Addison/Ripley Fine Art Once, Upon Isabel Manalo September 12 - October 17 A collection of paintings and drawings that give new definition to the concept of Magic Realism. Her exhibition, "Once, Upon", seems to allow innocence and experience to exist on the same white surfaces. The places are primeval forests. The persons are, initially, her two, young daughters. A flash of time-stopping white light sears each of these works, freezing them in dreamy color at once fantastic and foreboding. Like the manipulated photographs that are the artist's starting point, the paintings and drawings have a quality of captured time.
Black History Museum Spirits in a Bottle Barbara Hardaway August 27 - October 3 Washington, D.C., area artist Barbara Hardaway decorated 100 Arizona Tea bottles for this exhibition of decorative expressions of an ancient African tradition. This whimsical show pays homage to the 9th- and 10th-century Congolese tradition of adorning the ends of tree branches with colorful bottles that would catch the sunlight.
Civilian Art Projects Love Letters Cara Ober September 11 - October 17 Ober layers drawing, painting, and printmaking into mixed media works that examine and reinterpret sentimental imagery.
Debriscapes Nikki Painter September 11 - October 17 Nikki Painter exhibits new drawings and a site-specific installation that explore -- in bright neon colors, pencil lines, and various materials -- the relationship and continuum between the built and natural worlds.
Corcoran Gallery of Art Sargent and the Sea Through January 3 More than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter of the late 19th century. The Corcoran's masterwork En route pour la peche (Setting out to Fish) (1878), will serve as the centerpiece of the exhibition, and will be joined by other works produced during, and inspired by, the artist's summer journeys from his home in Paris to Brittany, Normandy, and Capri, as well as two transatlantic voyages.
American Paintings from the Collection Through October 18
American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Ongoing
Sculpture from the Mouse House: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection at the Corcoran Ongoing
Nature as Nation 19th-Century American Landscapes from the Collection on view now This permanent collection installation features highlights of the Corcoran's distinguished holdings of 19th-Century American landscape painting.
Juried Alumni Exhibition 2009 Juror: George Hemphill September 23 - October 18
Corcoran Gallery of Art Sargent and the Sea Through January 3 More than 80 paintings, watercolors, and drawings depicting seascapes and coastal scenes from the early career of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), the pre-eminent American expatriate painter of the late 19th century. The Corcoran's masterwork En route pour la peche (Setting out to Fish) (1878), will serve as the centerpiece of the exhibition, and will be joined by other works produced during, and inspired by, the artist's summer journeys from his home in Paris to Brittany, Normandy, and Capri, as well as two transatlantic voyages.
American Paintings from the Collection Through October 18
American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Ongoing
Sculpture from the Mouse House: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection at the Corcoran Ongoing
Recent Acquisitions in the Corcoran Collection Through October 4
Nature as Nation 19th-Century American Landscapes from the Collection on view now This permanent collection installation features highlights of the Corcoran's distinguished holdings of 19th-Century American landscape painting.
Juried Alumni Exhibition 2009 Juror: George Hemphill September 23 - October 18
Curator's Office Slow Food Patrick Wilson September 12 - October 23 A solo exhibition of new paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Patrick Wilson. Entitled Slow Food, the five paintings on exhibit encourage the viewer to recommit to the pleasure of carefully looking at and savoring the elements of an abstract work of art, allowing for deep aesthetic nourishment.
Lantern, Patrick Wilson
Del Ray Artisans The Arts Build Communities Del Ray Artisans' All Member Show October 2 - October 25 "The Arts Build Communities" is a statewide theme established by Virginians for the Arts Foundation. The message is the same, regardless of the medium: The arts strengthen our communities, lift our spirits and build a better quality of life for all. In this, the third all member show for 2009, Del Ray Artisans reflect on the positive impact of art through a variety of media.
Great Falls Art Studios Sixth Annual Great Falls Art Studios Tour October 17 - October 18 Meet 44 artists in their home art studios - many in unusual buildings. On tour days pick up program & map @ Great Falls Library, 9830 Georgetown Pike
Suzanne Twyford
Hemphill Fine Arts Enigma John Dreyfuss September 12 - October 24 A site-specific installation by sculptor John Dreyfuss
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Anne Truitt: Perception and Reflection October 8 - January 3 Organized by Hirshhorn associate curator Kristen Hileman. The exhibition features more than 35 two-dimensional works alongside 49 examples of the radically reduced and evocatively painted sculptures that were the hallmark of the artist's 40-year career. Accompanied by the by the most comprehensive monograph on the artist to date , the exhibition explores Truitt's under-recognized role in the development of geometric abstraction during the second half of the 20th century.
Black Box: Guido Van der Werve April 20 - October 11
Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection December, 2008 - November 15 Strange Bodies brings together some of the most praised and popular examples from the collection. Works on paper can only be on view for several months at a time in order to maintain their best condition. Exhibition curator Kristen Hileman has taken this opportunity to introduce different pieces into the mix. Works that have not been on view for awhile; new acquisitions, such as Yinka Shonibare's The Age of Enlightenment - Antoine Lavoisier, 2008, a recent purchase featured in the spring issue of this publication; and a few surprises have switched out some of the more delicate works.
Anne Truitt in her Twining Court studio, Washington, DC, 1962.
Honfleur Gallery Between the Lines: A Sculptural Journey Inspired by Nature + Architecture Felipe Chapa October 2 - October 10 A new collection of mixed-media assemblage artwork by DC based designer Felipe Chapa. Between the Lines reflects the artist's training in architecture and carpentry and explores the balance between the manufactured world and natural aesthetics
National Gallery of Art Judith Leyster, 1609 - 1660 June 21 - November 29 In celebration of Judith Leyster's (1609 - 1660) 400th birthday, the Gallery will showcase her expressive Self-Portrait (c. 1630) as the focal point of a small exhibition that will include ten of Leyster's finest works from American and European collections. The Art of Power: Royal Armor and Portraits from Imperial Spain June 28 - November 1
An Antiquity of Imagination: Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture July 4 - November 1 Led by Tullio Lombardo (c. 1455 - 1532), the great Venetian sculptors of the High Renaissance created new ideals of beauty, shaped by a poetic and nostalgic approach to classical antiquity. This exhibition, the first in America dedicated to Tullio, features his sensuous and dramatic double-portraits in high relief: A Couple (c. 1490/1495) from the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro in Venice and the "Bacchus and Ariadne" (c. 1505) from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Ten other carefully selected works exemplify the creative approach and influence of Tullio and his closest followers, including his brother Antonio Lombardo, Simone Bianco, Antonio Minello, and Giammaria Mosca.
Recent Acquisitions: The Grega and Leo A. Daly III Fund for Architectural Books May 16 - November 15
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 - October 18 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. The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850 - 1900 October 1 - January 18 Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500 - 1800 October 1 - January 31 For the first time the Gallery will present a selection of approximately 120 of the most significant, beautiful, and representative drawings made over a period of three centuries by the best French artists working at home and abroad and by foreign artists working in France.
The Robert and Jane Meyeroff Collection: Selected Works October 1 - May 2 Through remarkable acuity, exhaustive study, and close relationships with the artists, the Meyerhoffs amassed one of the most outstanding collections of modern art, with an emphasis on six American masters: Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella, in addition to important works by leading abstract expressionists and younger artists. Some 126 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints include several acquisitions made after the collection was last highlighted in a major exhibition at the Gallery in 1996.
Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986 - 1995 October 11 - January 10
Editions with Additions: Working Proofs by Jasper Johns October 11 - April 4 The exhibition includes approximately 45 proofs for lithographs, etchings, and screenprints that the artist expanded in a range of media, including pastel, ink, and paint. In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes October 25 - March 14
Nevin Kelly Gallery Dark Matter Ellyn Weiss September 17 - October 17 The images resulting from her interaction with tar-as-medium have an eerily organic quality to them, appearing to the artist like living things "swimming up from the primeval darkness." They register with us at the most basic level of all, as if triggering a memory we carry in our DNA of the moment life began.
Project 4 Relatively Epic Raymond Uhlir September 19 - October 24 The artist's first solo exhibition at Project 4 reveals a winding narrative not only within the paintings themselves, but throughout the entire gallery space as the viewer moves from one piece to the next. The clean crafted, meticulous paintings reminiscent of cartoon cells reflect on human interaction and drama as they set the stage for Uhlir's epic.
I am not your father, Raymond Uhlir
Reyes + Davis Gallery Artists Jeff Huntington Pepa Leon Johnanna Mueller Michael Enn Sirvet September 11 - October 16
Studio Gallery Characters And Their Vignettes Yvette Kraft September 30 - October 24 "One of the great rewards I receive as a painter is bringing to life my observed characters and giving them both an identity and a story for the world to see and experience" - Yvette Kraft
Body Parts Amy Davis September 30 - October 24
A little Aviary of SeX and Miscellany Langley Spurlock September 30 - October 24
Vivid Solutions Gallery A Certain Longing Curated by Jared Ragland September 18 - October 24 A group photography exhibit featuring recent alumni and current students from Corcoran College of Art + Design. Curator Jared Ragland brings together fifteen artists whose photographic work journeys through defined and undefined moments, struggles with personal identity and purpose, and comments on contemporary conditions of isolation and alienation - all parts of the existential Search described by Walker Percy in the 1962 novel, The Moviegoer. Photographers Aimee Anthony, Christopher Cunningham, Nick Kirkpatrick, Caitlin Lennon, Colin Loughlin, Paul Jeffreys, William Knipscher, Nic Persinger, Eric Gregory Powell, Megan Rall, Collin Sundt, Kelly Teeling, Francis Michael Terzano, Kristoffer Tripplaar and Michelle Yo.
U.S. Botanic Garden Flora: Growing Inspirations May 23 - October 12 Features sculptures by artists from across the United States and Zimbabwe in spectacular outdoor garden rooms and in the East Gallery. The exhibit is co-organized with the Washington Sculptors Group
Fiddlehead, John Jayson Sonnier
Washington Printmakers Gallery Water, Wings and Wildflowers Yolanda Frederikse September 29 - October 25 Prints and Watercolors
