AHM Fine Art Gallery Shenandoah Park Through the Seasons Chol Lee April 25 - June 1 Photographs
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center On Normality: Art in Serbia May 5 - June 5 An exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade curated by Dejan Sretenovic. The exhibition presents works created between 1989 and 2001, during the Miloševic era, reflecting those troubled, controversial years
Art League Gallery Progression Suzanne Yurdin May 7 - June 1 Suzanne Yurdin’s abstract paintings emerge from her subconscious. Her compositions are not planned or preconceived. She allows her work to flow freely and intuitively, not predetermining composition or palette. “Progression,” which represents a series of Yurdin’s work created over the last two years, documents and reflects the tone of her life at the time each piece was created.
Shifting Tide, Suzanne Yurdin
The Athenaeum Sharon Fishel / Jeffrey Smith May 1 - June 14 Sharon Fishel and Jeffrey Smith are husband and wife who approach similar subject matter - primarily natural elements such as leaves, flowers, and seedpods -and create art through vastly different media and technique. Sharon Fishel starts with extreme close-up views and creates richly layered abstract paintings with oil paint and glazes. Jeffrey Smith assembles natural and man-made forms from digital images, photograms and advertisements on the computer and then translates that into a large-scale monochromatic painting on canvas or paper
Cross Mackenzie Gallery Urban Fossils Paul DiPasquale May 15 - June 17 Living in Richmond and troubled by the devastating crimes committed with guns, DisPasquale has created works of art out of actual destroyed guns given to him by the authorities after destruction.
Curators Office Portraits from Aftermath Chris Scarborough May 9 - June 20 Drawings and photographs by celebrated Southern artist Chris Scarborough. In these works, the artist -- whether by meticulous drawing or digital alteration -- creates a world that has survived some kind of ambiguous cataclysm and we are now being given a glimpse into a new reality in its aftermath The big bang has happened, but just what kind of bang has taken place? The world we are presented with is similar to the one we know, but things are askew and a bit more absurd. The individuals in these works are distorted or fractured as their identities shift into a post-human condition.
Untitled (Smoke I), Chris Scarborough
Del Ray Artisans Bond for Life May 22 - June 21 Using the media of their choice, over 50 artists considered what animals bring to us as they created their original works. Is it the spirit of bravery, the devotion of loyalty, the joy of playfulness, the warmth of companionship, the power of love, the weight of sorrow, the strength of hope, the determination of endurance, or the dignity of pride?
District Fine Arts Personal Geography Nancy Ostertag Don't Fence Me In MH Ramona Swift April 4 - May 30 This two woman show features photographs by MH Ramona Swift and her daughter Nancy Ostertag. Nancy Ostertag is a D.C. based freelance photographer who specializes in environmental portraits, lifestyle, and editorial photography. The images in Personal Geography were taken over the last fifteen years in the cities where Nancy has lived: New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC. This series feature her friends, family, and her surroundings in intimate moments and tell personal stories that are both unique and universal. MH "Ramona" Swift is a photographer based in Prescott, AZ. The images in Don't Fence Me In come from a three month stay in 2008 at Paradise Guest Ranch, in the Bighorn Mountains outside of Buffalo, WY.
Leaving, 2009
Foundry Gallery Mother Nature and Friends April 29 - May 31 Patricia Zannie Patricia Zannie's collages are composed of snips of magazines and papers from around the world, which are used as paint, blending them with ink, oil pastels, and watercolor. Each collage a unique interpretation of contemporary images and materials, sparking modern, worldly connections, while still reflecting her Zen-like intuitive approach to Art and Life. She focuses on the creative process, allowing each work to evolve without imposing parameters.
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Fraser Gallery Bethesda Green Beata Drozd Mike Fitts April 10 - May 30 In recognition of Earth Day on April 22, the Fraser Gallery presents "Bethesda Green," an exhibition by artists incorporating reclaimed and recycled materials into their work. Beata Drozd is a Polish artist based in New York. She creates mixed media collages from the pages of Vogue and Mike Fitts paints everyday objects onto reclaimed metal. Mike Fitts is based in Charlottesville VA, "The subjects I paint in oils are drawn from the most generic of popular culture visuals, with an emphasis on objects that are used once, then discarded and quickly forgotten. The unexpectedness of elevating the importance of ephemeral objects to the status of art is what I find most interesting."
Chinese Take-Out Box, Mike Fitts
Gallery 50 Prologo Paradiso Gerardus Jilesen May 22 - June 17 Twenty works of art from Holland-based artist, including oils on canvas and inks & oils on paper
Wood, Concrete, and Fiber Sculpture Betsy Damos May 22 - June 17
Prologo Paradiso 9, Gerardus Jilesen
Hamiltonian Gallery Fellows Converge: Redefining the Environment Helen Frederick Christian Benefiel Tom Block Anne Chan Ian MacLean Davis Leah Frankel Linda Hesh Mike Dax Iacavone Youngmi Organ Bryan Rojsuontikul Michael Enn Sirvet May 9 - June 6 Group exhibition marking the culmination of the Hamiltonian Fellowship's first year. Curator and Mentor Artist, Helen Frederick, leagued all of the Hamiltonian Fellows together to contemplate associations they have built over the year, and to design a collaborative show across disciplines, media, content and colleagues. Comprised of all new work, this exhibition highlights their ability to converse and broaden their understanding of one another, thus allowing for new interpretations of their work to be created
Hemphill Fine Arts During The Wet Aboriginal Bark Paintings from Western Arnhem Land, Maningrida March 21 - May 29 The bark paintings featured in DURING THE WET are by a group of artists from the Maningrida community, most of whom have never exhibited in the United States before. & Endeavor Robin Rose March 21 - May 29 Reflecting on explorer James Cook, whose ship was called The Endeavour, Robin Rose feels the importance of seeing his process through to the very end. The result is a cohesive body of paintings. When examined individually, each offers a unique viewing experience.
Honfleur Gallery Flaunt: Photography & Fashion Collaboration April 25 - June 6 Features new fashion portrait work by photographers Joshua Yospyn, John Ulaszek, Meaghan Gay, and Steve Goldenberg. The work is the result of collaborations with local fashion designers Dana Greaves, Taimur Baig, Lara Akinsaya, and Will Sharp, who will showoff their talent as their clothes grace the runway. An artistic experiment of sorts, Flaunt aims to challenge and explore the notions of what constitutes fashion photography. “This unique visual event revolves around the concept that the beauty of art is its lack of fixed rules and definitions,” says Heather Goss, founder of Ten Miles Square. “Each photographer captured the essence of high fashion in their own terms, as did each designer.”
International Visions Gallery The Rose Harper Collection of South African Art May 6 - June 6 A survey of works created during the apartheid era (1987 – 1994), by black artists, who today are recognized as the preeminent artists of South Africa. Within the rich diversity of their creative expressions are references – both direct and metaphorical - to barriers and transcendence. Often referred to as propaganda or protest art, the imagery reflects the consciousness of a people. The art became the weapon of empowerment; the voice for those who were not allowed to speak without fear of prosecution. Featured artists: C. Kumalo, Ben Macala, David Mbele, Nat Mokgosi, Velphi Mzimba, Godfrey Ndaba, Hargreaves Ntukwana, and Winston Saoli.
Untitled, C. Kumalo
McLean Project for the Arts Disambiguation Franz Jantzen April 16 - June 6 Large-scale digital images constructions represent multiple views of associations-laden and compelling locations
Arches Roslyn Logsdon April 16 - June 6 Studies of architectural spaces are abstracted and executed in recycled wool Undone Aliza Lelah April 16 - June 6 Portrait based works strive to give a visual presence to the passage of time. Originally derived from found photographs, the images are translated to a larger scale using recycled fabric and stitching.
Momento Art Gallery Back and Forth Wendy Ross May 7 - May 30 The passage of time is an accident, having no connection with the change in configuration of solid matter in space…..the here and now contains in essence a myriad of there and thens….” (From Mae-Wan Ho’s essay: The New Age of the Organism ) Exhibition features a selection of studio works created over the last decade and includes studies, maquettes, and small scale steel structures. The artist refers to these works as constructs that distill and capture energy in the process of expanding and contracting. They range from the open and matrixial to the dense and armorial. Although her steel constructions are distinctly sculptural, Ross incorporates diverse and repetitive elements that she weaves, wraps, and coils before welding and riveting into intricate and openly engineered structures
Multiple Exposures Gallery Stones . . . and Other Life Forms Grace Taylor Clifford Wheeler April 7 - May 31 Photographs. New work.
The Phillips Collection Morandi: Master of Modern Still Life February 21 - May 24 Giorgio Morandi (1890-1964), one of the most admired still-life painters of the 20th century, is renowned for his simple but stunning compositions. Combining a subtlety of design with a meditative aura, Morandi’s finesse remains unrivaled. For the first time in more than 50 years, a retrospective exhibition of his work is on display in Washington, D.C. Morandi: Master of Modern Still Life features 60 works of art drawn primarily from collections in Italy, with key additions from collections in the U.S. With paintings dating from 1913 to 1962, the exhibition elucidates the evolution of Morandi’s uncommon style.
Project 4 Foon Sham May 9 - June 13 Foon Sham’s intricate wood sculptures utilize principles of design and nature to create a complex, synthetic poetry. In his deepening study of structure the work has become more architectural in its reference to building as well as to the human body and the environment.
Studio Gallery Immortal Coils Micheline Klagsbrun May 27 - June 20 For many years Ms. Klagsbrun has immersed herself in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, tales of passion and transformation among gods and goddesses, people, animals, trees, rivers, stones. An invitation to exhibit at the Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in 2008 sent the artist on an expedition into the indigenous myths of that country, discovering parallel stories. The tales she uncovered were of cosmic snakes, the mesmerizing power of the gaze, the floods of chaos and creation, the possibility of rebirth through water.
Aparte (Stage Whisper) Thierry Guillemin May 27 - June 20
Apple Painting, Micheline Klagsbrun
Touchstone Gallery Word and Image Mary Trent-Scott May 6 - June 7 Grounded in Judeo-Christian tradition, Mary Trent Scott has enfleshed the words of the ten commandments in a series of mixed media collage images that speak to current culture.
Women: vis-ŕ-vis An exploration of women as icons Teresa Roberts Logan May 6 - June 7 Teresa Roberts Logan’s style emanates from an exploration of the theme of women in our world. Existing as icons and monoliths, they simultaneously function as life channels and sometimes - even decorative objects. The images reflect colorful global, usually solitary, women in the tradition of Fauvist works and folk art depictions of females, such as the Virgin de Guadalupe.
Yellow, Teresa Roberts Logan
West Annapolis Art Works Reflections AHNI May 15 - June 10 Photographs capture artistic, evocative and natural reflections of the Bay.
Reflection 2, AHNI
Washington Printmakers Gallery Ephemera Shadows and Transparencies Martha Oatway April 28 - May 31 Artistic contemplations on our natural surroundings. These new works study the shadows of trees: silhouetted in the sky, creating dappled patterns on the ground, and portraying the architecture of her Georgetown neighborhood. The layers and juxtaposed images convey a lapse of time as the artist records specific moments of the day and follows the path the shadow takes with the sun.
