ART TALK

I went to a great artist talk Saturday morning at Hemphill Fine Arts. W.C. Richardson moderated a talk by exhibiting artists Steven Cushner and Jeff Spaulding (showing at G Fine Arts). It was an inspired morning listening to two seasoned professional artist educators in Washington, DC discuss their work. Topics included processes, meaning making, taking risks, relation to society, predetermined theme or not. The discussion was a human and poignant look at how the work of two prominent abstract artists flows.

Take a look at their exhibitions at
STEVEN CUSHNER
JEFF SPAULDING
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May 5 - June 17, 2006
HEMPHILL
CURRENT SHOW

STEVEN CUSHNER
"Steven Cushner describes painting as a three-way dance between the objective (what is in front of the artist), the subjective (what she or he feels and experiences), and the material (which always has its own agenda, and embodies a resistance). CushnerÂ’s sources are all around him. And yet he is creating something that is not yet visible."

JOHN WATSON
"John Watson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1975 and resides in Saint Louis, Missouri. He received his BFA from Webster University, St. Louis in 1997 and his MFA from The University of Maryland, College Park in 2001. His work has been exhibited nationally and has been shown recently in Washington, Bethesda, Baltimore, Seattle, and Los Angeles. John is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the Leigh Gerdine College of Fine Arts at Webster University and maintains studios in Washington and Saint Louis. He is an avid bicycler."
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G FINE ART
CURRENT SHOW:

"MINE" by JEFF SPAULDING
"These days the artist roams the inner city and explores flood plains whose underbrush serves as an urban filter trap. There he searches for discarded objects, recognizable artifacts that contain a social identity while triggering potent psychological associations."

"CONGREGATION" by LEDELLE MOE
In contrast to her “colossal concrete human heads, whose cheeks rest peacefully on the floor, as if asleep,” this installation includes repetitions of small heads in patterns covering almost half of the gallery walls.

Moe received her art training and diplomas from Technikon Natal in Durban, South Africa. She later moved to the United States and received an MFA degree in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. An emerging international artist, Moe has had exhibitions in Durban, Pretoria, Stockholm, New York, Washington, and Baltimore. Moe teaches sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art and currently works out of her studio in Washington, D.C.

May 6 - June 17, 2006
1515 14th St NW Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005
202-462-1601
Hours: Tue - Sat 11 AM - 6 PM