Arlington Arts Center She's So Articulate Curator: Henry Thaggert June 10 - July 19 SHE’S SO ARTICULATE sets out to expand how gallery-goers think about the relation of narrative to contemporary art by African-American women. The show includes selected works and room-filling installations by 11 artists: Maya Freelon Asante, Renee Cox, Stephanie Dinkins, Djakarta, Nekisha Durrett, Torkwase Dyson, Faith Ringgold, Erika Ranee, Nadine Robinson, Renee Stout, and Lauren Woods.
Lost in Space, Renee Cox
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery MURAQQA': Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin May 3 - August 3 Among the most remarkable of Mughal paintings and calligraphies are those commissioned by the Emperors Jahangir (1605-27) and Shah Jahan (1627-58) for display in lavish imperial albums. A window into the world-views of the emperors, these exquisite images depicts the emperors, the imperial family in a relaxed private settings, Sufi saints and mystics, allies and courtiers and natural history subjects. Many folios are full-page paintings with superb figural borders; others are collages of European, Persian, and Mughal works collected by the emperors. Produced by the atelier's leading artists, they reveal the conceptual and artistic sophistication of the arts of the book at its apex in the early seventeenth century
A Garden Gathering with a Prince in a Green Jama, c. 1615-1620, Minto Album, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape May 31 - August 24 "Yellow Mountain: China's Ever-Changing Landscape" presents 10 leaves from the very important album of artist Xuezhuang, who fled to the mountain for political sanctuary after the fall of the Ming dynasty. In addition to woodblock prints and album leaves, the exhibition features a number of magnificent hanging scrolls and an impressive handscroll, measuring nearly 20 feet in length, that will hang in the exhibition's opening gallery. The handscroll, dated 1704, offers a panoramic view of the mountain that allows visitors to virtually travel from peak to peak and valley to valley.
Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto July 12 - January 25 A series of 22 pastels by American landscape painter Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925) juxtaposed with six black-and-white photographs by contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948, Tokyo). Although the works are separated by history and medium, they are linked by a common subject-the sea-and by formal resonances that encourage leisurely contemplation and quiet comparison.
Landscapes for Mr. Liweng by Xuezhuang; Gift of Charles Lang Freer.
Art League Gallery Neighborhood Watch Eva Jacob July 10 - August 4 Eva Jacob’s series of oil paintings celebrate the unique character of downtown Washington, DC
Jacob captures and reintroduces the ambience of Washington and its iconic neighborhoods through her distinctive painting style. “Living in the city, I am surrounded at all times by a lively mix of potential paintings,” Jacob says. Historic row houses, old boats on the Potomac, and vendors on K Street are just a few of the motifs seen in Jacob’s work, familiar sights made compelling by sunlight or mysterious behind a scrim of falling snow.
“I am a tonal painter -- my paintings are mostly about light,” she says. Light is the source of structure in Jacob’s paintings, transforming streets, houses, boats and trees into shapes, directions and contrasts. Free, loose brush strokes enhance her abstracted compositions and explore the character of each place. Jacob’s adept handling of the medium allows her to convey each painting’s unique quality of light.
Jacob received her training as a painter in classes at Brandeis University, American University, and the Washington Studio School. She is currently represented by the Watergate Gallery in Washington, DC and is an exhibiting member of The Art League Gallery. Her work is held in private collections nationally and in the “Images of Washington” collection of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. She received her BA and MA in English Literature from Radcliffe College and has worked as a museum curator, a reporter on issues in the arts, and as Policy and Planning Officer at the National Endowment for the Arts, retiring in 1996.
Glover Park Porches, Eva Jacob
Athenaeum The Long View Works by ten members of the Washington Society of Landscape Painters June 20- August 10 Featuring works by: Lani Browning Marietje Chamberlain Edward Cooper Fiona Pocock Corn Bernard Dellario Barbara Nuss Sara Linda Poly Nancy Tankersley Meg Walsh Richard Whiteley
View from Blackstone Cottage, Lani Browning
Blackrock Center for the Arts Paul Pincus and Sumita Kim July 16 - August 15 Sculpture; Mixed media - The confluence of natural movement and rhythms making the connection between the realm of ordinary experience and the realm of the spirit—thus captures the essence of the works of two extraordinary artists, Paul Pincus and Sumita Kim, working in seemingly oppositional directions. Closer examination reveals a juxtaposition of aesthetic paths, a unified ideal brought together in a remarkable exhibit.
Bobby Fisher Memorial Building Girlish Ways: The Next Generation of Female Artists Curated by Rachel Fick and Marissa Botelho Sponsored by ArtCadeForum.com and the Pink Line Project June 28 - July 13 The Bobby Fisher Memorial Building is pleased to announce the opening of Girlish Ways: The Next Generation of Female Artists, an exhibition examining how contemporary lifestyles effect and re-define the women of this generation. The exhibition recognizes exceptional female art students and graduates of BFA and MFA institutions around the United States and Canada. Girlish Ways explores youthful and mature concerns of the women involved, as well as how these women respond to their changing environments. Various issues are investigated, including cultural re-location, sexuality, public image, and post-feminism. Girlish Ways uses a range of subtle and overtly post-feminist art to engage the viewer in this diverse generation of women artists. The exhibition consists of a multitude of media and a live performance on the opening night by Lauren Bender. Satomi Shirai, Hunter College MFA Candidate 2009, uses large scale photography to depict cultural connections and disconnections that were results of moving from Japan to New York City. Amy Misurelli Sorensen, American University MFA 2008, paints multiple face masks as consequences to distorted images of female sexuality imposed by an Italian Catholic upbringing. Amber Hawk Swanson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago MFA 2006, explores the interplay between repulsion, desire, and surrender. By inserting a sexually available replica of herself into already charged environments, the possibility of peril often interrupts allegiance to the social codes of each space. Pierrette Montone and Caitlen Sherwood, the Corcoran College of Art + Design BFA 2008, collaborate to create a playful mural on femininity in a post-feminist generation. Lauren Bender, received a BS in Honors Painting at Towson University 2003, performs CorpOreo a piece that investigates the self/other and a breakdown of communication, influenced by the real-life experience of being a twin. Sara Hubbs, the George Washington University MFA 2008, installs Hides 'N Heels, a sculpture that deals with concepts of place, commerce, and notions of femininity as seen through two opposing viewpoints; one of a frontier-like mentality and one in search of authenticity or essence. Trish Tillman, School of Visual Arts MFA Candidate 2009, uses deceptively simple linework, bright colors, and abstracted yet familiar forms in her drawings and overflowing closet sculpture to seduce the viewer into confronting themes of personal growth, psychological confinement, and self-imposed displacement. Meg Onli, School of the Art Institute of Chicago BFA 2008, exhibits preliminary drawings and letters that have led to a current month-long performance that entails retracing the steps of a mulatto lesbian on the Underground Railroad between Rockville, Maryland and the historical settlement of Dawn, Canada. The walk began on June 3rd, 2008 and is anticipated to end in early July, 2008. Pamela Norrish, Alberta College of Art + Design BFA Candidate 2009, displays an array of delicate music boxes that resemble female body parts. These seemingly childish toys hold uncomfortable female expectations as the viewer winds up the box and puts it into motion. Zoe Blackwell, California College of Art BFA 2008, shows embroidered satin swatches that explore our human tendencies to recognize and assign code, pattern, secrecy, and preciousness. Simple tags hang quietly off of each swatch to push and pull the meanings of the embroidered words into a myriad of directions. Lauren Rice, American University MFA 2008, uses found objects that have masculine and feminine connotations to transform one of the second floor galleries into a space that is both gaudy and beautiful.
Connor Contemporary Academy 2008 Annual survey of MFA/BFA graduates July 11 - July 26
Conner Contemporary Art is very pleased to announce ACADEMY 2008, the eighth year of our annual invitational survey dedicated to outstanding work by recent fine art graduates of regional college art programs.
The following artists were invited to exhibit: Geoffrey Aldridge (American University) Jamie Andrew (Maryland Institute College of Art) Andrew Buckland (Maryland Institute College of Art) Robert Campoy (Georgetown University) Andrea Chung (Maryland Institute College of Art) Sarada Conaway (University of Maryland) Cheraya Esters (Corcoran College of Art + Design) Nathaniel Fink (Maryland Institute College of Art) Ryan Foti (Maryland Institute College of Art) Kenny George (George Washington University) Sara Hubbs (George Washington University) Stephanie Kozemchak (George Washington University) Michelle McAuliffe (George Washington University) Wayde McIntosh (Maryland Institute College of Art) Carmen McLeod (Virginia Commonwealth University) Meg Mitchell (University of Maryland) Diane Ramos (George Washington University) James Swainbank (Maryland Institute College of Art) Kristoffer Tripplaar (Corcoran College of Art + Design) Virginia Warwick (Maryland Institute College of Art) Aleksander Zhikulin (Maryland Institute College of Art)
The curators are ACADEMY exhibition founder and chief gallery Curator, Jamie Smith, gallery Director Leigh Conner and Assistant Director Kristi Mathews. As in previous years, the curators attended BFA/MFA exhibitions between December and June, viewing works in person to formulate a profile of area art programs. After consulting with artists, they selected a group of works created in various media, including painting, video, sculpture, and photography, which demonstrate individual achievement and represent vital currents in the fine art curricula of our region.
Since the exhibition's 2001 debut, over 109 grads have participated in ACADEMY. We are pleased that, as these young artists have continued to develop, some have achieved international critical recognition, exhibiting at venues including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Nassauischen Kunstverein, Wiesbaden and The British Museum, London, England.
Because we are finishing our new gallery space renovation, ACADEMY 2008 will be held nearby at 1341 H Street, NE (near the Atlas Theatre / Arts District). We appreciate the support of Taurus Development, who generously donated the ground floor space at their new corporate headquarters.
> ACADEMY 2008 opens Friday, July 11th with a reception for the artists from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. > Exhibition hours are Thursday – Saturday 12-5pm. > Taurus Development is located at 1341 H Street, NE – Washington, DC, 20002
Concurrent with ACADEMY 2008, SOVA Espresso and Wine bar (1359 H St, NE) is hosting an exhibition of paintings by first year MFA students from the George Washington University, curated by Diane Ramos. The opening reception is also Friday, July 11, 6 - 8 pm.
An online catalogue of artists/ works in ACADEMY 2008 will be available online through August at http://www.connercontemporary.com/current/.
Nathaniel Fink Check Out These Guns 2008, photograph, 15 x 15 inches
Curators Office Mixology I: Paintings and Works on Paper July 12 - July 19 We love Doctors Without Borders. And we need an excuse to max out the gallery and create some visual mayhem. After all, sometimes more is more. So, tiny Curator's Office is covering the gallery walls with paintings, drawings, and prints to help out Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontieres. Our goal is to raise at least $ 5,500, which could pay for an emergency health kit to care for 10,000 displaced people for three months. Works will range from $ 50 - $ 10,000 with a majority of the works available from $ 300 - $ 5,000. Together, we and art can make an important difference.
We are aware of the extreme and constant need in the world with crises affecting different parts of the globe on a weekly basis. One stellar charity, Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), is an international medical humanitarian organization created by doctors and journalists in France in 1971. Today, MSF provides aid in nearly 60 countries to people whose survival is threatened by violence, negligence, or catastrophe, primarily due to armed conflict, epidemics, malnutrition, exclusion from health care, or natural disasters. MSF provides independent, impartial assistance to those most in need. MSF reserves the right to speak out to bring attention to neglected crises, to challenge inadequacies or abuse of the aid system, and to advocate for improved medical treatments and protocols. In 1999, MSF received the Nobel Peace Prize.
For further information or to donate directly, go to www.doctorswithoutborders.org.
Artists: Charles Cohan | dearraindrop Eric Finzi | Peter Fox | Janis Goodman Robert Gutierrez | Eric Hibit | Leslie Holt Jason Hughes | Brian Judy | Ben Jurgensen Michele Kong | Jenny Laden | Jessica Langley Nilay Lawson | Kristofer Lee | Barbara Liotta Linn Meyers | J.W. Mahoney | Kate McGraw Jiha Moon | Cory Oberndorfer | Tim Rollins & K.O.S. Eduardo Santiere | Chris Scarborough | Ann Tarantino Denise Tassin | Jacques Vidal | Andy Moon Wilson and others
Saturday, July 12, 6:00 - 8:30 with wine, beer, and an artist-designed drink And during the week: Tues - Sat, 12 - 6
Del Ray Artisans As We Are . . . The Eternal Nude Curators: Michele Reday Cook and Joan Ulrich Juror: Tania Karpowitz July 3 - July 27 Since the beginning of time, artists have attempted to capture the human figure in all its diversity. Ancient drawings and sculptures may have been symbols of fertility or of great bravery. The human figure was depicted as deities and in religious rites.
Flashpoint The Numbers Behind Michael Dax Iacovone July 12 - August 23 Large-scale photomontages document progressions through space and time. Artist Michael Dax Iacovone rejects traditional notions of composition, focusing his energies instead on composing formulas to capture the concept of space, resulting in mixed media photographic creations. more
Foundry Gallery Dual Reality Ann and Philip Bennet. July 2 - July 27 paintings and prints
Fraser Gallery Grand Prize Winners of the Trawick Prize and Bethesda Painting Awards July 9 - August 2 The Trawick Prize was established in 2003 by local businesswoman and arts philanthropist, Carol Trawick. In 2005, Ms. Trawick established the Bethesda Painting Awards. Each year, $28,000 in prize money is awarded to artists in our region, with Grand Prize Winners receiving $10,000.
Finalists and Grand Prize Winners are selected by a panel of judges. Past jurors include Olga Viso, former Director, Hirshhorn Museum, Jonathan Binstock, former Curator of Contemporary Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Jack Rasmussen, Director, Katzen Art Center, Brandon Fortune, Curator, National Portrait Gallery, and many other prestigious curators and educators from our area.
This exhibition will include new work by Trawick Prize Winners, Richard Cleaver (2003), David Page (2004), Jiha Moon (2005), James Rieck (2006), Jo Smail (2007), and by Bethesda Painting Award Winners, Joseph Kabriel (2005), Tony Shore (2006), Matt Klos (2007) and B.G Muhn (2008).
Cadet, Richard Cleaver
Gallery 10 American Landscape The works from the show at Santa Reparata, Florence, Italy July 30 - August 23 Banks, Blankstein, Burley, Cable, Carlson, Federman, Heinrich, Hersh-Ingram, Irby, Langston, LeCocq, Levine, Monteiro-Rall, Richelieu, Schoettler, Segnan, Stout, Uravitch, Vess, Watkin
Gallery 50 Jam Session 2 Rose Minetti July 24 - August 19 "I love the interaction of color and the language she creates in her abstract paintings," Jay Pastore, Owner of Gallery 50 says, "Rose reinterprets the world in her paintings, they are at once structured and organic in feel." more
Remnants, Rose Minetti
Georgetown Art Gallery Summer Splash Anabela Ferguson July 22 - August 19 Anabela was born and raised in Santiago, Chile where her grandfather and grandmother were nationally renowned artists. Her grandfather studied abroad on an art scholarship in Europe and her grandmother was active in the Berlin, Germany art culture, honing her skills after arriving in Chile. Anabela is a third-generation impressionist artist, having grown up surrounded by art. She had a unique opportunity to enjoy painting all her life, being able to take part in her grandparents' exhibitions. other Anabela Ferguson exhibitions
Anabela Ferguson
Heineman Myers Contemporary Art Looking Up Scott Ponemone July 8 - August 16 With this body of work Scott Ponemone has turned his attention upward and has created a series of paintings reflecting the constant changes of the clouds all over the world
Hirshhorn The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image June 19 - September 7 The second part of the Hirshhorn’s exploration of contemporary moving-image art, Realisms, looks at a decade of film, video and digital works
Black Box: Kimsooja April 28 - August 17 Kimsooja explores the properties of fabric through video, sculpture, and installations. Her work often conflates Eastern and Western traditions and investigates the common ground between intimate, personal realms and those of universal global dimensions.
Kathleen Ewing Gallery At the Waters Edge A. Aubrey Bodine Janos Enyedi Macduff Everton Tim Hall Stephen Lawson Alex MacLean Hiroshi Osaka Willy Ronis Steve Szabo Through August 16
Kennedy Center's Terrace Gallery Derivative Composition June 26 - July 17 VSA arts hosts a juried exhibition of artists with disabilities, this exhibition highlights the synergy among the artistic disciplines, showcasing art that is inspired by the aesthetics of music, theater, and dance.
VSA arts debuts “Derivative Composition” at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Gallery. A juried exhibition of artists with disabilities, “Derivative Composition” highlights the synergy among the disciplines, showcasing art that is inspired by the aesthetics of music, theater, and dance. The exhibition includes installation, performance art, sculpture, painting, woodcut, digital prints, video, and drawing. The exhibition is on display through July 17.
VSA arts, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to the arts for people with disabilities, highlights the significant accomplishments of individuals with disabilities and supports those who wish to pursue a career in the arts. With exhibitions such as “Derivative Composition,” VSA arts introduces artists to the larger cultural community.
“This exhibition is one the most engaging that VSA arts has curated,” said Soula Antoniou, president of VSA arts. “Through this exhibition, the artists have created a powerful body of work that thrives on both the familiar and the unexpected, and the viewer is in a position to think about the intersection of the visual and performing arts.”
Highlights include: Katie Miller’s large-scale paintings focus on contemporary American culture in the suburban middle class. Miller, of Fairfax, Virginia, prefers ambiguity in her compositions and does not create them with a specific story in mind. Her work highlights the everyday moments of life that appear curiously strange or surreal when shown out of context. In this series, “Child Standing on a Dresser” and “Girl in the Yard” illustrates the dichotomies of childhood, such as the juxtaposition of innocence with a sense of threat. Through children, she explores the fine line between the disturbing and the comforting, the innocent and the provocative, the powerful and the vulnerable.
From Foster City, California, Emily Eifler’s whimsical sculptures are reminiscent of costuming, exploring boundaries in objects that are derived from the body. The resulting forms elicit an initial playful response. Upon closer investigation, however, they reveal a deeply personal experience with disability. Eifler, who has a progressive neurological disorder resulting in limited mobility, uses the work to examine biological forms in an effort to exert control.
From Manukau City, New Zealand, but inspired by the theatrics of U.S. politics, Ricky Subritzky’s collaborative installation with Australian artist Fiona MacDonald, “Lobby,” has two components: “Canopy” (ceiling) and “Movement” (silk drapes). The installation enfolds an image of America’s last Liberty Tree positioned as a mandala-like canopy circled by doves and hawks, while the surrounding space is completely wrapped with silk drapery, depicting a kaleidoscopic crowd scene. “Lobby” contemplates the struggles between citizens and governments, depicting aspects of the lineage of U.S. democracy.
The exhibition also includes: Stephanie Andrews (Shoreline, Washington); “accretion” series; digital prints John Cadigan (Palo Alto, California); “Monster Room I,” “Monster Room II,” “Monster Room III”; woodcut triptych Terence Healy (Santa Monica, California); “Andy”; animated film, pencil drawings Sophie Kahn (Brooklyn, New York); “Untitled”; short animation and Lambda print Ken Morgan (Coventry, Connecticut); “Two to Tango,” “Cheek to Cheek,” “The Last Dance,” “Gray and White Dancers”; digital prints Manjusha Rajadyaksha (Malvern, Pennsylvania); “Pisces,” “Admiration”; enamel and acrylic on canvas Barbara Romain (Los Angeles, California); “Hard Rain”; acrylic on unstretched canvas Jeremy Schack (Waxahachie, Texas); “Adrianne”; video Bill Shannon (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania); “The Departure”; video Mark Wittig (Tulsa, Oklahoma); “To Have Straights”; sculptural installation and performance Judson Wright (New York, New York); “Signature Sonata,” “Portraiture”; interactive computer art
The distinguished jury included: Kristen Hileman, associate curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Astrid Persans, director of Powerhouse Projects; Lennox Campello, art critic, artist, and curator; and Rody Douzoglou, director of Douz and Mille.
Kreeger Museum Philip Johnson: Architecture as Art Curated by Hilary Lewis March 15 - July 31 Showcases the relationship between art and architecture as seen by Philip Johnson (1906-2005) in his late works. From structured, twisting forms that may remind some viewers of the current work of Santiago Calatrava, to softer, curving expressions produced in chain-link, fiberglass or concrete, Johnson and his firm Philip Johnson/Alan Ritchie Architects produced work in the 1990s and 2000s that was often not only sculptured architecture, but also sculpture itself. An individual who continually appreciated the lure of monuments, Johnson experimented with such structures during this period, producing numerous designs, many of which were never fully fabricated. This segment of Johnson's architectural portfolio is one of the most powerful expressions of his lifelong commitment to architecture as art, which contrasts boldly with the approach of many other prominent architects of his generation.
Long View Gallery New Work Richard Currier July 11 - August 9 Richard Currier has been working on his vision of creating fine art for more than 20 years. His paintings bring ordinary objects to life through his finely tuned technique, which is similar to that of the masters. The drama he instills in his subjects through color, shape, positioning, and space, forms his contemporary and highly compelling body of work. Turbulent and wonderful, his renderings of fruits, vegetables, and meats, truly give life to the still life and create an aura of mystery for anyone viewing his paintings.
Meat Market Gallery Death and Glory Mario Wagner Hereinafter Torkwase Dyson July 11 - August 16 In the selection of collages featured in DEATH AND GLORY, Cologne based artist and illustrator Mario Wagner utilizes imagery culled from technology, urbanity and pop culture to explore themes common to city life: displacement, claustrophobia and instability. Figures are blacked out, covered and masked. Environments seem disjointed
With an imaginative and critical eye, New York based interdisciplinary artist Torkwase Dyson also explores contemporary culture in the exhibition HEREINAFTER. Through a multi-sensory installation addressing environmental and technological politics in visual culture, the gallery is transformed into a humorous yet cautionary exploration of isolation, hip-hop, and global instability.
National Academy of Sciences Taxa Isabella Kirkland April 10 - August 25 The exhibition is comprised of six paintings that collectively depict nearly 400 species whose existence has been compromised in some way by man's actions. Kirkland began this series in 1999 after reading a list of the 100 most-endangered species in the United States. Coexistence Joan Wadleigh Curran June 10 - September 15 Joan Wadleigh Curran is interested in objects that exist on the periphery of our daily experiences. She focuses on moments when vegetation and human material merge, producing visual contradiction. Cropped, pruned, and twisted forms of plant and man-made objects co-exist in her unsettling paintings and drawings. The images explore growth, decay, regeneration, and reclamation.
Image courtesy of Joan Wadleigh Curran
Smithsonian American Art Museum Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
Now through August 3
Love jazz and blues? Bessie Smith and Langston
Hughes? Experience the world of Aaron Douglas (1899–1979), one of the
most influential visual artists of the Harlem Renaissance. Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
is the first nationally touring retrospective that brings together more
than eighty rarely seen works by the artist including paintings,
prints, drawings and illustrations. Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury Now Through October 13 Local Color: Washington Painting at Midcentury examines the cross influences of Washington, D.C.-based artists between the mid-1950s and mid-1970s when our nation's capital was home to one of the most dynamic artistic communities in the country. Looking beyond the Color School label, this exhibition explores the astonishing breadth of styles and techniques adopted by Washington artists Leon Berkowitz, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Sam Gilliam, Fel Hines, Jacob Kainen, Howard Mehring, Paul Reed, and Alma Thomas who were conducting innovative experiments with color and form. Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth Now through November 9 Nature's strength, endurance, and fragility are captured in the dynamic work of Barbara Bosworth (b. 1953). Best known for her photographs of National Champion trees—the largest identified example of each species in the United States—Bosworth creates panoramic images using a unique method that combines multiple large-format negatives in a single print.
Studio Gallery Stimulus DC Artists Accept the Challenge July 16 - August 9 Over 100 original works under $500
Target Gallery Slick Julie Camarata July 23 – August 24 The gallery is opening its doors to installation artist, Julie Camarata from Knoxville, TN, to completely transform the space into oilrig platforms and piping. The artist is presenting the timely idea concerning the necessity, dangers and beauty of oil. The artist will be on site building this installation for two weeks at which time the gallery will be open to the public to learn more about her process. This is the first time the gallery has sponsored an artist in residency/site specific installation and at the end of the two week residency the work will remain on exhibit for an additional two weeks.
Touchstone Gallery My Space on 7th 50 Artists July 9 - August 2 A new tradition (second year) at Touchstone Gallery fulfills two perpetual needs: that of artists for exhibition space, and that of collectors for work they don't yet know, often at bargain prices. The beginning artist has the chance to be discovered, while the established artist has the opportunity to go in a totally new direction
Opening July 11th, this explosion of art will fill the main gallery. Building on the success of last year’s show, three-dimensional works will be included this year as well. Due to an overwhelming response all wall spaces sold out within the first half hour of registration, which was by e-mail only, on a first-come, first-served basis.
50 ARTISTS PARTICIPATING: Bill Abel, Cynthia Angeles, William Atkins, Karen Baker, Marilyn Banner, Andre Barnett, Sophie Bethune,Thor Berglie, Harmon Biddle, Sharon Burton, Alexander Feshenko, Olga Weiss,Tom Drymon, Larkin Goff, Philip J. Gross, Kurt Godwin, Alexandra Goldschmidt, Nathaniel Hester, Sandra D. Humphrey, Leslie Johnson, Angela Kleis, Lauren Shea Little, Mila Kagan, Peter Karp, Kay Layne, Emery Lewis, Priscilla De Lima, Mary Mallia, Karen Mazzarella, Laurie Mertens, Marcellus D. McIntosh, Newton More, Bob Morrison, Jonathan Ottke, Wendy Plotkin-Mates, Haydeh Rastin, Paivi Salonen, Heather M. Schmaedeke, Jenny Singleton, Brendan Smith, Carole Lyles Shaw, Janathel Shaw, Laurie Tylec, Jaqueline Unanhue, Jon Wassom, Crystal V. Whitfield, Jack Whitsitt, Kelly Young and Gwenn Zaberer.
Washington Printmakers Gallery New Faces A Special Exhibition of New Washington Printmaker Gallery Artists July 1 - July 27
Waverly Street Gallery Silk, Wool, Wire & Wood Experimental Fiber by Deb Jansen and New Work by Gallery Artists July 8 through August 2 Jansen’s current work is about energy, emotion and word play. Experimenting with raw silk fibers, hand felted wool, crocheted copper wire and a few shish kabob skewers, she holds it all together with a flurry of machine stitching, a little elbow grease, a dash of beadwork and at least a few healthy belly laughs. more
