Last Chance to View: DAN TREADO, REQUESTING QUIET

DAN TREADO REQUESTING QUIET

May 1 - June 5, 2010

Free Dirt, 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches

This work continues to surprise and delight with the artist's signature serial imagery; layers of color, light as air, add dreamy associations and an impossible depth to the lush surfaces.  In some of the paintings, appropriated samples from selected illustrations and texts provide tense contrast.  In others, a crazy quilt of disparate organic images is woven together by this talented painter.  At once cryptic and mesmerizing, the paintings in this third exhibition by the artist at Addison/Ripley demonstrate a rich complexity and accomplished maturity.  They may "request quiet" but they shout and crackle with energy.

Addison Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.338.5180
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AMY LIN: KINETICS / Addison Ripley

AMY LIN: KINETICS

March 13 - April 24, 2010

Amy Lin will be at the gallery, Saturday, April 3 from 2-4pm.

Addison/Ripley Fine Art is very pleased to present a selection of new works by Washington artist, Amy Lin.

The delicate but dynamic work of Amy Lin is as sophisticated as it is fresh. Despite their apparent mechanical precision, Ms. Lin's drawings are made by hand in colored pencil and take on, literally, a life of their own, suggesting an order that might be seen in scientific visualization such as cells or molecules or DNA modeling. As graceful as dance notation, the artist's drawings have an intelligence about them that implies natural forces. The colored pencil markings float, perfectly balanced in open, white, not negative space. They sparkle with life, with elegance and beauty and a rhythm of their own.

Ms. Lin's work finds common cause with our contemporary interest in genetics, technology, physics and even astronomy while maintaining a very human quality that celebrates the imperfect and indefinable qualities of art.  One is able to experience this work on several levels: emotional, cerebral, obsessive, and lyrical.  Drawn without a specific plan in mind, the work develops organically, yielding repetitions that range from playful to meditative to joyous, each mark suggesting the next, the finished product a remarkable surprise.

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

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

ISABEL MANALO / ONCE, UPON

Envy You, 2009, oil on Gesso board, 40 x 40 inches

September 12 - October 17, 2009
Reception: SEPTEMBER 19, 5-7PM

In her premiere exhibit at Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Isabel Manalo presents a collection of paintings and drawings that give new definition to the concept of Magic Realism. Her exhibition, "Once, Upon", seems to allow innocence and experience to exist on the same white surfaces. The places are primeval forests. The persons are, initially, her two, young daughters. A flash of time-stopping white light sears each of these works, freezing them in dreamy color at once fantastic and foreboding. Like the manipulated photographs that are the artist's starting point, the paintings and drawings have a quality of captured time.

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

Manon Cleary / Tonight at Addison Ripley

Please click to view John Blee's review of Manon Cleary's most recent work in the July 15th issue of The Georgetowner:
Manon Cleary Clearly Dazzles at Addison/Ripley By John Blee

OPENING RECEPTION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 5-7PM

MANON CLEARY / NEW PASTELS
JULY 18 - AUGUST 22, 2009

1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
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MANON CLEARY / NEW PASTELS

top image: My Lunch with Booboo, 2009, pastel on sanded paper, 16 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches


lower image: Skyscape 6/29/09, 2009, pastel on sanded paper, 10 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches


JULY 18 - AUGUST 22, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION: WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 5-7PM

Washington, D.C. has no finer artist representative for quality and passion than Manon Cleary. For more than thirty years, Ms. Cleary's often disturbing drawings and paintings have brilliantly represented her personal world in provocative, unflinching and iconic terms. A 2008 exhibit at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts referred to Ms. Cleary as "one of the leading American figurative artists of the past three decades". This exhibit at Addison/Ripley pairs gentle sky "portraits" with pictures of strangely engaging white rats. Each of the works from Rats and Skies, is developed by hand on sanded paper with an unmatched mastery of materials and technique. In addition, the gallery will present earlier work by the artist, including examples from her "Movement Series".

Ms. Cleary was born in 1942 in St. Louis, Missouri and is included in museum collections from Washington, D.C. to New York, North Carolina, Virginia, Arizona, Wisconsin and the United States Embassy in Lima, Peru. In addition, the artist has exhibited throughout the world including such countries as Russia, Malta, Kazakhstan and Denmark. Her contribution to the art world in Washington is extensive and ongoing despite recent health issues that have limited her ability to work.


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SALMAGUNDI

April 18 - May 30, 2009Addison Ripley Fine Art

1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
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Hours: Tues.-Sat. 11am-6pm

GEE'S BEND: QUILTS AND PRINTS

MARY LEE BENDOLPH
LOUISIANA BENDOLPH
LORETTA BENNETT

January 17 - February 21, 2009
Opening for the artists: Saturday, January 24, 5-7 pm

Addison/Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007

Artists' Talk Saturday, January 24, 11:30 am.
RSVP 202.338.5180 seating is limited to the first 50 people.

When Mary Lee Bendolph and Louisiana Bendolph went to Berkeley, California to consider collaborating with Paulson Press in 2005, they were already extending the quiltmaking tradition of the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama to new audiences, in new ways. Joined by fellow Gee's Bend quilter, Loretta Bennett in 2007, these three artists have produced a coherent body of vividly colored, delicately textured etchings that, while moving into a, for them, unfamiliar medium, stand firmly in the design tradition the quilts from the Gee's Bend community have become known for. The bold, asymetrical quilts and prints in this exhibition at Addison/Ripley Fine Art are richly colored, beautiful and compelling, melding the talents of "new" and "old" quilters as they continue in the present day.

Source: authentic art visions: Gee's Bend: Quilts and Prints

Addison Ripley Fine Art presents

November 18 - November 26, 2008

FRANK HALLAM DAY
KENRO IZU
DIANA WALKER

Addison Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.338.5180