Three American Masters:

Gene Davis
Sam Gilliam
Nathan Oliveira

September 5 – October 11, 2008

Marsha Mateyka Gallery
2012 R St., NW
Washington, DC
202 328-0088
Gallery hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 11:00-5:00 pm
and by appointment.

More Color as Field at Smithsonian American Art Museum

"Color as Field: American Painting, 1950-1975," opens Feb. 29.
The exhibition covers the movement in abstract art that focused on thinned paint poured, painted and spread to soak into unprimed canvases to create a simple wash of color. Some of the movement's stars, such as Sam Gilliam and Gene Davis, were based in Washington (and were celebrated with a citywide ColorField.remix festival not too long ago), but this show at Smithsonian American Art Museum will look beyond our local scene, to include Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and a slew of others.

Free. 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. daily Feb. 29-May 26. Eighth and F streets NW, Washington, DC USA 202-633-1000.

From today's WaPo EXHIBITS

Mural Project @ U.S. Department of Education

Muralist G. Byron Peck has a new mural up at the U.S. Department of Education.
Talented DC students, artists and educators recently participated in the first-ever mural project at the U.S. Department of Education headquarters building at 400 Maryland Avenue, SW. The mural project is sponsored by the department's Student Art Exhibit Program, in a joint effort with the Office of Communications and Outreach and the Office of Innovation and Improvement. Read more at Authentic Art.

Great Walk at Great Falls

Spring is finally here and everybody was out today! It wouldn't be a great spring weekend without a walk in nature and what better place to go than Great Falls, Maryland. The river was rolling and the falls looked like they were boiling. Mother Nature is full of patterns and we had a wonderful walk on the trail looking at trees, rocks, and water. I've got to get out in nature more often! I saw some intervals of shapes and patterns in nature which remind me that I've got to go see the Gene Davis exhibition, Interval, at the Kreeger Museum. It's part of the ColorField remix citywide exhibitions www.colorfieldremix.org. I was scheduled to go to the Educator's Workshop last week but there was a postponement by the museum. "Davis's work will be on display at a solo show at the Kreeger Museum that brings together 60 paintings." -Jacqueline Trescott, The Washington Post

GENE DAVIS: INTERVAL
APRIL 14 - JULY 31
Kreeger Museum • 2401 Foxhall Road, NW • Washington, D.C. 20007 • Phone (202)337-3050