American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Lajos Vajda: Bridge Builder March 17 - April 19 The first comprehensive survey in the United States of the work of Lajos Vajda. The exhibition presents collages, paintings and graphic works from Vajda’s Parisian photomontages to his late monumental charcoal drawings, culled from mainly European private and public collections.
Another Time—Another Place: Contemporary Hungarian Video Artists March 17 - April 19 A selection of photo installations and video by young contemporary Hungarian artists.
The Athenaeum Intermediaries Natalie Cheung March 13 - April 26 Natalie Cheung uses large-scale photograms and cyanotypes to give voice to natural elements - allowing them to speak for themselves. Her experimental use of traditional photographic techniques and materials is most notable in that all the works in Intermediaries were created without a camera.
The Art Gallery University of Maryland The Scottish Show March 25 - April 25 Features fifteen Scottish contemporary artists, including works by John Byrne, Calum Colvin, Steven Campbell, and Ron O’Donnell. The exhibition was organized by the Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas by Jeffrey Burden and co-curator Calum Colvin. The works in this show range from painting, photography, to collage. They are a compilation of multimedia works, highlighting the new and exciting artistic practices developing throughout Scotland. Other artists included in the show are: John Bellany, Ken Currie, Robin Gillanders, Dawn Gavin, Catriona Grant, Derrick Guild, David Mach, Moira Scott Payne, Susanne Ramsenthaler, Eddie Summerton, and David Williams.
Art Museum of the Americas Space, Unlimited February 21 - April 12 Mixed media installation art by Venezuelan, Puerto Rican and Cuban-American contemporary artists Includes the work of seven contemporary artists who challenge the boundaries of physical, perceptual or psychological space. Through a variety of mediums, from painting and photography to assemblage and video, these artists defy expectations that may be traditionally imposed over the form or content of their work or their artistic identities
Duality Gallery Life Force Lucy Herrman March 6 - April 24 Lucy Herrman’s new paintings suggest a celebratory investigation of patterns found in nature. Her interest is in cross-referencing sources, from photographs to direct observation. Once she has selected a source, she abstracts the image to its most fundamental structure in order to distill its essence. Finally she chooses colors outside of the natural world to distance the image to its most basic form, inviting a direct relationship to the image itself.
Lucy Herrman
Foundry Gallery In The Closet: What Non-Objective Abstractionists Do With Their Realism Doris Colbert Kennedy April 1 - April 26 Figurative Images by Doris Colbert Kennedy. Doris' work marries the playfulness of abstraction with the objectivity of realism.
A Cast of Characters April 1 - April 26 A survey of kiln cast and lamp worked glass as seen by the instructors and studio artists of the Washington Glass School.
Solo Show of Elizabeth Harris April 1 - April 26
H&F Fine Arts Gallery Under Surveillance Cleve Overton and Harriet Lesser April 30 - May 30 CANCELLED A collaborative exhibition by two Washington, DC-based artists who explore the fine line that people contemplate relating to the use of powerful technologies and a nationwide surveillance web to infringe on privacy more than they protect. At what point does the secrecy of federal agencies in their domestic spying operations constitute a misuse of power? This collaborative series is an effort to highlight one classic method of surveillance, the tower, as a cautionary message to be aware of that delicate balance and preserve our freedom not by surveillance but by education and opportunity
Berlin
H&F Fine Arts Gallery The Alasktic Print Series, Mappings, and Passages Kip Deeds, Angela White, & Tinam Valk March 5 - March 28 Three artists…three adventures. From Alaska to Mexico, Europe, California and back…three artists merge together to display their journeys. Using paper and canvas as their map, their journeys are drawn by means of relief print, screen print, encaustic, oil, acrylic, watercolor, modeling paste, charcoal and other mixed media. Together they share three exhibitions: The Alasktic Print Series, Mappings, and Passages. “The Alasktic Print Series” takes you on a journey from Mexico to Alaska through the eyes of Philadelphian artist, Kip Deeds. This project was initially inspired by Utagawa Hiroshige’s 1834 print series, “53 Stations on the Tokaido,” which depicts scenes along the famous eastern sea road in Japan. Deeds’ journey at times traces Lewis and Clark, depicts John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charlie, and moves to the lyrics of Woody Guthrie. A series of 15 relief and screen prints makes up “The Alasktic Series”. Angela White’s “Mappings” fuses translucent layers of luminous and encaustic surfaces that creates visual depth and density in her work from trips to our west and east coasts. White’s love of natural landscapes reflects a desire to show constant movement and natural rhythm. The seascapes and landscapes are created using mixed media, oil paints, and are occasionally embedded with gold and silver leaf covered with iridescent oil paints. Tinam Valk’s “Passages” through layers…layers of history, structures, statues, architecture. Tinam has traveled extensively to Europe, East Africa, South America but retreats annually to Hunting Island, SC for a constant source of inspiration. Painting’s fueled through memory or visits to old estates, Valk’s architecture-related paintings originate from modeling paste, acrylic, oils, charcoal, pencil, and pastel.
Angela White
Hillyer Art Space La Vida Intensa Gregory Ferrand March 6 - April 24 Recent works in acrylic. Ferrand's background in film is evident in his strongly narrative paintings which usually capture a climactic moment in a character's life. Through his exaggerated rendering and saturated colors, Ferrand aims to paint life. "No matter how exotic or mundane the setting of the painting or drawing," says Ferrand, "I strive to tell stories about characters and situations that do, have and will exist..."
Squaring the Circle; Stretching the Clay Judit Varga March 6 - April 24 A selection of ceramic sculptures. A native of Hungary who now calls Washington, DC, "home," Varga uses malleable clay to speak freely and engage in interactions in a place that does not understand her mother tongue. Varga's vocabulary, she says, "has been built from basic shapes like squares, circles and their universal, symbolic implications to communicate." Using the power of colors and the inflections of rich surfaces, Varga plays with the meaning of the spoken words and their straightforward interpretations, deliberately creating visual misinterpretation to juxtapose the lost value in translation.
She loves me she loves me not, Gregory Ferrand
Honfleur Gallery Cross & Ladder Darren Smith March 7 - April 17 Handmade photo mosaics of intricate worlds, created from tiny fragments of his photographs. This collection is a study of two elements, the Cross and the Ladder, both symbolic of humankind’s desire to transcend our place in the world- either spiritually or intellectually. In counterpoint to the cross as a symbol for religion, Smith uses the ladder to represent science and its rational, step-by-step pursuit of knowledge. The ladder symbol is rooted in a discovery of modern science, the DNA helix.
Walk on Water, Darren Smith
International Visions Gallery Kaye Wone Ibou Ndoye & Considerations II Marlene Godoy March 4 - March 28 Kaye Wone features new paintings on paper and drawings on glass by Ibou Ndoye. Ibou states that Kaye Wone, “literally means come on and show us what you have or what you can do.” The main idea is to demonstrate to others the common culture values we share as thinkers, artists, educators, and ordinary people, from all walks of life. Ibou’s art work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Africa and Europe, as well as in the U.S. Teacher, painter, poet, Marlene Godoy has established a successful career internationally as a master of the plastic arts. Her work reflects influences of a diversity of cultures: Indigenous, European, African, and Brazilian. In the mid-1990s Godoy became deeply interested in the ancient craft of encaustic. The encaustic technique served as a material support for her relief and assemblage sculptural paintings. Godoy uses fragments of an array of objects collected in the course of her personal history, ranging from bits of family china and scraps taken from her collection of handbags, to materials with semantic associations, such as chips of Brazilian wood, indigenous artifacts, and Brazilian gemstones.
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center Observing Nature March 4 - April 25 Features the works by Charlottesville, VA artists Cynthia Burke, John Hughes, Cliff Satterthwaite, and Tom Tartaglino. The artists in this exhibit keenly observe nature. By blurring the line between representation and abstraction they create works of art that speak a greater psychological truth. They depict a variety of subject matter: small town architecture, traditional landscapes, rivers, and studies of birds. What's shared is the sensitivity in how they approach their work - to quote Rodin, "they see clearly into the universe and recreate it with conscientious vision." Paintings & sculpture by Cynthia Burke, John Hughes, Cliff Satterthwaite and Tom Tartaglino. Curated by Lillian Fitzgerald.
River III, John Hughes
Marsha Mateyka Gallery New Paintings Kathleen Kucka March 28 - May 2 "My painting has evolved from a personal language of abstract forms, made by pouring acrylic paint and manipulating the movement...I pour acrylic paint directly onto glass, which then forms a "paint fabric" that I can remove in a thin solid sheet. The "skins" as I call them, are then attached to a support, and the painting from this point is worked on as a collage. The interrelated layers have a materiality and dimensional quality" - Kathleen Kucka
Ephemeral Apparition
McLean Project for the Arts Elements Youth Art Show Elementary Schools March 5 - March 22 Transitions Youth Art Show
Middle and High Schools March 25 - April 12 Every spring the galleries at MPA are dedicated to recognizing the budding talents of the young art students of Fairfax County. It is a collaborative project involving the county art teachers and specialists
National Gallery of Art Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art March 1 - August 2 This exhibition offers the first in-depth look at these rare medieval manuscript illuminations from 52 single leaves and 4 bound volumes, among them a number of important recent acquisitions, which date from the 12th to the 16th century and were made in France, Germany, Austria, Bohemia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy. Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon February 12 - February 12, 2010 The 6-foot-high plaster working model of the celebrated seated Lincoln statue by American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), designed for the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, will be on view in honor of President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. The plaster—used for the carving of the final 19-foot-high figure from 28 blocks of Georgia marble—is being lent to a museum for the first time by Chesterwood Estate and Museum, French's country home and studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a national and Massachusetts historic landmark In the Tower: Philip Guston February 1 - September 13 For more than five decades, American artist Philip Guston (1913–1980) explored ways to paint, from the mural art of the Depression through mid-century abstract expressionism to a raw new imagery beginning in 1968. His shocking return to figuration in that year, influenced by the comics and politics, paved the way for numerous developments in contemporary art. This exhibition of seven major paintings and a selection of prints and drawings, mostly drawn from the Gallery's own collection, charts Guston's career from 1949 to 1980. Link to Listen to Backstory Audio Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" January 18 - April 26 First published in France in 1958 and in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans is widely celebrated as the most important photography book since World War II. Including 83 photographs made largely in 1955 and 1956 while Frank (b. 1924) traveled around the United States, the book looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a profound sense of alienation, angst, and loneliness
Reading the Modern Photography Book: Changing Perceptions January 18 - April 26 Held in conjunction with Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans," this exhibition examines a variety of artistic and thematic approaches to the modern photography book, displaying examples that span the period from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.
Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age February 1 - May 3 In the 17th century a new genre of painting—the cityscape—emerged, fostered by the booming economy of the Dutch Republic and its affluent urbanites. Images of towns and cities became expressions of enormous civic pride. This exhibition of some 48 paintings, as well as 22 maps, atlases, illustrated books, and prints, offers a comprehensive survey of the Dutch cityscape, from wide-angle panoramas depicting the urban skyline with its fortifications, windmills, and church steeples, to renderings of daily life along canals, in city streets, and in town squares
Project 4 Hero and Baddie Calla Thompson March 21 - April 18 Calla Thompson's art practice crosses media and includes digital photography using montage techniques, as well as drawing and installation. Her work examines the way power is enacted and exchanged in our culture. She uses stark, wry humor to examine small gestures and proverbial objects that shift power among individual characters. “I am interested in the place where the simple dichotomy of good and evil collapses, where each character has the potential to be both hero and baddie," she says.
Self Portrait as a Canadian
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection February 15 - March 30 More than 80 superb artworks from one of the world's finest and most respected collections of African art are on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
Artists in Dialogue: António Ole and Aimé Mpane. February 4 - August 2 This exhibition inaugurates a new series in which talented African artists are invited to participate in a dialogue - a visual one in which each artist responds to the work of the other, and resulting in original, site-specific works for the National Museum of African Art. Two artists less familiar to U.S. audiences, António Ole of Angola and Aimé Mpane of Democratic Republic of Congo, will bring their subtle and sophisticated manipulation of found and organic materials to create visually rich, multi-media installations that speak to the political and economic challenges of their home countries
Taurus Development / 1341 H Street NE In the Bank Barn Bill Newman The H Street Project Workingman Collective Open on Saturdays from 12 - 4 PM and by appointment Location: 1341 H Street NE, Washington, DC, 20002
West Annapolis Art Works Paintings Christine O'Neill April 3 - April 30 Christine is a local artist and teacher. She is a member of the Annapolis Watercolor Club, the Baltimore Watercolor Society,and an instructor at Md. Hall, AACC & KIFA. She currently resides on a 45' catamaran sailboat and many of her paintings were inspired while cruising the Chesapeake Bay.
