Art League Gallery 42nd Annual Patrons' Show Fundraiser February 4 - February 15 The drawing will be held Sunday, February 15 in the main hall of the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Tickets are $175 each and go on sale Saturday, January 17* at 10:00 am in The Art League Gallery. Each ticket allows the holder to select an artwork at the drawing on February 15. All proceeds benefit The Art League. Between 500-600 donations of artwork are received from Art League and Torpedo Factory artists. An equal number of tickets are sold to the number of artworks received. The show may be viewed in the gallery February 4-15, and during this time ticket holders may come through and note their favorite pieces. On the evening of the drawing, ticket holder names are randomly drawn, and as each name is drawn each patron may select a work of art.
Civilian Art Projects Ghosts and Circumstance Carol Wagner Greenwood Gasoline Dame Darcy January 9 - February 7
Curators Office Lucid Dreaming Simon Gouverneur, Jason Hughes and Paul Laffoley Text by J.W. Mahoney January 17 - February 14 This exhibition acknowledges the continuing visionary tradition in modern and contemporary art. The exhibition includes works by internationally renowned visionary artist and brilliant architect Paul Laffoley, works from the Estate of Simon Gouverneur, and works by young artist Jason Hughes, who acknowledges the profound influence of Laffoley and Gouverneur on his work
Mara, Simon Gouverneur
Del Ray Artisans Nocturne - from Dusk to Dawn Group Show January 16 - February 15 An exhibition reviving a theme that emerged in the 1860's as a literary, musical, and artistic expression of the shimmering effects of light between dusk and dawn. Local artists have interpreted the qualities of light when darkness itself is the subject of the night.
Edison Place Gallery MONO/CHROMATICS Michael Gross January 6 - February 20 An extensive exhibition by Washington artist Michael Gross, curated by William Christenberry. It spans over 30 years of work and features new large canvases that use a complex mixture of line and color to harness energy into equilibrium, exploring the nuances of the show’s title. Over 60 works will be on view, ranging from representational to the artist’s signature abstract style.
Flashpoint Gallery Flavor of the Month Cory Oberndorfer January 9 - February 13 Gallery exhibition cum marketing pitch, Cory Oberndorfer’s show of paintings combines the visual language of graphic design with the subculture of flat track roller derby. Oberndorfer elevates roller derby players to iconic status with bright colors and simplified, stripped-down forms. While having the look of mass production and silkscreen, these paintings are actually meticulously hand-painted.
Foundry Gallery Reshuet (Joy) Doris Colbert Kennedy, Marina Reiter and Ron Riley February 4 - March 1 The paintings of Ron Riley, Marina Reiter and Doris Colbert Kennedy all share the breathtaking exhilaration of Reshuet, which is JOY as expressed in the ancient Egyptian language of Mtr Ntr. Reshuet, when uttered with the breath and whisper of the spirit, speaks of ineffable ecstasy from the depths of the soul.
All the Creatures Big and Small, Marina Reiter
Fraser Gallery Winter Group Exhibit January 9 - February 7 A group exhibit of paintings and photography by Tim O'Kane, Michael Fitts, Lawrence Hislop, Alyson Weege, David FeBland and others.
H&F Fine Arts Gallery Fragmented Idioms Anthony Armstrong February 5 - February 28 Anthony Armstrong's work reflects social conscience and technical excellence. Armstrong strives to create images inspired by African American people and their real life experiences. There are three distinct categories to his work. Definition...images that deal with the past. Identification...images that relate to the present. Direction...images that look into the future.
Anthony Armstrong's mixed media on paper or collages faces the dilemna of race in art as faced by past artists such as Hale Woodruff, Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas, and Romare Bearden. Unveiling of "First Day", a limited edition hand pulled serigraph by Lou Stovall.
Frontline, Anthony Armstrong
Hillyer Art Space Tools for Change: Selections from the Hechinger Collection January 9 - February 27 Tools for Change: Selections from the Hechinger Collection, features 18 pieces from the Hechinger Collections that remove tools from their utilitarian, invisible state and in turn places them under the spotlight. The exhibition transforms the ordinary tool into an object of art to be admired, and above all, reminds us that our tools are a way of change: for better or worse.
Featured artists include: Yuri Avvakumov, Franz Bader, Barton Lidice Benes, Roy Carruthers, Jim Dine, William Eggleston, Henryk Fantazos, Howard Finster, Tom Hebert, Manuel Hughes, Rosenbloom Kaplan, Jacob Lawrence, Fernand Leger, Michael Mazur, Claes Oldenburg, Dusan Otasevic and Rico Solinas.
Spirit Judy Stone January 9 - February 27 A selection of Judy Stone's newest works. Interested in contemporary issues of ritual, iconic power and violence, Stone's recent work integrates aspects of East and West culture.
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center Positive Exposure: The South Asian Experience Through the Camera Eye February 4 - February 28 Over 30 photographs, most of which were selected through an open juried competition. The participants were a diverse set of professional and amateur photographers, some of whom were local, but others were based as far away as Europe and South Asia. The remainder of the exhibition was chosen from a pool of photographs submitted by The Clean Hands Project, led by local photojournalists Jes Therkelson and Phoebe Gilpin. Therkelson and Gilpin trained Dalits (Untouchables) in Nepal to use cameras in documenting their day-to-day experience and the best of their work will be on display.
Huntsman Square Mall Getting Ready For Spring 2009 Anabela Ferguson February 10 - February 22
McLean Project for the Arts Cellular Perspectives Betsy Stewart and Patrick Craig January 15 - February 21 Featuring two mid-career Washington area painters who share an interest in examining and enlarging visual images that reference the biological. Comfort Zones Michele Montalbano Interior room-scapes that explore electric color interactions and the depiction of space and pattern.
Spaces of Places Tom Wagner Post- industrial landscapes that combine painting, photography and drawing
Betsy Stewart
National Museum of Women in the Arts Beyond Tradition: The Pueblo Pottery of Tammy Garcia August 22 - February 3 Tammy Garcia is one of the most recognizable figures in Southwestern ceramics and is renowned for infusing a two-thousand year old tradition with modern notions of design
The Phillips Collection Scale Matters: Photographs from the Joseph and Charlotte Lichtenberg Collection November 1 - February 1 Seven large landscape photographs by two photographers reflecting an environmental awareness will be on display. These photographs offer modern interpretations of the sublime: Lynn Davis’s colossal, elegiac views draw on 19th-century photographic sources, and Edward Burtynsky’s awe-inspiring vistas create unsettling beauty out of scarred, industrial landscapes.
Randall Scott Gallery Trace Etsuko Ichikawa January 17 - February 14 With a blaze of fire and smoke, Etsuko Ichikawa applies a methodically shaped piece of molten glass directly to heavy stock paper. Her large scale "Glass Pyrographs" carry the action of painting, as she works her paper surface from all angles, allowing the molten glass to burn into her medium.
Etsuko Ichikawa
Studio Gallery Travels Stan Wenocur February 4 - February 28 A series of abstract, mixed media paintings which evoke landscape and water. The pieces are primarily executed on wood, layered with cement, fabric, oils and other media. Subtle use of color and texture help to produce changes of light and mood.
Rough Edges Bud Hensgen February 4 - February 28 Acrylic paintings project powerful and conflicting images before the viewer -- some exuberant, others restrained, several somewhat mysterious. Hensgen's forms in this exhibit command your attention and demand a response. You can't just walk away. Through a Pinhole Scott Speck February 4 - February 28 Photographs, created using handmade wood/brass pinhole cameras. These simple devices, free of lenses and electronic components, allow the artist to explore perspective, texture, and dimensionality in a unique and powerful way.
Scott Speck
Touchstone Gallery My Space on 7th featuring 88 local artists January 7 - February 7 A unique, non-juried opportunity for local artists to exhibit at Touchstone’s gallery.
Washington Printmakers Gallery Alpine Views Deron DeCesare January 27 - February 22 Celebrates the winter landscape through the perspective of an avid skier. DeCesare’s new intaglios and monotypes convey the quieter, contemplative feelings the artist experiences as he explores the snowy mountains of the American west.
Zenith Gallery Inaugural Inspiration January 14 - February 8 Commemorating a Momentous Occasion. Paintings/Giclee Prints of President-Elect Obama + Other Paintings, Jewelry, Sculpture & Related Art
