Aaron Gallery Seen Two Ways Linda St. Clair Ruth Ava Lyons May 7 - June 27 Paintings
Adam Lister Gallery Brave New World Juried Group Exhibition June 4 - July 18 Exhibition showcases a selection of emerging artists from around the world. Works in painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and installation are featured. Artists: David Barr, Jennifer Bock-Nelson, Amy Boone-McCreesh, Amy Chen, Travis Childers, Sean Donlon, Kim Hennessy, Craig Hill, Jessica Jastrzebski, Robert Kincheloe, David Livingston, Todd Messegee, Jacobe Noonan, Sarah D. Samuels, Tamara Staser-Meltzer, Nils Henrik Sundqvist, Crystal Wagner, Jason Wallengren , Ashley Wells , Ann Williams
Nighttime, Jessica Jastrzebski
Addison Ripley Fine Art Here & There - Then & Now John Morrell June 12 - July 17 Landscapes The work presents vistas from New York, Rhode Island, Maine, Washington, DC, Canada and France in climates ranging from high summer to frigid mid-winter. The effects of light and wind, shadow and reflection are often the subjects of these paintings. Subtle tones and augmented ones play on Morrell's canvases and works on paper. These new works are at once familiar and surprisingly fresh; they explore the lessons of the great American landscape painters and, at the same time, feel rooted firmly in the present.
Rocky Point, John Morrell
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Particular Voices Portraits of Gay and Lesbian Jewish Writers Robert Giard May 23 - July 25 Robert Giard (1939-2002) was a portrait, landscape and figure photographer, with a special focus on portraiture of gay and lesbian writers. This exhibition was culled from Giard's collection of over 600 photographs taken of LGBT writers over the course of his career and includes portraits of Allen Ginsburg, Tony Kushner and Adrienne Rich.
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.
Enigmatic Views of Chinese Landscape Explore the Passage of Time Hai Bo March 27 - November 8 Five large-scale photographs by the Chinese artist Hai Bo. The photographs are the latest installment in the Sackler's contemporary series, "Perspectives," which focuses on the work of leading contemporary artists from Asia and the Asian diaspora and bridges the gap between the traditional, often separate, roles played by Asian art museums and modern art galleries.
City Gallery Out at Night Gayle Krughoff June 5 - June 26 Photographs
Conner Contemporary Nobody Rides for Free Janet Biggs Source Mary Coble May 15 - July 3 In new video and photographs, Biggs delves into the desire to explore remote lands. To create this work, the artist embarked on an expedition in the high Arctic, traveling aboard an ice-class, 2-masted schooner, built in 1910. During the voyage, Biggs filmed Fade to White, focusing on a crew member as he navigated the ship through iceberg filled seas, and paddled a kayak past glacier walls and polar bears
In Source, Coble presents three new videos, mixed media work, and a live endurance performance (to occur in the gallery courtyard during the exhibition opening). In all of these pieces, Coble addresses themes of purification and renewal in actions focused on the element of water. In her videos, the artist explores subjective states of uncertainty and futility. In her performance, she will raise social awareness about water quality and availability in the local and global communities. The exhibition demonstrates the depth and dimension of Coble's art, which ranges from personal introspection to experience shared through public interaction.
Fade to White, Janet Biggs
Corcoran Gallery of Art Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration July 3 - September 12 For over 30 years, renowned American portraitist Chuck Close has explored the art of printmaking, experimenting with innovative techniques that test and advance the limits of the medium. Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, which includes more than 100 finished images, proofs, and objects, is the first survey to consider this important artist's extensive and groundbreaking work in the field.
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change April 10 - July 18 Best known for his groundbreaking studies of animal and human locomotion, 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge was also an innovative landscape artist and pioneer of documentary subjects.
American Falls: Phil Solomon April 10 - July 18 A Commission for the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. American Falls is a new multimedia installation by acclaimed experimental filmmaker Phil Solomon, commissioned by the Corcoran for the museum's grand Rotunda. American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Ongoing
Selections from the Collection of Historic American Art Ongoing
Eadweard Muybridge, First-Order Light-house at Punta de los Reyes, Seacoast of California, 296 Feet Above Sea
Curators Office Mixology II: Photography & Photo-Based Work A Benefit Exhibition and Sale for Doctors Without Borders (MSF) July 9 - July 24 Curator's Office is covering the gallery walls with photography & photo-based work to help out Doctors Without Borders / Medecins Sans Frontieres. The goal is to raise at least $5,000, which could pay for an emergency health kit to care for 10,000 displaced people for three months
Austria 16, Spencer Tunick
Curators Office The Feeling of What Happens Kathryn Cornelius May 14 - June 26
Del Ray Artisans Global Rhythm July 2 - July 18 Juried exhibition that celebrates the global inspiration of the culture, people, and artistic vision of foreign lands.
District of Columbia Arts Center Facts and Fictions Curated by Blair Murphy Featuring work by Rob Chester Chajana denHarder Todd Gardener Joseph Hale Chandi Kelley Matt Smith Dafna Steinberg June 18 - July 18 Featuring work by the seven new members of DCAC's Sparkplug artist collective, Facts and Fictions highlights the tension between the real and the constructed, between the production of elaborate fictions and the documentation of a seemingly concrete reality. Working in painting, photography and mixed media, the artists in the exhibition blur the boundaries between documentation and creation.
Durant Center Light & Color Nhora Osorio November 3 - June 30
Fraser Gallery The Bethesda Painting Awards June 1 - June 26 Annual juried painting competition, honoring artists from D.C, Maryland and Virgina
Freer Gallery of Art Cornucopia: Ceramics from Southern Japan through January 9, 2011 Comprises over 100 porcelain and stoneware vessels that vividly represent an era of highly diverse and accomplished ceramic production on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan
Surface Beauty: American Art and Freer's Aesthetic Vision Dwight Tryon (1849-1903) and Thomas Dewin (1851-1938) When Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), the Detroit industrialist and founder of the Freer Gallery of Art, began to collect contemporary American paintings in the early 1890s, he concentrated on a small group of artists-most notably Dewing and Tryon-whose interest in surface beauty resonated with the work of Whistler, the expatriate American whose work had already attracted Freer's interest. By the turn of the century, Freer's focus would shift to Asia, but his interest in tonal, textured surfaces remained constant, allowing him to establish "points of contact" between his Asian and American collections. "Surface Beauty" includes 12 paintings and seven pieces of Pewabic pottery
Freer + Whistler: Points of Contact "Points of Contact" includes some 23 oil paintings, representing a choice selection from the more than 1,300 paintings, prints and drawings by Whistler in the Freer Gallery of Art. The works on view were chosen to exemplify both Freer's philosophy of collecting and Whistler's own self-conscious synthesis of Western and Asian artistic traditions. Highlights include a sequence of views of the Thames from Whistler's Chelsea residence in London.
Caprice in Purple and Gold: The Golden Screen, James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903),United States, 1864, Painting; oil on wood panel, Freer Gallery of Art.
Freer Gallery of Art The Texture of Night James McNeill Whistler June 6 - June 2010 Exhibition of paintings by American artist James McNeill Whistler. Nocturnes, the term Whistler applied to his nearly abstract moonlit landscapes, represent his signature contribution to nineteenth-century art. Inverting the plein-air principles of the French impressionists, Whistler created a series of works in which darkness, rather than light, structures the visual image. According to the artist's mother, one particularly luminous summer evening in 1871 inspired Whistler's first painting of London after dark. Over the course of the decade he produced more than thirty oil paintings with this theme. He subsequently expanded his exploration of urban darkness in London, Venice, and Amsterdam through the use of lithography, watercolor, and above all, etching to document and transform the texture of night.
Gallery Plan b Portrait of a Road Tattoo Projects by Steed Taylor June 23 - July 25 Highlighting this exhibition will be installations of several completed Road Tattoos by Steed Taylor. Each display will include text from the prayers used in the blessing, sketches of the design, and photos of the project. The installations will be accompanied with other works in various media on the same theme.
Gallery 50 Photo One2 Group Show June 11 - July 12 This is the gallery's second annual photographic exhibition. On display are works by nine photographers each using different photographic techniques. This includes works ranging from digital and gelatin silver prints to tin-type, encaustic, mixed media, and van dyke brown prints. Artists include Lisa Tyson Ennis, Philip Gutman, Cheryl Pickles Kinion, Rob Larson, Kendall Messick, Jim Mott, Duane Rieder, and Harold Ross
Mrs. Robinson, Kendall Messick
Glenview Mansion Art Gallery Jean Barnes Downs Rona Eisner Katie Dell Kaufman Sally Giarrantana June 6 - July 6 Prints, digital art, water colors, collage, assemblage, drawing and ceramics by these four artists
Hamiltonian Gallery Private Practice: Bad Ideas, Dead Ends and Guilty Pleasures Curated by David Page June 19 - July 17
Hillyer Art Space Paint is Paint, Surface is Surface Ben Ferry June 4 - June 26 Ferry has always been fascinated with the varying physical characteristics of paint media and exploring the divergent ways in which the pigmented material reacts with different surfaces. He will present a mix of his forays, especially those into oil and watercolor painting. Once a professional soccer player with DC United, Ferry fell back into artistic pursuits after a major injury prematurely ended his professional sports career
Original Position Judith Peck June 4 - June 26
Honfleur Gallery Objectified Colleen Heinman Jeanne Jo Robert Longyear Andrea Miller Curated by Islay Taylor June 4 - July 23
Industry Gallery If I Told You One Time... Chris Rucker May 15 - July 3 Features 10 limited edition works and one installation.
Long View Gallery The Dance Before the Kill Anna Davis June 3 - July 1 In her first exhibition of works on paper, "The Dance before the Kill," Anna Davis continues her investigation of contemporary feminist concerns, this time giving form to the sexually charged hostilities that pervade both gender and race relations.
The Vitruvian Woman, Anna Davis
Montpelier Center 13th Annual Celebration of the Arts Virginia Regional Exhibition and Young Artist Exhibition April 21 - June 30
Project 4 Art+Space Summer Exhibition Sharon Louden Jeanne Quinn Foon Sham Katy Stone June 5 - July 10 Four artists creating sculptural works and installations that emphasize the space they interact with and showcase the artists' ability to adapt their work to any site. Each working with an adept and responsive hand to their materials, these artists create complexes and structures where their lyrical, sculptural forms coalesce with the environments they inhabit.
Jeanne Quinn
Reyes + Davis Plaques and Tangles Jeff Huntington June 14 - July 10
Sculpture 1275 Barbara Kobylinksa May 24 - July 23 Sculpture by this graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Poland
Harvest
The Soundry Baby Canvases II June 26 - July 19 600 pieces representing a wide variety of mediums and styles that are all 2" x 3". Artists had no other restrictions other than size for their mini masterpieces.
Space 7:10 Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma Healing Through Expression: Artist in Residence Julie Lin works with Torture Survivors June 7 - July 16 ASTT clients, immigrants living in and around Baltimore and Silver Spring, present artwork from the art therapy group Kitchen Stories, led by Art on Purpose Resident Artist Julie Lin.
Strathmore Fine Art Common Bond Exhibition May 29 - July 10 Artists Wayland House and Richard Fitzhugh return alongside some friends to host a re-invigorated Common Bond, Strathmore's biennial exhibition which began in 1996.
Studio Gallery Summer Steel + Nancy Frankel June 23 - July 17 Nancy Frankel's interest in the interplay of space and form, in delicate balance, in playfulness, all come into play in her latest steel sculptures. Her fired clay reliefs grew out of her experience two years ago in a Plein Air group with Russian and Bulgarian artists in Bulgaria.
New Member Show: Explorations June 23 - July 17 Lori Anne Boocks, Pam Frederick, Elizabeth Grusin-Howe, Carolee Jakes, Flora Kanter, Peter Karp, Eugene Markowski, Veronica Szalus, Angelika Wamsler
Nancy Frankel
Studio H Derailed Tim Conlon June 19 - July 14 Featuring well-known aerosol artist Tim Conlon. Derailed pays homage to the artist's almost twenty-year love affair with freight train graffiti art. Conlon will showcase a series of new works including life-size aerosol paintings of freight trains; model trains featuring scaled-to-size graffiti in the bright colors and iconic characters for which CON is best known; and contemporary photographs of trains and their environs
Target Gallery The Language of Paper Luis Acosta and Miriam Londono June 7 - July 3
Transformer Gallery E7: Tetrad Reuben Breslar Jennifer DePalma June 25 - July 17
Treva Ellwood Adam Dwight July 23 - August 14 Featuring new works by Reuben Breslar, Jennifer DePalma, Adam Dwight, and Treva Elwood, this year's Exercises for Emerging Artists program, guest-curated by artist and professor Page Carr, highlights various incarnations of drawing, painting, and animation that explore themes of artistic process, personal history, character study, and the struggle for perfection.
Washington Printmakers Gallery Present Water: Micro and Macro Rosemary Cooley Tjelda vander Meijden June 1 - June 27 Exhibition explores the aqueous work of these two artists. Cooley's micro-examination of water is informed by its calligraphic renderings in the art of China as well as the miniscule creatures one sees in water studied under a microscope. vander Meijden's work treats water more as a place than as an object.
West Annapolis Art Works Pop Art a'la Maryland Ramon J. Matheu June 10 - July 10 Ramon Matheu's distinctive post-pop style is a combination of radiant black outlines and vivid colors that put a fun spin on our beloved Maryland treasures.
Ramon J. Matheu
Workhouse Arts Center Workhouse Associates and Workhouse Art Guild June Exhibition June 9 - July 4
Yard Art - Art at the Yard New Image Artists June 16 - July 18 Artists use fiber techniques to interpret the theme of "yard art"
Workhouse Arts Center Yard Art - Art at the Yard New Image Artists June 16 - July 18 Artists use fiber techniques to interpret the theme of "yard art"
