Alternative Gallery Space heART of the tree Margery E. Goldberg April 28 - June 29 Zenith Gallery owner and artist, Margery E. Goldberg, has been sculpting for most of her life and in her upcoming retrospective exhibition, heART of the tree, you can see her 30+-year love affair with the material she transforms into sleek, elegant wood sculptures and furniture, sometimes adding neon, glass and even baseball bats.
HeSheTree, Margery Goldberg
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery L(A)TTITUDES Curated by Wendy Fergusson March 15 - June 2 A provocative and thoughtful exhibition on the borders and boundaries of one of the most disputed regions on the globe—Israel/Palestine
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery David II: Comfortable Containment Nahum HaLevi May 6 - June 22 Nahum HaLevi is the Hebraicized acronym and painterly name of Dr. Nathan Moskowitz, a self-taught painter and neurosurgeon who lives locally. The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery will exhibit David II: Comfortable Containment through June 22
Arlington Arts Center Spring Solos 2008 April 8 - May 31 Jeremy Drummond uses photography, video, and installation to explore pre-planned suburban communities and how their designs reflect—or invert—the desires of developers and homeowners. Jennifer Fleming makes collages using standard, commercially developed 4” X 6” prints of photos of the local landscape. She reproduces these in a variety of tongue-in-cheek ways—on cards, magnets, mousepads—that riff on the commodification of art. Jacklyn Brickman creates didactic sculpture and installation illustrating startling relationships between people, food, corporations, and chemistry, and simulating the look of vintage natural history museum displays. Jennifer Mattingly makes tiny intricate dioramas made from matchboxes—imagine Joseph Cornell’s work in miniature. Erin Williams crafts exquisite simulations of archaic—and often barbaric—medical devices in copper, leather, and brass that are meant to regulate the body’s humors. Sondheim Prize winner Laure Drogoul orchestrates all sorts of curious happenings and installations—from performances with amplified knitting orchestras, to séances, to devices with which to sing to—and possibly charm—vitrines full of earthworms.
AAC RESIDENT ARTISTS GROUP SHOW Featuring pieces by six of Arlington Arts Center’s resident artists, working in a variety of styles and media: Abstract paintings by Sabyna Sterrett and Monica Stroik, and delicate drawings on translucent paper by Jill Romanoke Edith Heins shows both her fauvist-inspired representational paintings and some new decorative abstract paper pieces 3-D work on view: Wooden sculpture by Evan Reed; clothing in silk and cotton gauze by Paula Bryan
Art League Gallery Inner Harbor Phoebe Twichell Peterson May 8 - June 2 Oil painter Phoebe Twichell Peterson provides viewers with a unique perspective of the coastal landscape. Peterson’s semi-abstracted paintings of weathered old rowboats are greatly inspired by her time growing up in New England and along the coast. “These simple vessels remind me of the beauty of the sea, and are representative to me of the humble human body that carries us through the experience of life,” she remarked. Peterson’s paintings represent a subtle narrative, an inner dialogue. The various components of the coastal landscape have come to symbolize and personify different facets and elements of life. The boats symbolize the soul and the human body. The docks often symbolize the components that ground and anchor us in our lives, both the positive and negative. Ropes may illustrate problems in our lives, while the water represents freedom, adventure, and exploration
Gone From My Sight, Phoebe Twichell Peterson
Artful Gallery New Orleans: Spirit a' Risen Eric Buchanon, Veronica Leandrez and Bedonna Wakeman June 6 - June 29 Features New Orleans artists who capture the essence of the Crescent City through a pictorial history of music. The artists belong to a coveted group known as the Pirate Alley Artists who show and sell their work on Royal Street in New Orleans, just behind the famous St. Louis Cathedral.
Artomatic May 9 - June 15 Up to 800 local and regional artists will exhibit their works on eight
floors of the Capitol Plaza 1 building, located at 1st and M Streets,
N.E., just one block from the New York Avenue Metro station. Held
regularly since 1999, Artomatic transforms an unfinished indoor space
into an exciting and incredibly diverse arts event that is free and
open to the public. In addition to displays and sales by hundreds of
artists, the event features free musical, dance, and theater
performances; holiday celebrations; films; educational presentations;
and much more.
Athenaeum Rackets & Remedies Laurel Hausler May 2 - June 15 In Rackets & Remedies, influenced in part by the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum and the collections of Dr. Robert Greenspan, Hausler explores two basic concepts. The first is the inexorable intertwining of advertising and medicine. And the second is how little this relationship, and the relationship to the consumer has changed in the last century or so. Hausler’s works incorporate oil paint, paper, pencil, ink .... sometimes coffee and wax. Her works are memorable in their haunting incorporation of dark and light, innocence and exploitation, trickery and trust.
Blackrock Center for the Arts The Outloud! Painters May 7 - June 6 The Outloud! Painters are a group of 13 award-winning local artists painting in diverse abstract styles. Individual Outloud! members have exhibited both nationally and internationally as well as with the Outloud! group. Outloud! painters are: Judith Baldinger, Shaune Bazner, JoAnn Clayton, Tory Cowles, Patsy Fleming, Donna Grossman, Carol A. Jason, Donna K. McGee, Michiyo Mizuchi, Edward Palash, Bobbie Salthouse, Mary E. Wagner, Amy Barker-Wilson.
Blueberry Art Gallery K. Wesley E. Clark June 1 - June 20 Artist Statement: My works are expressions of my diverse thoughts, feeling, emotions, moods, and environments. I reflect on Africa and the Diasporas through painting and printmaking, creating landscapes and scenes in both a realistic and abstract manner. The boldness, rebel nature, and creative re-interpretation of a written language found in graffiti art have begun to take form on my canvases and in my printmaking. All of these influences are compiled to create pieces with several layers of attraction. I look at my works as self-portraits. I’ve not categorized my style of creating, nor do I want to. I feel like such labels are confining and I want to explore all facets of creativity. -Wesley Clark
Curators Office Corpus Jason Horowitz April 12 - June 21 Corpus is an on-going exploration of people and the human form. The photographs are 42"x63" archival pigment prints that reveal a hyper-realistic amount of detail about the subject. The images explore the relationship between photographic representation and painterly abstraction and the formal elements in tension with the emotional content of the subject matter. Shot with the same "glamour" lighting set-up used for fashion images, these photographs subvert that process to look at what is real rather than ideal. Larger than life, these images become a vehicle for looking deeply at one's self and others.
Scott, Jason Horowitz 2007
Del Ray Artisans Think Green! Curators: Karen Schmitz and Jen Chappell Juror: Alison Sigethy June 5 - June 29 Artists express green thinking
District Fine Arts Revelation Gene Markowski April 12 - May 31 Recent black and white photographs
A Cult Like Status, Gene Markowski
Edison Place Art Gallery IC 14 The Illustrators Club Exhibition May 8 - June 27 Features the best recent work of area illustrators, selected by a distinguished three-judge panel. 112 original pieces of art published on the covers and pages of recent international, national and regional magazines, advertisements, newspapers and brochures for clients such as The Wall Street Journal, National Science Foundation and The Crown Publishing Group, created by 47 of the region’s most talented illustrators.
"Vincent Van Toad" (from the children's story, "The Frog Prints" by Lisa Linn Arroniz), Paul Zdepski
Foundry Gallery First Person Singular Patsy Fleming June 4 - June 29 Includes figures, still lifes, and completely abstract paintings. This body of work is unified by Fleming's use of line and idiosyncratic color. Fleming uses acrylic paint and collage to express her view of herself and the world around her. She has been called "someone to watch who hits the mark with astonishing results, always with skill and sensitivity." Another critic says the new work expresses "both strength and delicacy." The title of the exhibition, "First Person Singular" refers to Fleming's singularity when it comes to the sources, content and style of her work. Some of the paintings are abstract and others are figurative with color and line as vehicles for the expression of memory, love, grief, imagination.
Table, Patsy Fleming
Foundry Gallery The Figure is Central Stephen Nordlinger April 30 - June 1 Nordlinger's figurative work is based on close observation to catch the motion, the mood, the attitude of his subjects. He works in acrylic, pastel, charcoal, tempera, watercolor and digital images on paper, canvas, Mylar, X-rays and multimedia board.
Magic Squares Bobbie Salthouse April 30 - June 1 A series of charming, small acrylic works on canvas based on inspirations from nature, literature and objects she has found during travel.
Stephen Nordlinger
Fraser Gallery Air Rites John Winslow April 11 - May 31 As a Professor of Art at Catholic University for over 30 years, John Winslow is one of the most influential painters in our region. "Ever since art school in the sixties, I have painted the figure in some form or another. Phillip Pearlstein and Alex Katz were influences there. My recent preoccupations with staging and full body movement have led to a series of paintings where dancers and dreamers interact spatially with a strange, alternate universe of beings and objects that are sometimes diaphanous and floating and sometimes tangible and solid. The stylistic context I aim for is one where the real and the abstract coexist organically, and where the images are alternately familiar and fantastic as they vie for our attention and engagement. I am omnivorous when it comes to source material - live models, photographs of any kind or my imagination - it doesn’t matter. I don’t use the computer at any stage."
"Sketch," oil on canvas
Gallery 50 Recent Works Brian Petro May 29 - June 24 Brian Petro is an artist who lives in Washington DC. Being largely influenced by his parents and the realization that life is about following one’s dreams, Brian left his ‘trained’ profession in Sports Medicine to devour himself in his expressions of the world around him and became a full time artist. He has used ancient Greek and Roman images, portraiture of young urban males, sex personal ads, crushed cigarette cartons, valet tickets, fruit, numbers, vegetables, machine parts, watches, safety pins, architecture, anatomy text drawings, currency, body photography, images gleaned from newspapers, and molten beeswax in his works.
Shane 1, Brian Petro 2007
Gallery 50 New Works on Paper Rick Bach May 8 - June 3
Our Unspoiled Land Tom Edwards, George Harkins, Joseph Raffael, Karl Schrag, Moishe Smith, and Richard Zieman April - May 31 Prints & works on paper
H & F Fine Arts Gallery The Funk Aesthetic: Chocolate Coated, Freaky & Habit Forming Curated by Tonya Jordan June 4 - June 29 The exhibition presents new art grounded in the aesthetic of Funk music of the mid-sixties to early eighties and features international and locally based artists visually interpreting the music form through various media: Aniekan, Pedro Bell, S. Ross Browne, Deadra Bryant, Miles Bumbray, K. Wesley E. Clark, Jamel Craig, Ronald 'Stozo' Edwards, Dejon N. Gee, Gary Johnson, Alexis Peskine, Akia 'Space Lady' Quander-Jordan, William Rhodes, Jerome Spinner, Katurah Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, and Tedra Wilson.
Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center Immersed in the Natural World Featuring works by Elizabeth Burger, Tai Hwa Goh, and Novie Trump May 9 - June 24 Statement of Curator Lillian Fitzgerald. This exhibit (“Immersed in the Natural World”) gives us a glimpse into three artists’ personal dialogues. Elizabeth Burger, Tai Hwa Goh and Novie Trump create images from nature. They provide an intimate narrative that explores: patterning in nature, physical identity and ritual.
Image copyright Novie Trump 2008
Hillyer Art Space New Work Anna U. Davis May 2 - May 30 Davis' new works feature a selection of collage-like paintings that demonstrate her ability to confront the power of a woman's being while exposing her vulnerabilities. These raw images offer insight into the female mind and experience both personal and public, and address them in a very direct way. Davis' work is provocative, but with a purpose.
Long View Gallery Under the Skin Scott Brooks May 10 - June 7 In his latest series of work, Brooks focuses intently on painting the figure. Highlighted against a backdrop of social, sexual, and psychological themes, the meticulously detailed paintings and drawings of his wide-eyed progeny heighten the impact of the quirky narratives. Often, the details of his paintings only reveal themselves after several viewings and a close study, with new meanings developing at every glance. This is the largest exhibit of work by the Washington, DC, artist to date
Scott Brooks - Under the Skin, video by Brandon Bloch on Vimeo.
Marsha Mateyka Gallery On Paper Gene Davis May 8 - June 28 The Marsha Mateyka Gallery has represented the Estate of Gene Davis for more than a decade. The current exhibition is the first at the gallery to focus exclusively on his drawings. Consisting of 24 works selected from the Estate, this exhibition represents Gene Davis at the beginning of his career, in the 1950's with ink wash and watercolor drawings and towards the end of his career in the early 1980's with stripe drawings.
Gene Davis, untitled ( GD47 ), 1956, ink and watercolor
Meat Market Gallery Time Machine - A Transmedia Group Show Curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin for the Perpetual Art Machine (PAM) June 6 - June 29
Meat Market Gallery Don't Ready To Die Anymore Benjamin Jurgensen May 2 - May 31
National Academy of Sciences The Last Iceberg Photographs by Camille Seaman March 2 - May 30 Camille Seaman is an American photographer who captures the essence of awe and beauty of indigenous cultures and environments. In this series, her goal is to depict the “individuality” of icebergs which she describes as “stoic, glowing masses of time and experience.” Inspired by her first sighting of an iceberg in 2005, Seaman journeyed to Antarctica and the Arctic regions of Svalbard and Greenland to make these pictures. They are part of a larger project entitled Melting Away in which she documents the polar regions of our planet, focusing on their environments, life forms, and inhabitants. With this work, Seaman has created a stunning visual record of the Earth’s polar regions as they undergo rapid changes due to global warming.
National Gallery of Art Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul May 25 - September 7 Some 228 extraordinary artifacts unearthed in modern Afghanistan—most on view for the first time in the United States—attest to the region's importance as a vital and ancient crossroads of trade routes known as the Silk Road, which stretched from Asia to the Mediterranean.
Richard Misrach: On the Beach May 25 - September 1 For more than thirty years, the American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has made provocative work that addresses contemporary society's relationship to nature, especially the American West. Since 2001, he has made a series of large scale (six by ten feet), lushly colored photographs of swimmers and sunbathers in Hawaii. Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books May 4 - November 2 Over the past three years the National Gallery of Art, through generous donations and select purchases, has acquired a remarkable survey of drawings, prints, and rare illustrated books. This exhibition presents over 200 of the finest, dating from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first century. In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet March 2 - June 8 More than 100 works by artists such as Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796–1875), Théodore Rousseau (1812–1867), Jean-François Millet (1814–1875), Claude Monet (1840–1926), Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884), and Eugène Cuvelier (1837–1900) explore the French phenomenon of plein-air (open-air) painting and photography in the region of Fontainebleau, a pilgrimage site for aspiring landscape artists Max Ernst—The Illustrated Books March 2 - September 6
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
Nevin Kelly Gallery stitches in time, etc. Gretchen Feldman May 8 - June 1 Gretchen Feldman’s new paintings mark both a forward progression in her development as an abstract watercolorist and a return to her past as a textile conservator. Many of the paintings in “stitches in time, etc” are influenced by common titles of traditional American quilts, such as Chinese Checkers, Baby Blocks, and Queen’s Puzzle. Feldman’s work gives these titles a distinctive modern voice. Other paintings in the show (the “etc.” part of the exhibition title) have different origins. Based on microscopic imagery, the paintings provide a bridge between two different esthetic inspirations: the timeless and functional art associated with 19th-century rural America and the biotechnological explosion of the 21st-century. Despite enormous differences in the appearance of art in the 19th and 21st centuries, certain fundamentals remain important: structure, form, and expression.
Space 7:10 Kyle Miller June 3 - June 28 Invited by guest curator, Tom Block "I had the pleasure of learning about Kyle's work when we were in a group show entitled: 'Connections: Collage and Assemblage,' at the Carroll County Arts Center in Westminster, MD. I was struck by his pared-down color aesthetic, combined with the personal manner in which he built his assemblages. His color sense, while working with a very restrained palette, was refined and evocative (two words not often associated with nearly monochromatic work) and his small boxes were all built from materials salvaged from his 19th century Baltimore townhouse. While referential to Joseph Cornell, his work seemed even more personal, as it used very little of the kitsch and banal images taken from pop culture, working to build a more intimate sense out of the pieces of his everyday existence. Between that time -- March 2007 -- and now, Kyle has become a new father, and I am excited to see how this rather life-changing inflection point in his path has effected his work. It is a pleasure to have Kyle agree to travel down to Silver Spring from Baltimore, and share his unique vision with us here at Space 7:10." —Tom Block
Space 7:10 Photos and frames Daniel Reyes May 6 - May 30
Duo Show: Lost in Thought Chris Chernow Into the Garden Sam Noto May 21 - June 14
Touchstone Gallery May 7 - June 8 House, Garden, Wine, Friend: Images of a Life Steve Alderton Alderton pulls from an internal photo album to give us his take on these traditional themes. Ultimately, it is left to the viewer to find shapes or colors that offer the familiar, or entice with the ambiguous, so as to emotionally connect with these snapshots. The Magic of Color Tory Cowles Tory Cowles' large abstract paintings are full of rich powerful colors. They seem to tell a story, inviting you in to follow the movement suggested by dancing lines, incorporated pieces of fabric and paper, and unexpected juxtapositions of color. Her work explores the dynamic between space and form, color and texture, converging in aesthetically intriguing, vibrant canvases.
Spring Splendor Independent Artists Forum Featuring works by Ethel Bustamante (Colombia), Wendy Plotkin-Mates (USA), Marjolein van Milligen (The Netherlands), Haydeh Rastin(Iran) and Marion van Ruiten (Germany); with guest artist Elba Molina (Chile).
Self Portrait, Canvas board relief print with airbrush, 2007
Zenith Gallery Drama Queens Shelley Laffal Chris Malone May 2 - June 1 Fantasy and phantasmagoric run through this exhibition featuring the dramatic work of two unique artists, exploring and expressing their mystical selves. Shelley Laffal and Chris Malone, the former a long-time Zenith artist and the other, new to the gallery, make a fine pairing in this imaginative show that will grab your attention when you walk through the door.
