Adam Lister Gallery Elemental Remmi Brant Claire Feng Elaine Kallas Crystal Wagner November 5 - December 6 The four artists in this exhibition all make use of the polar sensations of order and instability within their work. Relying on the elements of visual language itself; color, line and shape, these artists explore structures, systems and the dynamic state of tension and harmony found in the natural world.
Morphotic II, Crystal Wagner
Addison Ripley RV Frank Hallam Day October 29 - December 4 A new body of work by this Washington DC based photographer
Sunsport, Frank Hallam Day
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Claudia Demonte: Everday Matters November 2 - December 12 This travelling retrospective of Claudia DeMonte's work explores the status of women around the world. Using a range of media, DeMonte challenges our ideas of the goddess, beauty, luxury and the everyday woman through her global lens.
Ed McGowin: Name Change (One Artist, Twelve Personas, Thirty Five Years) November 2 - December 12 From 1970 to 1972 Ed McGowin changed his name 12 times in the District of Columbia's court system to demonstrate his theory that there is not just one linear course in an artist's career. Over the past 35 years McGowin has continued to create works under each of these names. This exhibition presents works by each of McGowin's 11 personas ranging from photography to painting to sculpture.
Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington Project For The Arts November 9 - December 19 A narrative of the Washington Project for the Art's legacy, Catalyst showcases selected artists, exhibitions, programs, and events from the WPA's 35-year history. Divided chronologically into three major sections of the museum, the exhibition features works by over 150 artists in a variety of media illustrating the integral role the WPA has played in the history of contemporary visual art in Washington, D.C.
Artifact: Vesteria, Claudia DeMonte
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Catalyst: 35 Years of Washington Project For The Arts November 9 - December 19 A narrative of the Washington Project for the Art's legacy, Catalyst showcases selected artists, exhibitions, programs, and events from the WPA's 35-year history. Divided chronologically into three major sections of the museum, the exhibition features works by over 150 artists in a variety of media illustrating the integral role the WPA has played in the history of contemporary visual art in Washington, D.C.
Six Women Artists January 25 - March 13
Driving in Circles Nicole Cohen Nicole Cohen creates an evocative new installation using video and sculpture to engage audiences in her explorations of the crossroads of reality, fantasy, and cultural mores.
The Dark and Humorous Mind of Heather Wilcoxon Heather Wilcoxon brings a Bay Area perspective to her seemingly whimsical but politically-charged paintings, expressing the humor, fear, absurdity and brutality of the human race.
What Could be Sweeter Than Going to Paradise Dafna Kaffeman Dafna Kaffeman is head of Glass Studies at Bezalel Art Academy in Jerusalem. Her smaller, delicate pieces and dynamic, large-scale installations often deal with issues raised by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Stain Julie Linowes Julie Linowes creates emotionally wrought installations where beautiful, translucent images are layered disturbingly against spreading, seeping lacunae.
Grande Avenues Marisa Baumgartner Marisa Baumgartner builds installations to explore what she describes as "the overwhelming diminutive yet expansive sensation of self that is caused by the vastness of space, society and history."
Wall Drawings Linn Myers Linn Myers responds to the architecture of the museum by covering the walls with flowing repetitive, geometric lines, creating a hypnotic, meditative space.
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Memory of a time I did not know... Miriam Morsel Nathan Curated by Steven Cushner September 15 - December 17 Working from pre-World War II photographs, Morsel Nathan searches for details of family members, most of whom she has known only through photographs and stories. In working with these images, she creates hauntingly beautiful and provocative works. By piecing together fragments of information collected from family documents, notes on photographs and oral histories, Morsel Nathan's work reveals an elusive story of personal history and ascribed memory, acknowledging what she does not know about the people in these images.
Applegate Gallery Small Works Group Show November 20 - January 2 Artists participating include: Sara Minarik Applegate - Mixed Media Collage Sue Bezdziecki - Chalk Pastel Pamela Bickford - Oil on Canvas Kay Egyhazy - Oil on Canvas Annabella Ferguson - Oil on Canvas Ed Hahn - Photography Catherine Hillis - Watercolor LeAnne Kalita - Watercolor Betty Macdonald - Hand Colored Etchings Amy McShane - Acrylic on Canvas & Watercolor Ted Ramsey - Watercolor Trisha Ratliff - Oil on Canvas Mary Louise Ravese - Photography
Arlington Central Library Local Young "Old Master" Paintings Teresa Oaxaca December 7 - December 31 Oil paintings by twenty-three-year-old Teresa Oaxaca, an American-born and Florentine-trained classical painter, in the Tenebrist style.
Ashes
Art League Gallery Greetings From ... Group Show December 6 - January 3 Features 4" by 6" works on paper depicting a personal reflection of places visited or imagined.
Understory Alison Sigethy January 6 - February 7 Environmental artist Alison Sigethy draws inspiration from the natural world surrounding her. From collages created of natural fibers to sculptures made from recycled glass, her works have an innate organic quality.
Alison Sigethy
Art League Gallery The C&O Canal: Places and Stories Robert Keating November 4 - December 6 In capturing the 184.5-mile expanse of the C&O Canal, from Georgetown in Washington, DC to Cumberland, Maryland, photographer Robert Keating presents the waterway as a series of local and visually striking panoramas
Art Whino Gallery Beyond the Singularity Josh Taylor November 13 - December 6 "Beyond the Singularity" tells the final story of the fabled Gastonian civilization
Arts Club of Washington Winter Members Exhibition Juror: Walt Bartman December 3 - January 1
Athenaeum Molded from Complicated Mixtures Megan Marlatt November 4 - January 2 Drawing inspiration from the number of quirky characters and funky forms produced in plastic toys, Megan Marlatt renders in a classic style paintings that depict the many meanings behind toys. Most of the toys she paints are products of children's packaged fast food meals that have been discarded and salvaged from thrift stores. In a complicated mixture of emotions both critical of and complicit to our consumer society, half of Marlatt's paintings reflect our mass plastic consumption run amuck, while the other half reminiscent for a time when a toy was a precious object.
Center for Art Design and Visual Culture Spectrum: 2010 UMBC Visual Arts Faculty October 14 - December 13 Featuring works by Dan Bailey, Steve Bradley, Cathy Cook, Vin Grabill, Calla Thompson, and Fred Worden The inaugural exhibition in a new exhibition series, Spectrum features an in-depth look at recent research projects in film, video, photography, sound, installation, drawing, and sculpture by selected members of UMBC's Visual Arts Department.
City Gallery Gourd Sculpture Wally Szyndler November 30 - January 1 This retrospective of Wally Szyndler, who passed away on July 10th, offers the community an opportunity to celebrate his life and his passion. Szndler became interested in gourd art after finding a book about gourds in a local bookstore. Mostly self-taught, he learned much of his craft from books and traveling the country attending workshops.
Fantasy Diva
Conner Contemporary Douche Bag City Federico Solmi October 30 - December 18 An exhibition of video-animation, painting, and sculpture by Federico
Solmi. "My works are filled with corrupt politicians, murderers, swindlers, tyrants, porn stars, religious preachers... I want to present viewers with an ironic but perverse vision of our times and our near future" - Federico Solmi
Bubble Splash and Musicians Series Dianna Quinn January 8 - January 28 The show includes abstracts on canvas as well as stenciled, multi-textured portraits of famous country and roots musicians
Corner Store Gallery Anna Demovidova November 14 - December 1 Exhibition of figurative, expressionistic work by this Russian-born artist.
Irene Owsley December 11 - December 31
Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington Color and Light November 20 - March 6 Major works by the artists associated with the Washington Color School and their contemporaries. These works are united by an exploration of the language of abstraction, a desire to experiment with materials, and a love of color. The exhibition reveals the artistic innovations and individual approaches that shaped new directions in abstract painting and sculpture from the 1950s through the late 1970s. The exhibition includes galleries dedicated to the monumental stripe paintings of Gene Davis; meditations on color and space by Thomas Downing; and hard-edge abstract paintings by Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland, and Paul Reed. In addition, the exhibition includes sculptures by Rockne Krebs, Ed McGowin, and Anne Truitt, as well as glorious color-saturated paintings by Leon Berkowitz, Willem de Looper, Sam Gilliam, and Alma Thomas. The exhibition’s final gallery is devoted to a work by pioneering artist Robert Irwin, the central figure of the California Light and Space movement of the 1960s All Photo Alumni Exhibition October 26 - December 17 In conjunction with this year's FotoWeekDC festival, the Corcoran's 2010 All Photo Alumni Exhibition will be held at Pepco's Edison Place Gallery. Curated by alumni Colby Caldwell (1990) and Cynthia Connolly (1985), the show features work by Corcoran alumni Chandi Kelley, Greg Braun, Michelle Repiso, Avi Gupta, Abigail Gunnels, Michelle Pritzl Rogers,
Red Rectangle, Gene Davis
Fisher Art Gallery Colorado Winter Andrew Zimmerman November 19 - December 19 The artist uses an 8x10camera and traditional darkroom processes to reveal the stark abstract qualities of landscape.
Colorado Winter, Andrew Zimmerman
Hamiltonian Gallery Proofs Elena Volkova Recordings Renee Van Der Stelt November 6 - December 4 An exhibition in two parts: Elena Volkova, Proofs; and Renee Van Der Stelt, Recordings. Both artists employ site-specificity in their practices by utilizing a given environment to shape the outcome of their work. By analyzing the nature of perception, Volkova has shown light on the viewer while Van Der Stelt has given us beautiful images of nature that illicit a poetic sense of time and space. With her new series titled Proofs, Elena Volkova has illustrated the act of perceiving through site-specific photographic installations Renee Van Der Stelt has developed what she calls Recordings or site drawings by capturing the physical fugitive traces in the landscape such as rotting bark, rain and wind.
Julie Wolfe November 5 - December 23 The juxtaposition of flourishing life with lurking death in Julie Wolfe's artwork addresses the artist's preoccupation with corruptive elements that challenge the strength of nature. Wolfe's imagery reveals the interconnectedness of life and death, demonstrating their unavoidable coexistence.
Subversion, 2010
Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion Food and Form Group Exhibition Curator: Cecilia Rossey October 25 - December 17 Artists explore the sensory stimulation of food as the primary source of human health and well being.
Tolerance, Francis Jetter
Hillyer Art Space Fictions of Nature Bill Moore December 3 - December 23 Moore produces giant bronze sculptures which portray insects, fish, and birds in unnatural and fantastic situations.
Selections from International Arts and Artists' Hechinger Collection December 3 - December 23 This special exhibition celebrates the ubiquity of tools in our lives with art that magically transforms utilitarian objects into fanciful works of beauty, surprise, and wit. The exhibition features work by internationally renowned artists Arman, Jim Dine, Fernand Leger and many others.
Crosshead, Bill Moore
Honfleur Gallery Likeness Organized by Joshua Yospyn November 6 - December 17 Twenty artists: ten photographers paired with ten street artists with an end result of ten original portraits and ten interpretations of that portrait exhibited side by side. According to Yospyn, the project stemmed from "my desire to combine portrait photography and graffiti. I've been fascinated with street art for a few years...culminating with... Shepard Fairey's portrait of Obama based on an AP photo... [this] formed a desire to aspire to what Shepard Fairey created with his Hope poster, except on deliberately consenting terms between photographer and street artist. Graffiti, wheat pastes, paintings, mixed media, you name it, it's all fair game. So with the help of two dozen people, the "LIKENESS" project begins. This will be fun for everyone involved and it should be on your radar to visit during FotoWeek." Likeness artists include: (photographers) Bo Zhang, Chris Usher, David Holloway, Erica Allen, Jason Horowitz, Josh Yospyn, Lois Bielefeld, Joshua Cogan, Matt Dunn, & Michele Frankfurter (visual/street artists) Diabetik, Brandon Hill, Decoy, Asad Walker, Matthew Shlian, Lance Wiggs & Buck, Heather Stevens, Earnest Concepcion, Mike Estabrook, and Peter Chang.
Huntsman Square Mall Anabela Ferguson December 14 - December 27 New art pieces, abstracts and impressionist works
Hope, Anabela Ferguson
Industry Gallery din-din Jerry Mischak November 6 - December 18 One large-scale installation and twelve chairs, all unique prototypes. The installation piece dinner table/such a night is a 36-foot long table with 40 plates, 80 pieces of flat ware, 45 glasses, 25 empty wine bottles, and 100 empty water bottles, all wrapped in more than 3000 yards of orange vinyl tape. The exhibition's 12 chairs are found objects reconstructed via sanding, cutting with the addition of plastic, Styrofoam and wood, and all encased in colored vinyl tape.
Studio view with elements for dinner table/what a night
International Visions Gallery Shaping Light Halide Salam My Heritage Lanre Buraimoh November 11 - December 11 Halide Salam describes her painting process as "a sacred conversation with the natural world". Lanre Buraimoh, a native of Western Nigeria, masters a new approach to the regions traditional beadworks. In the exhibition, his "paintings", created with thousands of brilliantly colored glass beads, depict the traditions and symbols of the Yoruba culture.
Masks, Lanre Buraimoh
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Reflexions Susan Eder & Craig Dennis November 6 - December 8 "Reflexions are inkblots of oppositions. Each of us wrote one of two contrasting words, vertically using two different ink colors, on facing halves of a small piece of paper, then folded and pressed them together. Although those original blotted forms have been scanned, greatly enlarged and output as archival pigment prints on watercolor paper, they remain unaltered from their initial chance configurations. All imagery emerged serendipitously, beyond our control or intervention, purely a result of the random mingling of letterforms, fluid inks and viewer perceptions." - Susan Eder/Craig Dennis
Morton Fine Art Pretty Little Things November 19 - December 22 A selection of wearable art by 5 artisan jewelers. Each specializing in different materials, Pretty Little Things includes work by artists Jane D'Arensbourg (glass); LAS Jewelry (leather); Elizabeth Newton (stone); The Opulent Project (alternative material) and JaQueline Sanchez (lego and diamonds).
Morton Fine Art *a pop-up project Ritual: Form, Script, Gesture October 23 - December 18 A
selection of artworks by national and international artists Sally
Curcio, Ethan Diehl, Sungmi Lee, Choichun Leung, Julia Fernandez-Pol and
Hadieh Shafie Pretty Little Things November 19 - December 22 A selection of wearable art by 5 artisan jewelers. Each specializing in different materials, Pretty Little Things includes work by artists Jane D'Arensbourg (glass); LAS Jewelry (leather); Elizabeth Newton (stone); The Opulent Project (alternative material) and JaQueline Sanchez (lego and diamonds).
In the Midst, 2009
Project 4 Yuletide Arts Festival December 4 - December 24 The exhibition features a selection of small works by artists who frequently collaborate with Project 4. All works of art are priced under $1,000. Yuletide considers and presents art of all media including: recycled glass, LP records transformed, drawings, watercolors, ceramics, wood sculpture, and more. Featured artists include: Margaret Boozer, Beau Chamberlain, Justin Gibbens, Kate Hardy, Tricia Keightley, Laurel Lukaszewski, Thomas Muller, Foon V. Sham, Erwin Timmers, and Paul Villinski.
Salve Regina Gallery A Postmodern Meditation on the Five Proofs of God Mark Cameron Boyd November 11 - December 17 An exhibition of artwork that features an installation addressing logical
propositions by Thomas Aquinas to explore language and its putative conveyance
of "reason" to "ways of knowing."This exhibition also features a
mini-retrospective of selected artworks by Boyd from 2004 to 2010.
In his Summa Theologica, Aquinas introduced the quinque viae, or "Five Ways," that he felt offered rational proof
of the existence of God.Aquinas's medieval theories on God's existence extended the
Aristotelian tradition of "rational philosophical truths" and issue forth from
Aquinas's application of reason, thus they do not rely on "faith" alone to
prove there is a God.
A Postmodern Meditation presents five different artworks that feature English
translations of Thomas Aquinas's "Proofs" using Boyd's signature "text bisection"
process that allows for viewer participation.Visitors to Salve Regina Gallery at The Catholic University
of America may attempt to decipher the bisected Aquinas texts by physically writing
directly upon Boyd's artworks.Further intellectual discourse is hoped for as these words, sentences
and ideas finally reveal and engage concepts such as "God," "proof" and "knowing."
A Postmodern Meditation on The Five Proofs of God
Space 7:10 Drawings Adams Griffiths a.k.a. Adam Dwight November 9 - December 10 Adam made a Washington Post critic/reporter's list of cool, but under-recognized Real Artists in DC.
Studio Gallery Winter Group Show November 24 - December 23 Featuring members of the Studio Gallery
39th Street Gallery and Project Space Compressed Narratives Peter Gordon, Aniko Makranczy and Juan Rojo Acebes November 13 - December 30 Peter Gordon creates exuberant abstractions that seem to stretch time and process through webs of lines and energetic brushstrokes. Aniko Makranczy's richly textured "books" and "boxes" speak of the containment of human experience that leads, as if by an inner necessity, towards little more than a crucial trace of itself. Juan Rojo discovers stories in displaced images, and recasts them in lush mixed-media compositions. What this project highlights is one of the most important qualities they share - their ability to address large themes with economy of means: whether in terms of media, technique, or physical space.
Brittle Underpass, Peter Gordon
Touchstone Gallery Annual Small Works Members Exhibition December 1 - December 23 The exhibition includes works 24 square inches and smaller, priced at $500 or less. The artwork includes pottery, photography, prints, drawings, paintings and sculpture to all tastes.
Shaping Room Gary Bergel December 1 - December 23 Multi-disciplinary mixed media using low-tech photographic tools and technology.
Cheese Shop, Gale Wallar
Vivid Solutions Neither . . . Nor Khan H. Le November 1 - December 17 14 large scale images using the multiple plate polymer photogravure etching technique. Le examines identity, through the bits and pieces of personal memory, the collective history from two cultures; Vietnamese and American.
Khan H. Le
Washington Printmakers Gallery Two Artists, Many Journeys Carole Nelson Margaret Adams November 30 - January 2 Woodcuts and Etchings
Berwick's Legacy: Six Contemporary British Wood Engravers Simon Brett Neil Bousfield Harry Brockway Peter Lawrence Hilary Paynter Sue Scullard January 4 - January 30 The exhibition, Bewick's Legacy (so-named for the
inventor of wood engraving, Thomas Bewick), focuses on this technique, which
uses the endgrain of wood rather than the plank side, as in a woodcut, to
create incredibly detailed images.
Workhouse Arts Center Workhouse Works 2010 November 24 - December 31 Artworks no larger than 8x10
Mad for Color! November 24 - December 31
WPA Icebox December 3 - December 23 Holiday gift shop. The shop features a wide variety of artworks and other handmade goods by WPA member artists. Participating artists include Double A Projects (Athena Robles and Anna Stein), Denee Barr, Sandy Gold, James Halloran, Linda Hesh, Ellen Hill, Rebecca Kallem, Alice Kress, Laurel Lukaszewski, Susana Raab, Amy Carmichael Smith, John Totaro, Katharine Watson and Claudia Vess. Featuring jewelry, small works of art, household goods, totebags and greeting cards.
