sipriz was built on Ile a Vache last summer by crew member Oblit Laguerre; the sail was painted by artists from the Foundation Art Center of Jacmel in Haiti.
Margaret Boozer: Dirt Drawings Involves installations of unfired local clays. Boozer’s graphic compositions of color, pattern, and texture create small geologic events—manifestations of cause and effect celebrating clay’s physical properties. Colors change, shapes warp, cracks emerge as in these fragile and mutable works that cross genres between painting and sculpture, abstraction and representation.
My Fellow Americans … : 40 Years of Political Cartoons by Jules Feiffer Displays the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York cartoonist’s sharp wit and piercing criticism. Feiffer’s cartoons ran for more than 40 years in the Village Voice, were syndicated nationally, and are a testament to his unique insight into the social and political upheavals around him. His messages maintain relevancy in contemporary society. His often text-heavy panels are balanced by simple but whimsically drawn figures. While his punch lines are often caustic, he still frequently manages to imbue political figures with humanity.
New Ladderback #1, Garry Knox Bennett
American Painting Fine Art Washington, DC, En Plein Air The Washington Society of Landscape Painters June 6 - September 5 In keeping with its name and favorite haunts, the Washington Society of Landscape Painters presents an exhibition of work highlighting the Washington, DC area. While some studio work will also be featured, the focus will be on plein air pieces, mostly small in scale, created on the spot. Studies of Washington landmarks will, of course, be presented, but also slices from daily life in oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor and pencil. Exhibiting members are Lani Browning, Marietje Chamberlain, Howard Cohen, Fiona Corn, Bernard Dellario, Louis Escobedo, Mimi Hegler, Michael Heylin, Leonard Justinian, Mary Kokoski, Andrei Kushnir, Christine Lashley, Barbara Nuss, Barbara Piegari, Sara Linda Poly, Genevieve Roberts, Bill Schmidt, Nancy Wallace, Meg Walsh, Richard Whiteley and Daniel Wise.
Ben's Chili Bowl, Michael Heylin
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery The Art of Storytelling Alexandra Rozenman and Alexey Zoob June 4 - August 30 Although the two Russian-born artists included in this exhibition have similar immigrant backgrounds, they tell very different stories through their artwork. By painting on found and recycled cabinet doors as well as on Russian matrioshka (nesting dolls), each artist expresses individual life experiences through recurring symbols and vivid color
Alexandra Rozenman
Arlington Arts Center AAC: Paradox Now! Eight Artists curated by Jeffry Cudlin June 19 - August 22 PARADOX NOW! presents eight contemporary artists who view history as a fluid dynamic, in dialogue with and affected by the present, and subject to revision. These artists play with the audience's expectations. They short-circuit accepted narratives through historical reenactments, parodies, anachronisms, and other hiccups in the fabric of daily life. The artworks in PARADOX NOW! mimic the ways in which meanings are generated and preserved in our culture—thereby disorienting viewers and leading them to question how they have come to know what they think they know. British filmmaker and artist Anna Lucas New York-based artist Josh Azzarella D.C.’s resident alternative art historian, A. Clarke Bedford Baltimore artist Megan Hildebrandt D.C.artist Ding Ren Orlando-based artist E. Brady Robinson New York artist Mark Tribe Philadelphia sculptor Erin Williams
Art League Gallery Greece Abstracted Betsy Anderson July 9 - August 3 Features Betsy Anderson’s latest series of landscapes paintings inspired by the color, light, and architecture found in the Greek landscape. Struck by the stark contrast between the crisp white buildings and deep blue sky and water on the island of Santorini, and the colorful flowers in Mykonos, Anderson focused on creating a body of work that would evoke the feeling of this bold, iconic landscape.
Approaching Santorini, Betsy Anderson
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery The Tsars and The East: Gifts From Turkey and Iran In The Moscow Kremlin May 9 - September 13 Organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in collaboration with The Moscow Kremlin Museums, this presentation features more than sixty exceptional objects that large embassies, diplomatic missions, and trade delegations of Ottomans and Safavids offered to the tsars of Russia. Ranging in date from the late sixteenth to the late seventeenth century, these lavish gifts and tributes include rarely seen arms and armor and jeweled ceremonial vessels and regalia intended for the Russian court or the Orthodox church. Some of the finest pieces are equestrian in nature: stirrups with pearls, golden bridles with turquoises and rubies, and saddles covered with velvet and silk. The exhibition, only on view in Washington, D.C., explores the reasons why these extraordinary gifts were presented, their artistic and cultural impact, and the aesthetic styles and ceremonial etiquette they inspired that came to characterize the Russian court in the seventeenth century and beyond.
The Athenaeum Waiting for the world to begin Thomas Drymon June 19 - August 2 New paintings
Carroll Square Gallery Landscape Biology Natalie Cheung Melissa Dickenson Kim Manfredi Katherine Mann June 26 - August 28 Through different methods each artist in this exhibition has created a landscape, but not in the traditional sense. These landscapes have their roots in the natural world, but do not present recognizable vistas. The four artists are using biological forms – cells, galaxies, plants and animals – to inform and inspire their work.
Tower 2, Katherine Mann
Conner Contemporary Art Like Water in Water Kenny Hunter May 30 – July 25 An exhibition of new sculptures and screenprints. Scottish artist Kenny Hunter alters conventions of monumental sculpture to describe tensions between the natural world and the man-made environment. In his signature style, the artist reveals nature's adaptations to human encroachment. In the title piece, Like Water in Water, a young stag gracefully steps through a discarded tire, as it crosses an imaginary pool of water.
The Last Viking Nathaniel Rogers May 30 – July 25 Rogers updates Old World nursery rhymes, creating a series of oil paintings on wood panel filled with humorous insight on human folly. Attributes including toys and animals allude to "The Owl and the Pussycat," and other tales, which Rogers identifies with current issues, such as the definition of marriage. Intensifying scenes with vivid depictions of fire, the artist romanticizes destruction popularized in action films and video games.
Like Water in Water, Kenny Hunter
Cross Mackenzie Gallery Milgrom on Morandi Lilianne Milgrom June 19 - September 11 New ceramics and paintings inspired by Giorgio Morandi
Curators Office Hello Masterpiece Leslie Holt June 27 - August 1 Hello Summer! Hello Masterpiece! Curator's Office is entering a gravitas-free zone this summer and aims to inject some kitsch into your souls, some humor into your lives, and a knowing wink at your art appreciation. We welcome Leslie Holt's witty postcard-size paintings into the gallery in which Hello Kitty invades art historic masterpieces from Hopper to Picasso, from Cezanne to Goya.
Hello Scream, Leslie Holt
Douz and Mille Dwell2 Ada Bobonis and Bill Shannon July 8 - July 29 Bill Shannon is a conceptual, interdisciplinary dance and media artist who creates both solo and group projects. He considers his work rooted in street culture and informed by the fine arts. He is widely recognized in the dance/performance world, the underground hip-hop and club dance scene, the urban arts movement, as well as the disabled artist community. Ada Bobonis lives in Puerto Rico. Her most recent exhibitions include the Second Bienial in the Canary Islands, Spain (2009); Space Unlimited, Art Museum of the Americas, DC (2009); Sensible States, Museo de Arte De Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR. (2007). She received a public art commission in 2003 for the Rio Piedras urban train station. Ada Bobonis was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant in 2005 and was artist in residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute, NM. She holds a BFA from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She was featured in Sculpture Magazine, Jan./Feb, 2008.
Bill Shannon, from the Invisible Series, multi-screen video projection, 2007
Fraser Gallery Best of Artomatic Selected by Catriona Fraser July 10 - August 8 A group exhibition of work from this year's Artomatic, selected by Catriona Fraser. The exhibition will include work by 10 artists who were previously unfamiliar to Ms. Fraser. After spending approximately 24 hours over 4 days looking at all 8 floors of visual art, Ms. Fraser selected work by the following artists: Jennifer Bishop Deb Jansen Edward Johnston Christine Keers Andrew Livingstone Brian Lusher Joanne Mitchell Molly Sheldon Frank Turner Andrew Zimmerman
Looking at Clouds, Edward Johnston
Freer Gallery of Art The Texture of Night James McNeill Whistler June 6 - June 2010 Exhibition of paintings by American artist James McNeill Whistler. Nocturnes, the term Whistler applied to his nearly abstract moonlit landscapes, represent his signature contribution to nineteenth-century art. Inverting the plein-air principles of the French impressionists, Whistler created a series of works in which darkness, rather than light, structures the visual image. According to the artist's mother, one particularly luminous summer evening in 1871 inspired Whistler's first painting of London after dark. Over the course of the decade he produced more than thirty oil paintings with this theme. He subsequently expanded his exploration of urban darkness in London, Venice, and Amsterdam through the use of lithography, watercolor, and above all, etching to document and transform the texture of night.
James McNeill Whistler
Gallery 50 Photo One A collection of works by six photographers June 19 - July 15
Incoming Wave 2005, Lisa Tyson Ennis
Hamiltonian Gallery 2009 Hamiltonian Fellows Jon Bobby Benjamin (BA, Brandeis University) Magnolia Laurie (MFA, Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art) Katherine Mann (MFA, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art) Jonathan Monaghan (MFA Candidate, University of Maryland) Lina Vargas De La Hoz (MFA, Art University Linz, Austria) June 20 - August 1 The five new 2009 Hamiltonian Fellows were selected from a pool of over 180 applicants this year, up from 130 applicants the previous year. Each artist, incredibly distinct from one another and multidisciplinary, will be displaying the work with which they were accepted.
H & F Fine Arts You: Male Nudes and Face Paintings Kristen Copham June 6 - July 14 Two series are presented: male nudes and faces of everyday people. Her colorful, large scale oil paintings of nude men and smaller portrait paintings figuratively explore the personalities of her subjects, consistently capturing the spirit of the individual.
Hemphill Fine Arts New Prints Judy Pfaff June 13 - August 15 The exhibition includes four prints from a series titled Year of the Dog, which Ms Pfaff began in 2006 – the most recent year of the Dog according to the Chinese zodiac. Like Pfaff’s installations, these prints are multi-layered and utilize a variety of materials and processes including woodcut, stencil, hand-painting and collage.
Prints & New Work Mingering Mike June 13 - August 15 Exhibits, for the first time, archival pigment prints made from a selection of Mingering Mike’s original record album covers. These covers document the self-taught artist’s journey through the cultural and political tumult of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. The albums in the exhibition include “The Two Sides of Mingering Mike,” “Let’s Get...Nasty,” and “Git’tin to the Roots of All Evils” and exemplify the star recording career that Mingering Mike imagined for himself. New original album covers will also be on view.
Mingering Mike
Hillyer Art Space Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout July 3 - August 26 Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of D.C. and Baltimore's emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space's summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Griffiths, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent. Stout has set out to create a mixed bag of local talent not based in the obligatory conceptual framework predominantly exhibited in group shows. Instead of the varying inspiration and ideas behind the individual bodies of work, it is the "natural dialogue that may occur between these works" which Stout would like the audience to experience.
Honfleur Gallery Reincorporation Jamboree Artists Seeking a Secular Coming of Age Curated By Steven Frost June 22 - July 25 Artists like Joseph Beuys have built catalogs of work looking at rites of passage. Reincorporation Jamboree draws from the work of five young artists who have emerged from what could be considered contemporary American rites of passage like: middle school dances, under employment, financing higher education and urban survival. Curator and DC artist, Steven Frost exames this emergence with a group of young artists from several regions of the US. The work of Kristina Bilonick (Washington, DC), Ben Fino-Radin (Providence, RI), Hatnim Lee (Brooklyn, NY), Sean M. Johnson (Boston, MA), and Theodore Knox (San Francisco, CA) premiers at Honfleur Gallery in this incisive body of contemporary study of reincorporation.
International Visions April Harrison and Verna Hart June 9 - July 11 Verna Hart was a student of Romare Bearden who has collaborated with Spike Lee and steeped herself in the Jazz tradition. Her expressionistic style bears the direct influence of Jazz: its syncopated rhythm, rich tonality, carefully crafted but seemingly carefree harmony and most importantly, its ability to capture not only a fleeting mood but a complete human experience. Hart melds colors like a musician arranges notes, creating a spirit and a beat that pervades her images. April Harrison is a self-taught artist who paints images primarily in acrylics, powders, watercolors, pencils and collage.
And Still We March, Verna Hart
McLean Project for the Arts Strictly Painting 7 Juror: Vivienne Lassman June 18 - August 1 MPA's biennial juried painting exhibition
MPA/Corcoran Student Art Show June 18 - August 1
Nevin Kelly Gallery Stimulus A group exhibition June 16 - July 11 “We invite the public to come stimulate their minds and the local economy by supporting this exhibition,” says gallery owner Nevin J. Kelly. “While they are in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, we encourage them to take advantage of the specials being offered by some of our neighboring businesses.” Kelly explains that “the concept and the name of the show are somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but the show has a serious side. In times like these, arts and artists tend to suffer disproportionately, and we are trying to remind people, by parodying the government's broader stimulus efforts, that local artists and local businesses need their support.” Participating artists have been asked to price their works for this exhibition at least 15% below their norm. The gallery has agreed to reduce its standard commission to make up part of the difference. All works will be priced at $500 or less. For works over $100, there will be a limit of 3 works per artist. Kelly explains that limiting the number of works by each artist protects the concept of limited opportunity pricing and helps guard against an overall deterioration of the artists' price-points, “an important consideration for collectors,” he says, adding “if you want a work by one of your favorite artists at these prices, you need to buy it before somebody else gets it.” Participating artists include: JOHN M. ADAMS, SONDRA N. ARKIN, JOAN BELMAR, TANJA BOS, ANNE BOUIE, MOLLY BROSE, LENNY CAMPELLO, MARY CHIARAMONTE, ANNA U. DAVIS, JENNY DAVIS, THOMAS DRYMON, STIRLING ELMENDORF, PAT GOSLEE, EMILY GREENE LIDDLE, LAUREL HAUSLER, J. FORD HUFFMAN, ROSALIND KENNEDY, MARK PARASCANDOLA, ANNELIESE SULLIVAN, MING YI SUNG ZALESKI, RUTH TREVARROW, CLAUDIA VESS, AND ELLYN WEISS
The Phillips Collection Paint Made Flesh June 20 - September 13 Thirty-four internationally renowned modern artists whose work is rarely seen together—including Pablo Picasso, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Alice Neal, Lucian Freud, Eric Fischl, and Julian Schnabel—use paint to represent skin and express the emotional, sensual, and tragic aspects of the human experience that lies beneath. This fascinating survey of figurative painting since the 1950s brings together 43 provocative works from private collections and museums around the world. Exhibition curator Mark Scala
Lucian Freud
Project 4 Gallery Honor System Aurora Robson June 27 - August 8 A solo exhibition of work by Aurora Robson. The show will feature sculptures, paintings, and collages by the New York-based artist, who transforms the recycled plastics and other wasted materials with which she works into intricate objects of childlike whimsy and poignant beauty. "...I like to provide people with a sense of surprise and wonder with my work. It is important for me to make things that seduce people visually before they realize they are looking at something that was “garbage”," said Robson in 2009. Her complex, floating sculptures draw from inspirations ranging from litter and junk mail to childhood nightmares. The size of these sculptures increases in tandem with the expansion of her career, while Robson's experimentation in installation work has grown as well.
You Meet Certain Criteria, Aurora Robson
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe Heads Up! Camellia Termini June 1 - July 24 "From a series I just completed for my thesis. The series is called Heads Up! and they are portraits of split-second reactions of people getting objects thrown at them." - Cammy Termini
Studio Gallery Landscapes for Lucy Brian Williams June 24 - July 18 This show depicts landscapes as seen through the eyes of Lucy, the hominini that probably walked the earth 3.2 million years ago, whose skeleton was found in 1974 in Ethiopia. The depicted scenery suggests that Lucy ranged over terrain that varied from arid and sparse to coastal and colorful. The images of severe weather are hypnotic to her while scenes at night provided a contemplative interlude.
All in Color 2009 New Member Show June 24 - July 18 The 2009 New Member Show features an excitingly diverse spectrum of work that highlights the accomplishments of the eight artists who have joined Studio Gallery over the past year. The show includes painting, photography, drawing, and sculpture by the following artists: Iwan Bagus - Photography Fulvia Musti Ciarla - Painting and Mixed Media Steve Fleming - Painting Elizabeth McNeil Harris - Drawing and Pastels Brian Kirk - Sculpture Trix Kuijper - Painting Scott Speck - Pinhole Photography Joyce Ellen Weinstein – Painting
Moonlight, Brian Williams
Touchstone Gallery Seven Takes Charlie Dale, Anthony Dortch, Joshua F. Gomez, Leslie Johnston, Peter Karp , Newton More and Michelle Rogers July 8 - August 7 Seven new artist members of the Touchstone Gallery show examples of their work, covering a wide range of subjects and creative approaches. The media employed are as diverse as the issues explored in this unusual show which juxtaposes abstract and figurative paintings with collage, assemblage and experimental photography.
Portraits Anil CS Rao July 8 - August 7
Higher
Anil CS Rao
July 8 - August 7
U.S. Botanic Garden Flora: Growing Inspirations May 23 - October 12 Features sculptures by artists from across the United States and Zimbabwe in spectacular outdoor garden rooms and in the East Gallery. The exhibit is co-organized with the Washington Sculptors Group
Fiddlehead, John Jayson Sonnier
VisArts Sculpting Time Participating Artists: Kyan Bishop, Nathalie David, T. Rachelle Ellis, Warren Frederick, Laurel Lukaszewski, J.J. McCracken, Louise Radochonski, Eric Serritella, Novie Trump, Judit Varga, Catherine White, Xuti May 21 - July 26
Washington Printmakers Washington Printmakers at the Ratner Museum July 2 - July 29 Featured WPG Artists Barbara Bickley Deron DeCesare Jenny Freestone Mike Hagan Pauline Jakobsberg Fleming Jeffries Trudi Ludwig Johnson Tonia Matthews Margaret Adams Parker Lee Newman Terry Svat Victoria Vogl Max-Karl Winkler Ellen Verdon Winkler
Copse, Lee Newman
Washington Printmakers Gallery Meet Your Printmaker July 3 - July 28 The work in this exhibition presents a selection of printed matter from 40 print/printmaking studios around the world. Participating studios in no particular order: DWRI Letterpress, Dirty Hands Serigraphie, Bleu Acier, The Little Friends of Printmaking, Sycamore Street Press, Dieu Donné, Deep Wood Press, Standard Deluxe, Patent Pending, Outlaw Print Co., Erika Ebert Press, Cannonball Press, Atlanta Printmakers Studio, Common Press, Stumptown Printers, Slugfest Printmaking Workshop, Extrapool, Squid Ink Kollective, Tugboat Printshop, Lunalux, Purgatory Pie Press, The Firecracker Press, Thomas-Printers, Aesthetic Apparatus, The Lower East Side Printshop, Iskra Print Collective, Halo Halo Screen Printing, AS220 Community Printshop, Proyecto´ace, Elshopo, Low Rider Tee Shirt, Starshaped Press, Pinball Publishing, Uhrgalo, Sonnenzimmer, Punk Rock Payroll, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Polluted Eyeball, Spudnik Press, Bob Eight Pop.
Waverly Street Gallery Body Language Paula Stern June 9 - July 3 Paula Stern’s figures and busts echo her deep appreciation of the beauty and complexity of the human form … small, thin, big and fat …
