Come Paint the Town Saturday

Come out and paint the street this Saturday!!

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Painting the Town 2007
Stripe Street Painting on 8th Street
between D and E streets

Saturday, May 12th
6:00am – 7:00pm
Dedication 12:00 – 12:30pm

Come and help paint 8th Street!

In May 1987, the Corcoran School of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum collaborated to paint a giant color stripe scheme on 8th Street NW between D and E in honor of Gene Davis, an important artist of the color field movement and former Corcoran faculty member. Mokha Laget, long time studio assistant to Gene Davis, designed the project. Now 20 years later, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the Corcoran plan to recreate the 1987 project as an homage to Gene Davis with Mokha Laget as the lead artist for this project once again. She has created an alternative scheme much closer in color, rhythm, musicality and lyricism to Gene Davis’ paintings.

8th Street will be Closed
Friday, May 11th, noon – 7:00pm
Saturday, May 12th, 6:00am – 7:00pm
Access to The Lansburgh garage will be maintained


DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
410 8th Street, NW
Washington, DC
202.724.56137

Ian and Jan: The Undiscovered Duo of the Washington Body School

Local artists Jeffry Cudlin and Meg Mitchell respond to the recent ColorField Remix mania with a upcoming parody exhibit at the D.C. Arts Center. Mitchell and Cudlin (who is also an arts reviewer for the City Paper) created the personas of Ian and Jan, supposedly an undiscovered duo of performance artists who exhibited alongside the Color School brush-wielders in the 1960s and '70s. The exhibition features photographs, drawings and videos of the couple in action. The centerpiece of the exhibit is a mockumentary video about the undiscovered duo featuring D.C. art superstars like Corcoran curator Jonathan Binstock, artist Sam Gilliam and Modern Art Notes blogger Tyler Green. The opening reception kicks off at 7 p.m. on Friday, May 11. --Julia Beizer WaPo Going Out Gurus

May 11-June 3:
Opening Reception: 7-9 p.m. Friday, May 11

D.C. Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC
2-7 p.m. Wednesdays-Sundays
• Information:202-462-7833
• Price: Free

Lyrical Color

Colorfield Remix is in full swing. You can see an exhibition of the Washington Color School at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC

Lyrical Color: Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland and the Washington Color School
April 14–July 29, 2007

Approximately 20 paintings and works on paper from the museum's permanent collection will be on display as part of a citywide celebration of the Washington Color School artists, featuring works by Helen Frankenthaler, Morris Louis, Howard Mehring, Kenneth Noland, Alma Thomas, Gene Davis, Thomas Downing, Willem de Looper, and Sam Gilliam. By painting and pouring thinned acrylic paints onto unprimed canvases, these artists created abstract, layered shapes and stains that emphasized the optical effects of color relationships and the flatness of their work surface.

The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009

Tuesday–Saturday:10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Thursday, extended hours:10 a.m.–8:30 p.m
Sunday:11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Closed Monday

ColorFieldremix : SATURATED

April 25 - 29, 2007
Curated by Zoe Myers
Public reception with the artists: Friday, April 27, 6-9pm

A short-term exhibition and artist party featuring works from the current generation of Washington, DC based artists exploring the use of color in original ways. Curated by Zoe Myers from the WPA\C ArtFile, and presented as part of the DC-area ColorFieldremix project.

Featured artists: Joseph Barbaccia / Joan Belmar / Jonathan Bucci / Renee Marcus Butler / Craig Cahoon / Tory Cowles / Mary Early / Eric Finzi / Gail Gorlitzz / Eve Hennessa / Lisa Kellner / Kevin Kepple / Joan Konkel / Isabel Manalo / Crisley McCarson / Antonio Puri / Darren Smith / Trish Tillman / Robert Kent Wilson

Heineman Myers Contemporary Art
4728 Hampden Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814
info@heinemanmyers.com / 301.951.7900 / www.heinemanmyers.com
Gallery hours: Wed-Fri 2-6 /Sat 1-7 / Sun 1-5

FIELDWORK: PLACING SPACE IN THE COLORFIELD REMIX

INGA FRICK AND GILLIAN BROWN
April 13 - June 9, 2007

Special ColorField.remix Reception: Sunday, April 29 from 2-5pm
Meet the Artists Talk (along with curator Harold Linton): Saturday, May 12 at 2pm

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, in Silver Spring, MD, is presenting FIELDWORK: PLACING SPACE IN THE COLORFIELD REMIX, an exhibition of multimedia installations. As part of the citywide celebration of Color Field painting, Gillian Brown and Inga Frick have created two new works that play with the implications of Color Field painting for our experience of space. Tracing imaginary geometries, Gillian circumnavigates the evening horizon while Inga loops the Washington Beltway at rush hour. In an earlier collaborative piece, a trio of swimmers converge and merge in a Rorschach explosion within an immersive field of water. According to artist Brown the work is “inspired by what I have always found most compelling in Color Field paintings: a play between the boldly apparent and that which cannot be readily grasped. An important aspect of these works is to subtly draw our awareness to the limitations of our perceptions.” The exhibition is curated by Harold Linton, Chairman of the Department of Art and Visual Technology at George Mason University.

Pyramid Atlantic is featured with more than 30 Washington area museums, galleries, arts organizations and businesses participating in ColorField.remix, the largest celebration of painting ever held in the Washington area. The event honors the 1950s and 1960s Color Field visual art movement and the Washington Color School, which put Washington, DC, on the art world map. ColorField.remix includes exhibitions, public art projects, artists' talks, lectures, children's programs, and special events honoring Color Field and Washington Color School painters as well as contemporary artists influenced by those movements.

Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
8230 Georgia Ave.
Silver Spring, MD
301.608.9101
For more information about the ColorField.remix project, go to www.colorfieldremix.org.

Discover Washington's First Art Movement

Read Heather Goss's report at DCist on the upcoming Art Events this Spring in Washington, DC.
Read DCist here.