Alexandria Black History Museum Portraits of Black Music Photographs by Jonathan B. French & Edward C. Keith III June 21 - August 31 Jonathan B. French is a well-known photographer in the Washington metropolitan area. French uses his camera to describe impressions by capturing the personality of the person or place and bringing harmony between the viewer and the photograph. Over the years, French has created a large series of photographs of African American musicians in performance.
Arlington Arts Center Aachen to Arlington: Imaging the Distance Curator Harald Kunde September 7 - September 22 Arlington, Virginia, and Aachen, Germany, have swapped artists, creating a pair of shows that helps to define and relate two disparate perspectives on space, place, and history.
Tobias Danke, a sculptor who creates ersatz objects using industrial materials, including resin, flourescent bulbs, and styrofoam Irmel Kamp-Bandau and Andreas Magdanz, two photographers who examine disused modernist architecture, from Bauhaus remnants to abandoned cold war bomb shelters Stephan Mörsch, a sculptor and draftsman who, with pencil drawings and models of guard towers, maps the Huertgenwald, a forest near Aachen where almost 70,000 American soldiers were killed between 1944 and 1945 Hans Niehus, a representational painter who, with tightly rendered humorous images of artworld notables like Marcel Duchamp and Josef Beuys, explores the idea of celebrity in the German art world
Andreas Magdans, Schutzraume, Plan Nr. 107 (Shelter, Plan number 107), C-Print, 60 X 50 cm, 2003-7
Artomatic 2007 April 13 - May 20 2121 Crystal Drive, Arlington, Va. Held regularly since 1999, Artomatic is the region’s one-of-a-kind multimedia event featuring more than 600 regional artists and performers. The free five-week event will feature nearly 90,000 square feet of paintings, sculptures, photography and other creative work.
"Untitled" Credit: Kevin Irvin (Photo by Jim Tretick)
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Sun Hongbin
Liu Ren
Xie Wenyue Apr 21 - May 19
photography Early photographs were the traces of images, created by light that was realized by the camera; thus, the camera linked optical reality and image. An actual scene passing through the camera lens is converted into an optical reality that is preserved on the photograph. Because of the directness of this process, people affirm the realistic effect of the photograph, considering the image on the photograph to be an objective reflection of an actual reality. Moreover, the cameraÕs mechanical ability to duplicate reality was also once shocking to human society. How to photograph and present a real scene also became an important topic in photography, the consciousness of optics became the basic model for photographic thinking.
Sun Hongbin "Moon Night - Cao changdi 1" - 2003
Alexandria Black History Museum Portraits of Black Music Photographs by Jonathan B. French & Edward C. Keith III June 21 - August 31 Jonathan B. French is a well-known photographer in the Washington metropolitan area. French uses his camera to describe impressions by capturing the personality of the person or place and bringing harmony between the viewer and the photograph. Over the years, French has created a large series of photographs of African American musicians in performance.
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Abu Ghraib Fernando Botero November 6 - December 30 Features uncompromising, graphic images by this Colombian painter expressing his outrage at the American-led torture of Iraqi insurgents. The Paris-based Botero, known for his exaggeratedly rotund figures in benign social satires, unveiled these controversial works in Europe in 2005. This will be the first showing of the Abu Ghraib paintings and drawings in a museum in the U.S. Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators November 6 - January 27 Showcases nineteen founders of the Feminist Art Movement in America, emphasizing their large-scale, innovative, and politically confrontational pieces of the 1970s. For these artists, claiming physical space was an empowering act, a metaphor for asserting the political and cultural identity that had been denied to women in the public arena. Co-curated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, pioneering feminist scholars and AU professors, Claiming Space focuses on the art of feminist political protest (Judith Bernstein, Sandra Orgel Crooker, Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz, Faith Ringgold, May Stevens), the expressive and cultural empowerment of the female body (Judy Chicago, Betsy Damon, Mary Beth Edelson, Nancy Fried, Yolanda Lopez, Cynthia Mailman, Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke), and the visual pleasure of the feminist-led Pattern and Decoration Movement (Valerie Jaudon, Jane Kaufman, Joyce Kozloff, Howardena Pindell, Miriam Schapiro). Dark Metropolis Irving Norman November 6 - January 27 Presents visions of urban hell by a West Coast artist (1906-1989) who used his art to enact social reforms. Born Isaac Noachowitz in Vilnius, Lithuania, Norman drew on his experience fighting fascism in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War to create highly detailed, monumental works that critique the inhumanity of war, the inequity of capitalism and the tyranny of the elite. Meticulously patterned and vividly medieval, Norman’s colossal paintings depict Big Brother worlds of swarming, clone-like figures encountering claustrophobic streets, jam-packed rush hours, random violence and abject poverty—urban panoramas that call to mind Los Angeles or Tokyo gone haywire.
Fernando Botero, Abu Ghraib 65, 2005, Courtesy Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Song Without Words: The Photographs of Countess Sophia Tolstoy September 4 - October 21 This exhibition, organized by the National Geographic Society, comprises seventy photographs made between 1885 and 1910 by Sophia Andreyevna Tolstoy, wife of the great Russian author, Leo Tolstoy. Carol Goldberg: Listening to Ivy September 4 - October 21 In Carol Brown Goldberg's latest large-scale paintings, circles and ellipses of luminescence appear structured and ordered over layers of spontaneous movement, where lines and particles imply space, time, and motion. Involuntary peripheral vision helps the brain understand the whole image. Architecture/Sculpture September 4 - October 21 The world around us can both provide inspiration and create vast opportunities for artistic creation: the possibilities are limitless. John Beardsley, a senior lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and the Washington Sculptors Group present submissions responding to the configuration and scale of the Katzen Arts Center, including its material, color, and light, as well as its experiential qualities. All in the Family: A Juried Show of American University Alumni September 4 - October 21 This exhibition compiles work from American University alumni artists. Submissions juried by Luciano Penay, American University professor emeritus, and Jack Rasmussen, director and curator of the museum, will be on display. Keiko Hara: Topophilia Imbuing in Monet September 4 - October 21 Keiko Hara's recent work, Topophilia Imbuing in Monet, incorporates fragments of cloth, text, and calligraphic marks to reflect on current global cultural conflicts and alter the viewer's perception of Monet's classic work, Water Lilies which is on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Carol Goldberg, Brother’s Portugal, 2007
American Painting Images of Washington DC by The Washington Landscape Society June 2 - July 28 Participating in this exhibition will be Lani Browning, Marietje Chamberlain, Fiona Corn, Bernard Dellario, Yolanda Frederikse, Michael Heylin, Harry Jaecks, Jean Brinton Jaecks, Mary Kokoski, Albert Kuentz, Andrei Kushnir, Barbara Nuss, Kenneth Petrie, Barbara Piegari, Genevieve Roberts, Bill Schmidt, Nancy Tankersley and Richard Whiteley. Subjects include not only the expected monuments and parks but gardens, neighborhood views and interiors.
Richard Whiteley, Going Home, Pennsylvania Ave, 9x12 acrylic on canvas
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery The Bedtime Sh’ma: A Good Night Book Kristina Swarner June 21 - August 12 The Washington DCJCC’s Center for Jewish Living and Learning has teamed up with the for the upcoming exhibit The Bedtime Sh’ma: A Good Night Book. Kristina Swarner’s original artwork created to illustrate this children’s book will be on display in the gallery for the enjoyment of all ages.
Anne Marchand Virtual Gallery "Virtual Appeal: Anne Marchand, Abstract Painting in Washington, DC" April 23 - May 10 In celebration of abstract painting and artists everywhere in Washington, DC, with the large area wide exhibitions; ColorField Remix, the first International Art Fair, artDC and Artomatic, Anne Marchand is holding her studio's first Virtual Gallery Exhibition, Virtual Appeal.
Arlington Arts Center December 4 - January 19 HOPE AND FEAR Curated by Carol Lukitsch Eight area artists whose paintings, sculpture, prints and drawings explore either beauty remembered at a remove, or nightmares and feelings of foreboding. The work is predominantly representational and suffused with dream imagery; contemporary issues including war, censorship, cultural identity, the environment, and the aftermath of hurricane Katrina are all explored in the three rooms of the show.
WINTER SOLOS 2007 Jennifer Levonian: Levonian is working on short animations which address her continued interest in examining narrative clichés about love, romance, and the transience of life. Joe Mannino: Mannino’s large ceramic hand sculpture graced the grounds of AAC for several years. In his Winter Solos installation, the hand theme reappears in more large sculptures; he will be showing large photographs as well. Young Kim: His installation at the Arlington Arts Center consists of 10 life-size portraits made of granular salt and red clay powder composed on the gallery floor. These ephemeral works, swept away at the end of the exhibit, serve as meditations on time, memory and the human condition.
ART ENABLES: Outsider Art Inside the Beltway A selection of works from ART ENABLES—a D.C. arts organization working with adults who have developmental and/or mental disabilities--will be on view in the Jenkins Gallery
Arlington Arts Center Fall solos 2007 October 2 - November 17 FALL SOLOS maps the boundaries of contemporary art practice, and introduces gallery-goers to some of the finest artists—emerging or established—currently at work across the Mid-Atlantic region:
• Gillian Brown projects video onto translucent objects, breaking evocative images apart and refracting or reflecting them onto various surfaces. • Heidi Fowler paints images of everyday industrial objects on unconventional substrates—her recent work features networks of phone or power lines painted across collaged beds of junk mail envelopes. • Chawky Frenn’s representational paintings are dense with art-historical allusions and violence in equal measure. His work has been formed by his experiences growing up in Lebanon, witnessing the atrocities of war firsthand. • Laurel Lukaszewski is a sculptor who explores pattern, rhythm, and line using black stoneware and porcelain. The abstract tangles projecting off of the walls in her installation at AAC, Kaminari, playfully represent brush strokes in three-dimensional form. • Timothy Michael Martin is an abstract painter who, in his reductive paintings, combines diagrams and schematics with oblique pulp sci-fi references. His work comments on the visual codes of modernism and on utopian and dystopian visions of the future. • Claire Sherwood creates mixed media installations with lace, concrete, wax and coal. These materials are combined to form objects that are paradoxically both decorative and crudely industrial--or both stereotypically masculine and feminine. • Alessandra Torres is a performance and installation artist. Her AAC project, Figure Study, draws elements from Zen painting and dance; in it, Torres presents flat, jointed, reductively rendered figures mounted on magnets that the viewer is invited to manipulate and reposition at will.
• Claire Sherwood, Dirty Lace on Boxes, coal, dirt, and encaustic on wood, 2007
Arlington Arts Center New Art Examined III June 5 - July 21 Artists: Milana Braslavsky, Kelly Egan, Ellen Ann Gallup, Steven Michael Hadley II, Ronald J. Longsdorf, Richard Sawka, Nanda Soderberg, Chad States, David Waddell, Elizabeth Wade Arlington Arts Center's third annual overview of new talent selected from submissions by recent Master of Fine Arts graduates from universities in Virginia,Maryland, District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware presents the work of ten new artists. If the past repeats itself, some of the artists in this exhibition will become familiar names.
Arlington Arts Center Spring Solos 2007 April 10 - May 26 Gail Gorlitz Between Mixed Media and Sculptures Dominie Nash Stills From a Life fabric collage Ephraim Russell Planned Obsolescence installation Soomin Ham Lightscape Series photocollage Katherine Kavanaugh Cry video installation and prints Keigh Sharp Grounded silver gelatin prints of constructed images
Art Gallery at the University of Maryland Interdigitate Yuriko Yamaguchi September 26 - December 8 The exhibition, for the first time in the United States, brings together five major site-specific sculpture installations that represent a dramatic shift in the artist's practice. The Art Gallery's open exhibition space offers an unusual opportunity for the artist to expand and elaborate these “floating” sculptures and a unique opportunity for the public to view them as a developing body of work.
Interior, 2007
Art League Gallery Ikebana Show The Sogestu School January 31 - February 4 Ikebana is the art of Japanese flower arranging. Sogetsu is one of the many schools of Ikebana; they practice Ikebana for contemporary times. Sogetsu does not emulate nature; they encourage students to use lines, hues, and masses provided by nature to create their own interpretation. For our Ikebana Show, Sogetsu members select works of art of all media by Art League and Torpedo Factory artists to create ingenious, harmonious installations. The carefully crafted compositions of art and nature create a peaceful and reflective environment in the gallery. A Sogetsu member is on hand in the gallery at all times, watering the arrangements as needed and answering questions about their art form. This dynamic, interactive collaboration brings fresh energy to The Art League Gallery.
From the 2006 Ikebana Show
Art League Gallery Place Settings Jill Banks January 9 - January 30 Painter Jill Banks grew up enjoying trips into the city, first in Chicago and then New York City, walking among sidewalk cafes, observing the moods, emotions, and atmospheres of people living out the various moments and stages of life. Her interest in people, relationships, and exploring those captured moments is the subject of her solo artist exhibit at The Art League Gallery, “Place Settings.” Banks’ oil paintings incorporate elements of landscape, interior, still life, and portrait painting and drawing. She creates an intriguing conversation between the viewer and her pieces through her use of color, light, atmosphere, mood, and composition. “We’re only getting a glimpse of one part of these people’s lives – who are they? Where have they been? What are they thinking and saying? I feel that I have a story - their story - to convey,” remarked Banks. Creating these portraits and bringing these personalities to life is an intensely personal experience for Banks. The pieces in this series are about the experiences she has treasured, shown from her viewpoint through paint. She hopes that viewers come away from her paintings looking at life in a new way. “I want people to appreciate life at a slower pace – to savor the here and now. Family, friends, and relationships are what matter. My paintings celebrate really living life.”
Italian Men - Jill Banks
Art League Gallery Dark Matters Frank Fierstein Introspective Black and White Photography Exhibition December 6 - January 7 Frank Fierstein believes that in order for something to exist, it needs to have an opposite. Light cannot exist without darkness, as good cannot exist without evil. The images in his exhibit, “Dark Matters” at The Art League Gallery, explore the life of “the shadow;” the deeper, darker side of our personality that most of us are afraid to acknowledge, let alone understand.
“Dark Matters” evolved subconsciously. Fierstein believes that the series stemmed from growing up in inner city Baltimore, his exposure to a rough environment and witnessing the darker side of the human psyche. “The premise of “the shadow” is that it has a life of it’s own. It represents the dark, unconscious part of our minds, our personalities. Most people are afraid to recognize and understand their darker side, but it is part of who we are. We have to balance the good and the bad, and if we explore this dark, mysterious side, we may find that it isn’t as bad as we fear,” explains Fierstein.
"Dark Matters," by Frank Fierstein
Art League Gallery Hidden Sky Cristy West November 8 - December 3 The meaning and purpose of Cristy West’s work is not easily articulated. Laced with texture, varying hues of blue, and marks reminiscent of Paul Klee, West’s works need to be experienced visually in order to be understood. The artist’s wandering exploration of her fascination and gravitation toward blue is the subject matter of her exhibit, “Hidden Sky.” The term, “hidden sky,” derives from Buddhism. It is said that human nature, when fully revealed, is like a vast, blue open sky. West is an artist guided by ritual and process. Influenced by Buddhism, music, nature, poetry, and the work of other artists, West allows her subconscious to guide her hand in the creation of her artwork.
"Shadowfish Soup," mixed media, 20" x 20"
Art League Gallery Food for Thought Art League members Juried by Peggy Loar Voorsanger November 7 – December 3 Loar made the following statement on behalf of the participating artists: "The culture of food is wonderfully complex, as food speaks not only to the palate but to the deeper realms of the spirit and the heart. Food, its history, associations with culture, place and family, suggest stories that embrace meaning and traditions. All of these aspects are 'fodder' for the creative process, which takes the theme beyond a mere traditional interpretation. The history of the Still Life, for instance, is but one expression of the continuum of passion humans have for the subject of food. Other approaches might be more avant-garde or conceptual and embrace such issues as sustainability, and scarcity as well as abundance. The theme of food provides a unique opportunity for research and new thinking prior to the start of the physical creative process."
"The Witness," by Art League instructor Diane Tesler, oil.
Arts Club of Washington Thomas Walsh Susana Raab Caroline Danforth November 29 - December 22 Photographs, paintings and drawings
Arts Club of Washington Colin Montgomery Judith Southerland Marianne Pollock November 2 - November 24 Photographs, paintings and drawings
Arts Club of Washington The One Word Project August 28 - September 29 A group exhibition that is the capstone of a three-year exploration of the triangular dialogue between artist, work, and viewer. Featuring more than 30 artists and a wide array of media
Gregory Ferrand, Judge Me Not (For I Judge Only You), 2006
Arts Club of Washington Members Summer Open Art Exhibition June 10 - July 28 Curated exhibit with awards.
Artful Gallery Debebe Tesfaye June 15 - July 9 Curator: Dilip Sheth
Art Museum of the Americas Photographs from the CIRMA collection 1850-2006 September 21 - November 25 This exhibit explores how photography in Guatemala has evolved since its beginnings in the 1850s. Curated by Tani Marilena Adams, the show provides an opportunity to see selected images by some of the major photographers of the country, as well as to explore how each of them relates to national and international ideas of their times. The majority of the works in the exhibit come from the CIRMA Archive which is dedicated to rescuing the visual history of Guatemala through the photographic image.
Art Whino Solo Show Justin Lovato December 14 - January 6 Justin is a self-taught artist who employs a wide range of influences. Aside from his roots in the process and subject matter of graffiti and street art, Justin is also motivated by the underground art and music culture, 14th century religious European art, and of course, 1970’s zombie movies. The characters and subject matter in his paintings often tell some arcane and dark story, which is expressed through steady-handed intricate line work. Through layering of vivid color, he narrates the intriguing and amusing tales of seemingly pain-stricken, weathered, and worn individuals. However, his subjects manage to maintain an aura of humor due to their representational, illustrative appearance. Justin’s work carries bold themes inspired by his own criticisms of modern pop culture and the mental environment, pharmaceutical companies, occult and religious symbolism, and our political climate.
Art Whino Solo Show Rick Reese & Collaboration Featuring 20 artists November 9 - December 1 Rick's Paintings are compilations of his experience. His work frequently juxtaposes found objects, fragments of signs and advertisements, and graphic images intertwining to create an active surface. Space is both flat and infinite. Layers and imagery are sanded or painted away leaving only their ghosts, like overhead whispers. The narratives in the work are often opened ended, allowing small glimpses into the artist's mind, while leaving room for the viewer to bring their own experiences to the pieces as well. The graphic style of comic art, graffiti, surf and skate culture, advertisement lettering and illustration from the 50's and 60's, as well as the art of his contemporaries inspire Rick's own art. Combing these and many other influences, his work continues to evolve, be free and most of all fun. Rick loves what he does, and its apparent in his art.
The addition to 20 new artists to the Art Whino Permanent Gallery features the work of its artists' collaboration from around the world.
Rick Reese
Athenaeum Travels Around the World Jessie Mackay November 11 - December 9 Paintings from her travels around the world.
Marina - Jessie Mackay
Bernstein Gallery at the Atlas Performing Arts Center Ephemera Photography T. Greenwood November 5 - December 15 Artist's Statement: "As a novelist, I am driven by a need to capture the small moments of life with language. And while recently my medium has shifted from writing to photography, my artistic goals remain the same. I am fascinated by the fleeting moment, by the ability a camera gives me to seize (and preserve) the ephemeral. As a mother of two young daughters, I am particularly enthralled by the transitory nature of childhood. And while fiction necessitates a certain artifice, I strive for truth in my images. None of my photos are staged. They are all candid shots taken during typical days in our typical lives, and my hope is that they reflect not only my reverence for the transience of childhood but also the extraordinary beauty of the ordinary moment." T. Greenwood is the author of four novels: Breathing Water, Nearer Than the Sky, Undressing the Moon and Two Rivers (forthcoming).
Dress Up, T. Greenwood
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Reconciling Worlds: The Work of Soviet Artist Yefim Ladyzhensky September 6 - December 30 Born in Odessa in 1911, Yefim Ladyzhensky was first a scenic designer for plays and films. Later, he created many series of compositions including his temperas inspired by Russian author Isaak Babel’s Red Cavalry; scenes from the Lyublin Cemetery in Moscow; and his naïve, and sometimes humorous, oil painting series entitled: “Growing Up in Odessa.” Once Ladyzhensky immigrated to Israel in 1978, he entered a serious depression and began meditating on his feelings of rootlessness. The art he produced from this time sadly foreshadowed his untimely death. The broad spectrum of Ladyzhensky’s work truly highlights his identities as a Jew, an artist, and part of an elite group of Soviet Jewish intellectuals and artists, as well as his skill working with various media, content and style. In this exhibition of Ladyzhensky’s art, we are able to look though a window into Soviet censorship in the 20th Century as well as the artist’s own feelings of isolation after immigrating to Israel, not always with sorrow, but with a hint of humor and innocence.
Burton Marinkovich Fine Art One of the leading art galleries in the Washington, D.C. area, featuring prints, drawings and paintings by modern and contemporary masters. Work by Chuck Close, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Lesley Dill, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Robert Motherwell, Kiki Smith, Wayne Thiebaud and others. Paintings by Mary Grigonis, gouaches by Geoffrey Baker.
Richard Diebenkorn (untitled; Ocean Park), lithograph, 1970
Connor Contemporary Academy 2007 Annual invitational survey of fine art graduates in the Washington / Baltimore area July 6 - August 18 PAUL CHAPMAN (George Washington University) GRAHAM CHILDS (American University) RUSSELL KELBAUGH (Corcoran College of Art + Design) MAGNOLIA LAURIE (Maryland Institute College of Art) JODI LIEBURN (Maryland Institute College of Art) ISAAC MAISELMAN (Corcoran College of Art + Design) TIFFANY MIELCAREK (Maryland Institute College of Art) CHRISTINA MOST (Maryland Institute College of Art) NATALIA PANFILE (Maryland Institute College of Art) SANDRA PARRA (Maryland Institute College of Art) DEBORAH ROCK (Catholic University) NATHANIEL ROGERS (Maryland Institute College of Art) BRIAN SYKES (University of Maryland) JESSICA VAN BRAKLE (Corcoran College of Art + Design) OLIVIA WOLFE (Georgetown University) The curators for this year's exhibition are Academy exhibition founder, Jamie Smith and former gallery director, Karyn Miller. As in previous years, the curators attended BFA/MFA exhibitions between January and June, viewing works in person to formulate a profile of area art programs. After consulting with artists, Smith and Miller 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.
Creative Partners Gallery Stories of the Body Charcoal Figure Drawings by Martin Slater and New Work by Gallery Members July 8 - August 4 A collection of representational charcoal figure drawings by Maryland artist Martin Slater. Inspired by the work of various figurative artists, especially Pierre-Paul Prud’hon.
Martin Slater
Creative Partners Gallery Flowing Color Watermedia Paintings by Grace Peterson and New Work by Gallery Members June 5- July 7 Grace Peterson’s innovative exploration of watermedia has produced an exciting and forceful series of waterfalls. The power and beauty of water cascading over rocks can be experienced in each image. Her masterful control of fluid paints and inks is perfectly matched to the flowing quality of the subject.
Coldwell Banker Office Intonation / Geometry of the City Exhibition of Works by Anne Marchand May 29 - July 13
ColorField.remix: April - July 2007 More than 30 Washington area museums, galleries, arts organizations and businesses are participating in ColorField.remix, the largest celebration of painting ever held in the Washington area. The event honors the 1950s and 1960s Color Field visual art movement and the Washington Color School, which put Washington, DC on the art world map. ColorField.remix includes exhibitions, public art projects, artists' talks, lectures, children's programs, and special events honoring Color Field and Washington Color School painters as well as contemporary artists influenced by those movements. The project was conceived by The Kreeger Museum
Conner Contemporary Art All Over Paintings Howard Mehring April 13 - May 12 An exhibition of rarely seen all over paintings by Howard Mehring. Mehring has been called the "sleeping giant" of Washington Color Painting and was the first of the second generation of Color Field painters to explore the potentials of color through novel experiments with painting techniques including pouring, staining, stippling, and sectional painting.
"Untitled", Copyright the artist, courtesy Conner Contemporary Art and the Estate of Vincent Melzac
Conner Contemporary Art Mary Coble: Aversion May 18 - June 30 An installation of video and photographs of the performance and related work. In her opening night performance, Coble attached electrodes to herself to recreate the severe effects of electric shock aversion therapy. The artist simultaneously presented a video narrative of experiences of gays and lesbians to whom this psychiatric treatment was forcibly administered with the objective of re-conditioning their sexual orientation.
Mary Coble: Aversion, performance | video + photographs
Corcoran Gallery of Art Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 March 17 - July 29 The largest and most comprehensive exhibition on Modernism to be staged in the United States to date and was originally organized by London's Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). The Corcoran will be the show’s only American venue, following its installation at the V&A and MARTa Herford in Germany
Masterpieces:
European Art from the Collection
Through September 2007
Olga
Hirshhorn Collects:
Selections from the Permanent Collection
Through July 8, 2007
Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts "Perforations" Ruth Borgenicht, Tony Marsh, Michal Zehavi June 15 thru Summer This show joins three well known and accomplished ceramic artists; Ruth Borgenicht, Tony Marsh and Michal Zehavi whose work explores air and space. Each of these artists pushes the limits of clay's fragility by constructing their work with as little matter as possible, using space as an element of the design and construction. Unlike typical vessels that define and capture space within their walls, these works become integrated with their surroundings, weaving space and clay together.
Ruth Borgenicht
Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts The Theory of Everything Walter McConnell March 9 - May 12 McConnell will recreate his installation piece "The Theory of Everything" in the gallery. This floor to ceiling work, made up of 100s of individual ceramic pieces; faux-Ming vases, animal sculptures and figurines, takes a week to assemble. Ultimately, the finished work transcends its kitsch and commercial elements to create an architectural monument referencing Hindi Stupas and is magically imbued with a sense of spirituality. McConnell's artistic sensibility transforms Western pop cultural waste into an Eastern aesthetic worthy of worship and offerings.
Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts "Bowled Over" Group Show May 18th - June 15 Featuring — Margaret Boozer, Kathy Erteman, Barbara Liotta, Jim Thompson
May 8 - June 2 The featured artist in May 2007 at the Creative Partners Gallery is Eunhee Park Dickerson. Most of her works are abstract oil paintings on canvas. Her refined vibrant colors and intricate lines translate her thoughts into a beautiful visual language on canvas. Her subject matter is simply her life; whether it is inspired by the music she listens to and plays, or special places she has traveled, she is most pleased when her reason and inexplicable emotion come together and bring the right balance.
Eunhee Park Dickerson
Curators Office Common Ground Kathryn Cornelius November 3 - December 22 A solo exhibition of Washington, DC-based artist Kathryn Cornelius entitled Common Ground. The gallery will show several bodies of work by this noted performance artist all loosely united around the multi-layered concept of "ground" and a search for the spiritual in everyday life. Cornelius displays two videos, Common Ground (version 1.0) and Return, and two bodies of photo-based works, Reach and Hidden World, that document her performative actions in the landscape. An exhibition brochure by Jeffry Cudlin, Director of Exhibitions at the Arlington Arts Center, will accompany the show.
Katheryn Cornelius, Reach #4, 2006
Curator's Office Line Tripping Jiha Moon September 15 - October 27 Among a handful of contemporary artists hailed for challenging and extending the category of Asian American art, Moon continues to develop a dazzling lexicon of mark making, with a particular focus on the metaphoric possibilities of line and its implied sense of journey, in this second exhibition at Curator's Office. Curator John Ravenal notes, "Jiha Moon's work is often discussed in terms of opposites brought together in a single image: East and West, tradition and innovation, representation and abstraction, spontaneity and control. And this is not inaccurate. Her work teams with the results of productive tension between contrasting forces, and she herself describes her experience of moving between diverse cultures-Korea and the United States, small town and city, the North and the South-as a primary influence on her imagery."
Jiha Moon, Jade Cycle, ink and acrylic on HanJi paper, 36" x 24", 2007
Curators Office Three Part Harmony: Definition, Delicacy and Detail in Drawing co-curated by Dr. Fred Ognibene and Andrea Pollan June 2 - July 14 In 2007, after the publication of such influential publications as Vitamin D, drawing is hotter than ever. Art collector and patron Fred Ognibene and curator Andrea Pollan have assembled a salon-style exhibition of area, national, and international artists who use drawing as a preferred media. The exhibition includes artists from the USA, Canada, Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Germany, Japan, Iceland, and England, although the curatorial premise was to select works that attracted both a curator's and a collector's attention. Delicacy, definition, and detail are the uniting aesthetic themes in this exhibition that presents both figurative and abstract works.
Ricardo Lanzarini, Circulo Denso, (detail) 2006, ink on paper, 13.875 x 17 inches
Remembrancer: A Media Project by Alberto Gaitan April 14 - May 26 Alberto Gaitan's Remembrancer will observe events within three
nested domains: local, national and global using sensors placed around
the vicinity of the gallery and data gathered from local and global
Internet sources.
Cultural Institute of Mexico Mexico: The Revolution and Beyond the Casasola Archives Through July 11 The exhibit shows 96 photographs taken between 1900-1940, belonging to the Casasola Archives and selected by Pablo Ortíz Monasterio. The pictures cover important years of Mexican history classified in different topics including: The peace in Mexico during Porfirio Díaz regime, the Revolution war, trades, the modernity, the eagle and the snake, the night, the justice and famous people. The Casasola Archive presents the collective visual imagination of Mexico and is considered the pioneer of documentaries.
Cultural Institute of Mexico DC Contemporary Latino Art April 27 - June 1 50 works by 16 Latino artists living in the DC area. Curated by Laura Roulet and Irene Clouthier.
DCAC Dos Pestañeos - Every Last Day September 14 - October 7 Dos Pestaneos is an art collective comprised of Hope Hilton, Scott Lawrence, Andrew Ross and Ben Fain. Formed in 2003 with the idea that a group effort makes greater things possible, the collective began an art studio/alternative exhibition space with a DIY approach to introducing new work to the Atlanta arts community.
Every Last Day is a contemplation of the fertile terrain of the in-between, and exploration of transitions. Perceiving the threshold as an intermediate space charged with possibility and quite possibly haunted, the collective and invited artists have shaped an exhibition of magic, ignorance, illusion, uncertainty and pleasure.
DCAC 1460 WALL MOUNTABLES!! July 20 - Sept 7 Don't miss this year's wall mountables! our annual fundraising show where you can do whatever you want in your 2' x 2' space..well..almost
Del Ray Artisans Gallery Rejected/Accepted January 11- February 3 Del Ray Artisans start the New Year with a multimedia show that provides the artist the opportunity to be the juror. In the highly competitive DC art show circuit rejection is a high probability. Many shows have three to four times the number of entries to accepted pieces. High quality work is often rejected and never makes it to the gallery walls. DRA is making room for artist to show - what they consider - to be among their best work - even if it had been previously rejected.
Del Ray Artisans Tribute to All Things Magical: the Light and the Dark October 12 - October 28 The show seeks to capture perceptions of the magical among contemporary artists in the DC and Northern Virginia areas, featuring magical beasts, beings, places, and symbols.
District of Columbia Art Center AMERICAN IDOLATRY A site specific installation Kate Hardy June 8 - July 8, 2007 A curatorial project organized by: Anne Surak Assisted by Margaret Boozer and Claire Huschle a site-specific installation by Kate Hardy that examines the ever-increasing existence of art as a commodity and explores the abstract value attributed to consumer goods in a capitalist society.
District of Columbia Art Center IAN AND JAN: The Undiscovered Duo A Secret History of the Washington Body School Jeffry Cudlin and Meg Mitchell May 11 - June 3 This spring, many local museums and galleries will celebrate the Washington Color School , a group of abstract painters who, in the early 1960s, briefly made D.C. the center of the visual arts universe.
Local artists Jeffry Cudlin and Meg Mitchell won’t be playing along. At DCAC, the two will stage an art historical intervention, weaving an alternative history for Washington art.
Cudlin and Mitchell will mount a retrospective for their alter egos, Ian and Jan—a fictitious husband-and-wife performance art duo. According to the exhibition’s premise, Ian and Jan led the Washington Body School , a group that, in the late ‘60s and ‘70s, exhibited their body art alongside the work of prominent Washington abstract painters.
Ian and Jan: The Washington Body School will provide humorous commentary on Washington ’s cultural legacy, on revisionist art historical agendas, and on gender bias and power politics in the arts. The show will include photographs, drawings, props, and videos of the couple in action.
District Fine Arts COUNTERCULTURE July 19 - October 13 District Fine Arts presents “Counterculture” an exhibit featuring art created during the sixties and seventies. Richard Friedman – photographer Gene Markowski – painter/photographer Robert Otter – photographer Steve Rosenberg – painter Karl Umlauf– painter/sculptor
District Fine Arts Summer Solstice Connie Fleres - sculptor & painter
William Goodman IV - painter
Paula Lantz- painter
Civan Ozkanoglu - photographer
Seth Rosenberg - painter & photographer Ginger Williams - painter June 23 - July 14 District Fine Arts presents "Summer Solstice" a group show displaying contemporary art from the United States and Turkey.
Civan Ozkanoglu - Istanbul, 2006
District Fine Arts Places and Things New Paintings Gene Markowski April 14 - May 26
Discovery Galleries The Art of Christos Palios Opens June 15 Baltimore native Christos Palios applies his passion for photography by combining his love of design, travel, and the environment to create an advanced form of panoramic imaging.
Duality Gallery Natural Selection — Art Inspired By Nature A Group Show Featuring the Work of Washington D.C. Area Artists Lynden Cline Joy Every Sharon Fishel Dirk Herrman Lucy Herrman Nancy Sausser Jeff Smith Paula Wachsstock November 8 - January 8
Ellipse Arts Center You Are Here Maps Re-Defined by Mid-Atlantic Contemporary Artists August 24 - October 13
Ellipse Arts Center Hand Pulled: Juried Mid Atlantic Print Show April 6 - May 26 Juror: Joan Boudreau, Curator, Graphic Arts Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution Hand Pulled is open to all printmakers who live or work in Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland or West Virginia. All original fine art print media will be considered. This may include intaglio, relief, lithography, screen printing, photogravure, collagraph, monoprint, photomechanical and digitally "manipulated" prints, non-conventional formats, dimensional prints and hand printed books. Prints may be unique as well as editioned work. All work must be "hand-pulled" in some way. Prints that are predominantly digitally printed will not be accepted. All work must be created in 2005 or later.
Embassy of Finland BIRDHOUSE by Kaj Stenvall March 16 - May 12 "Why do I find it easier to identify with a duck than with my fellow men?" asks Kaj Stenvall, the artist who created the duck that launched his career and has appeared in one form or another in each of his paintings. The duck is not Stenvall's alter ego; rather, it is his tool. Its purpose is to offer a starting point when jumping into the multidimensional world of Stenvall's art - to draw the viewer deep inside his paintings and then step aside. Although Stenvall's duck is soulful and humane, it is not human. It is adaptable, flexible, and free. It offers those who find it difficult to ground themselves a familiar form with which to identify.
Embassy of Japan The World of Modern Ukiyo-e: The Art of Mari Mihashi April 2 - June 8 This exhibition of Mari Mihashi's work of Modern Ukiyo-e is being presented for the first time in Washinton DC. Ms. Mihashi's work was recently featured at the Nippon Club gallery in New York City and have been displayed at various shrines around Japan. This event is presented with support by The Japan Foundation NY
Flashpoint E. Brady Robinson: Shift Curated by Chan Chao September 7 - October 6 The gallery at Flashpoint is pleased to kick-off their fall exhibition season with an installation of color photographs by E. Brady Robinson, organized by photographer and curator Chan Chao. Shift represents the culmination of over two years of Robinson’s work and travels. Robinson is a photographer who exploits the tradition of the “snapshot” to examine social and cultural environments. Her work is informed by the technology of instant mobile image capture, as well as travel and landscape photography. She offers viewers multiple points of view and cross-cultural references while evoking the split second of time during which one experiences fleeting frames of existence from the window seat of a car, train or airplane.
This exhibition is sponsored in part by BB&T
E. Brady Robinson
Flashpoint Gallery Earth on Stone on Earth is Naturally So August 4 - August 31 Throughout August Earth on Stone on Earth is Naturally So journeys through 800 diurnal sequences, alternating between sounded days and film nights while evolving in the growth and decay of planted sculptures. The cycles construct an environment for planted roofs, introducing diagrammatic interpretations of green roofs and urban oases: sustainable burials, urban habitat, community agriculture and more. Constructed tree forms and a patchwork of sedum and Astroturf surround the gardens, eliciting the sensations of urban oases.
Flashpoint Megan Jacobs and Anna Westfall: Penumbra April 27 - June 2 Penumbra, a collaborative exhibition by Megan Jacobs and Anna Westfall, explores the fluid nature of memory, elements that influence the body and memory and the artists’ shared belief in the interconnectedness of all matter. Using video, glass, porcelain and ephemeral materials such as ice and light, the artists create an interactive installation to inspire a multiplicity of sensory reactions. The artists transform the space of the gallery, creating an interactive experience that incorporates time-based media as well as sonic, kinetic and tactile surfaces into a representation of memory
Megan Jacobs and Anna Westfall: Penumbra
Flashpoint Gallery Trace Evidence Valerie Huhn June 30 - July 28 Can identity be reduced to a fingerprint? If identity changes over time, how can the fingerprint reflect that evolution? Begun in response to a police chase in her neighborhood in 1998, the fingerprint art of Valerie Huhn has become a life-affirming statement and a means through which to see this mark, commonly associated with police and crime, from a distinctive perspective. As a whole, these works are by turns inviting, with their abstract patterns and cheerful colors, and disconcerting, as they trace the artist’s obsessive, persistent repetition. Collecting for the first time the large sheets, light boxes, books and c-prints Huhn creates beginning with her own fingerprints.
Flashpoint Gallery WPA\C Anonymous III June 7 – 23 Washington Project for the Arts\Corcoran (WPA\C) returns to Flashpoint with ANONYMOUS III, showcasing “anonymous” artworks by 100 established and emerging area artists. Ten established area artists were invited to create 2’ x 2’ pieces, and serve as curators by inviting nine more artists to do the same. The resulting 100 artworks will be hung without artist identification, with creators’ names being revealed only after their pieces have been purchased, making ANONYMOUS III a playful survey of contemporary art in the greater DC area and a unique art buying experience.
Foundry Gallery Standing Ground Dean Manis January 2 - January 27 A solo show of recent intaglio works and selected oil paintings and drawings by Dean Manis. As in his November 2006 Washington debut show (“an impressive multi-media solo exhibition” – Hill Rag), the Foundry’s opening show in New Year 2008 will offer a variety of works reflecting Mr. Manis’ continued exploration of the figure, portrait and landscape. A native of Brooklyn, Mr. Manis has been a member of the Foundry Gallery Artist Cooperative since 2004. He has participated in numerous juried exhibits in the Washington area including the International Landscape show at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Va., and the Virginia Art League's 50th Anniversary Celebration show, "Fifty Pieces," at the Athenaeum in Old Town.
Dean Manis
Foundry Gallery Members Show December 5 - December 30 Amy Barker-Wilson, Philip Bennet, Catherine Carter, Brett Davis, Cavan Fleming, Holly Foss, Elizabeth Harris, Donna McGee, Debra Naylor, Steve Nordlinger, Barbara Salthouse, Luba Sterlikova, Roger Strassman, and Patricia Zannie
Foundry Gallery Acrylic Abstract Donna K. McGee October 31 - December 2 McGee’s work is becoming well known in the Washington DC area. She continues to challenge the viewer into a meditative dialogue with the canvass. Her paintings are about color, movement, texture, and flowing lines. Vibrant yet soothing, her work is often described as healing, calming, and serene. Transition Katheryn Wiley October 31 - December 2 New Paintings
donna K. mcgee – Paragon acrylic diptych 36x72
Foundry Gallery DRAW Elizabeth McNeil Harris Alone or Together Anna Glodek October 3 - October 28 Elizabeth McNeil Harris creates elegant figure drawings in charcoal and pastel. Her images convey a lot of emotion, are dynamically drawn, often with a simple wooden stick and ink, finished off with an abstract watercolor-like chalk pastel wash. She has mastered the power of a single line placed so perfectly, that it defines the entire drawing.
Anna Glodek‚s semi-abstract paintings of flowers bring an explosion of color, shapes and textures. The images evoke flowers rather than define them. The viewer is invited to engage in a dance of petals and leaves, by following the lines and color transitions within each painting. In her figure paintings, Anna Glodek suggests rather than depicts, and uses her color choices and paint application to step beyond the actual subject matter.
Anna Glodek, Green Tulips
Foundry Gallery Between Reality and Dream drawings by Sarragúa Leyva July 4 - July 29 An exclusive solo show of master drawings by an accomplished Spanish artist Sarragúa Leyva. Sarragúa Leyva’s drawings are executed with an astonishing delicacy, neatness and perfection. They are so precisely composed, that the resulting harmony is almost haunting. The artist’s creative genius and aesthetic restlessness transcend the purity of her realism and bring a sense of spiritual delight.
Chinoiserie - Sarragúa Leyva
Foundry Gallery Figure, Line, & Symbol Solo Exhibition of Moira Catherine Ferrier May 2 - May 27
Solo Exhibition of Trinka Margua Simon May 30 - July 1
Fraser Gallery Paintings by Michael Fitts September 14 - October 6 The Fraser Gallery will host a solo exhibition of oil paintings on reclaimed metal by Charlottesville, VA artist, Michael Fitts. Fitts’ minimalist compositions depict common items such as food packaging, utensils and shoes. His highly detailed paintings give a contemporary twist to the traditional trompe l’oeil genre.
Docs, Oil on reclaimed Metal by Michael Fitts
Fraser Gallery July 2007 - Summer Group Exhibit July 13 - September 8 A group exhibition of paintings, photography and sculpture by artists represented by the Fraser Gallery. Including new work by David FeBland, David Gordon, Sandra Ramos, Maxwell MacKenzie, Andrew Wodzianski, Mitsuo Suzuki and many others
Fraser Gallery THE BETHESDA PAINTING AWARDS June 8 - July 11 This annual competition, sponsored by local arts patron, Carol Trawick, awards $14,000 to artists based in DC, MD and VA. One artist will receive the Grand Prize of $10,000. Paintings by the finalists will be on exhibit at the Fraser Gallery. The 2007 Bethesda Painting Awards will be juried by Dr. Brandon Fortune, Professor W.C. Richardson and Professor Tanja Softic.
Freer and Sackler ENCOMPASSING THE GLOBE: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th centuries June 24 - September 16 This exhibition brings together approximately 250 extraordinary objects reflecting the unprecedented cross-cultural dialogue that followed the establishment of Portugal's world trading network in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, from the St. Petersburg album;India, Mughal dynasty, 1615-1618.
Foundry Gallery Foundry Members Summer Show—Galleries I & II August 1- September 2
Foundry Gallery Shapes and Shadows Barbara French Pace September 5 - September 30 Foundry Gallery presents “Shapes and Shadows,” a September show, featuring paintings by Chevy Chase DC artist Barbara French Pace. Working in oil and acrylic, Ms. Pace captures the mood of sun-lit landscapes and settings, many of them overseas. Her new show explores the counterplay of dramatic geometric patterns created by light and shadow. An avid traveler, Barbara French Pace takes her easel into the sun-flooded cities of the Mediterranean, when the lightdark effects are especially striking among narrow streets and rustic buildings. Multiple layers of paint give a tactile, as well as visual, sense of the textures of the walls and streets. Her work focuses on quiet scenes that invite reflection. A selection of summer plein air paintings of local landscapes complements her main exhibit.
Third Person Singular Debra Naylor September 5 - September 30 Paintings by Capitol Hill artist and designer, Debra Naylor. This, her second show at the Foundry Gallery is entitled Third Person Singular and features recent paintings that focus on the often overlooked daily events that make up people's lives. This is a theme often found in Ms. Naylor's work.
Foundry Gallery Studying the Masters New Work by Trinka May 30 - July 1
"Nattie" Brown pen on paper
Fraser Gallery COMMITTED January 11 - February 2 A group exhibition of artwork exploring the obsessive side of creativity. This exhibit includes drawings by 2007 Bethesda Painting Awards Finalist, Fiona Ross, an installation by University of Maryland Assistant Professor of Art, Dawn Gavin and photography by Stephanie Booth documenting the last 12 years of her life
'My Shoes Don't Match My Belt' by Stephanie Booth
Fraser Gallery Land Anna Druzcz, Lee Goodwin, Lawrence Hislop, Maxwell MacKenzie, Andrzej Pluta and Mark Evan Thomas November 9 - January 5 A group exhibition of contemporary landscape photography. The exhibition features a range of techniques from traditional gelatin silver prints to digitally composed images and includes work by local emerging artists, recent MFA graduates and more established photographers, such as acclaimed architectural photographer, Maxwell MacKenzie.
'In Vitro Complex No. V' by Anna Druzcz
Fraser Gallery A Group Exhibit of Narrative Paintings David FeBland, Haley Hasler, Jinchul Kim, John Winslow and Andrew Wodzianski October 12 - November 3 The New York Times has called David FeBland “the leading edge of the new urban realists.” Other critics have also been impressed by his work. The Washington Post described his paintings as “brash, bizarre and beautifully painted oils of life in the Big Apple.”Art in America described his work as doing "a kind of Ashcan School at a raw hip-hop pace... unforgettable!”
Haley Hasler was a finalist in the 2006 Bethesda Painting Awards, but recently moved out of the area to Colorado. Hasler received her MFA from Boston University and has received numerous awards and fellowships including 3 Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation awards and a US Fulbright Grant.
Jinchul Kim is an associate Professor of Painting at Salisbury College, in Salisbury, Maryland. He received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts in NYC and has exhibited his work extensively throughout the United States and Korea.
John Winslow is recognized as of the most influential figurative painters in our region. Winslow was born in Washington, DC and studied at the Yale School of Art, from which he received both his BFA and MFA.
Andrew Wodzianski received his MFA from MICA in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor at the College of Southern Maryland in La Plata, MD.
'Family Portrait with Hors d'Oeuvres' by Haley Hasler
Fraser Gallery New Work by Contemporary Cuban Artists Sandra Ramos and Aimee' García Marrero May 11 - June 2 An exhibition of paintings and prints by two of Cuba's most important contemporary artists, Sandra Ramos and Aimee' García Marrero.
"Universo" by Sandra Ramos
Freer Gallery of Art / Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Smithsonian Institution East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art February 24 - May 13 Arthur M. Sackler Gallery "East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art" explores garden traditions practiced by Chinese, Indian, Japanese, Persian, Turkish, and other cultures as seen through some of the world's most exquisite works of art. The exhibition includes some sixty finely painted screens, hanging scrolls and manuscript illustrations, colorful ceramics, rare lacquered vessels, and gold inlaid metalworks.
Persimmon Tree by Nakamura Hochu - The Freer Gallery of Art
GChris “peace on, with and beyond earth” October 6 - November “peace on, with and beyond earth” is an art show that challenge us to achieve a positive “peace on, with and beyond earth” that encompasses our relationship with the rest of earth’s people, earth itself and the rest of earth’s creatures, and the worlds we are only beginning to touch. He and his sculptures challenge all of us to do whatever we can to help on a personal, local, national or global scale.
GChris "save the world, complex" August 4th - September “save the world, complex” is an art show for all those still believing in and trying to save our world. Through his sculptures, GChris is clear on how complex a task this is, whether we are talking about the protecting the environment or reducing human vulnerability. But he and his sculptures do not accept complexity or difficulty as excuses and challenge all of us to do whatever we can to help on a personal, local, national or global scale.
Gallery Group Show November 21 - December 30 An exhibition of new and existing gallery artists with works priced at $500 or less
Gallery 10 Glimpses Lucy Blankstein and Ellouise Schoettler January 30 - March 1 Each person is a traveler through life whether on home ground or foreign soil. At best the traveler can only record glimpses of their world as they pass by. Exploring that idea, Blankstein and Schoettler selected images from their photos and, manipulated them to reveal personal glimpses of their worlds. Both artists use serendipity and accident in their works and are fascinated by the possibilities of technology. Glimpses is their third show together.
Gallery 10 Open Season Gallery 10 Artists December 5 - December 29
Gallery 10 Color Show Michele De LA Menardiere Dana Lynn Kleinman Robert Lemar Jean Plough John Carlo Punsalan Ilona Sochynsky Pat Walsh July 5 - July 28 Seven artists whose work with color dramatizes the many ways pigment can excite visual awareness and take it to a contemplative place. Some paint viscerally while others use symbols and evoke a spiritual awakening. Personal landscapes as well as literal treatment of spaces are sampled in this exhibition. Color is paramount without sacrificing composition.
Gallery 10 Illuminations Melissa Burley August 1 - August 25 "The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth, so what we do to the Earth we do to ourselves." ~Chief Seattle By combining objects found in nature with those discarded and made by man, my ultimate goal is to bring light to the thought that there is beauty in life after death. - Melissa Burley
"Sundrenched," 24" x 24" x 4-1/4", illuminated sculpture, by Melissa Burley.
Gallery 50 Fugitive Gray Joe Cameron September 8 - October 13 This Rehoboth Beach gallery is presenting the work of Joe Cameron, who has taught fine-art photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design for 35 years. His photographs are in the collections of the Norton Simon Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Solo exhibitions include the Baltimore Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Kathleen Ewing Gallery. He has received fellowships from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, the National Collection of Fine Arts and the Smithsonian Institution.
Paintings by Tanja Bos
Pastels by Shoshanna Ahart April 4 - May 13 Featuring paintings by: Tanja Bos Featuring pastels by: Shoshanna Ahart
GChris "vulnerable in america" March 30 - July "vulnerable in america (via)" art is heavily mission-driven. The art challenges us to feel vulnerability and help minimize vulnerability. In America and in the world today, we are all vulnerable to a greater or lesser extent. Walking the streets and roads today, you see it in our faces and hear it in our voices. Advanced by the GChris sculptures is the driving mission to minimize vulnerability and help "save the world", as best as we can. Uniquely so, visitors are encouraged to “gently touch” the sculpture and experience movement, sounds and shadows that are the sculptures’ "life". Visitors can also dialogue with the artist on the importance of “vulnerable in america” art and the creative process for these unusual copper and hardwood abstract sculptures.
Life’s Little Abstractions May 25 - end of July “Life’s Little Abstractions” are limited edition, more affordable, hand-crafted “children” of GChris original sculptures. This gives people an opportunity to acquire limited edition sculpture more affordably than acquiring the “parent” sculpture costing thousands.
GW University - Luther W. Brady Art Gallery Generations of the Washington Color School Revisited May 9 - July 13 The Luther W. Brady Art Gallery is participating in the city-wide event, ColorField.Remix. The George Washington University was part of a network of institutions and private collectors that supported and perpetuated the artists and works of the Washington Color School. Drawing from its history of both exhibiting and collecting the works of artists such as Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Howard Mehring, Alma Thomas, and Willem DeLooper, the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery will build on the 1984 exhibition Generations of the Washington Color School, held at the Dimock Gallery, by adding significant new acquisitions and loans of never before seen works by New York artist, Rosette Bakish, who studied with Robert Motherwell; local artist, Amy Lin; and a pivotal work new addition to the GW Permanent Collection by DeLooper.
Myanmar Contemporary Art May 16 - June 17 Gallery plan b, in cooperation with River Gallery (Rangoon, Burma), is very pleased to present a rare exhibition of paintings from Myanmar’s leading contemporary artists including Nann Nann, Khin Zaw Latt, Maung Aw, Soe Soe, and Than Kyaw Htay. This group of artists is brought to the United States by Gill Pattison, a New Zealander, who has been a resident in Myanmar for the past five years. Ms. Pattison became involved with the contemporary art scene in the region when she sponsored and organized (in conjunction with the Myanmar Times) a national competition for Myanmar artists in 2004. The competition identified many of the best Myanmar artists––both established and emerging––several of which will be part of this exhibition at plan b. Her aim in promoting these artists was to bring their art to a wider audience...not only the tourists who visited Myanmar but also to an international audience.
Kyee Myintt Saw, "Shwedagon Night", oil on canvas
Gallery 10 Illuminations Melissa Burley August 1 - August 25 "The Earth does not belong to us; we belong to the Earth, so what we do to the Earth we do to ourselves." ~Chief Seattle By combining objects found in nature with those discarded and made by man, my ultimate goal is to bring light to the thought that there is beauty in life after death. - Melissa Burley
"Sundrenched," 24" x 24" x 4-1/4", illuminated sculpture, by Melissa Burley.
Gallery 10 Rio/Paris/Washington George Iso September 5 - September 29 Brazilian painter George Iso brings his colorful abstract work to Gallery 10 for his first major U.S. exhibition. An international artist for over 20 years, Iso has shown his paintings from Rio to Rome, Madrid, London, and Paris.
"Stones On The Red Sea" 15" x 20", oil on canvas,2006, by George Iso
Gallery 10 Color Show Michele De LA Menardiere Dana Lynn Kleinman Robert Lemar Jean Plough John Carlo Punsalan Ilona Sochynsky Pat Walsh July 5 - July 28 Seven artists whose work with color dramatizes the many ways pigment can excite visual awareness and take it to a contemplative place. Some paint viscerally while others use symbols and evoke a spiritual awakening. Personal landscapes as well as literal treatment of spaces are sampled in this exhibition. Color is paramount without sacrificing composition.
Gallery 10 Anne J. Banks: 'Secrets' Pat Segnan: 'Lines' May 30 - June 30 "Secrets are mysteries hidden in the forms of art, subject to the viewer's perception and meanings. Like assemblage in sculpture, collages come together as statements of the materials at hand. These collages are inspired by nature, memories, the remembered colors and shapes of landscape, architecture and archetypal icons. Specific images may come from people, events, personal experiences, or associations in the mind, to create a mood or idea allowing the viewer to project a personal vision or interpretation into the work. Collage, like visual poetry, is a metaphor on a small scale, for larger scale structures in the world." --Anne J. Banks
LINES is an exhibit of new paintings on canvas, which are derived from a series of minimalist pen and ink drawings. This recent series of 47 small works were subsequently reproduced in Venice in a book entitled Disegni. The drawings and book were presented and shown in Venice last Fall, and were also shown this Spring in Rome. The work is an abstraction of letters and symbols in space which refer to figures in a landscape – of people, birds, trees, -- representing everyday life. -- Pat Segnan
Anne J Banks 'Envelope' 2006 - - - - Pat Segnan 'Big Time' 2007
Gallery 10 Revelations Adrienne Heinrich May 2 - 26 Revelations: In exploring historical and personal documentation we see the difficulty of presenting facts as unbiased truth. Truth is often skewed by memory or by personal interpretation. The visitor is invited to share in this mystery as it is exhibited in paintings, sculpture and mirrors.
Govinda Gallery Photographs Jonathan Mannion May 18 - June 23
Greater Reston Arts Center FLOW: The Landscape of Migration Foon Sham September 28 - November 10 Internationally renowned artist, Foon Sham, created a sculptural landscape of cones based on the essential elements of Chinese culture: Fire, Water, Earth, Metal, and Wood. Help "grow" the installation by adding your own elements — we’ll provide the materials. FLOW lets us see how immigration, movement, and change create a more vibrant world.
Greater Reston Arts Center Marco Rando - Sandra Woock May 10 - June 16 As a stay-at-home, multi-tasking dad, MARCO RANDO combines his passion for sculpture and design with the needs of his young children to create a unique portable art form. In family walks around the neighborhood, he scavenges his materials - a fallen tree provides an arm, an old coffee table transforms into a seat, while a wrecked baby carriage receives new life as a menacing buggy. SANDRA WOOCK will exhibit her dynamic, wall-mounted fiber art pieces in a concurrent exhibition. Drawing from a background in sculpture and textile design, the artist uses hand-dyed fabric, threads, metal, and highly detailed stitchery to develop each of her pieces into a tour-de-force statement.
Gallery 10 New Sculptures and Prints Sarah Stout October 31 - December 1 The exhibition explores the qualities of translucence in abstract sculptures and prints. Laminated fabric shaped over a mould or in folded sheets is the material developed for the sculptures, both relief and free standing. Silk screen prints are likewise composed of many layers of translucent ink. Lines and color between the layers appear to recede into the depths of the composition.
Paintings by Tanja Bos
Pastels by Shoshanna Ahart April 4 - May 13 Featuring paintings by: Tanja Bos Featuring pastels by: Shoshanna Ahart
Harmony Hall Recent Works Ann Crain October 22 - December 15
Harmony Hall "Stations of the Cross and other Haiku" Cianne Fragione August 13 - October 6 Among the works are 14 assemblages based on the Stations of the Cross from a woman's point of view.
H&F Fine Arts Dig Curated by Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof October 18 - November 24 A group show of eight Philadelphia-based artists guest-curated by Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof of artblog—named one of the best art blogs in the country by Art in America. The eight artists represented by Dig range from major award winners to emerging talents. Whitney Biennial (2006) standout Zoe Strauss, Barbara Bullock, and Candy Depew are each winners of Pew Fellowships in the Arts. Fleisher Challenge Award winners Depew and Kip Deeds have had prestigious solo shows at the Fleisher Art Memorial. Dig also features work by Nick Lenker, Jen Packer, Thom Lessner, and Jayson Scott Musson. Together, the artists represent a rich cross-section of today’s Philadelphia art scene.
Zoe Strauss, Detail I-95 (Phillies Imprint Removed Sign), Archival inkjet print, Color photocopy and/or Digital Projection, 2001-2007
H&F Fine Arts a line is a thing that moves in time Fiona Ross September 13 - October 13 A solo exhibition by Richmond, VA artist Fiona Ross. Applying innovative approaches in both ceramics and sumi ink painting, Ross makes urgent inquiries into the dynamic interplay between the stable and the volatile.
Fiona Ross, "Lotus", Porcelain and Ceramic Aggregate, 2005
H&F Fine Arts Space, Place and Time: Joanna Knox, Shannon Chester, Phil Nesmith August 9 - September 8 a group show of photographers Joanna Knox, Shannon Chester, and Phil Nesmith, each of whom are interested in exploring the delicate interplay between the places that define our lives, the spaces we inhabit, and the relentless passage of time that propels us through our days.
Joanna Knox
H&F Fine Arts Chimera A.B. Miner July 5 - August 4 A solo exhibition by Washington, DC-based artist A.B. Miner. Featuring work created over the past seven years.
H&F Fine Arts Chimera A.B. Miner July 5 - August 4 A solo exhibition by Washington, DC-based artist A.B. Miner. Featuring work created over the past seven years.
Harmony Hall Facility Art Show Arts at Harmony Hall Regional Center Fine Arts Instructors Jun 4 - July 25 Works of the Arts at Harmony Hall Regional Center Fine Arts Instructors.
Hemphill Reneé Stout Journal: Book One September 15 - October 27
Jason Gubbiotti, L.A. Zen Centre, 2006, acrylic and ink on canvas, 22 7/8" x 15 7/8"
Hillyer Art Space Which Came First? Drawing Conclusions: Kilnformed Glass Kari Minnick November 2 - December 20 Which Came First? Drawing Conclusions, an exhibition by Kari Minnick, features glass "collages" that combine bold composition, sensitive drawings, and fluid edges. Using flame-worked linear elements and images drawn directly into glass powders, Minnick creates signature pieces reminiscent of gestural drawings. Minnick's expressive use of line and manipulation of light break new artistic ground in the painterly expressions that emerge from hand-cut glass.
Hillyer Art Space Eve: A Series by Mia Rollow August 3 - September 20 Eve features Mia Rollow’s latest ventures in video and sound. The artist’s large-scale video projections explore microscopic facets of natural phenomena, which transform under her lens into ambiguous morphing landscapes. Sensually rich environments composed of movement, sound, and light emerge onscreen and confound the viewer with their mystery. These are living, unstable terrains whose unexpected shifting of elemental states creates an effect of both violence and elegance. Rollow’s videoscapes absorb the viewer to the point where all frames of reference are lost. The unfamiliar forms transcend our understanding; we are confronted by the realm of the unknown. The artist hopes that this unusual visual experience will allow our imagination to seep in and give us access to subconscious possibility.
Hillyer Art Space Renewal: Printmakers from the New Northern Ireland May 4 - July 20 The Arts Council of Northern Ireland invited IA&A’s president, David Furchgott, to select works from Northern Ireland’s two most active printmaking workshops for artists, Belfast Print Workshop and Seacourt Print Workshop. The result is Renewal, an exhibition featuring 18 artists that reflects the styles, interests and concerns of Northern Irish printmakers
Hillyer Art Space Monica Tinker: Out of b[Order] July 6 - August 30 Monica Tinker: Out of b[Order] is a site-specific installation that incorporates the use of natural and man-made materials to create a temporal exhibition drawing upon the immediate surroundings. On entering the exhibition space, viewers find that they've wandered into a three dimensional sketchbook where the meanderings of a thought are realized in drawings, sculpture, and text. Tinker utilizes steel, concrete, mixed media paintings, rope, encaustic, plastic, and a variety of natural matter to create a visual dialogue between objects and the installed environment. Ultimately, Tinker works to make sense of the visual and material world and invites the viewer to join in her journey.
Monica Tinker
Hillyer Art Space Washington Color School and its Influences: Selections from the Artery Collection April 13 - June 22 Hillyer Art Space is very proud to feature, Washington Color School and its Influences: Selections from the Artery Collection, which will open on April 13, 2007 in conjunction with the city-wide ColorField.remix program led by the Kreeger Museum. Renewal: Printmakers from the New Northern Ireland May 4 - July 20 The Arts Council of Northern Ireland invited IA&A’s president, David Furchgott, to select works from Northern Ireland’s two most active printmaking workshops for artists, Belfast Print Workshop and Seacourt Print Workshop. The result is Renewal, an exhibition featuring 18 artists that reflects the styles, interests and concerns of Northern Irish printmakers
The Hirshhorn "Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited" September 20 - January 6 In a startling burst of creativity from 1954 to 1962, Morris Louis produced more than 600 canvases that represented an important new direction in painting. His method of "staining" unprimed canvas with thinned acrylic paints was an innovation that continues to inspire contemporary artists. This is the first consideration of Louis's work in the United States in 20 years. "Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited," is on view from September 20, 2007, to January 6, 2008.
Morris Louis's "Para III" (1959) from the Hirshhorn's collection
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden WAYS OF SEEING: JOHN BALDESSARI EXPLORES THE COLLECTION July 26 - September 20 Artist John Baldessari, one of the most influential artists working today, was recently invited by the Hirshhorn curators to organize an exhibition using objects from the collection. Paintings by Milton Avery, Philip Guston, and Thomas Eakins, photographs (also by Eakins), and sculpture by Emily Kaufman are among the pieces included in the project, which is located in the lower-level galleries.
Black Box: Takeshi Murata May 28 - September 9 Takeshi Murata (American, b. 1974) takes “found-object” images from feature films and digitally re-works and re-joins them in a technique that might be called electronic painting. Each short hallucinogenic film involves thousands of individually rendered alterations and can take up to a year to complete. The effect is like visual quicksand—as viewers sink in deeper and deeper, they cannot recall what visual shifts led from one to the next.
Philip Guston, Daydreams, 1970
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Directions - Virgil Marti and Pae White March 9 - July 29 Since they collaborated at the Skowhegan summer residency in Maine in 1990, Virgil Marti and Pae White have been looking for an opportunity to work together again. At the invitation of the Hirshhorn and exhibition curator Milena Kalinovska, Marti and White created the latest Directions project, an immersive environment of color, light, and texture in the Hirshhorn’s lobby. Both artists draw inspiration from the experimentation of conceptual artists from the 1960s and 1970s who reconsidered meaning and materials in art. This shared focus, along with an interest in perception and in the interrelationship among art, architecture, and design, makes them natural partners to respond to the Hirshhorn’s late modernist architecture.
Installation view of Directions—Virgil Marti and Pae White, 2007. Photo by Lee Stalsworth
Hirshhorn After Hours With Wolfgang Tillmans Friday, May 18, 2007 from 8 pm to Midnight Opening celebration for the exhibition Wolfgang Tillmans featuring DJ Spencer Product Late-night exhibition viewing Hang out with artist Wolfgang Tillmans Add your thoughts to the audio scrapbook Chat with friends or make new ones in the conversation lounge Sip cocktails and dance outdoors on the Plaza until midnight
Wolfgang Tillmans' "paper drop (star)" (2006). Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, and Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden BLACK BOX: MAGNUS WALLIN December 15 - May 20 Magnus Wallin began his career as a performance and installation artist focused on creating visceral, psychologically charged events and environments. Since the 1990s, his principal medium has shifted to animation, and his work has retained its intensity. Drawn from his dreams and nightmares, the characters are often anonymous superbodies, evoking both classical ideals of physical beauty and a futuristic vision of clinical, pure muscle forms. They enact challenges in a timeless, airless space that recalls the aesthetic of video games and are faced with a fate that is perpetually beyond their control. Wallin’s Exercise Parade, 2001, and Anatomic Flop, 2003, are on view WAYS OF SEEING: JOHN BALDESSARI EXPLORES THE COLLECTION July 26 - September 20
Honfleur Gallery AMERICANS in PARIS Curated by Grace Teshima BARBARA NAVARRO
ROBERT OGLE
TRISH NICKELL
MATTHEW ROSE
LINDA MCCLUSKEY October 13 - November 3 Grace Teshima, founder of the grassroots gallery Chez Grace in Paris, is bringing a select group of expatriate artists to Washington D.C. to present an eclectic collection of contemporary artists. Honfleur and Chez Grace are pleased to present “Americans in Paris” showcasing a group of American artists currently living and creating in Paris, France. Five artists with a diversity of media and influence are included in the exhibition.
Honfleur Gallery GESTURE By Manju Shandler September 11 - October 6 "The September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center buildings shocked and disarmed the modern world. This act of hate resulted in the death of over 2,700 individuals. This number is almost inconceivable. The painting installation titled, Gesture gives a tangible allegory to the size of this loss by grouping together one brick-sized painting for every life taken on that day."
Honfleur Gallery GIRLMACHINE Katie Cercone August 4 - 25 GIRL MACHINE is an exhibit and installation exploring the intersection of girlhood and American Consumer Culture. The GIRL MACHINE installation, brought to the Honfleur Gallery by NY-based artist Katie Cercone, (http://www.zhibit.org/cercone) looks at The Birthday Party as a female coming-of-age ritual laying the foundation for the confusing commingling of themes in American consumer society.
Honfleur Gallery ANACOSTIA EXPOSED Photographic and Literary Expose June 30 - July 28 Local and international artists collaborate on a project to expore one of Washington DC's most controversial neighborhoods. The exhibition is a cooperative effort by Northern Ireland’s Mervyn Smyth and a collective of DC poets to showcase the culture and energy of Anacostia. Black and white photography is accompanied by powerful creative writing, taking the form of spoken word demonstrations and visual presentation by the poetry collective.
Honfleur Gallery Tisse sa Toile Delphine Perlstein June 2 - June 23 This June, Delphine Perlstein will be making her United States debut with the exhibition Tisse sa Toile at the Honfleur Gallery in Anacostia. Using surreal imagery paired with pedestrian objects, Ms. Perlstein paints on both a conscious and unconscious level. Many of her pieces have double meanings and she is constantly toying with imagination and reality. According to the artist; “Inspiration comes from everything, the tiny things of life, a word heard in the street, an image on television, a trace on a wall, a personal experience. The print of the paint on a newspaper on my studio floor allows me to reach the subtle energy of the paint and fall into a trance sometimes, almost invisible to its power. Inspiration comes and will come perpetually when I stay connected to life."
IDB Cultural Center Art Gallery Young Costa Rican Artists /Nine Proposals May 24 - August 20 Surveys the latest developments in Costa Rican art. Nine artists, all living in Costa Rica, were selected out of thirty-four who responded to an open call to present portfolios. The main criteria is to be forty years of age or younger, have had at least one individual show, and have participated in a minimum of three group exhibitions.
International Visions Verna Hart May 23 - June 30 The mission of the gallery is to exhibit and promote multi-cultural original
work by national and international artists. International
Visions presents visual art exhibitions and special cultural
traditions in dance, music, theater and the literary arts.
The Gallery’s goal is to become a link between people,
cultures and beliefs.
International Visions Nestor Hernandez July 6 - August 4 The mission of the gallery is to exhibit and promote multi-cultural original
work by national and international artists. International
Visions presents visual art exhibitions and special cultural
traditions in dance, music, theater and the literary arts.
The Gallery’s goal is to become a link between people,
cultures and beliefs.
Irvine Contemporary Eisbergfreistadt Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick October 27 - December 8 A new series of photographs and installations. With Eisbergfreistadt ("Iceberg Free State"), Kahn and Selesnick take their signature style of combining documentary realism, historical fictional narrative, and satire to a new level of contemporary resonance. The project documents the creation of a historical imaginary principality, which is inspired by an actual incident in 1923, when a mammoth iceberg ran aground in the Baltic port of Lubeck, towering over the town and terrifying the populace. Many thought (not unreasonably) that the iceberg caps were melting and the apocalypse was coming. This event inspired gloomy cafe songs, pulp fiction, and even a deck of playing cards. Many bank notes and inflationary currencies were issued for the Eisbergfreistadt. Manifestos were published, and posters put up declaring the state's new ideals. Although the creation of the Eisbergfreistadt is a historical incident, it is not clear to what extent anything referenced from the era actually existed.
Nicholas Kahn & Richard Selesnick, Cardgame, 2007. Photographic Print. 12 X 84 in. (Detail)
Irvine Contemporary Saturnalia: Festival of Gallery Artists for the Winter Season December 15 - January 05
Irvine Contemporary Trust in Me Susan Jamison Restructuring Courtney Jordan September 15 - October 20 In Trust in Me, Susan Jamison’s second solo exhibition at Irvine Contemporary, the artist presents a new series of egg tempera paintings that extend her signature approach to the female figure through provocative new imagery on dark tempera grounds. For Restructuring, Courtney Jordan presents a new series of drawings in ink and graphite on mylar that reconceive architectural forms and structures from the human built environment.
Susan Jamison, Trust in Me, 2007. Egg tempera and ink transfer on panel.
Irvine Contemporary Introductions3 August 11 - September 8 A selection of recent graduates from leading national and international art schools. This third year of Introductions at Irvine Contemporary is the first gallery exhibition of its kind: over 250 artists from 60 different art colleges were reviewed for Introductions3, and final selections were made with the advice of a panel of art collectors, rather than curators or gallerists. Introductions3 has grown to an inclusive “MFA annual” -- with some exceptional BFA graduates -- that brings the best rising artists to Washington, D.C.
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Rocky McCorkle (San Francisco Art Institute, Photographs)
Irvine Contemporary Re-Presenting the Portrait Kerry Skarbakka & Marla Rutherford June 30 - August 04 New and recent photographs by internationally acclaimed artists Kerry Skarbakka and Marla Rutherford. Both artists are working at a vitally significant intersection of approaches to the photographic image today: performative photography, staged and provocative hyperreal fictions, and new approaches to the photographic portrait.
Irvine Contemporary ColorField Remix @
Irvine Contemporary
April 14 - July 1
Irvine Contemporary is pleased to participate
in a Washington-wide art event, ColorField Remix, honoring
the Color Field art movement and the artists of the Washington
Color School. Irvine Contemporary presents paintings by gallery
artists Teo González
and Robert Mellor, artists who reflect
on the color field ideas and traditions, and we will also exhibit
works by Gene Davis and Willem de Looper, leaders in the Washington
Color School group in the 1970s and 1980s.
Irvine Contemporary Robert Mellor: New Paintings May 26 - June 30 Irvine Contemporary is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by nationally acclaimed artist, Robert Mellor
Robert Mellor, "Untitled"
Irvine Contemporary Oliver Vernon: Macro/Micro Paintings and On-site Sculpture April 14 – May 19 Oliver Vernon’s first solo exhibition in Washington, Macro/Micro, comprising a new series of paintings on canvas and panel and an on-site sand sculpture.
Jane Haslem Gallery Conjunction: New Media Prints by Anne Chesnut November 7 - December 15 An exhibition that showcases Chesnut’s remarkable merging of traditional and new artistic processes to comment on our world through both whimsy and political commentary. Raised by a linguist, Chesnut developed an avid interest in typography. She received her master’s degree in fine art from Yale, and studied under the renowned American printmaker Gabor Peterdi. With the advent of computer generated images and photoshop it was only logical that Anne would combine her rigorous printmaking training and lifetime interests and create fine art. Anne Chesnut’s images are formed as she brings together her skills in creating original drawings, lithographs, and photographs, and then combines these traditional processes with symbols and graphic elements made possible with the computer. Chesnut works from mind to monitor. Her collages are built on the screen. Some images have so many layers they require as much as two gigabits to store.
Jane Haslem Gallery California Printmakers: Then and Now September 27 - October 27 An exhibition of prints by virtuoso California artists. While many are familiar with prints by California artists Wayne Thiebaud, Nathan Oliveira, and Richard Diebenkorn, this exhibition will broaden your appreciation as you explore prints by California artists who rarely exhibit their work on the East Coast. This outstanding collection hails from the inventories of The Annex Galleries, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, and Crown Point Press.
Jane Haslem Gallery A SUMMER SALON Multiple Artists Pictures hung floor to ceiling throughout the gallery June 23 - July 31
Billy Morrow Jackson. Spring Field, 1971. oil on masonite, 19 3/4 x 29 3/4"
Jane Haslem Gallery Painted Journey: Gregory Burns and Mother and Daughter: Nancy McIntyre Molly McIntyre May 5 - May 31
Jerusalem Fund Gallery Handala and the Cartoons of Naji Al-Ali May 18 - August 31 The late Palestinian cartoonist, Naji al-Ali, produced over 40,000 cartoons satirizing the powers that be in the Middle East. Emerging from humble beginnings in the refugee camps, for over 30 years he was an uncompromising critic of a regressive Arab political culture and of Western intervention in Arab affairs. As one of the most popular artists in the Arab world, he was loved for his defense of ordinary people and for his criticism of despotism and repression.
The Katzen Arts Center High Fiber
April 21 - May 13
The history of tapestry encompasses pre-Columbian Inca tunics, Egyptian
Coptic medallions, Chinese kesi of woven silk, Navajo blankets, and Middle
Eastern kilim carpets. Between the third and seventh centuries, tapestry weaving
was introduced by Muslim and Byzantine influences to Western Europe. Subsequent
revivals by the Arts and Crafts movement and the Bauhaus brought
the medium to a 20th century audience.
Jules Olitski, Steropes, steel, 2006 Collection of Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen
Jules Olitski: Late Sculpture
In collaboration with Colorfield Remix, the largest celebration
of painting ever held in the Washington area, American University
Museum is presenting Jules Olitski’s last major works. His
large scale sculptures from the Cyclops series, 2006, is on loan
from the collection of Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen and will be
on view in front of the Katzen Arts Center through 2007. Resolutions: New Art from Northern Ireland
April 21 - July 29
Contemporary art in Northern Ireland is hot! “The Troubles” that
raged for twenty-five years are over, and artists are helping to
build a newer world of tolerance, innovation, and intellectual and
aesthetic pleasures. Organized by the Golden Thread Gallery in collaboration
with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and curated by Jack Rasmussen.
Made in America:
The Washington Print Club
19th Biennial
April 21 - June 24
Made in America, the 19th Washington Print Club Biennial, features over 100
prints made within the borders of the United States by American artists
or artists working in America. Black Masters
April 21 - May 27
In 1876 an Edward Bannister landscape won the 1876 Centennial Exposition
award for oil painting. Yet not a word appears in most American art histories.
In 2003 the National Gallery’s retrospective of the art of Romare
Bearden became a turning point in the recognition of black artists. This
brief survey exhibition is a sketch of the journey of African-Americans
and their participation in American art. Diseno Shakespear May 22 - June 24 Identity programs, architecture, wayfinding systems, urban furniture, websites and more document five decades of work by Diseño Shakespear, Argentina’s family-owned design consultancy that has had a profound influence in that country and beyond.
Jules Olitski, Steropes, steel, 2006 Collection of Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen
The Katzen Arts Center Art from Syria: A Journey through Half a Century of Creativity June 5 - June 17 Expression, allusion and abstraction characterize Syrian art since the 1950s, represented here by the work of Louay Kayali, Sara Shamma and others little known in the United States. This exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries Christina McPhee June 5 - July 29 The Diaries meditate and mediate on the indissoluble link between our perceptions of the invisible landscape of data and our own psychic space, particularly as it is transformed during moments of traumatic memory, when the shock of recall is both vivid and fleeting. Organized by Sara Tecchia Roma New York. Jules Olitski: Late Sculpture
In collaboration with Colorfield Remix, the largest celebration
of painting ever held in the Washington area, American University
Museum is presenting Jules Olitski’s last major works. His
large scale sculptures from the Cyclops series, 2006, is on loan
from the collection of Dr. Cyrus and Myrtle Katzen and will be
on view in front of the Katzen Arts Center through 2007. Resolutions: New Art from Northern Ireland
April 21 - July 29
Contemporary art in Northern Ireland is hot! “The Troubles” that
raged for twenty-five years are over, and artists are helping to
build a newer world of tolerance, innovation, and intellectual and
aesthetic pleasures. Organized by the Golden Thread Gallery in collaboration
with the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and curated by Jack Rasmussen.
Made in America:
The Washington Print Club
19th Biennial
April 21 - June 24
Made in America, the 19th Washington Print Club Biennial, features over 100
prints made within the borders of the United States by American artists
or artists working in America. Diseno Shakespear May 22 - June 24 Identity programs, architecture, wayfinding systems, urban furniture, websites and more document five decades of work by Diseño Shakespear, Argentina’s family-owned design consultancy that has had a profound influence in that country and beyond. Art from Syria: A Journey through Half a Century of Creativity June 5 - June 17 Expression, allusion and abstraction characterize Syrian art since the 1950s, represented here by the work of Louay Kayali, Sara Shamma and others little known in the United States. This exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic.
Christina McPhee, Strike, 2005, Courtesy:Sara Tecchia Gallery
Keck Center of the National Academies Hidden Codes November 10, 2006 – May 10, 2007 Paintings by Dennis Ashbaugh Dennis
Ashbaugh states that "biotechnology has reshuffled our concept of time
by opening frightening new doors. It's altered what we eat. It's
altered the face and future of our planet." Ashbaugh has explored DNA
imagery in his work since 1987. His large, vibrant paintings or “gene
portraits” fuse and explore the traditions of abstract art with
cutting-edge scientific technology.
Kennedy Center Terrace Gallery VSA arts' Renascence 07 June 1- June 28 "VSA arts embarked on an ambitious pursuit to identify artists with disabilities who combine visual art and technology. Selected by a distinguished jury, these artists are at the forefront of using New Media to convey personal experience. The theme, renascence, invites artists to consider a rebirth of the senses. These artists demonstrate personal experience in innovative ways and invite active participation by the viewer. The resulting exhibition compels us to think deeply about our humanity-the differences and similarities that bridge our lives." - SOULA ANTONIOU, PRESIDENT
Knew Gallery Eating the Sands of Time May 19 - June 24 An exhibit of original works from Graduate Students of the Rhode Island School of Design
The Kreeger Museum GENE DAVIS: INTERVAL April 14 - July 31 Gene Davis was one of Washington, DC’s most influential and successful
artists, best known for his paintings of vertical stripes. The Kreeger
Museum will present a timely and extensive exhibition about the
artist’s use of interval in his stripe paintings, micro-paintings and
works on paper. The exhibition is co-curated by Andrea Pollan and Jean
Lawlor Cohen and will include a co-authored four-color catalog.
Long View Gallery Weber Fine Art October 20 - November 24 Five contemporary artists - Zoreh Partovi, Martin Quen and Sam Evans, Nela Solomon, Jeff Surret and Peter Kuttner - from the collection of Weber Fine Art. Weber Fine Art is a home-based art gallery and artist studio located in Northwest Washington, DC which specializes in residential, corporate and hospitality artwork.
Long View Gallery Nature Perceived Stacie Albano September 15 - October 13 Stacie Albano paints landscapes, but her work differs significantly from traditional notions of landscape painting. She only briefly and initially documents a space on her canvas so that her work can present her personal perceptions and memories. Gone are the breezy pastel flowers and soft clouds; they are replaced with blue skies back-painted in an electric orange that peeks through enough to intrigue. Utilizing a surreal color pallette, Albano conveys an emotional connection to a place rather than a physical copy of what she sees. Although influenced by the rural low country around Savannah, Georgia, her work has a modern edge because of her use of a surreal color palette. Albano's work is inviting, inspiring, and intriguiging
Long View Gallery Charlie Gaynor's Saturated View Charlie Gaynor August 11 - September 8 Charlie Gaynor has been selling real estate for the past twenty plus years. Prior to this career, he served in Vietnam for 15 months as General Creighton Abrams’ personal photographer. Currently both his professional and creative endeavors collide as city houses are a main theme of his work, combined with store fronts and images saturated with vibrant color from his travels abroad.
Long View Gallery Happy Anniversary Long View July 7 - August 4 As Long View Gallery in the City’s first year comes to a close we want to look back and celebrate the artists that have made this crucial year a success. From the intriguing women that populate Judith Thompson’s work to the delicate and surreal drawings of Matt Hollis, this group show is sure to have artwork that will excite all tastes in art. Dana Ellyn’s politically charged pieces will be juxtaposed nicely by Gerard Erley’s breezy landscapes - the visual tension on the walls will be high as styles and subject matter clash in a colorful array of inspired pieces.
Long View Gallery I Call Shenanigans Dana Ellyn June 9 - June 30 Dana Ellyn values her fine arts training but arduously works on peeling away the art school compulsion to make, and hide behind, pretty pictures. Dana's unique perspective and inspiration are drawn from living in the world’s most influential city - she lives and paints less than five blocks from the White House. The allure of a Dana Ellyn painting is that it tells a story; her paintings have meaning, and sometimes the message may come as a shock. Her work is bold and confrontational, often exposing unpleasant aspects of current issues.
Woman of Distinction April 14 - May 5 Judith Thompson The distant looks in the eyes of the women that populate Judith
Thompson's paintings both frighten and intrigue the viewer. These
women, often regal in stature, find themselves surrounded by symbolic
objects and creatures yet they choose to ignore them. Instead, their
attention is focused outside the canvas onto the viewer, begging us to
question their realized world. Inspired by troubled women of her past
as well as stories of her everyday life, Judith paints these women in a
way that commands further investigation. With the chin slightly raised
and swathed in elaborate clothing, equally sophisticated and snobbish,
these women of distinction demand respect.
Suspended Animation Alan Rubin May 12 - June 2 Alan Rubin became a professional artist late in life after a long career as owner-operator of The Biograph Theatre in Georgetown. He creates art that makes the viewer look at life from many angles, from our collective memory and from the surreal subconscious. Rubin captures the moments that are normally fleeting and then conveys their connection to the unknown moments before and after. According to The Washington Post his "bold illustrated scenes resembling ... frames from imaginary movies that look simultaneously familiar and foreign ... often have the look of suspended animation." I Call Shenanigans Dana Ellyn June 9 - June 30 Dana Ellyn values her fine arts training but arduously works on peeling away the art school compulsion to make, and hide behind, pretty pictures. Dana's unique perspective and inspiration are drawn from living in the world’s most influential city - she lives and paints less than five blocks from the White House. The allure of a Dana Ellyn painting is that it tells a story; her paintings have meaning, and sometimes the message may come as a shock. Her work is bold and confrontational, often exposing unpleasant aspects of current issues.
Marin-Price Galleries (Works on Paper) Donny Finley June 30 - July 20 Donny Finley has long been known as a painter in oil; he is however a most gifted watercolorist. Elected as a signature member of American Watercolor Society, at age 32, he become one of the youngest painters ever to receive this distinction. Appointment to the A.W.S requires that you be accepted to their annual exhibition three times within ten years. After that you become eligible for membership. It should be noted that the distinction goes to very few painters from a field of hundreds.
Marin-Price Galleries Photographs Andrew Dosunmu May 12 - May 31 This exhibit will be Marin-Price Galleries first ever show of photography. Marin-Price Galleries selected the works of Andrew Dosunmu, a noted Nigerian photographer who has captured everyday activities of African Americans with his camera. These photos are an interesting look into the city of Detroit, Michigan; a city wrought with poverty and social and racial difficulties
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Sam Gilliam: "New Paintings" May 19 - July 28 For the past ten years, the Marsha Mateyka Gallery has also represented Sam Gilliam, Washington's best known living artist. During the late 1960's and early 1970's, Sam Gilliam was linked by many to the second generation of the Washington Color School artists; however, it was Sam Gilliam's recognition of the possibilities of removing the color stained canvases off the stretchers and installing the paintings in three dimensional forms that gave his work national prominence. During his long career, Sam Gilliam's work has displayed an exceptional range of structure and process and a dramatic sense of color.
Sam Gilliam, Smooth 2007
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Choosing Things Over Time William T. Wiley November 2 - December 22 New work “Choosing Things Over Time” is the gallery’s 10th solo exhibition for this important artist. His style combines drawing and representational imagery with abstraction. Social and political comment often enters the work by way of quotes and puns, with wordplay and humor either softening or honing the artist’s message.
William T. Wiley is a recent recipient of the prestigious Guggenheim Foundation Grant. Over the last forty years, his works have been the subject of many traveling museum exhibitions. In Washington, his works are included in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art, Hirshhorn and Corcoran museums.
Marin-Price Galleries (Works on Paper) Donny Finley June 30 - July 20 Donny Finley has long been known as a painter in oil; he is however a most gifted watercolorist. Elected as a signature member of American Watercolor Society, at age 32, he become one of the youngest painters ever to receive this distinction. Appointment to the A.W.S requires that you be accepted to their annual exhibition three times within ten years. After that you become eligible for membership. It should be noted that the distinction goes to very few painters from a field of hundreds.
Marin-Price Galleries Michael Moss June 2 - June 22 Michael Moss is a painter from New England depicting vibrant scenes of rural New England and Cape Cod. He enjoys an enormous appeal with Marin-Price Galleries clientele Michael Moss has been represented by Marin-Price Galleries for six years. He has been in numerous group shows. This one, however is his very first one-person show.
Maryland Institute College of Art Them:Self Warren Linn November 16 - December 16 About Them:Self, Linn stated, “In continuing to draw, paint, and collage portraits and looking back over this work, two questions arise for me. What has driven me to do these portraits, and why this continuing range of approach? The most obvious answer is because I wanted to and needed (need) to. The thing about these two aesthetics, schools, approaches, the observed and the made up, is they are both about discovery. And at this point, all is fair game.” Warren Linn has worked for a wide range of major media clients for almost 40 years, including Atlantic, the Boston Globe, CBS/Sony, the Chicago Tribune, Esquire, Harpers, the L.A. Times, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Newsweek, the Progressive, React Magazine, Rolling Stone, Time, Urbanite, the Village Voice, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Winter & Winter Music
Leo Costelli, Acrylic, Watercolor & Collage, Troika Magazine, 1994
Maryland Institute College of Art Photographs John Dugdale September 26 - October 28 After a decade of success as a commercial photographer, Dugdale lost 80 percent of his eyesight due to HIV-related CMV retinitis. His loss of outer sight has been compensated for by the gift of insight. According to Dugdale, “I learned that photography is in your mind and head, and not your eyes. My visual impairment has helped me to focus on essentials. The content of my photographs includes family, friends, a few beloved objects, and self-portraits with allegorical references to illness and recovery.” The images that Dugdale has shot since his sight dimmed have been featured in more than 78 exhibitions and are in permanent collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the Miami Museum of Art, and the Berkeley Art Museum at the University of California. Additionally, Maurice Sendak has included Dugdale’s work in his private collection, and over a 10-year period, Elton John has collected 199 of his prints.
McLean Project for the Arts September 20 - November 3 Postcards from the Real: Works by Josephine Haden Using subtle but efficient compositional devices, Arlington artist Josephine Haden toys with perceptual expectations in these large-scale landscape based paintings of open-ended allegorical vignettes. Blending open sky, vast bodies of water and soaring vistas with magazine, vacation and animal imagery, Haden creates visual stories that ask as many questions as they answer. Like postcards from another time and place, these paintings offer viewers a glimpse into a world where imagination transforms the mundane and banal into the extraordinary and unexpected.
Genomes and Daily Observations : An Installation by Suzanne Stryk In this installation, Virginia artist Suzanne Stryk brings together a grid of exquisitely poetic drawings of natural objects and modern genetic symbols, an antique desk depicting the workspace of a nineteenth century natural historian, and a mirror reflecting both the images on the walls and the image of the current viewer. Using these basic elements, Stryk contrasts and blends today's world of high tech science with the more intimate knowledge of nature gained through the careful and close observational scientific techniques of the past. At the heart of this work are questions regarding the reconciliation and coexistence of scientific knowledge with a personal reverence for the mysteries of nature.
Fairy Tales : Paintings by Joy Every Landscape, fantasy and fairy tale co-exist in these expressive paintings which draw heavily on images from the subconscious and both dark and lightuniversal symbolic content. Color, pattern, texture and other formal compositional elements are explored within the context of the landscape, while mysterious imaginary worlds are seamlessly blended with the familiar.
Meat Market Gallery The Last Pony Lucy Hogg November 2 - December 16 The Last Pony project is a meditation on the end of painting, at least the end of it for Lucy Hogg. Her image of a horse poised at the edge of a cliff is based on Whistlejacket by George Stubbs (c. 1762). Stubbs, at the request of his original patron, had left the background blank. Into that void Hogg has inserted the landscape from an earlier equestrian painting by Diego Velasquez, his Phillip IV on Horseback (c. 1634). The Spanish monarch's reign has striking similarities to the second Bush administration. Riderless, the horse is about to plunge into the unknown. The figure represents either the epitome of autonomous action or a fearful flight.
Montpelier Arts Center Wild Things- Works That Go Beyond the Expected! Prince George’s County Juried Exhibition November 1 - November 29 Juror: Jefferson Pinder Patricia Autenrieth, Alan Binstock, Ed Bisese, Melissa Burley, Charl Anne Brew, Mahwish Chishty, Seth Gomoljak, Joyce Keister, Papisco Kudzi, Michelle Johnson, Marla Mclean, Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette, Fredric A. Roberts, Nancy Salome Sanford, Chris Shea, Michael Stark, Linda Lee Uphoff
Montpelier Arts Center 26th Annual Montpelier Invitational Sculpture Exhibition June 7 - August 17 Featuring six artists who work with metal. Three are members of the Washington Sculptors Group & three are members of Sculptor’s Inc.: Chris Bathgate, Peter Campbell, John Ferguson, Carmen Barros Howell, Minna Nathanson and David Hubbard.
Galerie Myrtis Sculpture for the Soul Lynda Smith-Bugge September 14 - October 14 “Sculpture for the Soul” is an exhibition featuring the work of Virginia artist, Lynda Smith-Bugge. Influenced by Henry Moore’s abstract sculpture, Smith-Bugge manipulates the wood with such subtle prowess that the viewer is drawn into the natural textures and rhythms of the wood’s surface. Through the woodworking process, Smith-Bugge re-forms a broken tree branch into geometric forms which highlight and honor the evocative and organic shapes provided by nature.
Galerie Myrtis Art of the Emerging Group Exhibition August 3 - September 3 Ann Bouie, Miles Bumbray, Wesley Clark, Nicole Cutts, Elsa Gebreyesus, Amy Jackson, Eric Mack, and Stanley Squirewell
National Academy of Sciences Faces of Science Mariana Cook August 7 - September 28 In Faces of Science, renowned photographer Mariana Cook turns her camera on some of the greatest men and women of the scientific community. Each portrait is paired with a short autobiographical essay explaining how the scientist became interested in his or her chosen field.
National Gallery of Art Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper 1450–1700 May 6 - September 16 Approximately 60 works of art on paper, nearly all from the National Gallery of Art's own collection, will lead viewers along an adventurous route through European perceptions of foreign realms from the 15th to the early 18th century. Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings May 6 - September 16 Approximately 100 works from one of the most significant private collections of master drawings in the United States are presented for the first time.
States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns March 11- October 28 The
focus of this exhibition is 1st Etchings, 2nd State, a portfolio of 13
prints by Jasper Johns that was published in 1969. It includes a title
page and two versions each of six motifs: Ale Cans, Paint Brushes,
Flag, Light Bulb, Flash Light, and 0 through 9, the latter being a
configuration of overlapping numerals.
Edward Hopper September 16 - January 21 This is the first comprehensive survey of Edward Hopper's career to be seen in American museums outside New York in more than 25 years. Focusing on the period of the artist's great achievements—from about 1925 to midcentury—the exhibition will feature such iconic paintings as Automat (1927), Drug Store (1927), Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), and Nighthawks (1942)
J.M.W. Turner October 1 - January 6 The largest and most comprehensive retrospective of Turner's work ever presented in the United States includes approximately 70 oil paintings and 70 works on paper.
The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson October 7 - December 31 This exhibition of approximately 200 snapshot photographs chronicles the evolution of snapshot photography from 1888, when George Eastman first introduced the Kodak camera and roll film, through the 1970s. The Baroque Woodcut October 28 - March 30 Woodcut in its classic form achieved a final triumph in the Baroque era when painters of exceptional caliber chose it as a dramatic means for expressing the energy and refinement of their draftsmanship.
Let the World In: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg from the National Gallery of Art and Related Collections October 28 - March 30 Drawn from more than 400 prints by Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925) that are a key component of the National Gallery of Art's collection of contemporary works on paper, the exhibition features approximately 60 examples from all periods of the artist's work in print media
National Museum of Women in the Arts WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution September 21 - December 16, 2007 WACK! is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the formation, development, and impact of feminism in post-war contemporary art from 1965 to 1980.
American Indian Pottery from the Collection October 8 - February 17 A Living Tradition: Pueblo Pottery from the Permanent Collection A Living Tradition: Pueblo Pottery from the Permanent Collection celebrates the achievements of several generations of female Pueblo potters from New Mexico. The National Museum of Women in the Arts at 20: Selections from the Archives January 26 - December 31 Photographs, original posters, and historical objects gleaned from the museum’s institutional archives as well as paintings from the permanent collection, this exhibition documents the museum’s achievements over the past twenty years. The exhibition, hung in the Great Hall, was curated by Jason Stieber, NMWA archivist.
National Portrait Gallery Great Britons: Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London April 27 - September 3 The National Portrait Gallery will present an exhibition of great treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London, in celebration of its 150th anniversary. By bringing to America approximately 60 of the finest painted portraits and photographs of the most significant British figures of the past 500 years, this exhibition will demonstrate the common histories of the two countries. Harry Benson: Being There April 27 - September 3 For more than fifty years Harry Benson has worked as a photojournalist, producing photographs of remarkable people, often at exceptional times. Benson’s photographs often tell a story in a single image, but brought together they provide a unique chronicle of the personalities and events that have captured our attention and shaped our world. Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry Through July 8 William Christenberry (b. 1936) looks for the spirit of Southern culture in the landscape and architecture of rural Alabama. Drawing upon his formal training, family traditions and a lasting relationship with his native home in Hale County, Christenberry has spent the last 50 years creating a remarkable body of work that is an exploration of all aspects of life and experience. This installation—not a retrospective, but a survey of past and present work, some seen here for the first time—includes more than 60 of Christenberry's photographs, drawings, paintings, sculptures and building constructions.
Galerie Myrtis Laurie Monblatt May 11 - June 30 Laurie Monblatt is an abstract painter whose works are informed by her heightened sensitivity for composition and love of nature. Her rich knowledge of form and color are demonstrated through surfaces mapped with spontaneous lines and patterns which belie her careful planning and execution.
Meat Market Gallery Karin by Gerald Wartofsky May 4 - May 27 As a child in WWII Vienna, my wife's dolls were of great comfort and solace. The passage of time worked erosions on the dolls in surface disfigurements and altered patinas. I imagine the dolls being possessed with a compelling "persona", a proxy to humankind. Throughout the years I became more intrigued with their enigmatic qualities, attempting to translate them in painting and drawing through diverse statements. I explored alternating "expressionistic" distortions and "classical" refinements. There are diversions in incorporating this subject with other themes which lead to ambiguities. I subconsciously wished to bring the dolls to "life", reflecting on the Pygmalion and Prague Rabbi and his "Golem" archetypes. My wife's dance choreography is autobiographical. Her kinetic form is paralleled with her prose/poetry writings entitled "Moments: A Dancing Life". My interpretative paintings try to fuse her dance with other themes, some emanating from musical, literary, and Kabbalistic sources. Once again, ambiguity prevails Gerald Wartofsky.
Gallery Neptune Urban Color New Paintings by John Aquilino May 3 -26
Montpelier Arts Center Place Jody Isaacson October 5 - October 26 A print installation by new resident printmaker.
Drawn from the Crowd Caroline Thorington September 7 - October 27 Lithographs by Maryland artist
Montpelier Arts Center Contemporary Color Works chosen by Sam Gilliam and Gina Marie Lewis April 17 - June 2 Artists: Doris Kennedy, Liani Foster, Bill Harris, Rosetta DeBerardinis, Jessa McFarlane, Harlee Little, Tewodross Melchishua, & Gina Marie Lewis.
McLean Project for the Arts Strictly Painting 6: Color Field Revisited June 21 - July 28 As part of the city-wide arts initiative, Color Field Remix, MPA’s painting biennial, Strictly Painting, will focus on artists working in the mid-Atlantic region who see themselves as having been influenced by the Washington Color School movement. Kristen Hileman, Assistant Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, juried this year’s exhibition. List of Artists: Timothy App Steve Adams John James Anderson Ryan Carr Johnson Jeffry Cudlin Joel D'Orazio Corey Drieth Suzanna Fields Gunnel Gyllenhoff Ron Johnson Lisa Kellner Tammy Maloney Kathryn McDonnell Nick Moses Dory Obendorfer Frank Phillips Jo Smail Kathy Snow Stratton Marty Weishaar Andrew Wodzianski Cynthia Young The Fabric of Memory: New Works by Catherine Day In these photographic works printed digitally on multiple layers of transparent fabric, Catherine Day explores the sifting and sorting processes by which the essence of memory is revealed. MPA/Corcoran College of Art + Design Student Exhibition Works by students taking classes at the McLean Project for the Arts in partnership with the Corcoran College of Art + Design.
Walter Kravitz, Limbo, graphite and watercolor, 48 x 72 inches, 2006
Museum OAS ¡Merengue! Visual Rhythms / Ritmos Visuales February 23-May 27 This exhibition, curated by Sara Hermann, explores the pictorial representation of merengue, the dance and music genre which, interwoven throughout the nation's history, has come to define Dominican culture and identity.
Galerie Myrtis Sculpture M. Scott Johnson November 2 - December 15
National Museum of Natural History Transitions: Photographs by Robert Creamer through June 2007 Robert Creamer has a deep respect for change—its subtle palette and patterns, the surprising structure of decay, and the integrity that graces every stage of life. In a Creamer photograph a browning petal becomes as glorious as the newly opened bloom. The numbered museum specimen lives on as a remnant of history.
National Gallery of Art Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper 1450–1700 May 6 - September 16 Approximately 60 works of art on paper, nearly all from the National Gallery of Art's own collection, will lead viewers along an adventurous route through European perceptions of foreign realms from the 15th to the early 18th century. Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings May 6 - September 16 Approximately 100 works from one of the most significant private collections of master drawings in the United States are presented for the first time.
Rembrandt's Titus from the Norton Simon Museum May 11 - September 4 More than forty years after Rembrandt's painting Portrait of a Boy in Fancy Dress (c. 1655), or Titus, made its first Washington appearance, it will return to the National Gallery of Art
States and Variations: Prints by Jasper Johns March 11- October 28 The
focus of this exhibition is 1st Etchings, 2nd State, a portfolio of 13
prints by Jasper Johns that was published in 1969. It includes a title
page and two versions each of six motifs: Ale Cans, Paint Brushes,
Flag, Light Bulb, Flash Light, and 0 through 9, the latter being a
configuration of overlapping numerals.
Eugène Boudin at the National Gallery of Art March 25 -August 5 *(extended to September 3) In
honor of the centennial of Gallery benefactor Paul Mellon's birth, a
special exhibition of 40 paintings and works on paper by French
impressionist Eugène Boudin
National Portrait Gallery Great Britons: Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London April 27 - September 3 The National Portrait Gallery will present an exhibition of great treasures from the National Portrait Gallery, London, in celebration of its 150th anniversary. By bringing to America approximately 60 of the finest painted portraits and photographs of the most significant British figures of the past 500 years, this exhibition will demonstrate the common histories of the two countries. Harry Benson: Being There April 27 - September 3 For more than fifty years Harry Benson has worked as a photojournalist, producing photographs of remarkable people, often at exceptional times. Benson’s photographs often tell a story in a single image, but brought together they provide a unique chronicle of the personalities and events that have captured our attention and shaped our world.
National Museum of Women in the Arts WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution September 21 - December 16, 2007 WACK! is the first comprehensive exhibition to explore the formation, development, and impact of feminism in post-war contemporary art from 1965 to 1980.
American Indian Pottery from the Collection October 8 - February 17 A Living Tradition: Pueblo Pottery from the Permanent Collection A Living Tradition: Pueblo Pottery from the Permanent Collection celebrates the achievements of several generations of female Pueblo potters from New Mexico. The National Museum of Women in the Arts at 20: Selections from the Archives January 26 - December 31 Photographs, original posters, and historical objects gleaned from the museum’s institutional archives as well as paintings from the permanent collection, this exhibition documents the museum’s achievements over the past twenty years. The exhibition, hung in the Great Hall, was curated by Jason Stieber, NMWA archivist.
Frida Kahlo: Public Image, Private Life. A Selection of Photographs and Letters July 6 - October 14 Celebrating Kahlo’s 100th birthday, the exhibition includes the museum’s prized possession, Kahlo’s Self-portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, 23 photographs of Kahlo by various artists, 10 of Kahlo’s unpublished personal letters to family and friends from The Nelleke Nix and Marianne Huber Collection: The Frida Kahlo Papers and 12 never-before-seen photographs of Kahlo’s private bathroom at the Casa Azul.
National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts at 20: Selections from the Archives January 26 - December 31 Photographs, original posters, and historical objects gleaned from the museum’s institutional archives as well as paintings from the permanent collection, this exhibition documents the museum’s achievements over the past twenty years. The exhibition, hung in the Great Hall, was curated by Jason Stieber, NMWA archivist. Frida Kahlo: Public Image, Private Life. A Selection of Photographs and Letters July 6 - October 14 Celebrating Kahlo’s 100th birthday, the exhibition includes the museum’s prized possession, Kahlo’s Self-portrait Dedicated to Leon Trotsky, 23 photographs of Kahlo by various artists, 10 of Kahlo’s unpublished personal letters to family and friends from The Nelleke Nix and Marianne Huber Collection: The Frida Kahlo Papers and 12 never-before-seen photographs of Kahlo’s private bathroom at the Casa Azul.
National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts at 20: Selections from the Archives January 26 - December 31 Photographs, original posters, and historical objects gleaned from the museum’s institutional archives as well as paintings from the permanent collection, this exhibition documents the museum’s achievements over the past twenty years. The exhibition, hung in the Great Hall, was curated by Jason Stieber, NMWA archivist. Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque March 16 - July 15 In celebration of its 20th year, the National Museum of Women in the Arts will host the ground breaking exhibit Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque Artists' Sketchbooks and Illustrated Diaries: Exploring the In/Visible April 18 - July 15 Curated by Krystyna Wasserman, NMWA’s curator of book arts, the exhibition will include 21 works by 14 artists from the United States, Argentina and Spain.
National Museum of Women in the Arts The National Museum of Women in the Arts at 20: Selections from the Archives January 26 - December 31 Photographs, original posters, and historical objects gleaned from the museum’s institutional archives as well as paintings from the permanent collection, this exhibition documents the museum’s achievements over the past twenty years. The exhibition, hung in the Great Hall, was curated by Jason Stieber, NMWA archivist. KATRINA: Mississippi Women Remember: Photographs by Melody Golding March 9 - May 28 Katrina: Mississippi Women Remember: Photographs by Melody Golding provides uncommonly personal insights into life on the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina. Through a rich collage of images and stories, the exhibition documents the tempest’s initial overwhelming devastation, followed by the determination of Mississippi’s inhabitants to endure and prevail. Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque March 16 - July 15 In celebration of its 20th year, the National Museum of Women in the Arts will host the ground breaking exhibit Italian Women Artists from Renaissance to Baroque Artists' Sketchbooks and Illustrated Diaries: Exploring the In/Visible April 18 - July 15 Curated by Krystyna Wasserman, NMWA’s curator of book arts, the exhibition will include 21 works by 14 artists from the United States, Argentina and Spain.
Nevin Kelly H20 Michal Zaborowski October 11 - November 4 New paintings by award winning Polish artist Michal Zaborowski will be featured in a solo exhibition at the Nevin Kelly Gallery, 1517 U Street, NW, in Washington, DC. The exhibition, titled “H20” will depict ordinary people in everyday activities associated with water. Gallery owner Nevin J. Kelly describes Zaborowski as “a romantic impressionist with a contemporary voice; Zaborowski is one of the most talented painters working in Poland today.” The artist’s paintings depict what Kelly calls the “nobility of the mundane.” He paints ordinary people in ordinary activities, but he gives them such heroic import that one is compelled to look at them. He finds such beauty in these ordinary events—a man and a dog in a boat, or a woman with a toy balloon – that we wish we could trade places with them. The artist’s palette is subdued. There is a mixture of beauty and a gnawing sense of melancholy in his paintings, a combination so common in our everyday lives that we almost fail to notice it. Zaborowski reminds us that, even in moments of personal darkness, a moment of sublime beauty is just around the corner.
After the Race, Michal Zaborowski
Nevin Kelly Third
Annual Attainable Art: Works Under $1500 November 24 - December 30
Nevin Kelly Peer Pressure Sue Huang Carrie Mallory Baby Martinez Pascual Sisto Curated by Thom Flynn September 8 - October 7 Having recently earned her MFA from UCLA’s Media Arts program, Sue Huang, works in photography and video, often combining other elements to create multi-media installations. This show will include a photo series that illustrates pareidolic phenomena in spinach as it is handled with chopsticks. Carrie Mallory, an MFA graduate from American University and a respected painter, has more recently been working in video and installation. This exhibition will showcase a photo series that captures the ephemeral nature of a sculpture, part of her ongoing “Box” series, stuffed with leaves. The work of Baby Martinez, a 2007 Sondheim Prize finalist, consists of trivial, often altruistic, acts that alter the way one experiences communal areas. The exhibition will include photo documentation of these typically anonymous acts. Pascual Sisto, also an MFA recipient from UCLA’s Media Arts program, works primarily in video. For this show, Flynn has selected videos that depict what the artist describes as “mundane objects enduring transitional change and looped into a constant state of suspension.”
Nevin Kelly Time of War: New Prints by Ellyn Weiss June 01 - June 30 Noted local printmaker and painter, Ellyn Weiss, unveils a series of 14" x 14" monoprints made last summer at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts on a press that was once used by Robert Motherwell. The artist describes them as "meditations on the pain of war, as simple and universal as I can make them - my effort to convey feeling directly with a minimum of complexity."
Nevin Kelly Color: Field Tests - New Work by Sondra N. Arkin April 18 - May 13 Working in encaustic and mixed media assemblage, Arkin explores the role that combinations of color play in communicating a sense of energy, mood and depth. Her examination of color's influence will not end with her efforts in the studio: she will select colors for several of the gallery's walls, against which she will hang works of similar size, composition and palette. These works will combine to form a larger installation that will field test the ways in which individual works affect—and are affected by—the environment in which they are placed
Sondra N. Arkin "Lava Ring" (2007)
Nevin Kelly Color Transparencies Joan Belmar May 23 - June 17 Joan Belmar is not a linear thinker. In fact, he thinks very much in circles. His work has always eschewed the notion that the straight line is a fundamental element of artistic composition. Recently, he has abandoned the strictures of the singular plane of the canvas as well. For "Color Transparencies," the artist has constructed works from strips of painted Mylar that he fashions into circles and curvilinear forms and mounts on-edge to a backing of paper, wood or other material. These shapes form the main compositional elements of the work. He overlays the composition with translucent sheets of frosted acetate in which he has cut out shapes that reveal the strips of Mylar beneath. He draws on portions of the acetate so that elements of the composition exist above, within and below the frosted plane. The multicolored strips show clearly where the acetate has been cut away. Where it remains, the strips appear as if through a fog. The width of the strips, sandwiched between the backing and the layer of acetate, gives the works literal depth.
Joan Belmar, "Compression", 2007 mixed media
Nevin Kelly Murmur Mary Chiaramonte August 1 - September 2
Parish Gallery Flowers Sylvia Snowden September 21 - October 16 Come and embrace and be embraced by eighty-four lush renditions of flowers. Through the use of color the seasons – spring, summer, autumn, and winter are symbolized. The elements of brushwork and color present a pulsating rhythm that one associates with life and growth. The painter renders the floral subject matter which reminds one of bas relief sculpture. The application of paint caresses the surface which offers a feast for the eye and uplifts of the spirit.
When asked to give us an artist’s statement, Ms. Snowden replied, “I do not believe in an artist’s statement because it seems to narrow the viewer’s reaction and direct him/her to draw specific limitations. In my work, I hope to evoke stimulating responses.”
Parker Gallery June 15 - July 6 Debra Diamond / Paul H. Ellis / Helen Glazer / Freya Grand / Anne Marchand / Philippe Mougne / Dominie Nash / Laura Seldman / Kathleen Shafer / Gary Thompson
The Parker Gallery at Mickelson's Fine Art Framing 9X10 WPA\C Member Shows April 13 - May 11 These shows will provide a new outlet for WPA\C member artists, and each exhibition will present a diverse cross-section of the WPA\C membership to the public, showcasing works in all media. The 9x10 exhibitions will run monthly from March 2007 to January 2008. Featured Artists: Kristina Bilonick / James Calder / R.L. Croft / Jenny Freestone / Pat Goslee / David F. Hartwell / Francine B. Livaditis / Nathan Manuel / Michele Montalbano / Joseph Virgilio i
The Phillips Collection American Impressionism: Paintings from The Phillips Collection In America June 16-September 16 American Impressionism: Paintings from The Phillips Collection In America, the radical new style of impressionism blended European approaches to painting with American sensibilities and preferences. Celebrated American artists including Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir transformed the heroic American landscape into a modern idiom. The Phillips celebrates 85 years of presenting art with more than 65 treasured works from the golden age of American impressionism (ca.1880-1920), assembled together for the first time in more than a generation.
Maurice Prendergast (1859-1924). St. Malo, Ca. 1907, Watercolor and pencil on paper, The Phillips Collection, gift of Mrs. Charles Prendergast, 1991
The Phillips Collection Lyrical Color: Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland and the Washington Color School
April 12 - July 29
Nearly
20 paintings and works on paper from the Phillips’ permanent collection
will be on display in this exhibition, part of the citywide
ColorField.remix promotion highlighting the Washington Color School.
Featured artists will include Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Howard
Mehring, Kenneth Noland, Alma Thomas, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing,
Willem de Looper, and Sam Gilliam.
The Phillips Collection Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film February 17–May 20 This exhibition presents American realist painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries side-by-side with the earliest experiments in film. Approximately 100 works, including nearly 60 short films (a few minutes long) by Thomas Edison, the Lumière Brothers, and the Cinémathèque Française, along with works by American masters such as George Bellows, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Eakins, Maurice Prendergast, and John Sloan, provide a new context for looking at the artists’ choice and presentation of subject matter.
Frederic Remington (1861-1909) Cowboy, ca. 1890 Oil on canvas, 16 x 23 inches Private Collection
Picturexhibit Studio Gallery photographs and mixed media photo collages Adrienne Moumin Photographer and mixed-media artist Adrienne Moumin will be hosting a Grand Opening of Picturexhibit Studio Gallery on Sunday May 20, 2007, from 1:30 to 4:30PM. The gallery, located at 2807 Byron Street, Silver Spring, MD 20902, showcases Moumin’s hand-printed, limited edition silver gelatin photographs and mixed media photo collages.
A portion of the proceeds from works sold will be donated to Montgomery Hospice of Rockville, MD.
Detail of Kaleidoscope, 36" diameter inkjet photo collage
Potomac Craftsmen Fiber Gallery "Springing Forward" - a celebration of the new
season April 10
- May 6 The artists' interpretation of the images of Spring that
make the season real for them.
Prada Gallery Elements December 13 - February 2 Features the work of eight local artists, Mark Cameron
Boyd, Craig Cahoon, Willem de Looper, Pamela Frederick, Flora Kanter,
Pepa Leon, Gene Markowski, and Alex Mayer. The individual elements of each artists style work together, forming a rich visual, intellectual, and emotional experience for the gallery visitor.
Prada Gallery New Works Carmen Jabaloyes until May 5
Prada Gallery Color Field School Silkscreen prints Lou Stovall until July 2007
"La Revelacion" Antonio Ugarte May 17 - July 17
Project 4 This is Forever Beau Chamberlain October 27 - December 2 A solo exhibition featuring intricate paintings and a site-specific installation by Beau Chamberlain. Inspired by the ability of nature to attract, camouflage, and repel, Beau Chamberlain's precise paintings hover between abstraction and figuration. Beginning with elusive imagery from botany and entomology, Chamberlain embraces crossovers between divergent biological categories, the pliable and resistant, from one ecosystem to another. Evoking lunar landings, molecular imaging and Chinese landscape painting, Chamberlain's work explores mutation, imitation and definability in seemingly serene environments in which time, place and scale remain undefined.
Breathing was the easy part, Beau Chamberlain
Project 4 Landscapes / Star Wars on Earth Cedric Delsaux September 15 - October 20 Project 4 presents "Landscapes / Star Wars on Earth", a solo exhibition featuring two bodies of work by photographer Cedric Delsaux. Delsaux's digital photographs combine myth and reality. The work is subtle and serene in his Landscapes series, and overtly humorous in his Star Wars on Earth Series, in which Delsaux photographs toy figurines and then digitally places them in Parisian suburbs. His training in commercial photography is evident with his play on branding in the Star Wars on Earth series. Conversely, in Landscapes, traces of human existence are either remote or totally absent. In both series, the expansive and dream-like scenes combined with colors that contrast the washy with the bold is what captivates
Cedric Delsaux
Project 4 USELESS Ben Colebrook Matthew Geiss and Luis Boza of RE:form Ferda Kolatan of su11 architecture+design Rhett Russo and Katrin Mueller-Russo PATTERNS/ Marcelo Spina with Kreysler & Associates/ Makai Smith Mark Wentzel David Erdman Roy McMackin Cory Ingram David Ruy and Karel Klein of Ruy Klein Ben Jurgensen August 3 - September 8 Project 4 presents “Useless”, a group exhibition of works by architects, industrial designers and artists exploring the flip side of functionality. Whether by choice or by error, the creation of a useless object in a culture so focused on efficiency and convenience, is a compelling action. As art and design increasingly borrow each other’s priorities of aesthetics and value, the dissolution of use all together becomes an entertaining process to investigate within design. “Useless” will feature products, prototypes and objects that are either made to deny function, have been deemed, due to error, un-useable, or represented as such. The conditions surrounding the creation of these works therefore range from commercial design to subversive artistic acts. Amid these different motivations, all of the works present a contrariness to our everyday experience with material culture that is both humorous and insightful.
Useless
Project 4 Building Christopher Heaney Oliver Jeffers Rory Jeffers Mac Premo Duke Riley June 23-July 28 For almost 40 years, a small brick building in Belfast, Northern Ireland was home to a vital electrical switch room. The building, which once powered the city, had lay dormant for nearly 25 years and was scheduled for renovation in 2005. Before this process began, the development firm collaborated with a group of artists from Belfast, NI and Brooklyn, NY (OAR) to document and salvage much of the original equipment. Using these remnants, OAR created an exhibition entitled BUILDING that tells the story of this space that powered Belfast.
Christopher Heaney, Oliver Jeffers, Rory Jeffers, Mac Premo and Duke Riley explored the building’s story through different avenues and media: its function behind closed doors, its effect on the city it was built in, and how the city and citizens of Belfast were affected by but unaware of its existence
Building
Project 4 LIDDED TRUNK VESSELS Blown glass by Ron Desmett April 25 - May 6 Ron Desmett's opaque, black glass "Lidded Trunk Vessels" challenge common perceptions and applications of the material. The process consists of blowing glass into molds comprised of wetted tree trunks that must be pulled away while the glass is still molten. This spectacular achievement conquers the overhangs involved and masters the split-second timing required in the process. Each sculpture is formally unique but the series of work shares an interiority where beauty resides within the dark angular recesses of the forms.
Project 4 Navigable Zones Nayda Collazo-Llorens May 12 - June 16 Project 4 is proud to present Navigable Zones by Puerto Rican artist Nayda Collazo-Llorens. In this site-specific exhibition organized by Independent Curator Laura Roulet the entire gallery space will be hyper-linked as a multi-media installation. Evoking themes of displacement, navigation and language these installations seek to examine Collazo-Llorens's dual cultural existence as a Puerto Rican living and working in the United States. Her paintings, drawings, text and video act as interconnected systems to form a non-linear mindscape. Employing repetition, variation and mapping the work explores the mind's internal systems that perceive, order and remember external environments.
Pyramid Atlantic REDISCOVER IRELAND, 2007 June 18 - August 25 The exhibit features prints produced at Pyramid Atlantic by the Belfast Print Workshop and Seacourt Workshop artists who are also participating in 2007 Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
R Street Gallery Color Invitations An exhibit curated by F. Lennox Campello featuring work by Maggie Michael, Amy Lin, F. Lennox Campello, Jeffry Cudlin, Andrew Wodzianski, John Blee and Steve Lapin January 10 - February 2
Andrew Wodzianski
Randall Scott Gallery Intervals Margot Quan Knight December 15 - January 19 Margot Quan Knights large scale photographs turn to the physical body, that portal through which all experience arrives. She proposes that the body responds to dense experience by expanding mental focus on the activity at hand, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
Randall Scott Gallery The City Lori Nix Also… New Video by Dane Picard October 27 - December 8 In a recent artist talk, Brooklyn based photographer, Lori Nix revealed she has a God complex. The creation and destruction of the world she creates from scratch electrifies her. Nix, having grown up in rural Kansas, is no stranger to disaster. She witnessed her surroundings continually altered by both acts of nature and human error. Nix creates meticulous dioramas handcrafted from plaster, cardboard, and styrofoam and detailed with found objects, such as, fur, plants, and cat whiskers. Painted, molded and carefully lit, these surreal models, which take upwards to 4 months to produce, are photographed and eventually end up being broken apart and stuffed into garbage bags to be hauled away. What is produced is the artifact, a document of an occurrence that has not taken place, but may have.
Lori Nix, The City
Randall Scott Gallery Rupture, Part One Nathan Baker September 15 - October 20 In Being and Time, Heidegger describes the “Present at Hand” as a situation that arises when things break down; when the routine of life pauses and the door is opened for basic, unmediated humanity to step in and replace the automata of contemporary rigor. Such moments are inflections on how we function on a most basic level, without the societal and psychological influences that we have grown to rely upon.
This work, titled Rupture, Part One aims to portray this idea visually. Consisting of Large Format Color Photography, Video, and Sound Installation, the work approaches this idea from multiple angles. Two distinct veins of photographic work describe both a first person perspective that presents the viewer with a representation of Present at Handedness, and a voyeuristic perspective that allows the viewer the spectacle of watching another in the thrall of this experience. Thirdly, a meditation on the context of this moment – a direct comparison between before, after, and during the experience that defines the banality that exists outside of this moment, is provided by the video work
Randall Scott Gallery Sub-text 5 photographers working below the surface August 4 - September 8 Five photographers who work below the surface. This exhibition features the work of Victor Cobo, Alejandra Laviada, Lindsey McCracken, Caitlin Phillips and Sarah Wilmer.
Sarah Wilmer
Randall Scott Gallery solo exhibition Hiroyuki Hamada June 23 - July 28 Hiroyuki Hamada’s 2-D and 3-dimensional work is about communicating, the construction of a language in line, form, color, materials and alteration, sometimes savage, sometimes methodical. It’s a language written over years of doubt, elation, self-abuse, clarity, misunderstanding and happiness. Elena Volkova in the "Backroom Gallery" Volkova's photographs lie in-between the tensions of nothing and something and its manifestations in everyday reality. The notion of the "Void", an endless white expanse, relays a mysterious allure, a seemingly pure "beyond" where uncertainty conflicts with serenity and peace for belief.
Hiroyuki Hamada
Randall Scott Gallery The Living Room Show a marriage of contemporary art and modern furniture April 11 - May 19 Joe Biel Julia Fullerton-Batten Charles LaBelle Erika Larsen Cara Ober Manuel Ocampo Ruby Osorio Nick Walker "I wanted to show the relationship of visual art and the living space; after all, the living space is generally the desired destination for the artwork a gallery exhibits. It would seem fitting, if just for one show, to return the building to its original function, a place where someone once lived, surrounded by what may have been, his or her art collection." - Randall Scott Gallery
Randall Scott Gallery industrials Jackson Martin Michael Sandstrom May 26 - June 16 Jackson Martin uses steel, glass, and burlap to represent the human propensity toward order and control and its relationship between the natural and the cultural. He alternately uses ephemeral materials, such as trees, soil, water and light that represent uncertainty and the unpredictablity of the world around him.
Michael Sandstrom alternately, explores how camouflaged political controls filter our understanding of history and relinquish our ability to accurately observe and respond to current socio-political events.
Renwick Gallery at The Smithsonian American Art Museum From the Ground Up: Renwick Craft Invitational 2007 (Renwick) March 9 - July 22 The 2007 "Renwick Craft Invitational," a biennial exhibition series at the Renwick Gallery established in 2000 to honor the creativity and talent of craft artists working today, will feature glass artist Paula Bartron, paper artist Jocelyn Châteauvert, glass artist Beth Lipman and ceramicist Beth Cavener Stichter. The artists were chosen by Susanne Frantz, independent curator and former curator of 20th-century glass at the Corning Museum of Glass in New York; Lloyd Herman, independent curator and founding director of the Renwick Gallery; and Jane Milosch, curator at the Renwick Gallery. Milosch is the exhibition curator.
Scope Gallery - Torpedo Factory Art Center Kiln Club -The Magic of Green April 30 - May 28 Come and learn about the magic of glaze chemistry and see the myriad hues of green made possible by varied firing techniques and glaze composition.
Shigeko Bork Mu Project Meditation Rooms Yumi Kori and Shinji Turner-Yamamoto May 12 - June 16 works uniquely incorporate ancient Japanese tradition and contemporary culture
Smithsonian American Art Museum The Prints of Sean Scully May 18 - October 8 Sean Scully (b. 1945), an internationally acclaimed artist with studios in New York City, Barcelona, Spain; and Munich, Germany; has been making prints for more than 30 years and considers these works to be as significant as his paintings. His prints, like his paintings, are richly layered and convey Scully's distinctive approach to abstraction based on relationships. "The Prints of Sean Scully" presents for the first time at the museum a selection of 57 works from a master set of prints that was acquired in 2001. Scully chose the Smithsonian American Art Museum as the only museum in the Unites States to receive a complete master set. The artist's prints range from large-scale, monumental compositions reminiscent of the paintings to smaller, more intimate expressions of the artist's ideas. Although certain themes recur in both his paintings and prints, Scully considers them independent and complementary
Sean Scully, Day, 2005, aquatint, sugarlift, and spitbite on paper, plate: 14 7/8 x 18 in. (37.8 x 45.7 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection February 15 - September 7 One of the world's finest known collections of traditional African Art - the Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection - which is made up of over 525 objects.
Space 7:10 Our Inner Worlds International Abstract Artwork Maria Santiago, Marina Reiter, and Shela Qamer September 4 - October 6
Space 7:10 Images of Italy Photographs by Nancy Coviello July 10 - August 11 "As a photographer, one of the things I love the most about Italy is that it is filled with beautiful colors and textures, both from the ancient and modern worlds. My images are a selection of the photographs I have taken during my visits to Italy. I hope you enjoy them." —Nancy
Photo by Nancy Coviello
Space 7:10 Recent collages: Landscapes and Abstracts by Patricia Zannie April 10 - May 5 Patricia exhibits locally and teaches in the School of Art + Design at Montgomery College. She is a member of Foundry Gallery.
Space 7:10 June 5 - July 7 Exhibit: Artwork by Ka Lai Lou, Avian Anderson, and Sohee Oh, students of the Visual Art Center, Albert Einstein High School. Co-sponsored by Alchemy www.artandalchemy.com
Photo by Kyi May Kaung
Strathmore Fine Art Drawing for Art, Exhibition and Fundraiser October 25 - November 5 Every ticket is a winner at the popular Drawing for Art event! Strathmore Artist Members donate works in a variety of media to this annual fundraiser – when your ticket is drawn, you choose your favorite piece to take home from the pieces available. Tickets are $100 (most works are valued well over $100) and are limited to the number of donated works, so purchase yours early! Proceeds from the ticket sales support Strathmore’s Fine Arts programming.
Strathmore Fine Art Shades of Pastel: Maryland Pastel Society National Juried Exhibition September 8 - October 20 This exhibition features original works in pastel, celebrated for its vibrancy and purity of color by artists from across the U.S. and Canada. The show is juried by nationally acclaimed oil and pastel painter Bob Rohm, member of the Oil Painters of America, Society of Outdoor Painters and Pastel Society of America.
Strathmore Fine Art Annual Congressional Art Competition May 2 - May 31 Congressman Christopher Van Hollen sponsors this annual juried competition of works by high school students living in or attending schools in the 8th Congressional District. Facilitated by art teachers throughout the district, this exhibition showcases the outstanding talent of our community's young artists. Baltimore Watercolor Society's 2007 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition April 7 - May 19 The Baltimore Watercolor Society annual exhibition in
the Mansion. The juror of this year's show is Tony van Hasselt, AWS, an
experienced juror, instructor, and co-author of The Watercolor Fix-It
Book.
Strathmore Fine Art Creative Crafts Council May 26 - July 7 Jurors from the James Renwick Alliance select exemplary pieces in an amazing variety of media from fiber, to enamel, metal, glass, and clay created by the membership of several area guilds, including the Fiber Arts Study Group, Montgomery Potters, National Capital Art Glass Guild, Metropolitan Stained Glass Association, Potomac Craftsmen Fiber Arts Guild, Kiln Club, Washington Guild of Goldsmiths, National Enamelist Guild, Ceramic Guild, and Potomac Polymer Clay Guild. Strathmore Celebrates: Women in the Arts Exhibition June 1 - August 25 Through Strathmore Celebrates: Women in the Arts, we acknowledge and applaud the contribution of women to both the musical and visual arts of our region. While the Music Center hosts innovative female performers, the Mansion features works by outstanding Washington area female artists all summer.
Strathmore Fine Art Annual Congressional Art Competition May 2 - May 31 Congressman Christopher Van Hollen sponsors this annual juried competition of works by high school students living in or attending schools in the 8th Congressional District. Facilitated by art teachers throughout the district, this exhibition showcases the outstanding talent of our community's young artists. Baltimore Watercolor Society's 2007 Mid-Atlantic Regional Watercolor Exhibition April 7 - May 19 The Baltimore Watercolor Society annual exhibition in
the Mansion. The juror of this year's show is Tony van Hasselt, AWS, an
experienced juror, instructor, and co-author of The Watercolor Fix-It
Book.
Strathmore Fine Art Colored Pencil Society of America National Juried Exhibition July 14 - August 25 Each year the Colored Pencil Society of America hosts an annual juried exhibition at an established gallery or museum in a different U.S. city in order to expose people throughout the nation to the colored pencil medium. The exhibition showcases the best works in colored pencil in the U.S. Over 1000 entries are submitted from artists throughout America with just over 100 pieces selected for the exhibition. The 2007 exhibition is juried by Ross Merrill. Strathmore Celebrates: Women in the Arts Exhibition June 1 - August 25 Through Strathmore Celebrates: Women in the Arts, we acknowledge and applaud the contribution of women to both the musical and visual arts of our region. While the Music Center hosts innovative female performers, the Mansion features works by outstanding Washington area female artists all summer.
Strathmore Fine Art Annual Congressional Art Competition May 2 - May 31 Congressman Christopher Van Hollen sponsors this annual juried competition of works by high school students living in or attending schools in the 8th Congressional District. Facilitated by art teachers throughout the district, this exhibition showcases the outstanding talent of our community's young artists.
Studio Gallery "re-creation - a green artist's view" Erwin Timmers May 23 - June 17
Studio Gallery "the Washington Color School Paintings" Don McCarten April 25 - May 19 Don McCarten was one of the Washington Color School painters. Working with a strong palette, he experimented with shaped canvas. McCarten returned to one of his 60’s shaped canvases at the end of his life exploring it in many variations. Don McCarten was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. He studied at the Elam School of Art in Auckland and the Central School of Art in London. McCarten traveled and painted in Australia, England, Europe and South Africa. He immigrated to the U.S.A in 1958 arriving with $1,000 in his pocket with the intention of making his way as an artist. In the l960's and early 70's, he exhibited along with Jacob Kainen, Howard Mehring, William de Looper, Paul Reed and Gene Davis. His work was shown at the Gallery of Modern Art, the Corcoran, and the Smithsonian Institution. "Dreamtime" reveries in sculpture and drawing Raymonde van Santen April 25 - May 19 Studio Gallery presents DREAMTIME: reveries in sculpture and drawing, an exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Raymonde van Santen from April 25 through May 19, 2007. The artist states: "Dreamtime" refers to the state of mind where free associations happen, as well as the belief system of the Australian Aborigines that encompasses the past, present and future." Continuing her exploration of aspects of the female being, van Santen combines variations of breast shapes with sea salt and sands to make visual the primordial shaping of the earth from molten magma and seawater. The combination of under-fired porcelain with maple seeds is a lyrical interpretation of the fragile, yet indestructible cyclical nature of living organisms.
Don McCarten
Susan Calloway Fine Arts Bold Botanicals & Brilliant Color Recent works by Alison Hall Cooley and John Matthew Moore May 4 - June 2
Target Gallery @ The Torpedo Factory In the Flesh September 13 - October 13 Pushing boundaries and providing a fresh look at a common subject, the human figure. In the Flesh, a contemporary figurative exhibition.
Target Gallery Connie Slack: Torpedo Factory Artist of the Year June 14 - July 22 Connie Slack has been a painter most of her life. Though the style of her work is ever-changing, bold color and dynamic composition remain constant in her large abstract canvases. She is an energetic and prolific artist. Her award winning paintings are in corporate and private collections internationally.
Textile Museum RED February 2 - July 8 Red is a potent color. This exhibition explores the uses and meanings of red in textiles across time and place. From the pre-Columbian high Andes to the 21st century streets of New York, red textiles are a compelling symbol, representingpassion, power, status and human emotion itself. Before the invention of synthetic dyes, achieving this highly evocative color in textiles was no easy task. The difficulty of its production heightened the importance and allure of red cloth which became a prestige commodity in many societies. The textiles on view will illustrate the complex usage of red - not only to denote prestige, but also to celebrate love and beauty, to protect against evil, to promote good fortune and to mark life cycle passages such as marriage and death. The earliest textile in the exhibition is more than 2000 years old. The objects shown in RED include an ancient Peruvian tunic border fragment, a Turkish velvet panel, a Navajo rug, a couture ball gown, an AIDS Awareness ribbon and a series of photographs depicting the use of red textiles in contemporary life
Target Gallery Sense of Place May 5 - June 10 The Torpedo Factory Art Center 's Target Gallery in conjunction with the Northern Virginia Chapter of the American Institute of Architects will be celebrating the AIA's 150 th Anniversary through a juried exhibition titled, Sense of Place . This exhibition is open to all artists nationally and internationally. This would be an all media exhibition that embraces and expresses the notion of community, environment and our place in it from the perspective of artists and architects.
Touchstone Gallery Double Vision One space; 60 local artists. January 9 - February 3 A show in which each Touchstone member artist invites one friend to show a piece of art work. Double Vision allows not only a taste of what each Touchstone artist is doing (one piece each) but also THE taste of each Touchstone artist. By inviting a guest artist to show work with one’s own, the artist’s vision is displayed beyond the subjective to the objective. Come and let us share with you what we find aesthetically pleasing/ exciting/challenging. There will be great variety - from representational to abstract, hard edge to impressionistic; sculpture, painting, photography and many other media.
Ahhhh! By Alice R Binderman
Touchstone Gallery Art on the Small Side December 12 - January 5 An all media holiday juried show including fine craft. Jurors: Rosemary Luckett & Jon Wassom The Ubiquitous Neal Hutchko December 12 - January 5 Using acrylic, India ink, pencil and bleach on canvas, he uses a rather unique creative process in the development of his works: taking several c.d.’s by the same musical artist/band/group, turning up the volume, and painting what he “hears”. The resulting painting(s) express emotion, ideas and subliminal concepts, culminating from either the lyrics, the audio notes themselves, or sometimes the over-arching theme that exists throughout the musical collection.
Fleeting Glimpse by Neal Hutchko
Touchstone Gallery REMOVED AND RECYCLED Jon Wassom November 7 - December 9 Jon Wassom’s art is made up of complex textures, layers and colors that combine to create his unique style full of depth and color. In his work, Wassom has layers, thick paint and often recycled materials to produce abstract and often commanding paintings. EAST TO WEST Betsy Forster November 7 - December 9 Betsy Forster's new work is a continuation of her quest to find different ways of expressing her love of nature. She is a landscape painter who mostly of her time paints en plein air, one who is constantly looking for a spiritual connection with nature.
Betsy Forster
Touchstone Gallery This Land-Our Land Rosemary Luckett Sculpture & Drawings October 10 - November 4 Rosemary Luckett juxtaposes sculpture and mixed media drawings in her solo show "This Land-Our Land," a lively interplay between 2-D and 3-D expression. She continues to work with themes from recent Nature House collages, works that reflect the impact of humanity upon our land. In her creations, Luckett pairs the unexpected: light bulbs with bones, forks with purses and Christmas lights with asthma inhalers. Each piece is built around a single real or symbolic object or group of items that are seemingly unrelated to each other. Lost and Found: Figurative Paintings Jean Sheckler Beebe October 10 - November 4 Touchstone Gallery announces a solo exhibition by Washington Area Artist Jean Sheckler Beebe. This group of paintings and collages, featuring figurative work completed in the last two years is shown here for the first time
Jean Sheckler Beebe
Touchstone Gallery Regional Juried Photography Exhibition August 8 - September 8 ARTISTS: Antonia Macedo Barbara Tyroler Ben Marcin Candace Clifford Carl Root Chandi Kelley Chris Christy Chris Hanessian Christopher A. Rok Christy Stebbins Cynthia Young Daniel Nakamura Danielle Eure Dave Montgomery David Kosar Deborah Brooks Deborah Kane Dennis O'Keefe E. de Planque, III Eric McCollum Esther Hidalgo Harvey Kupferberg Jennifer Fairfax Jerry Swain Jim Mitchell Joan DeMoss Joshua Gomez Julie Miller Julie Woodford Karen Keating Lee Goodwin Mary D. Ott Michael Borek Michael Fleischhacker Michael Lang Myeongsoo Kim Peter Karp Philip J. Gross Rhett Rebold Rona Eisner Schuyler Borton Sheila Meyer Steve Maxwell Steve Strawn Susana Raab Tyrone Paige Ulrich Stein Vincent Lee Smith William Atkins
“Honest With Herself and Others” by Joshua Gomez
Touchstone Gallery My Space on 7th July 11 - August 4 Answering the need for alternative and interactive exhibition opportunities, Touchstone Gallery created a unique, non-juried option. On July 9th and 10th, artists will hang the art of their choice in their assigned space(s) in the Main Gallery. In less than two days, the 76, 22-square-foot spaces available were quickly snatched up, overwhelming the phones at Touchstone. Many artists eagerly waited outside the gallery's doors in hopes of being the first to reserve their space as this was a first-come, first-served opportunity.
Touchstone Gallery The Silent Observer by Michael Lang Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by David Peirick Recent Works by Christiane Middendorf June 6 - July 8 Touchstone's member artists, exhibit in the Main Gallery
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by David Peirick
Touchstone Gallery Fortune Cookies Ellyn Weiss May 9 - June 3 Touchstone artist Ellyn Weiss exhibits her solo show, "Fortune Cookies," in the Main Gallery for the month of May.
Ellyn Weiss
Transformer Not only A, but also B Work by Aki Goto, Misaki Kawai, Chikara Matsumoto, Kazuyuki Takezaki, and Soju Tao May 12- June 16 Part of "Big in Japan" cross-town collaborative exhibition with Shigeko Bork Mu Project
Exploring the duality in Japanese art today, Transformer is partnering with Shigeko Bork Mu Project to present "Big in Japan" a cross-town collaborative exhibition featuring a diverse array of contemporary Japanese artists who interpret and respond to the tradition and popular culture of Japan.
The Washington DCJCC 5+5 five artists choose five artists to watch February 15 - May 13 To celebrate its 10th anniversary as well as the Washington DCJCC's ongoing commitment to Washington's artistic and cultural community the Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery has organized an exhibition of ten artists, 5 + 5. Five nationally recognized artists whose careers were established in Washington, DC, and most of whom currently reside here, were selected to participate in the exhibition, and each of them, in turn, was asked to select a DC artist whose work they esteem, to be included in the show. To further connect this exhibit to the artistic culture in Washington, DC, the Ann Loeb Bronfman has tapped Phyllis Rosenzweig to curate the exhibit. Included in the exhibition are influential figures, well-known artists, and great teachers including Sam Gilliam, John Gossage, Martin Puryear, and Renee Stout; emerging bright lights such as Y. David Chung, Jae Ko, and Dan Steinhilber, and relative unknowns Otho Branson, Pia Calderon, and Mary Early.
Washington Printmakers Gallery Hanging in There Touching the Print An Exhibition of New Prints by Pauline Jakobsberg November 27 - December 30
Slightly Irregular, Collagraph with metal
Washington Printmakers Gallery Landscapes and Laments Woodcuts, Etchings and Sculpture Margaret Adams Parker October 30 - November 25 "I can only celebrate the beauty of the natural world and the joys of life when I also acknowledge the ways that these gifts can be twisted and destroyed."
Smoketown Wood, Drypoint on BFK Rives, Edition of 5
Washington Printmakers Gallery April Katz: Genomatrial Forms July 31 - August 26 Washington Printmaker’s National Small Works (NSW) exhibition has attracted an exciting range of printmakers from all over the country. For the 2006 NSW, juror Helen C. Frederick, Executive Artistic Director of Pyramid Atlantic selected Iowa artist April Katz as the first place winner. As her prize Ms. Katz will have a solo exhibition of her prints to run in conjunction with the 2007 National Small Works exhibition at WPG. The diagnosis of breast cancer in 1996 and subsequent genetic testing in 2004 where Katz discovered she is a descendent of Ashkenazi Jews prompted her to examine environmental, cultural and biological influences on identity. The result is a series of prints using layered images of evolving life forms ranging from microbiological cellular structures to complex plants and animals; scientific visual notations; Mesopotamian architectural references; maps; geological forms; and family photographs. The term Genomatrial, an invention of Katz, is derived from Gematria, a Jewish mystical system that assigns numerical correspondence to the Hebrew alphabet in order to derive hidden meaning; Matria, representing an emphasis on “mother’ and the passing down of mitochondrial DNA; and Geo, the focus on metaphoric mother earth and the life forms recorded in her layers.
Christine Giammichele, Northern Spotted Owl, 2007, Monotype on Arches
WAREHOUSE GALLERY NO REPRESENTATION [Abstraction in the Capital] April 26 - May 12 curated by Molly Ruppert, Sondra N. Arkin, Ellyn Weiss and Philippa Hughes
Washington Arts Museum LOOKING INTO COLOR: The Paintings of Leon Berkowitz LEON BERKOWITZ APRIL 10 - JUNE 28 CURATED BY RENEE BUTLER
U.S. Botanic Garden Green Evolution: Paintings and Drawings by Suzanne Stryk September 15 - November 11 Plants are connected to nearly all of earth's life forms through the energy they capture from sunlight and convert to sugars, starches, proteins, and other compounds. These become the food, shelter, structure, and micronutrients that nurture us all, not to mention the textures, colors, fragrances, forms, and therapies that inspire creativity and promote health. Suzanne Stryk's artistic vision transforms this literal viewpoint, as documented in her sketchbooks on display, into lyrical paintings, where her original observations merge with imagination into a dreamlike blend of precise knowledge and myth. It's in this way that every work in Green Evolution explores some connection between plants and animals, allowing the flow of science and personal vision to freely “cross-pollinate.” Green Evolution refers not only to the interconnected web of life, but to our emerging awareness of the deep human dependence on other forms of life.
Political Science, Suzanne Stryk
U.S. National Arboretum Botanical Art of Yoshitsugu Koyanagi March 4 - May 31 The U.S. National Arboretum and the Japan Information & Culture Center of the Embassy of Japan will present the first North American exhibit of The Botanical Art of Yoshitsugu Koyanagi. Mr. Koyanagi, a botanical artist from Japan, is known for his Sumi-e (brush painting), watercolors, oil paintings, and drawings. His work has been significantly influenced by the 16th century German artist Albrecht Durer and his philosophy that “art is found in nature.” Flowering cherries will be featured among the broad sampling of his botanical creations.
Warehouse Arts Complex Art in Heat June 30- July 30 An eclectic mix of 18 emerging and established artists from the Washington, DC, area combine forces for "Art in Heat!" The selected artists represent the best of DC's Outsider, Lowbrow, and Pop Surrealist artists. They're notable for creating work that's fun, twisted, sexy, and just plain wrong. Featuring: Ed Bisese, Chris Bishop, Scott G. Brooks, Lisa Brotman, Anna U. Davis, Jared Davis, Alan Defibaugh, Margaret Dowell, Dana Ellyn, Gregory Ferrand, Linas Garsys, Laurel Hausler, Candace Keegan, John Lancaster, Emily Greene Liddle, Albert Schweitzer, Matt Sesow, and Ben Tolman.
Washington Printmakers Gallery Myself and My Environment Nuong Van-Dinh Tran October 2 - October 28 Mezzotint. Etching, Serigraph And Monotype
Early Summer on Morrison Street NW, Nuong Van-Dinh Tran
Washington Printmakers Gallery Earth Matters Exploring Environmental Issues New Prints Marian Osher August 28 - September 30 "I feel a calling to express my concern and use my art as an aesthetic vehicle for helping to raise awareness of environmental red flags. I have chosen to use solvent free water-soluble media to highlight a diverse range of environmental issues including global warming, threatened biodiversity, forest destruction, mountain top removal, and light and noise pollution." - Marian Osher
WVSA ARTs connection ART in Bloom June 14 - August 8 From Monet's garden to Van Gogh's sunflowers, it is time to continue the tradition of bringing nature to the canvas. WVSA ARTiculate ARTist Apprentices will focus on many different ways of portraying the beauty of nature on a variety of mediums.
Zenith Gallery Viewpoints January 10 - February 3 Ringing in the New Year, Zenith displays new works in its January showcase, juxtaposed with pieces from the LOWCOUNTRY: Art of South Carolina show, which was featured in December and has been extended by popular demand. New artists making their Zenith Gallery debut, Spanish painter Cavadonga Sarragua Leyva and Washington area painter Ted Kliman add a classical, almost timeless, viewpoint to the gallery repertoire. Both excellent painters and draftsmen, they explore the human form in unique and interesting ways. A resident of Madrid, Leyva has exhibited her works throughout Spain and in Lebanon, Egypt and the United States. Leyva has painted official portraits of several ministers of the Spanish Government as well as the grandson of Spain’s Royal Family. She holds a MA in painting, drawing and engraving from Escuela de Bellas Artes in Madrid and Granada. Kliman’s paintings, drawings and prints have been shown in galleries and public spaces throughout the Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions, and can be found in approximately 200 private collections. A longtime resident of Greenbelt, Maryland, he holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute of Art. Artists from the LOWCOUNTRY show are Jonathan Green, Leo Twiggs, Diane Britton Dunham, Cassandra Gillens, Susan Graber, Arianne King Comer, Herman Leonhardt, Marguerite Middleton and Jane Spratt.
Flag with Cow by Leo Twiggs
Zenith Gallery Food Glorious Food III Diversity: Think Globally. Eat Locally. November 8 - November 25 Now in its third year, the Food Glorious Food Show serves up an eclectic menu of paintings, sculpture and photographs depicting food in all its fabulous forms. Cooked up by Zenith Gallery, the Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) and the Capital Area Food Bank, the show’s mix of food, art and charity is a recipe that pleases the palates of art patrons and food aficionados, while raising money for the food bank through the sale of original art, a calendar showcasing pieces from the show, Giclée prints of select art from the calendar and a charity event. Bert Beirne Renee duRocher Robert Freeman Brenda Gordon Stephen Hansen Philip Hazard Sophia Gawer-Fische Robert C. Jackson Shelley Laffal Michela Mansuino Joey Manlapaz Davis Morton Ron Schwerin Cassie Taggart James Tormey Ken Wyner
“Angeles de los Tapas” Shelley Laffal oil on canvas
Zenith Gallery Whittled with Wit and Whimsy ANN CITRON, STEPHEN HANSEN, GARY HUGHES, ROBERT C. JACKSON, JUNE WALKER and BILL SUWOROFF September 12 - November 25 Anything goes in this zany exhibition of paintings, paper maché, beaded sculptures, cast bronze and wood by artists who take their humor seriously.
“TRIBUNAL” STEPHEN HANSEN, paper maché
Zenith Gallery Washington Glass School Sixth Anniversary Show June 20 - August 31 Leading Washington glass artists Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers and Michael Janis, and their students, will show their works in the Washington Glass School's Sixth Anniversary exhibition of neon, bowls, plates, vases, tiles, sculptures and other objects des art.
