Target Gallery Imprint Juror: Jane Haslem January 21- February 21 An exhibition that examines contemporary printmaking. Thirty-seven artists from across the country are a part of this exhibition united by one common theme and that is the printmaking process. Eight of the artists in the exhibition are from the DC Metro area.
Aaron Gallery 20th Annual Small and Miniatures Show January 1 - January 30 Featuring artwork by Erica Rukin, Carlotta Hester, Brandon C. Smith, Francine Shore, Sabrina Cabada, and others
American Painting Fine Art Small Treasures Washington Society of Landscape Painters, gallery artists & guest artists December 5 - January 30 Exhibit of small scale works. Over 150 works in oil, alkyd, acrylics, watercolors, pastel, mixed media and hand-pulled prints.
Connecticut Avenue North, In the Snow, Michael Francis
Applegate Gallery The Journey Ed Hahn January 2 - January 27 New Color and Black & White Photographs. "The images in this show are my personal take on the journeys of self-discovery that are universal to human culture: for example, Walkabout in the aboriginal Australian culture, the Fool's Journey in Western tradition, and, more recently, literature like Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger." - Ed Hahn
Arts Club of Washington Paintings Kristen Kovak January 7 - January 30 "Working in response to the tradition of still lifes. I create direct paintings that reveal the process of responding to observations through paint. I hope to exploit the unique qualities and poetics of the medium in order to investigate how one's perception is contextualized by the materials they use." - Kristen Kovak
The Art League Timbuktu Kathleen Stafford January 7 - February 1 Printmaker Kathleen Stafford spent 18 years immersed in African culture. This exhibition celebrates the compelling people she met and the brilliant textures and colors of West Africa through her unique artistic process.
Blackrock Center for the Arts Personal Armor Curated by Trudi VanDyke January 5 - January 29 Mixed media exhibit focusing on Apronology, "the study of the art of the apron"
District of Columbia Arts Center Memory Meets Imagination Halfway Adam De Boer Curated by Laura Roulet January 15 - February 21 Themes of social ritual and emerging sexuality are set against the luminous landscapes of Southern California and Mallorca, Spain in Adam de Boer's new series of narrative paintings, Memory Meets Imagination Halfway. Evoking Vladimir Nabokov as psychological literary muse, de Boer also engages the art historical influences of Francisco Goya, Balthus and Eric Fischl.
Edison Place Gallery Sculpture Now 2010 Juried by Ryan Hill January 5 - February 12 Washington Sculptors Group's annual juried exhibition of artwork by Karen Bondarchuk, Leah Frankel, Kerry Furlani, Tom Greaves, Jason Haber, Ray Hau, Leila Holtsman, James Mallos, Bill Moore, Elena Patino, Mike Shaffer, John Simpkins-Camp, Erwin Timmers, Patricia Tinajero, Elizabeth Whiteley, and Alice Yutzy.
Flashpoint Gallery Inside Mouth Jackie Milad January 9 - February 13 Part art, part anthropology, Jackie Milad describes her work as a, "reference library for gestural language, simultaneously unsettling, humorous, seductive and familiar." Inside Mouth will feature a series of elegant, lyrical line drawings that chronicle the subtlety of facial expressions and show androgynous figures in awkward exchanges with one another. A photographic analog documents volunteers imitating the expressions that appear in the drawings.
Foundry Gallery A Deeper Reality Doris Colbert Kennedy January 2 - January 31 An exhibition of abstract paintings. The artist is inspired by cutting edge concepts of theoretical physics, intuiting the movements of sub-atomic particles, waves and strings in works with such titles as Conifold Transition in Calabi Yau Space, Quantum Foam and Emergent Complexities.
Quantum Foam, Doris Colbert Kennedy
The Fridge Uncle Cory's Art Show Cory Oberndorfe Megan Blafas Davis McLane Connelly DIABETIK Amy Misurelli-Sorensen January 9 - February 2 A collection of works that illustrate what happens when an adult's innocence is lost but the sense of childhood play remains.
Gallery Plan b Heidi Fowler Anne Manley Sabri Ben-Achour January 6 - February 4 Contemplative land/sky-scapes in mixed media on panel by Heidi Fowler are paired with ethereal land/sea/sky-scapes in acrylic on canvas by Anne Manley. Biomorphic ceramics from Sabri Ben-Achour.
Gallery Neptune heating up the cold month of January with the power of color Albert Schweitzer Ed Bisese Lisa Brotman Glenn Friedel Elyse Harrison Elaine Langerman Wayne Paige January 8 - January 30
Gallery 50 The Ghosts of Pittsburgh Rob Larson January 8 - February 12 Rob Larson focuses on the use of photography, stencils, and silkscreening to create urban settings and surreal environments that not so much tell a story, but show a scene that lets the viewer fill in the blanks.
Rob Larson
Greater Reston Arts Center Currents Joseph Barbaccia Unintentional Drawings Craig Kraft Borderland Judy Southerland January 9 - February 20
Hamiltonian Gallery Call + Response January 23 - February 13 Sixteen writers and sixteen visual artists from Washington, D.C., and beyond have paired to create artworks that resonate with each other for a new exhibition. Participants have given a new twist to the term "call and response" (a succession of two distinct phrases played by different musicians in which the second phrase comments on or responds to the first). For each pairing, the writer has provided the call and the visual artist has created the response. The result is paired works that resonate with each other, building a bridge between two distinct but fertile communities.
Hillyer Art Space Adjunct/Disjunct January 8 - February 20 Features the works of Billy Colbert,
Nikki Brugnoli Whipkey, Joe Hicks, Mike Mendez, and Juan Rojo. The show
calls attention to the struggle of teaching artists who dedicate their
time to the academy for little reward. Often working without health or
retirement benefits and at risk from budget cuts on the non-tenure
track, modern adjunct professors simply work for the teaching
experience and studio access.
Hillyer Art Space JustSeeds: Paper Politics for a New Decade January 8 - January 30 The JustSeeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to collaborate, sell their work online in a central location and support social movements. Utilizing print and poster making techniques to address a variety of social and environmental justice issues, collective mates work together over many miles to create, resist, and bring meaningful artwork to the masses for affordable prices.
Adjunct/Disjunct January 8 - February 20 Features the works of Billy Colbert,
Nikki Brugnoli Whipkey, Joe Hicks, Mike Mendez, and Juan Rojo. The show
calls attention to the struggle of teaching artists who dedicate their
time to the academy for little reward. Often working without health or
retirement benefits and at risk from budget cuts on the non-tenure
track, modern adjunct professors simply work for the teaching
experience and studio access.
Honfleur Gallery Stories Antoine Sanfuentes Ann Curry Opens January 22 Photography
Irvine Contemporary The Struggle to Right Oneself: A Survey Kerry Skarbakka December 19 - February 06 The artist stages himself in scenes of losing balance and control, especially at a crucial tipping point, the moment when balance and equilibrium are lost and a fall begins. His arresting photographs appear at the intersection of performance and artist's portraits, and each composition dramatizes one of the deepest human themes--the anxiety over losing balance and the struggle to regain it, both personally and socially. Uncommissioned Memorials
Sebastian Martorana December 19 - February 06 New sculptures in marble that also represent works in a long-term thematic series.
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery @ Smith Center Traces Celebrating the Life of Jutta Philippi Eigen Curated by Elise Wiarda January 6 - January 30 Jutta Eigen was a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a prominent composer, pianist and physician who died from cancer in 2002. This exhibition brings together artists who were part of the defining DC art world of the 1970s and 80s, in which Eigen was an influential and dynamic participant
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Recent Work Christopher French, Jae Ko, Nathan Oliveira, Andrea Way, Nancy Wolf January 9 - February 20
Nathan Oliveira
The Phillips Collection Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction February 6 - May 9 The exhibition demonstrates O'Keeffe's important contribution to the history of American abstraction. Showcasing over 100 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture dating from 1915 to the late 1970s, the exhibition also includes 14 photographic portraits of O’Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. By assembling works from her entire career, this exhibition reveals O’Keeffe as a painter who adopted abstraction as early as 1915, worked extensively with it throughout the 1920s, and used it thereafter as the foundation for her art. 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. 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.
Project 4 Solo Exhibition Cornelia Schulz December 23 - January 23 A solo exhibition of San Francisco abstract painter, Cornelia Schulz. The bold perimeters of Schulz's paintings matched with the intricate and refined surfaces, result in an engaging dialogue between grand modernist ideals and reflective, personal reverie. Schulz sophisticatedly manipulates the oil paint, alkyd resin and acrylics that spread throughout and emerge from her assembled shaped canvases.
Cornelia Schulz
Reyes + Davis Fine Lines Janis Goodman Kate McGraw Lynn Meyers Jennifer Mullins December 2 - January 30 Exhibition of drawings
Lynn Meyers
Rio Entertainment Anabela Ferguson February 2 - February 6 Oil, pastels, photography, and watercolor
Strathmore Fine Art The Timkov Collection January 9 - February 20 A near recreation of the acclaimed 2008 Meridian International Center exhibition "The Timkov Collection," provided by Timothy and Lisa Wyman, features remarkable landscapes by renowned Russian painter Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (1912-1993). The exhibit was co-curated by Dr. Alison Hilton of Georgetown University and Dr. Curtis Sandberg of the Meridian International Center.
Studio H Azul Geoff Ault January 9 - January 30 An assortment of dream-quality images. Ault's work touches on the abstract and sensual side of the human experience. He uses film cameras, toy cameras, digital cameras and a flat bed scanner in his work. The scanner is used much like a camera by scanning objects into the computer to capture the image. These scanned images are then manipulated using Photoshop to create abstractions of the originals.
Studio Gallery Guest Show: Songs of the Earth - Great and Small January 6 - January 30 Look closely at nature's wonders - its intricacies, its beauty, its poetic patterns - the very web of life of which we are a part. Beginning in 2004, the 16 artists known as Studio 155 have offered their visions of the natural world, expanding the boundaries of botanical art. Featuring: Debbie Bankert, Roberta Bernstein, Neena Birch,
Elizabeth W. Carter, Wendy Cortesi, Jill Hodgson, Vicki Malone, Donald
B. Myer, Kappy Prosch, Michael Rawson, Eva-Maria Ruhl, Ellen Tuttle,
Julie Weihe, S. M. Wilson
Target Gallery Imprint Juror: Jane Haslem January 21- February 21 An exhibition that examines contemporary printmaking. Thirty-seven artists from across the country are a part of this exhibition united by one common theme and that is the printmaking process. Eight of the artists in the exhibition are from the DC Metro area.
Target Gallery Pandora's Box Exhibition Juror: Landria Shack December 10 - January 20 An exhibition that had artists create a visual interpretation of the Greek Myth and express how it relates to modern times. The exhibition is a visual interpretation of Pandora's act of releasing woe (and hope) upon humanity
Transformer Gallery Snow Globe January 16 - February 20 An artist-built environment created by DC-based artists Jessica Cebra and Zach Storm that playfully incorporates painting, drawing, mixed media collage, and sculptural elements to create a whimsical, life-size winter wonderland. Includes video installation of a series of new dance pieces choreographed by Washington Ballet Artistic Director Septime Webre, and performed by Andile Ndlovu and The Washington Ballet Studio Company dancers.
Vienna Arts Society 40th Annual Treasury of Art Show January 4 - February 1 An introduction to area artists that won prizes in the Treasury of Art show. The prize winners will exhibit more of their work.
VisArts Center Movements Beatrice Mellinger January 21 - February 3 A solo show of this Martinican artist presented by Wah Fine Arts "Painting gives the artist endless possibilities, through an infinite range of combinations of colors, patterns, forms, lines and shapes. I try to fuse personality, emotions, and creativity to achieve a universal resonance. Abstract painting, especially, gives me more freedom to the creative process. Abstraction keeps the viewer wondering what the artist was thinking or feeling while creating the artwork. There are always multiple interpretations. As Degas said: "Art is not what you see but what you make others see."" - Beatrice Mellinger
Waddell Art Gallery Saints and Fables Kirk Waldroff January 11 - February 12 Printmaker and sculptor, uses traditional woodcut techniques to create non-traditional prints in glass, concrete and on paper. His work depicts invented saints and never-told fables.
Saint Pondera, Kirk Waldroff
Washington Printmakers Gallery Monotypes and Paintings Jack Boul January 3 - January 31 Subject matter encompasses everything from wheel barrows, cows, and pastoral landscapes to urban scenes, interiors and the human figure
Washington School of Photography Clean Hands Project January 8 - February 8 Thirteen Nepali Dalit journalists exhibit their photographs as part of the Clean Hands Project. The Project provides Dalit journalists the opportunity to learn and use professional video and photography equipment.
Westminster Church Sunset on Another Planet Heather Levy November 8 - January 30
