ZENITH GALLERY Celebrating 40 Years in the Nation's Capital

On Display Downtown ~ SAVE THE DATE

40th ANNIVERSARY  Zenith Comes of Age: 24 Years on Seventh Street Suzanne Codi, Julie Girardini, Anne Marchand, Donna McCullough, Bradley Stevens, Paul Martin Wolff, and Joyce Zipperer Show Dates: May 1- August 25, 2018 MEET THE ARTISTS RECEPTION: Wednesday, May 23, 5-8 PM At 1111 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. 20004 To celebrate 40 years of Zenith Gallery is hosting three different exhibitions at 1111 Pennsylvania Sculpture Space. Each exhibition to represent different locations and eras of Zenith Gallery. Third in the series, 24 Years on 7th Street, represents Zenith Gallery coming of age.    PRESS RELEASE          VIEW EXHIBIT Suzanne Codi, one of the first gallery managers of Zenith Gallery in our very early years, had a studio at Zenith Square. She has a tremendous love of nature, flowers and animals, and her joie-de vivre shows up in all she creates as well as how she has lived her life.   Julie Girardini says about her work "My work is influenced by the journey's we take in our lives.... how we travel from one phase of our life to another. Sometimes it involves a physical move. More often it is an emotional shift. How do we make it feel like home? When do we know we are ready to leave?This is symbolized through my use of iconic forms: boats, nests, houses." Anne Marchand is inspired by photographs of galaxies and nebulae seen through the Hubble telescope. Marchand finds these images suggestive of a connection between deep space and inner space of the human body, with the same energy throughout the macrocosm and the microcosm. Donna McCullough, known for her vintage aluminum dresses, plays with the perception of femininity through the dichotomy of her material. Transforming her metal mediums, her dresses "appear feminine and soft while actually maintaining its strength and rigidity-an expression in contrasts and complements". Bradley Stevens, having copied many works in the National Gallery of art in Washington, DC, pays homage with his museum series. Stevens tell us, "these paintings are my tribute to the great artists who have inspired me and to the magnificent museums that honor them."  Paul Martin Wolff, prefers to sculpt in soapstone allowing him to "work by subtraction rather than addition, as with clay, and provides a never-ending search for the object inside the stone, a communion between artist and object that does not exist with any other medium."  Joyce Zipperer brings to light how trends in fashion often discounts comfort and health issues. Focusing on women's undergarments Zipperer uses metal fabrics, carved stone, and welded steel to convey the changed attitudes and styles which have mirrored our culture, past and present, to address some of these issues.  Show Dates: May 1 - August 25, 2018 Meet the Artists Reception: Wednesday, May 23, 5:00-8:00 PM Where: 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington DC, 20004 Information: Margery Goldberg, 202-783-2963 1111 Sculpture Space Hours: Monday-Friday, 8am - 7pm, Saturday 8am - 4pm * On Saturday Enter on 12th Street ~ Knock and the guard will let you in * ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Celebrating 40 years in the nation's capital, Zenith is recognized for its unique mix of contemporary art in a wide variety of media, style and subject. The gallery provides high-quality acquisition, art consulting, commissioning, appraisal and framing services, through its gallery/salon/ sculpture garden off 16th Street at 1429 Iris St NW, WDC 20012. Zenith also curates rotating exhibits at the Eleven Sculpture Space at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, WDC 20004. ZENITH GALLERY Celebrating 40 Years in the Nation's Capital 202-783-2963 art@zenithgallery.com www.zenithgallery.com DOWNTOWN LOCATION 1111 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20004 GALLERY HOURS: Mon-Fri 8 am-7 pm, Sat 8 am-4 pm

SUPERFIERCE panel discussion on October 10

Join Superfierce this Tuesday, October 10, 6:30 - 8:30 for a FIERCE FEMALE FOUNDERS panel discussion and a special presentation by Veuve Clicquot head wine maker Gaelle Goossens.

View the art in the SUPERFIERCE Exhibition and be part of this info-sharing collective of women in business. Featuring Panelists: Donna Harris - Cofounder, 1776 and General Partner, 1776 Seed Fund, Angie Fetherston - CEO Drink Company, Kerra Michelle - Founder BUREAU + Kerra Michelle Interiors, Shelly Bell, BEACON board member and Founder/CEO of Black Girl Vision and Ms. Print USA. Moderated by Michelle Gloden Schoenfeld. 

This event is open to the public. Please feel free to stay and enjoy the exhibit! Please RSVP. superfiercdc@gmail.com. www.superfierce.org,   Facebook.com/BeSuperfierce

FIERCE FEMALE FOUNDERS 
Tuesday, October 10, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

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Blind Whino

700 Delaware Avenue SW

Washington, District of Columbia 20024

blindwhino.org

Closed Monday Exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography at Old Georgetown Theater

Closed Monday Productions presents an exhibition of painting, sculpture and photography at the newly renovated Old Georgetown Theater, a former silent movie house from the 1900s. The exhibition includes local painters, Anne Marchand, Ana Rendich, Rosetta DeBerardinis, Fabiano Amin, Laura Patten and John Blee; and sculptors: Robert Haft and John Safer; with photographers: Marisa S. White and Matt Leedham.

Art of Legacy Pop Up @ former Historic Georgetown Theatre, Washington, DC

The Pop up exhibition will be on view from Thursday, June 15th, 2017 through June 30, 2017. An artist talk will be held on Saturday, June 24th from 4 PM to 5:30 PM and a final hosted reception to meet the artists will be on Thursday, June 29th, 2017 from 6-8 pm at the space located at 1351 Wisconsin Avenue NW in Washington DC, Georgetown.

“I’m delighted to welcome these ten DC artists, in this fantastic space!” says Marsha Ralls. The curator and CEO of Closed Monday Productions, Ralls is honored to have long-time friend and sculptor, John Safer, included this exhibition. Safer, 94, mentored sculptor, Robert Haft, also exhibiting in the show “Art of Legacy”. Safer most recent public work UNITY, 60 feet high and weighing eighteen thousand pounds and unprecedented in scale, was installed two years ago at the $1.4 Billion MGM resort at the National Harbor.

Closed Monday Productions LLC was established in 2014 as a private art dealership. CEO Marsha Ralls was the former owner of the Ralls Collection Inc. an art advisory group that expanded in 1991 with the opening of a gallery bearing the same name. The gallery specialized in contemporary painting, photography, prints, and sculpture.

Gallery Hours by appointment. closedmondayproductions[at]gmail[dot]com

Attention Media: To receive more information, or to attend the talk on June 24th or the closing reception on June 29, 2017, please call (202) 450-7825.
Interviews and images available upon request. Or contact email: closedmondayproductions [at] gmail [dot] com

GMU prof and painter builds new art gallery, Hamiltonian at 14th and U

The gallery and its associated fellowship program are still in the early planning stage. Please visit the following websites for further information in the coming months.
http://HamiltonianGallery.com
http://HamiltonianGallery.org

"Picture it: The abandoned building at 14th and U turned into an art gallery where graduate art students can learn how to sell and market their art.

This idea brought to you by Paul So, physics professor at George Mason University." Washington Post Article by Amy Joyce Read it here.

also in the Washington Business Journal...

GMU prof and painter builds new art gallery

A physics professor at George Mason University is planning to open an art gallery and a nonprofit to help other artists at 14th and U streets NW. Paul So, an abstract acrylic painter in his free time, bought an historic building at 1353 U St. NW last November from Henry McCall for $1.3 million. He has submitted design plans created by Inscape Studio to D.C.'s Historic Preservation Office and received approval, but So says he won't start construction until August, after he gets his construction permits. The 2,791-square-foot gallery, situated between Republic Gardens and a wine store, will have 2,000 square feet to showcase artwork. So also plans to lease the second floor as office space and build two condominiums on top of the building.

So, who has been on a sabbatical for a year, starts teaching again in September. "Time is running out on me," he says. "I hope to get all of the organizational part done, so everything will be on track." He expects to open the gallery by spring 2008.
So's new gallery, called Hamiltonian, is named after West Hamilton, an African-American Army general who owned the building in the 1920s and ran Hamilton Printing, and William Rowan Hamilton, a well-known mathematician and physicist.
"Basically if you know the Hamilton of a certain system, you know everything," So says.

The gallery will open in a neighborhood with several other contemporary arts galleries, including Nevin Kelly Gallery, Hemphill Fine Arts, G Fine Art and Gallery Plan B. Artful teacher: Paul So teaches physics at George Mason University by day and paints abstracts in his free time. Now he plans to build an art gallery on U Street NW. So's model, however, is different from a traditional contemporary gallery. He will still charge the standard 40 to 50 percent commission to the commercial artists he shows for a month at a time, but he also plans to run a nonprofit in tandem with the commercial side to give opportunities to emerging artists. So says he'll take on 10 emerging artists for two years as "fellows." He'll bring in speakers including professors, local collectors and gallery owners who can tell the artists how to present their portfolios. "There are a lot of artists in the region," So says. "I talk to a lot of them, and they feel they need a safe house to transition to a more professional world."

So, who is originally from Hong Kong and went to high school in Hawaii, says he wishes he had that kind of help when he was a young painter. He got his Bachelor of Science degree from Harvey Mudd College and his Bachelor of Arts degree in studio arts from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. in 1988. He moved to Greater Washington to get his doctorate in physics from the University of Maryland. At that time, So gave two art showings a year. But he says he didn't sell many of his paintings; he stopped altogether when he was writing his dissertation. So is still passionate about being involved in D.C.'s art world but says he needs help on the operational side. He'll hire a manager as well as a development manager for the nonprofit side of his business.

by Erin Killian

E-MAIL: EKILLIAN@BIZJOURNALS.COM