Ink Cities
Book Signing, Saturday, December 13, 4-6 pm
Artist Sidney Lawrence will provide personalized inscriptions and sketches for his 200-edition artist's book, Ink Cities, from 4 to 6 pm on Saturday, Dec. 13, at District Fine Arts, 1639 Wisconsin Ave, NW, Georgetown.
Inspired by pocket-sized sketchbooks artists often carry while traveling, the 32-page, spiral-bound publication ($26) presents Lawrence's highly detailed, often fantasy-laden drawings of 24 cities from around the world-DC, Shanghai, Fez, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen and Sydney, to name a few---with a handwritten fact, anecdote or impression to accompany each image. Ink drawings, Lawrence says, are "my Oiuja Board for capturing a city's buzz and sense of adventure."
Ink Cities is meant to appeal to all ages, Lawrence stresses. "At the end, readers may use their own words and images to portray their favorite cities on five blank pages," he says.
The reproduced drawings date from 1987 to 2008; several are in local and national collections.
Ink Cities appears as part of Lawrence's current show at DFA of paintings, reliefs and works on paper (Nov. 15, 2008 to Jan. 17, 2009). The artist has exhibited in the DC area since the early 1980s and also in California and Massachusetts.
Todd Savitch
202-328-9100
District Fine Arts
1639 Wisconsin Wisocnisn Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20007
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Friday, November 14, 2008
Sidney Lawrence Recent Works
November 15, 2008 – January 17, 2009
Opening Reception, Nov. 15, from 5-8PM
Artist Talk, 5:30 - 6 pm
Book Signing, Ink Cities
Saturday, December 13, 4-6 pm
A San Francisco native with art history degrees from Berkeley and UC Davis, the artist (b. 1948) has exhibited work at DC's Gallery K, the National Portrait Gallery, San Francisco's Braunstein/Quay Gallery, Jan Baum Gallery in Los Angeles, the Robert Lehman Art Center at Brooks School and the American University Museum. This is his second solo show at DFA.
Lawrence is also a writer, curator, and art-PR specialist. He served as the Hirshhorn Museum's press officer from 1975 to 2003 and an occasional curator there, and more recently organized "Roger Brown: Southern Exposure," for the Jule Collins Smith Museum at Auburn University, Alabama. Lawrence is a frequent contributor to artnet.com and Art in America and periodically performs locally as a jazz vocalis
D.F.A.
1639 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-328-9100
Opening Reception, Nov. 15, from 5-8PM
Artist Talk, 5:30 - 6 pm
Book Signing, Ink Cities
Saturday, December 13, 4-6 pm
A San Francisco native with art history degrees from Berkeley and UC Davis, the artist (b. 1948) has exhibited work at DC's Gallery K, the National Portrait Gallery, San Francisco's Braunstein/Quay Gallery, Jan Baum Gallery in Los Angeles, the Robert Lehman Art Center at Brooks School and the American University Museum. This is his second solo show at DFA.
Lawrence is also a writer, curator, and art-PR specialist. He served as the Hirshhorn Museum's press officer from 1975 to 2003 and an occasional curator there, and more recently organized "Roger Brown: Southern Exposure," for the Jule Collins Smith Museum at Auburn University, Alabama. Lawrence is a frequent contributor to artnet.com and Art in America and periodically performs locally as a jazz vocalis
D.F.A.
1639 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20007
202-328-9100
Thursday, October 18, 2007
CAPITAL ROUNDUP
Great write up on the local art scene and galleries by Sidney Lawrence in ArtNet Magazine. HERE
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