A bonus! Way to Go!
The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has a new Blog for their Public Art Programs. Check it out and earmark it for future funding of your public art projects. http://dcpublicart.blogspot.com/
Here you will find calls for artists, as well as photos of installations along the way.
Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Bill Dunlap reviews Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib
Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib at the Katzen Art Center
thru December 30
Best Bet... Bill Dunlap reviews this exhibition, part of the "ART of CONFRONTation" exhibit, which features around 79 paintings and drawings by Fernando Botero of the Abu Ghraib prison.
Click to see podcast at Around Town
thru December 30
Best Bet... Bill Dunlap reviews this exhibition, part of the "ART of CONFRONTation" exhibit, which features around 79 paintings and drawings by Fernando Botero of the Abu Ghraib prison.
Click to see podcast at Around Town
WPA Artfile is online
The Washington Project for the Arts, WPA launched the WPA ArtFile Online this month. The File is an interactive web-based image registry of WPA members’ artwork, accessible 24 hours a day through the WPA’s website.
Take a look at DC's talent of artists at artfile.wpadc.org
Contact David William at dwilliam@wpadc.org
Take a look at DC's talent of artists at artfile.wpadc.org
Contact David William at dwilliam@wpadc.org
2008 Bethesda Painting Awards deadline
Applications for the 2008 Bethesda Painting Awards are due Friday, February 15, 2008. Up to $14,000 will be awarded in prize monies. Applicants must be over 18 years of age and residents of Maryland, Virginia or Washington, D.C to be eligible. All original 2-D painting including oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache, encaustic and mixed media will be accepted. Slides or digital entries on a CD are permitted. There is also a $25 non-refundable application fee. The deadline for submissions is Friday, February 15, 2008.
You may find an application form at www.bethesda.org
You may find an application form at www.bethesda.org
Save Market 5 Gallery From Eviction
For over 30 years Market 5 Gallery has operated in the north hall of Washington, DC's historic Eastern Market as an alternative art space. Despite the fact that the space has no indoor plumbing or climate control, this non profit arts organization has thrived and launched many a career in the arts. A few years ago, Market 5 went to court to fight an illegal eviction by the city. The case was settled out of court but the rent was raised almost 10 fold with the promise of indoor plumbing, heat, an upgraded electrical system and other improvements to bring the entire market up to code. Now that improvements are underway on the south hall of the market, the city is trying to illegally evict Market 5 Gallery again. Please help the gallery by signing a petition to stop this eviction. Please forward this information to friends and family that are familiar with the gallery and its programs. Washington, DC's Office of Property Management (OPM) and its contractors have bullied and harassed Market 5 Gallery ever since OPM was given oversight of Eastern Market's North Hall. On Tuesday morning, OPM broke in the gallery and changed the locks. Later that day an OPM official said it was a mistake and that they would send someone to let gallery staff in on Wednesday. Check out the interview of gallery staff on youtube. Please sign the gallery's petition to halt another illegal eviction attempt and contact Mayor Fenty to express your outrage over OPM's illegal dealings with Market 5 Gallery. http://youtube.com/watch?v=KXARfjRZYSE
Go to http://market5gallery.org for information about the gallery.
Go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savemarket5gallery to sign the petition. Camille Mosley-Pasley
Anacostia Fine Art
www.AnacostiaFineArt.com
Go to http://market5gallery.org
Go to http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/savemarket5gallery to sign the petition. Camille Mosley-Pasley
Anacostia Fine Art
www.AnacostiaFineArt.com
Monday, December 17, 2007
WILD IMAGINATION
Six Self-Taught Artists from the American South
Curated by Ginger Young
Over 66 works of art by some of the most important self-taught artists today.
December 15 to January 27, 2008
at the Athenaeum
Harold Finster
James Harold Jennings
Nellie Mae Rowe
James Arthur Snipes
Jimmy Lee Sudduth
Mose Tolliver
The Athenaeum
201 Prince St.
Alexandria, Va 22314
www.nvfaa.org
Wed - Fri
11:00 - 3:00
Sat Sun
noon - 4:00
Curated by Ginger Young
Over 66 works of art by some of the most important self-taught artists today.
December 15 to January 27, 2008
at the Athenaeum
Harold Finster
James Harold Jennings
Nellie Mae Rowe
James Arthur Snipes
Jimmy Lee Sudduth
Mose Tolliver
The Athenaeum
201 Prince St.
Alexandria, Va 22314
www.nvfaa.org
Wed - Fri
11:00 - 3:00
Sat Sun
noon - 4:00
wall/paper A group exhibition at Transformer
Transformer presents: wall/paper A group exhibition featuring selections from Transformer's Flat File Program.
December 15, 2007 - January 19, 2008
Launched in spring 2007, Transformer's Flat File consists of unframed works in a variety of two-dimensional mediums including photography, painting, drawing, and printmaking, all approximately 16" x 20" in size and smaller. Featuring works by regionally, nationally and internationally based artists, the program is open to artists that have exhibited with Transformer in the past and those who are new to Transformer. wall/paper highlights selections from the current Flat File, as well as new work by April Behnke, Miles Bumbray, Jennifer DePalma, Benjamin Jurgenson, Andy Kozlowski, and Lauren Vincelli. All works in wall/paper and in the Flat Files are available for purchase.
In addition to the artists listed above, Transformer's Flat File includes works by:
Cynthia Connolly, Nathan Manuel, Champ Taylor, Pat Graham, Maki Maruyama, Lisa Marie Thalhammer, Stephen Gibson, Piero Passacantando, Christine Buckton Tillman, Ryan Hill, Melanie Standage, Rachel Waldron, Marissa Long, Jay Stuckey
Works by April Behnke and Benjamin Jurgenson are included via courtesy of Meat Market Gallery.
EXHIBITION HOURS for wall/paper: Wednesday - Saturday, 1-7pm by appointment. Transformer will be open by appointment only December 26 - 29.
December 15, 2007 - January 19, 2008
Launched in spring 2007, Transformer's Flat File consists of unframed works in a variety of two-dimensional mediums including photography, painting, drawing, and printmaking, all approximately 16" x 20" in size and smaller. Featuring works by regionally, nationally and internationally based artists, the program is open to artists that have exhibited with Transformer in the past and those who are new to Transformer. wall/paper highlights selections from the current Flat File, as well as new work by April Behnke, Miles Bumbray, Jennifer DePalma, Benjamin Jurgenson, Andy Kozlowski, and Lauren Vincelli. All works in wall/paper and in the Flat Files are available for purchase.
In addition to the artists listed above, Transformer's Flat File includes works by:
Cynthia Connolly, Nathan Manuel, Champ Taylor, Pat Graham, Maki Maruyama, Lisa Marie Thalhammer, Stephen Gibson, Piero Passacantando, Christine Buckton Tillman, Ryan Hill, Melanie Standage, Rachel Waldron, Marissa Long, Jay Stuckey
Works by April Behnke and Benjamin Jurgenson are included via courtesy of Meat Market Gallery.
EXHIBITION HOURS for wall/paper: Wednesday - Saturday, 1-7pm by appointment. Transformer will be open by appointment only December 26 - 29.
Margot Quan Knight
Randall Scott Gallery
December 15th-January 19th
How do we experience the passage of time?
While physics may accurately describe a universal space-time, our human experiences seem to defy uniform time on a daily basis: each of us has lived a moment that seemed to last forever, or hours that passed by in a heartbeat.
Margot Quan Knights large scale photographs turn to the physical body, that portal through which all experience arrives. She proposes that the body responds to dense experience by expanding mental focus on the activity at hand, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
In creating the Intervals series Knight looked to Caravaggio, especially his painting Death of the Virgin, and more current works by Bill Viola, Karolina Sobecka, and Sam Taylor Wood as inspiration. She also drew on the personal experiences of losing herself in thought, in a household task, in the chaos of her wedding, and in the interminably long, clear moment of a car accident.
The Intervals series was sponsored in part by a 2006 CityArtist Grant from the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts Cultural Affairs and a 2006 Special Projects Grant from 4CultRandall Scott Gallery
1326 14th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
202-332-0806
202-332-0807 fax
www.randallscottgallery.com
info@randallscottgallery.com
December 15th-January 19th
How do we experience the passage of time?
While physics may accurately describe a universal space-time, our human experiences seem to defy uniform time on a daily basis: each of us has lived a moment that seemed to last forever, or hours that passed by in a heartbeat.
Margot Quan Knights large scale photographs turn to the physical body, that portal through which all experience arrives. She proposes that the body responds to dense experience by expanding mental focus on the activity at hand, to the exclusion of all other thoughts.
In creating the Intervals series Knight looked to Caravaggio, especially his painting Death of the Virgin, and more current works by Bill Viola, Karolina Sobecka, and Sam Taylor Wood as inspiration. She also drew on the personal experiences of losing herself in thought, in a household task, in the chaos of her wedding, and in the interminably long, clear moment of a car accident.
The Intervals series was sponsored in part by a 2006 CityArtist Grant from the Seattle Mayor's Office of Arts Cultural Affairs and a 2006 Special Projects Grant from 4CultRandall Scott Gallery
1326 14th Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20005
202-332-0806
202-332-0807 fax
www.randallscottgallery.com
info@randallscottgallery.com
Iona Rozeal Brown and Jefferson Pinder
G Fine Art
New works by gallery artists.
December 17 – January 5, 2008
Iona rozeal brown will be showing two new pieces. “You opened my eyes man, thought I had a man, but how could I eye scan.” A print triptych based on a painting triptych of the same name from her show, Blending Lines. And a new painting, Midnight in the…Den of Good and Weavin’, (after Kuniyoshi’s ‘The Orphan Star Amid the Stars of Earth.)
Brown is the recent recipient of a Tiffany Grant and a Joan Mitchell Award.
Jefferson Pinder’s new work, Shoeshine Variation, 2007, both glorifies and archives a service that is quickly disappearing from our fast-paced culture. This diptych video provides a glimpse into the grace and beauty of the shoeshine, while delving into the symbolism wrapped up in the task. As master shine man Ego Brown builds the shine, Jermaine Washington, social provocateur, deconstructs. This narrative guides the viewer through the process of a shoeshine variation that drifts in and out of reality, asking the viewer to actually focus on the multiple interpretations of the act itself.
New works by gallery artists.
December 17 – January 5, 2008
Iona rozeal brown will be showing two new pieces. “You opened my eyes man, thought I had a man, but how could I eye scan.” A print triptych based on a painting triptych of the same name from her show, Blending Lines. And a new painting, Midnight in the…Den of Good and Weavin’, (after Kuniyoshi’s ‘The Orphan Star Amid the Stars of Earth.)
Brown is the recent recipient of a Tiffany Grant and a Joan Mitchell Award.
Jefferson Pinder’s new work, Shoeshine Variation, 2007, both glorifies and archives a service that is quickly disappearing from our fast-paced culture. This diptych video provides a glimpse into the grace and beauty of the shoeshine, while delving into the symbolism wrapped up in the task. As master shine man Ego Brown builds the shine, Jermaine Washington, social provocateur, deconstructs. This narrative guides the viewer through the process of a shoeshine variation that drifts in and out of reality, asking the viewer to actually focus on the multiple interpretations of the act itself.
Travels with Van Gogh and the Impressionists
An Evening with the Authors
Thursday, December 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Join author Lin Arison and photographer Neil Folberg to celebrate their new book, Travels with van Gogh and the Impressionists: Discovering the Connections. Arison's captivating memoir of her journey through France in search of the lives and art of the impressionists is illustrated with beautiful works in this genre, in conversation with contemporary photography by Folberg. Arison will explore the continuing relevance and personal significance of the artists and their pioneering achievements, while Folberg discusses the challenge of capturing the spirit of impressionist painting in a different medium. The evening includes a book-signing and reception. Included in museum admission; free for members.
For more information and to register, contact events@phillipscollection.org or 202-464-2259
Thursday, December 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Join author Lin Arison and photographer Neil Folberg to celebrate their new book, Travels with van Gogh and the Impressionists: Discovering the Connections. Arison's captivating memoir of her journey through France in search of the lives and art of the impressionists is illustrated with beautiful works in this genre, in conversation with contemporary photography by Folberg. Arison will explore the continuing relevance and personal significance of the artists and their pioneering achievements, while Folberg discusses the challenge of capturing the spirit of impressionist painting in a different medium. The evening includes a book-signing and reception. Included in museum admission; free for members.
For more information and to register, contact events@phillipscollection.org
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Art on Call
The Washington DC Southwest Neighborhood Assembly History Task Force Call Box Committee, in collaboration with Cultural Tourism DC, seeks artists to participate in Art on Call. This public arts project is a city-wide effort led by Cultural Tourism DC in partnership with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the District Department of Transportation to restore Washington, DC's historic abandoned police and fire Call Boxes as neighborhood artistic icons.
Art on Call challenges artists to use existing police or fire Call Boxes as frames for the artist's unique and creative image or design that can be permanently installed within the call box.
For more information regarding this opportunity and for a copy of the prospectus please email swcallboxproject@gmail.com.
Art on Call challenges artists to use existing police or fire Call Boxes as frames for the artist's unique and creative image or design that can be permanently installed within the call box.
For more information regarding this opportunity and for a copy of the prospectus please email swcallboxproject@gmail.com.
Glass and Steel: A Pilgrim's Process
One of my favorite sculptors in the DC region, Alan Binstock is showing at Ch'i Contemporary in Brooklyn, NY this month.
Alan Binstock
Glass and Steel: A Pilgrim's Process
recent glass sculpture
Dec 12, 2007
Alan Binstock
Glass and Steel: A Pilgrim's Process
recent glass sculpture
Dec 12, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Gallery 211 shows landscape paintings of Freya Grand
Gallery 211 invites you to join them for some live music on Saturday December 15th from 6-8 p.m. Harpist Cara Fleck will provide a solo performance featuring classical and holiday pieces. Enjoy some wine and light refreshments amidst the current exhibit featuring the ethereal landscapes of Freya Grand.
Please visit the Gallery 211 website at www.gallery211.net for more information about Ms. Fleck's biography and directions to the gallery.
Jason Goscha
Gallery 211
211 E. Fort Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21230
Ph. 410-244-1340
www.gallery211.net
Please visit the Gallery 211 website at www.gallery211.net for more information about Ms. Fleck's biography and directions to the gallery.
Jason Goscha
Gallery 211
211 E. Fort Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21230
Ph. 410-244-1340
www.gallery211.net
Call to Artists
The Washington DC Southwest Neighborhood Assembly History Task Force Call Box Committee, in collaboration with Cultural Tourism DC, seeks artists to participate in Art on Call. This public arts project is a city-wide effort led by Cultural Tourism DC in partnership with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the District Department of Transportation to restore Washington, DC's historic abandoned police and fire Call Boxes as neighborhood artistic icons.
Art on Call challenges artists to use existing police or fire Call Boxes as frames for the artist's unique and creative image or design that can be permanently installed within the call box.
For more information regarding this opportunity and for a copy of the prospectus please email swcallboxproject@gmail.com.
Art on Call challenges artists to use existing police or fire Call Boxes as frames for the artist's unique and creative image or design that can be permanently installed within the call box.
For more information regarding this opportunity and for a copy of the prospectus please email swcallboxproject@gmail.com.
G fine art
Note the review of Linn Meyers exhibition in this Sunday’s Washington Post
to see it, click on the link below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/style/studio/120907.html?referrer=emaillink
to see it, click on the link below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/artsandliving/style/studio/120907.html?referrer=emaillink
Project 4 presents: CHASING TALES
Nancy Baker
Taylor Baldwin
Jan Dunning
Anthony Goicolea
Kim Keever
Anthony Pontius
Jovi Schnell
Gina Triplett
Raymond Uhlir
December 15, 2007 - January 19, 2008
Reception: Saturday, December 15, 2007, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Project 4 recounts the tales of our particular culture through individual perspectives. Chasing Tales features eight different artists who discuss how myths, narratives and fantasies have shaped Western Culture. Religion, literature, games, entertainment and societal myths are among the concepts explored through media, including photography, video and traditional painting techniques. Each artist's work reflects both an individual perspective of the artist's place within his or her narrative and a shared cultural experience. In exploring the history from which they derive, these artists are presenting historical narratives under a new lens. Painters Nancy Baker, Raymond Uhlir and Anthony Pontius use traditional models of pictorial representation as a departure point, and then incorporate contemporary characters and events in order to depict either cynicism, confusion or amusement with our culture. Photographer Kim Keever uses a traditional model of pictorial representation as a jumping off point as well, but mocks the grandness of the sublime American landscape and its ideals by imitating its space with a fish-tank in his apartment filled with kitsch terrarium novelties and dyes. "The Septemberists" by Anthony Goicolea is a romantic and moody video which elegantly narrates the struggles and awkwardness of adolescent boyhood in our culture, a theme that Goicolea commonly employs. The intersection of escapism and reality can be seen in all of the works shown; with these juxtapositions new tales and trajectories result.
For additional information please Contact: Anne Surak , Director.
Project 4
903 U Street NW Washington DC 20001
202 232 4340 fax: 202 232 4341
info@project4gallery.com
http://www.project4gallery.com/
Wednesday - Friday 2:00 - 6:00 pm, Saturday noon - 6:00 pm and by appointment.
Taylor Baldwin
Jan Dunning
Anthony Goicolea
Kim Keever
Anthony Pontius
Jovi Schnell
Gina Triplett
Raymond Uhlir
December 15, 2007 - January 19, 2008
Reception: Saturday, December 15, 2007, 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Project 4 recounts the tales of our particular culture through individual perspectives. Chasing Tales features eight different artists who discuss how myths, narratives and fantasies have shaped Western Culture. Religion, literature, games, entertainment and societal myths are among the concepts explored through media, including photography, video and traditional painting techniques. Each artist's work reflects both an individual perspective of the artist's place within his or her narrative and a shared cultural experience. In exploring the history from which they derive, these artists are presenting historical narratives under a new lens. Painters Nancy Baker, Raymond Uhlir and Anthony Pontius use traditional models of pictorial representation as a departure point, and then incorporate contemporary characters and events in order to depict either cynicism, confusion or amusement with our culture. Photographer Kim Keever uses a traditional model of pictorial representation as a jumping off point as well, but mocks the grandness of the sublime American landscape and its ideals by imitating its space with a fish-tank in his apartment filled with kitsch terrarium novelties and dyes. "The Septemberists" by Anthony Goicolea is a romantic and moody video which elegantly narrates the struggles and awkwardness of adolescent boyhood in our culture, a theme that Goicolea commonly employs. The intersection of escapism and reality can be seen in all of the works shown; with these juxtapositions new tales and trajectories result.
For additional information please Contact: Anne Surak
Project 4
903 U Street NW Washington DC 20001
202 232 4340 fax: 202 232 4341
info@project4gallery.com
http://www.project4gallery.com/
Wednesday - Friday 2:00 - 6:00 pm, Saturday noon - 6:00 pm and by appointment.
Art on the Small Side Holiday Juried Exhibition
Tonight, I missed Touchstone Gallery's Art on the Small Side Holiday Juried Exhibition Opening. I plan to go by to see the show as soon as my jetlag subsides. The exhibit was juried by Rosemary Luckett & Jon Wassom. In keeping with its tradition of showing affordable art during the month of December, Touchstone Gallery offers a juried show of mixed media art and fine crafts sized at 18 inches and under by artists from the metropolitan area.
December 12 – January 5, 2008
Opening Reception
Friday, December 14, 6:00 – 8:30pm
Mixed Media Art & Fine Crafts
The Annex
The Ubiquitous by Neal Hutchko
Wednesday – Friday, 11:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday – Sunday, 12:00 – 5:00pm
Touchstone Gallery
406 7th Street, NW, 2nd floor
Washington, DC 20004
202.347.2787
touchstonegallery@verizon.net
www.touchstonegallery.com
Metro: Archives-Navy Memorial-Penn Quarter or Gallery Pl-Chinatown
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
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