Rufino Tamayo and the Mixografía® Years

GALLERY TALK | Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010 @ 6:00pm
Juan García de Oteyza, Executive Director, Aperture Foundation
Luis and Lea Remba, Founders, Mixografía® workshop

The Remba family has been involved in the art business for three generations. Luis Remba learned the basic printing techniques from his father who owned a commercial printing firm in Mexico City. These skills eventually evolved into the Mixografia® Workshop and gallery where fine art handmade paper prints and sculptures have been produced and published for over 30 years.

Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street, NW
Washington, D.C.
Blocks from Columbia Metro Station| Free entrance
Street parking available after 6:30 pm
Limited space available
RSVP: cdiaz at instituteofmexicodc.org

New Art Dialogue Series: New China/New Art

Richard Vine Discusses the Future of Chinese Contemporary Art

Thursday, February 11, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
 @

Graham Auditorium
Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD

Managing Editor of Art in America Richard Vine will examine the exponential growth of contemporary art in China and its cultural impact during the Contemporary Museum’s New Art Dialogue Series lecture New China/New Art.

Vine will share experiences from his many trips to China and his close examination of the country’s rapidly evolving contemporary art scene. This new era of Asian contemporary art will be illustrated by Vine’s firsthand accounts with installations, exhibitions, and encounters with emerging artists. He will also review movements that have shaped contemporary art in post-Tiananmen China.

Admission to the lecture is $10 for the general public, $5 for students, and free for members of the Contemporary Museum and Walters Art Museum. Tickets will be available at the door.

The Contemporary’s New Art Dialogue Series presents lectures and conversations by distinguished artists, critics, art historians, and curators whose work is defining the field of contemporary art. The series cultivates critical discourse responsive to the cultural, social, and political issues of our time.

The New Art Dialogue Series is sponsored by the Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Family Foundation.

For additional information, visit www.contemporary.org.

Airborne

Heading to NOLA. Have a great week of art!

44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

The Middle East Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center

presents

44 Days: Iran and the Remaking of the World

A book discussion with photographer

David Burnett
Photojournalist

Friday, January 29, 2010
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

4th Floor Conference Room

Woodrow Wilson Center

Followed by an art opening and reception in the 4th floor atrium

4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

____________________________________________________________
Please RSVP to mep at wilsoncenter.org or fax 202-691-4184
Name and Title:
Affiliation:
E-mail:

Seating is limited. Seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis. A photo ID is required for entry.

The Woodrow Wilson Center is located in the Ronald Reagan Building (Federal Triangle stop on Blue/Orange Line). Public parking is available underneath the Reagan Building; recommended  metro or taxi.  www.wilsoncenter.org/directions

Czech Modernism from a Postmodern Perspective

Thursday, January 28
6:30 pm

Former New York Times art critic Andy Grundberg examines the modernist ideals represented in the photographs in Object as Subject: Photographs of the Czech Avant-Garde, and considers how these ideals influence contemporary interpretations of photography and art. Grundberg is the associate dean of undergraduate studies and chair of photography at the Corcoran College of Art and Design. By donation

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

Adam “5100” Feibelman at Project 4

ADAM "5100" FEIBELMAN

Underbelly

January 30 - March 6, 2010
Reception: Saturday, January 30, 2010 - 6:30-8:30 pm

Project 4 presents a solo exhibition of paintings by San Francisco based artist, Adam “5100” Feibelman. Drawing from historical influences in photography, printmaking and painting and combining them with the contemporary process of graffiti, Adam “5100” Feibelman creates photorealistic, monochromatic scenes reminiscent of the grit of industrial cities.

Using a photograph as a guide, Adam “5100” Feibelman disects the image into multiple meticulously hand-cut stencils. One by one, stencils are applied to a wood panel with spray paint in the manner of printmaking, a medium specific to the artist's background and personal studio practice. The object produced takes on the form of a painting and a genre most closely related to photorealism. The result is an image that refers back to the photographic image with the craft of the original image elevated to a new status resulting from a skillful, specifically hand-made process.

Project 4
1353 U Street NW, 3rd floor,
Washington, DC 20009
tel: 202 232 4340
http://www.project4gallery.com

Lust in Lustine / Gateway Arts District

Gateway Arts District Prince George's County is having an open call show in February. 

Install date: Feb. 6. 2010
Reception date: Feb. 14 2010
Deinstall date: March. 6. 2010

Hanging Fee:
$10.00 per work of art cash
Find out about requirements HERE:


Lust moves much deeper than sex, it's power.  Gateway Arts District wants to see a wide range of work from the science behind love to those gentle images of lovers holding hands to heat and desire to related abstraction.  They reserve the right to curate the show to keep art related to the theme and to deny work that doesn't meet requirements.  The Jury members will be Cheryl Edwards, Erica Riggio, and Jesse Cohen.

The art galleries involved are:

The Cheryl Edwards Studio Gallery
Directed by Cheryl Edwards
4103-4105 Rhode Island  Ave
Brentwood, MD 20722

The artdc Gallery in Hyattsville
5710 Baltimore Ave.
Hyattsville, MD 20781

Design Studio Art Gallery
Directed by Erica Riggio and Nancy Evans
5702 Baltimore Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781-1620
(301) 779-4907
www.designstudioartgallery.com‎

Art Event in Mid City / Glenn Fry and Gary FIsher

Studio 14 Art Event and Sale  

January 30,  2-6pm

@

Studio 14

1327 14th Street NW

Washington, DC

Contact Glenn Fry for information

phone (202) 549-9697

Email

AIGA- Dollars for Degas benefits New Community Art Space

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

7-9PM

 @ Hillyer Art Space

AIGA's Dollars for Degas event

International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Court NW
Washington, DC 20008 USA
202.338.0680
www.artsandartists.org

PATRICIA TOBACCO FORRESTER at Addison Ripley

PATRICIA TOBACCO FORRESTER

WATERCOLORS

January 30 - March 6, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, January 30, 5-7pm

The artist says it best, "You cannot get closer to a landscape than sitting within it while you are painting it."  Patricia Tobacco Forrester has been painting large scale watercolors in nature since graduating from Yale in 1965.  Her distinctive work comprises a poetic assembly of visionary scenes from exotic locales, Northern California, and the topography of her home, Washington DC.  In this exhibition, at Addison/Ripley Fine Art, the artist continues a tradition of lush, explosive, densely layered and deeply personal expressions of the world as she finds it.

Patricia Tobacco Forrester's work is in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the British Museum, the Yale University Art Gallery, the United States Department of State, the Oakland museum, the Nationa Academy of Art and Design, Smithsonian's American Art Museum, the Indianapolis Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago, among many.


The artist wishes to thank the DC Arts Commission for its support through the Artist Fellowship Program during the 2009 grant year.

Addison Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.338.5180
www.addisonripleyfineart.com

EMBASSY LECTURES on ARCHITECTURE and CULTURE / The Catholic University

INDIA LECTURE SERIES, “Crossing Boundaries: Modernism and Indian Cultural Tradition”

. 1 Feb. - Dhiru Thadani: Bombay* - Past Present Future *(Mumbai)


. 22 Feb. - James Wescoat: From Gaze to Gaz: A New Interpretation of Humayun’s Tomb-Garden And the Nizamuddin area of Delhi

. 31 Mar. - Brinda Somaya: India’s Changing Landscape: Buildings and Beyond *

. 6 Apr. - Nimish Patel: Relevance of Traditional Materials, Technology & Craftsmanship in Contemporary Architecture & Interior Design **

.12 Apr. - Rahul Mehrotra ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: Conservation and Contemporary Projects

Lectures at Catholic University of America, School of Architecture and Planning, Koubek Auditorium: Mondays, 5:30 PM

The School of Architecture and Planning, The Catholic University of America is pleased to co-sponsor this year’s EMBASSY LECTURES on ARCHITECTURE and CULTURE with the Embassy of India and Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), in the spring 2010.

Mr. Thadani (Architect/Urbanist, Washington, DC) works internationally and lives in Washington, DC. Both Ms. Somaya (Architect/Urban Conservationist, Somaya & Kalappa Consultants Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai) and Mr. Patel (Architect/Planner/Conservationist, Abhikram and Panika Crafts & Technologies, Ahmedabad) will be coming from India. Both Dr. Wescoat (Landscape Architect/Geographer/Historian, Aga Kahn Professor for Islamic Art, MIT, Cambridge, MA) and Mr. Mehrotra (Architect, RMA Architects, Mumbai) are professors at MIT and will be coming from Boston.

The Catholic University of America
620 Michigan Ave NE
Washington, DC 20064

NEW ART SHOW AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON BRINGS POWERFUL WORKS FROM THE MID-ATLANTIC REGION

January 21, 2010


By SHANNON HOWELL
FOR THE FREE LANCE-STAR

Irreverent is a good way to describe William Dunlap, the juror of the Mid-Atlantic New Painting show at the University of Mary Washington. And when an irreverent juror picks the paintings for a show, you know it's going to be a good one.

Dunlap, with loads of experience in curating and commentating on art, is foremost an artist himself. As such, he has no patience for the sterotypical high-brow types in the art world. He loves the artists themselves, and wants to promote all the things they are doing and make them more accessible to everyone.

READ Article HERE

"Mid-Atlantic New Painting 2010"
Jan. 22-Feb. 26, 2010
@
Ridderhof Martin Gallery
University of Mary Washington
College Avenue at Seacobeck Street
Fredericksburg, VA

Admission: Free
Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 1-4 p.m.
540/654-1013
galleries.umw.edu

MCA at Art 17 today

Coldwell Banker

1606 17th Street NW

1-4pm

Artist In FLUX

Meinir Wyn Jones

Flux Studios, a contemporary art space in Mt. Rainier, MD housing the professional studios of five artists and a small informal gallery space, hosts artists from the US and abroad for residencies ranging from two weeks to three months as part of a visiting artist program. 

The current artist-in-residence is Artomatic 2009 artist Meinir Wyn Jones, an award winning sculptor and installation artist, who is joining Flux from Sunderland, England from November 2009 through February 2010. 

Meinir uses porcelain and mixed media to create work that explores issues of intimacy and eroticism.  Her work created during her residency will be on display at Flux Studios from December 12- February 2, 2010. To learn more please visit www.fluxstudiosdc.com.

William Christenberry / Robin Rose / Donald Baechler

   
January 23 - March 13, 2010
Opening Reception: January 23, 6:30–8:30 pm

William Christenberry: Vintage Kodak Brownies
At the center of William Christenberry’s working process is the Kodak Brownie Holiday camera. How could a seemingly amateur camera from the 1950s, made of plastic for casual consumer use, be so significant to the work of a master artist? Initially Christenberry used the camera to capture the landscape and deteriorating architecture of his southern homeland as inspiration for his paintings. As his career progressed the diminutive photographs produced by the Brownie camera became his most essential and succinct artistic statement. Christenberry’s Brownies are the point from which his oeuvre of sculptures, wall constructions and large format photographs springs.

The exhibition at Hemphill is comprised of extremely rare vintage Brownie prints. These Brownies possess the physical characteristics representative of the time in which they were made and inherent to the magic of their origins. This is the first exhibition of vintage work by William Christenberry. The exhibition provides a unique and unparalleled opportunity to appreciate the wonder as well as the rarity of Christenberry’s vintage Brownies.
  
Robin Rose: Distortion, Delay & Sustain
The pastiche of postmodern art most often produces little more than pretense. Over time, the more serious the artist seems, the sillier postmodernism appears. Distortion, Delay & Sustain continues the themes displayed in Robin Rose’s recent exhibition at the American University Museum, a side project to his better-known encaustic painting. Utilizing certain postmodern collage and installation strategies, Rose employs humor and playfulness, graciously avoiding any pretense. This does not mean his effort is any less serious.

Working with various pieces of musical equipment such as guitar distortion effects pedals, a drum kick pedal and speaker cones, Rose reveals and revels in the meta-symbols and meta-myths that have sprung from late 20th Century popular music culture. Each piece strives to produce a kind of mental feedback by placing before us rearrangements of the guitar hero’s magical tools. Through this reassembled hardware of the rock star gods, Rose arrives at a relevant cultural statement. Rose says, “Beyond popular utility there is popular mysticism.” The exhibition is an opportunity for you to tune in, flick your Bic, and light up your cell phone for a different kind of encore.

Donald Baechler: Flower Studies
Donald Baechler has always said, “I’m an abstract artist before anything else.” This statement might surprise those familiar with the artist’s repertoire of images such as ice cream cones, horses, and roses. Yet, Baechler’s paintings and prints are more concerned with the juxtaposition of opposing formalist qualities than with subject matter. His works incorporate deliberate and unintentional gestures, textured and flat surfaces, color and black and white palettes.

In Baechler’s recent black and white flower prints, the flower becomes the vehicle through which Baechler explores texture, line, color, form, and balance. The results are complex and engaging compositions that beckon the viewer to look beyond a recognizable symbol and consider the process of art-making.

Hemphill
1515 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
202.234.5601

AN EVENING FOR HAITI / Tonight

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

STEPHEN A. SCHWARZMAN, Chairman
MICHAEL M. KAISER, President in coordination with the Embassy of Haiti presents

AN EVENING FOR HAITI
Friday, January 22, 2010

Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m., Free

featuring Haitian Dance Band Tabou Combo, Members of the National Symphony Orchestra, Haitian Singers Felina Backer & John Pierremont, Georgetown University's Let Freedom Ring Celebration Choir
  
Followed by
The National Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor Iván Fischer
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, 8:00 p.m.
Proceeds from Both Concerts to Benefit Haitian Relief Effort

 The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in coordination with the Embassy of Haiti, invite you to attend a free musical benefit for the relief efforts underway in Haiti on Friday, January 22, 2010 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on the Millennium Stage. Tabou Combo is Haiti's preeminent dance band, showcasing the infectious rhythm of Haiti's national dance music konpa. They have toured and earned fans around the world and are recognized as Ambassadors of Konpa. Additionally, members of the National Symphony Orchestra perform Serenade for 13 Winds by Richard Strauss, and Haitian singers Felina Backer and John Pierremont and the Georgetown University Let Freedom Ring Celebration Choir perform. This performance is prior to the 8:00 p.m. National Symphony Orchestra concert from which proceeds will benefit the relief efforts underway in Haiti. At both performances, there will be designated receptacles where patrons can deposit donations for the Haitian Relief Effort.

Following the benefit concert on the Millennium Stage, the National Symphony Orchestra, Iván Fischer, Principal Conductor, will perform Air from Bach's Suite No. 3 in D major, and continue with their previously announced program:  Mozart's Symphony No. 38 in D major, K. 504 ("Prague") and Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde ("The Song of the Earth") with mezzo-soprano Christianne Stotijn and tenor Stig Andersen. Proceeds from the NSO concert will be sent to the "Haiti Relief and Development Fund" of the American Red Cross.

Bethesda Painting Awards to Honor regional Painters with $14,000 in prize monies

The Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District is currently accepting applications for the sixth annual Bethesda Painting Awards, a juried competition honoring four selected painters with $14,000 in prize monies. Deadline for slide submission is Friday, February 26, 2010. Up to eight finalists will be invited to display their work from June 1 – 26, 2010 in downtown Bethesda at the Fraser Gallery.

The competition will be juried by Dr. Carolyn Carr, Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; Mark Karnes, drawing and painting instructor at Maryland Institute College of Art and Erling Sjovold, painting professor at the University of Richmond.

The first place winner will be awarded $10,000; second place will be honored with $2,000 and third place will be awarded $1,000. A “young” artist whose birth date is after February 26, 1980 may also be awarded $1,000.Applications are available online at www.bethesda.org or please call 301/215-6660. You may also send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Bethesda Painting Awards, c/o Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District 7700 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD 20814.

Call + Response at the Hamiltonian Gallery

January 23 - February 13, 2010

Opening Reception Saturday, January 23, 2010, 7 - 9 p.m.

Sixteen writers and sixteen visual artists from Washington, D.C., and beyond have paired to create artworks that resonate with each other for a new exhibition, Call + Response. The show includes the work of a Guggenheim fellowship recipient and seven Hamiltonian Fellows.

Call + Response's participants have given a new twist to the term "call and response" (a succession of two distinct phrases played by different musicians in which the second phrase comments on or responds to the first). For each pairing, the writer has provided the call and the visual artist has created the response. The result is paired works that resonate with each other, building a bridge between two distinct but fertile communities.

Hamiltonian Artists
Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC 20009
202.332.1116
www.hamiltonianartists.org
www.hamiltoniangallery.com

Fun, free and almost-free things to do in DC

Here's a great list of art and cultural things to do, for visitors and residents alike. Check out Destination DC's 100 FREE (AND ALMOST FREE) THINGS TO DO IN DC.

Destination DC
901 7th Street NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20001-3719
TEL 202.789.7000

Destination DC serves as the lead organization to successfully manage and market Washington, DC as a premier global convention, tourism and special events destination, with a special emphasis on the arts, cultural and historical communities.

CuDC / The Art of Taxes: What to Fill Out, What to File

Saturday, February 6, 2010, 10am - 12 pm

Mead Theatre Lab at Flashpoint
916 G St, NW  
Washington, DC 20001

Join CuDC and Certified Public Accountant Brian Davis to learn how to better manage tax season. This workshop will focus on navigating tax forms, saving on your tax payments and exploring simple tricks to plan for tax time all year long. Don’t miss this chance to ask all your questions about filing your 2009 taxes and learn ways that you can be exceedingly prepared for 2010. Light refreshments will be provided.

o       1099, Schedule C, traditional IRA…what forms do individual artists need to fill out?
o       What can you write off? How should you document expenses?
o       How does filing your taxes effect your ability to qualify for affordable artist housing?*
o       How can you  plan for tax time all year?

*For those hoping to apply for artist housing at the Brookland Artspace Lofts developed by Artspace Projects, Inc (opening in 2011), it is critical to have your taxes filed correctly and timely for the previous 2 years.  The Art of Taxes workshop will answer many questions about the nuances of filing taxes as an artist so that you are adequately prepared for artist housing applications.

RSVP online by Wednesday, February 3, 2010.

Red Circle Members  FREE           
Email RedCircle[at]flashpointdc.org
Non-Members     $20.00         
202.315.1321