Addison/Ripley New Work Edith Kuhnle December 6 - January 10
AHM Gallery The Fresh Potomac From the Fall Line to Fort Washington Andrew Macdonald December 18 - January 1 Photographs. 20% of all sales will be donated to the Potomac Riverkeeper more
Then and Now Jack Boul Former American University professor Jack Boul exhibits his intimately scaled prints, drawings, and paintings of everyday life.
Jae Ko As described by Nord Wennerstun in Artforum International, “Jae Ko uses large, tightly bound spools of adding-machine paper that she wraps, folds, and contorts like toffee.”
Hidden Dalya Luttwak In a poem called “From the Book of Questions,” Pablo Neruda asks “Why do the Trees Conceal the Splendor of Their Roots?" Israeli-born Dalya Luttwak digs literally and metaphorically to study the hidden structures and shapes of plant roots, exploring the differences and relationships between parts above ground and parts below within the same plant.
Calentamiento Global An Exhibition Organized by the Association of Ibero-American Cultural Attachés presents a variety of work from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries. This exhibition is curated by AU Museum director Jack Rasmussen and Panamanian gallerist Jilma Prada.
Onthaasting: About Spare Time and Slower Worlds "Onthaasting” is recreation as an “escape” from the perceived unpleasant aspects of daily reality. It takes place on the outskirts of contemporary life: on mountaintops, in vast regions of open space, in churches, in landscapes, in gardens …but most of all in the mind. Curators Niels Van Tomme and Jan Van Woensel present Belgian contemporary artists within this conceptual framework.
Invasion 68: Prague, Photographs by Josef Koudelka Moravian-born theatre photographer Josef Koudelka presents photographs of the 1968 Soviet invasion of the city of Prague, which ended the political liberation of Czechoslovakia historically known as the Prague Spring. Forty years after they were taken and smuggled out of the country, Koudelka’s searing images provide a glimpse into both an historic event and his personal experience with conflict. more
Arlington Arts Center Unlimited Edition December 12 - January 17 A juried show featuring works that exist in large, unnumbered editions, or that somehow play with the relationship between reproduction and commodification in the contemporary art world. Kathryn Cornelius, performance Susan Raab, photography Krista Birnbaum, graphics/prints Cynthia Connolly, performance w/bicycle & postcard rack Christine Bailey, drawings made w/heat-set photocopier toner Carolina Mayorga, performance selling faux product line: lipstick Joanmarie Turbek, installation w/ceramic cakes and boxes
Winter Solos 2008 - 2009 Josh Rodenberg, sculptural installation Alexis Granwell, sculpture December 12 - January 17 Resident Studio Artists Exhibition Sabyna Sterrett, Jill Romanoke, and Monica Stroik December 12 - January 17 Works from Pyramid Atlantic December 12 - January 17
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Seascapes: Tryon & Sugimoto July 12 - January 25 A series of 22 pastels by American landscape painter Dwight William Tryon (1849-1925) juxtaposed with six black-and-white photographs by contemporary photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto (b. 1948, Tokyo). Although the works are separated by history and medium, they are linked by a common subject-the sea-and by formal resonances that encourage leisurely contemplation and quiet comparison.
The Art Gallery University of Maryland Borges and the Kabbalah: Seeking Access Mirta Kupferminc Saul Sosnowski November 12 - December 20 An exhibition featuring the artwork of Mirta Kupferminc in collaboration with writer Saul Sosnowski, linking the writings of famed Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges with the Kabbalah. It integrates Kupferminc's original installations, etchings, sculpture, Borges' own work, traditional Jewish texts, and an artist book with commentaries and poems written by Sosnowski. more
Mirta Kupferminc
Art League Gallery A Hosta Story Yoshimi Matsukata January 8 - February 2 Hostas, often used as the border or backdrop in a garden, are the subject of Yoshimi Matsukata's solo artist exhibit of watercolor paintings. "It may be the scientist in me that keeps going back to organic subjects." Continually drawn back to nature, Matsukata enjoys visually portraying something previously unnoticed in her environment. The rhythm created by the abstract shapes formed by light and shadow inspired Matsukata to create this series. "I find the colors, the curls, the deep veins in the foliage irresistible. I am particularly inspired when the sun creates a pattern of shadows underneath the foliage. I am most intrigued with hostas in the spring, when the foliage is fresh. I enjoy the sense of a new beginning." The use of watercolor is an integral part of Matsukata's work. "I like to work wet on wet, drop different colors on top of each other, and watch the pigments mix on paper. This often produces a granulated effect and a natural transition of color on the paper."
Yoshimi Matsukata
Art League Gallery Virtue, Sin, and the Balance Within Carlos Beltran Baldiviezo December 4 - January 5 Ceramic artist Carlos Beltran Baldiviezo explores the ancient tradition of balancing the tension between the Seven Deadly Sins and the Seven Heavenly Virtues in his solo artist exhibit Each of the seven pairs of fourteen ceramic sculptures embodies a Sin and its corresponding Virtue. "I've approached portraying the theme from a variety of angles." Some pieces are whimsical and playful, others serious and stoic, some humorous, obvious, or elusive.
Pacientia Patience
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Garden And Cosmos: The Royal Paintings Of Jodhpur October 11 - January 4 Exhibition of newly discovered Indian paintings from the royal court collection of Marwar-Jodhpur. Marwar-Jodhpur, the largest of the former Rajput kingdoms (in the modern state of Rajasthan), was ruled by the Rathore Rajputs, a princely caste of warriors who became great patrons of art in the 17th to 19th centuries. Produced for the private enjoyment of the Marwar-Jodhpur maharajas, virtually none of the 60 works on view in "Garden and Cosmos" have ever been published or seen by scholars since their creation centuries ago. Strikingly innovative in their large scale, subject matter and styles, they reveal both the conceptual sophistication of the royal atelier and the kingdom's engagement with the changing political landscapes of early modern India.
The Mountains of the Eight Directions, folio 17 from the Shiva Rahasya, 1827 (Samvat 1884)
Athenaeum Protected Landscapes Group Show November 13 - January 4 Paintings of the Nature Conservancy Preserves throughout Washington DC, Virginia and Maryland area by the Washington Society of Landscape Painters
Conner Contemporary Family Zoë Charlton War David Levinthal new video Gabriel de la Mora November 14 - January 3 Zoë Charlton presents Family (2008), a new series of large format drawings. Statuesque nude figures drawn from live models portray characteristics of the artist's female cousins, demonstrating diverse personalities within her Florida-based African American family.
In War David Levinthal juxtaposes Iraq (2008), his latest series of photographs, with selections from his seminal work Hitler Moves East (1977).
In his two-channel video, 39-G.M.C.-23.sept.2007, Gabriel de la Mora batters a life-size self-portrait, formed as a Mexican piñata.
Zoë Charlton Cousin 1: graphite and gouache on paper, 60 x 40 inches
Corcoran Gallery of Art Portraits of Power Richard Avedon September 13 - January 25 Richard Avedon (1923–2004), America’s pre-eminent portraitist and fashion photographer, photographed the faces of politics throughout his career. As the country enters the next presidential election season, the Corcoran will bring together Avedon’s political portraits for the first time. Juxtaposing images of elite government, media, and labor officials with counter-cultural activists and ordinary citizens caught up in national debates, this exhibition will explore a five-decade taxonomy of politics and power by one of our best-known artists.
Richard Avedon: Portraits of Power includes approximately 250 photographs from the 1950s through the artist’s death in 2004, displayed chronologically and grouped within Avedon’s specific editorial projects. The Human Comedy: Satirical Cartoons from the Collection Through February 7 The Human Comedy explores the art of social commentary as pictorial image. For centuries, artists have used pencil, ink and paint to record, criticize and satirize their social and political worlds.
Wounded Cities Photographs by Leo Rubinfien Through February 16 Over six years, Leo Rubinfien journeyed to more than 20 cities around the world—including London, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Istanbul, Nairobi, Karachi and Jerusalem—searching out what he called the “mental wound” that he himself had felt in New York on September 11, 2001. The resulting portraits, marked by their intimacy and exquisite craftsmanship, are premiered at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Large prints from this project float in the gallery without frames, offering an experience of great immediacy and deep feeling.
Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts David Hicks November 21 - January 3 Emerging California artist David Hicks' ceramic wall installations are compelling and original. His work hovers in air, between the natural and the artificial - the imagery is hard to pin down. His clay surfaces contrast the organic raw and tactile with the machined polish, pairing his rough hand formed terracotta objects with industrial steel cable
Del Ray Artisans The World Through the Blade of Scissors Jury: Marie-Helene Grabman and Anne Leslie December 12 - January 4 The Del Ray Artisans and the Guild of American Papercutters present a show celebrating the art of papercutting. Papercutting is a worldwide art form, expressed as Sherenschnitte in Germany and Switzerland, Papel Picado in Mexico, Kirigami in Japan, Decoupage in France, Silhouettes in France, England and America, and Wycinanki and Leluje in Poland, and in many local styles in China. The techniques are also used in collage and in decorative fabric workings.
District Fine Arts Recent Works Sidney Lawrence November 15 - January 20 This show of oil portraits, including a small painting of Martin Luther King Jr., an island wall relief, a dog head, ink drawings of cities, and an illustrated travel diary is Lawrence's first solo exhibition at DFA since 2005. Lawrence is also a writer, curator and art-PR specialist. He served as the Hirshhorn Museum's press officer from 1975 to 2003 and an occasional curator there, and more recently organized "Roger Brown: Southern Exposure," for the Jule Collins Smith Museum at Auburn University, Alabama.
Edison Place Gallery Aquifer November 8 - December 19 Washington Project for the Arts and the Washington Sculptors Group present "Aquifer," an exhibition of work that explores the significance of water. For this show, curators J.W. Mahoney and Deborah McLeod have selected 35 artists who are particularly compelled to address the physical, psychological, metaphysical, and aesthetic qualities of water.
Howard & Mary McCoy
Flashpoint Gallery Airscapes Elena Volkova November 21 - December 20 Volkova’s delicate and ephemeral airscapes are photographed from the windows of airplanes and explore the idea of inside versus outside. These barely perceptible images investigate how much visual information is needed to perceive the essence of the subject against the background of nothingness
Foundry Gallery Gift Art for the Holidays Group Show December 3 - January 4 A special holiday art exhibit with more than 60 works - paintings, drawing, sculpture and photography - in the exhibit, which spans a wide range of styles, subjects and sizes. Participating artists include Amy Barker-Wilson, Daniel Bell, Catherine Bohrman, Jenny Brake, Brett Davis, Cavan Fleming, Patsy Fleming, Holly Foss, Mina Oka Hanig, Elizabeth Harris, Doris Kennedy, Dean Manis, Donna McGee, Debra Naylor, Steve Nordlingder, Marina Reiter, Ronaly Riley, Bobbie Salthouse, Luba Sterlikova, Martin Slater, Kathryn Wiley.
Fraser Gallery six notable photographers group exhibition November 14 - January 3 Group show featuring world renowned photographer Joyce Tenneson, acclaimed architectural photographer and D.C resident, Maxwell MacKenzie, Washington Post columnist, Frank Van Riper and his wife, Judith Goodman, with a collection of black and white images of Venice after the tourists have gone home, local photographer Karen Keating and Danny Conant.
Watching and Waiting, Karen Keating
Gallery 50 Directors Cut Seventeen works by seventeen artists January 10 - February 2
Vesuvio Bakery Soho, NYC, Duane Rieder
Gallery 50 Small Works Group Show November 13 - December 23 The show highlights new smaller works by Phyllis Pastore, Russell Richards, Duane Rieder, Rose Minetti, John Nyberg, and local photographer Jim Mott. Glass and ceramic by Anthony Corradetti and Robert Bricker, and jewelry by Paul Kerhoven round out the show. "I chose works that are beautiful and affordable, perfect for the current economic climate and the upcoming gift-buying season. when you buy art you're buying a handmade, non-corporate, one-of-a-kind object that supports the local economy and holds it's value, even better than stocks!" Explains gallery owner Jay Pastore. "Every year I try to have a smaller works show to encourage the beginning collector and is perfect for gift giving."
Vestige, Rose Minetti
Govinda Gallery Kaleidoscope Eyes: A Day in the Life of Sgt. Pepper Henry Grossman November 14 - December 23 Rarely-seen photographs of The Beatles during the recording of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band. This is the first exhibition of Henry Grossman's photographs of the Beatles
H&F Fine Arts Gallery Suspended Cosmos Alan Binstock Life’s Many Layers Joan Belmar December 4 - January 11 Both artists’ work explores the circle of life and construct dialogue assessing the parallels of three dimensional abstract structures and human life. Belmar’s work will serve as a layered backdrop to the translucent sculptures created by Binstock.
Alan Binstock’s work explores the forms that express or reflect the sacred, the inner life; varied manifestations of the micro and macro worlds. Many years of work as an architect and now in Master Planning at NASA, Binstock’s work is a result of deep space images and ideas that arise from his observation, reflection and meditation.
Experimentation with materials such as plastic, acetate, polycarbonate, Mylar, and glass, allows Joan Belmar to create worlds where the viewer is allowed to see some things clearly and some things opaquely. But all things seen are intended to reflect an outer and inner world of psychological stress, fragility and dislocation. Belmar’s work takes on a cosmic-like illusion that carefully entwines photography and optical effects.
H&F Fine Arts Gallery Obama: Art and Politics January 15 - January 31 Artists participating in the Obama: Art and Politics exhibition are as follows: Anthony Armstrong, Joan Belmar, Bip, Rachel D. Crouch, Alonzo Davis, Ricky Day, Antar Dayal, Dana Ellyn, Liani Foster, Pamela Hilliard, Tim Hinton, Victor Holt, Rafael Lopez, Hampton Olfus, Anne Elise Pemberton, Joe Louis Ruffin Desiree Sterbini and Marcel Taylor
Gimme an O, Dana Ellyn
Hamiltonian Gallery works by James Rieck, Linda Hesh & Youngmi Organ December 13 - January 24 Exhibition featuring James Rieck’s newest series of larger-than-life oil paintings, Linda Hesh’s photographic works documenting recent installations and products used in them, and Youngmi Organ’s delicate drawings constructed from individual strands of her own hair. Including both bold moments and subtleties, each artist presents an idiosyncratic viewpoint on our material world.
Pro Sized, James Rieck
Heineman Myers Contemporary Art Been Around A Long Time Joan Erbe December 14 - January 24 A retrospective featuring recent work and examples of work from each stage of her career. This exhibit includes Erbe’s prints, ceramics and paintings.
Drive-In Theaters & Portraits Hiroshi Sugimoto November 8 - December 20
Hillyer Art Space Known Unknowns Avi Gupta
Kate McDonnell
Sandra Rottmann
Christopher Saah Curated by Amanda Maddox November 7 - December 21 Curated by Amanda Maddox, Assistant Curator of Photography and Media at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Taking its title from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's infamous phrase, the exhibition considers how the medium itself indicates that photographic representations cannot stand as forms of verification.
The Burden of Representation: Contemporary Iranian Photography Mehrdad Afsari Gohar Dashti Farhad Fakhrian Arash Hanaei Mina Momeni Ali Zare November 7 - December 21 New works by six Tehran-based photographers. Each artist combines various techniques within the medium of photography to express the profound and complex sentiments one feels about one's homeland. Through their lenses, we see the humor and tragedy, the tranquility and turbulence, and the fear and security of life in Iran.
International Visions Gallery Palestine: Protest, Paintings, and Prayers Helen Zughaib December 3 - January 17 Helen Zughaib, a native of Lebanon, is inspired by both Middle Eastern and American cultures. Working in gouache, she makes paintings with contemporary imagery, while her use of color, intricate detail and pattern makes reference to her roots in traditional Middle Eastern art. Early this spring she was invited by the U.S. Department of State, as a Cultural Envoy to the West Bank, Palestine. Once there, Helen worked with 12 Palestinian women artists from different villages within the West Bank towards an exhibition based on the themes of hope and vision, especially as seen through women. According to Zughaib, her current exhibition, “Palestine: Protest, Painting and Prayers” focuses on the daunting struggles Palestinian women face daily as well as her impressions of life in West Bank.
My Mothers Touch, Helen Zughaib
Jane Haslem Gallery The Tango in the Park Elaine Treisman December 6 - January 15
The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts Stars and Stripes: Pride and Hope Reinterpreted Curated by Myrtis Bedolla January 7 - January 31 Sixteen Americans of multi-cultural backgrounds present their interpretations on the concept of America and its icons Featured artists: Maya Freelon Asante, Christine Batipps, Susan Brandt, Wesley Clark, Calvin Coleman, Megan Hilderbrant, Cynthia Farrell Johnson, Jeffrey Kent, Ulysses Marshall, Bruce McNeil, Aïdah Aliyah Rasheed, Halide Salam, Desiree Sterbini, Rebecca Waring, Ann Marie Williams and Helen Zughaib.
The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts Visions of Paradise Works of National Geographic's Contemporary Masters November 7 - January 2 Featuring the works of National Geographic's Contemporary Masters: William Albert Allard, Jodi Cobb, David Doubilet, Beverly Joubert, Michael Nichols, Paul Nicklen, Randy Olson, Joel Sartore, and Michael Yamashita
Just Lookin' Gallery New Year - New Visions January 17 - February 1 Curated exhibit showcases more than forty-five new pieces of art from 20 African American and African artists. “The excitement surrounding the inauguration of President Obama inspired many of our artists to explore their personal and family narrative in a new way.” says gallery owner Eileen Berger. “Many of these works have a spirit of optimism, a shared new beginning.” Subjects range from civil rights to abstract modernism, children to urban landscapes – and an extensive range of mediums.
Show includes mixed media pieces by noted expressionist Charly Palmer, collages by Atlanta area artist Najee Dorsey, 3-D quilts from Houston artist Carolyn Crump, expressionistic collage and pencil portraits from Dallas artist Evita Tezeno, pencil realism and by Canadian artist Michael C. Gibson and romantic stylings in acrylic, copper and aluminum by Nashville artist Jamaal Sheats.
Evening Stroll, Carolyn Crump
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Recent Work Jae Ko January 3 - January 31 Jae Ko creates magic with the simplist materials - industrial rolls of Kraft paper, adding machine tape, glue and ink. In large coils that jiggle and drape, the Kraft paper pieces defy their origins. Grouped in colonies, they seem to lounge and watch. The spiraling adding machinne tape and glue sculptures have a different feeling. Their spring loaded twists are full of energy and tension, with a stop motion that seems only temporarily frozen
Jae Ko
McLean Project for the Arts Seeing the Unseen: Light, Shadow and Air Georgia June Goldberg November 6 - December 20 This entire gallery installation focuses on making the invisible visible using etched glass panes, scrim, twine and wind.
Undressed Aimee Helen Koch November 6 - December 20 Dynamic images depict the clothes but not the wearer, erasing the person both literally and metaphorically
Photograms Michael C. Mendez November 6 - December 20 These oversized and arresting photographs use experimental and historical technique
National Academy of Sciences An Iconography of Contagion An Exhibition of 20th- Century Health Posters September 2 - December 19 This exhibition features more than 20 health posters from the 1920s to the 1990s. Covering infectious diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, AIDS, gonorrhea, and syphilis, the posters come from North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
National Gallery of Art Pompeii and the Roman Villa Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples October 19 - March 22 Presents some 150 works of sculpture, painting, mosaic, and luxury arts, most of them created before the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. They include recent discoveries on view in the U.S. for the first time and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Exquisite objects from the richly decorated villas along the shores of the Bay of Naples and from houses in the nearby towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum reveal the breadth and richness of cultural and artistic life, as well as the influence of classical Greece on Roman art and culture in this region.
George de Forest Brush: The Indian Paintings September 14 - January 4 Extraordinary technical skills acquired in Jean-Léon Gérôme’s studio in Paris with firsthand experience living among the Arapahoe, Shoshone, and Crow in Wyoming and Montana, George de Forest Brush (1854/1855–1941) created an important series of paintings of American Indians much celebrated by his contemporaries but rarely seen since.
Homer, Eakins, and Bellows: American Paintings, 1870–1925 August 19 - January 1 This selection of paintings highlights the depth and richness of the Gallery's collection of works by the American masters Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), and George Bellows (1882–1925). Crosscurrents: American and European Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection March 14 - January 1 Some of the most notable paintings from the National Gallery of Art’s American, British, Spanish, and 18th- and early 19th-century French collections
National Museum of Women in the Arts Mary Cassatt: Friends and Family November 21 - January 25 A new exhibition exploring the theme of friendship in Mary Cassatt’s art, and focuses in particular on the artist’s relationships with artists and collectors including Edgar Degas, Louisine Havemeyer, and Electra Havemeyer Webb. Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography October 17 - January 25 This exhibition features the work of two generations of artists whose portraiture, self-portraiture, and narrative photographs have indelibly inflected our understanding of gender and identity over the past 30 years. 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
Four Indian Kings September 12 - January 25 Portraiture Now: Feature Photography November 26 - September 27, 2009 One Life: The Mask of Lincoln November 7 - July 5, 2009
Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers October 24 - June 21, 2009
Women of Our Time: Twentieth Century Photographs October 10 - February 1, 2009
Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture May 8 - February 8, 2009
New Arrivals March 21 - January 25
Permanent Exhibitions America’s Presidents Featuring first chance to view the portraits of President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush commissioned for the National Portrait Gallery. American Origins, 1600-1900 Jo Davidson: Biographer in Bronze Twentieth-Century Americans Bravo Champions
Parish Gallery From Slavery to Freedom: A Tribute to Obama Joyce Owens and Robert Sengstacke January 19 - January 31 An exhibition of two Chicago-based artists, Painter Joyce Owens and Photographer Robert Sengstacke
Parish Gallery Sense of Self Antonio Carreńo December 5 - January 13 An abstract painter born in the Dominican Republic, Antonio’s work reflects the legacy of surrealism in Latin American art which is redefined in the energetic lines and vibrant concepts of his pieces.
The Phillips Collection Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over the River, A Work in Progress October 11 - January 25 Internationally acclaimed artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude are preparing to suspend silvery fabric panels horizontally over the Arkansas River in Colorado. Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Over the River, A Work in Progress will trace the development of this ambitious project over the last 16 years, featuring approximately 200 items such as preparatory collages and drawings, photographs, technical diagrams, maps, and fabric panels with the hardware that will anchor them.
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.
Project 4 Accumulation December 11 - January 17 Margaret Boozer Margaret Boozer approaches ceramics with an eye for painting and a mind for experimentation. She encourages clay's physical properties to express themselves in unpredictable manifestations of cause and effect. Drying, warping, cracking - small studio processes echo large geologic events as clay reclaims its origin as earth. Boozer disguises her hand underneath clay's distortions, then claims authorship with carefully orchestrated compositions driven by the randomness of the result. The work is unexpectedly recognizable as a variety of subject matter that crosses genres between representation and abstraction, painting and sculpture
Detail from Night Landscape is Often Obscured by Other Things
R Street Gallery Ceramics: Art & Craft Steven Lapin December 5 - January 3 A selection of his ceramic wall sculptures and functional ceramics including bowls, platters, lamps and cups are included in this Holiday exhibit.
Tea for One, Steven Lapin
Raandesk @ Muleh Art and Design at Muleh Jeff Huntington Robert Kent Wilson Ned MacFadden Heather Levy January 8 - January 25
Papillion, Heather Levy
Randall Scott Gallery Quasi-Painting Works by Young, Mid-Atlantic Artists Curated by Cara Ober December 13 - January 10 Exhibit featuring Sarah Gamble, Isabel Manalo, Patrick McDonough, Nikki Painter, Alex Roulette, Amy Sherald, Julie Simon, Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, and Sarah Wilmer "In Quasi-Painting, I have chosen to nine emerging artists together, not necessarily because they make artwork with paint, but because they share a painterly sensibility, expressed nine different ways." - Cara Ober
Alex Roulette
Smithsonian American Art Museum Lino Tagliapietra in Retrospect: A Modern Renaissance in Glass Now through January 11 The first exhibition to thoroughly examine the art of Lino Tagliapietra (b. 1934), widely revered as a master of glass blowing and credited with changing the course of contemporary studio glass through his teaching. Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities Now through January 4 This exhibition, the first to pair these artists, celebrates their mutual appreciation of the natural world and reveals the visual connections between O'Keeffe's paintings and Adams' photographs.The exhibition includes forty-two paintings from public and private collections and fifty-four photographs
Space 7:10 at Kefa Cafe Double Visions Sharon Burton Sherry Burton Ways November 18 - January 5 collages and mixed media art
Studio Gallery Artomatic Artists Curated by Ellyn Weiss January 7 - January 31 Exhibit featuring paintings, sculpture, installation, poetry and music by 2008 Artomatic artists. Feature the following artists: Erin Antognoli Kanchan Balse Joan Belmar BRASH Gregory Ferrand Pat Goslee Genna Gurvich Brian Hamill Kate Hardy Peter Harper Leila Holtsman Brie Husted Joanna Knox Tracy Lee Laurel Lukaszewski Laura Peery Fabián H. Ríos Rubino Luba Sterlikova Veronica Szalus Novie Trump
Authentic Cadence, Pat Goslee
Studio Gallery One Big, One Small members group exhibit November 26 - January 3 Featuring painting, collage, sculpture, photography and works in mixed media. Artists exhibiting include Andrew Acquadro, Matt Carucci, Chris Chernow, Fulvia Musti Ciarla, Jacqui Crocetta, Amy Davis, Kofi Dofour, Phyllis Evans, Nancy Frankel, Suzanne Goldberg, Thierry Guillemin, Bud Hensgen, Cynthia Jawitz-Brower, Brian Kirk, Micheline Klagsbrun, Yvette Kraft, Andrea Kraus, Katya Kronick, Freda Lee-McCann, Harriet Lesser, Joyce McCarten, Sam Noto, Philippe Mougne, Carol Rubin, Scott Speck, Langley Spurlock, Elena Stamberg, Roberta Thole, Gabriel Thy, Stan Wenocur, Joyce Ellen Weinstein, Brian Williams, Cedric Williams, Suzanne Yurdin, Carol Zilliacus
The Temple, Scott Speck
Takoma Park Community Center The Cranial Vault: Artifacts and Impressions Developed and curated by Tom Roberts and Amy Kincaid November 3 - December 31 Souvenirs, Enhanced and Altered Medical Imagery, Commissioned Artwork, and Interaction
Touchstone Gallery Small Works: Small Prices Touchstone Members Group Exhibition December 10 - January 3 With approximately 150 pieces of art, the exhibition features works up to 24 square inches, and priced at $500 or less. The artwork includes pottery, photography, prints, paintings, and sculpture. Artists participating: Steve Alderton, Mari DeMaris, Betsy Forster, Marcia Coppel, Michele Cormier, Leslie A. Johnston, Carolyn Johnson, Peter Karp, Harvey Kupferberg, Michael Lang, Paula Lantz, Lauren Shea Little, Rosemary Luckett, Teresa Roberts Logan, Newton S. More, Aina Nergaard Nammack, Nancy Novick, Mary D. Ott, Charles St. Charles, Michelle Rogers, Rima Schulkind, Mary Trent Scott, Janathel Shaw, Dina Volkova, Janet Wheeler, Harriet Rosenbaum, Jonathan Wassom, Melissa Widerkehr, Cynthia Young.
Peter Karp
Washington Printmakers Gallery Journey along the Underground Railroad Joseph Holston December 2 - December 28 New Etchings
Sun Warms the Freemen
Washington Project for the Arts When Absence Becomes Presence curated by Sonja Simonyi + Niels Van Tomme November 20 - December 23 An exhibition that explores the play between two separate, but linked conditions of absence and presence, and which reflects upon the very nature of time based media. Curators Sonja Simonyi + Niels Van Tomme have selected a staggering variety of experimental artworks that include sound art, music, literary readings, video art, as well as a mysterious sound recording. Artworks from: Herman Asselberghs, The Conet Project, Paul Chan, Martin Creed, Andrea Geyer, Ibro Hasanovic, Miranda July, Damir Niksic, and Douglas Ross
Herman Asselberghs, “Futur Antérieur,” image copyright Jonathan Gröge
Washington Printmakers Gallery Indefinite States of Emergency Helen Frederick December 30 - January 25 Prints For this body of work, Frederick has assembled various repeatable matrices to create a series of images and textural information linked together by visual metaphors and layering. The works refer to endangerment, genocide, loss and surveillance. The images come from her personal visual vocabulary, but they reflect memories and current concerns that are part of our collective experience. Mushroom clouds speak to Cold War fears and current headlines. The silhouettes of monitors are reminiscent of old television screens and today’s computers. The diagram of a girl repetitively bowing down illustrates traditional acts of submission, and is reenacted in a contemporary photo of a woman in a movement (“mudra”) that may signify common labor or yogic activity. These visual metaphors, already pregnant with significance, become ever more elaborate messages as they are combined and layered together. As the girl and the woman reach down to the earth we see the turmoil alive below the surface and how this weight is impressed upon us through saturation of the media in our environment.
Helen Frederick
Zenith Gallery Zenith for Real Group Show December 5 - January 25 A vivid mix of painting and sculpture by Drew Ernst, Donna McCullough, Robert C. Jackson and other realist artists whose works vary from tight and precise to atmospheric, dark, oxymoronic, quirky and whimsical. Includes dresses made from oil cans, depictions of urban life and poignant portraits of isolation, grand gesture and unexpected juxtapositions. more
High-Dive, Robert C. Jackson
Workhouse Arts Center 2nd Annual Small Works Exhibition November 26 - January 4 Features original 8 X 10 works of art created by the members of the Workhouse Artists Association especially for this exhibition. This show will provide the opportunity to view and purchase a wide selection of small works priced for collecting and gift giving. more
Rio Entertainment Glorious Palette Anabela Ferguson January 20 - January 25
Huntsman Square Mall Getting Ready For Spring 2009 Anabela Ferguson February 10 - February 22
