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Saturday, August 15, 2015
BEST BET! Exhibition Party, 6-8pm Sat, Aug 22, 5:00- 8:00pm
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
AFP16 Visual Arts Exhibition opens Friday Aug 14
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities invites you to the 2016 Artist Fellowship Program Visual Arts Exhibition
This free exhibition presents some of the District’s finest visual artists applying to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities’ FY16 Artist Fellowship Program (AFP) grant. Through the AFP, artists residing in the District of Columbia may be awarded up to $10,000 in unrestricted support for FY 2016. Each artist has submitted a piece that represents their body of work and artistic perspective.
The gathering of these artworks in the District’s first operated public gallery captures the broad scope of the dynamic art scene and provides an opportunity for artists to express their visions directly to the panel of peer reviewers evaluating their applications and to the public. Many works are available for purchase.
OPENING NIGHT
Friday | August 14, 2015 | 6:00 – 8:00 PM
Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Exhibition Closes Monday, September 30 at 5:00 PM
You may find additional information here: http://dcarts.dc.gov/page/afp16-visual-arts-exhibition
Saturday, August 08, 2015
Thursday, July 16, 2015
Packard, Godwin in "OUTLIERS
AU Katzen thru July 26th
OUTLIERS: KURT GODWIN AND BETSY PACKARD
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| Vessel, 2015, fabric, batting on wire, 7"diam.x 23" |
Curated by J.W. Mahoney, Outliers is a dialogue between two Washington-area artists who have been working outside the boundaries of mainstream contemporary art for over three decades. These artists have effectively transformed ordinary objects, found images, and simple matter into fundamentally new conditions of meaning. Such expansions of art's real possibilities are what outliers do.
find more info at: Katzen
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| Conjoined, 2015, stenciled and quilted fabric, 47"x53" |
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| Untitled, 2015, wool, cotton, polyester, 54"x 56" |
Images: Courtesy Betsy Packard
American University Museum
4400 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016
202-885-1300
OPENING TODAY
A r t E d u c a t o r s : I n P r a c t i c e
July 16 - August 22
July 16 - August 22
O P E N I N G R E C E P T I O N:
Thursday, July 16, 5-7pm
This group exhibition celebrates the accomplishments of art educators who not only support and encourage the creativity of others, but also maintain a disciplined studio practice of their own. Selected by juror Brett John Johnson, Director of Visual Arts at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton, VA, the exhibition features thirteen teachers from elementary, middle and high schools, as well as college educators, who produce impressive works in a variety of media, exploring a wide rage of subjects.
Featured artists: Robert Christie, Tim Davis, Heather Dilatush, Justyne Fischer, Elaine Florimonte, Cianne Fragione, Susan Hostetler, Karla Kolb, Erik Patten, Rahshia Sawyer, Foon Sham, Susan Silva, Monica Stroik
Catering for opening reception generously provided by Capital Cuisine Caterers
Image: Cianne Fragione, Convento della Clarisse, 2014
Greater Reston Arts Center
12001 Market Street, Suite 103 | Reston, VA 20190
703.471.9242 | restonarts.org
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5pm
Friday, July 03, 2015
Strictly Painting 10 at McLean Project for the Arts, Virginia
June 18 - August 1, 2015
Opening Reception, July 1, 2015
(Correction: closed on July 4th weekend)
(Correction: closed on July 4th weekend)
Happy 4th! Here's an exciting art exhibition that's currently on view into the summer. Go take a look next week!
"Strictly Painting 10" features the works of 38 artists from the Mid Atlantic. The biennial exhibition was guest juried by Vesela Sretenović of the Phillips Collection. Here are a few pictures from the reception at www.mpaart.org enjoy! |
| Marie Ringwald Painting |
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| C - Sandi Kermes hanging work |
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| L - Leslie Nolan Painting R- Anne Marchand Painting |
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| C - Greg Minah Painting |
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| C- Sondra Arkin Painting, R-John Grunwell Painting |
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| L - Jane Godfrey Works on Paper |
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| L- Sondra Arkin Painting, C- John Grunwell Painting, R-Tory Cowles Painting |
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| C- Jackie Hoysted work, R- Diane Sczepaniak work |
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| Paintings by Lilianne Milgrom |
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McLean Project for the Arts, 1234 Ingleside Ave, McLean, Virginia 22101
- Website
Wednesday, July 01, 2015
MAGGIE SINER
Maggie Siner: The Art of Perception
Washington, D.C. by Anne Marchand, July 1, 2015
Washington, D.C. by Anne Marchand, July 1, 2015
This summer while on tour at the Venice Biennale, I had the great pleasure of visiting painter Maggie Siner’s studio in her piano nobile apartment. Maggie graduated from American University in 1976 and has lived, painted and taught for extended periods in France and China. She currently has a studio in a centuries old building on one of Venice’s romantic canals where she has been painting since 2008.
I met Maggie at the fruit seller near Campo Santa Maria Formosa and we walked the short distance to her studio apartment. Her place is centrally located on a quiet calle and is filled with white light from floor to ceiling windows. The color of light is an important element in her work.
Maggie was careful to select a studio location that reflects pure white north light onto her subject matter. She offered me tea and cookies while we savored the ambiance of her second floor studio filled with her paintings. Her balcony overlooks the canal below where gondolas glide. I can imagine her watching the watery pace of life in Venice.
Maggie showed me the works hanging on her studio walls that had recently been shown at the Galleria d’arte ARKE this year. Her gallery created a beautiful catalog to accompany her solo exhibition.
Maggie’s studio subject and set-up was arranged in order that she see her still life table from a distance. This current view gives her work the perspective that she seeks. The series focuses on overflowing and undulating material on a lavishly set tabletop with a mysterious dress. Folds and movement become color shapes of a dress on a chair, a Pekinese, plates, glasses and spoons, remnants that hint of an enchanting evening the night before. Maggie works exclusively from life. In her artist statement she says, "Let the forms of an object be what it may - the light, shade and perspective will make it beautiful."Classically trained, Maggie’s work looks contemporary. She has an ease of composition with shapes, colors and oil paint choreographed to produce poetic passages that allude to time, place, memory and recognition. Her evolving themes with soft drapery from beds, and dining tables recently took on the addition of a figure that occupies the formerly discarded dress. Maggie invites a friend to be the sitter in her works. One beautiful, alluring woman occupies a red dress in her paintings. The color red thrusts forth from velvety atmospheric colors and was the first fiery passage to catch my attention.
In her earlier bed series, fabrics held the shapes of time and action in the theatre of the night. Our most intimate and vulnerable selves lie in the dark and are revealed by the light of day in the folds and shape of the vacated beds. Maggie’s newest table theme came about through the movement of her daily life. A new piece of furniture appeared, a movement of objects in the room, a table received new fabric and a new still life was born. Light was etched on new forms and a story began to unfold. A place setting was added and a new process of discovery began in this ancient setting mixed with sparkling light and calligraphic marks. The figure, seemingly at rest in Maggie’s energetic brushwork, comes to life amidst the shapes and folds of the composition.
I asked Maggie what she loved about living and painting in Venice. She mentioned the water, light and sky that speak to her and informs her art in ways that inspire. She loves the walkability, lack of cars and the water, which is truly the lifeblood of Venice. She also loves all the great art in Venice. Ancient surfaces and architecture are enduring qualities that capture her eye. In a bin on the left side of her studio, Maggie showed me a series of small oils on linen that she paints on location in the tradition of plein-air painting. Donning a 15 lb. backpack, she goes into the streets on a visual discovery to compose the shapes and light of the city and water in masterful compositions that delight the viewer.
Siner is a devoted teacher who has influenced a generation of painters. She has been on the faculty of L'institut Américain and the Lacoste School of Art in France, a visiting professor at Xiamen University in China, artist in residence at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Dean of Faculty at the Washington Studio School and teaches many workshops around the country. She is a frequent guest artist and public speaker appreciated for her revealing lectures on the internal workings of painting. She studied medicine at the Faculté de Médecine in Marseilles and taught anatomy at Georgetown Medical School. She is well known for her expertise in artistic anatomy and human movement. Since 2008 she has spent much time painting and exhibiting in Venice, Italy, enamored of that city's ever-changing surfaces. She returns annually to the Washington DC area where she gives workshops at the Washington Studio School.
To learn more about this highly acclaimed artist, go to www.maggiesiner.com.
© 2015 Anne Marchand for Painterly Visions Blog
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