Adam Lister Gallery It's all a dream Group Exhibition September 10 - October 17 Featured artists: Diana Adams, David Barr, Jennifer Bock-Nelson, Amy Boone Mcreesh, Remmi Brant, Sean Donlon, Stephanie Rivers, Willie Wayne Smith Through painting, silk screening, photography, mixed-media collage and other processes, this group exhibition aims to explore and challenge notions about the human perceptions of reality
The Rabbit Hole, Remmi Brant
Addison Ripley the second element: stratus series Nancy Sansom Reynolds September 10 - October 23 A large body of new sculpture in a broad range of materials: bronze, resin and beeswax as well her now familiar, layered plywood. These sinuous, striated, elegant shapes, often suspended on walls, are at once solid and weightless, capable of taking flight but firmly grounded. It is so appropriate, therefore, that the artist's title, "the 2nd element" refers to air as do her titles which name cloud formations: stratus nebulosus, fibratus, pileus, radiatus and castellanus. Poetic names for ethereal forms.
stratus: sunset 2, Nancy Sansom Reynolds
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Re-Vision American University Alumni show August 31 - October 24 Exhibition showcases 97 works by 60 alumni artists representing several generations, with no work created prior to the year 2000
Time, News Paintings and Natural Forms Luciano Penay August 31 - October 24 A collection of large collages using everyday materials such as beer cans, newspapers and baby dolls.
Love Affair of the Empress BG Muhn August 31 - October 24 A painting installation featuring portraits of fictional Chinese empresses as a contrast of authoritarian power and human vulnerability. The techniques utilized in the work range from official Chinese portrait style to a face composed of hundreds of houseflies glued to the canvas.
Way-Stations Alan Binstock August 31 - October 24 Large sculptures of steel, glass, and stone that evoke celestial colors and forms from this former NASA architect.
Norse Soul: The Legacy of Edvard Munch
BG Muhn, From the series Lover, Empress
Applegate Gallery Works by Students of Sunset Hills Montessori School to benefit TheReadingConnection.org September 25 - October 20
New Photographs Mary Louise Ravese October 23 - November 17
Conner Contemporary Infinity John Kirchner September 11 - October 23 A large scale sculpture installation
Mercurius Duplex John Stark September 11 - October 23 UK artist's first solo US exhibition presents a new series of paintings in oil on wood panels
Video Susan MacWilliam September 11 - October 23 Belfast-based artists probes the paranormal, the supersensory and the tradition of psychic research through video.
The Fall (from Mercurius Complex), John Stark
Cross Mackenzie Gallery New Architectural Ceramic Work Kath Erteman September 17 - October 13 Ceramic work that includes large installation of 3D architectural wall tiles, paper and clay monoprints, and columnar and horizontal vessels.
Great Falls Studios Tour October 16 - October 17 Visit 48 painters, sculptors, photographers, potters, jewelry designers, quilters, and other artists in their own studios all across Great Falls, Virginia. See studios in unique and sometimes unusual houses. Watch artists demonstrate their techniques. Start or expand your collection of fine art by local artists.
Painter Jo Flemming
Hillyer Art Space Puzzling (a) Space Soun Hong Chakraphan Rangaratna Ding Ren Eric De Leon Zamuco Curated by Project Andini September 3 - October 22 A site-specific exhibition of painting, installation, video and performance by four contemporary Asian artists
Chakraphan Rangaratna
Long View Gallery Images from... Beyond: Visions of Our Solar System Michael Benson September 16 - October 24 Beginning in 1995, Michael Benson began hunting through hundreds of thousands of solar system photographs, dating as far back as the late 1960's, to find raw or partially processed images with potential significance in the photographic landscape. As locator, editor and curator of these images, which were originally taken by interplanetary probes traveling through space, Benson devoted substantial time to the creation of composite mosaics and the optimization of this body of work for print production. Benson describes himself as "the author, in many cases, of the final composite images. Most of the resulting images wouldn't exist in anything like the form seen without substantial work."
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"Uranus and Its Rings" Multi-frame mosaic, Voyager, January 24, 1986
Morton Fine Arts Debutantes & Feral Children Laurel Hausler September 17 - October 14 Oil paintings and mixed media exploring the unexpected overlaps that are shared between the outwardly refined debutante and her paradox, the feral child.
Laurel Hausler
National Museum of African Art Brave New World Theo Eshetu August 9 - April 24 Explores universal tensions such as the relationship between nature and technology utilizing scenes from a dance performance filmed in Bali, footage from visits to New York and Ethiopia and a box of cornflakes.
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art June 23 - November 28 Exhibition that tells the story of the coiled basket
The Healing Power of Art: Works of Art by Haitian Children After the Earthquake June 17 - October 17
Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Highlights Indefinite Donated to the museum in 2005, the Walt Disney-Tishman collection is known for its unique and rare works of traditional African art from throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The collection has been instrumental in defining the field of African art history in the United States and abroad
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
Project 4 Landmarks Beau Chamberlain September 11 - October 16 Paintings and drawings of riotous scenes of nature run amok
Had a Little Faith, Beau Chamberlain
Reyes + Davis Novel Abstractions September 10 - October 16
Strathmore Fine Art Abstraction: More Than Meets the Eye September 11 - October 16 Curator Harriet Lesser presents an in-depth look at abstract art and explores the journey from representational art to abstraction in this multi-media show featuring works in glass, wood, neon and metal sculpture, colored pencil and photography.
Studio Gallery CastOff: Looking at the Figure Chris Chernow September 29 - October 23
People and Places Carolee Jakes September 29 - October 23
New Work Brian Williams September 29 - October 23
BLU Fulvia Musti Ciarla October 27 - November 20 "BLU is inspired by the ocean's beautiful and powerful force, and by the need to do better at cherishing and protecting it, as underscored by recent events" - Fulvia Musti Ciarla
Chaotic Harmony Eleanor Kotlarik Wang October 27 - November 20
Drawn to Drawing: A Community of Characters Yvette Kraft October 27 - November 20
Chris Chernow
Transformer Gallery Archetype Rebecca Key September 10 - October 15 UK-based artist with her first US solo show.
Tynan Coffee and Tea An Adventure Through Time and Space Heather Levy September 13 - October 18
Washington Printmakers Gallery New faces, New Prints All-member Exhibition September 28 - October 24 An all-member exhibition with a special feature on the six artists added to the membership over the past year: Shahla Abdi, Trisha Gupta, Joan Krash, Tony Lazorko, Matina Marki Tillman, and Brad Widness.
Workhouse Arts Center Vessels Val Cushing September 29 - October 24 Recent work by internationally renowned potter
Sumi - e Society Exhibition October 13 - November 20 The society fosters appreciation of East Asian brush painting techniques
Workhouse Associates and Art Guild Exhibition November 3 - December 5
