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Alternative Gallery
Reincarnations
Curated by Linda and Steven Krensky
July 23 - September 28
 A mixed-media show of artworks made from found objects and recycled and rejuvenated parts from already-made articles. Ingenuity, originality, wit and vision characterize the 30+ artists who are featured in this show.
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Cleo. SuAnne Lasher
AHM Gallery
Life in the Aboriginal Communities of Docker River and Mutitjulu, Central Australia
Valery Muhin
August 8 - September 15
The photographs in the show were taken while Mr. Muhin was working for Caylus as a mentor to young people in the Aboriginal communities of Docker River and Mutititjulu. The color prints show a former hunter-gatherer community struggling to retain its identity in a landscape that is nearly as old as the Earth.
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"Knuckle," Docker River (Kaltukatjara), Northern Territory, Australia
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery
Hebraica Mirrors
July 1 - September 30
Inspired by the Jewish mystical commentary of the Zohar— the most important work of Kabbalah, French Jewish artist Matatiaou has used contemporary design and traditional Hebrew calligraphy to highlight and interpret the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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Arlington Arts Center
 Picturing Politics 2008:
Artists Speak to Power

Curated by Rex Weil
August 15 - September 27

The intersection of art and politics will be the subject of an exhibition organized by Washington artist, independent curator, and critic Rex Weil.  The show will examine a wide array of strategies in contemporary visual arts for addressing controversial issues and promoting social change in a political landscape dominated by mass media.

Curated by Rex Weil, who serves as a Contributing Editor for ARTnews and teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Pinky and Bunny, Bunny with Gun
Arlington Arts Center
 Picturing Politics 2008:
Artists Speak to Power

Curated by Rex Weil
August 15 - September 27

The intersection of art and politics will be the subject of an exhibition organized by Washington artist, independent curator, and critic Rex Weil.  The show will examine a wide array of strategies in contemporary visual arts for addressing controversial issues and promoting social change in a political landscape dominated by mass media.

Curated by Rex Weil, who serves as a Contributing Editor for ARTnews and teaches at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Jefferson Pinder and Matt Ravenstahl, installation view of their new video Passive Resistance
Art League Gallery
'Scapes - The Art League's Annual International Landscape Show
Juror:
Walter Bartman
August 6 - September 1
Artwork inspired by all environments is a part of this show – urban and rural, industrialized and primitive, coastal and arid, and the beauty and destruction created by Mother Nature.  Works of all media are featured.  Artists are encouraged to explore unique perspectives, literally and figuratively, as well as varying moods and color.

 
Athenaeum
TXT MSG
Four Letter Words
John James Anderson
Song for Europe
Mark Cameron Boyd
August 16 - September 21
With TXT MSG, John James Anderson and Mark Cameron Boyd make an artistic exploration touching on letters as design icons, the meaning of words and how their impact resonates beyond their mere definition, and interactive experiences that reflect a world view of language and art.
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Hommophones, John James Anderson
Ayr Hill Gallery
Kathryn Ellis
Ann McMillan
Armand Cabrera
Andre Nobrega
Grand Opening June 27
Plein air paintings
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Blackrock Center for the Arts
Black and white photography
Joanne Miller and Lauren Henkin
August 20 - September 19


 
Blueberry Art Gallery
Pridon Goisashvili
 August 16 -  September 1
Pridon Goisashvili,  a native of Tbilisi, Georgia came to the USA in March of 2002 with a strong background and education in fine art and illustration.  Pridon’s artwork has been shown in many galleries and museums, including the State Museum, the Academy of Arts and the National Gallery in Tbilisi.

 
Cross Mackenzie Ceramic Arts
Tromp L'Oeil - The Artists Studio
June 20 - September 17
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Del Ray Artisans
Board Walk: An Art and Technology Journey

David A. Kosar, Jamee Telford, Rob Rudick, Monica Wise, and Roy Wright.

August 8 - August 31
Exhibition covers painting, photography, and technology, ranging from realism to abstract to technological innovation.
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District Fine Arts
Hit Me With Music
Leon Armour Jr.
Chester Simpson
Leah Tinari
September 5 - September 14
A DFA Special Event At Bloomingdale's, 5300 Western Avenue, Chevy Chase Md
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A Calvin Klein Close Up, Leah Tinari
District Fine Arts
In Transit
Group Show
June 7 - August 30
William Adams -  painter.  "My paintings contain references to the figure, nature and dreams.  My paintings attempt to capture a thought or a memory.  The arrangement and choice of imagery may suggest a narrative and give the work surrealistic overtones.  I refer to my paintings as an automatic pilot/ spontaneous combustion creation, allowing the imagery to emerge on the canvas, while absurd accidents occur in the painting process and at times remain.  The layering of elements are imposed on one another, until a harmony is achieved.  Thus, the evocation of memory leads me to act and a painting is born."
S. Gratz - artist & photographer.  Mr. Gratz is an artist living and working in Washington, D.C.
Stoff Smulson  - photographer. Stoff was born and raised in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the art collective Decatur Blue.
Veronica Uribe - painter.  In these paintings she explores "emotional mappings."  Moments of emotional transit can be mapped, they can be placed on a surface to be retraced and found on a time and spatial plane.  They act as geographical locations and points where both the roughness and the easiness of landscapes can be metaphors of emotional situations.


moon graffiti #25, Stoff Smulson
Foundry Gallery
Hush!
Group Show/Auction
September 3 - September 27
More than 30 works - paintings, drawing and photographs, - are in the exhibit, which spans a wide range of styles and subjects. The artwork
 Participating artists include Amy Barker-Wilson, Shaune Bazner, Daniel Bell, Jenny Brake, Brett Davis,
Patsy Fleming, Holly Foss,  Mina Oka Hanig, Donna K. McGee, Debra Naylor, Steve Nordlinger, Marina Reiter, Ronald Riley, Bobbie Salthouse, Martin Slater, Luba Sterlikova, Kathryn Wiley, Patricia Zannie.

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Foundry Gallery
Interpretive Realms
Members' Show
July 30 - August 31

Members exhibiting in the show are Mina Oka Hanig; Patsy Fleming; Donna McGee; Marina Reiter; Ron Riley; Marty Slater; Luba Sterlikova; Kathryn Wiley; Amy Barker-Wilson; and Patricia Zannie.
"Interpretive Realms" includes images of places real and imagined.
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Gallery 10
Igor Sikorsky Knew about Trees
Sabine Carlson
September 3 - September 27
Helicopters without rotors encounter 'kite-eating' trees as Carlson's cheerfully ominous paintings explore themes of power and vulnerability.
Carlson exhibits internationally (Italy, Germany, Czech Republic) and in the US. Her work is included in public, corporate and private collections in Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and in the United States
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Gallery 50
Submerged
Selina Lamberti
September 13 - September 28
 "The images in this series are all taken from the water, changing the perspective of traditional waterscapes and landscapes. Water has been a theme throughout the history of art, and has been a consistent theme throughout photography's own history. The constant rhythm, movement, and immensity of the ocean are a source of reassurance to many. Moving water of all varieties is hypnotic in its calling, thrilling, and yet calming; It is for these reasons that the sea draws me in."  -
Selina Lamberti
Selina Lamberti recently received her B.F.A.in Photography from the Corcoran School of Art and Design in Washington D.C. The photographs on display are from her Senior Thesis Project.
She is about to start her graduate studies in Photographic and Collections Managment at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

Iconic Trompe-l'oeil
Michael Fitts and Victor Spinski
September 18 - October 14
"This is the most exciting show of the season," Gallery owner, Jay Pastore enthuses, "both of these artists take an ordinary object and recreate it by using an old art form, trompe-l'oeil. This causes a natural tension between the mundane and the sublime, most viewers have an immediate emotional response. Fitts does this with flawless trompe-l'oeil painted on found metal, while Spinski uses ceramics as his medium."
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untitled, Selina Lamberti
Gallery 50
Circling Summer
Susan Finsen
August 21 - September 17
"Susan's work has been extremely well-received at the gallery." explains gallery owner Jay Pastore, "People are drawn to her whimsical, yet sophisticated abstracts and love the life-affirming themes she draws from nature. You can't look at her paintings and not feel uplifted."

Susan Finsen has been an artist for more than 30 years. She is a potter, print maker, and is now currently focusing on painting. In 1974, Finsen became a founding member of the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria Virginia. She remains a resident artist to this day.

Finsen talks about the creative process this way; "I draw inspiration from nature, people, places and things; and then turn them upside down and sideways. Sometimes I work directly from a model, landscape or still-life. At other times I conjure images from memory. I keep working on the surface, building layers, using color, line, shape and plane changes until the image feels mysterious, interesting and exciting."

The artists Reception Saturday, August 23, 5-8 p.m. Gallery 50 is located on 50 Wilmington Ave, Rehoboth Beach and is also available for private parties. To preview the artist, visit www.50contemporaryart.com or call (302) 227-2050 for more information.

Susan Finsen
Gallery 50
Jam Session 2
Rose Minetti
July 24 - August 19
"I love the interaction of color and the language she creates in her abstract paintings," Jay Pastore, Owner of Gallery 50 says, "Rose reinterprets the world in her paintings, they are at once structured and organic in feel."

Originally from Brooklyn, Minetti now lives in Gilbert, Arizona and Lewes, Delaware. She is a graduate of Rutgers University and earned her MA in Art at Arizona State University. Minetti was president of Arizona Women's Caucus for Art 1987-89 and was the exhibit curator for the Department of Archives and Special Collections, University Libraries, Arizona State University.

"My work reflects my interest in the environment; natural, as in geology/land and artificial, as in structure/architecture. My imagery is an abstraction of what I see and experience in the natural and artificial environment." Minetti explains, "I have titled a recent series of paintings 'trace', as in trace evidence. They appear minimalist at first but a closer look reveals unexpected marks that are highlighted by the grid drawn into the surface. I'm influenced by my surroundings in the Arizona desert where colors range from subtle changes to intense contrasts; similar to the shore area."


Remnants, Rose Minetti
H&F Fine Arts Gallery
Bodies of Marvel, Monsters and Women
Curated by Marvette Pérez and Tonya Jordan
September 4 - September 28
Eight women artists explore ideas of the grotesque and other worldly, the monstrous, the unimaginable, the uncanny, and the strange through painting, woodcut, installation, mixed media, video, photography, and illustration. Robbi Behr, Deidra Defranceaux, Andrea Meyers, Michelle Morby, Marta Pérez García, Kharlla Piñeiro, Raquel Quijano Feliciano and Lisa-Renee Thompson present work focused on the dark side of the human psyche and the humorous side of the grotesque.


 
H&F Fine Arts
Portraits & Color Work
Al Burts, Russell Lewis & Derrick Vaughn
August 2 - August 31
Featuring abstract color work and narrative portraits by local artists Al Burts, Russell Lewis and Derrick Vaughn.
Russell Lewis and Derrick Vaughn are longtime creative partners who began their training in visual arts at DC’s Duke Ellington School of the Arts and subsequently both received degrees form the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. Color Work presents a bold collection of abstract paintings and mixed media canvas work steeped in themes on human nature, the urban industrial landscape, the natural world and fantasy.


 
Healing Arts Gallery @ Smith Farm Center
Figurative/Narrative
Memories of a Presence

Billy Colbert, Paul Andrew Wandless and Micheal Janis
July 11 - August 28
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Hemphill Fine Arts
Recent Additions
August 11 - August 29
Including works by:
James Brooks
Jason Gubbiotti
Alfred Jensen
Robert Rauschenberg
Ed Ruscha
Al Souza
Antoni Tàpies
Alma Thomas


 
Hillyer Art Space
My Name is Jason
Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
July 11 - August 29

A collaborative artistic duo making their exhibition debut in Washington, DC at IA&A's Hillyer Art Space.  The pair is best known for their visual and performance art, which seamlessly mesh together Reynolds' poetic prose with Griffin's expressive paintings.  My Name is Jason will feature a selection of works highlighted in their upcoming book, My Name is Jason. Mine Too.
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Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin
An Allegory in Ink
Ben Tolman
July 11 - August 29
Highlights Ben Tolman's signature style of intensely detailed and micromanaged, large-scale ink drawings.  Expanding from his obsession with monsters, fantastical creatures and unusual and bizarre scenes, Tolman presents a series of drawings exploring the human condition.

 
Every Day
Mandy Burrow
July 11 - August 29
Features five installations that explore life, death and resurrection.  Through this artistic investigation, Burrow confronts the issue of time and its effects on memory.  The work embodies the contrasts of what is there and what is not, what is remembered and what is forgotten.  Burrow's pieces transcend this divide between the past and present, the lost and found, and exist somewhere in between.

 
Honfleur Gallery
East of the River Group Exhibition
August 9 - September 20

 
International Visions Gallery
Artists for Obama - Restoration of America
Group Show
September 3 - September 27

Twenty six artists from many parts of the United States express themselves through art about Presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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Kefa Cafe
Coffee As Art
Art Enables
August 12 - September 5
 American contemporary folk and outsider art

Vanessa Monroe
National Academy of Sciences
Coexistence

Joan Wadleigh Curran
June 10 - September 15
Joan Wadleigh Curran is interested in objects that exist on the periphery of our daily experiences. She focuses on moments when vegetation and human material merge, producing visual contradiction. Cropped, pruned, and twisted forms of plant and man-made objects co-exist in her unsettling paintings and drawings. The images explore growth, decay, regeneration, and reclamation.


Image courtesy of Joan Wadleigh Curran
National Gallery of Art
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul
May 25 - September 7
Some 228 extraordinary artifacts unearthed in modern Afghanistan—most on view for the first time in the United States—attest to the region's importance as a vital and ancient crossroads of trade routes known as the Silk Road, which stretched from Asia to the Mediterranean.

Richard Misrach: On the Beach
May 25 - September 1
For more than thirty years, the American photographer Richard Misrach (b. 1949) has made provocative work that addresses contemporary society's relationship to nature, especially the American West. Since 2001, he has made a series of large scale (six by ten feet), lushly colored photographs of swimmers and sunbathers in Hawaii.

Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books
May 4 - November 2
Over the past three years the National Gallery of Art, through generous donations and select purchases, has acquired a remarkable survey of drawings, prints, and rare illustrated books. This exhibition presents over 200 of the finest, dating from the fifteenth century to the twenty-first century.

Max Ernst—The Illustrated Books

March 2 - September 6

Homer, Eakins, and Bellows: American Paintings, 1870–1925
August 19 - January 1
This selection of paintings highlights the depth and richness of the Gallery's collection of works by the American masters Winslow Homer (1836–1910), Thomas Eakins (1844–1916), and George Bellows (1882–1925).

Crosscurrents: American and European Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection

March 14 - January 1
Some of the most notable paintings from the National Gallery of Art’s American, British, Spanish, and 18th- and early 19th-century French collections




 
National Museum of the American Indian
2008 Native American Student Artist Exhibit
August 22 - September 22
This exhibit presents the winning artwork and writing from the 4th Native American Student Artist Competition, held by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Indian Education (OIE). This year’s theme, Circle of Empowerment: Education, Language, Culture, Tradition, elicited artwork and writing of Native students and celebrates the educational successes in Native Communities. Juried by the National Museum of the American Indian and representatives of the OIE, 21 art and 9 writing pieces were selected on the basis of originality, relationship to the theme, creativity, composition, and control of material.

 
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Modern Love:
Gifts to the Collection from Heather and Tony Podesta
June 27 - September 21
Modern Love celebrates the stellar group of contemporary works of art donated to NMWA by prominent Washington-based collectors Heather and Tony Podesta.
The couple’s passion for cutting-edge art is highlighted in this selection of photographs, videos, sculptures, and paintings. The exhibition features more than 50 works by internationally-renowned artists such as Cathy de Monchaux, Candida Höfer, Elizabeth Turk, and Jane and Louise Wilson in addition to works by exciting emerging artists.

Something Pertaining to God: The Patchwork Art of
Rosie Lee Tompkins

Something Pertaining to God: The Patchwork Art of Rosie Lee Tompkins features approximately twenty-five quilts and other quilted pieces—including clothing, chair covers, and pillows—by this acclaimed African American artist.




 
The Phillips Collection
The Great American Epic:
Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series

May 3 - October 26

The complete 60-panel series, rarely seen in its entirely, will be on view at the Phillips. Told through vivid patterns and colors, this masterpiece of narrative painting is the first ever produced on the great 20th-century exodus of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

Diebenkorn in New Mexico
June 21 to September 7
The pivotal 30-month period Richard Diebenkorn spent in Albuquerque, New Mexico between 1950 and 1952 has largely been overlooked.  Featuring approximately 40 pieces, the exhibition marks the first time these works, now in public and private collections across the country, have been exhibited together since they were created.  The Phillips Collection is the final venue for Diebenkorn in New Mexico, the first in-depth examination of this key time in the abstract expressionist artist’s early creative development.  Diebenkorn’s paintings and drawings from this period illustrate the enduring influence of New Mexico’s textures, shapes, and colors on his mature style. 
 
Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow
June 21 to September 7
In the first major exhibition in 30 years exclusively dedicated to the artist’s prolific body of work, Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow focuses attention on Brett’s abstract black-and-white photographs of landscapes, shapes and textures, and architectural elements.  It features more than 75 photographs from the 1920s through the 1980s.  Although Brett was considered a key player in the photography world during his lifetime, his achievements have been overshadowed by those of his renowned father, Edward.  A pioneer in his field, Brett captured the intricacies and rhythms of form, light, and shadow while avoiding photographic techniques such as contrived lighting, staging, or other manipulation.


 
Project 4
Living Sculpture
J.J. McCracken
August 21 - September 11
"Living Sculpture" by J.J. McCracken is a series of performances that showcase the beauty of clay's transformative qualities joined with the dramatic presence of staged figures. Several vignettes composed by McCracken will incorporate figures and props covered in soft tan-colored clay and will allude to concepts of time, transformation and corporeality. The vignettes will be arranged throughout the gallery over a three-week period, and can be simultaneously interpreted as paintings, sculptures, installation and performance.

The activities taking place in each vignette correspond to each other in action. A sphere sits in each of the vignettes and atop each of these spheres stands a robed figure. The first figure knits while the fabric created spills off the stage. As it piles onto the floor, another figure unravels the cloth. A third figure plays cello, filling the room with a 12-bar musical composition. After a pause, the same notes spill back into the room in reverse. A fourth continuously rolls small, “perfect” spheres of clay that dry, then drop into a pool of liquid clay below where they slowly fall apart. Finally, the remaining figure stands atop a sphere outside the gallery near the entrance. With an abacus, each entrant visiting the exhibition is counted by the sliding of a bead. Later, as the visitor departs, the bead is returned to its original position.

Collectively, these actions immerse the viewer in an entire environment, leaving one to contemplate impressions of time, observance, and transformation. McCracken discusses the significance of clay and of the sphere in her perceptual and experiential exploration:

“The sphere is a dynamic sculptural object. Experience informs our expectation of balls to continuously roll. Stationary, this form provides a pregnant pause. But within this pause, everything moves: Clay dries, cracks, and changes color. Cracks travel. Production yields accumulation—of stitches, notes, clay balls and gallery visitors. Decay ensues, inverting the forming process. Time is expressed as suspended, progressing, and inverting all at once. Cycles emerge, yielding pattern. The repeat becomes predictable and stability is suggested. The immediate dissolve shatters any satisfaction gained in achieving.”

This project was made possible by generous donations from Stancills, Inc. and Howard Connelly; and funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Instrumental project assistance was received from Sandra Dwiggins, Joann McCracken, and Margaret Boozer.


Living Sculpture
Randall Scott Gallery
8
eight photographers
four 2-person, 2-week exhibitions

Peter Van Agtmael
Alison Brady
Alexandra Catiere
Jessica Dimmock
Kyoko Hamada
Tema Stauffer
Ryoko Suzuki
Shen Wei
July 11 - September 5
Every other Saturday a new 2-artist show will open.
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Alison Brady
Sewall-Belmont House and Museum
Project 3: Empowered by Artistry
June 14 - September 13
A new collaboration of arts organizations dedicated to social justice issues, making a difference, both locally and globally, through individual creativity and fine arts.
The exhibit features work from artists across the globe expressing the strength and power of women.


 
Studio Gallery
A Retrospective
 Carol Zilliacus
September 3 - September 27
Watermedia Collages and Polymer Clay Paintings project her creative spirit.  Carol creates her paintings as if she were writing musical varations on a theme.  

 Duo Show:
   Andrea Kraus
 Jan Willem van der Vossen
September 3 - September 27 

 
Textile Museum
The Finishing Touch: Accessories from the Bolivian Highlands
February 15 - September 18

The Textile Museum recently acquired a large group of charming accessories from the Bolivian highlands. These belts, bags and other items inspired this exhibition, which will also include Bolivian textiles already in the Museum's collection. The woven and knitted pieces were collected in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when such examples, made in the early to middle 20th century with handspun wool yarns, were commonly available. Subsequently, the more prevalent use of commercially produced yarns has changed the overall look of handwoven cloth.

Blue
April 4 - September 18

BLUE explores the creation and meaning of the color blue on textiles produced across time and place, with particular emphasis on contemporary artists’ use of natural indigo dyes.
The exhibition features blue textiles ranging from Greco-Roman and pre-columbian tunic fragments to installations by internationally renowned artists. Hiroyuki Shindo, a Japanese artist who grows and processes his own indigo to produce innovatively patterned textiles, as well as Maria Eugenia Davila and Eduardo Portillo, who raise silkworms and dye threads with natural dyes in Venezuela, highlight the ways that artists around the world are embracing this ancient dye to create works that speak to their own experience.

 
Touchstone Gallery
Totally Femme
 Michele Cormier, Teresa Roberts Logan, Paula Lantz, Janathel Shaw, and Dina Volkova
August 6 - September 6
A group exhibition representing a variety of artwork from sculpture to collage to painting

Capitol Colors
Dorri Thyden
August 6 - September 6
Inspired by the larger than life landscapes and bright colors of the southwest and Mexican culture, Dorri Thyden’s artwork brings together a vibrant spectrum of color into every painting.
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Elements of Red, Michele Cormier
Village of Friendship Heights Art Gallery
Cut and Paste
 Kyi May Kaung, Patricia Zannie and Amy Kincaid
September 3 - September 30
An exhibit of collages and collage-paintings

 
Ward Ellinger Gallery
Topography
Sondra N. Arkin
August 1 - August 28
Oil & Wax Paintings

Red Dune, Sondra N. Arkin
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Hindsight is 60/60
Mike Hagan
September 2 - September 28
New Prints
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Shades Screenprint with colored pencil on Arches 88
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Collateral Damaged
Ann Johnston-Schuster
July 29 - August 31

Solo exhibition by 2007 National Small Works Winner

11th Annual National Small Works 2008
July 29 - August 31

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On Deaf Ears, Ann Johnston-Schuster
Zenith Gallery
Singular Vision
Julie and Ken Girardini
Susan Klebanoff
Joan Konkel

September 5 - September 28
The outstanding artists in this show create art that stands out, inspired by their singular vision that moves them to manipulate material, color, light and viewer perception. Working in three dimensions with canvas, metal, tapestry materials and mixed-media, Susan Klebanoff, Joan Konkel, and Julie and Ken Girardini stamp their pieces with unmatched individuality, which brings them together in this exhibition at Zenith Gallery. All told, they’ve shown their work at Zenith for years and in galleries, museums, and public and private collections across the US and around the globe.

Julie Girardini has been working as an artist for 18 years, using cold rolled steel as her primary medium, adding glass, paper, other metals, and imagery to evoke emotion. Throughout her career, she has made furniture and functional art for the home as well as decorative sculptured pieces, which have been displayed at American Craft Council shows in Baltimore, Atlanta, St. Paul and San Francisco. Girardini has also shown her work at the Washington Fine Craft Show since 1994 and at craft and fine art shows in St. Louis, Philadelphia and beyond, as well as in galleries and collections, including the American Embassy in Canada and the International Craft Collection.

Ken Girardini has enjoyed a dual career for part of his life, overlapping 35 years as a successful artist with service in the US Air Force as an officer and a data analyst with Computer Sciences Corporation. Since 1989, he has worked solely as an artist, creating functional steel design and furniture for the home as well as steel sculpture, patina and photography on steel and aluminum and oil painting. Girardini has shown his work at American Craft Councils and in select art galleries across the US.

Susan Klebanoff’s beautiful artworks loom large as lyrically woven pieces characterized by sculptural elements that interact with color and light. Klebanoff has exhibited her work in Russia, Japan, Israel, Norway, Canada, China and she most recently won the “Outstanding Award” at the International Biannual Exhibition in China. Her tapestries are in public and private collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in Nagoya, Japan; IBM headquarters, MD; Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines; British Petroleum; Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico and too many other to mention.

Joan Konkel transforms commonplace materials into intriguing works of art that play tricks on the eye with color and space, based on the angle you view them. Layering aluminum sheet metal, acrylic and mesh on canvas, Konkel works from a sculptor’s point of view, creating low-and sunken- relief art that is abstract and architectural. As light dances through her layering, her work takes on luminosity and illusions of deeper space. Konkel has exhibited her works at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, through the State Department’s Art in Embassies program, and in galleries in Washington, Philadelphia and New York. Konkel’s works are held in private and corporate collections in the south, mid-Atlantic and mid-west regions.

The Wall Sculptures, Julie and Ken Giardini
Zenith Gallery
Zenith in the Abstract
John Blee
Chris Hayman
Anne Marchand
David Richardson
Bill Suworoff
July 17 - August 30
Featuring five fine abstract artists … painters John Blee, Chris Hayman, Anne Marchand and David Richardson and sculptor/furniture designer Bill Suworoff who have been showing their work at Zenith and other major Washington galleries and beyond for decades. In this exhibition, their art forms a beautiful patchwork quilt on Zenith’s walls and space.
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Expatriot, David Richardson


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