AHM Gallery Shadows in the Sea Robert Cantrell February 21 - April 1 Sale of prints will benefit the Shark Research Institute
Alliance Française Roast Beef, Texas Travel and Accidental Exposures Exhibit by Parisian based artists Matthew Rose, Delphine Perlstein, and JeanNoel L'Harmeroult February 27 - April 4 These three accomplished artists of separate traditions, meld their travels and influences into a single exhibition that is simultaneouslyrefreshing, invigorating, and starkly peculiar.
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Evri Kwong: Just Pretend Everything is OK January 31 - March 22 Adopts cartoon imagery and folksy realism to expose social and political outrages in contemporary life. Kwong’s narrative paintings address a variety of national issues, including hypocrisy, consumerism, racism, sexual abuse, religious intolerance, and violence.
Carrie Moyer: Painting Propagand January 31 - March 15 Uses the languages of abstraction and propaganda to advocate for human liberation. Moyer’s exhibition is presented in concert with the 16th annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference sponsored by American University’s Department of Anthropology. The conference will be held as AU Friday, February 13 through Sunday, February 15.
Kugach, Kugach, Kugach: Three Generations of Russian Artists January 31 - March 15 Uses beautiful technique and bucolic subject matter to present the viewer with an alternative vision of Russia during the past 70 years. Paul Daniel: Current Reflection January 31 - April 12 Daniel harnesses the movement of air, reflected sunlight, and the earth’s rotation to change the way we experience our environment in the sculpture garden outside the museum.
Affiche #8, Carrie Moyer
Arlington Arts Center Public/Private January 30 - April 4 Exhibition puts together two very different types of content in contemporary art: art about the artist's immediate surroundings, domestic sphere, and personal relationships; and art that exists out in the world, inviting or requiring the public's physical participation. Ultimately, PUBLIC/PRIVATE illustrates that these two types of work result from the same ideas about how art and life should relate to one another, and how viewers are meant to relate to works of art in the present tense. Artists featured in the show include: Ben Kinsley and Robin Hewlett Satomi Shirai Matthew Sutton Richard Saxton Chris Barr and Veronique Cote Lisa Blas, Mandy Burrow, Anissa Mack, Christian Moeller, and Stephanie Robbins.
Cleaning, Satomi Shirai
The Art Gallery University of Maryland Artist in Residence Linn Meyers February 11 - March 13 Features two large-scale wall drawing installations created in situ by the artist. The wall drawings reflect a current trend occurring in her work in which the center of the image is filled with pulsating, curvilinear forms winding in a dramatic and moving pattern that reverberates out to the edges with fewer and more defined repeated lines. Visitors are immediately aware of transformation of the gallery space with the construction of a fortyfour foot long concave wall covered by Meyers’ drawing, the artist’s largest wall drawing to date. The exhibition also features a number of smaller drawings on mylar, what Meyers refers to as “preparatory drawings” created as part of the process leading up to the wall drawings.
Linn Meyers
Art League Gallery 383: Viewing the Potomac Daniel Wise March 5 - April 6 Inspired by the beauty, diversity, the ever-changing atmosphere and environment of the Potomac River and its surroundings, pastelist Daniel Wise has created a series of paintings depicting scenes along the Potomac River.
The Athenaeum Maine Woods and Waters Deborah Ellis Barbara Southworth January 9 - March 8 Shared aesthetics and experiences are reflected in diverse style and media, Ellis through watercolor and Southworth through panoramic photography, as they visually explore the lands and waters of Maine.
Civilian Art Projects Semi-Final Frontiers Seth Adelsberger February 13 - March 14 In his first solo exhibition with Civilian, Seth Adelsberger exhibits new paintings and a site-specific mural. Combining visual ingredients inspired by everyday occurrences and memory, Adelsberger creates complex, unconventional paintings of wild, exotic color. Guantánamo Bay Christopher Sims February 13 - March 14 Twenty-five photographs depicting everyday life at the naval base and joint detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
Conner Contemporary Art This Shape We're In Brandon Morse Unknowns John Kirchner January 31 - March 21 Brandon Morse presents a new video and John Kirchner shows new sculpture
Untitled (from Unknowns), John Kirchner 2008
Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art will be closed for roof restoration January 26–March 13
Wounded Cities Photographs by Leo Rubinfien Reopens March 14 - March 29
Maya Lin Systematic Landscapes March 14 - July 12
Curators Office Conceal Project Dawn Black February 21 - March 28 Painted in watercolor, ink, and gouache, the works on paper present portraits of individuals altered by masks, uniforms, couture fashion, prison garb, ethnic attire, and other random eccentric forms of concealment. The artist was referred to the gallery by Curator's Office artist Jiha Moon
Conceal Project 013, Dawn Black
Del Ray Artisans Object D'ART February 27 - March 22 A juried exhibition designed to challenge the artists' creative energy by reaching beyond comfort-zones and exploring new styles and new mediums. Show artists participated in a preliminary dart-throwing event to determine both the style and medium they would be required to work in for this show. Nearly 40 local artists have stepped up to the challenge with photographers producing drawings, painters creating fiber art, and printmakers working on sculpture.
District Fine Arts Maquerade Madness Leah Tinari January 24 - March 28 This show features 12 paintings from 2005 – 2008, including six from Leah Tinari’s recent masquerade series. The content and formal elements in Tinari’s paintings combine to offer an always personal, occasionally caricature-like narrative, addressing and encompassing both the awkwardness and the complexity of the human condition. Although the work is a documentation of her personal experiences, she hopes that the images will evoke familiar feelings or create a sense of voyeurism - as if the viewer is peeking into a still from someone else’s life that is utterly foreign to them. Her paintings are snippets of time that capture moments and function as a visual diary to create her social realism, a documentation of 30-something contemporary lifestyle and behavior.
Masked Marty Is Mighty Tasty, 2008
Fraser Gallery 8th Annual International Photography Competition February 13 - March 7 This annual competition, curated by Catriona Fraser, receives hundreds of entries from local, national and international photographers.
Elizabeth, Andrea Land
Gallery 50 Recent Acquisitions Russell Richards March 13 - April 12 Russell U. Richards is a Charlottesville, Virginia- based artist who has worked in the past primarily in printmaking, developing multi-plate color methods in etching and in lithography, for which he received the Virginia Commission for the Arts Grant in 2002. His current focus is on painting techniques utilizing diverse media such as oils, inks and watercolors. He is also actively exploring the medium of lenticular holograms.
The Lost Chapter of the Karma Sutra, Russell Richards
H&F Fine Arts Gallery The Alasktic Print Series, Mappings, and Passages Kip Deeds, Angela White, & Tinam Valk March 5 - March 28 Three artists…three adventures. From Alaska to Mexico, Europe, California and back…three artists merge together to display their journeys. Using paper and canvas as their map, their journeys are drawn by means of relief print, screen print, encaustic, oil, acrylic, watercolor, modeling paste, charcoal and other mixed media. Together they share three exhibitions: The Alasktic Print Series, Mappings, and Passages. “The Alasktic Print Series” takes you on a journey from Mexico to Alaska through the eyes of Philadelphian artist, Kip Deeds. This project was initially inspired by Utagawa Hiroshige’s 1834 print series, “53 Stations on the Tokaido,” which depicts scenes along the famous eastern sea road in Japan. Deeds’ journey at times traces Lewis and Clark, depicts John Steinbeck’s Travels with Charlie, and moves to the lyrics of Woody Guthrie. A series of 15 relief and screen prints makes up “The Alasktic Series”. Angela White’s “Mappings” fuses translucent layers of luminous and encaustic surfaces that creates visual depth and density in her work from trips to our west and east coasts. White’s love of natural landscapes reflects a desire to show constant movement and natural rhythm. The seascapes and landscapes are created using mixed media, oil paints, and are occasionally embedded with gold and silver leaf covered with iridescent oil paints. Tinam Valk’s “Passages” through layers…layers of history, structures, statues, architecture. Tinam has traveled extensively to Europe, East Africa, South America but retreats annually to Hunting Island, SC for a constant source of inspiration. Painting’s fueled through memory or visits to old estates, Valk’s architecture-related paintings originate from modeling paste, acrylic, oils, charcoal, pencil, and pastel.
Angela White
Hamiltonian Gallery New Works Mark Cameron Boyd Christian Benefiel Leah Frankel Januar 31 - March 14 Using archetypal objects, commonly used in their own practices, each artist manipulates, strips, cleaves, shrouds and sheathes their source material into new forms yet diametrically preserves its essence.
Hemphill Fine Arts A Homecoming Celebration Selections from the Barnett-Aden Collection Presented by Bob Johnson January 31 - March 7
Myself, John N. Robinson
Hirshhorn Public Spirit Terence Gower November 5 - March 22
Honfleur Gallery Fragile John K. Lawson November 15 - January A solo exhibition of works by New Orleans artist John K. Lawson, Fragile surveys layers of personal and visual history and the artist's visual processing of his losses in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina left Lawson's studio under water for six weeks— when he returned, the salvaging process began, followed by the massive undertaking of recreating destroyed works, and finally in the production of new artwork in the form of a series of C-prints. Fragile, as it follows one artists journey through devastation to regeneration, exposes the impermanence of our surroundings, the fragility of the human psyche, and perseverance of creative spirit.
Huntington Community Center People of Color January 8 - February 26 The Prince George's Artists Association (PGAA) presents an exhibit which showcases the diversity and culture of Prince George's County. Selected PGAA members present their interpretation of the exhibit theme using a variety of media, including painting, photography, fabric and other techniques.
International Visions Gallery Kaye Wone Ibou Ndoye & Considerations II Marlene Godoy March 4 - March 28 Kaye Wone features new paintings on paper and drawings on glass by Ibou Ndoye. Ibou states that Kaye Wone, “literally means come on and show us what you have or what you can do.” The main idea is to demonstrate to others the common culture values we share as thinkers, artists, educators, and ordinary people, from all walks of life. Ibou’s art work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Africa and Europe, as well as in the U.S. Teacher, painter, poet, Marlene Godoy has established a successful career internationally as a master of the plastic arts. Her work reflects influences of a diversity of cultures: Indigenous, European, African, and Brazilian. In the mid-1990s Godoy became deeply interested in the ancient craft of encaustic. The encaustic technique served as a material support for her relief and assemblage sculptural paintings. Godoy uses fragments of an array of objects collected in the course of her personal history, ranging from bits of family china and scraps taken from her collection of handbags, to materials with semantic associations, such as chips of Brazilian wood, indigenous artifacts, and Brazilian gemstones.
Jane Haslem Gallery Suite Louisiana: Music of the Folks & Mardi Gros Warrington Colescott New Landscapes, Figures and Still Life paintings Elaine Treisman January/February
Marsha Mateyka Gallery Strata Susan Eder and Craig Dennis February 7 - March 21 Since 2001, Susan Eder and Craig Dennis have collaborated in photographing unusual aspects of common subjects. Their cloud work is comprised of naturally occurring letter, figure and object shapes found and recorded over a thirty-two year period. While previous works in their cloud series have focused on messages written in their cloud alphabet, this new group, titled "Strata", emphasizes recognizable images - some so convincing that it is difficult to believe they are just water vapor and only products of our own perception.
Image Bank, Susan Eder and Craig Dennis
McLean Project for the Arts Elements Youth Art Show Elementary Schools March 5 - March 22 Transitions Youth Art Show
Middle and High Schools March 25 - April 12 Every spring the galleries at MPA are dedicated to recognizing the budding talents of the young art students of Fairfax County. It is a collaborative project involving the county art teachers and specialists
McLean Project for the Arts Cellular Perspectives Betsy Stewart and Patrick Craig January 15 - February 21 Featuring two mid-career Washington area painters who share an interest in examining and enlarging visual images that reference the biological. Comfort Zones Michele Montalbano Interior room-scapes that explore electric color interactions and the depiction of space and pattern.
Spaces of Places Tom Wagner Post- industrial landscapes that combine painting, photography and drawing
National Gallery of Art Pompeii and the Roman Villa Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples October 19 - March 22 Presents some 150 works of sculpture, painting, mosaic, and luxury arts, most of them created before the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 AD. They include recent discoveries on view in the U.S. for the first time and celebrated finds from earlier excavations. Exquisite objects from the richly decorated villas along the shores of the Bay of Naples and from houses in the nearby towns of Pompeii and Herculaneum reveal the breadth and richness of cultural and artistic life, as well as the influence of classical Greece on Roman art and culture in this region.
Oceans, Rivers, and Skies: Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, and Alfred Stieglitz Through March 15 This exhibition features 21 works in chronological order: ten by Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), five by Ansel Adams (1902–1984), and six by Robert Adams (b. 1937). The three series have never before been exhibited together, and Stieglitz's Music: A Sequence of Ten Cloud Photographs was last seen in its entirety in 1923. Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans" January 18 - April 26 First published in France in 1958 and in the United States in 1959, Robert Frank's The Americans is widely celebrated as the most important photography book since World War II. Including 83 photographs made largely in 1955 and 1956 while Frank (b. 1924) traveled around the United States, the book looked beneath the surface of American life to reveal a profound sense of alienation, angst, and loneliness
Reading the Modern Photography Book: Changing Perceptions January 18 - April 26 Held in conjunction with Looking In: Robert Frank's "The Americans," this exhibition examines a variety of artistic and thematic approaches to the modern photography book, displaying examples that span the period from the late 1920s to the early 1970s.
Pride of Place: Dutch Cityscapes of the Golden Age February 1 - May 3 In the 17th century a new genre of painting—the cityscape—emerged, fostered by the booming economy of the Dutch Republic and its affluent urbanites. Images of towns and cities became expressions of enormous civic pride. This exhibition of some 48 paintings, as well as 22 maps, atlases, illustrated books, and prints, offers a comprehensive survey of the Dutch cityscape, from wide-angle panoramas depicting the urban skyline with its fortifications, windmills, and church steeples, to renderings of daily life along canals, in city streets, and in town squares
National Museum of Women in the Arts Picturing Progress: Hungarian Women Photographers,1900-1945 March 20 - July 5 At the turn of the 20th Century, photography afforded Hungarian women their first opportunity to become professional artists. This exhibition focuses on works produced between 1900-1945, a time of tremendous social and political upheaval.
Mary McFadden: Goddesses March 20 - August 30 Inspired by the art and culture of ancient civilizations, American fashion designer Mary McFadden is renowned for her romantic and inventive haute couture designs for women. Frequently referred to as a “design archeologist,” McFadden has created more than 100 collections.
Portraiture Now: Feature Photography November 26 - September 27 One Life: The Mask of Lincoln November 7 - July 9
Tokens of Affection and Regard: Photographic Jewelry and Its Makers October 24 - June 21
Permanent Exhibitions America’s Presidents Featuring first chance to view the portraits of President George W. Bush and first lady Laura Bush commissioned for the National Portrait Gallery. American Origins, 1600-1900 Jo Davidson: Biographer in Bronze Twentieth-Century Americans Bravo Champions
Nevin Kelly Gallery Atmospheric Conditions H. Wesley Wheeler March 17 - April 11 A solo exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist H. Wesley Wheeler. While Wheeler’s work is influenced by Mark Rothko’s atmospheric canvases and by the color palettes of Edward Hopper, Vincent van Gogh and others, he paints in his own individual style. His work falls into two principal categories: color field abstraction inspired by cityscapes, landscapes or seascapes, and what the artist calls “narrative abstraction,” in which he uses graphite, charcoal and pastel pencil to draw recognizable forms within the layers of a more traditionally abstract environment. His works are intended to suggest a story, a memory or a feeling supplied by the viewer.
Project 4 Why on Earth? Anthony Pontius January 31 - March 7 A solo exhibition of paintings and drawings by Brooklyn based artist, Anthony Pontius. By re-contextualizing historical imagery, stories and concepts in the world of now, Anthony Pontius' paintings present a new narrative that is familiar, yet one whose full meaning is not immediately accessible. Employing a mix of past and present techniques, he forms new arrangements using classical clarity to define a specific part of a story and at the same time, abstraction to complete or destroy the formation of the work. The finished painting is a proclamation of something new and not easily defined, recognizing that history and memory are not clear or concise, but intrinsically interpretive.
A Succesful Hunt, Anthony Pontius
The Soundry Art Garage Show Opened March 7 "An eclectic body of art work from a group of nomadic, clandestine artists from Northern Virginia and Washington DC. These accomplished artists converge to form a body of work that is emotionally provocative, socially relevant, and intellectually stimulating. Though they create independently, these artists merge their unique strength and vivacity to propel their messages through powerful and profoundly skillful works. They have shown together on many occasions, often underground and undisclosed." - The Soundry
Studio Gallery An Apple a Day Harriet Lesser March 4 - March 28
Explorations Suzanne Goldberg & Carol Rubin March 4 - March 28
Harriett Lesser
Studio Gallery Travels Stan Wenocur February 4 - February 28 A series of abstract, mixed media paintings which evoke landscape and water. The pieces are primarily executed on wood, layered with cement, fabric, oils and other media. Subtle use of color and texture help to produce changes of light and mood.
Rough Edges Bud Hensgen February 4 - February 28 Acrylic paintings project powerful and conflicting images before the viewer -- some exuberant, others restrained, several somewhat mysterious. Hensgen's forms in this exhibit command your attention and demand a response. You can't just walk away. Through a Pinhole Scott Speck February 4 - February 28 Photographs, created using handmade wood/brass pinhole cameras. These simple devices, free of lenses and electronic components, allow the artist to explore perspective, texture, and dimensionality in a unique and powerful way.
Scott Speck
The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art African Vision: The Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection February 15 - March 9 More than 80 superb artworks from one of the world's finest and most respected collections of African art are on view at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
Textile Museum Timbuktu to Tibet: Rugs and Textiles of the Hajji Babas October 18 - March 8 Through the display of objects from a wide geographic area encompassing Africa, West Asia and Central Asia, Timbuktu to Tibet explores the central role that textiles have played in many disparate cultures across several continents. The exhibition tells the story of the people who made the textiles, the ways they lived and worked, and the functions of their weavings. It also chronicles how the Western understanding and appreciation of non-Western textiles have changed over the 20th century, through the history of the 75-year-old Hajji Baba Club, the nation's oldest society of rug and textile collectors.
Touchstone Gallery Double Vision II 50 local area artists February 11 - March 28 Each of the thirty member artists will exhibit one artwork along with an artwork by an invited guest artist. This creative approach to an exhibition offers an exciting opportunity to showcase a variety of unique artworks from local artists. Artists participating: Steve Alderton and Tim Johnson, Betsy Forster and Dot Svendson, Charles St. Charles and Walter Smalling, Marcia Coppel and IURRO, Michele Cormier and Marc Dubois, Tory Cowles and Carolyn Johnson, Mari DeMaris and Kevin Mellema, Leslie A. Johnston and Christine Elias, Peter Karp and Paula Wachsstock, Harvey Kupferberg and Ulrich Stein, Mike Lang and Jack Eisenberg, Paula Lantz and Roberta Glick, Lauren Shea Little and Rachel Danish Kistner, Emery J. Lewis and Tom Harris, Teresa Roberts Logan and Mark Lunning, Rosemary Luckett and Jeanne Garant, Newton More and Loren Rosenstein, Nancy Novick and Jane Trainor, Mary D. Ott and Anne Marchand, Michelle Rogers and Jackie Hoysted, Janathel Shaw and Winston Harris, Mary Trent-Scott and Marguerite Thayer, Rima Schulkind and Roberta Morgan, Dina Volkova and Ksenia Grishkova, Janet Wheeler and Helen Corning, Cynthia Young and Carol Lopatin.
Untitled, Jackie Hoysted
Washington Printmakers Gallery Companions: Portraits Recent & Relevant Max-Karl Winkler February 23 - March 29 An exhibition of portraits by Max-Karl Winkler called Companions: Portraits Recent and Relevant; featuring eight monochrome woodcuts, together with the drawings and studies that preceded them. While in previous exhibitions, the artist has displayed his mastery of woodcuts through landscape and figurative work, Companions begins a new and more personal direction. Winkler invites us into his process, showing us how the prints developed, while introducing us his family members and close friends. These relationships, while specific to the artist, invite each of us to rediscover those most familiar.
Zenith Gallery Grand Finale Sales and Final Events February 15 - March 29 PARTIAL LIST OF ARTISTS John Aaron Beatriz Blanco Gloria Cesal Francois Chauvin Patrick Cochran Renee duRocher Drew Ernst Leslie Exton Robert Freeman Cassandra Gillens Julie & Ken Girardini David Glick Margery E. Goldberg Brenda Gordon John Grazier Stephen Hansen Philip Hazard Chris Hayman Frank Holmes Robert C. Jackson jodi William King Susan Klebanoff Lucartha Kohler Joan Konkel Shelley Laffal William Ludwig Jill Mackie Michael Madzo Stephen Maffin Vincent Magni Michaela Mansuino Davis Morton Elizabeth Raphael Amanda Richardson David Richardson Guenther Riess Ron Schwerin Sica Ellen Sinel Bradley Stevens Bill Suworoff Cassie Taggart Ray Wiger Paul Martin Wolff Michael Young Joyce Zipperer
