Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Home Plates November 6 - December 13 The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery has partnered up with All Fired Up ceramic studios to bring Home Plates to the Gallery. Basically, they handed 60 local artists a blank dinner plate to use as their “canvas.” Home Plates is thematically focused on the community table. more
Ellipse Arts Center Uncommon Beauty Kay Chernush Mary Coble Frank Hallam Day Jason Horowitz, Lucian Perkins Athena Tacha. curated by Sarah Tanguey October 3 - December 13 In contrast to the standards of the media and the fashion world, exhibiting artists for Uncommon Beauty will stake out alternative perspectives.
Hamiltonian Gallery An exhibition Jonathan B. French Michael Dax Iacovone Anne Chan November 8 - December 6
Heinman Myers Contemporary Art FAUX/REAL A two-artist show featuring the work of Flora/Fauna Jeanette May Scenes From Jesusland* Brady Robinson November 11 - December 6
Absolutely Gorgeous David Seymour (Chim) November 11 - December 6 A selection of color portraits of celebrities, including Fred Astaire, Richard Avedon, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Collins, Kirk Douglas, Audrey Hepburn, Gina Lollabrigida, Sophia Loren & Pablo Picasso
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Rock and Water: New Photoworks Athena Tacha November 7 - December 18 Concurrent with her public art, Athena Tacha is also a photographer. Her digital photoworks are based on travels throughout the world, for over 30 years, and on her fascination with natural phenomenon. The artist's most recent photoworks will be on view in "Rock and Water".
Athena Tacha
Project 4 Solo Exhibition Thomas Muller November 8 - December 6 Employing photography, sculpture and other media, Muller creates time-based installations that emphasize relationships between seemingly disparate objects and images. Through these ostensibly absurd associations he hopes to stress similarities and accentuate opposites in order to create a visual and conceptual tension.
Emperor, Thomas Muller
R Street Gallery Photofields 2008 Wave/Particle Dance of Life Michael Barnard November 7 - December 6 A new series of photo-assemblage works
This Exponential Curve Projects the Future and the Past
Touchstone Gallery A Different View Harvey Kupferberg and Mel Kay November 12 - December 6 2 brothers, 2 photographers,2 different views Particularly striking series of mask-like wise men on black paper, stunningly floated against white.
Be: There Michael Lang November 12 - December 6 A Photographic Essay on a Contemporary Lounge Be: There, about the Be Bar, a lounge in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington , now undergoing a rebirth after the riots of the 1960s
Mixed Media By Savua November 12 - December 6 Formative work in photography encompassed landscapes, still lives, infrared photography, and experimental combination printing
Quiet Eile: Persian/Iran/Women/Faces/No Place Shahrzad Heyat Jalinous November 12 - December 6 Paintings Despite decades of exile from their native country, and complex layers of assimilation in a new world, many exiles from Iran view themselves as “other”. This Iranian-American artist finds that the image and sense of being an exile repeatedly finds its way into her paintings
Washington
Sculptors Group Sculpture 1275 Mary Early October 6 - December 13 The second exhibition in a series of sculpture solos to be featured in the lobby of 1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. This exhibition features the work of Mary Early, who was chosen by Anne Surak, Director of Project 4, a contemporary gallery in Washington DC. The exhibition includes two sculptures constructed of wood slats and beeswax. more