Applegate Gallery New Works Catherine Hillis August 28 - September 22 Mrs. Hillis primarily paints in watercolors, including busy street scenes, intricate florals and her favorite, the historic sites near her home on the Blue Ridge in Northern Virginia. The hallmarks of her work are rich color and a touch of humor.
Art Whino It's Not A Trick A Solo Show of LECKOmio August 21 - September 15 German-based stencilist, LECKOmio debuts his US first solo show, Its Not a Trick. His exhibition looks at the relationship of street art within its subcultural milieu. With all its complexities and shrouds of mystery, LECKOmio composes a new series; tying in the culture of people who align themselves with the lifestyle, in juxtaposition with the urban icons consistently associated with the studio, and the street. The title he has chosen for this series addresses the mechanization of his technique; LECKOmio states that when an audience typically sees stencil work they usually have some difficulty understanding its execution, but with Its Not a Trick, he wants to present that stencil work is simply a technique, and like everything else requires "creativity, preparation, patience, and accuracy" to master.
Athenaeum Shelf Life Mary "Mimi" Frank August 5 - September 12 Sculptures in steel
Athenaeum A Study of Passing Events J.J. Cromer September 16 - October 31 J.J. Cromer appreciates contemporary art, but claims what he's doing is different. "When I work on my drawings, I'm less interested in certainty. I sit in isolation, directing myself to ambiguity and exploration, skepticism and play." His process is intuitive and the results are meticulously detailed, brightly colored, repetitive forms linked by dynamic, rhythmic, two-dimensional patterns. His mixed media starts with pen, ink, and colored pencil, and sometimes involves collage, paint, and scratching. The results are breathtaking and fascinating and have earned him widespread recognition and acclaim. His work is in private and public collections including the American Visionary Art Museum, Intuit: The Center of Intuitive and Outsider Art, the Taubman Museum of Art, and the University of Virginia.
Carriage House Studio DC Fashion Photography Weekend DC Photo Coop Group Show Judges: Li Jing, Mike Kellog, Mandy Strong September 24 - September 26 Part of the 2010/2011 monthly photography exhibition season, and part of a series featuring urban, fashion, dance and figurative photography exhibits. The show is an annual event, and the best work exhibited at the fashion photography show will be exhibited at future pop-up gallery exhibits in the Mid-Atlantic region and at annual show during DC PhotoWeek in September.
Photo, Vadim Zee
City Gallery Night Goat and Other Flights of Fancy Ellen Cornett August 29 - September 25 Pastel paintings and pen & ink drawings. "I assemble my work piece by piece using a sheep here and a ceramic chicken there. Childhood memories, musings on age, thoughts about the world in general all inform the work in different ways. I alternate between making large, vivid strokes of vibrant color in chalk pastel and creating finely rendered small pen and ink studies. Each helps me see more clearly and emboldens my work" - Ellen Cornet
Domestic Chickens
Corcoran Gallery of Art Spencer Finch: My Business, with the Cloud September 11 - January 23 NOW at the Corcoran's inaugural exhibition presents new work by Spencer Finch. Finch’s sculptural installations, photographs, and drawings seek to capture the elusive space between perception and the outside world, probing the intersections of science, nature, and memory. Using industrial materials to recreate individual experiences or particular sensations such as candlelight or the wind off of Walden Pond, he also draws from historical accounts by poets and philosophers to explore the persistence of human curiosity. Finch’s works play with light, color, and time to remind his viewers that looking is never as simple as it looks.
Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration July 3 - September 12 For over 30 years, renowned American portraitist Chuck Close has explored the art of printmaking, experimenting with innovative techniques that test and advance the limits of the medium. Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration, which includes more than 100 finished images, proofs, and objects, is the first survey to consider this important artist's extensive and groundbreaking work in the field. A Love of Europe: Highlights from the William A. Clark Collection Ongoing Ranging from ancient Antiquities to Impressionist paintings, Senator Clark's collection today forms the core of the Corcoran's holdings of European art. Timed to coincide with Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales, A Love of Europe displays Clark's particular enthusiasm for 19th-century French painting. The exhibition will include works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Francois Millet, and Edgar Degas.
American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Ongoing
Selections from the Collection of Historic American Art Ongoing
Spencer Finch, Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, ma, August 28, 2004), 2004.
Gallery at Convergence Fear August 13 - September 29 An all-media art exhibit showcasing the work of visual artists from the Washington DC area.
Cross Mackenzie Gallery Button Boxes Elizabeth Kendall June 18 - September 14 Clay wall pieces that look like dozens of over-sized black and white buttons bursting out of their container and showering the floor.
Del Ray Artisans From Our Perspective Board Showcase September 3 - September 19 Del Ray Artisans Board members show featuring Kathryn A. Brown, photography, John Hiller, photography, Paige Ireland, photography, and Marlin G. Lord, multi-media.
Fisher Art Gallery Orphan Works Project Phil Napala
September 10 - October 10
Digital Photography
Flashpoint Gallery reck room Patrick McDonough September 10 - October 9 Mementos of the American rec room in an exhibition that investigates the role of play, domesticity and interaction in both contemporary art and life. A custom made and fully functional foosball-and-ping-pong hybrid game table will serve as the centerpiece to reck room
Foundry Gallery Abstract Blues Donna K. McGee September 1 - September 26 New works that are organic in nature and evoke images of underwater scenes.
Monthly Members Show September 1 - September 26
Cascade, Donna K. McGee
Gallery 50 New Works Lisa Tyson Ennis September 11 - October 12
New Works on Paper Javier Brewster Brockmann October 8 - November 4 The vivid colors of Mexican art and it's traditions, combined with deeply religious and archetypal influences, are reflected in these paintings.
Neighborhood, Javier Brewster Brockmann
Gallery 50 Pulp: Works On Paper Gallery Group Show August 14 - September 9
Gallery 555 Mila Kagan: acrylic on canvas Alan Binstock: glass September 1 - October 8
Landscapes: Silent Metaphors Michael Farrell October 12 - November 19 "Our lives are awash in information, but given time, the facts of place can evolve into something simpler, more universal and essential - images that become still, silent metaphors for one's unique experience in the world" - Michael Farrell, Associate Professor of Art, Montgomery College in Rockville Maryland
Patio, Michael Farrell
Gallery Plan b Relative: Recent Paintings and Drawings Chad Andrews Gail Vollrath September 8 - October 10
Gandi Memorial Center Nostalgia Samina Ali Akhtar September 1 - September 15 Paintings that meld historic images and Islamic motives with the formal arrangement of form, color and texture, worked out in the Cubist collage technique of overlapping planes of color and pattern.
Glenview Mansion Art Gallery On Exhibit Gary Anthes - Photography Rulei Bu - Oils Margaret Huddy - a retrospective En Plein Air August 8 - September 7
Portraits of Life Group exhibition featuring six female artists August 8 - September 7
Henry L. Stimson Center Fearless Flying Marian Osher June 8 - September 16
Marian Osher's in-flight fascination with the textures and
abstractions of the earth and clouds has inspired her to create colorful mixed
media paintings and wall hangings that help combat her fear of flying. With
honesty and humor, she also shares in writing, the personal experiences that
contributed to her fear, including her 9/11 flight, as well as the various "tools" that enabled her to return to flying without fear.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers May 20 - September 12 One of the last century's most influential artists, Yves Klein (French, b. Nice, 1928; d. Paris, 1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34. Yves Klein: With the Void, Full Powers is the first major retrospective of the artist's work in the United States in nearly 30 years.
ColorForms March 11 - January 2 This selection of artworks from the Hirshhorn's collection, along with several paintings on loan from the National Gallery's renowned Mark Rothko holdings, date from the post-war era to the present and demonstrate color's inimitable capacity to evoke spatial structures as well as more elusive effects. Works by Wolfgang Laib, James Turrell, and Paul Sharits, respectively, share a mesmerizing blend of color and abstract form. These pieces, along with a linear yarn sculpture by Fred Sandback, a spherical sculpture by Anish Kapoor, and luminous paintings by Mark Rothko, come together in ColorForms to explore the ways in which color remains an essential tool for artists, regardless of medium.
Milk Run, James Turrell
Honfleur Gallery East of the River July 30 - September 7 4th Annual exhibition highlighting the creative minds of Wards 7 and 8 in the areas East of the Anacostia River
Jane Haslem Gallery Works by Washington Artists Carlton Fletcher - paintings Elizabeth Peak - monotypes and prints September 1 - September 25
Long View Gallery New Work Tony Savoie August 5 - September 12 Tony Savoie's distaste for war is front and center in much of his work.
His pieces often position animals, perfectly obedient, in front of
soldiers or other expressions of warfare, drawing comparison in their
training to follow commands. Tony Savoie's process is intricate in its execution, laying reverse
painted pieces of clear acrylic onto backgrounds composed of found
photographs and artifacts. He uses a wide range of media, from spray
paints to pencils, photographs, stencils and oils to create his
multi-dimensional statements.
Tony Savoie
Montpelier Center Through the Generations: African-American Art and What Was It like? September 1 - September 30 Photographs of Childhood, 1890-1920 from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
National Gallery of Art Edvard Munch: Master Prints July 31 - October 31 Exhibition includes nearly 60 of Munch's most important prints to show how his persistent experimentation and virtuosic handling of woodcut, lithography, and intaglio endowed different impressions of his primary motifs with new meanings. Exploring these transformations in several series of Munch's prints, selected not only from its own superb holdings but also from two exceptional private collections, the curators of this exhibition offer a richer and more nuanced appreciation for this great Norwegian master.
American Modernism: The Shein Collection May 16 - January 2, 2011 This exhibition explores the advent of modernism a century ago through twenty important paintings, sculptures, and drawings by the first-generation American avant-garde. Among the artists represented are Patrick Henry Bruce, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Arthur Dove, Marcel Duchamp, Marsden Hartley, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Man Ray, Morton Schamberg, Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, John Storrs, and Max Weber. From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection January 31 - January 2, 2011 One of America's most important collections of French painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Among the masterpieces on view are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's Forest of Fontainebleau (1834), Auguste Renoir's A Girl with a Watering Can (1876), Mary Cassatt's Boating Party (1893/1894), Edouard Manet's Old Musician, Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques (1905), and George Bellows' Blue Morning (1909). Other artists represented include Paul Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Claude Monet
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg May 2 - September 16 In the Tower: Mark Rothko
February 21 - January 2, 2011
National Museum of Women in the Arts Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut September 10 - January 16 The exhibition presents 22 artists' books, collage-poems, book-objects and object-poems by Italian artist Elisabetta Gut (b. 1934). Her visual poetry is inspired by her dreams, memories, and love for music and poetry.
JuYeon Kim: The In-Between June 25 - September 13 Two new sculpture installations and numerous scroll drawings. Kim drew inspiration for this body of work from the 8th-century Tibetan Buddhist text titled The great book of natural liberation through understanding in the between, popularly known in Western cultures as The Tibetan Book of the Dead.
Women to Watch 2010 Body of Work: New Perspectives on Figure Painting July 2 - September 12 The 17 works in the exhibition reflect myriad styles and approaches, but all highlight figure painters' embrace of the slow, subtle, and singular set of processes involved in painting people.
Homecoming, 2009, Mequitta Ahuja
The Phillips Collection Predominantly White Paintings Richard Pousette-Dart June 5 - September 12 In the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916-1992) created a series of paintings nearly without paint, using graphite and oil on canvas to produce works both complex and spare. These luminous and poetic works are filled with symbolic imagery and natural forms, and represent a dramatic departure from the artist's more characteristic richly colored and thickly painted surfaces. This exhibition of 23 paintings and works on paper, as well as four sculptures, marks the first time in over 50 years that a significant number of these works are on view.
Variations & Improvisations Robert Ryman June 5 - September 12 Robert Ryman (b. 1930) is an American painter best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. This exhibition presents Ryman's ongoing examination of painting as both medium and process with endless variations in materials and methods. It brings together approximately 25 small-scale paintings that are drawn from private collections, some of which have rarely been shown in the U.S. It is the first solo presentation of Ryman's work in the Washington area.
Side by Side: Oberlin Masterworks at the Phillips September 11 - January 16 Twenty-five significant works from the rich collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin are presented with selections from the Phillips's permanent collection, creating new artistic conversations in provocative juxtapositions. Many of these works have not left the Allen in half a century and include paintings by artists in the modernist tradition - such as Paul Cezanne, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Claude Monet, and Mark Rothko - as well as significant works by Hendrick ter Brugghen, Peter Paul Rubens, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, among others.
Garden of the Princess, Claude Monet, Louvre, 1867
Sculpture 1275 Chris Bathgate July 26 - September 24 This self-taught machinist sculptor's body of work is a collection of intricately machined metal sculptures that represent the combination of his unique metalworking style with a traditional approach to sculpture. By combining math and logistics used in performing the complex tasks of modern machine work with a more emotive and aesthetic problem-solving ethic, Bathgate's work shows that it is not creativity alone that drives human imagination, but also the need to solve and overcome problems that lead to inspiration.
Pa682524422291 Machined Aluminum, Brass, and Stainless steel
Smithsonian American Art Museum Grand Salon Installation - Paintings from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Renwick) June 6, 2009 - Permanent Seventy paintings featuring landscapes, portraits, and allegorical works by fifty-one American artists from the 1840s to the 1930s. Artists whose works are on view include Edward Mitchell Bannister, Romaine Brooks, Elliott Daingerfield, Daniel Garber, William Morris Hunt, George Inness, Homer Dodge Martin, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Abbott Handerson Thayer, John Henry Twachtman, and Irving R. Wiles.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Remembering the Running Fence April 2 - September 26
Space 7:10 Birds on the Block August 25 - October 1 Features colorful mosaics and an eclectic mix of handmade bird-themed greeting cards created with recycled materials by Arts on the Block's 21 most recent high school-aged apprentice artists.
Red Bird, Zoey Lee
Studio Gallery Sculpture + Brian Kirk small boxes... some on fire Lori Anne Boocks Recent Work Jan Willem van der Vossen September 1 - September 25
Lori Anne Boocks
Target Gallery Systems Failure Juror: Sarah Tanguy August 21 - September 26 Exhibitions examines the current crisis facing the country and the world, and the plight of the people who must suffer from these failures.
Textile Museum Green: the Color and the Cause April 16 - September 11
Second Lives: The Age-Old Art of Recycling Textiles February 4 - July 10, 2011
Colors of the Oasis: Central Asian Ikats October 16 - March 13, 2011
Art by the Yard: Women Design Mid-century Britain May 15 - September 12
Helix, 1970. Lucienne Day
Washington Printmakers Gallery Director's Cut August 31 - September 26 Artists exhibited: Yolanda Frederikse, Mike Hagan, Pauline Jakobsberg, Fleming Jeffries, Julie Niskanen; Lindsay McCulloch, Glenn Fry, Kristen Necessary, Andy Kozlowski, and Jake Muirhead. Washington Printmaker's Gallery Director, Annie Turner, has selected some of her favorite work from five WPG artist members to exhibit in a group show with five complementary artists from outside the membership
West Annapolis Art Works Italian Images, Ambiance and Conversation Lynda Jennings Harden September 19 - September 27 Photographs of Italy and conversations on travel to Italy
San Gimignano
West Annapolis Art Works Summer Salon August 3 - September 10 An eclectic collection of artistic mediums with a distinctive Maryland Flavor. Featuring 12 local artists including TJ Monso, Jennifer Miller, Wayne Beall and Raymond Matheu
Sandypoint Races, Patricia Trout
Waddell Art Gallery Loudoun Campus Art Faculty August 16 - September 17 Recent works by NOVA Communication Design and Fine Arts faculty will be on exhibit. There will be examples of many different media, including ceramics, glass, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Come see what keeps these artists busy when they are not teaching. Artists included: Matthew Best, Patti Chisholm, Donald Depuydt, Rebecca Freeman, Jackie Gage, Brian Kirk, Veronica Morrison, Joan Petro, Diane Shearon, Shelley Stevens, Dwayne Treadway, Julia Turner, David Whipple, Cathy Wilkin.
Workhouse Arts Center Workhouse Associates And Workhouse Art Guild August 4 - September 5
From Prison To Arts Center: 100 Years at the Workhouse August 18 - September 12 The exhibition takes guests on an unforgettable century-long journey that highlights the Workhouse's rich past and celebrates its exciting new presence. As part of this exhibition, the Workhouse Artists will present MUSE as part of the TODAY portion of the Centennial Exhibit. MUSE will include more than 100 3"x3" works of art, called "Muses", created by many Workhouse Studio Artists, Associate Artists, Art Guild, Staff, Volunteers and Board Members.
Poetic Art September 15 - October 10 Features both professional and amateur poets and artists working in collaboration to produce Poetic Art. The work of art will inspire the poet's words, or the poem will inspire the artist's creation. Poem Jurors: Grace Cavalieri, Author & Poet; Eric Pankey, Poet; Kim Roberts, Poet Art Jurors: Mary B. Allen, Artist; Philippa Hughes, Creator, Pink Line Project; Elizabeth Tebow, Professor, Art Department at Northern Virginia Community College
Workhouse Arts Center Poetic Art September 15 - October 10 Features both professional and amateur poets and artists working in collaboration to produce Poetic Art. The work of art will inspire the poet's words, or the poem will inspire the artist's creation. Poem Jurors: Grace Cavalieri, Author & Poet; Eric Pankey, Poet; Kim Roberts, Poet Art Jurors: Mary B. Allen, Artist; Philippa Hughes, Creator, Pink Line Project; Elizabeth Tebow, Professor, Art Department at Northern Virginia Community College
Vessels Val Cushing September 29 - October 24 Recent work by internationally renowned potter
