ART MIAMI 2009 CELEBRATES 20th ANNIVERSARY

Miami’s Longest Running Contemporary Art Fair Returns to Midtown Miami

MIAMI (September 24, 2009) – Art Miami, the city's original and longest-running contemporary art fair, will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year. As the anchor of the Midtown Arts District, Art Miami's longevity and success position it as one of the year's most prestigious art world happenings.

“The culture and community of Miami has helped shape this fair into an integral part of the international contemporary art world,” said Nick Korniloff, Director of Art Miami. “We are confident that the depth and quality of the art works exhibited will match the current desires of those who attend and will make Art Miami 2009 another ‘can’t miss’ for all curators, collectors and fairgoers alike.”

While Art Miami 2009 celebrates a milestone in longevity; it also marks a new beginning. Under the new ownership of Art Miami, LLC, led by Mike Tansey, Brian Tyler and Korniloff, the show will feature more than 80 galleries from the United States, Asia, Latin America and Europe, presenting a selection of the world’s most coveted contemporary and modern art in an 80,000-square-foot, state of the art pavilion.

The 20th edition of Art Miami will feature a wide range of special exhibitions, including large outdoor sculpture from world renowned artist Tony Cragg, a series of museum quality video installations curated by Asher Remy Toledo and Julia Draganovic, select offerings from private and public collections, all helping make Art Miami a prime destination for art collectors, curators, museum professionals and art enthusiasts.

For the second consecutive year, Art Miami will partner with the Sundari Foundation, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, non-denominational public charity, headquartered in Miami. The foundation, chaired by Constance Collins Margulies, assists disadvantaged women and is celebrating the launch of “Heart Miami”, a public awareness campaign dedicated to illuminating ways in which art has the capacity to touch and uplift those in need. Sundari will host an exclusive champagne reception to precede Art Miami’s VIP Preview on Dec. 1. Proceeds from donations at the door will benefit the Lotus House Women’s Shelter in Miami’s Overtown neighborhood.

Coinciding with the 20th anniversary, Art Miami will also collaborate with ArtTable, the leadership organization for professional women in the visual arts, to recognize the "20 Most Influential Women in the Arts in South Florida" with a brunch in their honor on Dec. 4. Following the brunch, Argentine photographer, video and installation artist Graciela Sacco will be on hand for a book signing. In addition, Art Miami 2009’s Second Annual Museum Professional and Curator Brunch will take place Dec. 3.

Art Miami VIP Preview
Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009
5:30 pm – 7 pm
The Sundari Foundation will host a champagne reception in conjunction with Art Miami's opening, as it launches a special public awareness campaign, Heart Miami, celebrating the capacity of art to touch and uplift those in need, proceeds of which will benefit the Lotus House Women’s Shelter. $25 donation will be collected at the door.
7 pm – 10:30 pm
Art Miami VIP Preview continues for all Art Miami VIP cardholders & Press. Cocktails and Hors d’oeuvres will be served.

Art Miami 2009 Participating Galleries
Amador Gallery (New York), Barry Friedman (New York), Barry Singer Gallery (Petaluma) Bolsa de Arte (Porto Allegre), Bruce Silverstein (New York) C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore), Caldwell Snyder Gallery (San Francisco), Catherine Edelman Gallery (Chicago), Cernuda Arte (Coral Gables), Chinasquare Gallery NY (New York), Cynthia Corbett Gallery (London), Cynthia Reeves (New York), David Findlay Fine Art (New York), David Klein Gallery (Birmingham), David Lusk Gallery (Memphis) Dillon Gallery (New York), Dot Fifty-One (Miami), Douglas Dawson Gallery (Chicago), Durban Segnini Gallery (Miami) Eckert Fine Art (Connecticut), Edelman Arts (New York), Eli Klein Fine Art (New York), Ferran Cano (Palma de Mallorca), Friedman Benda (New York), Frey Norris Gallery (San Francisco), Galerie Forsblom (Helsinki), Galerie Huebner & Huebner (Frankfurt), Galerie Olivier Waltman (Paris), Galerie Piece Unique (Paris), Galerie Terminus (Munich), Galerie Von Braunbehrens (Munich), Galleria d’Arte Contini (Venice), Gary Snyder/Project Space (New York), Goya Contemporary (Baltimore), Hackelbury Fine Art (London), Hasted Hunt Kraeutler (New York), James Graham & Sons (New York), Jenkins Johnson Gallery (San Francisco), Jerald Melberg Gallery (Charlotte), Juan Ruiz Galeria (Venezuela), Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery (New York), Kreisler Galeria de Arte (Madrid), Laurence Miller Gallery (New York), Leon Tovar Gallery (New York), Lisa Sette Gallery (Scottsdale), Mark Borghi Fine Art (New York), McCormick Gallery (Chicago), Nancy Hoffman Gallery (New York), Nicholas Metivier Gallery (Toronto), Nohra Haime Gallery (New York),
Olyvia Fine Art (London), Pace Prints (New York), Pan American Art Projects (Miami), PDNB Gallery (Dallas), Renate Bender (Munich), Robert Koch Gallery (San Francisco), Rosenbaum Contemporary (Boca Raton), Rudolf Budja Gallery (Salzburg), Schuebbe Projects (Dusseldorf), Scott White Contemporary (San Diego), Stux Gallery (New York) Susan Eley Fine Art (New York), Susan Teller Gallery (New York), Tai Gallery (Santa Fe), Tresart (Coral Gables), Turner Carroll Gallery (Santa Fe), Vincent Vallarino Fine Art (New York), Westwood Gallery (New York), Wetterling Gallery (Stockholm), William Shearburn Gallery (St Louis), Zane Bennett Contemporary (Santa Fe)

About Art Miami
Art Miami is the city’s longest running contemporary art fair and considered one of the most important venues for modern and contemporary art in the U.S. It is scheduled to take place December 2-6th in the Midtown Miami Arts District, adjacent to the Miami Design District and Wynwood Arts District, and will feature works from more than 80 national and international contemporary art galleries. For additional information, visit www.art-miami.com.

PHILLIPS COLLECTION DEBUTS INTERSECTIONS, A NEW CONTEMPORARY ART SERIES

Intersections Opening—Artists Tayo Heuser, Barbara Liotta, and Jennifer Wen Ma
Discussion: Nov. 19, 6 p.m.  by donation

Heuser, Liotta, and Wen Ma share the inspiration behind their site-specific works with Vesela Sretenovic, Phillips curator of modern and contemporary art.  by donation


Brain Storm is presented in collaboration with Transformer gallery and Shigeko Bork Mu Project, in conjunction with Ink Storm, an exhibition curated by Ma at Transformer.

Heuser is best known for her large-scale, pen-and-ink drawings on highly polished and shimmering paper, the result of coating and burnishing according to an old Arabic tradition.

Artwork by Liotta is on display in a solo show at D.C.’s Reyes + Davis gallery, from Oct. 23 to Nov. 27, 2009.

Intersections invites artists to respond to artwork and spaces in the museum with projects of their own, revealing relationships between modern and contemporary art. Many Intersections projects riff on the intimate nature of the museum’s architecture, engaging spaces not typically considered exhibition areas, such as the museum’s stairwell, courtyard, and walkways between buildings, among others. (this is not that Café, a project by dBfoundation, is currently underway in the museum’s café.) By activating these unconventional spaces, Intersections challenges visitors’ expectations of how and where they experience art. These unexpected encounters create new relationships, with surprises of their own.

“Intersections invites the living artist to engage creatively with the rich modernist collection at The Phillips Collection. Collaborating with curator, Vesela Sretenovic, the artists respond to specific works of art as well as the idiosyncratic spaces of our intimate galleries,” says Dorothy Kosinski, director of The Phillips Collection. “Duncan Phillips was thrilled by contemporary art, and we are excited to embrace this aspect of the institution’s mission and personality.”

The Phillips Collection
1600 Twenty-first Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-387-2456

Labor Love Gallery / Natural Selection Exhibition

Natural Selection
North Carolina Contemporary Artists

 November 20th to January 15th, 2010
@ LabourLove Gallery
Durham, North Carolina

Destry Sparks, The Cosmic Syntax,  33" x 44"

This is an article Destry Sparks wrote for the Arts Alive Magazine featuring the November Exhibition, "Natural Selection" at LaborLove Gallery in Durham, NC. The article is featured in the November/December issue.

EASTERN NC ARTISTS SHOW IN DURHAM

A group exhibition of contemporary artists with ties to Eastern North Carolina will exhibit their work from November 20th to January 15th at LabourLove Gallery in Durham on the Golden Belt Arts campus.

The show will feature adventurous work incorporating unconventional and rough materials. Innovative mixed media pieces will be the norm including paintings with metal parts, sculptures both small and large, and diverse fiber works incorporating figurative ceramics and raw natural objects.

 Kelly Dew

Originally from Rocky Mount, gallery Co-Owner Kelly Dew will contribute her precise mixed media paintings. Frequently adding metallic and wall papers to the surface, viewers can expect a bounty of the rich colorful images she is known for. Dew is a graduate of the prestigious School of the Art Institute of Chicago. However, with relatives from the small town of Grimesland in Pitt County, she has strong ties to the region still home to many of the participating artists.

Emily Soldin Howard

Other painters involved are Destry Sparks of Greenville and Emily Soldin Howard, a 2009 graduate of the East Carolina University MFA program. Sparks will display his unconventional outsider acrylic works which highlight worn found objects attached to burlap instead of traditional canvas. By using rough grades of burlap and harshly textured items such as driftwood and rusted metal parts a particularly visceral effect is readily apparent on the surface of his paintings. Opening earlier in the month at Mason Murer Fine Art in Atlanta, Sparks will also participate in the National Collage Society 25th Annual Exhibition. Howard’s work is similarly unique in that her paintings feature objects embedded into her surfaces to the degree that a thick murky stew of stuff entices the viewer to take a closer look.

 

Pamela Zimmerman  

 

      Jennifer Hodges

Fiber artists Pamela Zimmerman of Washington and Jennifer Hodges of Wilmington provide a wonderful compliment to the deep browns in the works of Sparks and Soldin Howard. Zimmerman’s distinctive moon faces are unmistakable and powerful regardless of the scale she chooses to tackle in a given piece. Her solitary ceramic souls peer from intricately woven fibrous cocoons. A 2009 NICHE award finalist, Zimmerman is making waves nationally. Hodges is well known to Eastern NC art patrons for her days on the staff of the Greenville Museum of Art and for producing remarkably understated sheets of fiber embedded with natural objects such as leaves and twigs.

Joshua Parker Coombs

At the opposite end of the spectrum is the approach of Philadelphia sculptor Joshua Parker Coombs. A 2009 MFA recipient from ECU as well, his remarkable work is stunning both in terms of technical achievement and bold authentic content. Whether in large rusted metal pieces or in brightly colored intimate polished wood pieces, the common thread is his ability to bend diverse materials to his liking to fashion objects which seem to live, breathe and even quiver in their desire to reach out toward us.
LabourLove Gallery is a new contemporary art gallery housed at Durham’s hotbed site of creativity known as the Golden Belt Arts campus.

The show will debut on Friday, November 20 in the midst of 35 on-site artist studio spaces, artist lofts and a vibrant Durham Third Friday Art Walk tradition. For more information visit www.goldenbeltarts.com and www.labourlove.com. The gallery can also be reached at (919) 373-4451 Tuesday – Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

LabourLove Gallery
807 E Main St
Suite 2-130
Durham, NC 27701
(919) 373-4451 
http://labourlove.com

Black at DCAC

Black Artists of DC and the DC Arts Center reveal Black, as it has never been seen before.

Opening Reception: Friday, November 20, 7:00 pm-9:00 pm
Artists Talks/Closing Reception: Sunday, January 10, 5:00 pm-7:00 pm

Jurors: Renee Stout, Blake Kimbrough, and Marvin Bowser
Curator: Amber Robles-Gordon
Co-Curator: Daniel T. Brooking
Judges: Teresia Bush and Eugene R. Vango

Black asks artists to think introspectively about the emotional and theoretical, the spiritual and cultural, the intellectual and physical aspects of their personal perceptions of blackness. Each artist's objective was to move beyond black as an absence of color and into the predominance of black as a physical and conceptual part of their creations. Artists were able to claim, adorn, redefine and enfold the black experience in and throughout their work. Audiences will be able to relish in black: it's elegance, depth, and sensation of infinity.

DC Arts Center

2438 18th Street NW

Washington, DC

Celebrating FotoWeek

Steven Foster, Untitled, 2009, photograph

Gerhard Richter - ARTINFO.com

Read this interesting article on abstract painter Gerhard Richter who is showing in NYC.
November 7, 2009 - January 9, 2010
@
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
212-977-7160

Source: Gerhard Richter By Sarah Douglas
 ARTINFO.com

This weekend, coming off a series of museum shows — at Tate Modern and the Serpentine Gallery in London, the DePont Museum in Tilburg, Netherlands, the National Art Museum of China, and elsewhere — he opened his first New York gallery show in four years, an exhibition of new paintings (and a few older ones) at Marian Goodman.

Read Here

Zeitgeist II: What's Important Now

Opening Reception: Thur, November 19, 2009 from 6-9pm
Open House/Closing Party: Sat, December 12, 2009 from 12-6pm

In October 2008, the Nevin Kelly Gallery hosted the first "zeitgeist" show, titled Under Surveillance. Curated by Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin, it presented the responses of twelve artists to what Weiss and Arkin saw as one of the most important elements of the then-prevailing ethos: "the increasingly diminishing zone of personal privacy available to any of us as we are constantly under surveillance by a growing array of government, corporate and media technologies." As a follow up, Weiss and Arkin are asking a group of local artists to reflect upon an uncertain future and respond to the question: "What's important now?"

Participating artists include Sondra N. Arkin, Carol Beane, Scott G. Brooks, Judy Byron, Groover Cleveland, Richard Dana, Anna U. Davis, Thomas Drymon, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter, Deb Jansen, Rosina Memolo, Michael Platt, Renée Stout, Tim Tate, Ruth Trevarrow, and Ellyn Weiss.

NEVIN KELLY GALLERY
1400 IRVING STREET #132 

WASHINGTON, DC 20010 

TEL 202.232.3464  

Washington Spaces blog : Images Rule the City at FotoWeek DC

Washington Spaces blog : Images Rule the City at FotoWeek DC by Emily Lyons

FotoWeek DC

Scarcely a day goes by that I don’t take a photograph, but I rarely do it with any technique, or to trap beauty. The premise is usually much lighter, the purpose more attainable – taking scouting shots for the magazine, or sending a quick note to a friend. Images, by and large, are how we document and communicate these days – they are so much easier than typing it all out.

Check out Photographs by Linda Plaisted

Read more: http://www.washingtonspaces.com/blog/articles/2009/11/06/images-rule-the-city-at-fotoweek-dc#ixzz0Wgl0YrVd

Bilateral Engagement

A collaborative sculpture exhibition between the Washington Sculptors Group and the Art Museum of the Americas at the Organization of American States.

October 16, 2009 - January 15, 2010
 

Artist Linda Hesh "Benches" portraits: Saturday, 11/14 from 12-2 pm

Linda Hesh continues her series of interactive public art portraits on her FOR and AGAINST benches. All are welcome to sit on the bench of their choice and have their portrait appear in Hesh's online gallery with what they are for or against written underneath: http://www.lindahesh.com/html/benches. 

Artist-led panel discussion: Saturday, November 14 from 2-4 pm

The Art Museum of the Americas 

201 18th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20006 

one block from Constitution Hall

Symposium / African Art, Modernist Photography, and the Politics of Representation

Friday, November 13, 5 pm, The University of Maryland, College Park

Saturday, November 14, 10 am to 5 pm, The Phillips Collection

 

This two-part symposium addresses the embrace of African art by the avant-garde in the first decades of the 20th century, within the context of cultural appropriation, race, and the politics of representation in the colonial age. Art historian and critic Jack Flam gives the keynote address at the University of Maryland, framing the critical reexamination of modernist primitivism from a 21st-century perspective. An international group of scholars continues the discussion

at the Phillips the following day.

 

Free; registration is required to attend the program at the Phillips on November 14: groups[at]phillipscollection.org.

 

 

Co-organized with The David C. Driskell Center and the University of Maryland's Department of Art & Archaeology. Held in conjunction with the special exhibition May Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens. 

 

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Mel Chin

Wednesday, November 18, 5:30 pm

 

Chin's unconventional and politically charged projects investigate how art provokes greater social awareness and responsibility. Chin often engages others in creative partnerships: in his ongoing Fundred Dollar Bill Project, he asks students to decorate mock currency to raise money to treat soil contamination in New Orleans. 

 

Free; registration required: CSMAprograms[at]phillipscollection.org

The Phillips Collection
1600 Twenty-first Street, NW
Washington, DC 20009

New - Dupont Circle Arts Blog

Check out the new Dupont Circle Arts Blog.
A guide to arts events in the Dupont Circle Neighborhood of Washington, DC

Renée Stout at Phillips Collection

Renée Stout, a Washington, D.C. painter and sculptor, speaking on the relationship of African art to her practice.

This is the first video in a multi-part series on African art through the lens of contemporary artists.

YouTube - PhillipsArtMuseum's Channel

Source: www.youtube.com

 

Phillips Collection

1600 21st Street, NW

Washington, DC

PND - RFPs Cultural Development Corporation Invites Proposals From Washington D.C. Area Artists

PND - RFPs Cultural Development Corporation Invites Proposals From Washington D.C. Area Artists

Cultural Development Corporation Invites Proposals From Washington D.C. Area Artists
Application Deadline - December 17, 2009


The Cultural Development Corporation, an organization that works to create opportunities for artists and arts organizations that stimulate economic development and improve the quality of life in the Washington, D.C., area, is requesting proposals for exhibitions in the Flashpoint Gallery for the September 2010 to August 2011 season. The request is open to artists, independent curators, and arts organizations presenting contemporary work in any medium.

For the 2010–11 season, CuDC will award up to $10,000 to Flashpoint Gallery participants. Each artist/project selected for funding will be awarded up to $2,500.

Learn more about the application process, plus programs and services. Saturday, November 14, 2009, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at Flashpoint, 916 G St NW, Washington, DC 20001.

Buck House / NYC

Artist, Deborah Buck of Buck House

While in NY this weekend, I visited an artist friend and antique dealer, Deborah Buck. Deborah is a talented artist, chef and author. She is opening the Big Beautiful New Buck House this week, design with a flair. If you are in NYC, stop in and celebrate with Buck House. Tell her Painterly Visions sent you. Enjoy all the objects which are hand selected by the owner. You may find something you can't live without! Read about Buck House http://buckhouse.biz

Buck House
1318 Madison Ave (Between 93rd & 94th Streets)
New York, NY, 10128
212.828.3123

Pink Panel at Flashpoint: GAMES, PLAY & CREATIVITY with Kenny George

November 18, 2009, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Flashpoint 916 G Street, NW Washington, DC

The Pink Line Project and Flashpoint Gallery sit down with Kenny George to discuss the concepts of pop art and video game art in conjunction with his caricature-ized Flashpoint exhibit, "Pacguy."
Games, Play & Creativity

$10 suggested donation
RSVP: info@pinklineproject.com

A video game competition will be held in the gallery at 6:30pm prior to the panel discussion. Come test your skills!

Jiha Moon: An Exact Place

November 7 - December 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 11, 6 – 8 pm

Curator's Office presents the third solo exhibition of Korean-born artist Jiha Moon. For this exhibition, the gallery will present works exploring the nature of place and its inspiration on creative output. Works include three square-format Hanji paper over canvas pieces and four horizontal works on Hanji paper. There is a special emphasis on abstraction in many of these works. As Moon is currently an artist-in-residence at The Fabric Workshop in Philadelphia, the influence of textiles is subtly apparent as several works incorporate small-embroidered areas, a departure for the artist.

The works in the exhibition were created both in her Korea and Atlanta-based studios. This division in working locations provoked the artist to explore the cultural influence of a precise place in an increasingly dizzying global world.

http://www.curatorsoffice.com

Curator's Office
1515 14th St NW
Suite 201
Washington, DC
202-387-1008

CRIT '09 at Hillyer Art Space 11.10.09

International Arts & Artists' second critique of the series Crit '09 

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 from 6:30 - 8:30pm

 @

Hillyer Art Space

9 Hillyer Ct. NW

Washington, DC

The evaluator of this event will be Manon Cleary.  This is a critique of 12 specific artists, and is open to the public.

Here are the guidelines:

Theses critiques are to provide helpful feedback to artists' works that are in progress or completed, by telling the artist NOT WHAT YOU LIKE OR DON'T LIKE, but by:

-simply telling the artist what you SEE...

-by perhaps describing and analyzing HOW you perceive the overall structure/composition of the work; what part of the piece 'works', what part might not be 'working', i.e. strengths and weaknesses...

-by interpreting the meaning, content, expression, artist's intention, etc.for the work as conveyed through its formal visual language...

-by offering feedback on quality of craftsmanship

202.338.0680
www.artsandartists.org 

CANCELLED / A conversation with Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ryan Hill

 Dear Friends,
 
We are sorry to inform you that, due to a medical emergency, Rafael Lozano Hemmer has postponed his November 10th talk at the Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States.  We will inform you as soon as the event is rescheduled, and we hope that you can join us then.  Our sincere apologies.
 
Art Museum of the Americas

 ***********CANCELLED*************************

CONVERSATION | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 @ 6:30PM

A conversation with Mexican-Canadian artist
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Ryan Hill, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

The event will feature a video presentation of the artist’s most recent projects including commissions for the Venice Biennale and the Guggenheim Museum 50th anniversary.

Art Museum of the Americas
201 18th Street, NW | Washington, DC 20006

Economy of Scale Opening Reception

November 7–December 23, 2009
Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6:30pm–8:30pm


Is bigger better? Is smaller intimate and, therefore, precious? Does a particular size better serve the content of a photograph?

During the exponential growth of the fine art photography market in the 1980s, there were conversations among a few photography dealers concerning strategies to bring photography into parity with painting. The goal was for photography to command the full regard of art collectors. In the most blatant sense, this was a real estate issue: “Should not a photograph claim significant wall space in the manner of a painting?” Photography needed to achieve an architectural presence. Technical advances in the printing of large-scale photographic prints soon began to fulfill the ambition of attaining a comparable size in relation to painting. Today’s photographers can create near mural-size works with the ever-advancing technology of digital printing. As photography enlarged in size from the mid-1980s to the present, it migrated from showing in a handful of galleries that specialized in photography to hanging in most contemporary art galleries. Now that photography successfully competes for wall space with painting, we ask, “How has this achievement of scale benefited the medium and its attendant messages?”

Photographs by Margaret Bourke-White, David Burnett, David Byrne & Danielle Spencer, Colby Caldwell, William Christenberry, Frank Day, Carl De Keyzer, Eduardo Del Valle & Mirta Gómez, Robert Frank, William Greiner, Erich Hartmann, Max Hirshfeld, Graciela Iturbide, Franz Jantzen, Ralph Morse, Lothar Osterburg, Shelly Rusten, Sebastião Salgado, Susannah Sayler/The Canary Project, William C. Shrout, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, and Darryl Vance.

Economy of Scale coincides with FotoWeekDC, a citywide celebration of photography. http://www.fotoweekdc.org

Hemphill
1515 14th St NW
Washington, DC

Arts + Criticism: Is Everyone Really a Critic?

The DC Forum for Emerging Arts Professionals

Panelists:

Anne Midgette, Music Critic, The Washington Post

Tim Smith, Music Critic, The Baltimore Sun

Monday, November 9, 2009 Time: 6-8pm

@

IA&A's Hillyer Art Space

9 Hillyer Court NW

Washington, D.C

Panelists will discuss arts and criticism in light of contemporary technologies and trends, and answer audience questions. This is a conversation not to be missed!
 
This Event is FREE but Seating is LIMITED
RSVP: http://artscriticism.eventbrite.com
  

The DC Forum is a volunteer organization that aims to provide unique professional development and networking opportunities for emerging professionals in the metropolitan Washington, DC area, focusing specifically on the arts field. By targeting emerging arts professionals, either in the first five years of their arts career or age 35 or younger, The Forum's events provide access to relevant topics and individuals in the arts field that young professionals would not be able to access elsewhere.  Visit us on the web at http://thedcforum.googlepages.com/

http://www.artsandartists.org/artspace.html

ALIAS MAN RAY: THE ART OF REINVENTION

OPENS AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM ON SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15TH

MAJOR EXHIBITION SURVEYS ARTIST’S CAREER IN OVER 200 WORKS

New York, NY – A trailblazing figure in 20th-century art, Man Ray (1890-1976) revealed multiple artistic identities over the course of his career – Dadaist, Parisian Surrealist, international portrait and fashion photographer – and produced many important and enduring works as a photographer, painter, filmmaker, writer, sculptor, and object maker.  Relatively few people know that he was born Emmanuel Radnitzky to Russian Jewish immigrants.  In fact, he spent a lifetime suppressing his background to the point of denying he was ever called anything but Man Ray.

The Jewish Museum will present Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention from November 15, 2009 through March 14, 2010, a major exhibition considering how the artist’s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant experience and his lifelong evasion of his past.  The exhibition explores the deliberate cultural ambiguity of Man Ray who became the first American artist to be accepted by the avant-garde in Paris.  It also examines the dynamic connection between Man Ray’s assimilation, the evolution of his art, and his willful construction of a distinctive artistic persona, as evidenced in a series of subtle, encrypted self-references throughout his career.

Visitors to Alias Man Ray will be privy to the artist’s endless experimentation in over 200 works including photographs, paintings, sculptures and objects, drawings, films and a selection of his writings. As the first major multimedia Man Ray show at a New York City museum since 1974, the exhibition will present many iconic works like the photographs Le Violon d’Ingres (1924) and Noire et Blanche (1926); the paintings War (A.D. MCMXIV) (1914), The Rope Dancer Accompanies Herself with Her Shadows (1915-16) and La Fortune (1938); and the painted screen La Fôret Dorée de Man Ray (1950).  Two short silent films by Man Ray: Le retour à la raison (1923), the artist’s first film, and Emak-Bakia (1926), whose title means “leave me alone,” as well as excerpts from Man Ray: Prophet of the Avant-Garde, a 1997 American Masters production, will be on view in the exhibition.

Man Ray engaged in a constant process of self-inscription and erasure, managing to outwit anyone who wanted to label him. Like his fellow Dadaist and close friend Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray took delight in playing games and confounding expectations.  With his steadfast independence and his need to explore every artistic avenue, Man Ray forged a vision that changed the very way art was conceived.

The exhibition has been organized by Mason Klein, Curator at The Jewish Museum.  The accompanying 256-page catalogue with 246 illustrations, co-published by Yale University Press and The Jewish Museum, includes essays by Mr. Klein, Merry A. Foresta, and George Baker, with an illustrated timeline by Lauren Schell Dickens presenting the facts of Man Ray’s life in the cultural and historical context of his times. 

Museum admission is $12.00 for adults, $10.00 for senior citizens, $7.50 for students, free for children under 12 and Jewish Museum members.  Admission is free on Saturdays. 
http://www.thejewishmuseum.org
212.423.3200 
1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street,
Manhattan

The Sugarloaf Crafts Festival in Gaithersburg

November 20, 21, 22, 2009

Montgomery Co. Fairgrounds

Gaithersburg, Maryland

Fri. & Sat. 10-6, Sun. 10-5 • Under 12 & Parking FREE • Open Rain or Shine

Lovers of fine crafts and art will find more than 350 top artisans displaying and selling their unique creations in pottery, sculpture, glass, jewelry, fashion, home décor, furniture and home accessories, items for the garden, and photography. In addition to top national artists, the Festival will also introduce new and emerging artists showcasing the latest trends in handmade fashion and accessories, statement jewelry and fine art.

Sugarloaf Crafts Festival
http://sugarloafcrafts.com/festivals/gaith/november/ 

Images here: http://sugarloafcrafts.com/pr/november_gaithersburg_photo.html

DIRECTIONS  HERE.

"Duchamp's Triad: Forty years of looking at art in Washington"

"Duchamp's Triad:
Forty years of looking at art in Washington"

lecture by Paul Richard,
Art Critic for The Washington Post, 1967-2009.

Friday, November 13th, 7pm
 

Paul Richard reviewed art for The Washington Post for more than 40 years, from 1967 to 2009. That experience will be broadly surveyed in a lecture titled "Duchamp's Triad: Forty years of looking at art in Washington". Focusing especially on the structures he's discovered in the residue remaining after four decades of writing--not just on local artists, not just on deep art history, not just on local galleries and Washington's museums--but on all of it at once.
  


Friday, November 13th, 7:00pm, at Washington Studio School.
This is a free event.


RSVP REQUIRED-
please contact 202.234.3030 or admin@washingtonstudioschool.org.





2129 S Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
 202.234.3030
admin@washingtonstudioschool.org
www.washingtonstudioschool.org

Washington Studio School, located a few blocks North of Dupont Circle in Washington, D.C., is a community of artists and art students dedicated to the practice of visual art. Washington Studio School offers a range of non-degree classes as well as an advanced level certificate program. Classes in drawing, painting, sculpture and printmaking emphasize working from life and are offered to adults and high school students. In addition to its regular schedule of classes, the school provides a variety of lectures, and exhibitions of work by students and faculty.

6th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party on NOV 7, 2009

November 7, 2009, 7:00 - 10:00 pm

The Mexican Cultural Institute

2829 16th Street NW

Images: Carolina Mayorga, Love Me; Jessica Cebra, Fools Gold (Marilyn); 

Cynthia Connolly, AUTAUGAVILLE, AL, 11-2-02; 

Maggie Michael, Travel; Robin Rose, Celestial 1, Tang, Singing Softly To Me

There are a very limited number of tickets left for the 6th Annual Transformer Silent Auction &Benefit Party to secure your participation in what has become one of the biggest Washington, DC art events of the year! Tickets will not be sold at the door.  Contact 202.483.1102.

Anne Marchand, You Better Start Kissing Me, 16" acrylic and collage

Visit Transformer's website for more information on the Auction. Also, new this year on the website: a downloadable pdf of the artworks to be included in this year's Auction. Visit www.transformergallery.org. See you at the party!!

Work By Tom Wolff / Hillyer Art Space

First Friday Reception: November 6, 2009, 6-9PM

Acoustic Ambience by Deon "CleanCutt" Clark!

Refreshments provided by Zorba's Cafe
$5 suggested donation

Work will feature a variety of Tom Wolff's iconic portrait work from his years on assignment for various magazines and commissioned portraiture. From political figures to cultural producers, Wolff's eye focuses on the essential and considers the subjects within the frame of his large-format works to be collaborators.

Wolff's work has been published in Washington Post Magazine, House & Garden, Garden Design, Smithsonian, Audubon, the New York Times Magazine, and Sophisticated Traveler.

Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court NW
Washington, DC 20008
202.338.0680
www.artsandartists.org/

New Art Dialogue Series Opens Second Season with International Curator Basualdo

November 11 Lecture Includes Comments on Global Curatorial Experiences

The second season of the Contemporary Museum’s New Art Dialogue Series, a forum for discussion of contemporary art in Baltimore, will begin Wednesday, November 11 at 7 p.m. with Carlos Basualdo, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The lecture is held in collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art, and will be held in MICA’s Falvey Hall, located in the Brown Center at 1300 Mt. Royal Avenue in Bolton Hill.

 Carlos Basualdo

The Contemporary Museum’s New Art Dialogue Series presents lectures and conversations by distinguished artists, critics, art historians, and curators whose work is defining the field of contemporary art. The series will cultivate critical discourse responsive to the cultural, social and political issues of our time.

A renowned curator of international exhibitions, Carlos Basualdo will share his experiences curating at prestigious international art venues and museums. His most recent work includes the celebrated Bruce Nauman exhibition at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Other projects of note include the exhibitions Structure of Survival, also for the Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany.

Later in the season, the New Art Dialogue Series will present managing editor of Art in America Richard Vine, who will explore the radical recent changes to art and culture in China; and artist Mel Chin, who will discuss addressing social and political issues through his art.

The New Art Dialogue Series has been made possible by a sponsorship from the Louise D. & Morton J. Macks Family Foundation. Additional support has been provided by Bodil Ottesen.

Admission to the New Art Dialogue Series lecture on November 11 is $10 for the general public, $5 for students, and free to members of the Contemporary Museum and MICA students.

The Brown Center is located at 1300 Mt. Royal Avenue in Baltimore’s Bolton Hill neighborhood.
For more information, visit www.contemporary.org
 
About the Contemporary Museum
The Contemporary Museum promotes the art and culture of our time by producing and presenting new works, new thinking, and new practices that are immediately relevant. The Contemporary has earned international acclaim for its thought-provoking exhibitions, innovative programming, and unique collaborations with artists, curators, critics, and members of the community.     

22nd Annual Washington Craft Show

Friday, November 6 to Sunday, November 8

At the Washington Craft Show, 190 top national artists will exhibit one-of-a-kind or limited edition works, ranging from craft couture to fiberglass ceramics, in a boutique-like atmosphere.

Walter E. Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Pl., NW
Washington, DC 20001

For more information, call 203.254.0486 or visit www.craftsamericashows.com.

Read more: http://www.washingtonspaces.com/events

Open Studio / Ron Loyd & Jodi Walsh

Open Studio features artworks from Ron Loyd & Jodi Walsh
Paintings, ceramic sculpture, vases, bowls, wall sconces, teapots, mugs and cups.

Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8

10AM to 5PM

18921 Glendower Road

Gaithersburg, MD 20879

www.HouseofArtistry.com

Directions:
Take 270 north to Exit 11 Montgomery Village
Take Montgomery Village to Centerway Rd (8 lights), turn right
Go through Goshen Rd (1st stop light) the first street on right is Harkness Lane, turn right.
Take Harkness to Tulip Grove, turn left.
Take Tulip Grove to Glendower Road, turn right.
Studio is on the left side of the street.

jodi
artists: a manual laborer, a creator of beautiful objects

www.jodiart.com
301-519-1628

Ass Against the Wall by Martha Jackson-Jarvis

Exhibition | November 6 - December 12

First Friday Reception: November 6, 2009, 6-9PM

Acoustic Ambience by Deon "CleanCutt" Clark!

Food and refreshments will be served

$5 suggested donation

Ass Against the Wall is an installation by Martha Jackson Jarvis that explores points of resistance, endurance, and markings that pattern our lives. It is a compelling place of power where forces change, heaviness, strain, anxiety, burdens and the weight of difficulty into something else.

 In a chance encounter in the mountains of Tajikistan, Jarvis discovered an incredible being in a moment of clarity that bridges the void between animate and inanimate form. A moment when plants, animals, and minerals are one, even the rocks conspire to a fluid and connected greatness.


Hillyer Art Space

9 Hillyer Court NW | Washington, DC | 20008 

T. 202.338.0680  

www.artsandartists.org/artspace.html

Govinda Gallery / Matthew Niederhauser Photographs

FotoWeekDC Events in Rosslyn

Friday, November 6 - Sunday, November 10, 2009, 6 - 11 pm

1730 N. Lynn Street
Rosslyn, VA
703-228-3771
http://www.rosslynva.org/play/calendar/event/fotoweekdc-night-gallery-rosslyn

The Rosslyn BID in collaboration with the JBG Companies,  Arlington Cultural Affairs and the Art Institute of Washington presents a five day outdoor projection as part of FotoWeek DC.  Arlington Cultural Affairs has curated the photographs and video that will be projected on the wall of the JBG Companies Central Place construction and visible from the 1200 blook of Wilson Boulevard.
The selection of images being projected includes the work of local, regional and nationally known artists. 

 

Arlington County's Geoffrey Aldridge selected video artists Sean Capone, Kate Gilmore and William Lamson (all from New York), and Scott Wolniak (Chicago). The project will also feature a selection of the last three year's winners of the Ellipse Arts Center's annual photography show, and photos by two Yorktown High School award-winning students. In addition, a new curatorial project by Welmoed Laanstra will feature newly commissioned works by photographers Mary Noble Ours and Jason Horowitz.

The Rosslyn based Art Insitute of Washington is offering Yum!! Contemporary DC Photographers Explore the Beauty of Food, where professional and student photographers have captured the work of DC's finest chefs. Their gallery at 1820 N. Fort Myer Drive: More information. 
Free vouchers will be available at the projection site to ride the Georgetown "Blue Bus" between the Rosslyn Metro and Georgetown M Street stops.

FotoWeek DC is also featuring exhibitions and projections in Crystal City from November 7 - 14. 150 photographs will include the Newseum's Fotobama exhibition, the winners of the 2009 FotoWeek DC competition and projections on the facade of Lowe's Enterprises at 23rd St. and Crystal Drive. More Information

Art Calendar Magazine The December/January issue Cover Artist: Anne Marchand

My work is featured in Art Calendar Magazine's December/January issue on the cover and interview!

Art Calendar Magazine www.artcalendar.com

  The business magazine for visual artists

"The December/January issue of Art Calendar is now on newsstands! Be sure to check it out to learn how to make sales on eBay, 20 strategies for networking, how to cultivate collector loyalty and more! Plus, read about our cover artist Anne Marchand!" Art Calendar Magazine/Facebook

*Art Calendar has offered to provide all of my readers with a free downloadable PDF copy of the December 2009/January 2010 issue featuring my artwork and profile.

Click here to download: AC-Dec-2009-Jan-2010.pdf

You can also access a resource list that I've compiled for Art Calendar online at http://www.artcalendar.com/article.asp?ID=210

Enjoy and Happy Creating! I'd love to hear from you.
Anne Marchand
www.annemarchand.com

Phillips after 5 / Leading European Composers

Thursday, November 5, 5-8:30 pm

At 6 pm, Afrofunk orchestra Chopteeth invades the auditorium with a blend of American Funk, Afrobeat, and West African music in celebration of Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens. Gallery talks at 6 and 7 pm tell the story of Man Ray, heiress Nancy Cunard, and the jazz and poetry opus Henry Music. At 6:30 and 7:30 pm, curator Elsa Smithgall shares her perspective on special exhibition Object as Subject: Photographs of the Czech Avant-Garde. Throughout the evening DJ Todd Threats will spin in the Music Room, as cash bar and light refreshments are served.

Free for members. For non-members, special exhibition-related programs are included in admission to Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens. All other programs and the permanent collection are by donation.
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Leading European Composers
Premieres Thursday, November 12 at 6 pm!
 
The Phillips Collection and members of the European Union join forces to create a new contemporary music series dedicated to living European composers. Three European nations have selected their most distinguished composers to speak about their works and to present performances by musicians personally selected by the composers. The concerts will be followed by question and answer Coda Sessions with the composers, giving audience members a chance to ask questions and converse with these important voices in contemporary music.

Leading European Composers takes place at
6 pm on the following Thursdays:

November 12, 2009: Tristan Murail (France)
March 18, 2010: Olli Kortekangas (Finland)
May 13, 2010: José Luis Greco (Spain)
 
Seating is unreserved; early arrival is recommended.
Free for members; $15 for non-members.

For more information on Leading European Composers, visit http://www.phillipscollection.org/programs/music/leading_EC.aspx.

The Phillips Collection | 1600 Twenty-first Street, NW | Washington | DC 20009

Sunset on Another Planet / Heather Levy

An eclectic collection of Art by Heather Levy

Opening Reception
Sunday November 8th  2009, 2 - 4 pm

Westminster Church
400 I (eye) Street SW  Washington DC  20024
(202) 484-7700

The exhibition will be up until the end of January
http://www.HeatherLevy.com

Cones 'n Tones

Prints by Anne McLaughlin

October 27, 2009 - November 29, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 2009, 5:30 to 8 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, November 15, 2009, 1 to 3 pm

Washington Printmakers Gallery
1732 Connecticut Ave NW Washington DC 20009
Info: 202-332-7757

Lenscape2

A FotoWeek DC Exhibition

Sofia Gawer-Fische & Colin Winterbottom

November 6 – December 27, 2009

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 7, 2-5pm

@  

Skynear and Company

2122 18th Street NW

Washington DC 20009

For this year’s FotoWeek 2009 Festival, Zenith Gallery has teamed up with Skynear and Company as the perfect venue to present the work of Washington art photographers, Colin Winterbottom and Sofia Gawer-Fische, in the store’s home-like setting, surrounded by an eclectic mix of contemporary and classical furnishings.

In this show, you’ll see Colin Winterbottom’s signature monument and panoramic themes, but taken with low-tech plastic cameras, including the Holga and new “blackbird-fly.” While many in the field are moving to advanced digital photography, numerous art-oriented photographers continue to prefer film and anachronistically lower-tech cameras, including Winterbottom. The flurry toward technology, he says, sent him in the opposite direction, leading him to experiment at the lowest end with the technically flawed lenses and limited exposure control of plastic or “toy” cameras. His results are striking, and he learned that with meticulous care and sensitivity to subject and medium, he could produce stunning and evocative images.

Sofia Gawer-Fische, on the other hand, in this series of photographs, has created a visual narrative with images taken at the famous and oldest graveyard in Buenos Aires, the Recoleta Cemetery. Focusing on the magical presence of angels, guardians and impenetrable iron gates and doors, she summons gestures and emotions that convey stories sealed in the crypts of some of Buenos Aires’s most illustrious families. Weathered, beautiful and still standing, the exquisite architecture and statuary, she says, have taken on ethereal qualities and the patina of time.

Zenith Gallery, PO Box 55295, WDC 20040 202-726-1627

Postcards from the Real / Josephine Haden

Postcards from the Real, an exhibition of paintings by

Josephine Haden

October 23, 2009 - Feb. 15, 2010 

@

The Richmond International Airport

Richmond, VA USA

Josephine Haden, Stairway to Heaven, 36 x 66 inches

acrylic on canvas

Haden is a Virginia artist and the winner of a 2009 VMFA Fellowship. Her paintings are included in public and private collections in the U.S. and France, including the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum in Little Rock, Ark.

"The magic moment is to finish a piece and like what you see," says Haden. "Starting with landscapes, I found myself creating mysterious and distant places that hovered on the edge of reality," Haden says. "Filling the canvas with lush vegetation and dense forests, I played with scale and space while relying on a base ground of gestural abstraction."

She calls her latest series of works "Globalization," meaning that everything is fair game when she composes a painting, and she says she "beams them in" from some other place, from some other story or scene. "My intention is to create delight and intrigue."

Critic Donald Kuspit calls Haden an "eloquent" painter and a realist of sorts. "I say ‘of sorts' because there's an aura of eeriness to her reality, however precisely (always precisely) rendered - but her images are also abstract, which no doubt adds to their uncanniness." Kuspit is the distinguished professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.

Haden studied art and art history as an undergraduate at Georgetown University and earned a master's degree in art history from George Washington University. Both schools are in the District of Columbia. Her solo exhibition, Postcards from the Real, at The Richmond International Airport is organized by the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is an educational institution of the Commonwealth of Virginia. For additional information about exhibitions and programs, telephone (804) 340-1400 or visit the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Web site, www.vmfa.museum.

Richmond International Airport is the gateway for Virginia's Capital Region and offers more than 180 daily, non-stop flights.

J O S E P H I N E   H A D E N
www.hadenart.com

Art Klash- D.C.’s Premier Live Art Battle

Last Thursday (October 29th), art enthusiasts and socialites gathered together in Georgetown to witness Art Klash. Art Klash is live art battle that puts the Washington D.C. area’s best artists against each other in a head to head competition. Shanikqua Wade, Earl Melvin, and Tendani Mpulubusi had 90 minutes to construct paintings based on the theme of “conflict” which was selected by the audience.

With the competition in full effect DJ Beatstreet took a break from spinning the music from all genres for Danielle Koon to perform spoken work selections. After a heartfelt and well received performance the music started back up and the vibes shifted back to fun. The crowd watched as each artist formed their piece from beginning to end with their own distinct style.

At the end of the night guest judges X.O. (Studio 43), Juanita Britton (Anacostia Art Gallery), and Joshua Tiktin (Dekka) unanimously selected Tendani Mpulubudi’s piece as the winner. He received a cash prize along with a gift bag from Durkl.

Art Klash is forum to celebrate creativity and art.
Visit www.ArtKlash.com for information on upcoming events.

Follow at www.twitter.com/artklash for updates and art news.

What Lies Beneath / Fotoweek DC

House of Sweden

Coup d’Espace: Influence = Convergence

An exhibition of works by WPA member artists

Joan Belmar and Minna Newman Nathanson

  Joan Belmar                                                                                       Minna Newman Nathanson

November 6 – 25, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, November, 2009 6‐8pm with an Artists Talk at 7pm

Washington Project for the Arts presents the fifth installment of its series @
 WPA Headquarters, 2023 Massachusetts Ave, NW

Washington Project for the Arts presents the fifth installment of Coup d'Espace, a program that invites WPA member artists to stage their own exhibitions and programming in their Dupont Circle office space. For November Coup, member artists Joan Belmar and Minna Newman Nathanson will use the space to mount a joint exhibition, Influence = Convergence.

“What happens when two artists – different in almost every way – share a working space?...”
When they met, Joan Belmar, a Chilean immigrant in his thirties, was painting colorful, two dimensional works incorporating linear runes and circles. Nathanson, a native Washingtonian in her seventies, produced formal statements in monochromatic bent steel and explored reflective effects with plastic and wire. After two years of sharing a studio‐space, Belmar began work on a series of 3‐dimensional ‘paintings’ using a minimalist palate, incorporating new materials such as mylar. Nathanson, on the other hand, began a series of wire ‘paintings’ incorporating a wider palette and animated linear elements and circles.

This exhibition demonstrates a convergence of two artists’ aesthetics as a result of their time shared in a Dupont Circle studio space for two years. The exhibition will consist of several pairings of works that, unbeknownst to the artists at the time, demonstrate their influence on each other’s practice.
Opening of Influence = Convergence takes place during November’s Dupont Circle First Friday Art Walk on November 6th from 6‐8pm. At 7:00 the two artists will give an informal talk about the works on view and their experience sharing a working space. This exhibition and the opening reception are free and open to the public.

New Works: Anne Chan and Michael Dax Iacovone

November 6 - December 5, 2009, 
Friday, November 6, 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 pm

Hamiltonian Gallery presents new works by Hamiltonian Fellows, Anne Chan and Michael Dax Iacovone. Although starkly different in their conclusions, both Chan and Iacovone observe and explore systems in which we move through familiar spaces. 

Drawing on the Situationists' philosophy of drifting through urban space, Michael Dax Iacovone creates large-scale photographs of city intersections, to which he arrives by a random operation - a roll of the dice.  Two images, one taken upright, one inverted, comprise each photograph and mark each point of crossing using Iacovone's navigational equations.  In changing the purpose and documentation of his "stroll," Iacovone shifts the understanding and awareness of our common, pedestrian spaces.

Anne Chan meticulously and obsessively assembles installations using office products to reference the minutia of corporate culture, daily commutes, and mundane tasks.  By implementing repetition and a limited depth of field, Chan creates architectural spaces where one cannot imagine an end to the infinite twists in the walls and turns in the roads.  By placing an incalculable number of  staples in her installation, Chan cleverly illustrates psychological confinement that results from the realization that we're one among millions.

In conjuction with FotoWeek DC, Hamiltonian Gallery will be hosting a panel discussion with Michael Iacovone and Anne Chan, moderated by renowned photographer Frank Day, on Thursday, November 13th, at 7:00pm, at Hamiltonian Gallery. 

Please RSVP for the panel discussion to Jacqueline Ionita, Director of Hamiltonian Gallery.

Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC  20009
202.332.1116
www.hamiltonianartists.org
www.hamiltoniangallery.com

Koen Vanmechelen's Cosmopolitan Chicken Project

Opening night reception, Saturday, November 7th from 6 to 8pm.


Conner Contemporary Art announces Koen Vanmechelen's Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (DC). This is the first solo exhibition in a U.S. gallery by the celebrated Belgian conceptual artist, who is currently exhibiting in two official 53rd Venice Biennale collateral exhibitions and in the 3rd Moscow Biennial.

Featuring live chickens, the exhibition also includes taxidermy and blown-glass sculptures, video, and photography, as well as drawings and paintings in tempera made from eggs laid by chickens bred by the artist. In his ongoing global enterprise, The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, Vanmechelen is systematically crossing all breeds of chickens to create a world-mongrel chicken. His premise is that each country/region selectively cultivated a breed of chicken expressing its cultural identity. The artist seeks to reinvigorate the species with genetic integrity which centuries of domestication and inbreeding have diminished. His initiative poses ethical questions regarding genetic engineering, globalization, and individuality, while advocating the role of artists in promoting communication and interaction across many types of boundaries, between geographical areas, races, cultures, ideologies, and professional disciplines, such as art and science.

Rebirth is the theme of Vanmechelen's D.C. exhibition, as he explains, "The whole world is trying to be reborn." The artist describes this show as "a call to America to adopt a lost generation" of chickens, which he cross-bred while the birds were "in exile" from the U.S. Seven years ago, he had planned to cross, on U.S. soil, a Mechelse Redcap rooster (descended from his crossing of the male progeny of a Belgian Mechelse Koekoek rooster and a French Poulet de Bresse hen with an English Redcap hen) with an American Jersey Giant hen. In the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, he was unable to import live birds into the U.S., so, in 2002, he bred the Mechelse Giants in Belgium. Since then, Vanmechelen has achieved crossings with several additional breeds in various countries, moving his project into its 13th generation. Yet, he considers the separation of the 4th generation of Mechelse Giants from the U.S. to represent a profound rupture, which this exhibition will symbolically reconcile. Vanmechelen feels now to be "the right moment to move forward by integrating the American audience, with its own diversity and a newly-elected president," into his cross-cultural experiment.

Additional information may be found at: http://www.connercontemporary.com/.
For further information or images, please contact the gallery @ 202-588-8750 or

Conner Contemporary Art 
1358 Florida Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002
Atlas / H Street Historic District

Dulce Pinzon / "The Story of the Real Superheroes"

 














Opening Friday, November 6th, 6-8PM

In conjunction with Fotoweek, Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts will be featuring the Mexican Photographer, Dulce Pinzon's series, "The Story of the Real Superheroes" (www.dulcepinzon.com/superheroes.htm), which satirically documents Latino immigrants in New York City, working in their mundane environments donning superhero costumes. In doing so, Pinzon raises questions of both Americans' definition of heroism and ignorance of and indifference to the workforce that fuels the ever-consuming US economy.  The opening is on Friday, November 6th, 6-8PM and will be co-sponsored by the Mexican Cultural Institute.

Bernabe Mendez from the State of Guerrero works as a professional window cleaner in New York he sends 500 dollars a month. Bernabe Mendez originario de Guerrero trabaja limpiando vidrios en los rascacielos de Nueva York manda 500 dólares al mes.

Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts
www.smithfarm.com
1632 U Street, NW | Washington DC | 20009
202-483-8600

Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue

Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue

November issue is online at http://artisticallyspeaking.tv

This month Marilou Donahue features AMANDA MAJESKI, Soprano with the Washington Concert Opera.

Blake Gopnik - Art review: Roxy Paine's 'Graft' at the National Gallery Sculpture Garden - washingtonpost.com

"Roxy Paine, a 43-year-old New Yorker who grew up in McLean, is a rare sculptor who has got the problem beat. In a few days, Washingtonians will get access to a major new commission he's just finished in the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden.

Graft by Roxy Paine should be fully installed at the National Gallery Sculpture Garden before the end of this week, and can be viewed from a distance until then. The sculpture garden at 600 Constitution Ave. NW is open Monday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Call 202-737-4215 or visit http://www.nga.gov."

READ HERE- Blake Gopnik - Art review: Roxy Paine's 'Graft' at the National Gallery Sculpture Garden - washingtonpost.com 

6th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party / AUCTION

6th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party
@ The Mexican Cultural Institute

November 7, 2009 7:00 - 10:00 pm

This year’s Auction will feature original artworks by over a hundred emerging and established Washington, DC artists, including: Seth Adelsberger, Margaret Boozer, Billy Colbert, Natalie Cheung, Cynthia Connolly, Steven Cushner, Frank Day, Mary Early, Dana Ellyn, Carlotta Hester, Judy Jashinsky, Paul Jeffreys, Benjamin Jurgensen, Kevin Kepple, Jae Ko, Laurel Lukaszewski, Katherine Mann, Anne Marchand, Maggie Michael, A.B. Miner, Cara Ober, Lucien Perkins, Robin Rose, Matt Sesow, Foon Sham, Molly Springfield, Dan Steinhilber, Lisa Marie Thalhammer, Kelly Towles, Yuriko Yamaguchi, and Trevor Young, among many others.


Transformer’s Annual Auction is an ideal way to begin or expand your art collection while connecting with a smart, sophisticated audience. This very special, one-night only event features an exciting array of over 125 artworks in a variety of mediums, dimensions and prices by more than 100 of DC's leading, emerging, and established artists. Click here to download a complete list of artists and artworks.

The Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party provides essential support for
their dynamic, year-round, programming, exhibitions and services - and it's a great party!
Tickets are available for purchase.
Visit: transformergallery.org for more details.

SOFAlab: Scientists Visualize / Artists Experiment

Thursday, November 5th, 2009 - 6pm reception, 7pm keynote address & panel
Carnegie Institute of Washington, 1530 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
FREE and Open to the Public

How and where do art and science - two seemingly disparate disciplines of intellectual inquiry - overlap?
And, at that confluence, what can practitioners of both disciplines learn to expand their unique fields of knowledge and to affect consciousness?

Funding was provided by the Center for Consciousness and Transformation, George Mason University, with support from Hamiltonian Artists, Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts,
and the School of Art, George Mason University.