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Adam Lister Gallery Untagged Group Show Curated by Allison Byers July 30 - September 6 Social networking websites such as Facebook have made an astounding impact on how we perceive ourselves, each other, and the world around us. We willingly and freely share the most intimate details of our lives with the world and are beginning to use this type of social networking to replace authentic social contact. Untagged aims to exhibit this phenomenon through art and encourage viewers to reflect upon the impact of social networking and technology upon their own lives and relationships.
Connection Lost, Nick Gentry
Addison Ripley Fine Art Portray Curated by Frank Hallam Day July 23 - August 27 The show explores the full compass of contemporary portraiture, with works ranging from painting and photography to video and sculpture. The exhibition examines the boundaries of what constitutes a portrait from the straightforward portrayal to the allusive and allegorical. Both well-known and emerging artists are featured in this exhibition.
gestus picture, Colby Caldwell
American Painting Fine Art Picturing the Potomac Artists of the Potomac River School @ the American University Library May 1 - August 1 The artists' twenty three paintings include some of their largest works, as well as many paintings created en plein air. The works often depict recognizable locations on the Potomac River, at different times of day, and in varying seasons. The Potomac River School artists' work is characterized by the use of classic landscape composition, tight handling, often restricted color, and expressive application of paint resulting in a variety of textures that accurately reflect the subject.
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Good Things Come in Small Packages: The Collection of Elisabeth French June 12 - August 15 Long-time D.C. based collector lends works from her collection, showcasing the rich art-history of the region. The show is curated by Alice Denney. Soaring Voices: Recent Ceramics by Women of Japan June 12 - August 15 This exhibition features 87 works by 25 exceptional women artists who reflect Japan’s rich and innovative ceramic culture.
Art League Gallery 'scapes Juried by Joey Manlapaz August 4 - September 6 Annual landscape exhibition of Art League members' works
Art League Gallery Stories in Paper Megan Coyle July 8 - August 2 Collages, crafted from small pieces of magazine photos, explore images and scenes of day to day life.
Commuters, Megan Coyle
Arlington Arts Center Art Scouts Curated by: Zoe Charlton Mary Early JJ McCracken Maggie Michael Jefferson Pinder Kerry Skarbakka June 18 - August 21 Six accomplished artists with strong presences in the DC area explain how and why they make their art by presenting other artists who use the same materials and methods.
ArtSpace Herndon In the Shadow of Giants Terra Chapman, Jamie Egner, and Teresa Oaxaca August 1 - August 29
Farms, Barns, and Grain Elevators to the Sky Douglas Simms Stenhouse August 31 - September 26 Watercolors
Art Whino Malagueta Tatiana Suarez July 17 - August 15 Malagueta is a fusion of culture, folkloric tales and legends colorfully rendered and set in voluptuous, airy atmospheres inspired primarily by the artists Brazilian heritage.
ArtSpace Herndon One Nation Solomon T. Wondimu July 6 - August 1 Among the works in this exhibit are larger than life digitally created works of the American Flag, Sojourner Truth, and Rosa Parks. The exhibit also includes a painting of President Barack Obama. A bust of Eleanor Roosevelt by Aaron Eby is also on display.
Art Museum of the Americas Argentina in Focus: Visualizing the Concept Cristian Segura Sergio Vega Curated by Alm Ruiz September 15 - November 15
Athenaeum Of Itself: Medium as Message Group Show Curated by Twig Murray & J.T. Kirkland June 17 - August 1 Using traditional media such as paint, wood and clay; as well as the non-traditional including rust, glue, and scrap metal, the nature of the media itself is given a voice through the works of Christian Benefiel, Michael Fitts, Joanne Kent, Kevin Kepple, J.T. Kirkland, Laurel Lukaszewski and Kim Manfredi.
Sunnyside, Joanne Kent
Blackrock Center for the Arts First Blackrock Student Exhibition August 16 - August 28 This will exhibit will showcase Blackrock's visual art classes from kindergarten to adult. Various Media Oil and Acrylic Judith Peck & Rita Elsner September 1 - September 25
Carroll Square Gallery Travelogue Elsie Hull Ruth Pettus Foon Sham Polly Townsend June 18 - August 27
Kashmir, Polly Townsend
City Gallery First Annual Regional Juried Exhibition Jack Rasmussen juried the show August 6 - August 28 DC Metro area artists working in oil, acrylics, watercolors, photography, ceramics, glass, sculpture and mixed media were invited to submit up to 3 pieces for consideration. CITY Gallery received a total of 199 entries by 69 local artists from which the judge made his selection for the exhibition. The winners of the competition are as follows: First Place - Diana Derby "Witness No 7" Second Place - Sabine Carlson "Pale Dog Running" Honorable Mention - Michael Fleischhacker "Stepanie I" Honorable Mention - Cavan Fleming "Outside the Gasworks Wall" Honorable Mention - Jennifer Cox "H Street" In addition, the following artists were juried into the show: Marilyn Christiano, Juan E. Hernandez, Ellen Hill, Pattee Hipschen, Martha Huizenga, Tom Kenyon, Emily Lane, Lynn Mehta, Erica Orgen, Pam Rogers, Judy Searles, Stu Searles, Fierce Sonia, Michael Spears, Ronnie Spiewak, Alice Lee Timmins and Andrew Zimmerman.
City Gallery Annual Associates Show June 27 - July 28 The group show features the latest work of Marilyn Christiano, Sheryl Denbo, Will Fleishell, Sherill Anne Gross, Tara Hamilton, Martha Huizenga, Tom Kenyon, Liz Lescault, Anne Oman, Sarah Porter, Tom Pullin, Pam Rogers, Lynne Mallonee Schlimm and Cissy web. Ceramic sculpture, oil painting, watercolor, photography, prints and multimedia art on display.
Conner Contemporary ACADEMY 2010 10th annual MFA/BFA invitational July 10 - August 23 Exhibition founder and curator, Jamie Smith, Ph.D. invited 15 artists to participate: Artists: Calder Brannock, Kate Demong, Michael Dotson, Philip Hinge, Mindy Hirt, Timothy Horjus, Chie Iwasaki, Benjamin Kelley, Joyce Lee, Christina Martinelli, Katie Miller, Teresa Sites, Jenny Yang, Michelle Yo, and Ting Zhang. Representing institutions: American University, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Gallaudet University, George Washington University, Maryland Institute College of Art, and University of Maryland.
Girl in Blue, Katie Miller
District of Columbia Arts Center 1460 Wallmountables 2010! DCAC's Annual Open Exhibit July 23 - August 29 A tradition since 1990, Wallmountables is DCAC's annual open exhibit. The gallery divides the gallery walls into 2' by 2' squares, artists come and hang their work.
Del Ray Artisans The Gathering of the Legends August 6 - August 22 Photography exhibition created by Nina Tisara.
Fisher Art Gallery Reflections Capitol Hill Art League Juried by Clifford Chieffo June 18 - July 30 Capitol Hill Art League's season-ending show juried by Clifford Chieffo, Professor Emeritus in Art at Georgetown University. The show represents a body of work created in the last 12 months by DC area artists who have been contemplating, considering, manifesting, bending, mirroring and turning their ideas and inspirations.
Red Index, M.M. Panas
Flashpoint Gallery The Cinecitta Chapel Matthew Mann August 6 - September 4 Paintings combining 14th century imagery with the cowboy archetype in a contemporary adaptation of Giotto's Scrovegni Chapel with The Cinecitta Chapel.
Flashpoint Gallery By Request Jeffry Cudlin June 25 - July 31 By Request is a subversive, humorous, and celebrity-obsessed show about the Washington, DC art world.Seven D.C. power players - collectors, curators, and critics - were asked to fill out surveys to determine their ideal works of art. These surveys were turned over to seven different DC artists who pledged to deliver custom pieces. There was one small catch: The show's ringmaster, Jeffry Cudlin, insisted that he be depicted in every work of art, thereby transforming himself into the show's biggest celebrity. The resulting outlandish images feature cross-dressing, a severed pig's head and a pair of fake latex breasts, courtesy of an FX makeup artist.
Foundry Gallery Bridges, Cars & Pumps (and a few African Rumps) Sarah Alexander June 30 - July 31 A show dedicated to automotive transportation, focusing on images of bridges, antique cars and gas pumps.
Triple Red Gas Pumps
Fraser Gallery Summer Group Exhibit July 1 - August 7 A group exhibition of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture and photography by gallery artists.
Gallery 4 You and Me Living Today / Vol. 2 / The Land John Chiara Christine Bailey James Rieck Jacqueline Schlossman July 10 - August 28 The second half of a two volume series, showcasing the exploration of horizon as a contemporary mantra.
Jim Rieck
Gallery 555 Lori Katz July 19 - August 27 Ceramics
Gallery 50 Works on Aluminum Rick Bach Santo Mirabile July 9 - August 12 Rick Bach is an artist who is fearless in revealing his inner self. He accomplishes this in the rawest form. Bach reveals his dark side and demons in what is ultimately a satirical and humorous way. If honest, the viewer can usually relate to some aspect of his work. This exhibition also features works by Santo Mirabile. It includes a collection of acrylic over aluminum pedestal mobiles. Mirabile's work is playful, organic and balanced with an awareness of space and transparency which challenge the prevailing ideal of sculpture as massive and voluminous.
Loose Lips and Pink Slips, Rick Bach
Gallery Plan b Take You Home Jason Wright
Mike Weber July 28 - August 29
Glenview Mansion Art Gallery On Exhibit Suzanne Donazetti - leafed, painted copper Lauren Kingsland - art quilts Monica Stroik - oil on canvas and wood July 11 - August 3
New Paintings Emma Tapley June 10 - August 7 Emma Tapley reinvents landscape painting with an abstractionist's perception of nature. Tapley achieves this by implementing a combination of techniques: altering the scale, vantage point, and angle of her subject matter; removing an object from its natural context; or magnifying its infinite details. These new works depict views of the natural world filtered through a window, reflected on water, or floated in space. Tapley paints in a style of realism that challenges her abstract compositions. Sculpture Mary Early June 10 - August 7 Mary Early is not cool. She may be hip, intellectual, authoritative; but she, or I should say her artwork, is not cool. At a glance her installations may appear to be extensions of certain late modernist sculptural strategies with their presumption of objectivity, detachment and cool. It would be correct to identify minimalism, serial art, and other absolutist modernist aesthetics as the foil against which to interpret her work. But to stop there is to miss the work's ambitious content - content that is personal, expressive and hot as opposed to cool.
Inverted Landscape II, Emma Tapley
Hillyer Art Space Ruptured Walls: Flower Paintings Corwin Levi August 6 - August 28 Corwin Levi's flower paintings transport the viewer into a vortex of nostalgic, youthful wonderment. The fantastical imagery of his work is so visually commanding that the intensity of dreams, ideas, and space are literally punched through the canvas. Germination Projects Pam Rogers August 6 - August 28 Pam Rogers' work propels viewers into a nurturing, cocoon-like state of being. Using the natural world as a set focus, both her paper based and sculptural installations evoke a sense of their own potential for organic growth in the viewer. The quite nature of plants and vegetation transcend the canvas and become something of an unrequited mentor, demonstrating patience, empathy, and the innate struggle to survive.
Pam Rogers
homebody Steve Alderton June 18 - August 30 The exhibition includes two series. The first falls squarely into the category of abstract expressionism. These are emotive and layered action paintings with bold colors and strong language. A second group of works continues the expressionistic theme, but introduces identifiable figures.
Industry Gallery Getting To Now: Pathways to 21st Century Design July 10 - August 21
International Visions Gallery Scherezade Garcia & Bela June 16 - July 31 An exhibit of mixed media paintings by artists Beatrice Mellinger ("Bela") and Scherezade Garcia. Bela, who was born in Martinique, and Garcia, who is Dominican-American, both reference their Caribbean heritage as the force behind a passionately creative spirit. Bela explains, "Painting allows me to reconcile my multicultural references . . . the influence of my ancestors, my world travels, and the Western Civilization which I am culturally grounded." The fusion of cultures in her island nation - French, African, and Asian, native - is celebrated and contemplated in vivid compositions. For Garcia, these creations "are her memories;" recollections "of a faraway home, and the hopes and dreams that accompany planting roots in a new land." The New York Times writes, "Ms. Garcia matches those expectations with the reality, asking her subjects to reflect upon the success and failure of their hopes and dreams."
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery 50 x 11 August 13 - August 25 Hosted by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, this exhibition presents some of the District's finest visual artists with the opportunity to display their work in hopes of being awarded the highly competitive Artist Fellowship grant for FY 2011 in the amount of $5,000 from the Commission. Each artist was asked to submit a piece that represents his or her body of work and individual artistic perspective.
Long View Gallery Informed Design July 8 - August 1 The exhibition strives to expound on the role of art objects within the context of interior design and architecture. This exhibition features a sampling of the inventory in our newly launched corporate art consulting branch as well as two architectural design vignettes by leading D.C. architects Ernesto Santalla and David Jameson. Rather than neglecting the gallery space as merely a support to the works of art that hang in it, teh exhibition demonstrates how artworks can shape an interior or interact with space in a way that offers the viewer a heightened aesthetic experience. The exhibition aims to explore the relationship between art and architecture, arguing that superlative works of art establish a dialogue with the architecture that it graces Artists: Joan Konkel Anne Marchand Tory Cowles Steve Griffin Patricia Burns Wanda Wainsten Susan Finsen WIth architectural installations by Ernesto M. Santalla of Studio Santalla and David Jameson of David Jameson Architect Inc. featuring artwork by: Barbara Joseph Liotta Ralph Turturro Steve Cushner Mary Early James Huckenphaler Jackie Hoysted
McLean Project for the Arts Fantastic Journeys June 17 - July 31 A juried multi-media exhibition featuring works inspired by the spirit of adventure, exploration or utopian visions.
Montpelier Center Horse Lovers Invitational Exhibition: Equine Photography and Paintings August 1 - August 31
Morton Fine Art Small Works on Paper Vonn Sumner Rosemary Feit Covey Laurel Hausler July 30 - August 12 Exhibition includes watercolor, gouache pieces, wood engravings and mixed media paintings.
'Recovered Indian Captive, Raleigh, 1836 (detail)', Laurel Hausler
National Museum of African Art Transitions Paul Emmanuel May 12 - August 22 An installation of five drawings and the critically acclaimed film 3SAI: A Rite of Passage by South African artist Paul Emmanuel
Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Highlights Indefinite Donated to the museum in 2005, the Walt Disney-Tishman collection is known for its unique and rare works of traditional African art from throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The collection has been instrumental in defining the field of African art history in the United States and abroad
National Museum of Women in the Arts Pomp and Power: Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella's Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua February 5 - August 22 Features a series of 25 engravings by French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet Stella (1641-1676) entitled The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua.
Gallery Neptune Summer Artist Marketplace June 25 - August 21
Project 4 Art+Space Summer Exhibition Sharon Louden Jeanne Quinn Foon Sham Katy Stone June 5 - July 31 Four artists creating sculptural works and installations that emphasize the space they interact with and showcase the artists' ability to adapt their work to any site. Each working with an adept and responsive hand to their materials, these artists create complexes and structures where their lyrical, sculptural forms coalesce with the environments they inhabit.
Jeanne Quinn
Q Street Gallery Palimpsest Carlos Jimenez July 2 - August 29 Watercolors full of movement and color.
Smithsonian International Gallery Revealing Culture June 8 - August 29 The exhibition explores how culture positions people with disabilities; it turns a mirror on society, revealing honest portrayals of personal experiences. The multi-sensory exhibition features more than 130 works of art in a broad range of media. Local DC artists Michelle Lisa Herman and William Newman are featured in the exhibition. Graphic Eloquence: Limited-Edition Prints from The Smithsonian Associates Art Collectors Program June 2005 - Permanent On view are 33 limited-edition lithographs, linocuts, and screen prints created by American artists. The works have been commissioned since 1972 by The Smithsonian Associates, the educational and cultural programs division of the Smithsonian Institution, and many are in the permanent collection of several Smithsonian museums.
Strathmore Fine Art Seven Women Exhibition July 17 - August 21 Seven female artists who have come together for more than two decades for debate, Support and inspiration showcase their culturally diverse artistic creations. Exhibition includes pieces ranging from Marjorie Bender's work, driven by social commentary with a satirical edge, to Elena Osterwalder's pieces crafted in handmade papers and fabrics infused with natural dyes, to Barbara Vogel's photographs, manipulated and reinterpreted through paint, encaustic and collage
Studio Gallery Toy Lifes Mark Giaimo Portraits Out of Time Eric Westbrook August 18 - August 30 Two local contemporary realist painters. Mr. Giaimo's Toy Lifes, a series of still life paintings, mixes the mundane with the sacred, and combines kitsch with classical realism in an homage to and satire of this long-celebrated genre. By using cheap vinyl toys as stand-ins for live models, Mr. Giaimo creates narratives from compositional dichotomies, posing questions on the value and meaning of traditional art and its role in contemporary society. Portraits Out Of Time reveals how Mr. Westbrook is inspired and energized by the human face and figure, and underscores his care for the time-honored task of capturing the likeness of an individual in a landscape setting.
Mark Giaimo
Studio Gallery Tripping the Light Fantastic Members Group Show July 21 - August 14
Touchstone Gallery Touchstone Gallery will be moving into a newly designed space at 901 New York Ave., NW during the summer-fall of 2010. Here are some Touchstone artists appearing around the DC area:
The Gallery at Convergence Art Naturally Colleen Sabo June 14 - July 30
homebody Steve Alderton June 18 - August 30 The exhibition includes two series. The first falls squarely into the category of abstract expressionism. These are emotive and layered action paintings with bold colors and strong language. A second group of works continues the expressionistic theme, but introduces identifiable figures.
Tryst |non| representational photographs Alex Pergament August 5 - August 31 "The photographs being shown were taken over the last year and capture the mood or touch of specific moments in time. I deliberately misrepresent the scene by using out-of-focus, over and under exposure, and camera movement. This results in pieces not immediately identifiable as photographs, where the physical reality becomes secondary to the experience of the scene." - Alex Pergament
August 3 - August 29
The first National Small Works Exhibition in
Washington Printmakers Gallery's new space at Pyramid Atlantic features 50 prints by 48 artists
