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
Addison Ripley Fine Art Requesting Quiet Dan Treado May 1 - June 5 This work continues to surprise and delight with the artist's signature serial imagery; layers of color, light as air, add dreamy associations, an impossible depth and lush surface. Appropriated samples from selected illustrations and texts in some of the works provide tense contrast. In others, a crazy quilt of disparate imagery is woven together by this talented painter.
Free Dirt, Dan Treado
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center NO, GLOBAL TOUR Santiago Sierra May 4 - June 21 Sierra conceived his monument to "No" and all of its nuances as an international touring work. Through the NO, GLOBAL TOUR, the sculpture has traveled on truck bed throughout Europe, New York City, and Miami before coming to Washington, D.C. - acting as a prop against different landscapes exercising its right to dissent.
Emergence Georgia June Goldberg May 4 - August 8 Emergence, created specifically for the American University Museum, is the single largest installation in the museum's sculpture garden. It consists of white, wooden rhomboid boxes sheathed in ice-blue netting. The 44 irregular, shard-like boxes replicate a glacier as they rotate and reach up toward Ward Circle, a visual reminder during the heat of summer (the exhibition closes in early August) of the most pressing evidence of global warming: glacial melting. As early as Wednesday, April 28, portions of Emergence were already pointing up and over the walls of the sculpture garden. Family Trees Emilie Brzezinski May 8 - June 6 A metaphorical portrait of the Brzezinski family, crafted out of Emilie Brzezinski's trademark monumental freestanding, natural wood sculptures. The installation is an affirmation of the artist's cultural identity and the need for self-definition within one's family.
inSPIRATion May 8 - June 6 Programmed by emerging curators in AU's Arts Management program, exhibition is 15 inspirational shows in one, from graffiti art and spoken word, to vanishing photography ("One Hour Photo") and junk-clock sculpture.
Santiago Sierra
Applegate Gallery New Works Norma Pfaff May 29 - June 30 Norma Pfaff is a relief printmaker and has works in a range of topics from flying pigs to a flapper on a bicycle. Her work is fun with a tongue-in-cheek edge to it.
Arlington Arts Center Spring Solos 2010 John James Anderson Mia Feuer Ana B. Hernandez Steven Pearson Rachel Schmidt Gregory Thielker April 16 - June 5
Art League Gallery Classical Realism Teresa Oaxaca May 6 - June 7 A young master at making the human figure come to life shows recent paintings.
Art Whino The Gamies Jophen Stein May 15 - June 12 Loosely based on Franz Kafka's The Trial Jophen Stein's latest series, The Gamies, explores the idea of systems that are in place but not fully understood. From the exhilaration of winning to the disappointment of losing The Gaimes is a look into the bipolar effects of game shows as entertainment.
Jophen Stein
Athenaeum Illusions of Time: Two Photographers Lisa McCarty Stephen Schiff May 16 - June 13 Explores two photographers' approaches to the concepts of passed time and memory. Lisa McCarty's work is about nostalgia and reflections on the change of the home and environment that her grandparents live in - her technically altered images feature Polaroid transfers that are lush with color. Stephen Schiff's haunting photographs were shot along the Georgetown waterfront after a massive snowstorm - the film sat forgotten and undeveloped in a canister for over 30 years. The process of scanning the negatives to create the now digital images, somehow adds to the cold and lonely sensation.
Caos on F Stevens Jay Carter May 7 - June 26 Recent work in several media and materials by one of the several artists that helped revitalize the arts in the Penn Quarter neighborhood. Carter's work features bold and vibrant paintings using a mix of oil, acrylic, found objects, and other ingredients on a diverse array of "canvases" including ceramic tile and Plexiglas. As a compliment to the Caos on Fabric line also being showcased, Carter is additionally presenting his latest explorations on textiles. One of Carter's fabric paintings is the pair of jeans worn by actress Sharon Swainson in The Hit.
Carroll Square Gallery Isolation Andrew Bain Jason Falchook Kate Hardy Max Hirshfeld Tanya Marcuse Mingering Mike Lisa Noble Sharon Sanderson Noelle Tan Rob Tarbell Paul Vinet April 9 - June 4
The Astronaut, Kate Hardy
The Gallery at Convergence Metamorphosis May 7 - June 10 Exhibit features sculpture, paintings, mixed-media, and photography showcasing the diversity of artistic talent found in the Washington DC area.
Cross Mackenzie Gallery Big Birds Andrea Luria April 16 - June 16 Large scale paintings by this California artist.
Curators Office The Feeling of What Happens Kathryn Cornelius May 14 - June 26
Del Ray Artisans Undecided: A Dialog between Artist and Viewer June 4 - June 27 All member show about the process of creating art and noticing how subjects, themes, or titles change.
District of Columbia Arts Center Abstract Realities Allen Levy Ann Elizabeth Gedicks Zoe Hathaway Cherie M. Redlinger Felisa Federman Damian Yanessa Curated by Trudi Van Dyke May 14 - June 13 6 contemporary artists in a variety of media explore reality with abstract presentations.
Foundry Gallery Bridges, Cars & Pumps (and a few African Rumps) Sarah Alexander June 30 - July 31 A show dedicated to automotive transportation, focusing on images of bridges, antique cars and gas pumps.
Triple Red Gas Pumps
Foundry Gallery Art Defined Peter Johnsen, Facilitator June 20 - June 27
An experiment that explores how we understand art, what it means for us, and
how we use art in our daily life. Art may be defined by its creators intention
to make artistic work or it may be defined by a spectator. The exhibition will display pieces defined and valued as art by their owners and which are displayed in their own homes
Bridges, Cars & Pumps (and a few African Rumps) Sarah Alexander June 30 - July 31 A show dedicated to automotive transportation, focusing on images of bridges, antique cars and gas pumps.
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
Children at Play in Chinese Painting November 18 - May 23 A collection of Chinese paintings, ceramics and slate carving depicting children at play from the past two millennia is the first exhibition to be organized on the theme in the United States. The exhibition includes 36 objects highlighting the effervescence of youth. Silken scrolls depict young school children teasing each other over lessons, rural boys flitting through idyllic nature scenes while herding oxen and urban toddlers jumping rope to the beat of a striking gong. The images are simple and amusing, yet revelatory of the important role children play in Chinese civic life.
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.
Flashpoint Gallery Veritas Obscura Marc Roman: May 14 - June 19 Marc Roman combines photography, drawing and painting on mounted plexiglas sheeting and cast resin to give sculptural form to traditionally two-dimensional techniques.
Foundry Gallery Baghdad Revisted Ahmad Alkarkhi June 2 - June 19
Art Defined Peter Johnsen, Facilitator June 20 - June 27
An experiment that explores how we understand art, what it means for us, and
how we use art in our daily life. Art may be defined by its creators intention
to make artistic work or it may be defined by a spectator. The exhibition will display pieces defined and valued as art by their owners and which are displayed in their own homes
Bridges, Cars & Pumps (and a few African Rumps) Sarah Alexander June 30 - July 31 A show dedicated to automotive transportation, focusing on images of bridges, antique cars and gas pumps.
Looking into the Future, Ahmad Alkarkhi
Fraser Gallery The Bethesda Painting Awards June 1 - June 26 Annual juried painting competition, honoring artists from D.C, Maryland and Virgina
Gallery 4 You & Me Living Today (anatomically modern explorers) Volume I Milana Braslavsky Jason Ferguson Karsten Krejcarek Julia Oldham May 14 - June 19 Part one of a two part series, features new sculpture, installation, photography and video works.
Gallery Plan b Works Karen Hubacher Tory Cowles May 19 - June 20 Hubacher and Cowles both create abstract works using widely varying textures and vivid colors, but their approaches to the surfaces are almost opposite. Hubacher's works are carefully orchestrated and constructed while Cowles' are organic and spontaneous.
Gallery O/H Cabaret (re)ReVoltaire Curated by Alberto Gaitan May 10,17,24,31 Four evenings of art, poetry and performances. Celebrates the historic Cabaret ReVoltair series that was presented by WPA in 1992.
Gandi Memorial Center Colors of an Isle Sushila Mallawaraachchi through June 26 A collection of paintings of scenes of Sri Lanka
Hamiltonian Gallery Paintings and Installations Magnolia Laurie Lina Vargas De La Hoz Leah Frankel May 8 - June 9 Within her paintings and installations, Magnolia Laurie creates environments centered upon masses of broken, crooked lines that could resemble a dense, organized nest, the aftermath of a natural disaster or an architectural armature.
Lina Vargas De La Hoz designs and creates objects that tenant, command, and address its surrounding space.
In Leah Frankel's installation titled (im)Balance, formed spheres of ice nestled in mounds of table salt are flecked throughout the gallery floor.
Lina Vargas De La Hoz
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
International Visions Gallery The Ribbon Series Carl Anderson April 29 - June 12 Paintings of color contrast light against darkness to create motion in 2-dimensions, by the Guyanese contemporary artist.
Dance to the Beats, Carl Anderson
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery How to Get Off a Well-Traveled Road... Alex Todorovich May 5 - June 12 Alex Todorovich (1950-2009) was an untrained, or naive, artist, who first turned to art when she was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer at the age of 54. Her diverse body of work - collage drawings, assemblage sculptures and beaded jewelry - integrates years of experience in folk art, decorative arts, and ornamentation.
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Cool/ Works from the Artist's Cooler Palette Gene Davis March 24 - May 29
Untitled, Gene Davis
McLean Project for the Arts Fantastic Journeys June 17 - July 31 A juried multi-media exhibition featuring works inspired by the spirit of adventure, exploration or utopian visions.
Orchard Gallery Cities: Explored Elana McDermott May 28 - June 17 Paintings
Gallery Neptune Joan Belmar Cameron Petke Marie RIngwald May 14 - June 5
Project 4 Tricia Keightley Jenn Figg April 24 - May 29 Exhibition featuring paintings by Tricia Keightley and sculptures by Jenn Figg. By discerningly entwining a pastiche of industrial and commercial scraps, these artists interpret the urban environment and create composed yet frenetic arrangements.
The Soundry F*ck the Machine Group Show May 1 - June 5 An art show that will highlight the very best of DC area artists by revolutionizing the traditional jury process. Instead if an elite group of collectors, curators and/or gatekeepers being the judges, all the submitting artists will be on the jury for F*ck the Machine. Each artists will bring ONE piece (their best work) to this live jury process, where they will stand in front of a jury of their peers to present their work
Space 7:10 Siena School Student Artists May 4 - June 4 Student work curated by art teacher James Coleman
Studio H Justapositions Ellen Cornett May 15 - June 12
Studio Gallery Seize the Moment Kat Kronick May 26 - June 19 This show introduces the experientialist artist, Kat Kronick, to the Washington DC audience. Kat refers to her style as straight, intense, and interacting with each and every nuance of the moment. Something in common Thierry Guillemin May 26 - June 19 LOTUS/LOTIS Micheline Klagsbrun May 26 - June 19
Kat Kronick
Susan Calloway Fine Arts Multiple Choices Beth Cartland May 14 - June 11 Beth Cartland uses a wide range of techniques and materials in her exploration of painting. She combines a mastery of classic technique and an innovative view of our world, resulting in a collection of powerful works. This exhibition features a group of abstract paintings that embody the process of painting and illustrate the decision making involved in creating a work of art.
Power Play, Beth Cartland
39th Street Gallery Space/Place Matt Klos Matt Woodward Andrew ZImmerman May 15 - June 25 An exhibition that explores the peculiar ways in which sense of space and sense of place are linked together. Features Baltimore based painter, Matt Klos, Chicago draftsman Matt Woodward and Arlington, Virginia photographer Andrew Zimmerman.
Andrew Zimmerman
Thos. Moser Changing Planes Linda Press April 2 - June 20 Exhibition presents paintings of architectural forms seen from unusual perspectives. They reflect the societal structures of different cultures in colorful, expressive works inspired by travels in the United States, France and Italy.
Canyon, NYC, Linda Press
Touchstone Gallery Touchstone Gallery will be moving into a newly designed space at 901 New York Ave., NW during the summer-fall of 2010. Here are some Touchstone artists appearing around the DC area:
The Gallery at Convergence Art Naturally Colleen Sabo June 14 - July 30
homebody Steve Alderton June 18 - August 30 The exhibition includes two series. The first falls squarely into the category of abstract expressionism. These are emotive and layered action paintings with bold colors and strong language. A second group of works continues the expressionistic theme, but introduces identifiable figures.
River Gallery Birds of Prey and other Abstract Paintings Colleen Sabo May 22 - June 20 Gallery 555 Have a Seat Michele Cormier May 23 - June 30
Transformer Gallery Sustainability Lab Jeff Hnilicka June 2 - June 12 Jeff & Transformer invite DC audiences to participate in several new, interactive programs that continue to investigate emerging models of cultural production, the sustainability of these models, and their impact within communities.
Transformer Gallery Cornfield May 13 - May 29 In tandem with Sustainability Lab, an installation and performance piece by artist Nancy Bannon that manifests a life-size, fabricated cornfield within Transformer's project space, inviting audiences to consider uses and preservation of natural resources.
Waddell Art Gallery While you were sleeping . . . Jazi Rock May 17 - June 18 Graffiti art
Ward Ellinger Gallery Natural Curiosities Tanja Bos May 29 - June 24 New Works Tanja Bos has lived in Washington, DC since 1989, but is originally from the Netherlands. She received her BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and has an MFA from the University of the Arts. Tanja's studio is in her Washington, DC home. She is part of a collective group of artists called the Mid City Artists, who organize open studio weekends in the Dupont Circle area, and also shows her work at Gallery Plan b in Washington, DC, and other local galleries. "I use oil paints and ink on canvas or wood panel. The desired textured effect in my paintings is created by using gesso, handmade Japanese paper which is archival, and the colors are created by scraping, rubbing, diluting or enhancing the density of the paint." - Yanja Bos
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 Three Generations of Artists Sandra Erbe Mary Scoggins Amanda Jane May 13 - June 5 Exhibition features Sandra Erbe, along with her mother, Mary Scoggins, and daughter, Amanda Jane.
Warhol's Garden, Sandra Erbe
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 Greenspiration May 12 - June 13 Artists residing in Virginia, Maryland, Washington DC, Pennsylvania and West Virginia were challenged to define, defy or deny GREEN in an all media, juried exhibition that interprets the theme of green in the most creative ways. This exhibition is an attempt to provide artists with a provocative theme that will encourage creative response outside the color wheel. Trudi Van Dyke selected the work to be exhibited.
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"
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