Call Me Chairmaker Garry Knox Bennett Features 52 one-of-a-kind sculptural chairs created by Garry Knox Bennett, one of the foremost contemporary studio furniture makers in America.
Love, Let Me Count the Ways Washington Print Club Biennial A compilation of approximately 100 prints, drawings, and pastels from print club member collections
Collaborations Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw More than 60 collaborative and individual sculptural works created during the 40-year careers of Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw. Highlighting the unique and inventive partnership of these renowned San Francisco Bay area artists, the exhibition features works in porcelain and glaze that challenge perceptions of art, craft, and the conventional modes of artistic production
June 27 - August 16
Sipriz: The Haitian Sailing Project Retraces a route of the Haitian “boat people.” The exhibition seeks to draw attention to the problems leading to the ongoing exodus from Haiti and create an understanding of refugees’ experience on the arduous—and often fatal—passage to Florida. The 21-foot wooden sailboat Sipriz left Haiti for the United States on March 16, the Sipriz will be on view along with text and images depicting its 800 mile voyage. The Sipriz was built on Ile a Vache last summer by crew member Oblit Laguerre; the sail was painted by artists from the Foundation Art Center of Jacmel in Haiti.
Margaret Boozer: Dirt Drawings Involves installations of unfired local clays. Boozer’s graphic compositions of color, pattern, and texture create small geologic events—manifestations of cause and effect celebrating clay’s physical properties. Colors change, shapes warp, cracks emerge as in these fragile and mutable works that cross genres between painting and sculpture, abstraction and representation.
My Fellow Americans … : 40 Years of Political Cartoons by Jules Feiffer Displays the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York cartoonist’s sharp wit and piercing criticism. Feiffer’s cartoons ran for more than 40 years in the Village Voice, were syndicated nationally, and are a testament to his unique insight into the social and political upheavals around him. His messages maintain relevancy in contemporary society. His often text-heavy panels are balanced by simple but whimsically drawn figures. While his punch lines are often caustic, he still frequently manages to imbue political figures with humanity.
New Ladderback #1, Garry Knox Bennett
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery The Art of Storytelling Alexandra Rozenman and Alexey Zoob June 4 - August 30 Although the two Russian-born artists included in this exhibition have similar immigrant backgrounds, they tell very different stories through their artwork. By painting on found and recycled cabinet doors as well as on Russian matrioshka (nesting dolls), each artist expresses individual life experiences through recurring symbols and vivid color
Alexandra Rozenman
Arlington Arts Center AAC: Paradox Now! Eight Artists curated by Jeffry Cudlin June 19 - August 22 PARADOX NOW! presents eight contemporary artists who view history as a fluid dynamic, in dialogue with and affected by the present, and subject to revision. These artists play with the audience's expectations. They short-circuit accepted narratives through historical reenactments, parodies, anachronisms, and other hiccups in the fabric of daily life. The artworks in PARADOX NOW! mimic the ways in which meanings are generated and preserved in our culture—thereby disorienting viewers and leading them to question how they have come to know what they think they know. British filmmaker and artist Anna Lucas New York-based artist Josh Azzarella D.C.’s resident alternative art historian, A. Clarke Bedford Baltimore artist Megan Hildebrandt D.C.artist Ding Ren Orlando-based artist E. Brady Robinson New York artist Mark Tribe Philadelphia sculptor Erin Williams
Art League Gallery Greece Abstracted Betsy Anderson July 9 - August 3 Features Betsy Anderson’s latest series of landscapes paintings inspired by the color, light, and architecture found in the Greek landscape. Struck by the stark contrast between the crisp white buildings and deep blue sky and water on the island of Santorini, and the colorful flowers in Mykonos, Anderson focused on creating a body of work that would evoke the feeling of this bold, iconic landscape.
Approaching Santorini, Betsy Anderson
Carroll Square Gallery Landscape Biology Natalie Cheung Melissa Dickenson Kim Manfredi Katherine Mann June 26 - August 28 Through different methods each artist in this exhibition has created a landscape, but not in the traditional sense. These landscapes have their roots in the natural world, but do not present recognizable vistas. The four artists are using biological forms – cells, galaxies, plants and animals – to inform and inspire their work.
Tower 2, Katherine Mann
Civilian Art Projects Upgrade Organized by Lindsay Buhman July 10 - August 8 Upgrade features seven DC based artists -- Andrew Brown, Lindsay Buhman, Nicholas Carr, Benjamin Chetta, Cheraya Esters, Cory May, and Anna Wonson -- whose work is focused on the quality product, the newest version, and the constant need for enhanced functionality and efficiency. The artists explore everything from computer glitches to how one’s personal growth and identity develop within today’s technologically flooded society.
Curator's Office Summer Dock Dawn Black Charles Cohan Peter Fox Jason Hughes J.W. Mahoney Kate McGraw Jiha Moon Beverly Ress Eduardo Santiere Chris Scarborough Ann Tarantino McGraw & Tarantino Andy Moon Wilson August 8 - August 29 paintings, prints, works on paper
Curators Office Hello Masterpiece Leslie Holt June 27 - August 1 Hello Summer! Hello Masterpiece! Curator's Office is entering a gravitas-free zone this summer and aims to inject some kitsch into your souls, some humor into your lives, and a knowing wink at your art appreciation. We welcome Leslie Holt's witty postcard-size paintings into the gallery in which Hello Kitty invades art historic masterpieces from Hopper to Picasso, from Cezanne to Goya.
Hello Scream, Leslie Holt
Del Ray Artisans lluminations Board Show Co-Curators: Michele Reday Cook & Jeanne Tifft August 8 - August 30 Works by six members of the DRA Board of Directors who have volunteered in that role for over two years. The exhibit showcases several media: painting, photography, gardening, and painted glass – in a wide range of styles and expressions that are produced by the leaders of this local group of artists and artisans. Painters exhibiting are Michele Reday Cook and Margaret Slipek. Photographers exhibiting are Jeanne Tifft and Christina Richardson. Gardener Nora Partlow will share from her award-winning garden, which is certified by the National Wildlife Federation. Donn Grover will show recent examples of his painted glass in old window frames.
Abstracted
Ron Riley September 2 - September 27 Acrylic with mixed media on canvas
What a Cut up - Ron Riley
Fraser Gallery Best of Artomatic Selected by Catriona Fraser July 10 - August 8 A group exhibition of work from this year's Artomatic, selected by Catriona Fraser. The exhibition will include work by 10 artists who were previously unfamiliar to Ms. Fraser. After spending approximately 24 hours over 4 days looking at all 8 floors of visual art, Ms. Fraser selected work by the following artists: Jennifer Bishop Deb Jansen Edward Johnston Christine Keers Andrew Livingstone Brian Lusher Joanne Mitchell Molly Sheldon Frank Turner Andrew Zimmerman
Looking at Clouds, Edward Johnston
Gallery 50 Group Show, Gloria Cesal, Michael Fitts, Michael Matarese, John McGiff, Brian Petro, Victor Spinski August 7 - September 2
Blue Vase and Bird, Gloria Cesal
Gallery 50 Grids Susan Finsen July 10 - August 5 In this series, my grids produce structures with not quite parallel lines, lattices that stop and start, checkerboards that play with circles and loops, and grates through which one can view the layers below. The grid has joined the circle, loop, and other gestural forms in my world of mark making - Susan Finsen
Grid A - Susan Finsen
Gallery 50 Tempus Fugit Rose Minetti July 24 - August 19 This work is a measurement of personal time. It incorporates many techniques I have worked with at different times in my career... the grid, plane geometry, painting and drawing, oil, acrylic and graphite. The work is architectural and organic; it is temporal, repetitious and evolved. The colors are a study in the quietness of neutrals accented with primary colors.- Rose Minetti
Lotus Eaters, Rose Minetti
Hamiltonian Gallery 2009 Hamiltonian Fellows Jon Bobby Benjamin (BA, Brandeis University) Magnolia Laurie (MFA, Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art) Katherine Mann (MFA, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art) Jonathan Monaghan (MFA Candidate, University of Maryland) Lina Vargas De La Hoz (MFA, Art University Linz, Austria) June 20 - August 1 The five new 2009 Hamiltonian Fellows were selected from a pool of over 180 applicants this year, up from 130 applicants the previous year. Each artist, incredibly distinct from one another and multidisciplinary, will be displaying the work with which they were accepted.
Hemphill Fine Arts New Prints Judy Pfaff June 13 - August 15 The exhibition includes four prints from a series titled Year of the Dog, which Ms Pfaff began in 2006 – the most recent year of the Dog according to the Chinese zodiac. Like Pfaff’s installations, these prints are multi-layered and utilize a variety of materials and processes including woodcut, stencil, hand-painting and collage.
Prints & New Work Mingering Mike June 13 - August 15 Exhibits, for the first time, archival pigment prints made from a selection of Mingering Mike’s original record album covers. These covers document the self-taught artist’s journey through the cultural and political tumult of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War. The albums in the exhibition include “The Two Sides of Mingering Mike,” “Let’s Get...Nasty,” and “Git’tin to the Roots of All Evils” and exemplify the star recording career that Mingering Mike imagined for himself. New original album covers will also be on view.
Mingering Mike
Hillyer Art Space Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout July 3 - August 26 Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of D.C. and Baltimore's emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space's summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Griffiths, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent. Stout has set out to create a mixed bag of local talent not based in the obligatory conceptual framework predominantly exhibited in group shows. Instead of the varying inspiration and ideas behind the individual bodies of work, it is the "natural dialogue that may occur between these works" which Stout would like the audience to experience.
The Good Book
International Visions - The Gallery In My Father’s House Victor Ehikhamenor & New Works Stanley Agbontaen July 15 - August 15 Victor Ehikhamenor was born in Udomi-Uwessan, Edo State. A resident of the United States since 1996, he has been prolific in producing abstract, symbolic works with unmistakable ties to his Nigerian background. Stanley Osaheni Agbontaen grew up on Benin City Edo state, South-south Nigeria. When he was young he decided to study fine art at a tertiary level and then with the support of his dad, he went to The Creative Art Academy to acquire general knowledge of art. Before finishing his second year of training, he gained admission to a national diploma in General & Fine Art in Auchi Polytechnic. He stood out as one of the best sculpting students of his time, though to much surprise, he majored in painting. During his studies he developed a strong passion for colors and just seeing the colors in his works gave him inner joy and fulfillment.
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center Finding Beauty in a Broken World: In the Spirit of Frida Kahlo Juried by F. Lennox Campello July 1 - August 29 Frida Kahlo remains one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, but her spectacular life experiences, writing and views on life and art have also influenced many artists. Frida always painted herself: her pain, her anguish, her sorrow, her passion, as well as her triumph over disability. Her paintings and retablos celebrate a life constantly reinventing itself, in spite of the physical disability that strove to confine it. This exhibition will showcase the work of artists influenced not only by Frida’s art, but also by her biography, her thoughts, and her writings
Petalos Negros, Katya Romero
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Summer Selections Gene Davis, Sam Gilliam, Nathan Oliveira, Athena Tacha July 10 - August 1
untitled, Gene Davis
McLean Project for the Arts Strictly Painting 7 Juror: Vivienne Lassman June 18 - August 1 MPA's biennial juried painting exhibition
MPA/Corcoran Student Art Show June 18 - August 1
National Gallery of Art An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture July 4 - November 1 Led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455–1532), the great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance created new ideals of beauty, shaped by a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity. This exhibition, the first in America dedicated to Tullio, features his sensuous and dramatic double-portraits in high relief: A Couple (c. 1490/1495) from the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro in Venice and the "Bacchus and Ariadne" (c. 1505) from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Ten other carefully selected works exemplify the creative approach and influence of Tullio and his closest followers, including his brother Antonio Lombardo, Simone Bianco, Antonio Minello, and Giammaria Mosca.
The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci Puzzle July 3 - September 7 The Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior, a bronze statuette from the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum), Budapest, is the focus of recent technical examinations by National Gallery of Art conservators and is also the centerpiece of the exhibition, The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci Puzzle. The intriguing work is joined by two additional bronze horses and another warrior associated with Leonardo, along with two Renaissance bronze horses by known masters for comparison. Illustrative panels present evidence related to the works' origins, including reproductions of drawings by Leonardo, x-radiographs, and computer models. Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life May 17 - August 23 Luis Melendez (1715–1780) is now recognized as the premier still-life painter in 18th-century Spain, indeed one of the greatest in all of Europe, though his reputation had long been eclipsed by the achievements of his Spanish contemporary, Francisco Goya.
Recent Acquisitions: The Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for Architectural Books May 16 - November 15
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.
National Gallery of Art An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture July 4 - November 1 Led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455–1532), the great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance created new ideals of beauty, shaped by a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity. This exhibition, the first in America dedicated to Tullio, features his sensuous and dramatic double-portraits in high relief: A Couple (c. 1490/1495) from the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro in Venice and the "Bacchus and Ariadne" (c. 1505) from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Ten other carefully selected works exemplify the creative approach and influence of Tullio and his closest followers, including his brother Antonio Lombardo, Simone Bianco, Antonio Minello, and Giammaria Mosca.
The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci Puzzle July 3 - September 7 The Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior, a bronze statuette from the Museum of Fine Arts (Szépművészeti Múzeum), Budapest, is the focus of recent technical examinations by National Gallery of Art conservators and is also the centerpiece of the exhibition, The Budapest Horse: A Leonardo da Vinci Puzzle. The intriguing work is joined by two additional bronze horses and another warrior associated with Leonardo, along with two Renaissance bronze horses by known masters for comparison. Illustrative panels present evidence related to the works' origins, including reproductions of drawings by Leonardo, x-radiographs, and computer models.
Jaromír Funke and the Amateur Avant-Garde May 3 - August 9 Jaromír Funke (1896–1945) was one of the foremost photographers of the 1920s and 1930s in Czechoslovakia, a country that stood at the forefront of creative photography during these two decades. In the first extensive presentation of Funke's work outside Europe, some 70 works by the artist and leading contemporaries—including Josef Sudek (1896–1976) and Eugen Wiskovsky (1888–1964)—will position his career at the center of an important, if often overlooked, history of modernist photography. Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life May 17 - August 23 Luis Melendez (1715–1780) is now recognized as the premier still-life painter in 18th-century Spain, indeed one of the greatest in all of Europe, though his reputation had long been eclipsed by the achievements of his Spanish contemporary, Francisco Goya.
Recent Acquisitions: The Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for Architectural Books May 16 - November 15 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.
National Museum of the American Indian Fritz Scholder: Indian/Not Indian November 1 - August 16, 2009 Exhibition illuminates the achievements of one of the most influential American artists of the 20th century, the late Fritz Scholder (1937–2005). Featuring 135 paintings, works on paper, and sculptures drawn from major public and private collections, including the color-saturated canvases for which the artist is famous, Indian/Not Indian opens concurrently at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., and at NMAI’s George Gustav Heye Center in New York. The Washington exhibition surveys Scholder’s forty-plus years as a working artist, with particular emphasis on his groundbreaking and controversial Indian paintings from the 1960s and 1970s.
National Museum of Women in the Arts Mary McFadden: Goddesses March 20 - August 30 Inspired by the art and culture of ancient civilizations, American fashion designer Mary McFadden is renowned for her romantic and inventive haute couture designs for women. Frequently referred to as a “design archeologist,” McFadden has created more than 100 collections.
Project 4 Gallery Rusty Wolfe June 1 - August 31 Paintings by Nashville-based artist, Rusty Wolfe. Inspired by the landscape as seen from the window of an airplane, Wolfe animates the geometries of cities, farmland and roads for these map-like panel paintings. Employing a multi-layered palette, Wolfe composes collages of opposing angles and repeating geometric shapes.
Colors, Rusty Wolfe
Project 4 Gallery Honor System Aurora Robson June 27 - August 8 A solo exhibition of work by Aurora Robson. The show will feature sculptures, paintings, and collages by the New York-based artist, who transforms the recycled plastics and other wasted materials with which she works into intricate objects of childlike whimsy and poignant beauty. "...I like to provide people with a sense of surprise and wonder with my work. It is important for me to make things that seduce people visually before they realize they are looking at something that was “garbage”," said Robson in 2009. Her complex, floating sculptures draw from inspirations ranging from litter and junk mail to childhood nightmares. The size of these sculptures increases in tandem with the expansion of her career, while Robson's experimentation in installation work has grown as well.
You Meet Certain Criteria, Aurora Robson
River Farm Landscape Katherine Carson Kyle July 1 - August 31 Described as modern impressionism, Katherine’s work prioritizes mood and color. She favors simplified hues, often preferring to work with a palette knife. She paints plein air or in her studio in Georgetown.
Katherine Carson Kyle
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
Space 7:10 Coat and Burn Chrisi Atha, Nora Simon, James Orr Curator, Gretchen Schermerhorn July 28 - August 28 Pyramid Atlantic Art Center's three summer studio interns explore the mediums of screen printing and cyanotype printing.
Touchstone Gallery Seven Takes Charlie Dale, Anthony Dortch, Joshua F. Gomez, Leslie Johnston, Peter Karp , Newton More and Michelle Rogers July 8 - August 7 Seven new artist members of the Touchstone Gallery show examples of their work, covering a wide range of subjects and creative approaches. The media employed are as diverse as the issues explored in this unusual show which juxtaposes abstract and figurative paintings with collage, assemblage and experimental photography.
Portraits Anil CS Rao July 8 - August 7
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Anil CS Rao
July 8 - August 7
Anil CS Rao
Washington Printmakers Gallery 12th Annual National Small Works July 28 - August 30 Juried by Jane Haslem Some 192 artists entered 740 prints. This year’s juror, DC’s own Jane Haslem of Jane Haslem Gallery & artline.com, selected 42 prints for the exhibition and an opportunity to place in the top five for prizes. Though the prints are small by requirement (maximum size is 170 square inches), they show an impressive breadth of technique, as well as subject matter from all across the country.
