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    Alternative Gallery
    Reincarnations
    Curated by Linda and Steven Krensky
    July 23 - September 28
     A mixed-media show of artworks made from found objects and recycled and rejuvenated parts from already-made articles. Ingenuity, originality, wit and vision characterize the 30+ artists who are featured in this show.

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    Cleo. SuAnne Lasher
    American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
    Summer 2008 Shows
    May 27 - July 27

    Joe Shannon
    This is a major exhibition of paintings by one of the great figurative artists working in the last 40 years. Always challenging and often provocative, Shannon is our antidote to the Washington Color School and its dictums. The exhibition’s catalogue features an interview with the artist conducted by James Demetrion, former director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

    Noche Crist
    Noche Crist was Washington art’s unofficial doyen of decadence for almost 60 years. Born in Romania in 1909, Noche moved to Washington, D.C., in 1947 and lived and worked here until her death in 2004. The recreation of her boudoir is only one of the exciting installations being featured in this posthumous retrospective.

    Nefeli Massia
    Greek-born Baltimore artist Nefeli Massia takes over the 2nd floor of the museum with one of her dynamic and other-worldly environments.

    Multiplicitocracy
    Students in American University’s arts management program spent the spring semester working with Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of the American University Museum, to program exhibitions and performances for this summer in the museum and the Abramson Family Recital Hall.

    Ladelle Moe
    South African-born Ladelle Moe’s out-sized concrete heads and bodies will be displayed in the Sylvia Berlin Katzen Sculpture Garden

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    Artist Transformed, Joe Shannon, 1999
    Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
    Hebraica Mirrors
    July 1 - September 30
    Inspired by the Jewish mystical commentary of the Zohar— the most important work of Kabbalah, French Jewish artist Matatiaou has used contemporary design and traditional Hebrew calligraphy to highlight and interpret the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

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    Arlington Arts Center
    She's So Articulate
    Curator: Henry Thaggert
    June 10 - July 19

    SHE’S SO ARTICULATE sets out to expand how gallery-goers think about the relation of narrative to contemporary art by African-American women.  The show includes selected works and room-filling installations by 11 artists: Maya Freelon Asante, Renee Cox, Stephanie Dinkins, Djakarta, Nekisha Durrett, Torkwase Dyson, Faith Ringgold, Erika Ranee, Nadine Robinson, Renee Stout, and Lauren Woods.

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    Lost in Space, Renee Cox
    Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
    Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape
    May 31 - August 24
    "Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape" presents 10 leaves from the very important album of artist Xuezhuang, who fled to the mountain for political sanctuary after the fall of the Ming dynasty.
    In addition to woodblock prints and album leaves, the exhibition features a number of magnificent hanging scrolls and an impressive handscroll, measuring nearly 20 feet in length, that will hang in the exhibition's opening gallery. The handscroll, dated 1704, offers a panoramic view of the mountain that allows visitors to virtually travel from peak to peak and valley to valley.

    Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto
    July 12 - January 25

     A series of 22 pastels by American landscape painter Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925) juxtaposed with six black-and-white photographs by contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948, Tokyo). Although the works are separated by history and medium, they are linked by a common subject-the sea-and by formal resonances that encourage leisurely contemplation and quiet comparison. 
     
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    Landscapes for Mr. Liweng by Xuezhuang; Gift of Charles Lang Freer.
    Art League Gallery
    Neighborhood Watch
    Eva Jacob
    July 10 - August 4
    Eva Jacob’s series of oil paintings celebrate the unique character of downtown Washington, DC

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    Athenaeum
    The Long View
    Works by ten members of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters
    June 20- August 10
    Featuring works by:
    Lani Browning
    Marietje Chamberlain
    Edward Cooper
    Fiona Pocock Corn
    Bernard Dellario
    Barbara Nuss
    Sara Linda Poly
    Nancy Tankersley
    Meg Walsh
    Richard Whiteley

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    View from Blackstone Cottage, Lani Browning
    Ayr Hill Gallery
    Kathryn Ellis
    Ann McMillan
    Armand Cabrera
    Andre Nobrega
    Grand Opening June 27
    Plein air paintings

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    Connor Contemporary
    Academy 2008
    Annual survey of MFA/BFA graduates

    July 11 - July 26

    The curators are ACADEMY exhibition founder and chief gallery Curator, Jamie Smith, gallery Director Leigh Conner and Assistant Director Kristi Mathews. As in previous years, the curators attended BFA/MFA exhibitions between December and June, viewing works in person to formulate a profile of area art programs. After consulting with artists, they selected a group of works created in various media, including painting, video, sculpture, and photography, which demonstrate individual achievement and represent vital currents in the fine art curricula of our region.

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    Nathaniel Fink Check Out These Guns 2008, photograph, 15 x 15 inches
    Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts
    Tromp L'Oeil - The Artists Studio
    June 20 - September 17
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    Curators Office
    Mixology I: Paintings and Works on Paper
    July 12 - July 19
    The Curator's Office is covering the gallery walls with paintings, drawings, and prints to help out Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontieres. The goal is to raise at least $ 5,500, which could pay for an emergency health kit to care for 10,000 displaced people for three months. Works will range from $ 50 - $ 10,000 with a majority of the works available from
    $ 300 - $5,000.

    Artists:
    Charles Cohan  |  dearraindrop  
    Eric Finzi   |   Peter Fox   |   Janis Goodman
    Robert Gutierrez   |   Eric Hibit  |  Leslie Holt
      Jason Hughes   |   Brian Judy   |   Ben Jurgensen
    Michele Kong    |   Jenny Laden   |  Jessica Langley
    Nilay Lawson   |   Kristofer Lee   |   Barbara Liotta
    Linn Meyers   |   J.W. Mahoney   |   Kate McGraw
    Jiha Moon  |  Cory Oberndorfer   |   Tim Rollins & K.O.S.
    Eduardo Santiere  |  Chris Scarborough    |   Ann Tarantino
    Denise Tassin   |   Jacques Vidal  |  Andy Moon Wilson 

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    Del Ray Artisans
    As We Are . . . The Eternal Nude
    Curators: Michele Reday Cook and Joan Ulrich
    Juror: Tania Karpowitz
    July 3 - July 27
    Since the beginning of time, artists have attempted to capture the human figure in all its diversity. Ancient drawings and sculptures may have been symbols of fertility or of great bravery. The human figure was depicted as deities and in religious rites.

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    Flashpoint
    The Numbers Behind
    Michael Dax Iacovone
    July 12 - August 23

    Large-scale photomontages document progressions through space and time. Artist Michael Dax Iacovone rejects traditional notions of composition, focusing his energies instead on composing formulas to capture the concept of space, resulting in mixed media photographic creations.
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    Foundry Gallery
    Dual Reality
     Ann and Philip Bennet.
    July 2 - July 27
    paintings and prints
     
    Fraser Gallery
    Grand Prize Winners of the Trawick Prize and Bethesda Painting Awards
    July 9 - August 2
    The Trawick Prize was established in 2003 by local businesswoman and arts philanthropist, Carol Trawick. In 2005, Ms. Trawick established the Bethesda Painting Awards. Each year, $28,000 in prize money is awarded to artists in our region, with Grand Prize Winners receiving $10,000. 
    Finalists and Grand Prize Winners are selected by a panel of judges. Past jurors include Olga Viso, former Director, Hirshhorn Museum, Jonathan Binstock, former Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Jack Rasmussen, Director, Katzen Art Center, Brandon Fortune, Curator, National Portrait Gallery, and many other prestigious curators and educators from our area.
    This exhibition will include new work by Trawick Prize Winners, Richard Cleaver (2003), David Page (2004), Jiha Moon (2005), James Rieck (2006), Jo Smail (2007), and by Bethesda Painting Award Winners, Joseph Kabriel (2005), Tony Shore (2006), Matt Klos (2007) and B.G Muhn (2008).

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    Cadet, Richard Cleaver
    Gallery 50
    Relationships
    Jim Bobick and Chad States
    June 26 - July 23
    Jim Bobick was born in Washington DC and received a BA in Visual Arts from the University of Maryland. He now resides in NYC.
    Bobick's colorful, abstract paintings deal with how we perceive objects. Specifically, how a viewer understands a painting and the experience created as a result of that interaction.

    Chad States moved to Delaware in 2005 and is the 2008 recipient of  the prestigious Individual Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts for Emerging Photographer. He has served as  adjunct faculty member at the Art Institute of Washington and the Tyler School of Art.
    "In this show Chad explores how we relate to the concepts we have about ourselves." explains Jay Pastore, Owner of Gallery 50, "He posted the simple  question 'Are you masculine?' on Internet sites and flyers and used  those who responded as subjects for his portraits. The variety of  interpretation is fascinating."

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    Photo by Chad States, part of his new exhibition on masculinity
    Healing Arts Gallery @ Smith Farm Center
    Figurative/Narrative
    Memories of a Presence

    Billy Colbert, Paul Andrew Wandless and Micheal Janis
    July 11 - August 28

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    Hillyer Art Space
    My Name is Jason
    Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
    July 11 - August 29

    A collaborative artistic duo making their exhibition debut in Washington, DC at IA&A's Hillyer Art Space.  The pair is best known for their visual and performance art, which seamlessly mesh together Reynolds' poetic prose with Griffin's expressive paintings.  My Name is Jason will feature a selection of works highlighted in their upcoming book, My Name is Jason. Mine Too.

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    Honfleur Gallery
    Cross and Ladder
    Darren Smith
    June 21 - July 26
    Handmade Photo Mosaics by Darren Smith
    Darren Smith’s intricate worlds, created from tiny fragments of his photographs, must be seen firsthand. This collection is a study of two elements, the Cross and the Ladder, symbolic of humankind’s desire to transcend their place in the world- both spiritually and intellectually. In counterpoint to the cross, Smith uses the ladder to represent science and its rational, step-by-step pursuit of knowledge. The ladder symbol is rooted in a discovery of modern science, the DNA helix. The artist expounds on crosses and ladders:
    “In our race to the sky, the spiritual and the secular meet in the form of crosses and ladders, which share the same simple ingredients of vertical and horizontal beams. Although crosses and ladders both seek to elevate, their methods clash, representing the warring sides of our psyche: faith versus logic.”

     
    Kennedy Center’s Terrace Gallery
    Derivative Composition
    June 26 - July 17
    VSA arts hosts a juried exhibition of artists with disabilities, this exhibition highlights the synergy among the artistic disciplines, showcasing art that is inspired by the aesthetics of music, theater, and dance.

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    McLean Project for The Arts
    Once Again, Again: Rhythm and Repetition
    Juror: Annie Gawlak, Director, G Fine Art
    June 19 - July 26
    A juried exhibition of work by artists who employ multiple images or repetition as part of their concept and/or technique.
    Jesse Lehson
    Kyan Bishop
    Mary Early
    Suzi Fox
    Pat Goslee
    Jose Varela
    Linn Meyers
    Kay Hwang
    Ryan Hill
    J.T. Kirkland
    Jay Lee
    Joey Manlapaz
    Cory Oberndorfer
    Thom Sawyer
    Linda Hesh

    Untitled, J.T. Kirkland
    The Phillips Collection
    The Great American Epic:
    Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series

    May 3 - October 26

    The complete 60-panel series, rarely seen in its entirely, will be on view at the Phillips. Told through vivid patterns and colors, this masterpiece of narrative painting is the first ever produced on the great 20th-century exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

    Diebenkorn in New Mexico
    June 21 to September 7
    The pivotal 30-month period Richard Diebenkorn spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico between 1950 and 1952 has largely been overlooked.  Featuring approximately 40 pieces, the exhibition marks the first time these works, now in public and private collections across the country, have been exhibited together since they were created.  The Phillips Collection is the final venue for Diebenkorn in New Mexico, the first in-depth examination of this key time in the abstract expressionist artist’s early creative development.  Diebenkorn’s paintings and drawings from this period illustrate the enduring influence of New Mexico’s textures, shapes, and colors on his mature style. 
     
    Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow
    June 21 to September 7
    In the first major exhibition in 30 years exclusively dedicated to the artist’s prolific body of work, Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow focuses attention on Brett’s abstract black-and-white photographs of landscapes, shapes and textures, and architectural elements.  It features more than 75 photographs from the 1920s through the 1980s.  Although Brett was considered a key player in the photography world during his lifetime, his achievements have been overshadowed by those of his renowned father, Edward.  A pioneer in his field, Brett captured the intricacies and rhythms of form, light, and shadow while avoiding photographic techniques such as contrived lighting, staging, or other manipulation.

     
    Randall Scott Gallery
    8
    eight photographers
    four 2-person, 2-week exhibitions

    Peter Van Agtmael
    Alison Brady
    Alexandra Catiere
    Jessica Dimmock
    Kyoko Hamada
    Tema Stauffer
    Ryoko Suzuki
    Shen Wei
    July 11 - September 5
    On July 11th, for the opening night, all eight photographers will
    have work on the wall.
    On July 12th, the first 2-person, 2-week exhibition opens with
    Kyoko Hamada and Tema Stauffer
    every other Saturday a new show will open.

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    Alison Brady
    Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
    Project 3: Empowered by Artistry
    June 14 - August 30
    A new collaboration of arts organizations dedicated to social justice issues, making a difference, both locally and globally, through individual creativity and fine arts.
    The exhibit features work from artists across the globe expressing the strength and power of women.

     
    Studio Gallery
    Stimulus
    DC Artists Accept the Challenge
    July 16 - August 9
    Over 100 original works under $500
     
    Target Gallery
    Slick
    Julie Camarata
    July 23 – August 24
    The gallery is opening its doors to installation artist, Julie Camarata from Knoxville, TN, to completely transform the space into oilrig platforms and piping. The artist is presenting the timely idea concerning the necessity, dangers and beauty of oil. The artist will be on site building this installation for two weeks at which time the gallery will be open to the public to learn more about her process. This is the first time the gallery has sponsored an artist in residency/site specific installation and at the end of the two week residency the work will remain on exhibit for an additional two weeks.

    Touchstone Gallery
    My Space on 7th
    50 Artists
    July 9 - August 2
    A new tradition (second year) at Touchstone Gallery fulfills two perpetual  needs: that of artists for exhibition space, and that of collectors for work they don't yet know, often at bargain prices. The beginning artist has the chance to be discovered, while the established artist has the opportunity to go in a totally new direction

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    Washington Printmakers Gallery
    New Faces
    A Special Exhibition of New Washington Printmaker Gallery Artists
    July 1 - July 27
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    Waverly Street Gallery
    Silk, Wool, Wire & Wood
    Experimental Fiber by Deb Jansen
    and New Work by Gallery Artists
    July 8 through August 2

    Jansen’s current work is about energy, emotion and word play. Experimenting with raw silk fibers, hand felted wool, crocheted copper wire and a few shish kabob skewers, she holds it all together with a flurry of machine stitching, a little elbow grease, a dash of beadwork and at least a few healthy belly laughs.
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    Zenith Gallery
    Zenith in the Abstract
    John Blee
    Chris Hayman
    Anne Marchand
    David Richardson
    Bill Suworoff
    July 17 - August 30
    Featuring five fine abstract artists … painters John Blee, Chris Hayman, Anne Marchand and David Richardson and sculptor/furniture designer Bill Suworoff who have been showing their work at Zenith and other major Washington galleries and beyond for decades. In this exhibition, their art forms a beautiful patchwork quilt on Zenith’s walls and space.
    Expatriot, David Richardson
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