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Athenaeum New Mythology Tracey Clarke November 19 - January 3 "With animals as my subjects, I discover great freedom in employing my imagination as a catalyst for new mythology. Often, I deal with dark themes or struggles in these works, pairing dramatic images and short narratives. In creating a surreal and timeless atmosphere for discovery of this new mythology, I invite the viewers to continue the journey by finding more of the story in their own imagination." - Tracey Clarke
The Art League The One Less Traveled Pamela H. Viola December 10 - January 4 Digital photographs that feature dreamlike, mysterious landscapes that challenge the viewer to see the world in a new and different way.
Pamela H. Viola
Addison/Ripley Fine Art Three Seconds with the Masters James Osher October 24 - December 5 An exhibition that examines subject matter which is derived from historic paintings in several museums, including, most recently the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. As the artist states, "My work explores the transitory aesthetics of contemporary art viewing." By basing the work on the paintings of Masters and Old Masters, the artist is able to examine culturally assumed "value" as it pertains to "priceless" objects. Osher's work allows viewers to experience these masterpieces in entirely new ways, forming fresh conceptual relationships with historically relevant works of art.
Three Seconds with the Masters - Tiara, 2008
AHM Fine Art Gallery The Gardens of Kyoto, Japan John Hiller November 14 - December 25 Photographs
John Hiller
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center Virtuelle Mauer/ReConstructing the Wall Tamiko Thiel and Teresa Reuter November 7 - December 20 The exhibition is an interactive 3D computer graphics environment that allows users to experience a section of the Berlin Wall and it's surrounding neighborhoods. Through their movements with a simple joy stick, users walk along the Berlin Wall at street level. and those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music Cole Sternberg November 7 - December 20 Features works that layer text, watercolors, spray paint, and oil. Pulling text from the Geneva Convention and Amnesty International, Sternberg uses his legal background to research his works and offer a critical analysis of international human rights.
The Newest Right May Supercede All Others, Cole Sternberg
Applegate Gallery Miniatures Show Group Show November 28 - December 30 Anabela Ferguson and other local artists show their work.
Arts Club of Washington The Winter 2009 Members' Exhibition Curator: Kathy Dell Kaufman December 3 - January 2 A highlight of the gallery season, this annual exhibition showcases the work of club members and spans a wide range of genres and media. Curator: Kathy Dell Kaufman, faculty member, Corcoran School of Art and Design.
Caos On F Tsolmon Damba November 6 - December 23 Born in Northern Mongolia, Tsolmon is a noted master painter of traditional Mongolian painting and calligraphy. Based in Washington, DC, he has broadened his style and techniques to encompass modern expressions in paint. Collaborating with Caos on F, he has expanded his work to textiles. This show will feature a full breadth of his oeuvre to include traditional work, his famous horse inspired paintings, and the premiere of hand-painted silk panels, the feature of the Caos on Fabric Factory.
Tsolmon Damba
Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports Christopher Bedford, guest curator October 8 - December 12 Christopher Bedford is Curator of Exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University. He previously served as a curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where he originated the exhibition Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports
Matthew Barney
Conner Contemporary Art Cosmopolitan Chicken Project Koen Vanmechelen November 7 - December 31 This is the first solo exhibition in a U.S. gallery by the celebrated Belgian conceptual artist, who is currently exhibiting in two official 53rd Venice Biennale collateral exhibitions and in the 3rd Moscow Biennial. Featuring live chickens, the exhibition also includes taxidermy and blown-glass sculptures, video, and photography, as well as drawings and paintings in tempera made from eggs laid by chickens bred by the artist. In his ongoing global enterprise, The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Vanmechelen is systematically crossing all breeds of chickens to create a world-mongrel chicken. His premise is that each country/region selectively cultivated a breed of chicken expressing its cultural identity. The artist seeks to reinvigorate the species with genetic integrity which centuries of domestication and inbreeding have diminished.
Corcoran Gallery of Art Sargent and the Sea Through January 3 More than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter of the late 19th century. The Corcoran's masterwork En route pour la peche (Setting out to Fish) (1878), will serve as the centerpiece of the exhibition, and will be joined by other works produced during, and inspired by, the artist's summer journeys from his home in Paris to Brittany, Normandy, and Capri, as well as two transatlantic voyages. Edward Burtynsky: Oil Through December 13 Burtynsky has traveled internationally for more than a decade to chronicle the global production, distribution, and use of oil, the energy source that has shaped the modern world. This world premiere exhibition, comprised of approximately 55 large-scale color landscape photographs, provides a penetrating look at one of the most important subjects of our time, by one of the most respected and recognized contemporary photographers in the world. American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Ongoing
Cryor Gallery - Coppin State University Intuited Reality: Quantum Dynamics of the Cosmos Doris Colbert Kennedy November 2 - December 4 Abstract oil paintings that intuitively make visual the dynamics of quantum energies as they define the cosmos
Conifold Transition in Calabi-Yau Space
Curator's Office An Exact Place Jiha Moon November 7 - December 19 For this exhibition, the gallery will present works exploring the nature of place and its inspiration on creative output. Works include three square-format Hanji paper over canvas pieces and four horizontal works on Hanji paper. There is a special emphasis on abstraction in many of these works.
An Exact Place, Jiha Moon
Del Ray - Pop-up Gallery Conduit Damian John Yanessa Opens October 30 An exhibition that investigates the connection between the haptic qualities of the physical world, and the illusory qualities of the simulated worlds produced by our modern technologies. Installations and sculpture will be on display. Located between cheesetique and red caboose cafe @ 2413 Mt. Vernon Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22301 - reception: Friday October 30th, 7 - 9pm
Conduit, Damian John Yanessa
Del Ray Artisans Gallery Del Ray Dozen Invitational Photography Show November 6 - November 29 This show highlights the photography of 16 Del Ray Artisans each of whom has a separate space to display a body of work. The show will also feature poetry by local poet Brash.
Detail Gallery New Li'l Paintings Logan Lark December 12 - December 31 "The Challenge to Logan..."Paint some small paintings, which you can complete in an hour or two and sell at a great price." We love the color and whimsy of Logan's small works. He uses bright colors and unexpected subject matter and turns them into a kooky combo of splatter-paint, folk art, and cartoons to produce his signature style." - Detail Gallery
Gossip Girl, Logan Lark
Duality Gallery Heavenly Dialogue: Photographs of Natural Occurrences Lucy Herman November 12 - December 20 "This show is about the relationship I have with the natural world: my appreciation of and gratitude for the earth we live on and its power and grandeur. Line, color and light, and the integration of nature and natural forms, are the key elements in my work. My decision to show some of the photographs which have inspired my work reflects the admiration I have for my subject and the veneration it deserves." - Lucy Herrman
Lucy Herrman
Foundry Gallery Holiday Bargain Bash Members Art Exhibit December 2 - December 19 Buy it now and take it off the wall
Gallery 50 An Extraordinary Light (Found) Objects Revealed Harold Ross November 13 - December 11 Light painting requires working in a completely dark studio, opening the camera for an extended period of time, and "painting" the light onto the subject. This reveals greater shape, texture and color, and is very much sculpting with light. "Almost 20 years of experimenting with the specialized technique of light painting* has given me the ability to show subjects in a 'different light' so that viewers can appreciate them in an unexpected way. This 'different light' is meticulously applied in each image and is very sculptural in nature. My process elevates and reinforces the notion that discarded objects can have an extraordinary beauty." - Harold Ross
Anvil, Harold Ross
Gallery O/H Framing the Economic Downturn (FED) Curated by Jim Hubbard November 10 - December 11 As part of FotoWeek DC 2009, WPA presents an exhibition
of photography selected exclusively from the ArtFile Online (AFO) by
the acclaimed documentary photographer, Jim Hubbard. In 1989, Hubbard
created Shooting Back, a Washington-based organization dedicated to
empowering children at risk by teaching them photography. For this
exhibition, Hubbard presents a group of works selected from WPA member
submissions along with selections by invited artists. Featuring works by: Kike Arnal, Jaimie Beach, Sharon Farmer, Linda Hesh, Michael Kent, Brenda Kennealy, Carolina Mayorga, Judith Pratt, and Michelle Renay Wilson
Faces of the Recession, Michelle Renay Wilson
Hamiltonian Gallery New Works Anne Chan and Michael Dax Iacovone November 6 - December 5 Drawing on the Situationists' philosophy of drifting through urban space, Michael Dax Iacovone creates large-scale photographs of city intersections, to which he arrives by a random operation - a roll of the dice. Two images, one taken upright, one inverted, comprise each photograph and mark each point of crossing using Iacovone's navigational equations. In changing the purpose and documentation of his "stroll," Iacovone shifts the understanding and awareness of our common, pedestrian spaces.
Anne Chan meticulously and obsessively assembles installations using office products to reference the minutia of corporate culture, daily commutes, and mundane tasks. By implementing repetition and a limited depth of field, Chan creates architectural spaces where one cannot imagine an end to the infinite twists in the walls and turns in the roads. By placing an incalculable number of staples in her installation, Chan cleverly illustrates psychological confinement that results from the realization that we're one among millions.
Anne Chan
Hemphill Fine Arts Economy of Scale November 7 - December 23 Photographs by David Burnett, David Byrne & Danielle Spencer, Colby Caldwell, William Christenberry, Margaret Bourke-White and others
Hillyer Art Space Ass Against the Wall Martha Jackson-Jarvis November 6 - December 12 An installation that explores points of resistance, endurance, and markings that pattern our lives. It is a compelling place of power where forces change, heaviness, strain, anxiety, burdens and the weight of difficulty into something else.
Work Tom Wolff November 6 - December 12 Features a variety of Tom Wolff's iconic portrait work from his years on assignment for various magazines and commissioned portraiture. From political figures to cultural producers, Wolff's eye focuses on the essential and considers the subjects within the frame of his large-format works to be collaborators.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection October 8 - January 3 Organized by Hirshhorn associate curator Kristen Hileman. The exhibition features more than 35 two-dimensional works alongside 49 examples of the radically reduced and evocatively painted sculptures that were the hallmark of the artist's 40-year career. Accompanied by the by the most comprehensive monograph on the artist to date , the exhibition explores Truitt's under-recognized role in the development of geometric abstraction during the second half of the 20th century.
Directions: John Gerrard November 5 - May 31 John Gerrard (b. 1974, Dublin) uses customized 3-D gaming software to re-imagine landscape art. A former student of the Art Institute of Chicago, Gerrard is inspired by the look, the history, and politics of the Dust Bowl region. He creates contemplative, vivid scenes of farms and oil fields that raise questions about the effect of human progress on the environment. For the works in this exhibition, Gerrard photographed actual sites from 360 degrees and then simulated cinematic movement around the sites using the computer, complete with shifting, natural lighting effects.
Anne Truitt in her Twining Court studio, Washington, DC, 1962.
Huntsman Square Mall Anabela Ferguson December 15 - December 27 watercolors, acrylics, oils, pastels, photography
International Visions Gallery Inside Cuba II November 7 - December 4
A photographic journey inspired by DC artist,
the late Nestor Hernandez, Jr. (1960-2006). This year marks the 10-year
anniversary of Hernandez's show at the Collaborative Art and Visual Education
Center, Inside Cuba, which included
over 100 photographs documenting the people, land, and culture. Alongside Hernandez's photographs, the work of Bonita Bing, George Tolbert, Victor Holt, Jason Miccolo Johnson, Donald Bernard, David Hamilton, Gloria Kirk and Barbara Manor will be displayed.
Arch, Nestor Hernandez Jr.
The Kreeger Museum Kentridge and Kudryashov: Against the Grain William Kentridge Oleg Kudryashov October 3 - December 30 As two of the most significant printmakers in the world today, both artists use bold technical elements to express forceful imagery that comments directly and indirectly on important contemporary issues while exploring human values under totalitarian regimes. Though the printmakers have never met, this exhibition will join them together in a demonstration of the nature of thought and feelings in similarly repressive societies.
National Gallery of Art Judith Leyster, 1609 - 1660 June 21 - November 29 In celebration of Judith Leyster's (1609 - 1660) 400th birthday, the Gallery will showcase her expressive Self-Portrait (c. 1630) as the focal point of a small exhibition that will include ten of Leyster's finest works from American and European collections.
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 The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850 - 1900 October 1 - January 18 Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500 - 1800 October 1 - January 31 For the first time the Gallery will present a selection of approximately 120 of the most significant, beautiful, and representative drawings made over a period of three centuries by the best French artists working at home and abroad and by foreign artists working in France.
The Robert and Jane Meyeroff Collection: Selected Works October 1 - May 2 Through remarkable acuity, exhaustive study, and close relationships with the artists, the Meyerhoffs amassed one of the most outstanding collections of modern art, with an emphasis on six American masters: Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella, in addition to important works by leading abstract expressionists and younger artists. Some 126 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints include several acquisitions made after the collection was last highlighted in a major exhibition at the Gallery in 1996.
Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986 - 1995 October 11 - January 10
Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns October 11 - April 4 The exhibition includes approximately 45 proofs for lithographs, etchings, and screenprints that the artist expanded in a range of media, including pastel, ink, and paint. In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes October 25 - March 14
Nevin Kelly Gallery Zeitgeist II: What's Important Now Group Exhibition by Local Artists Curators: Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin November 19 - December 12 Participating artists include Sondra N. Arkin, Carol Bean, Scott G. Brooks, Judy Byron, Groover Cleveland, Richard Dana, Anna U. Davis, Thomas Drymon, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Deb Jansen, Rosina Memolo, Michael Platt, Renee Stout, Tim Tate, Ruth Trevarrow, and Ellyn Weiss.
901 E Street NW Diane Burko September 10 - November 30 Project 4 and Pew Charitable Trusts proudly present a solo exhibition of paintings and photographs by Philadelphia-based artist, Diane Burko. This particular body of work is part of a series inspired by the artist's travels to Iceland. Burko's interest sprung from Iceland's fame as the most volcanic country in the world and its breathtaking scenes of glaciers, geysers and waterfalls. From land and air, she photographed landscapes that captured unconventional views of spectacular natural spaces
Langjokull Before Trip, Diane Burko
The Phillips Collection Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens October 10 - January 10, 2010 Man Ray translated the 20th-century modernist taste for African art into photographs that reached a popular audience. About 60 of his photographs, many never before exhibited, along with more than 40 photographs by his contemporaries, including Cecil Beaton, Walker Evans, and Alfred Stieglitz, will appear side-by-side with 20 of the African objects featured in the images.
Intersections In this new contemporary art series, artists respond to artwork and spaces in The Phillips Collection with projects of their own, revealing connections and contrasts between art of the past and present.
Brain Storm - Jennifer Wen Ma October 15 - January 3, 2010 In this video projection with sound, a man and horse move through a stormy landscape, suggesting an inner journey. The piece is displayed near Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series, and in conversation with landscapes by Paul Cezanne, Arthur Dove, and Vassily Kandinsky. Brain Storm was originally created for Guggenheim Bilbao in 2009. Part of Intersections
Icarus - Barbara Liotta October 22 - January 31, 2010 Conceived as a portrait of human energy and inner strength, and as a symbol of flight and aspiration, this large-scale sculpture is paired with portraits from the museum's permanent collection, including Eugene Delacroix's Paganini, Amedeo Modigliani's Elena Povolozky, and Chaim Soutine's Woman in Profile.
Man Ray
Project 4 Gallery Once Laurel Lukaszewski November 6 - December 18 A solo exhibition of new works by local ceramics artist, Laurel Lukaszewski. The conception of this body of work arises from the artist's interest in the Japanese phrase, "ichi-go ichi-e", which roughly translates to "one moment, one time" in English. The simple and elegant individual porcelain forms that Lukaszewski creates for this exhibition become rich and expansive installations throughout the gallery.
Reyes + Davis Fine Lines Janis Goodman Kate McGraw Linn Meyers Jennifer Mullins December 2 - December 31 Exhibition of drawings
Reyes + Davis Poseidon Project Part I Barbara Josephs Liotta October 23 - November 27 Sculpture
Sandy Spring Museum Potomac River School Mary Kokoski Andrei Kushnir Barbara Nuss September 14 - November 29
Smithsonian American Art Museum 1934: A New Deal for Artists Now through January 3, 2010 1934: A New Deal for Artists celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Public Works of Art Program by drawing on the Smithsonian American Art Museum's unparalleled collection of vibrant paintings created for the program. The 56 paintings in the exhibition are a lasting visual record of America at a specific moment in time. George Gurney, deputy chief curator, organized the exhibition with Ann Prentice Wagner, curatorial associate.
Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Now through January 10, 2010 These watercolors, pastels, and drawings from the 1920s to the 1960s reveal the central importance of works on paper for American artists, both as studies for creations in other media and as finished works of art. Rarely seen works from the museum's permanent collection by artists such as Stuart Davis, Sam Francis, Edward Hopper, Willem de Kooning, Joseph Stella, Grant Wood, and Andrew Wyeth.
Grand Salon Installation - Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Renwick) June 6, 2009 - Permanent Seventy paintings featuring landscapes, portraits, and allegorical works by fifty-one American artists from the 1840s to the 1930s. Artists whose works are on view include Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romaine Brooks, Elliott Daingerfield, Daniel Garber, William Morris Hunt, George Inness, Homer Dodge Martin, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Abbott Handerson Thayer, John Henry Twachtman, and Irving R. Wiles.
The Honor of Your Company Is Requested: President Lincoln's Inaugural Ball Now through January 18, 2010
Staged Stories: Renwick Craft Invitational 2009 (Renwick) August 7 - January 3, 2010 Presents the work of ceramic artist Christyl Boger, fiber artist Mark Newport, glass artist Mary Van Cline, and ceramic artist SunKoo Yuh.
What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect October 2 - January 24, 2010 Enter the world of artist William T. Wiley, whose self-deprecating humor and sense of the absurd make his art accessible in spite of his many private symbols, allusions, narratives, and layers of meaning. Wiley's art has stood the test of time in the face of changing styles, successive movements, critical theories, and passing fashion. This retrospective, which features eighty-eight works from the 1960s to the present, is the first full-scale look at Wiley's career since 1979 and explores important themes and ideas expressed in his work.
Space 7:10 In Good Company Curated by Krystal Hope and Mingqian Liu November 25 - January 2 New artwork by Pyramid Atlantic's fall interns and friends, as well as prints from the Pyramid Atlantic flat files.
Studio Gallery Call and Response All Artist Group Show November 25 - December 19 Six themes - the Grid, Big Forms, Figure/Ground, Gesture, Organic and Life represent studio Gallery's body of work. The juxtapositions between the themes give each artist's work new perspective and meaning, while also creating a cohesive whole. Each grouping represents a "Call" to which the artists developed a "Response".
Studio H Wonderment, an Exploration of the Indeterminate Katherine Mann, Kim Manfredi and Jenny Mullins December 12 - January 2 All three women graduated this May with MFAs from the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, MD. Katherine Mann's work depicts ever-changing fantasy worlds where blood cells, rainforests and coral reefs collide and intertwine. Kim Manfredi's work emphasis on bulges, bumps, and contaminates, primarily illustrates boundaries - boundaries respected and boundaries crossed. Jenny Mullins' large-scale paintings explore notions of commercial mythology and low budget mysticism. Visitors will note both the distinct style of each artist as well as the influence this emerging trio had on each other during their time at Hoffberger.
Target Gallery Projections: Line on Land Renee van der Stelt October 28 - November 29 Renee van der Stelt's works explore how a drawing can affect and shape space. The artist's drawings apply a variety of methods, from cutting, pricking and puncturing paper, delicate graphite marks, to the use of light. Some of her drawings take on a sculptural form challenging the viewer to reconsider the traditional notion of a landscape drawing.
Renee van der Stelt
Touchstone Gallery Art is a Gift 50 Artists, 17 Days December 11 - December 27 Touchstone artists show their work at Go Mama Go
University of Maryland's University College With These Hands Sy Gresser and Bill Taylor September 15 - December 15 The exhibition features the work of two accomplished area sculptors who utilize hand tools on the direct carving tradition. It celebrates a half-century of friendship, artistic expression and a shared passion for sculpture.
Vivid Solutions Gallery A Photography Retrospective Owen Franken November 6 - January 2 Photographer, and brother of Senator Al Franken, presents images from the world over, with a focus on historical and political images from the artists 40+ year career, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to portraits of Presidents.
Washington Printmakers Gallery Cones 'n Tones Anne McLaughlin October 26 - November 29 McLaughlin explores how a simple rolled
waffle cookie can create such a treat and lead to so many flavor choices. To
emphasize these choices, she incorporates a variety of printmaking techniques
in the show.
Anne McLaughlin
Washington Printmakers Gallery Days o' Work Trudi Y. Ludwig December 1 - January 3 New etchings, woodcuts and rubbings Using the tapestry of nature as a backdrop, Ludwig's current work
grapples with contemporary conundrums by invoking time, motion, passages,
pathways and perception, all with a whiff of art historical reference.A tension of opposites pervades her
work:fleeting moments versus the
unfolding of geological time; sacred beauty versus secular ephemera; big versus
little picture; unscripted versus premeditated; acceptance versus denial;
fearless freedom versus patient control.
Washington Project for the Arts Influence = Convergence Joan Belmar and Minna Newman Nathanson November 6 - November 25 This exhibition demonstrates a convergence of two artists' aesthetics as a result of their time shared in a Dupont Circle studio space for two years. The Exhibition consists of several pairings of works that, unbeknownst to the artists at the time, demonstrate their influence on each other's practice.
Woolly Mammoth Food Glorious Food Presented by the Zenith Community Arts Foundation December 3 - January 3 Artists: Bert Beirne, Leslie Exton, Cassandra Gillens, Brenda Gordon, Philip Hazard, Robert C. Jackson, Life Pieces To Masterpieces, Chris Malone, Joey Manlapaz, Donna McCullough, Bill Mead, Davis Morton, Stephen Hansen, Michela Mansuino, Ron Schwerin, Bradley Stevens and James Tormey
Les Pains du jours - Bradley Stevens
WVSA ARTiculate Gallery It's All About the Journey November 19 - December 10 An exhibition of
transportation themed artwork done by the ARTiculate ARTists at WVSA.
Transportation is always a hot issue for anyone living around Washington,
DC. We've all been stuck on a metro train, had to off-load a bus at 11pm,
or been stuck in traffic on 495. The ARTists at WVSA are depicting all
types of traditional and non-traditional transportation in the upcoming
exhibition. A car may just be a car, but through the eyes of the
ARTiculate artists it can start an unforgettable journey to self-awareness
and self-discovery.
Zenith Gallery @ Skynear and Company Lenscape2 Sofia Gawer-Fische and Colin Winterbottom November 6 - December 27 Features Colin Winterbottom's signature monument and panoramic themes taken with low-tech plastic cameras, and Sofia Gawer-Fische's images of angels, guardians and statuary.