Adam Lister Gallery Unforgettable March 12 - April18 A group exhibition featuring artwork that addresses ideas and concepts that have to do with time. Artists: Diana Adams, John M. Adams, Susan Brown, Deborah Burdin, Donna Glubo Schwartz, Landon Jones, Adam Lister, Robbie Namy, Stephanie Rivers, Jamin Sheard, and Chris Wise
Serenity, Jamin Sheard
Addison Ripley Fine Art Kinetics Amy Lin March 13 - April 24 A selection of new works. Ms. Lin's drawings are made by hand in colored pencil and take on, literally, a life of their own, suggesting an order that might be seen in scientific visualization such as cells or molecules or DNA modeling. As graceful as dance notation, the artist's drawings have an intelligence about them that implies natural forces. The colored pencil markings float, perfectly balanced in open, white, not negative space. They sparkle with life, with elegance and beauty and a rhythm of their own.
Rhythmic (detail), 2010, Amy Lin
Arlington Arts Center Transhuman Conditions January 29 - April 3 Features ten artists thinking about the future of the human body
Art League Gallery Peep and Strip Show Rosemary Feit Covey March 11 - April 5 Engravings seen through a peep box or photographer's light box
Rosemary Feit Covey
ArtSpace Herndon Old Myths - New Realities March 6 - April 4 Exhibition panels from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts about the Classical World, plus a group of regional artists drawing on the themes of mythology, art and landscapes suggested by ancient Greece and Rome.
Blackrock Center for the Arts Montgomery College's Portraits of Life: Student Experiences A Tribute in Words and Photographs March 31 - April 17 Exhibition highlights and increases awareness of humanitarion issues and the conditions with which people throughout the world are suffering - stories told by students in the community. It shows that people can move beyond their personal experiences of suffering to contribute greatly to the world through their purposeful lives and belief in a better tomorrow.
City Gallery Magical Realism Gina Clapp April 3 - April 25 Watercolors "I am trying to catch a split second in time. I want to portray the movement in a still object, a kind of vibration that living materials have, as well as their inherent stillness. Drapery may feel like it is swirling, blowing, or hiding something. Pots and jars seem to tilt just slightly when I draw, as if they are shifting their weight. And the minute I think I have captured the moment it slips away" - Gina Clapp
Corcoran Gallery of Art Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales January 30 - April 25, 2010 An outstanding group of 19th and 20th century paintings and works on paper from the National Museum Wales-an internationally acclaimed collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art-and features masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent van Gogh. The exhibition traces the evolution of early modern art, beginning with examples of dramatic Romanticism exemplified by Turner through the expressionist Post-impressionism of van Gogh. Spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition contains masterworks of Realism, Naturalism, and Impressionism, by their greatest exponents.
A Love of Europe: Highlights from the William A. Clark Collection January 30 - April 11, 2010 Ranging from ancient Antiquities to Impressionist paintings, Senator Clark's collection today forms the core of the Corcoran's holdings of European art. Timed to coincide with Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales (on display at the Corcoran from January 30 through April 11, 2010), A Love of Europe displays Clark's particular enthusiasm for 19th-century French painting. The exhibition will include works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-François Millet, and Edgar Degas. American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Ongoing
Honoré Daumier, The Night Walkers, 1842–47. Oil on board. National Museum of Wales;
Del Ray Artisans What's Your Bag Curators: Theresa Kulstad & Karen Schmitz April 2 - April 25 This show explores the bag in any form. The bag as art. Art made of bags. Art made from bags.
Gallery Plan b Persona Grata March 10 - April 11 An exhibition of figurative works in painting, photography and sculpture by Timothy Johnson, Shelley Laffal, Keith Clark, Gordon Binder, Chad States, Robert Dodge, Melissa Widerkehr, Andrew Criss, Joshua Hughes, and Massimo Righini.
Greater Reston Arts Center Emerging Visions: Fusion March 5 - April 15 In celebration of Youth Art Month, GRACE presents new work from Herndon High School Pimmit Hills High School South Lakes High School
Honfleur Gallery Three March 12 - April 23 Three features paintings by artists Wesley Clark, Lance Wiggs & Jonathan Royce. The work by this younger cadre of local abstract painters features intensecolor, experimental techniques and an overarching predilection for the art of layering. Stopaction video and works on canvas, panel and found objects will be included. Honfleur's upstairs exhibition space will highlight a new body of portraiture in the solo show, Now & Then. John K. Lawson returns to Anacostia with his signature collaged encaustic works using salvaged materials.
International Visions Gallery Signs, Symbols and Words March 24 - April 24 38 artists were prompted to explore the title theme. In each piece, these visual elements take on new meaning and purpose.
Charly Palmer
McLean Project for the Arts Youth Art Show March 10 - April 4 Featuring art from Fairfax County Public Schools in the McLean area.
Nicole Fall
Montpelier Center Feel Good Giving March 1 - April 19 A collection of 48 works by 22 artists from all parts of Virginia. The exhibition explores women's nurturing instincts through watercolors, mixed media, oil paintings, art quilts, pottery and photography. Observations & Interventions Ding Ren April 7 - May 23 An exhibition of compelling conceptual works by a young Washington artist
Project 4 the fantastical Justin Gibbsons Julie Hughes Mel Kadel Jordan Kasey Sophie Ruspoli March 13 - April 17 A group exhibition of works that express scenes, realities and spaces peculiarly situated away from our familiar, everyday visual experience. Artists participating in The Fantastical exhibition present works where, either by revealing idiosyncrasies of the artist's mind or by altering commonplace appearances to create new perspectives, fantastical realms arise in conjunction with existing curiosities and tension.
Justin Gibbsons
Reyes + Davis Independent Exhibitions Janis Goodman Jeff Huntington Judy Jashinsky Pepa Leon Barbara Liotta Johanna Mueller Michael Enn Sirvet March 10 - April 10
Fragments of Tradition Freda Lee-McCann March 31 - April 24
Target Gallery Friends of the Torpedo Factory's Mentor Exhibition March 29 - April 3 Annually, a selection of Torpedo Factory artists are paired with local Alexandria High School Students to serve as mentors to the students. At the end of the mentorship, an exhibition of the students work is on display in the gallery.
Target Gallery Clothesline Project: Break the Silence... to end violence against women April 5 - April 8 A selection of decorated t-shirts on exhibit from the Clothesline Project sponsored by SARA/Office On Women/City of Alexandria
Annual Jury / Newly Juried Artist Show April 10 - April 18
TFAA Young Artist Showcase April 21-25 A showcase for art students from Alexandria public high schools
Textile Museum Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection October 17 - April 11 In the 1970s and early 1980s, Japanese designers Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto shocked the fashion world by introducing avant-garde styles that challenged received Western notions of "chic." This exhibition, an expanded version of an earlier showing at the Cincinnati Art Museum, will include approximately 40 garments from the collection of Mary Baskett, an art dealer and former curator of prints at the Cincinnati Art Museum who has been collecting and wearing Japanese high fashion since the 1960s.
Fabrics of Feathers and Steel: The Innovation of Nuno October 17 - April 11 The worldwide success of Japanese fashion designers owes much to the talented textile designers and manufacturers who enable their creative visions. Led by artistic director and co-founder Reiko Sudo, Nuno (meaning "functional fabric" in Japanese) integrates the techniques, materials and aesthetics of traditional Japanese textiles with cutting-edge technologies in order to create some of the world's most innovative and influential fabrics The exhibition will feature 18 examples from the Nuno studio, dating from the time of the company's founding in 1984 to the present day. The fabrics will be hung in galleries adjacent to the showing of Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Collection of Mary Baskett, inviting visitors to experience the design process from start to finish - from structure to style.
Dress, Fall/Winter 1990/91, Issey Miyake (b. 1938), Japan
Washington Printmakers Gallery Drypoints and Other Works on Paper Deron DeCesare March 1 - April 3 Drypoints and monotypes, as well as pastels and watercolors.
Deron DeCesare
Workhouse Arts Center Congressional Children's Art Competition, An Artistic Discovery April 7 - April 25 All public, private and home schooled high school students residing in the 11th Congressional District are invited to submit an entry. The winner's artwork will be displayed for a year in the US Capitol, along with winning entries from every congressional district in the nation. Urban Decay: A Carnival of Custom Vinyl and Lowbrow Art April 28 - May 9 Exhibition focuses on the aesthetic of urban low brow art: a widespread populist movement with origins in the underground comic world, punk music, hot-rod street culture and graffiti
