Addison/Ripley Paintings and Works on Paper Mary Page Evans October 16 - November 15 In 1984, artist Gene Davis described Mary Page Evans paintings as, "hymns of unadulterated joy." While Evans paints still lifes and images of the human form it is her landscape and garden paintings created directly from nature, en plein air that capture this sentiment.
AHM Gallery Portraits of Guatemala Nina Weinberg Doran October 25 - November 12 more
Goya.Disparates .... Continuity of an Unfinished Project Ricardo Calero September 9 - October 26
Close Encounters: Facing the Future Curated by Donald Russell and Niels Van Tomme September 13 - October 26 Artists will include Allora & Calzadilla, Enrique Chagoya, Mel Chin, Jenny Holzer, Mildred Howard, Ester Partegas, and Roger Shimomura.
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Besa - Muslims Who Saved Jews In WWII Norman H. Gershman September 2 - November 30 When post-World War II Europe found itself devastated by the loss of its Jewish population, Albania was the only country to boast a larger number of Jewish people than it had housed prior to the Holocaust. Over 2,000 Jews from Albania, Greece, Austria, and Italy were hidden in the homes of Albanian Muslim families throughout the War. Norman Gershman, an American photographer fascinated by these stories, traveled to Albania and Kosovo to chronicle the tales of the righteous Albanians and their devotion to Besa, an Albanian code of honor, which means "to keep the promise."
Home Plates November 6 - December 13 The Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery has partnered up with All Fired Up ceramic studios to bring Home Plates to the Gallery. Basically, they handed 60 local artists a blank dinner plate to use as their “canvas.” Home Plates is thematically focused on the community table. more
Arlington Arts Center Fall Solos 2008 October 7 - November 29 Katie Creyts makes narrative-driven sculptures using glass and found objects. Her pieces are darkly humorous evocations of fairy tales—typically commenting on the infinite disproportion between those stories and actual lived experience. Lily Cox-Richard explores the intersection of pop-culture, pseudo-science, and biology with an installation employing images of Elvis Presley, Nikola Tesla, and lightning bolts. (Richmond, VA ) Ben Pranger's installation includes an ambitious, room-filling, floor-to-ceiling sculpture—a cloud of interlocking words all taken from the Book of Revelations and inscribed on separate pieces of wood in braille. (Roanoke, VA) Andrea Chung makes representational paintings, large-scale sculptures, and site-specific installations evoking human geography—specifically, her family’s connections to Africa, China, and India via Caribbean trade in sugar, cocoa, and rum. (Baltimore, MD) Morgan Craig makes large oil paintings of inaccessible architectural ruins—dilapidated, abandoned urban spaces. The paintings are reconstructed from photographs and memories generated while trespassing in condemned, structurally unsound buildings. (Philadelphia, PA) Robin Dana shoots and prints breathtaking large-scale color photographs of destroyed rural landscapes—razed by the mining industry. (Alexandria, VA)
Art League Gallery Presence Edward J. Reed September 5 - October 6 Already a consummate portrait painter, Edward J. Reed now strives to capture people in the context of a greater narrative. He is increasingly drawn to individuals and compositions that exhibit a contemplative feel and a broader range of emotions and sense of experiences. “Presence,” Reed’s solo exhibit at The Art League Gallery, features new works that capture individuals and emotions within a deeper narrative context.
“I strive to find and create divergent themes rather than repeating the same motif in each canvas,” states Reed. “I feel compelled to explore a range of emotional stages and struggles. People with character or dignity capture me, people who inherently project strong emotions, unexpected emotions.” Reed develops a diverse range of impacts with his new works, taking his paintings beyond portraiture.
Reed paints from life, where “their true personalities emerge. I rarely ask subjects to stay still. I want them to move, talk, and relax. This lets me infuse my work with a sense of movement, more accurately revealing the whole person,” he states.
Reed studied intensively with Danni Dawson, Robert Liberace, and Diane Tesler at The Art League School. He has won numerous other national and international accolades for his painting. Among these, American Artist Magazine awarded him its 70th Annual Reader’s Choice Award for Best Oil in 2007. In its International Portrait Competitions, the Portrait Society of America awarded him the Best Portfolio Award in 2007 and an Honors Award in 2006. The Portrait Society of Canada awarded him Second Place in its 2006 International Portrait Competition. Artist’s Magazine ranked him a finalist in both the Still Life and Portrait and Figure Categories of its 23rd Annual Art Competition. His work has been exhibited extensively throughout the regions and is held widely in private collections. Reed currently teaches painting at The Art League School. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and his A.B. from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine.
Failing Light, Edward J. Reed
Art League Gallery Mending Fences Michele Hoben October 9 - November 3 Fences have been primarily used as dividers of land, conveying both safety and fear. Some menacing, some beautiful, materials both humble and exquisite, their purpose is both necessary and silly. The symbolic parallels between fences and what’s occurring in our country are timely. Hoben’s mixed media series, “Mending Fences,” has come to create a subtle commentary on our current political and economic environment.
Near Parallel II, Michele Hoben
Athenaeum Primary Colors Murney Keleher & Betsy Anderson September 27 - November 9
Murney Keleher
Blueberry Art Gallery Pickanniny, Gollywogg, Mammies, & Coons November 8 - November 30 A Capital Area Food Bank fundraiser featuring collectibles and original print works
Caroll Square Gallery They Came From Beyond the Beltway: Tourists at the National Mall Lucien Perkins September 5 - November 21
Conner Contemporary New Work Leo Villareal: Recent Work Gallery Artists September 27 - November 9 New large-format digital light sculptures by Leo Villareal: Diamond Matrix, Death Star and Horizon 2. & An exhibition of recent work by Conner Contemporary artists including: Mary Coble's Blood Script performance documentation, Mark Bennett's Mommie Dearest architectural drawing, Erik Sandberg's latest monumental canvas, Kenny Hunter's recent sculpture, Zoë Charlton's figural drawing, Gabriel de la Mora's memento mori drawings, Harry Shearer's latest political videos, and works by Maria Friberg, Julee Holcombe, Dean Kessmann, David Levinthal, Avish Khebrehzadeh, John Kirchner, Jeremy Kost, Brandon Morse, Joe Ovelman, Patricia Piccinini, as well as *gogo art projects artists: Geoffrey Aldridge, Taylor Baldwin, Ryan Carr Johnson, Adam De Boer, Isaac Maiselman, Natalia Panfile, Sabeen Raja, Nathaniel Rogers, Zach Storm, and Matthew Sutton more
Leo Villareal - 2008 - Diamond Matrix (detail)
Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts Architects Fired II Mark McInturff Anthony Barnes Guy Martin Bill Bonstra Tom Kerns Janet Bloomberg/KUBE Dhiru Thadani Louis Sinclair Outerbridge Horsey Salo Levinas October 17 - November 28 DC's most innovative and celebrated architects will turn their design sensibilities to the medium of clay. Armed with12 pounds of earthenware, the architects, free to explore the medium as sculpture, vessel or model – will demonstrate their 3-dimensional ideas without the normal constraints of budgets and building codes. more
Del Ray Artisans PICTURE ME! The Artistic Self-Portrait in the 21st Century Del Ray Artisans’ All-Member Show September 12 - October 4 more
Del Ray Artisans From our Trees...Artistry is Revealed October 10 - November 2 Del Ray Artisans and the Washington Woodworkers' Guild collaborate on an exhibition of recent work by members of both groups. The exhibit features both reproduction and studio furniture, turned vessels, delicate carvings and original sculpture crafted by the woodworkers and the walls will be graced with paintings, drawings and photographs, all interpreting this years theme, From our Trees ... Artistry is Revealed
District Fine Arts What Comes Next John Trevino September 6 - November 8 A new series of photographs by artist John Trevino. In his work, Trevino examines dreams and memory created as the residual of human interaction. These images build on that theme by documenting his friends, colleagues, and acquaintances wearing water polo caps customized by the artist. more
Bill, John Trevino
Flashpoint Gallery Stop and Go Nicole Lenzi October 17 - November 15 With Eastern philosophy as her guide, Nicole Lenzi creates an improvisational installation on the gallery floor using two- and three-dimensional materials in response to the space to broaden the boundaries of how to see, experience and define drawing. Using common materials such as tape, molding, tiles, line and light, Lenzi creates performance-based drawing installations where a state of flux informs the work.
Fine Art and Artists Gallery Layers Lisa Bartleson October 18 - November 15 The name of the collection, Layers, is a true
description of Bartleson’s artistic process. Each piece includes
translucently painted plastic which she cuts into various forms and
shapes. She then experiments with the depth, texture and unique colors
that are created by layering the strips on top of each other. Bartleson, a California resident, spent 10+ years in the biotechnology field, before making a major career change when she left the industry to focus on fine arts. more
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FotoWeek DC
The first annual celebration of photography in the nation's capital
November 15 - November 22
FotoWeek DC will feature a photography contest and juried exhibition
open to professional and amateur photographers, along with gallery
openings, lectures, educational workshops, portfolio reviews, book
signings, and special offers on photographic services and merchandise
from local area retailers. The week-long celebration will culminate in
a gala awards ceremony hosted by FotoWeek DC sponsor National
Geographic, recognizing area photographers across several genres,
including photojournalism, commercial, fine art, amateur, and student
photography. FotoWeek DC will issue a call for competition entries this
summer.
collages Patricia Zannie November 5 - November 30 Photographs by Holly Foss, silk and canvas paintings by Bobbie Salthouse and collages by Patricia Zannie. . Each artist has exhibited independently and collectively at the Gallery and other art spaces locally and nationally. Their artwork is in corporate, public and private collections nationally and in several foreign countries.
In Oxford, Holly Foss
Fraser Gallery Transported David FeBland September 12 - November 8 Since FeBland's last exhibition with the Fraser Gallery in 2006, he has had several successful solo exhibitions in London, Germany and Italy. These new paintings are based on a transitional time in the artists life. FeBland writes; 'The paintings before you, all autobiographical to some degree, draw from a more expansive tableau than previous bodies of work that were driven by my everyday experiences on my daily commute between home and studio. Here, I take a step offshore from my island residence, New York City, with its implied risk in crossing swift waters, and symbolize a leap of a more personal kind...away from the protective cocoon of a longtime work environment and into something yet to be defined.' more
Pagan, David FeBland
Gallery 50 Fall Group Show October 15 - November 11 Richard Chandler Hoff Susan Finsen Michael Fitts Michael Matarese Rose Minetti Duane Rieder Victor Spinski "I chose work that exhibits a wide variety of styles and media to echo this divergent music we classify as jazz. The artists are all from the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia areas." Explains gallery owner Jay Pastore. "We are so lucky to have such a wide array of talent to choose from and Jazz Festival seems like the perfect time to showcase this wealth of regional art for locals and visitors alike."
Vesuvio Bakery Soho, NYC, Duane Rieder
Great Falls Art Studios Tour 38 painters, potters, sculptors and other artists October 18 - October 19 Self-guided driving tour to visit 38 painters, potters, sculptors and other artists in home studios on scenic back roads in Great Falls, Virginia. Watch the creative process at work. Many studios are located in barns, historic buildings or unusual houses. Art exhibits at other venues. Map and directory at www.GreatFallsStudios.com
H&F Fine Arts Gallery Aquí Estamos Sandra Ramos Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons Cirenaica Moreira Marta Maria Perez Bravo Kcho (Alexis Leyva Machado) Roberto Acosta Wong Aimeé Garcia Marrero Curated by F. Lennox Campello November 6 - November 30 Aquí Estamos (Here We Are) presents recent work by several important Cuban artists working out of Havana as well as Cuban artists from the Cuban Diaspora. In these works we find narratives and imagery that represent many of these artists’ historical dissidence to the stark issues of contemporary Cuban life. The works are images that offer a historical and visual sentence in the history of an island nation with a powerful world presence in the arts and events of world history.
Hamiltonian Gallery new works Nao Matsumoto, Bryan Rojsuontikul Ian MacLean Davis October 11 - November 2 In its inaugural exhibition, Hamiltonian Artists and Gallery proudly present new works by three artists who seek to challenge viewers to experience this artistic pursuit through their works. Nao Matsumoto's new sculptural forms draw upon themes and messages derived through the observation of bizarre and biting relationships in his everyday surroundings. Ian MacLean Davis creates abstracted paintings and drawings born from pop images, with which he examines the effect technology and pop culture has had on learning, image recognition and memory. As Bryan Rojsuontikul pays homage to the history of Washington Color School hardedge painting, he also challenges its limitations while he builds his colorful and elaborate Duct Tape installations.
WHORE, Nao Matsumoto
H&F Fine Arts Gallery The Crossing Of The Creatures Marta Perez Garcia October 4 - November 1 Master woodcut artist and painter Marta Pėrez García exhibits her latest prints, paintings and drawings exploring space, performance, and the translocations and transformations of creatures.
LAST CALL , PAINTING, ACRYLIC ON PAPER 2007
Hemphill Fine Arts Christenberry William Christenberry September 13 - October 25 Long fascinated by the south of his childhood, William Christenberry explores the haunted history and rough beauty of rural Alabama with a unique and authentic vision. The architecture, natural landscape, signage and ephemera of the south make their way literally into his photography and figuratively into his works on paper and sculpture. CHRISTENBERRY features new work in all three mediums.
Better now than they once was John Watson September 19 - November 1
William Christenberry, House and Car, Near Akron, Alabama, 2001, archival pigment print, 8" x 10"
Hillyer Art Space Northmen's Place Made Southfolk's Thing: Landscapes of Finland and Nova Scotia Paul Reuther September 5 - October 31 The exhibition features the last few years of Reuther's efforts to represent the landscapes of Maine, Maritime Canada and most recently, Kemijärvi, Finland where he attended an artist residency this summer. Northern lights, cool water-based climates, and the outdoors are typical characteristics in Reuther's paintings, all of which were completed on location.
Fragmented Light Maro Vandorou Original photographic material of Keramicos, an ancient cemetery in Athens, Greece, printed as Platinum Palladium prints. Vandorou uses an eclectic mix of photographic techniques spanning three centuries of photography to create a series of images that convey a sense of time passing, the brevity of life, and the fragility of both.
Maro Vandorou
Honfleur Gallery Three Lenses/Trois Objectifs Jean Francois Rauzier, Jean-Noel L’Harmeroult and Cyril Anguelidis September 29 - November 7 These artists are like household names in their native Paris. With established careers in fine art and fashion photography, the three artists have developed specialized techniques in digital photography and painting to wide acclaim at home. In their Washington premier, Rauzier, L’Harmeroult and Anguelidis bring us a taste of the digital/ photographic process known as Digigraphie, and the unique ways that different artists can utilize it. Digigraphie, pioneered by Epson France, provides artists, museums and collectors a system to produce limited edition, certified, archival contemporary art prints.
Jane Haslem Gallery Persimmon Poem Bonnie Stone October 5 - October 31 Watercolors The title, Persimmon Poem, is taken from one of the paintings because it reflects the artist’s lively and vivid imagination. As always, these new works are imbued with rich opaque colors. Stone paints much as one would lay out a collage. Her themes are religious, women’s issues, and symbolic. Her women are from all ethnic backgrounds. And while these little paintings are very serious in subject matter they are filled with humor. Further, many of Stone’s works have the unusual perspective of being seen from above. One returns to these images again and again and each time they are viewed one is taken in by their complexity and beauty.
Mariachi Jaime Hernandez November 8 - November 30 Born in El Salvador, Hernandez has lived in Washington DC since 1980. He began to paint as a creative outlet to the construction work and house painting he did to earn a living. His work has evolved organically from using the house paint, plaster, and materials of his trade into profound outsider art. Producing work in a variety of mediums, Hernandez communicates a wide variety of emotions in his intuitive abstract works.
National Museum of the American Indian FILM INDIANS NOW! October - November 2008 NMAI’s Film and Video Center and the National Gallery of Art present an eight part screening series, imparting fresh views regarding the Native American experience as described in contemporary Media. Each program will include a moderated discussion on how media affects and empowers our collective image of what a Native person is.
November 22 A Future Realized; Films by Today’s Indians A broad scope of the newest films—narrative, documentary, experimental— from some of the best Native American filmmakers working today: Jeff Barnaby (Mi’gmaq), Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Cree), Dustinn Craig (White Mountain Apache/Navajo), Ramona Emerson (Navajo), and Andrew Okpeaha MacLean (Inupiaq)
November 23 THE DOUBLE ENTENDRE OF RE-ENACTMENT: An Interactive Program with Gerald McMaster.
A still from the film "4-Wheel War Pony"
Nevin Kelly Gallery Temporary Constructions Stirling Elmendorf Mark Parascandola November 12 - November 23 Exhibition showcases new photographs by Stirling Elmendorf and Mark Parascandola highlighting architectural changes over time in Washington, DC and elsewhere by juxtaposing images of contemporary monumental architecture with those of time-worn abandoned structures.
Nevin Kelly Gallery A History of Dogs and Witches Laurel Hausler October 15 - November 9 Laurel Hausler has forgone formal training in favor of developing her own style. She combines collage, assemblage, drawing and painting, using a wide variety of media including oil paint, paper, pencil, ink, wax, coffee, natural materials and found objects. Her style is narrative, heavily influenced by the limits imposed on her in Catholic schools and by a fondness for history. Hausler's characters live in a world of dark ambiguity. Her paintings often appear haunting at first, but her message is typically more poignant and cheeky than macabre. Guided by her choice of medium, Hausler explains that her characters often push forth their own stories—a phenomenon she describes as "mysterious." more
Randall Scott Gallery the most normal person i know Chris Anthony October 25 - November 22 Chris Anthony photographs within a world lined with antique wallpaper, creaky hardwood floors and vast ballrooms dimly lit with grand chandeliers. His imagery draws inspiration from Victorian and Flemish painters, Caravaggio and photographer Julia Margaret Cameron with stylized set designs making use of vintage props that are mainly from his personal collection of masks, costumes and furnishings. His process equally moves between modern digital technology, and a large format film camera mounted with vintage lenses dating back to 1870.
Chivalry Towards Ladies, Chris Anthony
Reyes + Davis Judy Jashinsky October 24 - November 28
Studio Gallery Figures: Painted and Drawn Amy B. Davis October 29 - November 22 This show is a combination of painted and drawn figures. The painted figures are explored in an abstract manner using oils, graphite and encaustic. They stand alone or in many grids. The drawings are all gestural, that is quickly (30 seconds) drawn from the model. Many of them are then reworked with colored pencil. New Work Kofi Dofour Cedric Williams October 29 - November 22
Target Gallery Finding Equilibrium Travis Graves October 22 - November 23 Travis Graves’ makes a statement about society’s relationship with the natural world and the effort of finding a balance between the two through his use of material (metal, magnets, wood and lead). In the artist’s statement, he expresses that his choice of raw wood is in reference to the natural world and for our expectations we have attached to it.
Target Gallery Finding Equilibrium Travis Graves October 22 - November 23 Tennessee Sculptor and professor, Travis Graves’ work seeks to “engage questions of how we view the environment and identify our relationship to the world in which we exist.” His work consists of actual logs that are displayed using visually uncomfortable balancing acts. Using lead and magnets some of his work makes the obviously heavy logs feel weightless, with some pieces floating in space or appear frozen in motion as they appear to be exploding from the wall in multiple pieces. He states, “ Sometimes our relationships are even, consistent, harmonious, and balanced. At other times it becomes more irregular, setting us off balance with ourselves and putting in motion consequences.”
Touchstone Gallery Faces Forward Charles St. Charles October 8 - November 8 Monotype Prints Particularly striking series of mask-like wise men on black paper, stunningly floated again more
Ward Ellinger Gallery Make You Feel Dirty Lewis Allen October 31 - November 28 New Works
Lewis Allen
Washington Printmakers Gallery Layers of Meaning Barbara Bickley October 28 - November 30 Recent mixed media prints and dimensional print constructions
Unearthing Memories, Barbara Bickley
Zenith Gallery Food Glorious Food IV Changing Courses Presented by the Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) To Benefit the Capital Area Food Bank October 23 - November 9 An eclectic menu of paintings, sculpture and photographs depicting food in all its fabulous forms. more
Spicy Hot, Philip Hazard
Zenith Gallery Food Glorious Food IV Changing Courses Presented by the Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF) To Benefit the Capital Area Food Bank Renee DuRocher Sofia Gawer-Fische Siobhan Gavagan Cassandra Gillens Brenda Gordon Stephen Hansen Philip Hazard Robert Jackson Michela Mansuino Anne Marchand Carol Newmyer John Pack Jane Pettit Ron Schwerin Cassie Taggart Alyson Weege October 23 - November 9 An eclectic menu of paintings, sculpture and photographs depicting food in all its fabulous forms. the show’s mix of food, art and charity is a recipe that pleases the palates of art patrons and food aficionados, while raising money for the Capital Area Food Bank through a fundraising event on October 23, the sale of original art, a calendar showcasing pieces from the show and the sale of Giclée prints of select art from the calendar.
The theme of the show is Changing Courses, and as in the past, artworks in the exhibition will be featured in the Food Glorious Food 2009 Calendar, along with recipes contributed by top area chefs. The calendar will be available for a minimum donation of $15 at numerous locations, with all proceeds going to the food bank.
Opening Event – The Zenith Community Arts Foundation will launch the show and 2009 calendar at Zenith Gallery on Thursday, October 23, beginning at 7pm. Highlights of the festive evening will include a silent auction and tasty treats prepared by participating chefs.
Tickets to the popular event, benefiting the Capital Area Food Bank, are $50 per person and each guest receives a complimentary calendar. Participating Chefs – Chef’s and restaurants contributing coveted recipes to the calendar are 701, Black Salt, Chef Geoff’s, Citronelle, Good Stuff Eatery, Jose Andrès, Locanda, PS7’s, Rasika, Restaurant Nora, Rock Creek and Vegetate.
Spicy Hot, Philip Hazard
Zenith Gallery Countours & Concourses Renee duRocher and Mary-Ann Prack October 3 - November 2 Canadian-born artists Painter Renee duRocher and sculptor Mary-Ann Prack share more than their native country, including a contemporary style inspired by the past, and a penchant for abstract figurative art, painted in earth tones with vivid colors and linear grace. Where they differ, at least in this show, is that duRocher’s figures evoke a sense of modern society’s activity and purpose while Prack’s seems timeless and spiritual. more
Faster Than Time, Renee duRocher
Zenith Gallery The Medium is the Message jodi Paul Martin Wolff November 7 - November 30 The paintings and sculpture in this show were born of the sophistication, simplicity and elegance of two artists whose work needs no message. For jodi and for Paul Martin Wolff, who came to art later in life, form and texture reign. And, in this exhibition, the ying and yang of their work is harmonious: black and white, smooth and textured, opaque and luminous. more
Symphony, jodi
Zenith Gallery Lenscape David Glick Colin Winterbottom November 14 - November 30 Two of Washington’s finest photographers in a show dedicated to landscapes … some made by man, others by nature. more
