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
April 2 - May 17 American University Art Department: Student Exhibitions Presents work by AU undergraduate and MFA students. Works include paintings, prints, sculptures, design, and video installations.
Behind the Velvet Curtain: Contemporary Art from the Czech Republic Features works by women artists who entered the Czech and international art scene in the last 15 years. Viewers experience the former communist society where there is no place for addressing—without prejudice—female desire, sexuality, identity, maternity, or age. The exhibition is neither explicitly feminist nor political, but has a strong social dimension. Curated by Martina Pachmanová and sponsored by the Embassy of the Czech Republic.
Robin Rose: Cypher Exhibits multidimensional, multimedia work by Washington, D.C.-based Robin Rose, long considered one of the world’s masters of encaustic painting (using hot wax).
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Real Machers Portraits of American Jewish Gangsters, 1900-1945 Pat Hamou February 18 - May 17 Inspired by the accidental art of vintage mug shots and the charm of colorful characters, Pat Hamou’s own crime of passion has been the history of the Jewish Gangster, a fascinating, yet dark, blemish on the early 20th-Century Jewish-American experience
Pat Hamou
Arlington Arts Center Spring Solos 2009 April 17 - June 6 A survey of the finest cutting-edge contemporary art from across the Mid-Atlantic region. For this year's Spring installment, our panelists-including Hirshhorn curator Anne Ellegood, collector Philip Barlow, and members of our exhibitions committee-have selected five mid-Atlantic artists working with a broad range of materials and approaches.
The Art Gallery University of Maryland MFA 2009 May 6 - May 22
Brush Strokes Studio Gallery 10 Year Celebration Anabela Ferguson
May 2 - May 3 Works in oils, acrylics, pastel, and watercolors.
Anabela Ferguson
Conner Contemporary Art Cyclical Nature Erik Thor Sandberg April 4 - May 23 large oil paintings
Architectural Intersections Dean Kessmann
April 4 - May 23 Kessmann photographed his current apartment with a large-format view camera, focusing on points where off-white walls meet an off-white ceiling to define the shape of a room, at corners, as well as at junctures with encased supports and conduits.
Entre el Dios, El Diablo Isaac Maiselman
April 4 - May 23 Isaac Maiselman critiques political exploitation of religion in this video installation
Fleet - 2009, Erik Sandberg
Cross Mackenzie Gallery Huts Prakash Patel April 17 - May 15 Architectural photographs celebrate the whimsical small shelters designed by Miami's hottest architects to house the beaches' most central and honored members, the lifeguards.
A Cup Invitational An exhibition of inventive and original cups by dozens of local and national ceramic artists as part of Craft Week DC. Included in the show are many exceptional ceramic artists whose work the gallery has featured on a larger scale which now offers in a size to artistically enhance your morning coffee.
Curators Office Calm Complexities Eduardo Santiere April 4 - May 2 Works on paper by noted Argentine artist Eduardo Santiere. In these days of maddening economic, political, and social convolutions, Eduardo Santiere lays bare the complexities beneath the surface in an elegant abstract language. Eduardo Santiere's drawings are about the subtle, the minimal. Yet they contain universes within universes. Mind-blowingly delicate and intricate yet intimate in scale, these works appeal to true drawing connoisseurs and artists alike.
Bio construction 15, (extreme detail)
Gallery 50 Sicilia - a documentary of life in Sicily Duane Rieder May 9 - May 23 A collection of gelatin silver prints by Duane Rieder documenting the people and architecture of Sicily
I Pisani, Duane Rieder
Hamiltonian Gallery Works by Lisa Brotman Tom Block Michael Enn Sirvet March 21 - May 2 Lisa Brotman's paintings of women are part of an outgoing series that she began in the late 1970's. Brotman creates an environment full of slightly curious women and colorful, repetitive flora that teeters between familiar reality and phantasmagoria.
Twenty-five large, chaotic, mixed media panels wrap around the back of the gallery and together as a whole compose “Conference of the Birds,” an installation by Tom Block.
Michael Enn Sirvet dismantles, alters and reassembles manmade objects, or natural objects reshaped by man, to retell the stories of archetypal forms. His sculptures bridge the natural world with the industrial, and evoke questions of existence and man's dominion.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Major Retrospective of Louise Bourgeois February 26 - May 17 Bourgeois, a leading figure in 20th century art, was born in Paris in 1911 and has lived in New York since 1938. The exhibition will fill the museum's second-level galleries with over 120 works, primarily sculptural pieces, along with paintings and drawings.
Arch of Hysteria, Louise Bourgeois
International Art Affairs April 30 - May 9 Postconceptualism An exhibit curated and organized by Mark Cameron Boyd and Fernando Batista. This array of work presents 21st Century artists whose work extends conceptual art and continues its impact as Postconceptualism.
Video as Video: Rewind to Form Video is not only video as this exhibit curated by Alicia Eler and Peregrine Honig demonstrates.
Tension Iran is a nation with an amazingly rich culture and strong traditions dating hundreds of years. There is an immense gap between that rich past and the 21st Century. Two Iranian artists, Hedieh Ilchi and Roshanak, present art produced both in Iran and outside of that country.
Marsha Mateyka Gallery New Paintings Kathleen Kucka March 28 - May 2 "My painting has evolved from a personal language of abstract forms, made by pouring acrylic paint and manipulating the movement...I pour acrylic paint directly onto glass, which then forms a "paint fabric" that I can remove in a thin solid sheet. The "skins" as I call them, are then attached to a support, and the painting from this point is worked on as a collage. The interrelated layers have a materiality and dimensional quality" - Kathleen Kucka
Ephemeral Apparition
National Gallery of Art Caught in the Act: The Artist at Work March 23 - May 17 In 2008 Paul Katz, an artist and photographer for the Guggenheim Museum in New York, donated more than 1,500 examples of his work to the National Gallery of Art Library's department of image collections—negatives, vintage photographs, and color transparencies that depict his friends in the Manhattan art world from the 1960s to 1980s. Capturing both introspective moments and expressive gestures, Katz took not only posed shots and portraits of artists relaxing with friends and colleagues but also multiple frames of artists in the process of creating works of art. Among the individuals represented in the Paul Katz Archive at the National Gallery are Alfred Jensen, Jasper Johns, Donald Judd, and Robert Motherwell.
Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art March 1 - August 2 This exhibition offers the first in-depth look at these rare medieval manuscript illuminations from 52 single leaves and 4 bound volumes, among them a number of important recent acquisitions, which date from the 12th to the 16th century and were made in France, Germany, Austria, Bohemia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Italy. Designing the Lincoln Memorial: Daniel Chester French and Henry Bacon February 12 - February 12, 2010 The 6-foot-high plaster working model of the celebrated seated Lincoln statue by American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850–1931), designed for the Lincoln Memorial on the National Mall, will be on view in honor of President Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday. The plaster—used for the carving of the final 19-foot-high figure from 28 blocks of Georgia marble—is being lent to a museum for the first time by Chesterwood Estate and Museum, French's country home and studio in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a national and Massachusetts historic landmark In the Tower: Philip Guston February 1 - September 13 For more than five decades, American artist Philip Guston (1913–1980) explored ways to paint, from the mural art of the Depression through mid-century abstract expressionism to a raw new imagery beginning in 1968. His shocking return to figuration in that year, influenced by the comics and politics, paved the way for numerous developments in contemporary art. This exhibition of seven major paintings and a selection of prints and drawings, mostly drawn from the Gallery's own collection, charts Guston's career from 1949 to 1980. Link to Listen to Backstory Audio
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 Natural History Nature’s Best Photography Awards Exhibition 2008 November 8 - May 3 More than a decade since the program was first announced, hundreds of thousands of images have been entered by photographers at all levels of experience and from all parts of the globe. It has truly become a prestigious, international annual event for public participation. Each image displayed in this exhibition was selected for its excellence in use of light, subject, and composition.
Picasso Gallery of Art Painterly Prints: Monotypes and Chine Colle Mary E. Wagner May 15 - June 3
Studio Gallery Paintings and Prints Cynthia Jawitz Brower April 29 -May 23 Exhibition consists of landscape and plant forms in a several media including oils, watercolors, and prints ⎯ etchings, linoleum cuts, lithographs, and silkscreens. The subjects are drawn from the Dordogne, France and Cape Town, South Africa.
Duo Show: Recent Works Chris Chernow As a painter and printmaker, Chris works figures into simple environments. Ms. Chernow looks for edges where the figure and the ground can be merged, in order to create a sense of submission and solitude. Ms. Chernow calls herself an indirect painter, which means that her paintings consist of numerous layers applied over many months. The layers add to the richness of the paint and a reduction in detail.
Red Katya Kronick
Katya Kronick is a prominent abstract artist with a unique training in
the theory behind art & design. Her style is expressionism. She
paints with canvas on the ground, with no easel and almost no brush…
only paints, flowing and splashing.
Cynthia Jawitz Brower
Touchstone Gallery Connection Betsy Forster April 1 - May 3 A landscape painter who spends much of her time painting “en plein air”, who is inspired by the simple poetic motifs found in nature and the spiritual connection that it offers.
Various Realities Dina Volkova April 1 - May 3 Works created through out the last two years in different genres as well as techniques. Mostly, they are stories about people and events that happened to them. Dina tried to portray not just people, but also things that surround them: interiors of their houses, scenery that they see day in and day out, their pets, and other various important details.
The Clean Hands Project Nepali photographers April 1 - May 3 The Clean Hands Project is an initiative that trained Nepali Dalit journalists in photojournalism and videography. The project supplied journalists with professional photography equipment as they documented activity throughout the Dalit community. The project has helped to raise awareness of Nepal ’s current transformation and the Dalit Movement within that change
No One is Ordinary Anthony Dortch April 1 - May 3 "A combination of psychological intuition, observation and experience has inspired me to craft visual interpretations of peoples' environments thru the medium of modern technology and materials." - Anthony Dortch
Eye Jazz John Alan Nyberg April 1 - May 3 "It is my intent to combine collage, gesture, process, new paint technology, and abstract illusion applied to the plastic art of painting, in an attempt to push abstract vision." - John Alan Nyberg
Napa Valley, Betsy Forster
Washington Project for the Arts Secret Garden Tom Block April 16 - May 8 An installation of drawings and text inspired by the teachings of the Sufi mystics of Islam
Washington Sculptors Group Sculpture 1275 Lucile Driskell March 30 - May 22 Lucile Driskell is a native of New York and a graduate of Finch College in Manhattan. She makes distinctive and original works in a number of mediums and has been professionally creating artwork since 1968, primarily as a sculptor. With a lengthy and notable resume, Ms. Driskell has exhibited widely in solo, group and juried shows, frequently in New York City and Philadelphia. Her art is included in several private and corporate collections, in addition to the permanent collection of the Woodmere Art Museum in Philadelphia. She has also received the honor of being selected to the National Association of Women Artists.
Duet
West Annapolis Art Works Paintings Christine O'Neill April 3 - April 30 Christine is a local artist and teacher. She is a member of the Annapolis Watercolor Club, the Baltimore Watercolor Society,and an instructor at Md. Hall, AACC & KIFA. She currently resides on a 45' catamaran sailboat and many of her paintings were inspired while cruising the Chesapeake Bay.
