PHILLIPS COLLECTION DEBUTS INTERSECTIONS, A NEW CONTEMPORARY ART SERIES

Intersections Opening—Artists Tayo Heuser, Barbara Liotta, and Jennifer Wen Ma
Discussion: Nov. 19, 6 p.m.  by donation

Heuser, Liotta, and Wen Ma share the inspiration behind their site-specific works with Vesela Sretenovic, Phillips curator of modern and contemporary art.  by donation


Brain Storm is presented in collaboration with Transformer gallery and Shigeko Bork Mu Project, in conjunction with Ink Storm, an exhibition curated by Ma at Transformer.

Heuser is best known for her large-scale, pen-and-ink drawings on highly polished and shimmering paper, the result of coating and burnishing according to an old Arabic tradition.

Artwork by Liotta is on display in a solo show at D.C.’s Reyes + Davis gallery, from Oct. 23 to Nov. 27, 2009.

Intersections invites artists to respond to artwork and spaces in the museum with projects of their own, revealing relationships between modern and contemporary art. Many Intersections projects riff on the intimate nature of the museum’s architecture, engaging spaces not typically considered exhibition areas, such as the museum’s stairwell, courtyard, and walkways between buildings, among others. (this is not that Café, a project by dBfoundation, is currently underway in the museum’s café.) By activating these unconventional spaces, Intersections challenges visitors’ expectations of how and where they experience art. These unexpected encounters create new relationships, with surprises of their own.

“Intersections invites the living artist to engage creatively with the rich modernist collection at The Phillips Collection. Collaborating with curator, Vesela Sretenovic, the artists respond to specific works of art as well as the idiosyncratic spaces of our intimate galleries,” says Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection. “Duncan Phillips was thrilled by contemporary art, and we are excited to embrace this aspect of the institution’s mission and personality.”

The Phillips Collection
1600 Twenty-first Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-387-2456

Labor Love Gallery / Natural Selection Exhibition

Natural Selection
North Carolina Contemporary Artists

 November 20th to January 15th, 2010
@ LabourLove Gallery
Durham, North Carolina

Destry Sparks, The Cosmic Syntax,  33" x 44"

This is an article Destry Sparks wrote for the Arts Alive Magazine featuring the November Exhibition, "Natural Selection" at LaborLove Gallery in Durham, NC. The article is featured in the November/December issue.

EASTERN NC ARTISTS SHOW IN DURHAM

A group exhibition of contemporary artists with ties to Eastern North Carolina will exhibit their work from November 20th to January 15th at LabourLove Gallery in Durham on the Golden Belt Arts campus.

The show will feature adventurous work incorporating unconventional and rough materials. Innovative mixed media pieces will be the norm including paintings with metal parts, sculptures both small and large, and diverse fiber works incorporating figurative ceramics and raw natural objects.

 Kelly Dew

Originally from Rocky Mount, gallery Co-Owner Kelly Dew will contribute her precise mixed media paintings. Frequently adding metallic and wall papers to the surface, viewers can expect a bounty of the rich colorful images she is known for. Dew is a graduate of the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago. However, with relatives from the small town of Grimesland in Pitt County, she has strong ties to the region still home to many of the participating artists.

Emily Soldin Howard

Other painters involved are Destry Sparks of Greenville and Emily Soldin Howard, a 2009 graduate of the East Carolina University MFA program. Sparks will display his unconventional outsider acrylic works which highlight worn found objects attached to burlap instead of traditional canvas. By using rough grades of burlap and harshly textured items such as driftwood and rusted metal parts a particularly visceral effect is readily apparent on the surface of his paintings. Opening earlier in the month at Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta, Sparks will also participate in the National Collage Society 25th Annual Exhibition. Howard’s work is similarly unique in that her paintings feature objects embedded into her surfaces to the degree that a thick murky stew of stuff entices the viewer to take a closer look.

 

Pamela Zimmerman  

 

      Jennifer Hodges

Fiber artists Pamela Zimmerman of Washington and Jennifer Hodges of Wilmington provide a wonderful compliment to the deep browns in the works of Sparks and Soldin Howard. Zimmerman’s distinctive moon faces are unmistakable and powerful regardless of the scale she chooses to tackle in a given piece. Her solitary ceramic souls peer from intricately woven fibrous cocoons. A 2009 NICHE award finalist, Zimmerman is making waves nationally. Hodges is well known to Eastern NC art patrons for her days on the staff of the Greenville Museum of Art and for producing remarkably understated sheets of fiber embedded with natural objects such as leaves and twigs.

Joshua Parker Coombs

At the opposite end of the spectrum is the approach of Philadelphia sculptor Joshua Parker Coombs. A 2009 MFA recipient from ECU as well, his remarkable work is stunning both in terms of technical achievement and bold authentic content. Whether in large rusted metal pieces or in brightly colored intimate polished wood pieces, the common thread is his ability to bend diverse materials to his liking to fashion objects which seem to live, breathe and even quiver in their desire to reach out toward us.
LabourLove Gallery is a new contemporary art gallery housed at Durham’s hotbed site of creativity known as the Golden Belt Arts campus.

The show will debut on Friday, November 20 in the midst of 35 on-site artist studio spaces, artist lofts and a vibrant Durham Third Friday Art Walk tradition. For more information visit www.goldenbeltarts.com and www.labourlove.com. The gallery can also be reached at (919) 373-4451 Tuesday – Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

LabourLove Gallery
807 E Main St
Suite 2-130
Durham, NC 27701
(919) 373-4451 
http://labourlove.com

Black at DCAC

Black Artists of DC and the DC Arts Center reveal Black, as it has never been seen before.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 20, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Artists Talks/Closing Reception: Sunday, January 10, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm

Jurors: Renee Stout, Blake Kimbrough, and Marvin Bowser
Curator: Amber Robles-Gordon
Co-Curator: Daniel T. Brooking
Judges: Teresia Bush and Eugene R. Vango

Black asks artists to think introspectively about the emotional and theoretical, the spiritual and cultural, the intellectual and physical aspects of their personal perceptions of blackness. Each artist's objective was to move beyond black as an absence of color and into the predominance of black as a physical and conceptual part of their creations. Artists were able to claim, adorn, redefine and enfold the black experience in and throughout their work. Audiences will be able to relish in black: it's elegance, depth, and sensation of infinity.

DC Arts Center

2438 18th Street NW

Washington, DC

Celebrating FotoWeek

Steven Foster, Untitled, 2009, photograph

Gerhard Richter - ARTINFO.com

Read this interesting article on abstract painter Gerhard Richter who is showing in NYC.
November 7, 2009 - January 9, 2010
@
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-977-7160

Source: Gerhard Richter By Sarah Douglas
 ARTINFO.com

This weekend, coming off a series of museum shows — at Tate Modern and the Serpentine Gallery in London, the DePont Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands, the National Art Museum of China, and elsewhere — he opened his first New York gallery show in four years, an exhibition of new paintings (and a few older ones) at Marian Goodman.

Read Here

Zeitgeist II: What's Important Now

Opening Reception: Thur, November 19, 2009 from 6-9pm
Open House/Closing Party: Sat, December 12, 2009 from 12-6pm

In October 2008, the Nevin Kelly Gallery hosted the first "zeitgeist" show, titled Under Surveillance. Curated by Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin, it presented the responses of twelve artists to what Weiss and Arkin saw as one of the most important elements of the then-prevailing ethos: "the increasingly diminishing zone of personal privacy available to any of us as we are constantly under surveillance by a growing array of government, corporate and media technologies." As a follow up, Weiss and Arkin are asking a group of local artists to reflect upon an uncertain future and respond to the question: "What's important now?"

Participating artists include Sondra N. Arkin, Carol Beane, Scott G. Brooks, Judy Byron, Groover Cleveland, Richard Dana, Anna U. Davis, Thomas Drymon, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Deb Jansen, Rosina Memolo, Michael Platt, Renée Stout, Tim Tate, Ruth Trevarrow, and Ellyn Weiss.

NEVIN KELLY GALLERY
1400 IRVING STREET #132 

WASHINGTON, DC 20010 

TEL 202.232.3464  

Washington Spaces blog : Images Rule the City at FotoWeek DC

Washington Spaces blog : Images Rule the City at FotoWeek DC by Emily Lyons

FotoWeek DC

Scarcely a day goes by that I don’t take a photograph, but I rarely do it with any technique, or to trap beauty. The premise is usually much lighter, the purpose more attainable – taking scouting shots for the magazine, or sending a quick note to a friend. Images, by and large, are how we document and communicate these days – they are so much easier than typing it all out.

Check out Photographs by Linda Plaisted

Read more: http://www.washingtonspaces.com/blog/articles/2009/11/06/images-rule-the-city-at-fotoweek-dc#ixzz0Wgl0YrVd

Bilateral Engagement

A collaborative sculpture exhibition between the Washington Sculptors Group and the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States.

October 16, 2009 - January 15, 2010
 

Artist Linda Hesh "Benches" portraits: Saturday, 11/14 from 12-2 pm

Linda Hesh continues her series of interactive public art portraits on her FOR and AGAINST benches. All are welcome to sit on the bench of their choice and have their portrait appear in Hesh's online gallery with what they are for or against written underneath: http://www.lindahesh.com/html/benches. 

Artist-led panel discussion: Saturday, November 14 from 2-4 pm

The Art Museum of the Americas 

201 18th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006 

one block from Constitution Hall

Symposium / African Art, Modernist Photography, and the Politics of Representation

Friday, November 13, 5 pm, The University of Maryland, College Park

Saturday, November 14, 10 am to 5 pm, The Phillips Collection

 

This two-part symposium addresses the embrace of African art by the avant-garde in the first decades of the 20th century, within the context of cultural appropriation, race, and the politics of representation in the colonial age. Art historian and critic Jack Flam gives the keynote address at the University of Maryland, framing the critical reexamination of modernist primitivism from a 21st-century perspective. An international group of scholars continues the discussion

at the Phillips the following day.

 

Free; registration is required to attend the program at the Phillips on November 14: groups[at]phillipscollection.org.

 

 

Co-organized with The David C. Driskell Center and the University of Maryland's Department of Art & Archaeology. Held in conjunction with the special exhibition May Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens. 

 

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Mel Chin

Wednesday, November 18, 5:30 pm

 

Chin's unconventional and politically charged projects investigate how art provokes greater social awareness and responsibility. Chin often engages others in creative partnerships: in his ongoing Fundred Dollar Bill Project, he asks students to decorate mock currency to raise money to treat soil contamination in New Orleans. 

 

Free; registration required: CSMAprograms[at]phillipscollection.org

The Phillips Collection
1600 Twenty-first Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009

New - Dupont Circle Arts Blog

Check out the new Dupont Circle Arts Blog.
A guide to arts events in the Dupont Circle Neighborhood of Washington, DC

Renée Stout at Phillips Collection

Renée Stout, a Washington, D.C. painter and sculptor, speaking on the relationship of African art to her practice.

This is the first video in a multi-part series on African art through the lens of contemporary artists.

YouTube - PhillipsArtMuseum's Channel

Source: www.youtube.com

 

Phillips Collection

1600 21st Street, NW

Washington, DC

PND - RFPs Cultural Development Corporation Invites Proposals From Washington D.C. Area Artists

PND - RFPs Cultural Development Corporation Invites Proposals From Washington D.C. Area Artists

Cultural Development Corporation Invites Proposals From Washington D.C. Area Artists
Application Deadline - December 17, 2009


The Cultural Development Corporation, an organization that works to create opportunities for artists and arts organizations that stimulate economic development and improve the quality of life in the Washington, D.C., area, is requesting proposals for exhibitions in the Flashpoint Gallery for the September 2010 to August 2011 season. The request is open to artists, independent curators, and arts organizations presenting contemporary work in any medium.

For the 2010–11 season, CuDC will award up to $10,000 to Flashpoint Gallery participants. Each artist/project selected for funding will be awarded up to $2,500.

Learn more about the application process, plus programs and services. Saturday, November 14, 2009, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Flashpoint, 916 G St NW, Washington, DC 20001.

Buck House / NYC

Artist, Deborah Buck of Buck House

While in NY this weekend, I visited an artist friend and antique dealer, Deborah Buck. Deborah is a talented artist, chef and author. She is opening the Big Beautiful New Buck House this week, design with a flair. If you are in NYC, stop in and celebrate with Buck House. Tell her Painterly Visions sent you. Enjoy all the objects which are hand selected by the owner. You may find something you can't live without! Read about Buck House http://buckhouse.biz

Buck House
1318 Madison Ave (Between 93rd & 94th Streets)
New York, NY, 10128
212.828.3123

Pink Panel at Flashpoint: GAMES, PLAY & CREATIVITY with Kenny George

November 18, 2009, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Flashpoint 916 G Street, NW Washington, DC

The Pink Line Project and Flashpoint Gallery sit down with Kenny George to discuss the concepts of pop art and video game art in conjunction with his caricature-ized Flashpoint exhibit, "Pacguy."
Games, Play & Creativity

$10 suggested donation
RSVP: info@pinklineproject.com

A video game competition will be held in the gallery at 6:30pm prior to the panel discussion. Come test your skills!

Jiha Moon: An Exact Place

November 7 - December 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 11, 6 – 8 pm

Curator's Office presents the third solo exhibition of Korean-born artist Jiha Moon. For this exhibition, the gallery will present works exploring the nature of place and its inspiration on creative output. Works include three square-format Hanji paper over canvas pieces and four horizontal works on Hanji paper. There is a special emphasis on abstraction in many of these works. As Moon is currently an artist-in-residence at The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, the influence of textiles is subtly apparent as several works incorporate small-embroidered areas, a departure for the artist.

The works in the exhibition were created both in her Korea and Atlanta-based studios. This division in working locations provoked the artist to explore the cultural influence of a precise place in an increasingly dizzying global world.

http://www.curatorsoffice.com

Curator's Office
1515 14th St NW
Suite 201
Washington, DC
202-387-1008

CRIT '09 at Hillyer Art Space 11.10.09

International Arts & Artists' second critique of the series Crit '09 

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 from 6:30 - 8:30pm

 @

Hillyer Art Space

9 Hillyer Ct. NW

Washington, DC

The evaluator of this event will be Manon Cleary.  This is a critique of 12 specific artists, and is open to the public.

Here are the guidelines:

Theses critiques are to provide helpful feedback to artists' works that are in progress or completed, by telling the artist NOT WHAT YOU LIKE OR DON'T LIKE, but by:

-simply telling the artist what you SEE...

-by perhaps describing and analyzing HOW you perceive the overall structure/composition of the work; what part of the piece 'works', what part might not be 'working', i.e. strengths and weaknesses...

-by interpreting the meaning, content, expression, artist's intention, etc.for the work as conveyed through its formal visual language...

-by offering feedback on quality of craftsmanship

202.338.0680
www.artsandartists.org 

CANCELLED / A conversation with Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ryan Hill

 Dear Friends,
 
We are sorry to inform you that, due to a medical emergency, Rafael Lozano Hemmer has postponed his November 10th talk at the Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States.  We will inform you as soon as the event is rescheduled, and we hope that you can join us then.  Our sincere apologies.
 
Art Museum of the Americas

 ***********CANCELLED*************************

CONVERSATION | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 @ 6:30PM

A conversation with Mexican-Canadian artist
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ryan Hill, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The event will feature a video presentation of the artist’s most recent projects including commissions for the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Museum 50th anniversary.

Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street, NW | Washington, DC 20006

Economy of Scale Opening Reception

November 7–December 23, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:30pm–8:30pm


Is bigger better? Is smaller intimate and, therefore, precious? Does a particular size better serve the content of a photograph?

During the exponential growth of the fine art photography market in the 1980s, there were conversations among a few photography dealers concerning strategies to bring photography into parity with painting. The goal was for photography to command the full regard of art collectors. In the most blatant sense, this was a real estate issue: “Should not a photograph claim significant wall space in the manner of a painting?” Photography needed to achieve an architectural presence. Technical advances in the printing of large-scale photographic prints soon began to fulfill the ambition of attaining a comparable size in relation to painting. Today’s photographers can create near mural-size works with the ever-advancing technology of digital printing. As photography enlarged in size from the mid-1980s to the present, it migrated from showing in a handful of galleries that specialized in photography to hanging in most contemporary art galleries. Now that photography successfully competes for wall space with painting, we ask, “How has this achievement of scale benefited the medium and its attendant messages?”

Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, David Burnett, David Byrne & Danielle Spencer, Colby Caldwell, William Christenberry, Frank Day, Carl De Keyzer, Eduardo Del Valle & Mirta Gómez, Robert Frank, William Greiner, Erich Hartmann, Max Hirshfeld, Graciela Iturbide, Franz Jantzen, Ralph Morse, Lothar Osterburg, Shelly Rusten, Sebastião Salgado, Susannah Sayler/The Canary Project, William C. Shrout, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, and Darryl Vance.

Economy of Scale coincides with FotoWeekDC, a citywide celebration of photography. http://www.fotoweekdc.org

Hemphill
1515 14th St NW
Washington, DC

Arts + Criticism: Is Everyone Really a Critic?

The DC Forum for Emerging Arts Professionals

Panelists:

Anne Midgette, Music Critic, The Washington Post

Tim Smith, Music Critic, The Baltimore Sun

Monday, November 9, 2009 Time: 6-8pm

@

IA&A's Hillyer Art Space

9 Hillyer Court NW

Washington, D.C

Panelists will discuss arts and criticism in light of contemporary technologies and trends, and answer audience questions. This is a conversation not to be missed!
 
This Event is FREE but Seating is LIMITED
RSVP: http://artscriticism.eventbrite.com
  

The DC Forum is a volunteer organization that aims to provide unique professional development and networking opportunities for emerging professionals in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, focusing specifically on the arts field. By targeting emerging arts professionals, either in the first five years of their arts career or age 35 or younger, The Forum's events provide access to relevant topics and individuals in the arts field that young professionals would not be able to access elsewhere.  Visit us on the web at http://thedcforum.googlepages.com/

http://www.artsandartists.org/artspace.html

ALIAS MAN RAY: THE ART OF REINVENTION

OPENS AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH

MAJOR EXHIBITION SURVEYS ARTIST’S CAREER IN OVER 200 WORKS

New York, NY – A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer – and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker.  Relatively few people know that he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky to Russian Jewish immigrants.  In fact, he spent a lifetime suppressing his background to the point of denying he was ever called anything but Man Ray.

The Jewish Museum will present Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention from November 15, 2009 through March 14, 2010, a major exhibition considering how the artist’s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant experience and his lifelong evasion of his past.  The exhibition explores the deliberate cultural ambiguity of Man Ray who became the first American artist to be accepted by the avant-garde in Paris.  It also examines the dynamic connection between Man Ray’s assimilation, the evolution of his art, and his willful construction of a distinctive artistic persona, as evidenced in a series of subtle, encrypted self-references throughout his career.

Visitors to Alias Man Ray will be privy to the artist’s endless experimentation in over 200 works including photographs, paintings, sculptures and objects, drawings, films and a selection of his writings. As the first major multimedia Man Ray show at a New York City museum since 1974, the exhibition will present many iconic works like the photographs Le Violon d’Ingres (1924) and Noire et Blanche (1926); the paintings War (A.D. MCMXIV) (1914), The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows (1915-16) and La Fortune (1938); and the painted screen La Fôret Dorée de Man Ray (1950).  Two short silent films by Man Ray: Le retour à la raison (1923), the artist’s first film, and Emak-Bakia (1926), whose title means “leave me alone,” as well as excerpts from Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde, a 1997 American Masters production, will be on view in the exhibition.

Man Ray engaged in a constant process of self-inscription and erasure, managing to outwit anyone who wanted to label him. Like his fellow Dadaist and close friend Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray took delight in playing games and confounding expectations.  With his steadfast independence and his need to explore every artistic avenue, Man Ray forged a vision that changed the very way art was conceived.

The exhibition has been organized by Mason Klein, Curator at The Jewish Museum.  The accompanying 256-page catalogue with 246 illustrations, co-published by Yale University Press and The Jewish Museum, includes essays by Mr. Klein, Merry A. Foresta, and George Baker, with an illustrated timeline by Lauren Schell Dickens presenting the facts of Man Ray’s life in the cultural and historical context of his times. 

Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members.  Admission is free on Saturdays. 
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org
212.423.3200 
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street,
Manhattan