Showing posts with label DC Arts Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DC Arts Center. Show all posts

Friday, September 10, 2010

ELEMENTS: THE STATE OF MATTER

ELEMENTS: THE STATE OF MATTER
September 10 - October 10
Opening Reception: September 10, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: October 10, 5pm
 

Six contemporary artists in a variety of media explore the elements with abstract presentations.
Featuring work by Jessica Beels, Graham Boyle, Katie Cassidy, Vincent Colvin, Suzanne Izzo, and Stu Searles

Curated by Pam Rogers
Mentor Curator: Trudi Van Dyke

DC Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009

Tuesday, April 06, 2010

Work from Salamandra Studios / DCAC

Mythical Scenographies
Work from Salamandra Studios

April 9 - May 9
Opening Reception:April 9, 7-9pm
Artists Talk: April 11, 5pm

Curated by Alfredo Torres

Mythical Scenographies brings together work by Uruguyan artists Lizzy MagariƱos, Gustavo Genta, Rogelio Osorio and Roberto Piriz. While producing work in vastly different styles and mediums, these four artists have found inspiration, friendship and a shared vision of creativity through Salamandra Studios, their shared space in Montevideo, Uruguay. This exhibition of their work highlights the distinctive style and practice of each individual artist, while emphasizing the importance of sets, series and seriality in the group’s otherwise divergent artistic practices.

DC Arts Center 
2438 18th St. NW 
Washington, DC 20009
202.462.7833

Friday, February 19, 2010

Conversation with the Artist / ADAM DE BOER

ADAM DE BOER
Memory Meets Imagination Halfway
January 15 - February 21
photo courtesy DCAC

Conversation with the Artist: February 21, 5pm
Curated by Laura Roulet 

Themes of social ritual and emerging sexuality are set against the luminous landscapes of Southern California and Mallorca, Spain in Adam de Boer’s new series of narrative paintings, Memory Meets Imagination Halfway. Evoking Vladimir Nabokov as psychological literary muse, de Boer also engages the art historical influences of Francisco Goya, Balthus and Eric Fischl.

DC Arts Center 
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.462.7833
dcartscenter.org

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

ADAM DE BOER / Memory Meets Imagination Halfway

Memory Meets Imagination Halfway

January 15 - February 21
Opening Reception: January 15, 7-9pm
Conversation with the Artist: February 21, 5pm
Curated by Laura Roulet

Themes of social ritual and emerging sexuality are set against the luminous landscapes of Southern California and Mallorca, Spain in Adam de Boer’s new series of narrative paintings, Memory Meets Imagination Halfway. Evoking Vladimir Nabokov as psychological literary muse, de Boer also engages the art historical influences of Francisco Goya, Balthus and Eric Fischl.


DC Arts Center 
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.462.7833

Monday, September 28, 2009

DC Arts Center Hosts Open House

DCAC Open House
Saturday, October 3, 2009 12 noon - 4 pm

Poetry reading at 1 pm. Discussion with Executive Director at 2 pm.
Light refreshments will be served, board members and DCAC stake holders will be on hand to discuss the organization.

“It’s not philanthropy, it’s faith that keeps DC Arts Center alive,” says Director B. Stanley. “Our energetic supporters and arts community are exactly why we have survived and continue to thrive despite the drastic lack of financial support for the arts.”

In the heart of one of Washington’s most culturally diverse neighborhoods, cutting-edge artists and performers have found support and encouragement at the District of Columbia Arts Center for 20 years. Today DCAC is the vibrant hub of alternative arts activity in Adams Morgan. Poets, painters, actors, storytellers, sculptors, and performance artists from around the corner and around the world gather here to participate in the exchange of ideas and the creation of new visions.

On Saturday, October 3 between 12:00 noon and 4 pm, the public is invited to see why DC Arts Center is indispensable to the local arts scene and is one of this neighborhood’s exciting cultural highlights. The afternoon will feature board members, visual artists, actors, a poetry reading, and an open discussion with the Executive Director about DCAC’s past, present and future as well his experience in the DC arts scene over the past 25 years.

In addition to coming by DC Arts Center's open house, visitors can take the opportunity to enjoy the neighborhood of Adams Morgan and all it has to offer. Check out the annual Crafty Bastards Craft Fair, taking place on October 3rd, from 10am to 5pm right down the street from DCAC at the Marie Reed Community Center.

For more information, contact Blair Murphy at 202-462-7833
info[at]dcartscenter.org, or online at www.dcartscenter.org

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

The Poetics of Material

September 11 – October 11

New work by David D'Orio, Lisa Hill and Kate Carr
Opening Reception: September 11, 7-9pm

Curated by Landria Shack
Curatorial Mentor: Laura Roulet

DC Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.462.7833

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Saturday, February 07, 2009

Gretchen Schermerhorn / Genetic Drift

February 13 - March 22
Opening Reception: February 13, 7-9pm
Curated by Anita Walsh

With paper as her medium, Gretchen Schermerhorn creates prints and sculptures using repetition and pattern in an organic way. More specifically, she shows what happens when small elements within a pattern become disrupted or changed and how this affects the overall structure. Genetic drift is the accumulation of random changes in a gene pool. The individual changes are miniscule and gradual—and the drift is often very slow—but over time these changes cause big alterations to the gene pool. Ultimately, variants of a gene can disappear completely or evolve as in natural selection. Schermerhorn's installations, which contrast natural patterning with decorative wallpaper, vary in much the same way—adapting to a specific time and space.

DC Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.462.7833

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

David F. Hartwell

January 9 - February 8, 2009
Opening reception: January 9, 7pm - 9pm



DC Arts Center

2438 18th Street NW
Washington, DC
in the heart of the Adams Morgan neighborhood.

Read the interview about the show here.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Pat Goslee: Flow


November 21 - January 4
Opening Reception: November 21, 7-9pm

Funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts Humanities, an
agency supported in part by National Endowment for the Arts

DC Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Kid Mutiny


June 13 - July 13
Opening Reception: June 13, 7 - 9pm

curated by Ellen Tani
curatorial project mentor: J.W Mahoney


Featuring work by Peter Chang, Brandon Hill, Debbie Yarrington, Andrew Wodzianski and Steven Strawn

Kid Mutiny takes a sampling from a movement both fascinated with the material culture of childhood and rebellious against what it told us to be. Stimulated by the burgeoning subculture of vinyl toys and escapist narratives, the show objectifies violence as a plaything, a readily available commodity in an apocalyptic world. Mutations of gender and form, fiction and reality, and man and machine create fantastical narratives far darker than those we enacted as children.

DC Arts Center
2438 18th St. NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.462.7833

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

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