Did anyone else read this poignant article By Gene Weingarten in the Washington Post Magazine on Saturday about Joshua Bell, one of the world's greatest violinists standing in L'Enfant Plaza playing eloquent music, "Chaconne," then Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria," on his multimillion dollar Stradivarius? It choked me up to read about the indifference to beauty when it is squarely within range. I saw "the wordless, darkly brilliant, avant-garde 1982 film "Koyaanisqatsi," about the frenetic speed of modern life" many years ago. "Koyaanisqatsi" is a Hopi word. It means "life out of balance." The Washington Post set up a modern day version, an experiment with the question "Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find Out."
"What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare."
-- from "Leisure," by W.H. Davies
"If we can't take the time out of our lives to stay a moment and listen to one of the best musicians on Earth play some of the best music ever written; if the surge of modern life so overpowers us that we are deaf and blind to something like that -- then what else are we missing?"
Find out by reading the article here. And don't miss seeing the video clip of Joshua Bell's performance at the end of the article. I'll say, perhaps context does matter in art.
Emily Shroder, Rachel Manteuffel, John W. Poole and Magazine Editor Tom Shroder contributed to this report. Gene Weingarten, a Magazine staff writer, can be reached at weingarten@washpost.com. He will be fielding questions and comments about this article Monday at 1 p.m.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Saturday, April 07, 2007
PRESS PLAY : A VIDEO AND PERFORMANCE ART PARTY
SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2007
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
1520 14 st nw
Hosted by Project 4 and The Pink Line Project
Cocktails and Live Music by Aphrodizia
Project 4 and The Pink Line Project present PRESS PLAY, a multi-media art party showcasing video and performance artists working in New York, Washington, and Baltimore. The event will feature 20 dynamic works by 11 visionary artists.
Featuring the work of:
Reed Anderson & Daniel Davidson, Charlotte Andrew, Anthony Goicolea, Guy Hundere, Nelson Loskamp, Brad McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Mac Premo, Adam Stennett, Dirk Westphal
New Technologies have altered contemporary culture and the role of the arts in society. Through the use of video, animation, sound, and other computer based programs, these artists use new media to pursue artistic research and production in the context of cultural and artistic issues.
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 Pink Line Project supports outstanding artists who contribute to excellence and innovation in the arts in Washington, DC by creating opportunities for intellectual and artistic interaction and by providing inventive approaches to assisting artists make art.
PRESS PLAY: 1520 14th Street NW/ Washington DC / 20005
(at the corner of 14th and Church Street NW).
Space provided by Metropolis Development.
Washington DC 20005
Project 4 / 903 u street nw / washington dc 20001 / tel: 202 232 4340 /
Email
wednesday-friday 2-6 pm saturday noon-6 pm and by appointment
7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
1520 14 st nw
Hosted by Project 4 and The Pink Line Project
Cocktails and Live Music by Aphrodizia
Project 4 and The Pink Line Project present PRESS PLAY, a multi-media art party showcasing video and performance artists working in New York, Washington, and Baltimore. The event will feature 20 dynamic works by 11 visionary artists.
Featuring the work of:
Reed Anderson & Daniel Davidson, Charlotte Andrew, Anthony Goicolea, Guy Hundere, Nelson Loskamp, Brad McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Mac Premo, Adam Stennett, Dirk Westphal
New Technologies have altered contemporary culture and the role of the arts in society. Through the use of video, animation, sound, and other computer based programs, these artists use new media to pursue artistic research and production in the context of cultural and artistic issues.
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 Pink Line Project supports outstanding artists who contribute to excellence and innovation in the arts in Washington, DC by creating opportunities for intellectual and artistic interaction and by providing inventive approaches to assisting artists make art.
PRESS PLAY: 1520 14th Street NW/ Washington DC / 20005
(at the corner of 14th and Church Street NW).
Space provided by Metropolis Development.
Washington DC 20005
Project 4 / 903 u street nw / washington dc 20001 / tel: 202 232 4340 /
wednesday-friday 2-6 pm saturday noon-6 pm and by appointment
Oliver Vernon: Macro/Micro
Paintings and On-site Sculpture
April 14 – May 19
Opening Reception with the Artist: Sat. April 14, 6-8 PM
Preview Day: Friday, April 13
Oliver Vernon’s first solo exhibition in Washington, Macro/Micro, comprises a new series of paintings on canvas and panel and an on-site sand sculpture. The exhibition will run from Saturday, April 14 to May 19 with an opening reception for the artist on April 14, 6-8 PM. Preview day for viewing the installation: Friday, April 13.
IRVINE CONTEMPORARY
1412 14th St ., NW, Washington, DC 20005
www.irvinecontemporary.com
Phone: (202) 332-8767 |
Email
April 14 – May 19
Opening Reception with the Artist: Sat. April 14, 6-8 PM
Preview Day: Friday, April 13
Oliver Vernon’s first solo exhibition in Washington, Macro/Micro, comprises a new series of paintings on canvas and panel and an on-site sand sculpture. The exhibition will run from Saturday, April 14 to May 19 with an opening reception for the artist on April 14, 6-8 PM. Preview day for viewing the installation: Friday, April 13.
IRVINE CONTEMPORARY
1412 14th St ., NW, Washington, DC 20005
www.irvinecontemporary.com
Phone: (202) 332-8767 |
Selections From the Artery Collection
Washington Color School and its Influences
Reception:Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
April 13, 2007 - June 22, 2007
Hillyer Art Space proudly presents Washington Color School and its Influences: Selections from the Washington Color School in conjunction with the city-wide ColorField.remix program. The exhibition features four artists who showed works in the Washington Color Painters exhibit at the former Washington Gallery of Modern Art in DC in 1965; these include Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Thomas Downing, and Paul Reed. Added to the mix of first generation color field painters are Willem de Looper, Alma Thomas, and Anne Truitt. While each of these artists is much more than a contributor to or descendant of the Washington Color School, they are eternally linked in their emphasis on color and light.
IA&A sincerely thanks the Artery Group for allowing Hillyer Art Space to exhibit this grouping of works from their collection. IA&A’s Hillyer Art Space is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information on the ColorField.remix program visit www.washington.org/colorfieldremix/
International Arts and Artists' & Hillyer Art Space at 9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC
(Dupont Metro Station on the Red Line North Exit)
202.338.0680
Email
Reception:Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
April 13, 2007 - June 22, 2007
Hillyer Art Space proudly presents Washington Color School and its Influences: Selections from the Washington Color School in conjunction with the city-wide ColorField.remix program. The exhibition features four artists who showed works in the Washington Color Painters exhibit at the former Washington Gallery of Modern Art in DC in 1965; these include Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Thomas Downing, and Paul Reed. Added to the mix of first generation color field painters are Willem de Looper, Alma Thomas, and Anne Truitt. While each of these artists is much more than a contributor to or descendant of the Washington Color School, they are eternally linked in their emphasis on color and light.
IA&A sincerely thanks the Artery Group for allowing Hillyer Art Space to exhibit this grouping of works from their collection. IA&A’s Hillyer Art Space is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
For more information on the ColorField.remix program visit www.washington.org/colorfieldremix/
International Arts and Artists' & Hillyer Art Space at 9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC
(Dupont Metro Station on the Red Line North Exit)
202.338.0680
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Color: Field Tests - New Work by Sondra N. Arkin
April 18 - May 13, 2007
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 19, 5-9 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, May 6, 2-4 pm
Working in encaustic and mixed media assemblage, Sondra Arkin explores the role that combinations of color play in communicating a sense of energy, mood and depth. Her examination of color's influence will not end with her efforts in the studio: she will select colors for several of the gallery's walls, against which she will hang works of similar size, composition and palette. These works will combine to form a larger installation that will field test the ways in which individual works affect—and are affected by—the environment in which they are placed.
Nevin Kelly Gallery
1517 'U' Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009
P: 202.232.3464
F: 202.232.3465
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Saul Steinberg: Illuminations
April 6 through June 24, 2007
Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) was famous worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age through a dozen books of drawings and hundreds of incisive illustrations for the New Yorker and other periodicals. His work is intensely personal, humorous and sharply observant of 20th-century life. Joel Smith, curator of photographs at the Princeton University Art Museum, selected the approximately 120 works on paper and board, paintings, sculpture and other objects featured in the exhibition.
Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
April 13 through July 29, 2007
"Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections" explores the vision and passion of private collectors who are formally affiliated with the Smithsonian American Art Museum through its patrons' support organization, the American Art Forum. Major oil paintings, sculptures and works on paper by leading artists from the past 150 years will be included. Approximately 75 masterworks from current members will be featured.
The museum, now part of the Donald W. Reynolds Center, presents an exciting array of special exhibitions and free public programs. It is located above the Gallery Place Metro station at 8th and F Streets N.W. in the heart of Washington, D.C.'s vibrant new downtown and is open from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily (except December 25).
April 6 through June 24, 2007
Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) was famous worldwide for giving graphic definition to the postwar age through a dozen books of drawings and hundreds of incisive illustrations for the New Yorker and other periodicals. His work is intensely personal, humorous and sharply observant of 20th-century life. Joel Smith, curator of photographs at the Princeton University Art Museum, selected the approximately 120 works on paper and board, paintings, sculpture and other objects featured in the exhibition.
Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections
April 13 through July 29, 2007
"Variations on America: Masterworks from American Art Forum Collections" explores the vision and passion of private collectors who are formally affiliated with the Smithsonian American Art Museum through its patrons' support organization, the American Art Forum. Major oil paintings, sculptures and works on paper by leading artists from the past 150 years will be included. Approximately 75 masterworks from current members will be featured.
The museum, now part of the Donald W. Reynolds Center, presents an exciting array of special exhibitions and free public programs. It is located above the Gallery Place Metro station at 8th and F Streets N.W. in the heart of Washington, D.C.'s vibrant new downtown and is open from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily (except December 25).
"The Living Room Show"
Randall Scott Gallery
in collaboration with Contemporaria Georgetown present...
"The Living Room Show"
contemporary art in the modern furnished living space:
April11th-May 19th
Opening reception: Saturday, April 14th, 6pm-9pm
Artists:
Joe Biel, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Charles LaBelle, Erika Larsen, Cara Ober, Manuel Ocampo, Ruby Osorio, Nick Walker
IDEA:
Sit down and look around
"Somewhere, long ago some art dealer leased a warehouse, a storefront, or an office and proceeded to remove everything inside it. They stripped it bare, exposed the concrete foundation, polished it and when it was ready, painted the walls white. The design echoed and a standard was developed. From galleries to museums, art centers and the corporate station this is how we have become accustomed to looking at art: object, separated from distraction in a clean room.
During construction last October, as I was stripping my gallery space bare, exposing the plywood foundation and eventually painting my walls a pure shade of white, I was thinking of this. Behind the handles of an industrial belt sander, the dust of 100 years of building history lingering in the air, I thought of the space's past. Not that it was once an office, or a Chinese laundry, or a brothel (which I was told it had been), but that it was originally someone's home.
It was then I decided to do "The Living Room Show." I wanted to show the relationship of visual art and the living space; after all, the living space is generally the desired destination for the artwork a gallery exhibits. It would seem fitting, if just for one show, to return the building to its original function, a place where someone once lived, surrounded by what may have been, his or her art collection.
I had a choice to make, do I design the living room the way people actually live, or do I deck the place out as my dream space. The thought of having well lived in, couch potato compressed sofas and coffee cup stained coffee tables stocked with four separate TV remotes appealed to my rebellious self. The thought of kids toys strewn about, and a gallery cat sleeping wherever it wanted was very inviting. But, the fluidity of an Italian/European design just was too much to get out of my head. I am, in fact in love with modern furniture design, a process involving the concept of creating function and aesthetic, in context with both the history of Modernism and a vision of the future. Modern furniture does require a clean design. But, the end result would be the same, Object, surrounded by objects, working in harmony.
Since I have never fully recovered from my Ikea phase (which is ironic since I am in love with modern, non-particle board furniture), I contacted Deborah Kalkstein, owner of Contemporaria Georgetown. Deborah is a design goddess. Her sensibility and eye for the finest of furniture and her innovative interior designs I knew would be perfect. She will be designing the space and choosing the furniture from such designers as, Cappelini, MDA, and Minotti to name a few. Furniture both functional and works of art in their own right.
I therefore, invite you to sit down and have a look around." - Randall Scott
Randall Scott Gallery | 1326 14th Stteet NW | Washington | DC | 20005
Telephone: 202-332-0806 Fax: 202-332-0807
Contact information: info@randallscottgallery.com
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday by appointment
Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm
in collaboration with Contemporaria Georgetown present...
"The Living Room Show"
contemporary art in the modern furnished living space:
April11th-May 19th
Opening reception: Saturday, April 14th, 6pm-9pm
Artists:
Joe Biel, Julia Fullerton-Batten, Charles LaBelle, Erika Larsen, Cara Ober, Manuel Ocampo, Ruby Osorio, Nick Walker
IDEA:
Sit down and look around
"Somewhere, long ago some art dealer leased a warehouse, a storefront, or an office and proceeded to remove everything inside it. They stripped it bare, exposed the concrete foundation, polished it and when it was ready, painted the walls white. The design echoed and a standard was developed. From galleries to museums, art centers and the corporate station this is how we have become accustomed to looking at art: object, separated from distraction in a clean room.
During construction last October, as I was stripping my gallery space bare, exposing the plywood foundation and eventually painting my walls a pure shade of white, I was thinking of this. Behind the handles of an industrial belt sander, the dust of 100 years of building history lingering in the air, I thought of the space's past. Not that it was once an office, or a Chinese laundry, or a brothel (which I was told it had been), but that it was originally someone's home.
It was then I decided to do "The Living Room Show." I wanted to show the relationship of visual art and the living space; after all, the living space is generally the desired destination for the artwork a gallery exhibits. It would seem fitting, if just for one show, to return the building to its original function, a place where someone once lived, surrounded by what may have been, his or her art collection.
I had a choice to make, do I design the living room the way people actually live, or do I deck the place out as my dream space. The thought of having well lived in, couch potato compressed sofas and coffee cup stained coffee tables stocked with four separate TV remotes appealed to my rebellious self. The thought of kids toys strewn about, and a gallery cat sleeping wherever it wanted was very inviting. But, the fluidity of an Italian/European design just was too much to get out of my head. I am, in fact in love with modern furniture design, a process involving the concept of creating function and aesthetic, in context with both the history of Modernism and a vision of the future. Modern furniture does require a clean design. But, the end result would be the same, Object, surrounded by objects, working in harmony.
Since I have never fully recovered from my Ikea phase (which is ironic since I am in love with modern, non-particle board furniture), I contacted Deborah Kalkstein, owner of Contemporaria Georgetown. Deborah is a design goddess. Her sensibility and eye for the finest of furniture and her innovative interior designs I knew would be perfect. She will be designing the space and choosing the furniture from such designers as, Cappelini, MDA, and Minotti to name a few. Furniture both functional and works of art in their own right.
I therefore, invite you to sit down and have a look around." - Randall Scott
Randall Scott Gallery | 1326 14th Stteet NW | Washington | DC | 20005
Telephone: 202-332-0806 Fax: 202-332-0807
Contact information: info@randallscottgallery.com
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday by appointment
Wednesday-Saturday 11am-6pm
Tuesday, April 03, 2007
Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue
Marilou Donahue is always interviewing someone interesting. Every year the National Press Club is honored to have Terrence D. Jones, President and CEO of Wolf Trap and he always brings a guest along.This year it was Mike Love, lead singer of The Beach Boys. Read it here.
WPA/C-WWP 9x10 Exhibition Series
It's the last three days to get over to the William W. Parker Gallery to see the first installment of the nine WPA/C exhibition series 9x10. I will be exhibiting in the June 15 - July 6 exhibition along with Freya Grand and Paul Ellis plus seven other artists (TBA). You can easily get to the gallery by metro.
March 9 - April 6, 2007
Stephen Borko / Sabine Carlson / Sheila Crider / Joel D'Orazio / Kid Flash (Steve Frost) / J.T. Kirkland / Jeanette May / Betsy Stewart / Gia Tkablazde / Andrew Wodzianski
In tribute to the late William Warren Parker's support for emerging DC artists, his family has generously donated space at the William W. Parker (WWP) Gallery – housed in Mickelson's Fine Art Framing at 629 New York Ave NW - to WPA\C for a new “nine-by-ten” exhibition series: 9 shows of 10 member artists each . These shows will provide a new outlet for WPA\C member artists, and each exhibition will present a diverse cross-section of the WPA\C membership to the public, showcasing works in all media. The 9x10 exhibitions will run monthly from March 2007 to January 2008.
SHOW CALENDAR
1. March 9 - April 6, 2007
Stephen Borko / Sabine Carlson / Sheila Crider / Joel D'Orazio / Kid Flash (Steve Frost) / J.T. Kirkland / Jeanette May / Betsy Stewart / Gia Tkablazde / Andrew Wodzianski
2. April 13 - May 11, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, April 13, 6-8pm
Kristina Bilonick / James Calder / R.L. Croft / Jenny Freestone / Pat Goslee / David F. Hartwell / Francine Livaditis / Nathan Manuel / Michele Montalbano / Joseph Virgilio
3. May 18 - June 8, 2007
4. June 15 - July 6, 2007
5. July 13 - August 10, 2007
6. August 17 - September 14, 2007
7 . September 21 - October 19, 2007
8. October 26 - November 30, 2007
9 . December 7, 2007 - January 4, 2008
9X10 WPA\C Member Shows at William W. Parker Gallery
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 11am - 4pm, Saturday Noon - 4pm
Mickelson's Fine Art Framing & the William W. Parker Gallery
629 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
202-628-1734
By Metro
Mt. Vernon Square: Green & Yellow lines Chinatown/Gallery Place: Red, Green, & Yellow lines
March 9 - April 6, 2007
Stephen Borko / Sabine Carlson / Sheila Crider / Joel D'Orazio / Kid Flash (Steve Frost) / J.T. Kirkland / Jeanette May / Betsy Stewart / Gia Tkablazde / Andrew Wodzianski
In tribute to the late William Warren Parker's support for emerging DC artists, his family has generously donated space at the William W. Parker (WWP) Gallery – housed in Mickelson's Fine Art Framing at 629 New York Ave NW - to WPA\C for a new “nine-by-ten” exhibition series: 9 shows of 10 member artists each . These shows will provide a new outlet for WPA\C member artists, and each exhibition will present a diverse cross-section of the WPA\C membership to the public, showcasing works in all media. The 9x10 exhibitions will run monthly from March 2007 to January 2008.
SHOW CALENDAR
1. March 9 - April 6, 2007
Stephen Borko / Sabine Carlson / Sheila Crider / Joel D'Orazio / Kid Flash (Steve Frost) / J.T. Kirkland / Jeanette May / Betsy Stewart / Gia Tkablazde / Andrew Wodzianski
2. April 13 - May 11, 2007
Opening reception: Friday, April 13, 6-8pm
Kristina Bilonick / James Calder / R.L. Croft / Jenny Freestone / Pat Goslee / David F. Hartwell / Francine Livaditis / Nathan Manuel / Michele Montalbano / Joseph Virgilio
3. May 18 - June 8, 2007
4. June 15 - July 6, 2007
5. July 13 - August 10, 2007
6. August 17 - September 14, 2007
7 . September 21 - October 19, 2007
8. October 26 - November 30, 2007
9 . December 7, 2007 - January 4, 2008
9X10 WPA\C Member Shows at William W. Parker Gallery
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 11am - 4pm, Saturday Noon - 4pm
Mickelson's Fine Art Framing & the William W. Parker Gallery
629 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
202-628-1734
By Metro
Mt. Vernon Square: Green & Yellow lines Chinatown/Gallery Place: Red, Green, & Yellow lines
Embrace Art
Presented by the League of Reston Artists (LRA)
April 2 – 29, 2007
Opening Reception, Sunday, April 15, 2:00-4:00 pm
Jo Ann Rose Gallery of the Reston Community Center
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
League of Reston Artists (LRA)
present Embrace Art, its Annual Judged Fine Arts Exhibition, at the Jo Ann Rose Gallery of the Reston Community Center. This exhibition features judged works of art by LRA artist members.
$300 in prize monies will be presented to the award winning artists by exhibition judges, Pat Macintyre, John Dusenberry, and Marcha Staiger, at the opening reception on Sunday, April 15, from 2-4 pm.
Visitors to the exhibition were encouraged to vote for their favorite piece of art as the People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award will be announced at the opening reception.
Jo Ann Rose Gallery located in the Reston Community Center at Lake Ann Plaza in Reston, Virginia. For directions, see the LRA’s website at League of Reston Artists (LRA)
PUBLIC CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION:
James W. Bailey
Board Member/Public Relations and Communications
League of Reston Artists (LRA)
11196 Silentwood Lane
Reston, VA 20191
Phone: 703-200-2620
Email: JamesWBailey@comcast.net
URL: www.leagueofrestonartists.org
April 2 – 29, 2007
Opening Reception, Sunday, April 15, 2:00-4:00 pm
Jo Ann Rose Gallery of the Reston Community Center
This exhibition is free and open to the public.
League of Reston Artists (LRA)
present Embrace Art, its Annual Judged Fine Arts Exhibition, at the Jo Ann Rose Gallery of the Reston Community Center. This exhibition features judged works of art by LRA artist members.
$300 in prize monies will be presented to the award winning artists by exhibition judges, Pat Macintyre, John Dusenberry, and Marcha Staiger, at the opening reception on Sunday, April 15, from 2-4 pm.
Visitors to the exhibition were encouraged to vote for their favorite piece of art as the People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award will be announced at the opening reception.
Jo Ann Rose Gallery located in the Reston Community Center at Lake Ann Plaza in Reston, Virginia. For directions, see the LRA’s website at League of Reston Artists (LRA)
PUBLIC CONTACT FOR MORE INFORMATION:
James W. Bailey
Board Member/Public Relations and Communications
League of Reston Artists (LRA)
11196 Silentwood Lane
Reston, VA 20191
Phone: 703-200-2620
Email: JamesWBailey@comcast.net
URL: www.leagueofrestonartists.org
As part of the 29th Anniversary Exhibition and celebration Zenith Gallery
Presents
Susan Klebanoff
Saturday, April 7th
Artists Talk: 2 – 3pm, 3- 4pm Q & A
As part of the 29th Anniversary Lecture Series Ms. Klebanoff will speak about her unique process, ideas and inspirations. “Art is a universal language, A document of the human spirit. Each of my works speaks that language.” Susan Klebanoff
The process is as bold as the images. Susan Klebanoff hand-dyes her yarn and paints the threads to create a canvas at its most basic form. This is, however, a three-dimensional canvas on which there is an interplay of color and sculptural elements.
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Zenith Gallery est. 1978 202-783-2963
413 7th Street NW art@zenithgallery.com
Washington DC 20004 www.zenithgallery.com
Susan Klebanoff
Saturday, April 7th
Artists Talk: 2 – 3pm, 3- 4pm Q & A
As part of the 29th Anniversary Lecture Series Ms. Klebanoff will speak about her unique process, ideas and inspirations. “Art is a universal language, A document of the human spirit. Each of my works speaks that language.” Susan Klebanoff
The process is as bold as the images. Susan Klebanoff hand-dyes her yarn and paints the threads to create a canvas at its most basic form. This is, however, a three-dimensional canvas on which there is an interplay of color and sculptural elements.
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Zenith Gallery est. 1978 202-783-2963
413 7th Street NW art@zenithgallery.com
Washington DC 20004 www.zenithgallery.com
Monday, April 02, 2007
IMAGINE PEACE
By Yoko Ono
• April 1-15, 2007- IMAGINE PEACE
By Yoko Ono
• May 20, 2007 - 'Pas de Dirt'
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange ' Pas de Dirt" on Sunday, May 20, at the National Building Museum. Performances will take place at 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm
LOCATIONS
Wish Trees for the Tidal Basin at the Jefferson Memorial
Wish Trees for Anacostia, THEARC at 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE
Wish Tree for Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at 7th and Independence Avenue SW, in the sculpture garden
Whisper a wish to the bark of the trees
Japanese Lantern Lawn, west of the Kutz Bridge at Independence Avenue and 17th Street, SW
This line is a part of a very a very large circle available at:
THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW
Provisions Library, 1611 Connecticut Avenue NW, Floor 2
IMAGINE PEACE billboard at the Verizon Center at 7th and G Streets, NW
IMAGINE PEACE poster available at:
THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW
Provisions Library, 1611 Connecticut Avenue NW, Floor 2
IMAGINE PEACE ad in March 29, 2007 issue of the WASHINGTON POST Express
People who cannot visit the Wish Tree project in Washington, DC, can mail wishes to
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
P.O. Box 1009
121 Reykjavik
Iceland
IMAGINE PEACE, YOKO ONO
Street Scenes: Projects for DC
April 1 - 30, 2007
"This project begins with spring--by looking at a naked tree and wondering what will grow. Will the leaves be healthy, will the blossoms bloom? So much promise, so much expectation, so much hope. One can only imagine.
When I moved to Washington seven years ago and experienced the first explosion of the cherry trees, I thought not of nature but of art. I recalled Hiroshige prints first encountered during my youth and Van Gogh reinterpretations of the same, which papered the walls of my room in postcard scale. But most strikingly, I thought of the works of Yoko Ono.
Since the early 1960s, Ms. Ono's work has examined the quixotic balance between art, nature, and the world. Instead of a reading primer, my eldest sister, an artist immersed in the New York Fluxus movement and experimental film world, gave me a copy of a book called grapefruit. The book was small, five and a half inches
square--the perfect size for an eight year old's fists and the perfect gift from an older sibling who loved to challenge and teach. From its bright yellow jacket shone a friendly face, a woman with long, full hair and deep probing eyes...someone, it seemed, whom you could easily sit across from and talk to. With its big type text, simple sentences, and scattered drawings, grapefruit became my favorite book and a constant companion.
Billed as “a book of works and drawing,” grapefruit is a call to action...small actions, powerful actions. “A Piece for Orchestra” (1962 summer) instructs, “Count all of the stars of that night by heart. The piece ends when all of the orchestra members finish counting the stars or when it dawns. This can be done with windows instead of stars.” Another called “Water Piece” (1964 spring) says, “Steal a moon on the water with a bucket. Keep stealing until no moon is seen on the water.” Her “Pulse Piece” (1963 winter) offers an invitation: “Listen to each other’s pulse by putting your ear on the other’s stomach.” These gentle urgings and provocations get one thinking. They invite the reader to begin to imagine Flashing forward--and returning--to the base of the Jefferson Memorial, as I stared at the sea of blossoms and the waves of people moving beneath them, I was reminded of Ms. Ono's works from the 1990s called Wish Trees. With these powerful pieces, Ms. Ono asks the audience to become part of the art by writing wishes on paper tags and tying them to the branches of the living trees. “As a child in Japan,” Ms. Ono explains, “I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.” What can be a better mirror to the iconic Washington cherry blossoms--a gift from the Japanese empire to the United States in 1912--than paper counterpoints that encourage the blooming of wishes for one’s self and the world?
Ms. Ono will install Wish Trees at the Tidal Basin and THEARC, a community center in Anacostia (1901 Mississippi Avenue SE). A tree will be permanently installed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (7th Street and Independence Avenue SW), a gift of the artist. The trees from the Tidal Basin and THEARC will eventually be planted in Anacostia at the site of THEARC.
At the location of the original cherry blossom trees (Japanese Lantern Lawn, west of the Kutz Bridge at Independence Avenue and 17th Street SW, across the Tidal Basin from the Jefferson Memorial), Ms. Ono will place a plaque encouraging passer-bys to “whisper a wish into the bark of a tree.”
The Wish Trees are part of Ms. Ono’s citywide IMAGINE PEACE project. Its other components include a large billboard declaring IMAGINE PEACE (at the intersection of 7th and G Streets NW) and identical posters that will be available free to the public at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, THEARC, and Provisions Library (1611 Connecticut Avenue NW).
The March 29, 2007, issue of the Washington Post Express, a daily newspaper with a circulation of almost 200,000, will contain a smaller version of the poster. The hope is that these posters will spring up by the hundreds all over the city and spread positive wishes for peace, both internal and global.
As part of the project, Ms. Ono also will disseminate pieces of ribbons that say, “This line is a part of a very large circle….” These ribbons will be available for free at the locations distributing the posters. This work quietly reminds us that we all co-exist with art and nature on the same small sphere--a circle for which we should IMAGINE PEACE."
-- Nora Halpern
Street Scenes: Projects for DC was created in the spring of 2006 by curators Nora Halpern and Welmoed Laanstra. IMAGINE PEACE is the third installation of Street Scenes: Projects for DC. The overarching concept of Yoko Ono’s project parallels the working philosophy of Street Scenes: art and the ideas it generates can unify a city and all of its neighborhoods by creating an experience shared by those who are art aficionados as well as those who are not.
IMAGINE PEACE is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Maria and Bill Bell, Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust, National Cherry Blossom Festival, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Peter Norton Family Foundation, Downtown BID, Bussolati and Associates, Americans for the Arts, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Barbara and Aaron Levine, and several generous anonymous individuals.
INFO
Contact the www.StreetScenesDC.com info@welmoedlaanstra.com
TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS
Checks can be sent to:
Provisions Library
1611 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington DC 20009
Please note that your donation is for Street Scenes DC
• April 1-15, 2007- IMAGINE PEACE
By Yoko Ono
• May 20, 2007 - 'Pas de Dirt'
Liz Lerman Dance Exchange ' Pas de Dirt" on Sunday, May 20, at the National Building Museum. Performances will take place at 2 pm, 3 pm and 4 pm
LOCATIONS
Wish Trees for the Tidal Basin at the Jefferson Memorial
Wish Trees for Anacostia, THEARC at 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE
Wish Tree for Washington, DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden at 7th and Independence Avenue SW, in the sculpture garden
Whisper a wish to the bark of the trees
Japanese Lantern Lawn, west of the Kutz Bridge at Independence Avenue and 17th Street, SW
This line is a part of a very a very large circle available at:
THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW
Provisions Library, 1611 Connecticut Avenue NW, Floor 2
IMAGINE PEACE billboard at the Verizon Center at 7th and G Streets, NW
IMAGINE PEACE poster available at:
THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Avenue SE
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 7th Street and Independence Avenue SW
Provisions Library, 1611 Connecticut Avenue NW, Floor 2
IMAGINE PEACE ad in March 29, 2007 issue of the WASHINGTON POST Express
People who cannot visit the Wish Tree project in Washington, DC, can mail wishes to
IMAGINE PEACE TOWER
P.O. Box 1009
121 Reykjavik
Iceland
IMAGINE PEACE, YOKO ONO
Street Scenes: Projects for DC
April 1 - 30, 2007
"This project begins with spring--by looking at a naked tree and wondering what will grow. Will the leaves be healthy, will the blossoms bloom? So much promise, so much expectation, so much hope. One can only imagine.
When I moved to Washington seven years ago and experienced the first explosion of the cherry trees, I thought not of nature but of art. I recalled Hiroshige prints first encountered during my youth and Van Gogh reinterpretations of the same, which papered the walls of my room in postcard scale. But most strikingly, I thought of the works of Yoko Ono.
Since the early 1960s, Ms. Ono's work has examined the quixotic balance between art, nature, and the world. Instead of a reading primer, my eldest sister, an artist immersed in the New York Fluxus movement and experimental film world, gave me a copy of a book called grapefruit. The book was small, five and a half inches
square--the perfect size for an eight year old's fists and the perfect gift from an older sibling who loved to challenge and teach. From its bright yellow jacket shone a friendly face, a woman with long, full hair and deep probing eyes...someone, it seemed, whom you could easily sit across from and talk to. With its big type text, simple sentences, and scattered drawings, grapefruit became my favorite book and a constant companion.
Billed as “a book of works and drawing,” grapefruit is a call to action...small actions, powerful actions. “A Piece for Orchestra” (1962 summer) instructs, “Count all of the stars of that night by heart. The piece ends when all of the orchestra members finish counting the stars or when it dawns. This can be done with windows instead of stars.” Another called “Water Piece” (1964 spring) says, “Steal a moon on the water with a bucket. Keep stealing until no moon is seen on the water.” Her “Pulse Piece” (1963 winter) offers an invitation: “Listen to each other’s pulse by putting your ear on the other’s stomach.” These gentle urgings and provocations get one thinking. They invite the reader to begin to imagine Flashing forward--and returning--to the base of the Jefferson Memorial, as I stared at the sea of blossoms and the waves of people moving beneath them, I was reminded of Ms. Ono's works from the 1990s called Wish Trees. With these powerful pieces, Ms. Ono asks the audience to become part of the art by writing wishes on paper tags and tying them to the branches of the living trees. “As a child in Japan,” Ms. Ono explains, “I used to go to a temple and write out a wish on a piece of thin paper and tie it around the branch of a tree. Trees in temple courtyards were always filled with people’s wish knots, which looked like white flowers blossoming from afar.” What can be a better mirror to the iconic Washington cherry blossoms--a gift from the Japanese empire to the United States in 1912--than paper counterpoints that encourage the blooming of wishes for one’s self and the world?
Ms. Ono will install Wish Trees at the Tidal Basin and THEARC, a community center in Anacostia (1901 Mississippi Avenue SE). A tree will be permanently installed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (7th Street and Independence Avenue SW), a gift of the artist. The trees from the Tidal Basin and THEARC will eventually be planted in Anacostia at the site of THEARC.
At the location of the original cherry blossom trees (Japanese Lantern Lawn, west of the Kutz Bridge at Independence Avenue and 17th Street SW, across the Tidal Basin from the Jefferson Memorial), Ms. Ono will place a plaque encouraging passer-bys to “whisper a wish into the bark of a tree.”
The Wish Trees are part of Ms. Ono’s citywide IMAGINE PEACE project. Its other components include a large billboard declaring IMAGINE PEACE (at the intersection of 7th and G Streets NW) and identical posters that will be available free to the public at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, THEARC, and Provisions Library (1611 Connecticut Avenue NW).
The March 29, 2007, issue of the Washington Post Express, a daily newspaper with a circulation of almost 200,000, will contain a smaller version of the poster. The hope is that these posters will spring up by the hundreds all over the city and spread positive wishes for peace, both internal and global.
As part of the project, Ms. Ono also will disseminate pieces of ribbons that say, “This line is a part of a very large circle….” These ribbons will be available for free at the locations distributing the posters. This work quietly reminds us that we all co-exist with art and nature on the same small sphere--a circle for which we should IMAGINE PEACE."
-- Nora Halpern
Street Scenes: Projects for DC was created in the spring of 2006 by curators Nora Halpern and Welmoed Laanstra. IMAGINE PEACE is the third installation of Street Scenes: Projects for DC. The overarching concept of Yoko Ono’s project parallels the working philosophy of Street Scenes: art and the ideas it generates can unify a city and all of its neighborhoods by creating an experience shared by those who are art aficionados as well as those who are not.
IMAGINE PEACE is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, Maria and Bill Bell, Stewart R. Mott Charitable Trust, National Cherry Blossom Festival, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Peter Norton Family Foundation, Downtown BID, Bussolati and Associates, Americans for the Arts, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Barbara and Aaron Levine, and several generous anonymous individuals.
INFO
Contact the www.StreetScenesDC.com info@welmoedlaanstra.com
TAX-DEDUCTIBLE DONATIONS
Checks can be sent to:
Provisions Library
1611 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington DC 20009
Please note that your donation is for Street Scenes DC
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Gallery plan b
Paintings by Tanja Bos
Pastels by Shoshanna Ahart
April 4, 2007 – May 13, 2007
Opening reception with the artists
Saturday, April 7, 2007 / 6:00pm – 8:00pm
Gallery plan b
1530 fourteenth street, nw
washington, dc 20005
wed - sat 12-7 sun 1-5
info@galleryplanb.com
202.234.2711 or by appointment
Saturday, March 31, 2007
"E l e m e n t s"
Showing at The Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Show Dates: March 19 - June 2, 2007
I hopped the metro to the opening reception this past Thursday to see the exhibit in the new space organized by Zenith Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's a wonderful corporate lobby which shows sculpture exceptionally well. The artists exhibiting in this second show are Alan Binstock, Ellen Sinel and Paul Martin Wolff.
Reception; Thursday, March 29th 5 - 8 pm.
Go visit this exhibit on your lunch break. Alan Binstock's glass and steel sculpture's are magnificent plays with light and his steel and stone pieces are tributes to self reflection. His studies in Yoga inform his sculptures and challenges his aesthetic directions. Washington Artist Ellen Sinel shows moving images of nature. Blades of grass contrast with nature's vast spaces and call attention to themes of growth, movement and spirit. Lawyer turned sculptor, Paul Martin Wolff thinks of his art as a way of connecting with God’s creativity. His effort to create art is "deeply contemplative and spiritual.” Here's some early on opening shots. Enjoy!
The Gallery
at 1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC
Contact Zenith Gallery
art@zenithGallery.com
202.783.2963
Show Dates: March 19 - June 2, 2007
I hopped the metro to the opening reception this past Thursday to see the exhibit in the new space organized by Zenith Gallery at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue. It's a wonderful corporate lobby which shows sculpture exceptionally well. The artists exhibiting in this second show are Alan Binstock, Ellen Sinel and Paul Martin Wolff.
Reception; Thursday, March 29th 5 - 8 pm.
Go visit this exhibit on your lunch break. Alan Binstock's glass and steel sculpture's are magnificent plays with light and his steel and stone pieces are tributes to self reflection. His studies in Yoga inform his sculptures and challenges his aesthetic directions. Washington Artist Ellen Sinel shows moving images of nature. Blades of grass contrast with nature's vast spaces and call attention to themes of growth, movement and spirit. Lawyer turned sculptor, Paul Martin Wolff thinks of his art as a way of connecting with God’s creativity. His effort to create art is "deeply contemplative and spiritual.” Here's some early on opening shots. Enjoy!
The Gallery
at 1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC
Contact Zenith Gallery
art@zenithGallery.com
202.783.2963
Friday, March 30, 2007
Barbara PROBST, Exposures
G Fine Art
April 7, 2007 – May 19, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday April 7, 6:30-8:30pm
Barbara Probst’s work investigates the many ambiguities inherent to the photographic image. By use of a multiple-release trigger system Probst abandons the single-eye gaze of the camera; presenting pieces, composed of multiple photographs, viewed from different angles and distances all shot at the same moment.
Probst’s photographs causes us to consider directly the act of looking, by comparing and contrasting, we attempt to piece together the mysteries surrounding the images. We are provided with certain amounts of information and missing others. Probst however, plans this with precision and consideration, urging the viewer to become aware of fleeting moments and the frailty of a captured image.
Despite the simultaneous shutter and common location, the images differ in style, atmosphere, and content. There is no overall aesthetic to tie them together, instead the photographs are bound by the one and only moment of exposure. Thus forcing the viewer to confront their inclination to believe in photographic truth and exposing the photograph’s ability to mask, imply and affect.
Probst’s art is a performance of the moment, the collection of images, and the disruption of the scene. The word exposure can describe her subjects under the scrutiny of the camera, the unveiling nature of her photographic process, or simply the act of taking a picture, opening a shutter to let light in.
Barbara Probst was recently featured in Photography Now at the Museum of Modern Art. She is currently the subject of a survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. The Museum is co-publishing Barbara Probst; Exposures with Steidel, due to be released next month.
G Fine Art
1515 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
www.gfineartdc.com
info@gfineartdc.com
T.202.462.1601 F.202.462.1604
April 7, 2007 – May 19, 2007
Opening Reception Saturday April 7, 6:30-8:30pm
Barbara Probst’s work investigates the many ambiguities inherent to the photographic image. By use of a multiple-release trigger system Probst abandons the single-eye gaze of the camera; presenting pieces, composed of multiple photographs, viewed from different angles and distances all shot at the same moment.
Probst’s photographs causes us to consider directly the act of looking, by comparing and contrasting, we attempt to piece together the mysteries surrounding the images. We are provided with certain amounts of information and missing others. Probst however, plans this with precision and consideration, urging the viewer to become aware of fleeting moments and the frailty of a captured image.
Despite the simultaneous shutter and common location, the images differ in style, atmosphere, and content. There is no overall aesthetic to tie them together, instead the photographs are bound by the one and only moment of exposure. Thus forcing the viewer to confront their inclination to believe in photographic truth and exposing the photograph’s ability to mask, imply and affect.
Probst’s art is a performance of the moment, the collection of images, and the disruption of the scene. The word exposure can describe her subjects under the scrutiny of the camera, the unveiling nature of her photographic process, or simply the act of taking a picture, opening a shutter to let light in.
Barbara Probst was recently featured in Photography Now at the Museum of Modern Art. She is currently the subject of a survey exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. The Museum is co-publishing Barbara Probst; Exposures with Steidel, due to be released next month.
G Fine Art
1515 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
www.gfineartdc.com
info@gfineartdc.com
T.202.462.1601 F.202.462.1604
Pritzker Architecture Prize 2007 Awarded To Richard Rogers
LOS ANGELES, CA. - Richard Rogers, whose firm Richard Rogers Partnership is headquartered in London, has been chosen as the 2007 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. The formal ceremony for what has come to be known throughout the world as architecture’s highest honor will be held on June 4 in London. At that time, a $100,000 grant and a bronze medallion will be bestowed on the 73-year old architect at The Banqueting House, designed in 1619 by Inigo Jones.
In announcing the jury’s choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, quoted from the jury citation, “Born in Florence, Italy, and trained as an architect in London, at the Architectural Association, and later, in the United States at Yale University, Rogers has an outlook as urbane and expansive as his upbringing".
The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
Read here.
In announcing the jury’s choice, Thomas J. Pritzker, president of The Hyatt Foundation, quoted from the jury citation, “Born in Florence, Italy, and trained as an architect in London, at the Architectural Association, and later, in the United States at Yale University, Rogers has an outlook as urbane and expansive as his upbringing".
The purpose of the Pritzker Architecture Prize is to honor annually a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture.
Read here.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
The Smithsonian Challenge
"From the very beginning of his stewardship of the Smithsonian Institution, Lawrence Small proved that he was inept at the delicate art of raising private money for a public institution. Mr. Small, who resigned last weekend, was hired to operate the Smithsonian in a businesslike manner, in keeping with his nonscientific background as an executive at Citibank and Fannie Mae." Todays New York Times Editorial read here.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
"Prints of Old Europe"
April 11– May 6, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, April 13, 6—8:30 PM
Third Thursday Reception: April 19, 6—8 PM
Mary D. Ott's exhibit at Touchstone Gallery, "Prints of Old Europe," shows another dimension of her work. Traveling with a digital camera in hand, Ott captured images that she has made into original, hand-pulled prints.
Although the images are modern, her screen prints evoke a sense of history. Impressions of Crete are shown in overlays of colors and designs. Sunflowers from Slovenia glow in screen prints that incorporate oil paint and wax. Intaglios* present architectural details from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Italy.
** Intaglio refers to printmaking techniques in which an image is incised into the surface of a printing plate. The plate is then inked and the excess ink is carefully wiped from the plate. Finally the image is printed onto dampened paper using a printing press. Multiple copies may be made, each one inked and printed separately.
Ott uses a technique called "polymer intaglio" in which a photopolymer film is affixed to a copper printing plate. The image, contained on a transparency, is then transferred to the photopolymer film using ultraviolet light. The resulting photopolymer surface holds the ink and is wiped and printed like other intaglio plates, yielding a printed version of the image.
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-2787
http://TouchstoneGallery.com
Opening Reception: Friday, April 13, 6—8:30 PM
Third Thursday Reception: April 19, 6—8 PM
Mary D. Ott's exhibit at Touchstone Gallery, "Prints of Old Europe," shows another dimension of her work. Traveling with a digital camera in hand, Ott captured images that she has made into original, hand-pulled prints. Although the images are modern, her screen prints evoke a sense of history. Impressions of Crete are shown in overlays of colors and designs. Sunflowers from Slovenia glow in screen prints that incorporate oil paint and wax. Intaglios* present architectural details from the Czech Republic, France, Germany and Italy.
** Intaglio refers to printmaking techniques in which an image is incised into the surface of a printing plate. The plate is then inked and the excess ink is carefully wiped from the plate. Finally the image is printed onto dampened paper using a printing press. Multiple copies may be made, each one inked and printed separately.Ott uses a technique called "polymer intaglio" in which a photopolymer film is affixed to a copper printing plate. The image, contained on a transparency, is then transferred to the photopolymer film using ultraviolet light. The resulting photopolymer surface holds the ink and is wiped and printed like other intaglio plates, yielding a printed version of the image.
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
202-347-2787
http://TouchstoneGallery.com
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Visitors at Zenith Gallery
What a gorgeous day today! The sunshine and warmth was a welcome guest. I spent a pleasant four hours greeting visitors during the afternoon at the "29 Artists - 29 Years", 29th Anniversary Exhibition Lecture Series at the Zenith Gallery. The gallery team put on a display of additional paintings of mine during the artists talk. Fellow blogger, Sharon Burton of Authentic Art DC graced the Zenith Gallery premises in downtown Washington, DC for an hour. Sharon graciously talked with me about art, life and creativity. During our "painting-side chat" we were able to discuss the journey that we each experience as artists. Some of the creative territory that we covered were common themes of travel, the Desert Southwest in New Mexico, pictorial space, abstraction in painting, the architectural splendor of Washington, DC, how artists incubate in DC vs. New York City, acrylic processes and meaning in art; a lot to cover in one hour. After today's conversation, I would love to record future guests on a digital recorder that can download voice to text to a Macintosh G5 computer. Any recommendations?
Here are some pictures from today's Lecture Series. Enjoy.
Artist Anne Marchand (R) with Guest, Sharon Burton (L) of Authentic Art DC.
International gallery visitors.
Galley visitors.
Sharon Burton with my cityscape painting, "17th Street Mansion," and abstract painting,"Blue Ground" available thru Zenith Gallery. Visit Sharon Burton's blog, Authentic Art DC often.
Visitors at "29 Artists - 29 Years", 29th Anniversary Exhibition Lecture Series.
Here are some pictures from today's Lecture Series. Enjoy.
Artist Anne Marchand (R) with Guest, Sharon Burton (L) of Authentic Art DC.
International gallery visitors.
Galley visitors.
Sharon Burton with my cityscape painting, "17th Street Mansion," and abstract painting,"Blue Ground" available thru Zenith Gallery. Visit Sharon Burton's blog, Authentic Art DC often.
Visitors at "29 Artists - 29 Years", 29th Anniversary Exhibition Lecture Series.
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Chris Goodwin / Trashball
Simply Garbage? Rubbish! It's Found Treasure.
Christopher Goodwin spends his days driving a dump truck but continues to pick up trash even when he's off the clock. On V Street NW last week, he collects a losing lottery ticket, a cigarette butt and a packet of parmesan cheese. He stoops over for a clear candy wrapper and holds it up for inspection....By Rachel Beckman. See WaPo video here
Christopher Goodwin spends his days driving a dump truck but continues to pick up trash even when he's off the clock. On V Street NW last week, he collects a losing lottery ticket, a cigarette butt and a packet of parmesan cheese. He stoops over for a clear candy wrapper and holds it up for inspection....By Rachel Beckman. See WaPo video here
5 + 5': The Equation Works Only in Theory
Michael O'Sullivan reviews teh Exhibtion in the Washington Post
"5 + 5: Five Artists Select Five Artists to Watch," an exhibition at the center's Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery celebrating, for the first time, neither Jewish themes nor Jewish artists but connections, in the broadest sense of the word, to and among the local community." Read here.
"5 + 5: Five Artists Select Five Artists to Watch," an exhibition at the center's Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery celebrating, for the first time, neither Jewish themes nor Jewish artists but connections, in the broadest sense of the word, to and among the local community." Read here.
Art on Parade
Public art projects travel from street corner to coffee table
This nation in this century has pulled thousands of artists from the museums, galleries and universities and plunked their work onto the street corners.
Common objects and icons -- fiberglass replicas of corn, for instance -- got an artistic makeover and became the curiosities of townies and tourists across the nation.
For more of this story, click here
By Steve Arney
This nation in this century has pulled thousands of artists from the museums, galleries and universities and plunked their work onto the street corners.
Common objects and icons -- fiberglass replicas of corn, for instance -- got an artistic makeover and became the curiosities of townies and tourists across the nation.
For more of this story, click here
By Steve Arney
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Welcome to Washington Tour
On Tuesday this week, 40 members of Welcome to Washington Group boarded a bus to see the work of local artists in recognition of Woman's History Month. The group toured my Westminster mural at 913 Westminster St. NW in Shaw, applauding as the bus rounded the tight corner at 9th and Westminster Street NW. They could see the brightly painted 35' mural in the playground immediately as they turned left onto Westminster Street. The "Community" mural is in a little gem of a pocket park in the Shaw neighborhood and has been warmly embraced by the neighborhood residents since 2002. This is the first "official" art tour, that I am aware, making its way over to the playground mural.
Afterwards, the tour came downtown to the Zenith Gallery to meet me and see my abstract work and cityscape paintings. As they poured off the bus, I wondered at the changes taking place in the DC artscene. I've been watching the art scene evolve in DC since 1978, yep a long time, and I'm happy to report a much happier art environment in the city. It's wonderful to have groups interested in meeting DC's "living" artists. Owner Margery Goldberg, was on hand to point out the works of other artists in the current exhibition at Zenith Gallery, "29 Artists - 29 Years" / 29th Anniversary Exhibition. Thanks to the National Museum of Woman in the Arts for recommending the tour.
My triptych "Beginnings" next to a Sue Klebenoff tapestry and Margery Goldberg table.
Director Julie Reese "taking care of business".
I answered many questions about the Westminster Mural and life in the Public Art arena, as well as talking about my new abstract paintings. DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Arts Commissioner, George Koch happened to drop in the gallery and say hello before the tour bus arrived. Here are some more pics from the event. Enjoy...
"29 Artists - 29 Works," 29th Anniversary Exhibition
New ZCAF FOUNDATION SALON/OFFICE in the Zenith Gallery
Zenith Gallery
413 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20004 USA
202.783.2963
art@zenithgallery.com
Afterwards, the tour came downtown to the Zenith Gallery to meet me and see my abstract work and cityscape paintings. As they poured off the bus, I wondered at the changes taking place in the DC artscene. I've been watching the art scene evolve in DC since 1978, yep a long time, and I'm happy to report a much happier art environment in the city. It's wonderful to have groups interested in meeting DC's "living" artists. Owner Margery Goldberg, was on hand to point out the works of other artists in the current exhibition at Zenith Gallery, "29 Artists - 29 Years" / 29th Anniversary Exhibition. Thanks to the National Museum of Woman in the Arts for recommending the tour.
My triptych "Beginnings" next to a Sue Klebenoff tapestry and Margery Goldberg table.
Director Julie Reese "taking care of business".I answered many questions about the Westminster Mural and life in the Public Art arena, as well as talking about my new abstract paintings. DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Arts Commissioner, George Koch happened to drop in the gallery and say hello before the tour bus arrived. Here are some more pics from the event. Enjoy...
"29 Artists - 29 Works," 29th Anniversary Exhibition
New ZCAF FOUNDATION SALON/OFFICE in the Zenith Gallery
Zenith Gallery
413 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20004 USA
202.783.2963
art@zenithgallery.com
The Place to Be
The place to be Monday night was the crowded Kennedy Center Concert Hall, where D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty and the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities presented the 22nd annual Mayor's Arts Awards, including a special-recognition honor to longtime TV theater and film critic Arch Campbell. Read Washington Times here
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Artists Talks - Come Join Me This Sunday From 1-4 pm
Sundays in March & April / Lecture Series
Meet and Greet the Artist: 1-2 PM / 3-4 PM
Artists Talk: 2–3 PM
Sunday, March 25th / Anne Marchand:
Marchands vibrant colors explore all dimensions of abstract art. Mixed media on canvas
Zenith Gallery
413 7th Street NW
Washington, DC
202-783-2963
Opportunity to exhibit at SiteProjectsDC
Call For Entries: DOWNLOAD HERE
DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES : Friday, March 23, 2007 (postmarked)
DATES OF EXHIBITION: June 15- July 30, 2007
WHY: Enter SiteProjectsDC to have your installations, sculptures, paintings, projections, etc. shown along the 14th street corridor! Sites range from storefronts, to building facades, to fenced-in sidewalk spaces.
WHAT: SiteProjectsDC is a public art project designed to engage local artists in the creation of public art installations along the 14th Street Corridor. Curated by Welmoed Laanstra, this project invites artists to create site specific, temporary, two or three dimensional art installations. In addition to painting and sculpture, new media, performance art, and installations that would be on view for a shorter amount of time are encouraged.
STIPEND: A $250 stipend will be given to all finalists to assist with the cost of supplies and materials.
LOCATION: 14th Street Corridor between P & V Streets, NW. Specific locations will be announced & discussed during the Informational Workshops with the Curator (Info below).
CURATOR: Welmoed Laanstra
Welmoed Laanstra is an independent curator in Washington, DC. In recent years she has brought engaging and well received exhibits to the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Exhibits include "Civic Endurance"( Jacqueline Tarry and Bradley McMallum) and "Face Time"( Harry Shearer). In the fall of 2005, she created and curated the public art project called, Found Sound, a collaboration with the leading galleries in town. (www.FoundSoundDC.com) In 2006, Nora Halpern and Welmoed Laanstra created Street Scenes: Projects for DC, a series of public art interventions. The project launched In September of 2006 with its first installation, Art not Ads. (www.StreetScenesDC.com)
WORK TO BE CONSIDERED:
Original work in all media will be considered:
If applying with already completed work, it must have been created between 2005 – 2007.
If applying with a new proposal and selected, artists will be encouraged to work directly with the location owner to develop a site specific installation or piece that considers the particular locale’s architecture or layout.
SiteProjectsDCis open to all artists over 18 who live in Maryland, Virginia, or the District of Columbia.
202.639.1828 or
email, wpainfo@corcoran.org
for additional information on any upcoming or current WPA\C exhibitions & programs.
SiteProjectsDC is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Presents:
Artist Panel with artists from 5 + 5:
five artists select five artists to watch
Thursday, April 5
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Click here to RSVP
Join us for a panel discussion with artists featured in the current exhibition 5+5: Five Artists Select Five Artists to Watch. The program is free and open to the public. The artists will talk about their work and answer questions. The participants are artists Pia Calderon, Mary Early, Jae Ko, John Gossage, Dan Steinhilber and Renée Stout. Anne Ellegood, associate curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, will moderate.
Washington DCJCC
1529 Sixteenth St NW
Washington, DC 20036
gallery@washingtondcjcc.org
(202) 777-3208
five artists select five artists to watch
Thursday, April 5
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Click here to RSVP
Join us for a panel discussion with artists featured in the current exhibition 5+5: Five Artists Select Five Artists to Watch. The program is free and open to the public. The artists will talk about their work and answer questions. The participants are artists Pia Calderon, Mary Early, Jae Ko, John Gossage, Dan Steinhilber and Renée Stout. Anne Ellegood, associate curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, will moderate.
Washington DCJCC
1529 Sixteenth St NW
Washington, DC 20036
gallery@washingtondcjcc.org
(202) 777-3208
WORK IN PROGRESS
On Saturday March 24th, Project 4 invites all to participate in a work-in-progess. Reuben Breslar will be hosting an event that provides the unique opportunity to sit, draw, and talk with strangers and friends.
This "happening", as Breslar calls it, is "centered around the individual while upholding community awareness." Occurring concurrently with the "Specimen" exhibition, this happening will turn guests into specimens themselves, observers of the phenomenon, and those who interchange between. All this is done with the intention of bringing people together for an arts event centered around the most fundamental building block of art: drawing.
Drinks, colored pencils, and paper will be provided but feel free to bring your' own drawing materials and sketchbook.
Project 4
Contact:
903 U Street NW Washington DC 20001
tel: 202 232 4340 fax: 202 232 4341
info@project4gallery.com
Website:
http://www.project4gallery.com/
This "happening", as Breslar calls it, is "centered around the individual while upholding community awareness." Occurring concurrently with the "Specimen" exhibition, this happening will turn guests into specimens themselves, observers of the phenomenon, and those who interchange between. All this is done with the intention of bringing people together for an arts event centered around the most fundamental building block of art: drawing.
Drinks, colored pencils, and paper will be provided but feel free to bring your' own drawing materials and sketchbook.
Project 4
Contact:
903 U Street NW Washington DC 20001
tel: 202 232 4340 fax: 202 232 4341
info@project4gallery.com
Website:
http://www.project4gallery.com/
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939
Tha Corcoran is offering up its much anticipated blockbuster exhibition, Modernism Designing a New World 1914—1939.
MARCH 17, 2007 TO JULY 29, 2007
This ground-breaking and vast exhibition explores the foundation and meaning of Modernist art and design and its evolution into a mass movement that continues to impact the way we live.
"Never before have the conditions of life changed so swiftly and enormously as they have… in the last fifty years. We have been carried along… [and] we are only now beginning to realize the force and strength of the storm of change that has come upon us."
H .G . Wells, 1933
Blake Gopnik covers the show here
Corcoran Opens Modernist Exhibit By BRETT ZONGKER
MARCH 17, 2007 TO JULY 29, 2007
This ground-breaking and vast exhibition explores the foundation and meaning of Modernist art and design and its evolution into a mass movement that continues to impact the way we live.
"Never before have the conditions of life changed so swiftly and enormously as they have… in the last fifty years. We have been carried along… [and] we are only now beginning to realize the force and strength of the storm of change that has come upon us."
H .G . Wells, 1933
Blake Gopnik covers the show here
Corcoran Opens Modernist Exhibit By BRETT ZONGKER
Friday, March 16, 2007
Project 4 presents :
SPECIMEN
March 16 - April 21, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 2007- 6:00pm-8:30pm
Project 4 is proud to present “Specimen”, a group exhibition of ten internationally selected artists whose bodies of work explore themes of preservation, evolution and documentation.
A specimen can take on many forms and explanations. Culturally, they are used to categorize and compare an archetypal ideal. Biologically, a specimen is an individual taken used to exemplify an entire mass for analysis. Historically, specimens are used to reference change, evolution and experience. The artists selected for this exhibition explore these concepts through the common process of investigation.
Artists make use of documentation in their processes, whether used literally, of a change in a particular artistic medium, photographically, of humans as studies of civilization, or abstractly through subtle changes within each piece. Viewers are allowed to interpret and create the reality they are led to by each of the resulting groups of works.
Ines Azagra – graphite on paper
Giang Dinh – origami
Anthony Goicolea – video
Guy Hundere – video animation
Sean Logue – photography
J.J McCracken – clay/mixed media
Adelaide Paul – clay/mixed media
Janek Simon – mixed media
Gina Tibbett – clay
Jeff Wyckoff – mixed media
Contact: Anne Surak, Director
Project 4
903 U Street NW Washington DC 20001
tel: 202 232 4340 fax: 202 232 4341
info@project4gallery.com
Website: http://www.project4gallery.com/
March 16 - April 21, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 16, 2007- 6:00pm-8:30pm
Project 4 is proud to present “Specimen”, a group exhibition of ten internationally selected artists whose bodies of work explore themes of preservation, evolution and documentation.
A specimen can take on many forms and explanations. Culturally, they are used to categorize and compare an archetypal ideal. Biologically, a specimen is an individual taken used to exemplify an entire mass for analysis. Historically, specimens are used to reference change, evolution and experience. The artists selected for this exhibition explore these concepts through the common process of investigation.
Artists make use of documentation in their processes, whether used literally, of a change in a particular artistic medium, photographically, of humans as studies of civilization, or abstractly through subtle changes within each piece. Viewers are allowed to interpret and create the reality they are led to by each of the resulting groups of works.
Ines Azagra – graphite on paper
Giang Dinh – origami
Anthony Goicolea – video
Guy Hundere – video animation
Sean Logue – photography
J.J McCracken – clay/mixed media
Adelaide Paul – clay/mixed media
Janek Simon – mixed media
Gina Tibbett – clay
Jeff Wyckoff – mixed media
Contact: Anne Surak, Director
Project 4
903 U Street NW Washington DC 20001
tel: 202 232 4340 fax: 202 232 4341
info@project4gallery.com
Website: http://www.project4gallery.com/
Thursday, March 15, 2007
Goodbye ~ Hello
VisArts is calling everyone who has a history with them to exhibit a postcard
April 12 - May 13, 2007
Rockville Arts Place/VisArts
301.869.8623
gallery@visartscenter.org
April 12 - May 13, 2007
Rockville Arts Place/VisArts
301.869.8623
gallery@visartscenter.org
Join me tonight at the Zenith Gallery
Bring your umbrella, hop the metro to Gallery Place and let's go to an
Art Opening from 6-9pm
29th Anniversary Exhibition, "29 Artists - 29 years" at the Zenith Gallery
413 7th Street NW
Washington, DC
202-783-2963
Scenes from the opening....
Artists, Robert Cole, Anne Marchand and David Hubbard
Artists, Anne Marchand and David Hubbard
Gallery Owner and Sculptor, Margery Goldberg
Sculptor, David Hubbard
Sculptor, Donna McCullough
Glass Artist, Candy Watkins from Columbus Ohio
Photos courtesy Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
Art Opening from 6-9pm
29th Anniversary Exhibition, "29 Artists - 29 years" at the Zenith Gallery
413 7th Street NW
Washington, DC
202-783-2963
Scenes from the opening....
Artists, Robert Cole, Anne Marchand and David Hubbard
Artists, Anne Marchand and David Hubbard
Gallery Owner and Sculptor, Margery Goldberg
Sculptor, David Hubbard
Sculptor, Donna McCullough
Glass Artist, Candy Watkins from Columbus OhioPhotos courtesy Marcie Wolf-Hubbard
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Here Be Dragons (Read it here)
Local artist, cartographer and activist Nicolas Schiller's unique maps are the subject of David Montgomery's excellent article.
"Through Nikolas Schiller's Eye, Aerial Maps of Familiar Places Become Terra Incognita."
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Local Arts Coverage at WaPo
Graham Caldwell's review in the Washington Post:
A Breath of Fresh Art / Graham Caldwell, Blowing Hot and Cool By Blake Gopnik.
Express contributor, Kriston Capps surveys the local arts scene.
A Breath of Fresh Art / Graham Caldwell, Blowing Hot and Cool By Blake Gopnik.
Express contributor, Kriston Capps surveys the local arts scene.
Robert Moses and the Modern City
Ever wonder at the Megalopolis of New York City and how it got that way? Read the excellent article by Philip Kennicott in the Washington Post about the rise of the Big Apple.
Robert Moses and the Modern City, a three-part exhibition, can be seen at the Museum of the City of New York until May 6, the Queens Museum of Art until May 13 and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University until April 14. More information is available at http://www.mcny.org/
Robert Moses and the Modern City, a three-part exhibition, can be seen at the Museum of the City of New York until May 6, the Queens Museum of Art until May 13 and the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University until April 14. More information is available at http://www.mcny.org/
Ever wanted to take a tour of Washington, DC
Kool! Now you can - on your mobile phone.....
Washington, DC - Just in time for the busy tourist season, DC's newest Internet startup company, mobiletours.org, launches today with a free tour of the Capitol's major sites for mobile phones. The service has eleven separate numbers to call, each of which corresponds to a famous building or memorial. The company plans on rolling out a marketing campaign that consists of handing out flyers to tourists and educating the tourism industry about the service.
Founder of the company, Richard Zielinski says, "We are using the latest IP phone technology, based on the Asterisk® open source PBX, to bring our podcasts into people's mobile phones. Its cutting edge stuff, but the service is very user friendly. Anyone who can dial a phone number will be able to access the tour."
The tours consist of short two minute histories of the site followed by a story or audio file. At the Lincoln Memorial for example, users will hear a rare audio interview from 1938 of an old man recalling what it was like, as a 9-year-old school boy, to watch Abraham Lincoln deliver his Gettysburg Address. At the Washington Monument the narrator reads an article from 1908 in which a Washington Senator baseball player catches a ball dropped from the top window to win a $500 bet. At the war memorials, listeners will hear interviews with Veterans. Says Zielinski, "We want the tour to be informative, but we also want it to be engaging. Visiting these national treasures can be a deeply personal experience; we want to help enrich that experience."
While mobile phone tours are becoming popular, mobiletours.org is the first company to offer their services in a major city for free. Although not intended to replace a knowledgeable tour guide, mobiletours can be an excellent alternative that allows for both convenience and flexibility.
The tour can also be freely downloaded off of the website for use in digital MP3 players. Mobiletours.org is planning on rolling out a New York City and Boston tour later this spring.
www.mobiletours.org
Washington Monument 202-552-1247
Lincoln Memorial 202-552-1233
Vietnam Memorial 202-552-1235
Korean Memorial 202-552-1236
WWII Memorial 202-552-1237
FDR Memorial 202-552-1242
Jefferson Memorial 202-552-1244
White House 202-552-1246
U.S. Capitol 202-552-1245
Ford's Theater 202-552-1243
Arlington Cemetery 202-552-1239
Washington, DC - Just in time for the busy tourist season, DC's newest Internet startup company, mobiletours.org, launches today with a free tour of the Capitol's major sites for mobile phones. The service has eleven separate numbers to call, each of which corresponds to a famous building or memorial. The company plans on rolling out a marketing campaign that consists of handing out flyers to tourists and educating the tourism industry about the service.
Founder of the company, Richard Zielinski says, "We are using the latest IP phone technology, based on the Asterisk® open source PBX, to bring our podcasts into people's mobile phones. Its cutting edge stuff, but the service is very user friendly. Anyone who can dial a phone number will be able to access the tour."
The tours consist of short two minute histories of the site followed by a story or audio file. At the Lincoln Memorial for example, users will hear a rare audio interview from 1938 of an old man recalling what it was like, as a 9-year-old school boy, to watch Abraham Lincoln deliver his Gettysburg Address. At the Washington Monument the narrator reads an article from 1908 in which a Washington Senator baseball player catches a ball dropped from the top window to win a $500 bet. At the war memorials, listeners will hear interviews with Veterans. Says Zielinski, "We want the tour to be informative, but we also want it to be engaging. Visiting these national treasures can be a deeply personal experience; we want to help enrich that experience."
While mobile phone tours are becoming popular, mobiletours.org is the first company to offer their services in a major city for free. Although not intended to replace a knowledgeable tour guide, mobiletours can be an excellent alternative that allows for both convenience and flexibility.
The tour can also be freely downloaded off of the website for use in digital MP3 players. Mobiletours.org is planning on rolling out a New York City and Boston tour later this spring.
www.mobiletours.org
Washington Monument 202-552-1247
Lincoln Memorial 202-552-1233
Vietnam Memorial 202-552-1235
Korean Memorial 202-552-1236
WWII Memorial 202-552-1237
FDR Memorial 202-552-1242
Jefferson Memorial 202-552-1244
White House 202-552-1246
U.S. Capitol 202-552-1245
Ford's Theater 202-552-1243
Arlington Cemetery 202-552-1239
Monday, March 12, 2007
“29 Artists – 29 Years” at Zenith Gallery
Anne Marchand, Beginnings, acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 3 panels - 18" x 60" ea. 29th Anniversary Exhibition
March 15 – April 29, 2007
Opening Reception to meet the artists - Thursday, March 15th 6-9pm
Painting: Gloria Cesal, Renee duRocher, Drew Ernst, Christine Hayman, Robert C. Jackson, Shelley Laffal, Stephen Maffin, Joey Manlapaz, Anne Marchand, Davis Morton , Reuben Neugass, David Richardson, Sica, Ellen Sinel , Wayne Trapp
Photography: David Glick, Colin Winterbottom
Mixed Media & Tapestry: Sue Klebanoff, Joan Konkel, jodi
Sculpture: Margery E. Goldberg, Stephen Hansen, David Hubbard, Donna M. McCullough, Carol Newmyer
Neon: Phil Hazard, Craig Kraft. Candice Watkins, Michael Young
Artists Talks: 2 – 3 PM
Saturday, March 17th Drew Ernst:
A young artist with exceptional talent, the future in realist art. Oil on canvas
Sunday, March 18th Stephen Maffin:
Using an age-old technique and a corruption of images to produce the human image. Fresco: Plaster on burlap
Sunday, March 25th Anne Marchand:
Marchands vibrant colors explore all dimensions of abstract art. Mixed media on canvas
Sunday, April 15th Joan Konkel:
By merging diverse materials Konkel pushes all traditional boundaries. Mesh, aluminum and canvas
Sunday, April 22nd Shelley Laffal:
Laffal will discuss the process of finding that magic moment in her work that represents the balance between surrender and withholding
in her new figurative paintings. Oil on canvas
Sunday, April 29th David Hubbard:
Both indoor and outdoor sculptures are a monument to movement & light. Rusted steel & stainless steel.
Zenith Gallery
413 7th Street NW
Washington, DC 20004
202-783-2963
Email: art@zenithgallery.com
Saturday, March 10, 2007
Living the Artist’s Life
"What Artists Need to Know about the Artist-Gallery Relationship" with Alyson B. Stanfield and special guest, Paul Dorrell . . .
Listen to the free Teleseminar Recording (approximately 65 minutes) here
Paul Dorrell is the author of the acclaimed guidebook for artists, Living the Artist’s Life. Paul founded Leopold Gallery, one of Kansas City's pemiere galleries, in 1991. He also has an active blog, Paul Dorrell's Blog, and is a columnist for The Artist’s Magazine.
Listen to the free Teleseminar Recording (approximately 65 minutes) here
Paul Dorrell is the author of the acclaimed guidebook for artists, Living the Artist’s Life. Paul founded Leopold Gallery, one of Kansas City's pemiere galleries, in 1991. He also has an active blog, Paul Dorrell's Blog, and is a columnist for The Artist’s Magazine.
Friday, March 09, 2007
CIVILIAN ART PROJECTS grand opening
Please join CIVILIAN ART PROJECTS for its grand opening featuring:
JASON FALCHOOK, Contours & Detours
JASON ZIMMERMAN, Natural Acts
March 9 - April 21, 2007
Opening Reception:
FRIDAY, March 9, 2007 - 6:30-8:30 p.m.
And Behind the Wall featuring:
Ken Ashton (DC)
Jason Balicki (NY)
Lisa K. Blatt (CA)
Breck Omar Brunson (DC)
Erick Jackson (DC)
George Jenne (NY)
Jason Kalogiros (CA)
Nilay Lawson (DC)
ESSAY:
Civilian Art Projects intro by Andy Grundberg
The recipe for creating a contemporary art scene is not hard to intuit. Take some innovative, eager, personable young artists, add a few hip commercial galleries and artist-run spaces, some savvy collectors, at least one critic of enthusiasm and intelligence, a pinch of media outlets for such criticism, a nearby museum with a contemporary-art curator, and your choice of a welcoming restaurant, bar, or coffee shop where all these people can meet, and then mix well. Voila! Who needs New York?
The reality is a bit more complicated. Plenty of cities have the minimum daily requirements for an art scene but don't quite pull it off - San Francisco, say, or Boston. That's because art is ultimately about something else: imagination, talent, risk taking, having something to say.
In Washington, D.C., an art scene is taking shape today. That's as much testament to the imagination and risk taking of the people who choose to show contemporary art as of the artists who make it. Civilian Art Projects is a great example of a grass-rooted, arts-community based, independent minded showplace for art that complements the city's other innovative enterprises, from the late, lamented Fusebox to Transformer to the Hirshhorn Museum. The list could go on.
Civilian Art Projects is the brainchild of Jayme McLellan, a co-founder of Transformer and a contemporary of many of the artists she now represents as a commercial galleryist. Her vision is sympathetic to a broad mix of media and styles, she believes in the importance of her generation of artists, and her timing is impeccable. With this, Civilian's first show, she gives us a glimpse of what these young artists have to say.
Jason Falchook's color photographs depict unprepossessing, unpopulated urban spaces lit with the enervating glow of mercury vapor lights. They have the isolated eeriness of surveillance pictures, but the corrugated fences and shutters and stark buildings are their own protagonists. The time is night or nearly so, and without the intersession of the photograph we probably would not linger long to examine the scenes in detail. Falchook calls the series "Contours & Detours," but we might also add a coda, "Places We'd Just as Soon Avoid." Still, the bright light sources give off what passes for warmth, and one suspects that beyond the terror we are made to feel lies a sympathy for a present that seems equally to speak of the past and the future.
Jason Zimmerman's series "Natural Acts" continues his photographic exploration of incidental evidence supplied by the physical world. Like Falchook, he positions nature and humanity in a tenuous balance, but while Falchook's pictures read as surveillance Zimmerman's appear forensic. Whatever the word "documentary" means when applied to the camera, it has traction here, in images of chipped china and gooey aluminum foil and other frayed objects, but for no imaginable uplifting social purpose. Call it Documentary Degree Zero, a collection of evidence for which there is no crime.
Taken together, and in company with the other artists on the roster of Civilian Art Projects, Falchook and Zimmerman are sniffing out similar aesthetic territory, fashioning a discourse that tempers inevitability and loss with possibility and wonder. Without seeming cynical or hectoring, their work steers us toward considering art as a critical instrument that embraces feeling and subjectivity as crucial to its meaning.
The debut of a new gallery that celebrates local talent is always a cause for celebration and optimism, in part because it signals the viability of a new aesthetic point of view. In this case, the cause for optimism is even greater since there is an assumption that this viewpoint has a market - that collectors and curators will support these artists and this gallery. Based on the evidence of this first show, they should.
Andy Grundberg is a critic, curator, and educator who has written about photography for more than 25 years. His writings for the New York Times and other publications are collected in the book Crisis of the Real (Aperture).
406 7th STREET NW (at "D" Street) THIRD FLOOR WASHINGTON DC 20004
202-607-3804 / WWW.CIVILIANARTPROJECTS.COM
ABOUT CIVILIAN:
Founded in 2006, Civilian Art Projects is Washington, DC's newest gallery gnawing at the edges of contemporary aesthetic discourse. Through a challenging exhibition series supporting promising, up-and-coming artists working in a broad range of media, and through exciting events of cultural and social significance held throughout the season, Civilian will generate new energy, ideas and momentum thereby contributing to culture and community. For more information on the artists or the gallery please contact Civilian Art Projects at 202-607-3804 or info@civilianartprojects.com. Please visit the website at www.civilianartprojects.com.
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info@civilianartprojects.com
Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW
Washington DC
(202) 607-3804
JASON FALCHOOK, Contours & Detours
JASON ZIMMERMAN, Natural Acts
March 9 - April 21, 2007
Opening Reception:
FRIDAY, March 9, 2007 - 6:30-8:30 p.m.
And Behind the Wall featuring:
Ken Ashton (DC)
Jason Balicki (NY)
Lisa K. Blatt (CA)
Breck Omar Brunson (DC)
Erick Jackson (DC)
George Jenne (NY)
Jason Kalogiros (CA)
Nilay Lawson (DC)
ESSAY:
Civilian Art Projects intro by Andy Grundberg
The recipe for creating a contemporary art scene is not hard to intuit. Take some innovative, eager, personable young artists, add a few hip commercial galleries and artist-run spaces, some savvy collectors, at least one critic of enthusiasm and intelligence, a pinch of media outlets for such criticism, a nearby museum with a contemporary-art curator, and your choice of a welcoming restaurant, bar, or coffee shop where all these people can meet, and then mix well. Voila! Who needs New York?
The reality is a bit more complicated. Plenty of cities have the minimum daily requirements for an art scene but don't quite pull it off - San Francisco, say, or Boston. That's because art is ultimately about something else: imagination, talent, risk taking, having something to say.
In Washington, D.C., an art scene is taking shape today. That's as much testament to the imagination and risk taking of the people who choose to show contemporary art as of the artists who make it. Civilian Art Projects is a great example of a grass-rooted, arts-community based, independent minded showplace for art that complements the city's other innovative enterprises, from the late, lamented Fusebox to Transformer to the Hirshhorn Museum. The list could go on.
Civilian Art Projects is the brainchild of Jayme McLellan, a co-founder of Transformer and a contemporary of many of the artists she now represents as a commercial galleryist. Her vision is sympathetic to a broad mix of media and styles, she believes in the importance of her generation of artists, and her timing is impeccable. With this, Civilian's first show, she gives us a glimpse of what these young artists have to say.
Jason Falchook's color photographs depict unprepossessing, unpopulated urban spaces lit with the enervating glow of mercury vapor lights. They have the isolated eeriness of surveillance pictures, but the corrugated fences and shutters and stark buildings are their own protagonists. The time is night or nearly so, and without the intersession of the photograph we probably would not linger long to examine the scenes in detail. Falchook calls the series "Contours & Detours," but we might also add a coda, "Places We'd Just as Soon Avoid." Still, the bright light sources give off what passes for warmth, and one suspects that beyond the terror we are made to feel lies a sympathy for a present that seems equally to speak of the past and the future.
Jason Zimmerman's series "Natural Acts" continues his photographic exploration of incidental evidence supplied by the physical world. Like Falchook, he positions nature and humanity in a tenuous balance, but while Falchook's pictures read as surveillance Zimmerman's appear forensic. Whatever the word "documentary" means when applied to the camera, it has traction here, in images of chipped china and gooey aluminum foil and other frayed objects, but for no imaginable uplifting social purpose. Call it Documentary Degree Zero, a collection of evidence for which there is no crime.
Taken together, and in company with the other artists on the roster of Civilian Art Projects, Falchook and Zimmerman are sniffing out similar aesthetic territory, fashioning a discourse that tempers inevitability and loss with possibility and wonder. Without seeming cynical or hectoring, their work steers us toward considering art as a critical instrument that embraces feeling and subjectivity as crucial to its meaning.
The debut of a new gallery that celebrates local talent is always a cause for celebration and optimism, in part because it signals the viability of a new aesthetic point of view. In this case, the cause for optimism is even greater since there is an assumption that this viewpoint has a market - that collectors and curators will support these artists and this gallery. Based on the evidence of this first show, they should.
Andy Grundberg is a critic, curator, and educator who has written about photography for more than 25 years. His writings for the New York Times and other publications are collected in the book Crisis of the Real (Aperture).
406 7th STREET NW (at "D" Street) THIRD FLOOR WASHINGTON DC 20004
202-607-3804 / WWW.CIVILIANARTPROJECTS.COM
ABOUT CIVILIAN:
Founded in 2006, Civilian Art Projects is Washington, DC's newest gallery gnawing at the edges of contemporary aesthetic discourse. Through a challenging exhibition series supporting promising, up-and-coming artists working in a broad range of media, and through exciting events of cultural and social significance held throughout the season, Civilian will generate new energy, ideas and momentum thereby contributing to culture and community. For more information on the artists or the gallery please contact Civilian Art Projects at 202-607-3804 or info@civilianartprojects.com. Please visit the website at www.civilianartprojects.com.
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info@civilianartprojects.com
Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street NW
Washington DC
(202) 607-3804
Thursday, March 08, 2007
22ND MAYOR'S ARTS AWARDS
YOU ARE INVITED
22ND MAYOR'S ARTS AWARDS
Monday, March 19th, 6pm, Kennedy Center Concert Hall
--FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC--
SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK TO RECEIVE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
visit www.dcarts.dc.govto read the press release and see the listing of Award Finalists!
Doors Open at 5:30pm. First Come, First Served.
Help Spread the Word!
See You There!
Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue
Marilou Donahue interviews TERRI AND BINDI IRWIN, Wife and Daughter of the late Steve Irwin “The Crocodile Hunter on her March website.
Her web site also features a good read on Career Tips for Collecting Fine Art by Judy Pomeranz. Enjoy!
http://artisticallyspeaking.tv/mainpage.html
Contact: marilou@artisticallyspeaking.tv
Her web site also features a good read on Career Tips for Collecting Fine Art by Judy Pomeranz. Enjoy!
http://artisticallyspeaking.tv/mainpage.html
Contact: marilou@artisticallyspeaking.tv
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
9X10 WPA\C Member Shows at William W. Parker Gallery
The Parker Gallery at Mickelson’s Fine Art Framing Presents:
9X10 WPA\C Member Shows at William W. Parker Gallery
March 9th, 2007– April 6th, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 9th, 6-8pm
Featured Artists:
Stephen Borko / Sabine Carlson / Sheila Crider / Joel D'Orazio / Kid Flash (Steve Frost) / J.T. Kirkland / Jeanette May / Betsy Stewart / Gia Tkablazde / Andrew Wodzianski
In tribute to the late William Warren Parker's support for emerging DC artists, his family has generously donated space at the William W. Parker (WWP) Gallery – housed in Mickelson's Fine Art Framing at 629 New York Ave NW - to WPA\C for a new “nine-by-ten” exhibition series: 9 shows of 10 member artists each . These shows will provide a new outlet for WPA\C member artists, and each exhibition will present a diverse cross-section of the WPA\C membership to the public, showcasing works in all media. The 9x10 exhibitions will run monthly from March 2007 to January 2008.
Mickelson's Fine Art Framing & the William W. Parker Gallery
629 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
202-628-1734
202-783-2960 fax
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 11am - 4pm, Saturday Noon - 4pm
9X10 WPA\C Member Shows at William W. Parker Gallery
March 9th, 2007– April 6th, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 9th, 6-8pm
Featured Artists:
Stephen Borko / Sabine Carlson / Sheila Crider / Joel D'Orazio / Kid Flash (Steve Frost) / J.T. Kirkland / Jeanette May / Betsy Stewart / Gia Tkablazde / Andrew Wodzianski
In tribute to the late William Warren Parker's support for emerging DC artists, his family has generously donated space at the William W. Parker (WWP) Gallery – housed in Mickelson's Fine Art Framing at 629 New York Ave NW - to WPA\C for a new “nine-by-ten” exhibition series: 9 shows of 10 member artists each . These shows will provide a new outlet for WPA\C member artists, and each exhibition will present a diverse cross-section of the WPA\C membership to the public, showcasing works in all media. The 9x10 exhibitions will run monthly from March 2007 to January 2008.
Mickelson's Fine Art Framing & the William W. Parker Gallery
629 New York Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
202-628-1734
202-783-2960 fax
Gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 11am - 4pm, Saturday Noon - 4pm
Monday, March 05, 2007
TIM TATE
"...but what have we gained?" Blown and Silver Plated Glass, 18" x 18" x 6"
March 9 - April 7, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 9, from 6pm - 9pm
Widely considered to be a pioneer of mixed media sculpture in this region, Tim Tate continues to push the boundaries of contemporary sculpture by incorporating narrative and conceptual ideas with technique and craftsmanship.
Fraser Gallery Bethesda
7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E, Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 718-9651
NANCY SANSOM REYNOLDS
Water + 4 Seasons
Mar 3 – Apr 14, 2007
Sculptor Nancy Sansom Reynolds fashions colorful wood sculptures that appear to bend and flex at her whim. However, Reynolds has had to combine her artistic senses with mathematics and carpentry - drawing shapes. Reynolds exhibits in New York, California, Arizona, and Washington, DC. In 2002, her work appeared in the exhibition "Curator's Choice" at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC
Addison Ripley Fine Art | 1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW | Washington, DC 20007 | Tel: 202.338.5180
Hillyer Art Space Presents: Veiled
March 2, 2007 – April 6, 2007
Erin Cluley
Veiled, an exhibition of paintings and mixed media works by Baltimore-based artist Erin Cluley, explores the nature of religion and its divergent symbols and rituals. Inspired by her up bringing in the Catholic Church, Cluley questions the religious values that shaped her existence, particularly the ritualistic practices of confession, penance, and the sacrament of the mass. Her richly layered constructions serve not only as a vehicle for introspection, but also as an investigation of the tension that lies between punishment and reward.
Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court, NW
Washington, DC, 20008, USA
Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939
March 17, 2007 — July 29, 2007
Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition on the subject ever staged in America, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art will be the only American venue. The exhibition explores the foundation and meaning of Modernism, and it contains some of the most seminal works of modern art, graphic and product design, and architecture produced in the first half of the 20th century. It traces the historic development of modern form through social, industrial, and political upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s. It investigates the role of the factory and mass production; the spiritual aspect of modern life; the period’s fascination with the healthy body and organic forms found in nature; and national identity.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th Street, NW
Washington DC 20006
Main Information Number
202.639.1700
Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 is the largest and most comprehensive exhibition on the subject ever staged in America, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art will be the only American venue. The exhibition explores the foundation and meaning of Modernism, and it contains some of the most seminal works of modern art, graphic and product design, and architecture produced in the first half of the 20th century. It traces the historic development of modern form through social, industrial, and political upheavals of the 1920s and 1930s. It investigates the role of the factory and mass production; the spiritual aspect of modern life; the period’s fascination with the healthy body and organic forms found in nature; and national identity.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 17th Street, NW
Washington DC 20006
Main Information Number
202.639.1700
Hanging With Brice Marden
BRICE MARDEN: A RETROSPECTIVE OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS Through May 13.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco.
(415) 357-4000, www.sfmoma.com.
"Anyone who gets to see an exhibition in more than one venue quickly realizes what profound effects differences in installation can have. They can alter the impact and implication of individual works and blur or sharpen the visitor's sense of an artist's creative logic."
To see a video of Brice Marden's walk through his exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, click here.
E-mail Kenneth Baker at kennethbaker@ sfchronicle.com.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 151 Third St., San Francisco.
(415) 357-4000, www.sfmoma.com.
"Anyone who gets to see an exhibition in more than one venue quickly realizes what profound effects differences in installation can have. They can alter the impact and implication of individual works and blur or sharpen the visitor's sense of an artist's creative logic."
To see a video of Brice Marden's walk through his exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, click here.
E-mail Kenneth Baker at kennethbaker@ sfchronicle.com.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Crossover: How Artists Build Careers Across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work
Interesting report out of the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. The report by Ann Markusen tracks the rampant sector-hopping that constitutes the lives of most working artists.
Says the report:
"Surprisingly large percentages of artists split their arts time among the three sectors. Overall, 39% spend most of their arts time (65% or more) in the commercial sector. Another 19% do no commercial work, and 42% engage part-time in commercial artwork. Smaller shares of artists spend most of their arts time in not-for-profit (public and nonprofit) sector work (29%), and 55% report working part-time in that sector. Only 6% devote most of their art time to the community sector, but 69% work in community arts at least some number of hours." - Andrew Taylor Read more here.
Says the report:
"Surprisingly large percentages of artists split their arts time among the three sectors. Overall, 39% spend most of their arts time (65% or more) in the commercial sector. Another 19% do no commercial work, and 42% engage part-time in commercial artwork. Smaller shares of artists spend most of their arts time in not-for-profit (public and nonprofit) sector work (29%), and 55% report working part-time in that sector. Only 6% devote most of their art time to the community sector, but 69% work in community arts at least some number of hours." - Andrew Taylor Read more here.
Training Back To DC
After wandering the massive labryrinth of exhibitors at ArtExpo NY this weekend, we hopped the train home today energized by the hustle bustle of the Megalopolis of New York City. I love vegan restaurants and we found the "Sacred Chow" in Greenwich Village last night to be a dreamy relaxing oasis after the anthill effect of the day. Plus, being the vegan dessert scout dejour, I was happy with the selections...triple velvet brownie and sticky date bread pudding were awesome and there were LOTS more to choose from. Please DC, let's have some more veggie restaurants!
A bonus.......coming to the Washington Convention Center on April 27-30, 2007 is artDC, an opportunity to see the DC art world in action and I DO MEAN ACTION. Get ready and put your favorite Art Fair shoes on. The Washington Convention Center is filled with a fabulous art collection of its own! And DC's top notch galleries are exhibiting with other prestigious international galleries. This is going to be a good one - not to be missed!
WHO: A select group of 80 art galleries, plus curators, collectors and connoisseurs from the art world, representing the four corners of the globe.
WHAT: artDC, the first modern and contemporary art fair in Washington, DC, will bring together international emerging and established galleries from Europe, Asia and the Americas. Galleries such as Galerie Marion Meyer from Paris, and Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini from Toronto, Red Star Gallery from Beijing and Shine Art Space from Shanghai as well as Sundaram Tagore Gallery and Westwood Gallery both from New York, Frey Norris Gallery from San Francisco, and Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miquel de Allende from Miami will join the strong showing of DC’s finest galleries that includes Conner Contemporary Art, Robert Brown Gallery, Douz & Mille, Curator’s Office and G Fine Art, and will establish artDC as one of the not-to-be-missed annual fairs.
artDC will emphasize special sections within the fair, from the cutting edge SLICE, where visitors can discover the hottest trends in the art market; China Focus, a curated exhibition of contemporary artists from Shanghai; to galleries that are presented in the context of New Media, installations that are reserved for digital and video art; Project Spaces, featuring large-scale sculptures and installations; and our unique Video Lounge & Bar that will feature video projects by regional artists participating in a local juried competition organized by artDC and Flashpoint. artDC is designed to be an exciting platform for a broad spectrum of contemporary art, while also paying homage to the modern collections that are the pillar of so many local institutions and exhibitions.
Many of the City’s museums and arts institutions will collaborate with artDC as part of an enriching education program and will include seminars, special tours and off-site activities throughout the four day fair. For more information, please log onto www.dc-artfair.com
WHEN: Friday, April 27th, 2007, 11:00am – 7:00pm (Free Admission Day)
Saturday, April 28th, 2007, 11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, April 29th, 2007, 11:00am – 7:00pm
Monday, April 30th, 2007, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Friday is a free admission day. Saturday – Monday general admission is $12, $9 for groups of10 or more and $6 for seniors and students.
WHERE: Washington Convention Center, Hall E
801 Mount Vernon Place, NW
A bonus.......coming to the Washington Convention Center on April 27-30, 2007 is artDC, an opportunity to see the DC art world in action and I DO MEAN ACTION. Get ready and put your favorite Art Fair shoes on. The Washington Convention Center is filled with a fabulous art collection of its own! And DC's top notch galleries are exhibiting with other prestigious international galleries. This is going to be a good one - not to be missed!
WHO: A select group of 80 art galleries, plus curators, collectors and connoisseurs from the art world, representing the four corners of the globe.
WHAT: artDC, the first modern and contemporary art fair in Washington, DC, will bring together international emerging and established galleries from Europe, Asia and the Americas. Galleries such as Galerie Marion Meyer from Paris, and Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini from Toronto, Red Star Gallery from Beijing and Shine Art Space from Shanghai as well as Sundaram Tagore Gallery and Westwood Gallery both from New York, Frey Norris Gallery from San Francisco, and Kunsthaus Santa Fe, San Miquel de Allende from Miami will join the strong showing of DC’s finest galleries that includes Conner Contemporary Art, Robert Brown Gallery, Douz & Mille, Curator’s Office and G Fine Art, and will establish artDC as one of the not-to-be-missed annual fairs.
artDC will emphasize special sections within the fair, from the cutting edge SLICE, where visitors can discover the hottest trends in the art market; China Focus, a curated exhibition of contemporary artists from Shanghai; to galleries that are presented in the context of New Media, installations that are reserved for digital and video art; Project Spaces, featuring large-scale sculptures and installations; and our unique Video Lounge & Bar that will feature video projects by regional artists participating in a local juried competition organized by artDC and Flashpoint. artDC is designed to be an exciting platform for a broad spectrum of contemporary art, while also paying homage to the modern collections that are the pillar of so many local institutions and exhibitions.
Many of the City’s museums and arts institutions will collaborate with artDC as part of an enriching education program and will include seminars, special tours and off-site activities throughout the four day fair. For more information, please log onto www.dc-artfair.com
WHEN: Friday, April 27th, 2007, 11:00am – 7:00pm (Free Admission Day)
Saturday, April 28th, 2007, 11:00am – 7:00pm
Sunday, April 29th, 2007, 11:00am – 7:00pm
Monday, April 30th, 2007, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Friday is a free admission day. Saturday – Monday general admission is $12, $9 for groups of10 or more and $6 for seniors and students.
WHERE: Washington Convention Center, Hall E
801 Mount Vernon Place, NW
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Plein Air Painter at NY Art Expo
I met a lovely artist Linda Richichi at Art Expo New York for the first time. Linda is a Plein Air colorist and is showing small landscapes. She graciously consented to poise for my blog. You can see her work at www.lindarichichi.com.
Day Two-Art Exp
Photography is not encouraged inside the NY Art Expo for all the right reasons but here I am entering the massive show room floor. Our hotel is nearby at Times Square, America's Midway. Our favorite Zen Palate is just up the street so you can be sure I ordered the delicious chocolate raspberry cake for dessert. 
Thursday, March 01, 2007
Live From New York Art Expo
Drop by and visit my painting display at Art Expo in the Jacob Javits Center this weekend from March 1-5. Those are my abstract paintings on my right.
www.annemarchand.com
www.artexpos.com
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