Adam Lister Gallery Delicacies Group Show December 17 - January 9 Artwork from Gallery artists and participants in the Studio Art Program and Figure Painting Group. Artists include: Adam Lister, Craig Hill, Jacobe Noonan, JAMIN, Seth Haverkamp, & Stephanie Rivers
Untitled, Craig Hill
Addison Ripley No Edition: Painterly Prints Lou Stovall December 11 - January 22 Exhibit of recent unique silkscreens. Works that display the full range of the artist's extraordinary imagination and technical accomplishment. These works show Stovall as a true heir to the groundbreaking work of the Washington Color School and a ceaseless innovator in his own right.
New Work Dickson Carroll January 29 - March 5 This exhibit, featuring a series of abstract wall pieces, incorporating mirrors, brings together the architect and artist, the craftsman and dreamer
Intersection, Dickson Carroll
Alliance Francais Home-Landscapes, Works from California, the East Coast and France Charley de Limur November 12 - January 10 Charley de Limur lives and works in Calistoga, California where he concentrates primarily on landscape painting using oils and pastels. Born in San Francisco, he spent eight years of his childhood in Paris, France where his first-hand exposure to the Impressionists had a lasting influence on his own style.
American Painting Fine Art Small Treasures December 4 - January 15 Exhibition of over 100 small scale works in oil, acrylics, watercolors, pastel, mixed media and hand-pulled prints. Participating artists include Washington Society of Landscape Painters, gallery artists and guest artists.
Paris Flower Shop, Bill Schmidt
Arlington Arts Center Party Crashers Comic Culture Invades the Art World November 19 - January 16 A two venue show (Arlington Arts Center and Artisphere) with the two independent halves showing different types of work. The Artisphere venue features fine artists who mimic the appearance of comic art. The Arlington Arts Center show contains alternative comic artists who also show their original pages and drawings in art galleries, fine and comic artists working side-by-side on a national curated project (Creative Time Comics) and fine and comic artists creating avante-garde, purely abstract sequential art without words or recognizable imagery.
Character Mash-ups, Jim Rugg
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Gods of Angkor: Bronzes from the National Museum of Cambodia May 15 - January 23 The fascinating story of bronze sculpture and casting in Cambodia is revealed through thirty-six exceptional works. Magnificent examples dating from the prehistoric period to the post-Angkorian period (third century BCE to sixteenth century CE) present the origins, uses, and techniques of bronze casting and the development of a distinctly Cambodian style.
Gods of Angkor
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Fiona Tan: Rise and Fall September 25 - January 16 This exhibition of photographs and videos by Fiona Tan, who was born in Indonesia in 1966 and now lives in Amsterdam, is the first major presentation of her work in the United States. Tan's installations deftly meld the past with the present in profoundly evocative works that explore the power of images in constructing memories and histories. Whether drawing on old photographs, seventeenth-century Dutch painting, or nineteenth-century architecture, her conceptual and aesthetic approach adds a compelling dimension to understanding Asian art and culture in the world today.
The Changeling, 2006 (still), two-channel digital installation
Brentwood Arts Exchange Impressed: New Visions in Printmaking December 5 - January 25 Art work developed in recent years by printmaking students in the Art Department at the University of Maryland's flagship campus in Prince George's County.
Canadian Embassy Art Gallery Nipirasait: Many Voices Kenojuak Ashevak Mayoreak Ashoona Suvinai Ashoona Kavavaow Mannomee Ohotaq Mikkigak Tim Pitsiulak Itee Pootoogook Kananginak Pootoogook Pitaloosie Saila Ningeokuluk Teevee July 1 - December 30 James A. Houston introduced printmaking to the north in the late 1950s, and Terry Ryan succeeded him soon thereafter to foster an innovative arts community of Inuit printmakers and stone carvers.
Today, notable artists of an older generation work alongside those younger to depict the power and beauty of the natural world, as well as town and camp life, traditional Inuit stories and mythic creatures, and, more recently, influences from the south. Living in such a harsh environment, these artists pay close attention to and respect the forces of nature, but their work also illustrates at times a certain lyricism in the portrayal of humans and animals with their surroundings.
Like many aspects of life in Cape Dorset, printmaking is a highly communal and collaborative endeavor. Skilled printmakers translate artists' drawings into stonecuts, lithographs, etchings and aquatints, and serigraphs. These original limited-edition prints are subsequently made available in annual collections to individuals, museums, and galleries around the world.
Tuulirijuag (Greet Big Loon), Mayoreak Ashoona
Carroll Square Gallery Artwork by Tracy's Kids December 3 - January 7 Tracy's Kids Art Therapy Program helps young cancer patients and their families cope with the emotional stress and trauma of cancer and its treatment. The mission is to ensure that the children and families are emotionally equipped to fight cancer as actively as possible - and prepared for the time when they are cancer free. Tracy's Kids uses art therapy to engage with young patients, their siblings and parents so that they can express feelings and reflect on their treatment experiences
Untitled, Bridget Ibid
City Gallery Leaves, Words and Screens Ronnie Spiewak January 2 - January 29 "Collage has always been a satisfying vehicle for expressing my ideas and emotions. Scissors and exacto blades are among my most coveted tools, serving in effect, as my paintbrushes. They help create lines and shapes quickly and crisply giving the work the energy I seek. I am most comfortable when I'm tearing, cutting and pasting paper onto paper. Paper also has a 3-dimensional quality that I'm constantly exploring. Glossy black ink-saturated magazine paper sings. The color, plainness and usefulness of brown paper give it an earthy quality." - Ronnie Spiewak Color and Shape Nancy Donnelly Jill Finsen February 5 - February 26 Showcases
Nancy Donnelly's elegant glass art and Jill Finsen's whimsically primitive
paintings executed in oil paint.
Diversity, Ronnie Spiewak
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
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition Juror: Andrea Pollan January 26 - February 13
Gypsy Switch, 2010 Robert Irwin Through March 6
My Business, with the Cloud Spencer Finch Through January 23
Red Rectangle, Gene Davis
Corner Store Gallery 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
Binding Threads Group Show February 5 - February 28
Curators Office Foto Baroque Victoria F. Gaitan & Cecilia Paredes November 10 - January 8 Both photographers in this exhibition seduce the viewer with a wealth of rich color, ornamentation, and drama associated with traditional baroque style. The artists draw the viewer into a lush personal landscape that is alluring at first but far from Eden. The women inhabiting these images want us to examine the strained identities embedded within their lovely facades
Paradise, Cecilia Paredes, 2009
Del Ray Artisans Baby, It's Cold Outside Member Show Curator: Connie Springer Zabowski January 7 - January 30 An art show to celebrate all things good and bad about winter.
Love Letters Group Show February 4 - February 27 A collection of love-inspired artworks paired with artist's love letters
Gallery 50 Small Works Group Show December 10 - January 6 Highlighting works by Bernardo Siles, John Alan Nyber, Gerardus Jilesen and Constance Costigan
2007-259.05, Bernardo Siles
Foundry Gallery Situations Made Visible Nancy Donnelly December 1 - January 11 Nancy Donnelly's glass sculptures all in one way or another address issues of what it is like to be female, in this world, and living now. Clothed or nude, male or female, even pieces that don't show a human being at all, they all express the situation of having a certain age, a certain gender, a certain stance and attitude. Wall labels will help explain matters, both in cartoons and in words.
Celebrate Gay Marriage Group Show Co-Curator: Dr. Jonathan Katz January 5 - January 30 Art work of artists selected from an "Open Call for Entries" in recognition and celebration of DC's passage of the same-sex marriage bill.
The Lovers, Michael Janis - Celebrate Gay Marriage
Foundry Gallery Celebrate Gay Marriage Group Show Co-Curator: Dr. Jonathan Katz January 5 - January 30 Art work of artists selected from an "Open Call for Entries" in recognition and celebration of DC's passage of the same-sex marriage bill.
Feb Four Wayne Johnson Judy Gilbert-Lewey Julia Latein-Kimming Tania Meski February 2 - February 27 New paintings
The Lovers, Michael Janis - Celebrate Gay Marriage
Hamiltonian Gallery holding up Magnolia Laurie going home Jon Bobby Benjamin December 11 - January 15 In her new series, holding up, Magnolia Laurie illustrates geometric structures that depict cumulated residual heaps of natural and man-made materials that remain after a storm. Seemingly disordered, her paintings are composed of architectural elements that suggest the engineering of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion as well as the intricate weaving of bird nests. These delicate, precarious systems in Magnolia Laurie's paintings speak of endurance, survival, the activity of dwelling and "making-do."
Jon Bobby Benjamin's new work, going home, reflects his physical exploration of the natural world. Benjamin creates sculptural amalgamations of familiar industrial materials and found maritime objects. Consisting of buoys, docks, channel markers, and tide bells, Benjamin creates systems that are seemingly inaccessible and unreadable. These irrational arrangements distill a sense of timelessness, placeless-ness, and solitude.
Magnolia Laurie
Hillyer Art Space Kyan Bishop January 7 - January 28 Sculpture and installation work built by creating accumulations of simple, yet expressive forms that seek to provide an enriched understanding of the human experience. Southern Aperture Leah Appel January 7 - January 28 The images in the Southern Aperture exhibition are shot with a Holga camera, darkroom printed, then toned with an antique process called Berg printing to give them the earth colors that embody both the beauty and grittiness of the real South.
Dispersed Members Show Curator: Barbara Liotta January 7 - January 28 Showcases the work of Ellen Weiss, Lauren Kotkin, and Craig Kraft.
Monstrous Jessika Tarr February 4 - February 25 Emerging from the dark yet whimsical world of children's literature, Jessika Tarr's exhibition features works that are both narrative and theatrical. Just as German story books combine dark and provocative themes with seemingly innocent illustrations, her works contain a tension between content and style. While overtly signifying fear itself, much of her imagery alludes to the subconscious and collective fantastical, exploring the aesthetics of surrealism and dreams.
Clouds InFormation Helen Glazer February 4 - February 25
Monstrous, Jessika Tarr
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Guillermo Kuitca: Everything-Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008 October 21 - January 16 Examining the artist's continuing development between 1980 and 2008, the show presents the spectrum of Kuitca's thirty-five year career, from early pieces inspired by his experience in theater, with titles often drawn from music, to recent complex abstractions that evoke the history of modern painting.
Directions: Pipilotti Rist Select screenings in October The fantastical narrative of Rist's feature debut is reminiscent of fairy tales and the Beatles' cinematic romps, and the power of color to liberate and inspire is as key to the film's plot as the actions of the eccentric characters.
Milk Run, James Turrell
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ColorForms March 11 - January 2 This selection of artworks from the Hirshhorn's collection, along with several paintings on loan from the National Gallery's renowned Mark Rothko holdings, date from the post-war era to the present and demonstrate color's inimitable capacity to evoke spatial structures as well as more elusive effects. Works by Wolfgang Laib, James Turrell, and Paul Sharits, respectively, share a mesmerizing blend of color and abstract form. These pieces, along with a linear yarn sculpture by Fred Sandback, a spherical sculpture by Anish Kapoor, and luminous paintings by Mark Rothko, come together in ColorForms to explore the ways in which color remains an essential tool for artists, regardless of medium.
Guillermo Kuitca: Everything-Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008 October 21 - January 16 Examining the artist's continuing development between 1980 and 2008, the show presents the spectrum of Kuitca's thirty-five year career, from early pieces inspired by his experience in theater, with titles often drawn from music, to recent complex abstractions that evoke the history of modern painting.
Directions: Pipilotti Rist Select screenings in October The fantastical narrative of Rist's feature debut is reminiscent of fairy tales and the Beatles' cinematic romps, and the power of color to liberate and inspire is as key to the film's plot as the actions of the eccentric characters.
Milk Run, James Turrell
Holy Cross Hospital Art Gallery The Recycled Art Project Anne Cherubim October 24 - January 15 New works constructed from older work from 20+ years ago.
Recycled Bookmark (detail)
International Visions Gallery Rhythmic Pulse Yaw Obuobi December 17 - January 22 Intricate yarn collages depict the evolution of culture in rhythm as reflected in the soul of Ghana's people
The Shekere Song, Yaw Abuobi
Just Lookin' Gallery Ethereal Echoes Eli Kince December 11 - January 9 Evolving over the last decade, this series by Eli Kince explores the complexities of human experience. A master of visual metaphor; Eli blurs the line between reality and the metaphysical, engaging the viewer to take a journey into the unobserved world around us. Using bold verticality to create metamorphic urban landscapes, Kince then expresses the solitude of the shadows. Bodies and faces emerge, part of each other yet somehow isolated from the swarm. Upon closer observation, shadows seemingly form parts of other faces. One is left to wonder, is this a comment on the connectedness of the human race? At first glance several of the paintings in Ethereal Echoes appear to be simple abstracts. These atmospheric and moody works come alive as Kince's use of luminous color and repetition lead the eye into the enigmatic sub-consciousness beyond the surface.
Wizard
Long View Gallery New Work Paula Crawford December 9 - January 16 Several years ago, on the threshold of an unusual sickness, Paula Crawford began painting walls of spherical forms. When she was finally diagnosed with Hepatitis C, her doctor showed her an image of the cells causing the disease. They were clustered spheres-almost identical to what she had been painting.
Rivercells, Paula Crawford
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Photographs Jim Sanborn Prints Anish Kapoor Drawings Gene Davis December 10 - January 15
Untitled, Anish Kapoor
McLean Project for the Arts Figuration Today: The Surrealist Influence December 2 - January 8 Figuration Today takes a critical look at contemporary figuration and the significant influence of surrealism on the genre. Independent curator and instructor at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Rula Jones brings together a group of artists including Gowri Savoor, Billy Colbert, David Fox, Ian Jehle, and Jenny Laden and Lorene Taurerewa.
Amalgamate Cindy Neushwander December 2 - January 8 Paintings
Fleeting Images Stephanie George December 2 - January 8 Monoprints
The Swing, Lorene Taurerewa
Mezz Gallery @ Artisphere Fields and Networks Alice Whealin November 16 - January 8 A series of ink drawings that reflect spatially both an expansive universe and small areas of function.
Alice Whealin
National Gallery of Art Arcimboldo, 1526-1593: Nature and Fantasy September 19 - January 9 Sixteen examples of the fantastic composite heads painted by Giuseppe Arcimboldo are featured in this exhibition, their first appearance in the United States. Bizarre yet scientifically accurate, the unusual heads are composed of plants, animals, and objects. Additional works, including drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Durer, small bronzes, illustrated books and manuscripts, and ceramics, provide a context for Arcimboldo's inventions, revealing his debt to established traditions of physiognomic and nature studies.
American Modernism: The Shein Collection May 16 - January 2, 2011 This exhibition explores the advent of modernism a century ago through twenty important paintings, sculptures, and drawings by the first-generation American avant-garde. Among the artists represented are Patrick Henry Bruce, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, John Storrs, and Max Weber. From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection January 31 - January 2, 2011 One of America's most important collections of French painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the masterpieces on view are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Forest of Fontainebleau (1834), Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering Can (1876), Mary Cassatt's Boating Party (1893/1894), Edouard Manet's Old Musician, Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques (1905), and George Bellows' Blue Morning (1909). Other artists represented include Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Claude Monet In the Tower: Mark Rothko
February 21 - January 2, 2011
Four Seasons in One Head, c. 1589-1591, Giuseppe Arcimboldo
National Museum of Women in the Arts Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut September 10 - January 16 The exhibition presents 22 artists' books, collage-poems, book-objects and object-poems by Italian artist Elisabetta Gut (b. 1934). Her visual poetry is inspired by her dreams, memories, and love for music and poetry.
The Phillips Collection Side by Side: Oberlin Masterworks at the Phillips September 11 - January 16 Twenty-five significant works from the rich collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin are presented with selections from the Phillips's permanent collection, creating new artistic conversations in provocative juxtapositions. Many of these works have not left the Allen in half a century and include paintings by artists in the modernist tradition - such as Paul Cezanne, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Claude Monet, and Mark Rothko - as well as significant works by Hendrick ter Brugghen, Peter Paul Rubens, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, among others.
David Smith Invents February 12 - May 15 This exhibition of works from the early 1950s through the early 1960s features approximately seven sculptures, including Bouquet of Concaves (1959), a recent gift and the first Smith sculpture to enter The Phillips Collection, along with the artist’s photographs of his sculpture, works on paper, and paintings.
Philip Guston, Roma February 12 - May 15 This exhibition of nearly 40 paintings is the first to examine the seminal work Guston completed while he was artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1970-71. During this Italian sojourn, his third and last, Guston continued to develop pared-down forms organized into unconventional narrative systems that provoked new directions in his late paintings.
Site-Specific Work Sam Gilliam January 29 - April 24 Internationally recognized artist Sam Gilliam creates a site-specific work for the museum’s signature, elliptical staircase.
Pantheon, Philip Guston
The Phillips Collection TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845 - 1945 October 9 - January 9 Like impressionism, which challenged the traditions of painting, pictorialism expanded the possibilities of photography beyond the literal description of a subject. Pictorialist photographers produced some of the most spectacular photographs in the history of the medium and influenced subsequent developments in modernist photography. Comprising over 120 photographs, this exhibition retraces pictorialism's beginnings with the experiments of Hill and Adamson and Julia Margaret Cameron; through its mastery by Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Kasebier, and Alvin Langdon Coburn; to its lasting legacy in early works by Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham.
Coburn and the Photographic Portfolio October 9 - January 9 Sixteen photographs by American expatriate Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 - 1966), one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century, are featured in TruthBeauty. A related display of Coburn's book illustrations, produced between 1904 and 1954 and recently acquired by the Phillips, includes selections from his innovative work in the celebrated portfolios London (1909) and New York (1910), along with illustrations for books by H.G. Wells and Henry James.
Side by Side: Oberlin Masterworks at the Phillips September 11 - January 16 Twenty-five significant works from the rich collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin are presented with selections from the Phillips's permanent collection, creating new artistic conversations in provocative juxtapositions. Many of these works have not left the Allen in half a century and include paintings by artists in the modernist tradition - such as Paul Cezanne, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Claude Monet, and Mark Rothko - as well as significant works by Hendrick ter Brugghen, Peter Paul Rubens, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, among others.
David Smith Invents February 12 - May 15 This exhibition of works from the early 1950s through the early 1960s features approximately seven sculptures, including Bouquet of Concaves (1959), a recent gift and the first Smith sculpture to enter The Phillips Collection, along with the artist’s photographs of his sculpture, works on paper, and paintings.
Philip Guston, Roma February 12 - May 15 This exhibition of nearly 40 paintings is the first to examine the seminal work Guston completed while he was artist-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome in 1970-71. During this Italian sojourn, his third and last, Guston continued to develop pared-down forms organized into unconventional narrative systems that provoked new directions in his late paintings.
Site-Specific Work Sam Gilliam January 29 - April 24 Internationally recognized artist Sam Gilliam creates a site-specific work for the museum’s signature, elliptical staircase.
Garden of the Princess, Claude Monet, Louvre, 1867
Space 7:10 Girls Gotta Run Foundation Contributing Artists December 14 - January 11 The Girls Gotta Run Foundation (GGRF) is an all volunteer charitable organization founded in 2006 to raise money to provide support for impoverished Ethiopian girls who are training to be professional runners.
Studio Gallery The Magic of the Melting Pot: Immigration in America Group Show January 5 - January 29 Painters, Pacifists, Revolutionists and Dreamers have all contributed to the beauty of Art and Culture in America. Studio Gallery applauds the unique American spirit in this show featuring the diverse work of artists all informed or influenced by the immigrant experience. Artists featured include: Shahla Arbabi, Joan Belmar, Jon Benjamin, Graham Boyle, Susan Cho, Natalie Guerrieri, Esther Hidalgo, Juan Hernandez, Linda Hesh, Cesar Maxit, Favianna Rodriguez, Lou Stovall, Aniekan Udofia, Solomon Wondimu
New Work Steve Fleming February 2 - February 26 Watercolorist and painter Steve Fleming exhibits new work based on recent travels and landscapes.
Duo Show Trix Kuijper Elena Stamberg February 2 - February 26 Multimedia and Surrealist paintings
Steve Fleming
Touchstone Gallery Off-Kilter Leslie M. Nolan January 5 - January 30 Color drenched figurative paintings capture the uncertainties of our world.
Color of Love 50 Artists February 4 - February 27 Member show featuring interpretations on the theme, "color of love".
Woman Waiting, Newton More
Washington Printmakers Gallery 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.
Excellence in Printmaking Juried by Katherine Blood February 2 - February 27 Washington Printmakers Gallery has partnered with the Washington Print Club and the Washington Print Foundation to award the Excellence in Printmaking prize to area college students. 40 prints were selected, out of 100 submitted, for the exhibition.
Marcus Aurelius, Simon Brett
The Workhouse Arts Center 3rd Annual New Works Exhibition Faculty, Students & Staff January 12 - January 29
Zenith Gallery Universe Anne Marchand Craig Schaffer November 17 - January 28 Exhibition of paintings by Anne Marchand and sculpture by Craig Schaffer
