Project 4 Project 4 is a new voice in the growing Washington D.C. art scene. The gallery's programming promotes an international, forward-thinking exhibition schedule of contemporary art and design. Focusing on one-person shows and thematic exhibitions by mid-career and emerging artists, the gallery also invites guest curators to host exhibitions emphasizing trends in contemporary art and design. It is, in effect, a room for art and ideas spanning a range of cultural issues.
The gallery is 900 square feet on two levels, including a twenty-foot double-height space.
903 U Street NW Washington DC 20001 tel: 202 232 4340 fax: 202 232 4341
Wednesday - Friday 2:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday noon - 6:00 pm and by appointment
Project 4 Friday Night Gun Fight Michael Scoggins September 20 - October 25 A solo exhibition of new works by New York-based artist Michael Scoggins. Making reference to Naive Art and Art Brut, Scoggins creates large-scale trompe l’oeil replications of scrawled sheets of notebook paper to voice obscure political and psychological opinions. When he reveals his ostensibly personal views and emotions, he does so in a manner that is direct, but distorted by humor and irony. Scoggins’ scrawls feign a child’s perspective to make self deprecatory statements, jab at the political state of America and mock our social values. He achieves this by using fundamental and childlike imagery, language and materials —paper, markers, colored and graphite pencils and crayons. In this newest body of work, Scoggins comments on a range of issues spanning Washington, D.C.-gun control politics to mean girls. The works strive for grandeur in their larger than life size and boldness, but are restrained by the adolescent angst that remains to some degree in everybody. Michael Scoggins lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, and Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA.
"heller, june 26, 2008" marker, prismacolor on paper 67”X51” 2008
