The box office for the 2010 Columbia Festival of the Arts is open. For more information on all the shows, visit the website or buy your tickets now at Tickets.com.
Columbia Festival of the Arts is supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of Maryland and the National Endowment for the Arts
The Columbia Festival of the Arts is also supported by the Howard County Arts Council through a grant from Howard County Government.
5575 Sterrett Place, Suite 280 • Columbia, MD 21044
Phone: 410-715-3044
http://columbiafestival.com/
Monday, June 07, 2010
Sunday, June 06, 2010
JOHN MORRELL at Addison Ripley
JOHN MORRELL
HERE & THEN
June 12 - July 17, 2010
HERE & THEN
June 12 - July 17, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, June 12th, 5-7pm
John Morrell, Rocky Point, ©2008, oil on linen
For more than twenty years Addison/Ripley Fine Art has regularly presented work by Washington artist, John Morrell. The work in "Here and Then" presents vistas from New York, Rhode Island, Maine, Washington, DC, Canada and France in climates ranging from high summer to frigid mid-winter. The effects of light and wind, shadow and reflection are often the subjects of these paintings. Subtle tones and augmented ones play on Morrell's canvases and works on paper. These new works are at once familiar and surprisingly fresh; they explore the lessons of the great American landscape painters and, at the same time, feel rooted firmly in the present.
The painter's very successful look at landscape icons like Niagara Falls and the Washington, DC skylines has been applauded and recognized for some time. However, it is his ability to render the familiar new and the unfamiliar enticing that marks him as a consummate master of his craft, keenly observing and carefully composing for maximum effect. Studies for many of the larger paintings are included in this exhibition, offering significant insight into the artist's process, a window into the intricate layering that is utilized in the final works.
Mr. Morrell is presently the Chair of the Art and Art History Department at Georgetown University where he has taught for many years and it is notable that his studio at the University looks out over some of the landscape that has intrigued him for much of his career. He has work in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the State Department, the United States Postal Museum and Georgetown University.
Addison/Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.338.5180
www.addisonripleyfineart.com
Target Gallery: Luis Acosta and Miriam Londoño: The Language of Paper
Luis Acosta and Miriam Londoño: The Language of Paper
World-renowned Latin American artists Luis Acosta and Miriam Londoño will be creating and exhibiting their art using handmade paper processes.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, June 10, 6-8pm
Special Performance: Paul Bangser, Jazz guitar with a twist of Latin styles
Workshops with Luis Acosta: June 12 and June 19
Visit the Target Gallery blog for more information.
World-renowned Latin American artists Luis Acosta and Miriam Londoño will be creating and exhibiting their art using handmade paper processes.
Reception: Second Thursday Art Night, June 10, 6-8pm
Special Performance: Paul Bangser, Jazz guitar with a twist of Latin styles
Workshops with Luis Acosta: June 12 and June 19
Visit the Target Gallery blog for more information.
Patricia Smith-Reverberations at Studio 4 Gallery
"Swaying Goddess of the Fourfold"
Patricia Smith
Reverberations
June 9-July 4
Opening June 12, 6:30-9:00 PM
This exhibit is part of the Second Saturday Art Walks at the Workhouse Arts Center.
The exhibition “Reverberations” reflect the artist‟s explorations of the terms goddess, women and feminine. She seeks to arrive at views of women other than stereotypes. Her explorations are open-ended, not literal, making possible a proliferation of meanings that may be lived out by each viewer. The paintings are mixed media, water dispersable acrylics on kozo paper mounted on boards, with additions of collaged papers and printmaking techniques.
The artist believes that we must recognize our continuance with the past in order to transform the present and create new visions for the future. The metaphor is the central creative process which leads to an open-ended understanding of women. The ‟goddess‟ is not taken to be a super-being but a metaphor that animates possibilities for women. Spiraling webs of meaning emerge in the creative process, which can become a vehicle for creating our potentialities, of what we may become.
Studio 4 Gallery
Workhouse Arts Center
9601 Ox Road
Lorton 22079
www.workhousearts.org
Saturday, June 05, 2010
Last Chance to see Beautiful: Virginia Women Artists @ Greater Reston Arts Center
Beautiful closes on Friday June 11, at 5pm.
Greater Reston Arts Center Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 5pm
Next Appetite for Art session is on Monday, June 7 at 10:30am for an artful dialogue with exhibiting artist Bernis von zur Muehlen.
Greater Reston Arts Center
12001 Market Street
Suite #103
Reston, VA 20190
703.471.9242
www.restonarts.org
At the Phillips Collection
June 5 through Sept. 12, 2010
Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White PaintingsIn the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) created a series of paintings nearly without paint, using graphite and oil on canvas to produce works both complex and spare. These luminous and poetic works are filled with symbolic imagery and natural forms, and represent a dramatic departure from the artist’s more characteristic richly colored and thickly painted surfaces. This exhibition of 23 paintings and works on paper, as well as four sculptures, marks the first time in over 50 years that a significant number of these works are on view.
Robert Ryman: Variations and ImprovisationsRyman (b. 1930) is an American painter best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. This exhibition presents his ongoing examination of painting as both medium and process with endless variations in materials and methods. It brings together approximately 25 small-scale paintings from private collections. Some works have only rarely been shown in the U.S. This is the first solo presentation of Ryman’s work in the Washington area.
June 10 through Sept. 5, 2010
Kate Shepherd
Shepherd is best known for large, vertical, mostly monochrome paintings that create illusory three-dimensional space. Her work, in the former dining room of the Phillips house, incorporates painting and sculpture and focuses on architectural details. Part of Intersections, in which artists respond to art and spaces in the Phillips with projects of their own.
Admission: $12 for adults, $10 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under
1600 21st Street, NW (at Q Street)
Metro Red Line, Dupont Circle Station (Q Street exit), and via several bus lines, www.wmata.com
Information:
202-387-2151
www.phillipscollection.org
Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White PaintingsIn the early 1950s, Richard Pousette-Dart (1916–1992) created a series of paintings nearly without paint, using graphite and oil on canvas to produce works both complex and spare. These luminous and poetic works are filled with symbolic imagery and natural forms, and represent a dramatic departure from the artist’s more characteristic richly colored and thickly painted surfaces. This exhibition of 23 paintings and works on paper, as well as four sculptures, marks the first time in over 50 years that a significant number of these works are on view.
Robert Ryman: Variations and ImprovisationsRyman (b. 1930) is an American painter best known for abstract, white-on-white paintings. This exhibition presents his ongoing examination of painting as both medium and process with endless variations in materials and methods. It brings together approximately 25 small-scale paintings from private collections. Some works have only rarely been shown in the U.S. This is the first solo presentation of Ryman’s work in the Washington area.
June 10 through Sept. 5, 2010
Kate Shepherd
Shepherd is best known for large, vertical, mostly monochrome paintings that create illusory three-dimensional space. Her work, in the former dining room of the Phillips house, incorporates painting and sculpture and focuses on architectural details. Part of Intersections, in which artists respond to art and spaces in the Phillips with projects of their own.
Admission: $12 for adults, $10 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under
1600 21st Street, NW (at Q Street)
Metro Red Line, Dupont Circle Station (Q Street exit), and via several bus lines, www.wmata.com
Information:
202-387-2151
www.phillipscollection.org
GRACE Market Street Exhibitions
Michele Norris
The Good Earth
April 26 - July 26, 2010
Opening Reception: Monday, June 7, 5 - 7pm
at the Hyatt Regency Reston
1800 Presidents Street
Reston, VA 20190
Reston, VA 20190
703) 925-8250
Last Chance to View: DAN TREADO, REQUESTING QUIET
DAN TREADO REQUESTING QUIET
May 1 - June 5, 2010
Free Dirt, 2010, oil on canvas, 20 x 36 inches
This work continues to surprise and delight with the artist's signature serial imagery; layers of color, light as air, add dreamy associations and an impossible depth to the lush surfaces. In some of the paintings, appropriated samples from selected illustrations and texts provide tense contrast. In others, a crazy quilt of disparate organic images is woven together by this talented painter. At once cryptic and mesmerizing, the paintings in this third exhibition by the artist at Addison/Ripley demonstrate a rich complexity and accomplished maturity. They may "request quiet" but they shout and crackle with energy.
Addison Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.338.5180
www.addisonripleyfineart.com
Friday, June 04, 2010
The Unbroken Line: A Cast of Characters /Terry Svat
The Unbroken Line: A Cast of Characters
Solo exhibition by Terry Svat
June 29-August 1
Opening Reception:Friday, July 9, 5:30-8 pm
Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, July 17, 1-3 pm
Solo exhibition by Terry Svat
June 29-August 1
Opening Reception:Friday, July 9, 5:30-8 pm
Reception and Artist Talk: Saturday, July 17, 1-3 pm
The Unbroken Line: A Cast of Characters grew out of a challenge artist Terry Svat faced years ago, when invited to participate in an installation at George Washington University. The call to artists asked for work on 8x8 canvases. Svat, being a printmaker, rarely touched a canvas. She did, however, have a large collection of printed material, which she began cutting and recombining. The result: Three-dimensional print-collages on a canvas surface.
These print collages include imagery of houses, human archetypes. Regarding this work, Svat says, “As it began to grow I was surprised to see that there was continuity and a connectedness to it all. Since most of my work through the years has been created in series, it took a while to see that there was a thread or line running through all of it dealing with life, death, and rebirth.” This unbroken line is apparent in her figures, which march from canvas to canvas under cities, trees, the sun and the moon, creating a visual record of the journey of life.
Washington Printmakers Gallery
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 2nd Floor
8230 Georgia Ave
Silver Spring, MD 20910
301-273-3660
Ellen Delaney's Abstracted Color Fields at The Art League
Ellen Delaney’s Color Fields
June 10 – July 5, 2010
In The Art League Gallery:
From Ellen Delaney's Color Fields Exhibition
Opening Reception and Meet the Artist:
Thursday, June 10, 6:30-8:00 pm
Opening Reception and Meet the Artist:
Thursday, June 10, 6:30-8:00 pm
Ellen Delaney’s landscape paintings are abstracted yet representational. Her paintings are full of contrast – rough texture vs. sharp lines, abstract vs. representational elements, complementary colors, and manmade vs. natural objects. Her solo exhibit Color Fields will be featured at The Art League Gallery, June 10 – July 5, 2010.
Delaney likes to work with a palette knife to build up volume and texture, create abrupt lines and sharp edges. She likes the contrast between texture and line, which is evident throughout her work. She works in acrylic either on paper or on plywood, and enjoys experimenting with color and different color combinations, often producing landscapes with bright and energetic palettes. The square format of her works adds to the abstraction and is a unifying element throughout the exhibit.
“I’m not trying to recreate or to replicate a scene. I often abstract a photo or am inspired by parts of various landscapes.” She pieces together elements from different landscapes to create her own vision.
The Art League
105 North Union Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-683-1780
www.theartleague.org
Live in Arlington? Get online
ARTIST DIRECTORY on Arlingtonarts.org
Arlingtonarts.org has launched its brand new artist directory, that is open to artists in all disciplines for a modest annual fee. Artists must live, work or maintain a studio in Arlington, VA. The directory is designed to provide exposure through the Arlington arts website, and will help direct traffic to the artist's own site or Facebook page. More
Arlingtonarts.org has launched its brand new artist directory, that is open to artists in all disciplines for a modest annual fee. Artists must live, work or maintain a studio in Arlington, VA. The directory is designed to provide exposure through the Arlington arts website, and will help direct traffic to the artist's own site or Facebook page. More
DC Digital Capital Week
DC Digital Capital Week is a 10-day festival focused on creativity, technology, entrepreneurship, marketing, and innovation. The kick-off party is focused on bringing together all good people for a fun night of great music and art in a really cool venue!
Blagden Alley!
Friday, June 11, 9pm to 3am
Enter on N Street between 9th and 10th, or
on 9th Street between M and N.
on 9th Street between M and N.
$20 (includes a drink)
Buy your tickets HERE.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:
International Arts & Artists' Hillyer Art Space is currently accepting submissions for its 2nd Juried Member's Show, to be curated by (TBA), until June 18 , 2010 (not a postmark deadline) for the show beginning July 2nd through July 31st.
REQUIREMENTS:
· Artists must be current members of IA&A
· Submissions may address any topic
· All media will be considered.
· $20 submission fee
For Information - membership at artsandartists dot org
202-338-0680
International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Ct., NW
Washington, DC 20008
International Arts & Artists' Hillyer Art Space is currently accepting submissions for its 2nd Juried Member's Show, to be curated by (TBA), until June 18 , 2010 (not a postmark deadline) for the show beginning July 2nd through July 31st.
REQUIREMENTS:
· Artists must be current members of IA&A
· Submissions may address any topic
· All media will be considered.
· $20 submission fee
For Information - membership at artsandartists dot org
202-338-0680
International Arts & Artists
9 Hillyer Ct., NW
Washington, DC 20008
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Female Shorts: Film and Video Showcase
Female Shorts: Film & Video Showcase celebrates cinematic works of women in the arts. This festival is a collaboration between the Torpedo Factory's Target Gallery and The Art League, and is dedicated and focused to seeking out and promoting cinema created by and for women. The showcase is part of the Virginia Commission for the Arts 2010 state-wide celebration, Minds Wide Open, which celebrates women in the arts.
Sydney-Chanele Dawkins, selected 22 films to be a part of the juried showcase. The gallery will be showing these films continuously throughout the days of the event, June 3-6.
Contact the gallery to purchase advance tickets: 703.838.4565 x4
($5 advance tickets; $8 at the door)
MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts
is the first statewide celebration of its kind. Between March and June of 2010, thousands of special events will occur to honor contributions by women to arts and culture.
Sydney-Chanele Dawkins, selected 22 films to be a part of the juried showcase. The gallery will be showing these films continuously throughout the days of the event, June 3-6.
Contact the gallery to purchase advance tickets: 703.838.4565 x4
($5 advance tickets; $8 at the door)
MINDS WIDE OPEN: Virginia Celebrates Women in the Arts
is the first statewide celebration of its kind. Between March and June of 2010, thousands of special events will occur to honor contributions by women to arts and culture.
Rosemary Cooley and Tjelda vander Meijden
June 1-27
Present Water: Micro & Macro
Featuring work by Rosemary Cooley and Tjelda vander Meijden
Artist Talk and Film: June 3, 12-2 pm
Opening Reception with Guest Introduction by Former US Ambassador James I Gadsden:
Featuring work by Rosemary Cooley and Tjelda vander Meijden
Artist Talk and Film: June 3, 12-2 pm
Opening Reception with Guest Introduction by Former US Ambassador James I Gadsden:
Saturday, June 05, 2-5 pm
Washington Printmakers Gallery | Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, 2nd Floor | 8230 Georgia Ave | Silver Spring, MD 20910
WPArade! The WPA Art Parade on Half St SE this Saturday, 6/5 at noon!
Don't miss the WPArade this Saturday!
The WPA Art Parade on Half Street SE (from M St SE to N St SE)
takes place this Saturday, June 5 at noon
RAIN OR SHINE!
Above from top left: Charger by Rob Lindsay, Screaming at the Economy
by Floating Lab Collective, Batala Washington DC
by Floating Lab Collective, Batala Washington DC
Join WPA for a post-parade celebration at The Bullpen
on N and Half Streets SE until 3pm
Participants include:
John James Anderson
Art-O-Matic
Nadine Bloch and Washington Peace Center
Leah Curran
Floating Lab Collective
Give Me A Vote!/Albus Cavus
Glade Dance Collective
Irvine Contemporary
Jessica Jones and Batala Washington and Riverside Center
Rob Lindsay
Adrienne Mills/Body Art by Figure Photos
FREE and open to the public!
Take Metro! Green Line to Navy Yard at M Street
Robert Freeman at Parish Gallery
“When the Music Changes” by painter, Robert Freeman. This exhibition will run thru June 15, 2010.
Parish Gallery-Georgetown
1054 31st Street, NW
Washington , DC
202-944-2310
Known for his vivid and powerful figurative paintings, skillful brave use of color and gesture are the trademark of Freeman’s work and make his figures nearly abstract. He has traditionally focused on the interactions between people in his work, on couples and crowds, and the characters in his paintings betray their emotions with expressive facial and body language.
Robert Freeman has been exhibiting his art works nationally for over 30 years and has been included in the public collections of the National Center for African-American Artists; Boston Public Library; Brown University; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and DeCordova Museum, among other institutions. He has been featured in numerous solo and group gallery shows.
Art critic, Christine Temin of the Boston Globe, referred to Freeman’s paintings as “a relief and joy, a visual balm for people starved for beauty.”
Parish Gallery-Georgetown
202-944-2310
Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue
Welcome to "Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue," a television arts program, and now a web site highlighting the arts in the Washington, D. C. area
June arts web site is up. Take a look. Enjoy!
June arts web site is up. Take a look. Enjoy!
Jeffry Cudlin: BY REQUEST
Flashpoint Gallery Presents
Jeffry Cudlin: BY REQUEST
June 25 – July 31, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, June 25, 6 – 8 pm
Photo by Josh Cogan
WASHINGTON, DC – This June, the ideal Washington, DC art show will take over Flashpoint Gallery. Artist, curator, and critic Jeffry Cudlin has engineered a celebrity-obsessed exhibition that purports to reveal in excruciating detail what collectors, critics, and museum administrators think area artists should be making.
For BY REQUEST, Cudlin approached seven DC art world luminaries and asked each to fill out a 20 page survey. Questions were all multiple choice, and attempted to uncover everything from preferences regarding paint handling techniques; to opinions about museum “fluff” shows and art blogs; to each patron’s personality type. Pink Line Project founder Philippa Hughes; blogger and critic Tyler Green; The Phillips Collection director Dorothy Kosinski; Irvine Contemporary gallery director Martin Irvine; National Portrait Gallery Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings Anne Collins Goodyear; collector and curator Henry Thaggert; and uber-collector Tony Podesta all agreed to play along.
Once the surveys were completed, Cudlin recruited an atelier of seven area artists working in a variety of media and styles. Torkwase Dyson, Victoria F. Gaitán, Jason Horowitz, Jenny Sidhu Mullins, Cory Oberndorfer, Kerry Skarbakka, and Trevor Young all accepted commissions from Cudlin to create personalized pieces based on the survey data.
There was one small catch: Cudlin insisted that he be depicted in every work of art, thereby inflating his own importance in brokering all of these transactions, and transforming himself into the show’s biggest celebrity. The resulting images are at times outlandish, featuring Cudlin cross-dressing, holding a severed pig’s head, and even sporting a pair of fake latex breasts, courtesy of an FX makeup artist.
In BY REQUEST, Cudlin plays with the notion—popular with many contemporary artists and theorists—that the chief content of art is social. If art ultimately depends on exchanges of information, capital, and power, then simply examining the agendas of people in positions of authority should tell us all we need to know about why art looks and works the way it does right now.
All of the finished pieces in the show will be assigned numeric scores by the seven patrons for whom they are intended. Critics need not second guess: the gallery will include informational displays of facts and figures indicating whether the patrons regard these works as successes or failures. BY REQUEST offers the promise of complete transparency for the DC art world and, perhaps, a model for other artists desperate to become relevant.
Flashpoint Gallery • 916 G Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
A CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION PROJECT
202.315.1305
Tuesday, June 01, 2010
ART+SPACE SUMMER EXHIBITION at Project 4
Project 4 presents :
ART+SPACE SUMMER EXHIBITION
Sharon Louden
Jeanne Quinn
Foon Sham
Katy Stone
June 5, 2010 - July 10, 2010
Reception, Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 6:30pm - 8:30 pm
ART+SPACE SUMMER EXHIBITION
Sharon Louden
Jeanne Quinn
Foon Sham
Katy Stone
June 5, 2010 - July 10, 2010
Reception, Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 6:30pm - 8:30 pm
Project 4 presents a group show linking the gallery’s exhibition programming with its art consulting service, ART+Space. This ART+Space Summer Exhibition features four artists creating sculptural works and installations that emphasize the space they interact with and showcase the artists’ ability to adapt their work to any site. Each working with an adept and responsive hand to their materials, these artists create complexes and structures where their lyrical, sculptural forms coalesce with the environments they inhabit.
In Katy Stone's work “Wavescape,” intricately cut pieces of aluminum flow over the walls of the first floor gallery. Stone’s forms are stretched and repeated, evoking man-made fabrication while expressing a harmony found only in nature. Within the serenity of these forms the merging of Stone’s influences, such as Chinese landscape paintings, modern materials, and gestural repetitive marks, reveals itself. With a similarly complex process and aesthetic, local artist Foon Sham's 10-foot tall, stacked wood sculpture sits on the balcony behind this first floor gallery, swelling from the well-ordered contemporary gallery into unfettered space. Sham is primarily interested in investigating the materiality of wood during in art-making process. In this new work, Sham borrows vocabularies from architecture and line-drawing to create a work suggestive of naturally occurring form, deliberate design and intuitive mark at once.
Jeanne Quinn and Sharon Louden each create immersive sculptural installations in separate niches of the gallery’s second level. Louden's installation "Merge," made of hundreds of individual aluminum forms, exemplifies the whimsical and gestural linearity characteristic of all of her work. The physicality of "Merge" is a result of both Louden’s animated arrangement of her aluminum elements as well as the effect of light bouncing from their surfaces. In Quinn’s neighboring installation, “Everything Is Not As It Seems,” the artist also organically employs several visual forces at once, to create a complete environment. In this work, porcelain, ornamental forms and electrified bulbs hang in a crimson room, creating an expression of the artist’s fascination with the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk: the complete work of art. Quinn seeks to create work that is “sensually encompassing,” and uses domestic space as a site to do so in this particular work, referencing the pervasiveness of the decorative arts in everyday life. The effect of an interior space on an aesthetic experience and vice versa is the focus of this work and of this exhibition.
1353 U Street NW, 3rd floor, Washington, DC 20009
202 232 4340
http://www.project4gallery.com/
City Gallery Presents “Out at Night”
“Out at Night” will hang from June 5-27, 2010.
City Gallery will host an opening reception on June 5 from 6-9pm.
City Gallery presents the work of noted Hill photographer, Gayle Krughoff in a show entitled “Out at Night.” About this show Krughoff says, "I am drawn to photographing at night, or early morning, or dusk—when the absence of light can add mystery to what is already beautiful. A scene can be trasformed by the minimal light that is available. And I enjoy the quiet and being removed from the day-to-day that night-time offers.”
Krughoff has been a professional photogapher in Washington, D.C. for nearly thirty years, specializing
in children, families, weddings, politicos and the occasional entertainment glitterati. Her photographs
have appeared in numerous publications. She is a long-time member of the Capitol Hill Art League and has served on its board and as its chair. Krughoff is a frequent exhibitor in juried shows on the Hill and other galleries throughout the Washington, D.C. area. She studied at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Art New England, Photoworks in Glen Echo and the Smithsonian.
City Gallery
804 H Street, NE #1
Washington, DC 20002
Hours: Friday & Saturday 1-5pm and by appointment
202.468.5277
www.citygallerydc.com
City Gallery will host an opening reception on June 5 from 6-9pm.
City Gallery presents the work of noted Hill photographer, Gayle Krughoff in a show entitled “Out at Night.” About this show Krughoff says, "I am drawn to photographing at night, or early morning, or dusk—when the absence of light can add mystery to what is already beautiful. A scene can be trasformed by the minimal light that is available. And I enjoy the quiet and being removed from the day-to-day that night-time offers.”
Krughoff has been a professional photogapher in Washington, D.C. for nearly thirty years, specializing
in children, families, weddings, politicos and the occasional entertainment glitterati. Her photographs
have appeared in numerous publications. She is a long-time member of the Capitol Hill Art League and has served on its board and as its chair. Krughoff is a frequent exhibitor in juried shows on the Hill and other galleries throughout the Washington, D.C. area. She studied at the Maine Photographic Workshops, Art New England, Photoworks in Glen Echo and the Smithsonian.
City Gallery
804 H Street, NE #1
Washington, DC 20002
Hours: Friday & Saturday 1-5pm and by appointment
202.468.5277
www.citygallerydc.com
Monday, May 31, 2010
Long View Gallery Presents Anna U. Davis' "The Dance before the Kill"
Thursday, June 3, 2010
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Food and drink provided by Susan Gage Caterers
June 3 - July 1
6:30pm - 9:30pm
Food and drink provided by Susan Gage Caterers
June 3 - July 1
In her first exhibition of works on paper, "The Dance before the Kill," Anna Davis continues her investigation of contemporary feminist concerns, this time giving form to the sexually charged hostilities that pervade both gender and race relations. Her new series adopts the pasodoble as a metaphor to contrast the fluidity of women's roles with the aggressive, prideful posturing of paternal authority. She has translated the gray Frocasian characters of her vibrant mixed media paintings into starkly black and white illustrations of entangled bodies. An amalgam of the terms Afro and Caucasian, Frocasian designates the artist's construal of Primitivism's noble savage and symbolizes the utopist aim to transcend identity politics. On paper, however, these figures lose their uniformly gray hue, underscoring their cultural oppositions and differences in appearance. This tension, along with the flamboyant garb and histrionic facial expression of each character, evokes the dance of the bullfight.
1234 Ninth St, Washington, DC 20001
202.232.4788
longviewgallery.com
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Magnolia Laurie, Lina Vargas De La Hoz & Leah Frankel at Hamiltonian
Tuesday, June 1, 2010 at 7:00 pm.
A live performance of Relocation Umbrella by Lina Vargas De La Hoz.
Following this performance, artist talk regarding their work for this exhibition by
Magnolia Laurie, Leah Frankel and Lina Vargas De La Hoz
Hamiltonian Gallery is now exhibiting a new three-person exhibition of paintings and installations by Hamiltonian Fellows Magnolia Laurie, Lina Vargas De La Hoz and Leah Frankel. By presenting physically binary relationships such as inside/outside and construction/destruction, each artist investigates exchanges of energies, and the ebb and flow of natural and social forces.
Within her paintings and installations, Magnolia Laurie creates environments centered upon masses of broken, crooked lines that could resemble a dense, organized nest, the aftermath of a natural disaster or an architectural armature. Due to Laurie's manipulation of perspective and line quality, these structures are always just short of being logical. Magnolia Laurie's arrested jumble of lines, flags, plastic fencing, gusts of dusty wind and color all develop into a haphazard system that depicts the automatic, and sometimes incessant, obsessive human need to build and create. Magnolia Laurie relates this act of construction and destruction to the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations.
Lina Vargas De La Hoz designs and creates objects that tenant, command, and address its surrounding space. One work, Pull Over 2, is composed of repurposed knit sweaters sewn together and stretched tautly across the gallery so that the neck and armholes are intact. We interact with the plane of sweaters by approaching it from underneath, and putting our heads and arms up through the holes where we can then see the top surface of the installation, and the heads and arms of the other participants. The expanse of blue sweaters cut through the gallery to create two literal and psychological spaces, analogous to above and under water, or penetrating borders.
In Leah Frankel's installation titled (im)Balance, formed spheres of ice nestled in mounds of table salt are flecked throughout the gallery floor. Incontestably, the salt will melt the ice and the water will dissolve the salt, but in that process of cancelling each other out, themes of codependency and dominance emerge. Once the process ends, we are left with ambiguous, geological forms, which depict the results of the destructive exchange between these quotidian elements.
This exhibition runs from May 8, - June 9, 2010.
Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC 20009
202.332.1116
A live performance of Relocation Umbrella by Lina Vargas De La Hoz.
Following this performance, artist talk regarding their work for this exhibition by
Magnolia Laurie, Leah Frankel and Lina Vargas De La Hoz
Hamiltonian Gallery is now exhibiting a new three-person exhibition of paintings and installations by Hamiltonian Fellows Magnolia Laurie, Lina Vargas De La Hoz and Leah Frankel. By presenting physically binary relationships such as inside/outside and construction/destruction, each artist investigates exchanges of energies, and the ebb and flow of natural and social forces.
Within her paintings and installations, Magnolia Laurie creates environments centered upon masses of broken, crooked lines that could resemble a dense, organized nest, the aftermath of a natural disaster or an architectural armature. Due to Laurie's manipulation of perspective and line quality, these structures are always just short of being logical. Magnolia Laurie's arrested jumble of lines, flags, plastic fencing, gusts of dusty wind and color all develop into a haphazard system that depicts the automatic, and sometimes incessant, obsessive human need to build and create. Magnolia Laurie relates this act of construction and destruction to the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations.
Lina Vargas De La Hoz designs and creates objects that tenant, command, and address its surrounding space. One work, Pull Over 2, is composed of repurposed knit sweaters sewn together and stretched tautly across the gallery so that the neck and armholes are intact. We interact with the plane of sweaters by approaching it from underneath, and putting our heads and arms up through the holes where we can then see the top surface of the installation, and the heads and arms of the other participants. The expanse of blue sweaters cut through the gallery to create two literal and psychological spaces, analogous to above and under water, or penetrating borders.
In Leah Frankel's installation titled (im)Balance, formed spheres of ice nestled in mounds of table salt are flecked throughout the gallery floor. Incontestably, the salt will melt the ice and the water will dissolve the salt, but in that process of cancelling each other out, themes of codependency and dominance emerge. Once the process ends, we are left with ambiguous, geological forms, which depict the results of the destructive exchange between these quotidian elements.
This exhibition runs from May 8, - June 9, 2010.
Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
Suite 101
Washington, DC 20009
202.332.1116
Transformer Sustainability Lab back in action!
Sustainability Lab back in action!
June 2 - 12, 2010
On June 2, Brooklyn-based cultural worker Jeff Hnilicka returns to DC to continue Sustainability Lab at Transformer.
Having just participated in Empire Builder - an epic train voyage to Portland, OR during which over 30 participants created guerilla public programs for fellow travelers while en route to Open Engagement, an initiative of Portland State University's Art and Social Practice MFA concentration (www.openengagement.info) - Jeff & Transformer invite DC audiences to participate in several new, interactive programs that continue to investigate emerging models of cultural production, the sustainability of these models, and their impact within communities.
Upcoming events include:
Thursday, June 3, 1 - 3:30pm: "InCUBATE Discusses ARBS (Artist Run Benefit Society)" - a conversation with Jeff Hnilicka and InCUBATE members Abigail Satinsky and Bryce Dwyer
6 - 8:30pm: FRAMEWORK Panel #13: BUILT TO LAST? truths & myths of sustainable cultural production at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. *see below
Friday, June 4, 5 - 7pm: "Seeding the City" with Brooklyn-based artist Eve Mosher at Fathom Creative
Saturday, June 5, 1 - 7pm: "A Day of Dischord," featuring performances by Andalusians and the Aquarium
Friday, June 11, 1, 3, & 5pm: "10 Dance Moves for Washington, DC - a dance lesson and travelogue", and
Saturday, June 12, 1 - 6pm: "Home Grown" - an afternoon of conversation, local foods, music, and art with Jeff Hnilicka and DC-based photographer Cynthia Connolly
Please click here or visit Transformer's website to download a full schedule of Sustainability Lab activities in June.
www.transformergallery.org
1404 P Street NW Washington, DC 20010 / 202-483-1102
June 2 - 12, 2010
On June 2, Brooklyn-based cultural worker Jeff Hnilicka returns to DC to continue Sustainability Lab at Transformer.
Having just participated in Empire Builder - an epic train voyage to Portland, OR during which over 30 participants created guerilla public programs for fellow travelers while en route to Open Engagement, an initiative of Portland State University's Art and Social Practice MFA concentration (www.openengagement.info) - Jeff & Transformer invite DC audiences to participate in several new, interactive programs that continue to investigate emerging models of cultural production, the sustainability of these models, and their impact within communities.
Upcoming events include:
Thursday, June 3, 1 - 3:30pm: "InCUBATE Discusses ARBS (Artist Run Benefit Society)" - a conversation with Jeff Hnilicka and InCUBATE members Abigail Satinsky and Bryce Dwyer
6 - 8:30pm: FRAMEWORK Panel #13: BUILT TO LAST? truths & myths of sustainable cultural production at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. *see below
Friday, June 4, 5 - 7pm: "Seeding the City" with Brooklyn-based artist Eve Mosher at Fathom Creative
Saturday, June 5, 1 - 7pm: "A Day of Dischord," featuring performances by Andalusians and the Aquarium
Friday, June 11, 1, 3, & 5pm: "10 Dance Moves for Washington, DC - a dance lesson and travelogue", and
Saturday, June 12, 1 - 6pm: "Home Grown" - an afternoon of conversation, local foods, music, and art with Jeff Hnilicka and DC-based photographer Cynthia Connolly
Please click here or visit Transformer's website to download a full schedule of Sustainability Lab activities in June.
www.transformergallery.org
1404 P Street NW Washington, DC 20010 / 202-483-1102
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Scrap Behind the Taps" Battle of the Champions: Ora vs. Philippa
Marvin Restaurant
Washington, DC
The Pink Line Project and The Dunes present:
"The Scrap behind the Taps"
Battle of the Champions: Ora vs. Philippa
Music by Sam Burns
Designer Cocktails start at 6pm sharp!
$10 suggested donation
Entry + all tips benefit Dupont Underground Arts Coalition
"The Scrap behind the Taps"
Battle of the Champions: Ora vs. Philippa
Music by Sam Burns
Designer Cocktails start at 6pm sharp!
$10 suggested donation
Entry + all tips benefit Dupont Underground Arts Coalition
Baghdad Revisited a solo show by Ahmad Alkarkhi
June 2-19
Baghdad Revisited
works by
Ahmed Alkarkhi
Reception: Friday June 4, 6-8pm
Ahmad Alkarkh
"Looking Into the Future"
Back by popular acclaim for a second exhibit, the Foundry Gallery presents the recent paintings of Ahmad Alkarkhi, a young Iraqi artist. Ahmad arrived in Washington in late August of 2009, a refugee from his beloved Iraq, ready to make a new life in America for himself, his wife, and two young children.
He brings with him the richness and variety of expression that was so prevalent in the vibrant culture of Baghdad in years past. He worked there successfully until the end of 2006, when sectarian violence erupted and religious extremism became widespread. Playwrights, musicians, artists and intellectuals were targeted by militias.
As intellectuals and artists began to flee, Ahmad joined them and traveled to Damascus where he awaited his family and filed papers for refugee status with the United Nations. While in Damascus, Ahmad's work was shown at several UN-sponsored exhibits as representative of Iraqi art. When they saw the quality of his work, the United Nations presented his papers to the U.S. Embassy and he was accepted as a refugee to the United States.
During Ahmad’s exhibit last December at the Foundry, Susan Stamberg of National Public Radio interviewed him. You can hear the interview and view some of his paintings at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122214886
More of Ahmad's work can be seen at http://www.alkarkhi.com
Friday, May 28, 2010
Art Abounds as Summer Rolls In Crystal City
http://www.longviewgallerydc.com/artists.php?id=120The Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID) announces the opening of a new art exhibit at 2011 Crystal Drive. In collaboration with Congressman Jim Moran’s office, 68 pieces from An Artistic Discovery: The Congressional Art Competition for the 8th District of Virginia are located in Crystal City and available for public viewing.
“We are happy to partner with Congressman Moran’s office to put these works on display in Crystal City,” Angela Fox, President and CEO of the Crystal City BID. “Art transforms spaces and places, which is what we are committed to in Crystal City. This show joins our Art Walls and other exhibits in celebrating that dedication.” The 68 pieces hung at 2011 Crystal Drive are a sampling of the 150 submissions received from students throughout the 8th District of Virginia. The remaining submissions are on display at the Arlington Art Center.
Art enthusiasts can take a short walk from An Artistic Discovery to 2231 Crystal Drive to see the Luminous exhibit by artist Anne Marchand. Luminous opened in March and, by popular demand, has been extended through July 30. Inspired by the combination of colorful images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and mystical poetry, Marchand’s use of mixed media, acrylic and incorporation of texture and translucent passages of paint help create a moving and reflective exhibition.
Artistic Discovery and Luminous add to a growing collection in Crystal City’s Art Walls gallery. Visitors can take a stroll around Crystal City to view other notable works from local artists that are installed throughout Crystal City. These works infuse color and character into the area while leading to fun, whimsical, and interesting spaces for Crystal City’s guests, residents, and employees.
Finally, for the remainder of the summer “Bucky Art” statues will be on display on the streets of Crystal City. Inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome, the statues add to the excitement surrounding Arena Stage’s upcoming presentation of R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE. A map showing the locations of Crystal City’s Art Walls and “Bucky Art” is available at www.crystalcity.org.
www.annemarchand.com
“We are happy to partner with Congressman Moran’s office to put these works on display in Crystal City,” Angela Fox, President and CEO of the Crystal City BID. “Art transforms spaces and places, which is what we are committed to in Crystal City. This show joins our Art Walls and other exhibits in celebrating that dedication.” The 68 pieces hung at 2011 Crystal Drive are a sampling of the 150 submissions received from students throughout the 8th District of Virginia. The remaining submissions are on display at the Arlington Art Center.
Art enthusiasts can take a short walk from An Artistic Discovery to 2231 Crystal Drive to see the Luminous exhibit by artist Anne Marchand. Luminous opened in March and, by popular demand, has been extended through July 30. Inspired by the combination of colorful images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and mystical poetry, Marchand’s use of mixed media, acrylic and incorporation of texture and translucent passages of paint help create a moving and reflective exhibition.
Artistic Discovery and Luminous add to a growing collection in Crystal City’s Art Walls gallery. Visitors can take a stroll around Crystal City to view other notable works from local artists that are installed throughout Crystal City. These works infuse color and character into the area while leading to fun, whimsical, and interesting spaces for Crystal City’s guests, residents, and employees.
Finally, for the remainder of the summer “Bucky Art” statues will be on display on the streets of Crystal City. Inspired by R. Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome, the statues add to the excitement surrounding Arena Stage’s upcoming presentation of R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE. A map showing the locations of Crystal City’s Art Walls and “Bucky Art” is available at www.crystalcity.org.
www.annemarchand.com
CALL FOR ART: BENEFIT FOR DREAMS FOR KIDS
Monument Music & Arts Festival, Affinity Lab, & Dreams for Kids DC present
POP UP @ U STREET in Affinity Lab, 920 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
Deadline: July 5, 2010 – Monument Music & Arts Festival, The Affinity Lab & DFK invite artists to submit work for an exhibition and auction of art to be held July 15th at the Affinity Lab on U Street. Free Food, Free Beer, Live Music, and high-class art. This is an international call and is open to all working in wide variety of media, including ceramics, glass, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture to exhibit and sell.
For detailed information and application, please contact Jackie Cantwell at JCantwell@dreamsforkids.org
POP UP @ U STREET in Affinity Lab, 920 U Street NW, Washington, DC 20009
Deadline: July 5, 2010 – Monument Music & Arts Festival, The Affinity Lab & DFK invite artists to submit work for an exhibition and auction of art to be held July 15th at the Affinity Lab on U Street. Free Food, Free Beer, Live Music, and high-class art. This is an international call and is open to all working in wide variety of media, including ceramics, glass, painting, photography, printmaking, and sculpture to exhibit and sell.
For detailed information and application, please contact Jackie Cantwell at JCantwell@dreamsforkids.org
Thursday, May 27, 2010
WParade! WPA Art Parade
WParade! WPA Art Parade
Start Time: Saturday, June 5 at 12:00pm
End Time: Saturday, June 5 at 10:30pm
Where: Half St and M St SE, Washington DC 20003
Washington Project for the Arts presents the WPArade, an extravaganza of artists connecting with community to create a moving visual spectacle of art and culture. Artists, performers, musicians, and visual arts organizations will come together in Washington’s first Art Parade to display moving art, floats, placards, portable sculpture and street performance along Half Street SE.
Starting at M Street SE, participants will traverse the stretch of Half Street SE to N Street SE, stopping midway along the route for performances. The WPArade will culminate in a celebration at The Bullpen at the corner of Half Street SE and N Street SE.
(the parade and afterparty are both free and open to the public)
Come see parade entries by:
John James Anderson
Artomatic
Batala Washington and the Riverside Community Center
Nadine Bloch and the Washington Peace Center
Leah Curran
Floating Lab Collective
Glade Dance Collective
Irvine Contemporary Art
Rob Lindsay
Adrienne Mills
and more!!!
NOTE: It's not too late to enter the parade as an artist/performer. Contact Kristina at 202-234-7103 x 2 or kbilonick@wpadc.org to find out how to participate.
For info on website, please visit http://wpadc.org/events/evnts_upcoming.html
Start Time: Saturday, June 5 at 12:00pm
End Time: Saturday, June 5 at 10:30pm
Where: Half St and M St SE, Washington DC 20003
Washington Project for the Arts presents the WPArade, an extravaganza of artists connecting with community to create a moving visual spectacle of art and culture. Artists, performers, musicians, and visual arts organizations will come together in Washington’s first Art Parade to display moving art, floats, placards, portable sculpture and street performance along Half Street SE.
Starting at M Street SE, participants will traverse the stretch of Half Street SE to N Street SE, stopping midway along the route for performances. The WPArade will culminate in a celebration at The Bullpen at the corner of Half Street SE and N Street SE.
(the parade and afterparty are both free and open to the public)
Come see parade entries by:
John James Anderson
Artomatic
Batala Washington and the Riverside Community Center
Nadine Bloch and the Washington Peace Center
Leah Curran
Floating Lab Collective
Glade Dance Collective
Irvine Contemporary Art
Rob Lindsay
Adrienne Mills
and more!!!
NOTE: It's not too late to enter the parade as an artist/performer. Contact Kristina at 202-234-7103 x 2 or kbilonick@wpadc.org to find out how to participate.
For info on website, please visit http://wpadc.org/events/evnts_upcoming.html
Joan Belmar, Cameron Petke, and Marie Ringwald. Artist’s Talk
Joan Belmar, Cameron Petke, and Marie Ringwald.
Artist’s Talk. May 29, 2 pm
Artist’s Talk. May 29, 2 pm
The gallery is a five minute walk from the Bethesda Metro, on the red line. Public garages in Bethesda's downtown are free on Saturdays and Sundays.
GALLERY NEPTUNE
5001 Wilson Lane
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
301-718-0809
Gallery Hours: weekly by appointment, Fridays and Saturdays from 12-5 PM
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Govinda Gallery publishes first online catalogue, Sapphographs: Donovan
Today Govinda Gallery published their first online catalogue, Sapphographs: Donovan. This publication celebrates the opening June 1st of Donovan's exhibition at the Hellenic American Union in Athens, Greece.
Go to Govinda's blog at: http://www.govindagallery.com/category/blog/ and see the catalogue at: http://govindagallery.com/donovan-sapphographs/.
Go to Govinda's blog at: http://www.govindagallery.com/category/blog/ and see the catalogue at: http://govindagallery.com/donovan-sapphographs/.
ART WRITING BLOG / BLUFF
ART WRITING BLOG
BLUFF
Washington Project for the Arts teams up with George Washington University and journalist Kriston Capps to lead a for-credit course on arts journalism. Students will write about and engage with the DC area arts community, blogging about area artists, exhibitions in galleries, museums and their ideas about contemporary art at www.bluffjournal.com. The course will conclude with the printing of long-form journalism pieces for an original print publication, produced by the class.
Visit http://bluffjournal.com to read all posts!
BLUFF
Washington Project for the Arts teams up with George Washington University and journalist Kriston Capps to lead a for-credit course on arts journalism. Students will write about and engage with the DC area arts community, blogging about area artists, exhibitions in galleries, museums and their ideas about contemporary art at www.bluffjournal.com. The course will conclude with the printing of long-form journalism pieces for an original print publication, produced by the class.
Visit http://bluffjournal.com to read all posts!
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Gallery 555 open in Washington, DC
Gallery 555 had a great opening on Sunday with artists Michele Cormier and others. Take a look at the pictures by clicking on photo.
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| Gallery 555 Opening Lobby level, 555 12th St NW Metro Center station 202-393-1409 Featuring Michelle Cormier - Paintings and Ben-Achour, Dubruijne, Fransen, Kabule, Kaste, Timmers, Van Dyke, Weiss, Wismar |
Monday, May 24, 2010
LUMINOUS EXHIBIT EXTENDED
You can still my work in Crystal City, VA. The "Luminous" exhibition at 2231 Crystal Drive has been extended through July 30. The exhibit is open to the public during the building hours.
Crystal City is accessible by metro.
Anne Marchand
Cabaret [re]ReVoltaire III and IV
Washington Project for the Arts and The Pink Line Project present Cabaret [re]ReVoltaire, curated by Alberto Gaitán for four evenings of art, poetry and performances. Cabaret [re]Revoltaire celebrates the historic Cabaret ReVoltaire series that was presented by WPA in 1992.
Night 3: May 24, 2010, 6:30 - 9:30pm (doors at 6:00pm)dinner style seating, food and drink available for purchase
ticket price: $20 (50 available tickets)
EMCEE: Sal Fiorito
HOUSE BAND: Lady P Coq
Performances by: Holly Bass (performance), Edgar Endress (performance art), OuiOui Nonnon(burlesque), Carolina Mayorga (performance art), Matthew Pauli (performance)Prosser Stirling (performance), and
Dan VanHoozer & Aviva Fox (theater)
Videos by: Anarchy in the Kitchen, Vin Grabill, Ayo Okunseinde, Champneys Taylor, and original footage of Cabaret Re-Voltaire from 1992
Stay tuned for food vendors and menu.
click here to buy tickets!!>>
(tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable)
Night 4: Memorial Day Cabaret-BBQ! 3:30 - 7:30pm
afternoon barbecue with food by Smokey, the H street Legend!
food and drinks availalbe for purchase
performances from 4-7pm
ticket price: $20 (100 available tickets)
EMCEE: Regie Cabico*
Performances by: Bullfight Academy (music), Eva Brontasaurus (music/filth), DJ Fleg (dj/music), Asa Osborne/Zomes (music), Violet (music)
*This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc.
click here to buy tickets!!>>
(tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable)
Performers include:
Anarchy in the Kitchen/Umami Festival 2010, Artists' Bloc collective, Jeff Bagato, Holly Bass, Bob Boilen, Bradley Chriss, Matt Dibble, Dody DiSanto, Edgar Endress, Sal Fiorito, Chris Griffin, Happenstance Theater, Ruben Jackson, Melissa Krodman, Linda Lewett, Asa Osborne/Zomes, B. Stanley, Silvana Straw, Jeff Surak, and Maida Withers. Stay tuned for additional performers and nightly schedules.
Food vendors include:
BierGarten, Dangerously Delicious Pies, and Smokey's Famous Barbecue. Stay tuned for additional food vendors and nightly menus.
Directions:
Gallery O/H is located at 1354 H Street, NE near the intersection of H Street and 14th Street, NE DC. It is a 15 minute walk from Union Station Metro and quickly accessible by bus by taking the X2 Metro bus from 7th and H in Chinatown or the free H street shuttle also departing regularaly in the evenings from Chinatown Metro.
ticket price: $20 (50 available tickets)
EMCEE: Sal Fiorito
HOUSE BAND: Lady P Coq
Performances by: Holly Bass (performance), Edgar Endress (performance art), OuiOui Nonnon(burlesque), Carolina Mayorga (performance art), Matthew Pauli (performance)Prosser Stirling (performance), and
Dan VanHoozer & Aviva Fox (theater)
Videos by: Anarchy in the Kitchen, Vin Grabill, Ayo Okunseinde, Champneys Taylor, and original footage of Cabaret Re-Voltaire from 1992
Stay tuned for food vendors and menu.
click here to buy tickets!!>>
(tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable)
Night 4: Memorial Day Cabaret-BBQ! 3:30 - 7:30pm
afternoon barbecue with food by Smokey, the H street Legend!
food and drinks availalbe for purchase
performances from 4-7pm
ticket price: $20 (100 available tickets)
EMCEE: Regie Cabico*
Performances by: Bullfight Academy (music), Eva Brontasaurus (music/filth), DJ Fleg (dj/music), Asa Osborne/Zomes (music), Violet (music)
*This event was funded in part by Poets & Writers, Inc.
click here to buy tickets!!>>
(tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable)
Performers include:
Anarchy in the Kitchen/Umami Festival 2010, Artists' Bloc collective, Jeff Bagato, Holly Bass, Bob Boilen, Bradley Chriss, Matt Dibble, Dody DiSanto, Edgar Endress, Sal Fiorito, Chris Griffin, Happenstance Theater, Ruben Jackson, Melissa Krodman, Linda Lewett, Asa Osborne/Zomes, B. Stanley, Silvana Straw, Jeff Surak, and Maida Withers. Stay tuned for additional performers and nightly schedules.
Food vendors include:
BierGarten, Dangerously Delicious Pies, and Smokey's Famous Barbecue. Stay tuned for additional food vendors and nightly menus.
Directions:
Gallery O/H is located at 1354 H Street, NE near the intersection of H Street and 14th Street, NE DC. It is a 15 minute walk from Union Station Metro and quickly accessible by bus by taking the X2 Metro bus from 7th and H in Chinatown or the free H street shuttle also departing regularaly in the evenings from Chinatown Metro.
Saint Phalle and a Hirshhorn bookstore engage readers
Here's the link to Nancy Donnelly's reply to Blake Gopnik's article on Nikki de Saint Phalle :
Saint Phalle and a Hirshhorn bookstore engage readers: "Saint Phalle
and here's his original article:
["Taking it to the streets," Style, April 28]:
Saint Phalle and a Hirshhorn bookstore engage readers: "Saint Phalle
and here's his original article:
["Taking it to the streets," Style, April 28]:
Sunday, May 23, 2010
CALL FOR ARTISTS: NEW ARTS MARKET IN EDGEWOOD DC
The Details:
Name: Edgewood Arts Market
Original, handcrafted, locally produced arts and good, and antiques
Dates: The market grand opening is on June 5th, 10am – 6pm. (Also an opening day of the Metropolitan Branch Trail)
Contacts: Omowale Sia omowalesia@hotmail.com and Quest Skinner questskinner@gmail.com
Cost: $25 for a single space (10 x 18 feet), $80 if you sign up for four Saturdays
Tents provided on June 5th on first-come first-serve basis until supplies last.
Sign up soon to reserve the best spot!
Schedule: Area opens at 8:30 for set up. All vehicles must be removed by 9:45 (can be parked in the adjacent parking lot).
Saturday, May 22, 2010
HOLA MEXICO FILM FESTIVAL
With 14 films representing a wide range of genres, from comedy to drama, from documentaries, to shorts and feature length films, there is something at the Festival for everyone. All of the films will be screened at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.
OPENING NIGHT | Thursday, May 27 @ 7:30 pm
Award winning film Norteado / Northless
Dir. Rigoberto Perezcano (Mexico 2009, 95min, 35mm)
After the screening, Director Rigoberto Perezcano and Producer Edgar San Juan will hold a Q & A session.
Andres travels from Oaxaca to Tijuana to cross the US border. Things don’t result as planned and he has to stay in Tijuana where he starts working in a grocery store. There, he meets Elia, Cata and Asensio. What Andres finds in Tijuana makes him think about what he’s about to do and become aware of what he’s leaving behind. Norteado talks about the illusion that the United States represents for those who decide to cross the border searching for a better life.
For a full list of films, descriptions and schedule, please visit www.holamexicoff.com or www.instituteofmexicodc.org
Location: Landmark's E St Cinema
555 11th Street N.W. | Washington, D.C. | 202-452-7672
Ticket price: $10.00 for each screenings Tickets available at Tickets at E STREET CINEMA
Friday, May 21, 2010
Meet the Artists at Carroll Square
Meet the Artists at Carroll Square
Saturday, May 22, 11:00 AM
Artists participating in Isolation speak about their artwork and how it relates to the theme of the exhibition. Meet and mingle with this group of artists working in various media and subject matter. Moderated by Shira Farber of Hemphill.
Isolation artists include Andrew Bain, Jason Falchook, Kate Hardy, Max Hirshfeld, Tanya Marcuse, Mingering Mike, Lisa Noble, Sharon Sanderson, Noelle Tan, Rob Tarbell, and Paul Vinet.
Isolation is on view through June 4, 2010
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00am–6:00pm
Image: Kate Hardy, The Astronaut, 2009
watercolor on paper, 14" x 10"
Saturday, May 22, 11:00 AM
Artists participating in Isolation speak about their artwork and how it relates to the theme of the exhibition. Meet and mingle with this group of artists working in various media and subject matter. Moderated by Shira Farber of Hemphill.
Isolation artists include Andrew Bain, Jason Falchook, Kate Hardy, Max Hirshfeld, Tanya Marcuse, Mingering Mike, Lisa Noble, Sharon Sanderson, Noelle Tan, Rob Tarbell, and Paul Vinet.
Isolation is on view through June 4, 2010
Gallery Hours: Monday through Friday, 8:00am–6:00pm
Image: Kate Hardy, The Astronaut, 2009
watercolor on paper, 14" x 10"
Creative Entrepreneurs Series in DC
New series starts June 2 in DC!
Legal Issues for Creative Entrepreneurs
Legal Issues for Creative Entrepreneurs is a series of five workshops for creatives of all kinds who want to take the next step in their professional career by creating their own businesses, gaining a deeper understanding of copyrights and trademarks, contracts and licensing, the art of negotiation and tax strategies. Explore the basics of forming a business for your creative endeavors, from deciding whether to incorporate as a non-profit or for-profit entity. Gain a better understanding of copyrights and trademarks, the contracts and licensing, learn effective negotiation skills, and the ins and outs of tax strategies. Each workshop will be presented by knowledgeable professionals with practical experience working with artists and creatives in the field. This series of workshops is being offered in collaboration with THEARC.
The sessions will take place on Wednesday evenings beginning June 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 at THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Ave., SE.
Session 1 - June 2 - Business Entity Formation
Session 2 - June 9 - Copyright and Trademark Basics
Session 3 - June 16 - Contracts
Session 4 - June 23 - Negotiation Skills
Session 5 - June 30 - Tax Strategies
WALA members and members of THEARC who preregister get FREE admission to these workshops! Non-members pay $25 per session. Register by emailing info[at]thearcdc.org.
Since 1983, Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts has supported artistic expression and creative innovation by serving the legal needs of Washington, Maryland and Virginia’s arts and cultural communities.
Legal Issues for Creative Entrepreneurs
Legal Issues for Creative Entrepreneurs is a series of five workshops for creatives of all kinds who want to take the next step in their professional career by creating their own businesses, gaining a deeper understanding of copyrights and trademarks, contracts and licensing, the art of negotiation and tax strategies. Explore the basics of forming a business for your creative endeavors, from deciding whether to incorporate as a non-profit or for-profit entity. Gain a better understanding of copyrights and trademarks, the contracts and licensing, learn effective negotiation skills, and the ins and outs of tax strategies. Each workshop will be presented by knowledgeable professionals with practical experience working with artists and creatives in the field. This series of workshops is being offered in collaboration with THEARC.
The sessions will take place on Wednesday evenings beginning June 2, from 6:30 to 8:30 at THEARC, 1901 Mississippi Ave., SE.
Session 1 - June 2 - Business Entity Formation
Session 2 - June 9 - Copyright and Trademark Basics
Session 3 - June 16 - Contracts
Session 4 - June 23 - Negotiation Skills
Session 5 - June 30 - Tax Strategies
WALA members and members of THEARC who preregister get FREE admission to these workshops! Non-members pay $25 per session. Register by emailing info[at]thearcdc.org.
Since 1983, Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts has supported artistic expression and creative innovation by serving the legal needs of Washington, Maryland and Virginia’s arts and cultural communities.
Judith Peck at Hillyer Art Space
Original Position
Judith Peck
June 4-26, 2010
"Original Position" opens at International Arts and Artists' Hillyer Art Space on June 4th
with an artist/curator talk and reception on June 5th.
The work in this exhibit was inspired by John Rawls theory on justice as fairness.
Judith Peck
www.judithpeck.net
www.judithpeck.net
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Gallery 555 Opening in Washington DC this Sunday
Don't miss Gallery 555's Champagne Opening in Washington DC
Sunday, May 23, 2010 from 1-5 pm
Lobby level, 555 12th St NW
Metro Center station
202-393-1409
Featuring Michelle Cormier - Paintings
and
Ben-Achour, Dubruijne, Fransen, Kabule, Kaste, Timmers, Van Dyke, Weiss, Wismar
Delicacies, a delectable exhibition of fine art
Delicacies, a delectable exhibition of fine art
May 22-July 11, 2010
VIP Receptions:
Wednesday, May 26, 6-8pm
Thursday, June 24, 6-8pm
*Preview Art during Complimentary Tasting with Fleurir Chocolates
Thursday, May 20, 6:30pm- 8pm
Thursday, May 20, 6:30pm- 8pm
Exhibiting Artists:
Sondra N. Arkin
Chuck Baxter
Jody Bergstresser
Jim Bobick
Tanja Bos
Ann Marie Coolick
Lisa Farrell
Susan Finsen
Pat Goslee
Anne Marchand
Mary Beth Ramsey
Doris Ross
Di Stovall
Lou Stovall
Cynthia Sands
Helga Thomson
Novie Trump
Ellyn Weiss
Biagio Fine Chocolate
1904 18th Street NW, Washington DC
May 22-July 11, 2010
Open Tue-Sat 12pm-8pm; Sun 12pm-5pm
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Mid City Artists Open Studios coming up.
http://www.midcityartists.com for more info and to download a map
Georgetown Gallery Gaze
The Georgetown Gallery Gaze returns on Friday, May 21 from 5 to 8 p.m. Every third Friday of the month, participating Georgetown galleries open their doors with extended hours, art, music, libations and nibbles. This month, patrons can enter to win a special "Gallery Raffle." Stop by any of the participating galleries and enter to win one of many "artsy" items. Details.
Civilian Art Projects Openings
SuperFacial by Ryan Hill
Killing Me Softly by Lindsey Raymond
May 21 - June 19, 2010
Opening Reception for the artists:
Friday, May 21, 7-9pm
Civilian Art Projects presents the second solo exhibition of artist Ryan Hill. In "SuperFacial," Hill continues his process of exploring the contemporary cultural imagination through found images and word associations. In addition to works on paper, he further indulges his curiosity and welcomes the viewer into his imagination by exhibiting a related wall collage of ephemera, photographs, drawings and textworks, and a video collaboration with DC area experimental filmmaker Rob Parrish. An essay by Ian Svenonius will accompany the exhibition.
Killing Me Softly by Lindsey Raymond
Civilian presents the thesis work of talented emerging artist, Lindsey Raymond. Showing her work for the first time in a gallery outside of college, Raymond presents a series of hand crocheted, sewn, and embroidered artworks. An exploding head, a zombie, a chainsaw, and knives dripping red, shiny, sequined blood down the wall exude this young artist's skill and playfulness. She turns craft on its ear through unpredictable and intriguing works that combine a homespun tradition with horror, resulting in humor. According to the artist, ''by using soft materials, the work becomes more approachable and accessible to the viewer through its inviting tangibility. The unconventional methods of my work surprise the viewer and play a role in altering our perspectives of not only horror, but domestic craft as well.''
Civilian Art Projects
1019 7th Street NW
Washington DC 20004
(202) 607-3804
Killing Me Softly by Lindsey Raymond
May 21 - June 19, 2010
Opening Reception for the artists:
Friday, May 21, 7-9pm
Civilian Art Projects presents the second solo exhibition of artist Ryan Hill. In "SuperFacial," Hill continues his process of exploring the contemporary cultural imagination through found images and word associations. In addition to works on paper, he further indulges his curiosity and welcomes the viewer into his imagination by exhibiting a related wall collage of ephemera, photographs, drawings and textworks, and a video collaboration with DC area experimental filmmaker Rob Parrish. An essay by Ian Svenonius will accompany the exhibition.
Killing Me Softly by Lindsey Raymond
Civilian presents the thesis work of talented emerging artist, Lindsey Raymond. Showing her work for the first time in a gallery outside of college, Raymond presents a series of hand crocheted, sewn, and embroidered artworks. An exploding head, a zombie, a chainsaw, and knives dripping red, shiny, sequined blood down the wall exude this young artist's skill and playfulness. She turns craft on its ear through unpredictable and intriguing works that combine a homespun tradition with horror, resulting in humor. According to the artist, ''by using soft materials, the work becomes more approachable and accessible to the viewer through its inviting tangibility. The unconventional methods of my work surprise the viewer and play a role in altering our perspectives of not only horror, but domestic craft as well.''
Civilian Art Projects
1019 7th Street NW
Washington DC 20004
(202) 607-3804
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
The Fab Faux Return Washington, D.C. for May 22nd Concert at Lisner Auditorium
-THE HUFFINGTON POST
The Fab Faux will return to Washington, D.C. for the fourth year in a row, with a May 22nd concert at Lisner Auditorium. The May 22nd event, a presentation of HK Entertainment, will feature a ‘Glorious Hodgepodge’ of Beatles music, as The Fab Faux are joined by Creme Tangerine Strings and Hogshead Horns. For those of us who never got to see The Beatles in concert, we're fortunate to have The Fab Faux dedicate themselves to faithfully recreating some of the most extraordinary music ever written.
Saturday, May 22nd, 8:00PM
HK Entertainment presents:
The George Washington University Lisner Auditorium
730 21st Street, NW Washington, DC 20052
Lisner Box Office, TicketMaster, 202-397 SEAT.
http://www.lisner.org/eventdetails.asp?id=581 http://www.ticketmast
er.com/event/15004441C5CA9333?artistid=864884&majorcatid=10
The Fab Faux brings together the talents of five of New York's most respected musicians: Will Lee of Late Show with David Letterman, Jimmy Vivino, formerly of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien, Rich Pagano, who has performed with Rosanne Cash and Ray Davies, Jack Petruzzelli, who has toured and recorded with Joan Osborne, Patti Smith and Rufus Wainwright, and Frank Agnello, whose musical credits include Phoebe Snow, Marshall Crenshaw and Joey Molland of Badfinger. The Fab Faux are now in a league of their own, consistently performing music that The Beatles themselves never played live. Beginning with a pair of concerts at Webster Hall in late ‘07, the band has reached a new level of fan support as well as media awareness, with growing coverage including ABC-TV World News Tonight with Charles Gibson, NPR, Rolling Stone, Associated Press, Reuters Newswire, NY-1 News, The New York Times, NY Post, New Yorker, NY Sun, Hollywood Reporter, Time Out NY, The Nation and much more.
97 MARYLAND ARTISTS RECEIVE STATE ARTS COUNCIL 2010 INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARDS
BALTIMORE, MD (May 19, 2010) -- Governor Martin O'Malley announced that 97 Maryland artists have been selected to receive Individual Artist Awards totaling $247,000 from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency of the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development. A reception honoring the artists will be held at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore on May 20, 6:30 p.m.
"The Individual Artist Awards program is an excellent way for the State of Maryland to recognize the accomplishments of its many talented artists," said Governor O'Malley. "By bestowing these awards, we are recognizing the vital role the arts play in our communities, enhancing the quality of life for all Maryland citizens."
Artists competed for $1,000, $3,000 and $6,000 awards in the following categories: Fiction, Media, Solo Dance Performance, Solo Musical Performance, Solo Theatrical Performance, and Visual Arts: Digital/Electronic Arts, Painting, and Works on Paper. Artistic categories alternate each year. Applications for 2011 will be available at www.msac.org in June.
Congratulations to Joan Belmar, Carol Brown Goldberg, and W.C. Richardson and all the award recipients of the MARYLAND STATE ARTS COUNCIL FY 2010 INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARDS.
For more information about the Maryland State Arts Council visit the MSAC web site at www.msac.org or call (410) 767-6555.
"The Individual Artist Awards program is an excellent way for the State of Maryland to recognize the accomplishments of its many talented artists," said Governor O'Malley. "By bestowing these awards, we are recognizing the vital role the arts play in our communities, enhancing the quality of life for all Maryland citizens."
Artists competed for $1,000, $3,000 and $6,000 awards in the following categories: Fiction, Media, Solo Dance Performance, Solo Musical Performance, Solo Theatrical Performance, and Visual Arts: Digital/Electronic Arts, Painting, and Works on Paper. Artistic categories alternate each year. Applications for 2011 will be available at www.msac.org in June.
Congratulations to Joan Belmar, Carol Brown Goldberg, and W.C. Richardson and all the award recipients of the MARYLAND STATE ARTS COUNCIL FY 2010 INDIVIDUAL ARTIST AWARDS.
For more information about the Maryland State Arts Council visit the MSAC web site at www.msac.org or call (410) 767-6555.
Special Preview: Gallery 555 and Upstairs on 7th event
Upstairs on 7th - Jewelry Designer Carolyn Zapp
and Gallery 555 - Special preview opening
May 20, 5-8pm
555 12th Street NW, Washington, DC
Humor Yourself at The Stamp Gallery
John Shipman and Rachel Bone
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, May 19, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Stamp Gallery presents Humor Yourself, an exhibition featuring the illustrations of local artists John Shipman and Rachel Bone, who combine whimsical, dreamlike images and concise, illustrative styles. Humor Yourself playfully explores the potential of illustrations to enhance our otherwise common perceptions of the world. These undisguised pieces—surreal but concrete, fantastic but minimal—take a rational approach to their irrational subject matter. By engaging viewers with their acute humor and sharp irony, these pieces invite the audience to focus their imaginations on single fanciful moments in order to make connections between illusory subjects and the precise, fastidious manner in which they're portrayed. If you don't believe the disparity between fantasy and reality can be reconciled, these works dare you to fill in the gaps. Go ahead. Humor yourself.
The Stamp Gallery is located on the first floor of the Stamp Student Union on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The gallery is free and open to the public Mondays-Thursdays 10:00am – 8:00pm; Fridays 10:00am – 6:00pm; and Saturdays 11:00am – 5:00pm. For more information please visit the gallery’s website http://thestamp.umd.edu/gallery/ or call (301) 314-8493.
OPENING RECEPTION: Wednesday, May 19, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
The Stamp Gallery presents Humor Yourself, an exhibition featuring the illustrations of local artists John Shipman and Rachel Bone, who combine whimsical, dreamlike images and concise, illustrative styles. Humor Yourself playfully explores the potential of illustrations to enhance our otherwise common perceptions of the world. These undisguised pieces—surreal but concrete, fantastic but minimal—take a rational approach to their irrational subject matter. By engaging viewers with their acute humor and sharp irony, these pieces invite the audience to focus their imaginations on single fanciful moments in order to make connections between illusory subjects and the precise, fastidious manner in which they're portrayed. If you don't believe the disparity between fantasy and reality can be reconciled, these works dare you to fill in the gaps. Go ahead. Humor yourself.
The Stamp Gallery is located on the first floor of the Stamp Student Union on the campus of the University of Maryland, College Park. The gallery is free and open to the public Mondays-Thursdays 10:00am – 8:00pm; Fridays 10:00am – 6:00pm; and Saturdays 11:00am – 5:00pm. For more information please visit the gallery’s website http://thestamp.umd.edu/gallery/ or call (301) 314-8493.
Cornfield at Transformer
CORNFIELD
May 13 - May 29
CORNFIELD PERFORMANCES:
Friday, May 21: 6, 7:30 & 9:30pm;
Saturday, May 22: 4, 6, 7:30, & 9:30pm
Continuing to explore themes introduced through Sustainability Lab (May 1-8; June 2-12), Transformer is proud to introduce the DC debut of Cornfield (May 13 - May 29, 2010), an installation and performance piece by artist Nancy Bannon.
Manifesting a life-size, fabricated cornfield within Transformer's project space, audiences are invited to consider uses and preservation of natural resources. Cornfield is a visual work consisting of a wall-to-wall field of seven-foot tall, sculpted corn stalks made of painted wood, wire and visqueen, along with projections and a surrounding soundscape. During intense performances, three live performers within the cornfield echo the depletive qualities of the giant corn monoculture that is consuming America's agricultural tradition. Audiences directly experience the performances from within the installation at close proximity to the actors.
To download a pdf of the full Sustainability Lab/Cornfield press release, please click here.
1404 P Street NW Washington, DC 20010 / 202-483-1102
www.transformergallery.org
May 13 - May 29
CORNFIELD PERFORMANCES:
Friday, May 21: 6, 7:30 & 9:30pm;
Saturday, May 22: 4, 6, 7:30, & 9:30pm
Continuing to explore themes introduced through Sustainability Lab (May 1-8; June 2-12), Transformer is proud to introduce the DC debut of Cornfield (May 13 - May 29, 2010), an installation and performance piece by artist Nancy Bannon.
Manifesting a life-size, fabricated cornfield within Transformer's project space, audiences are invited to consider uses and preservation of natural resources. Cornfield is a visual work consisting of a wall-to-wall field of seven-foot tall, sculpted corn stalks made of painted wood, wire and visqueen, along with projections and a surrounding soundscape. During intense performances, three live performers within the cornfield echo the depletive qualities of the giant corn monoculture that is consuming America's agricultural tradition. Audiences directly experience the performances from within the installation at close proximity to the actors.
To download a pdf of the full Sustainability Lab/Cornfield press release, please click here.
1404 P Street NW Washington, DC 20010 / 202-483-1102
www.transformergallery.org
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Art & Living Show Opening: A Success! | Cheeky Living
Here are a few pictures and write up by David Lelong at Cheeky Living for "Art & Living Emerging Interiors" Exhibition in Chelsea. The show runs through July 5th
Art & Living Show Opening: A Success! | Cheeky Living
David Lelong Flickr Photo Set
Anne Marchand's Flickr Photo Set
Art & Living Show Opening: A Success! | Cheeky Living
David Lelong Flickr Photo Set
Anne Marchand's Flickr Photo Set
Rosemary Feit Covey Art Talk at A Pop-Up Project
MFA - Morton Fine Art
A Pop-Up Project Through May 29
Art Talk
Thursday, May 20, 6:00pm
Rosemary Feit Covey
A wood engraver whose work is collected in museums and libraries around the world
Artists on Exhibit
Mikel Glass, Kenichi Hoshine, Margaret Bowland, Rosemary Feit Covey, Laurel Hausler,
Lizzie Newton, Tim Tate, Vonn Sumner, Susan Burnstine
Tuesday - Thursday, 11:00am - 6:00pm
Friday & Saturday, 11:00am - 8:00pm
Monday & Sunday by Appointment
MFA - Morton Fine Art
625 E Street, NW
(formerly Numark Gallery)
202.390.5118
www.MortonFineArt.com
www.apopupproject.com
A Pop-Up Project Through May 29
Art Talk
Thursday, May 20, 6:00pm
Rosemary Feit Covey
A wood engraver whose work is collected in museums and libraries around the world
Artists on Exhibit
Mikel Glass, Kenichi Hoshine, Margaret Bowland, Rosemary Feit Covey, Laurel Hausler,
Lizzie Newton, Tim Tate, Vonn Sumner, Susan Burnstine
Tuesday - Thursday, 11:00am - 6:00pm
Friday & Saturday, 11:00am - 8:00pm
Monday & Sunday by Appointment
MFA - Morton Fine Art
625 E Street, NW
(formerly Numark Gallery)
202.390.5118
www.MortonFineArt.com
www.apopupproject.com
Mid City Artists OPEN STUDIOS
MCA OPEN STUDIO TOUR]
Sat & Sun, May 22 & 23, 2010
Artists' work (left to right): Sondra N. Arkin, Chuck Baxter, Jane Cave, Groover Cleveland, Robert Dodge, Thomas Drymon, Gary Fisher, Glenn Fry, Charlie Gaynor, Betsy Karasik, Hannah Naomi Kim, Joren Lindholm, Regina M. Miele, Lucinda F. Murphy, Mark Parascandola, Rebecca Perez, Dave Peterson, Brian Petro, Peter Alexander Romero, Nicolas F. Shi, Richard Siegman, George H. Smith-Shomari, Isabelle Spicer, Bill Warrell, Mike Weber, Robert Wiener, Colin Winterbottom
27 Participants - 5 New Members - Lots of New Art
Twice yearly, the artists in the neighborhood between Dupont and Logan Circles invite visitors into their studios.
Plan your visits in advance by flipping through the artists' pages online to see what you like, who is new, and who is participating. Download the map to plan your route in advance and guide you along. Check out business supporters and view Mid City Artists' exhibits in their shops.
*Individual studio locations and hours vary.
For a complete artist list, schedules and downloadable map visit the MCA Website.
Sat & Sun, May 22 & 23, 2010
Artists' work (left to right): Sondra N. Arkin, Chuck Baxter, Jane Cave, Groover Cleveland, Robert Dodge, Thomas Drymon, Gary Fisher, Glenn Fry, Charlie Gaynor, Betsy Karasik, Hannah Naomi Kim, Joren Lindholm, Regina M. Miele, Lucinda F. Murphy, Mark Parascandola, Rebecca Perez, Dave Peterson, Brian Petro, Peter Alexander Romero, Nicolas F. Shi, Richard Siegman, George H. Smith-Shomari, Isabelle Spicer, Bill Warrell, Mike Weber, Robert Wiener, Colin Winterbottom
27 Participants - 5 New Members - Lots of New Art
Twice yearly, the artists in the neighborhood between Dupont and Logan Circles invite visitors into their studios.
Plan your visits in advance by flipping through the artists' pages online to see what you like, who is new, and who is participating. Download the map to plan your route in advance and guide you along. Check out business supporters and view Mid City Artists' exhibits in their shops.
*Individual studio locations and hours vary.
For a complete artist list, schedules and downloadable map visit the MCA Website.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Zenith Gallery with Chevy Chase Pavilion
Invites you to
TREES OF LIFE II
April 29 - July 31, 2010
Throughout the Chevy Chase Pavilion
Meet the Artists
Wednesday, May 19, 6 - 8 PMZenith, second level next to Embassy Suites entrance
John Aaron Suzanne Alessi Natalie Blake Rick D'Alessandro Rosetta DeBerardinis Sofia Gawer-Fische Julie & Ken Girardini David Glick Margery E. Goldberg Brenda Gordon Stephen Hansen Philip Hazard Frank Holmes David Hubbard Marcie Wolf Hubbard jodi Joan Konkel Jill Mackie Michela Mansuino Michele Marcello Donna M. McCullough Bill Mead Davis Morton Ron Nessen Reuben Neugass Carol Newmyer Jane Pettit Amanda Richardson R ic Simmons Ellen Sinel Karen Starika Bradley Stevens Candice Watkins Eric Westbrook Paul Martin Wolff Michael Young Joyce Zipperer
10% of sales will go to American Forests' Global ReLeaf Campaign to plant 100 million trees by 2020 "to cool the earth." They've hit their 30 million mark. Let's help them plant more.
Where: Chevy Chase Pavilion, 5335 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Chevy Chase, DC 20015
Monday-Saturday, 10am-8pm; Sunday 11am-6pm
Friendship Heights Metro
Zenith Space open Saturdays, 12-6pm & by appointment
TREES OF LIFE II
April 29 - July 31, 2010
Throughout the Chevy Chase Pavilion
Meet the Artists
Wednesday, May 19, 6 - 8 PMZenith, second level next to Embassy Suites entrance
John Aaron Suzanne Alessi Natalie Blake Rick D'Alessandro Rosetta DeBerardinis Sofia Gawer-Fische Julie & Ken Girardini David Glick Margery E. Goldberg Brenda Gordon Stephen Hansen Philip Hazard Frank Holmes David Hubbard Marcie Wolf Hubbard jodi Joan Konkel Jill Mackie Michela Mansuino Michele Marcello Donna M. McCullough Bill Mead Davis Morton Ron Nessen Reuben Neugass Carol Newmyer Jane Pettit Amanda Richardson R ic Simmons Ellen Sinel Karen Starika Bradley Stevens Candice Watkins Eric Westbrook Paul Martin Wolff Michael Young Joyce Zipperer
10% of sales will go to American Forests' Global ReLeaf Campaign to plant 100 million trees by 2020 "to cool the earth." They've hit their 30 million mark. Let's help them plant more.
Where: Chevy Chase Pavilion, 5335 Wisconsin Ave, NW
Chevy Chase, DC 20015
Monday-Saturday, 10am-8pm; Sunday 11am-6pm
Friendship Heights Metro
Zenith Space open Saturdays, 12-6pm & by appointment
The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present
ART EXHIBIT | OPEN UNTIL July 4, 2010
The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present
The exhibition examines the history, culture, and art of Afro-Mexicans, beginning in the colonial era and continuing to the present day. Highlights of the exhibition include discussions of African slavery in Mexico and the hero/slave rebel Yanga; artifacts related to the traditions and popular culture of Afro-Mexicans; and paintings, masks, photography, and other works of art.
Location: Anacostia Community Museum
901 Fort Place SE | Washington DC 20020
For more information visit: www.anacostia.si.edu
The African Presence in Mexico: From Yanga to the Present
The exhibition examines the history, culture, and art of Afro-Mexicans, beginning in the colonial era and continuing to the present day. Highlights of the exhibition include discussions of African slavery in Mexico and the hero/slave rebel Yanga; artifacts related to the traditions and popular culture of Afro-Mexicans; and paintings, masks, photography, and other works of art.
Location: Anacostia Community Museum
901 Fort Place SE | Washington DC 20020
For more information visit: www.anacostia.si.edu
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Cabaret [re]ReVoltaire, Night II
Washington Project for the Arts and The Pink Line Project present:
Cabaret [re]ReVoltaire, Night II
curated by Alberto Gaitán
Monday May 17, 2010, 6-9pm
at Gallery O/H, 1354 H Street NE DC
Do NOT miss the second installment of Cabaret [re]ReVoltaire! Last Monday's sold-out cabaret event was full of unforgettable performances, absurdity, and great food and drink.
Maida Withers and Company perform, Collision Course, at
Cabaret [re]ReVoltaire Night I (photo by Vincent Gallegos)
Check out the lineup below. And be sure to buy your ticket online beforehand since they are going fast!
Monday, May 17, 2010 6-9pm
(doors at 6, performances begin at 7)
EMCEE: Dodi DiSanto
HOUSE BAND: Bob Boilen
Performances by: Karin Abromaitis with Kristina Bilonick and Tzveta Kassabova (theater/dance), Bradley Chriss (performance art), Kristin Garrison (theater), Happenstance Theatre (Mark Jaster & Sabrina Mandell), James Hesla, Reuben Jackson (spoken word), Matthew Pauli (performance),
and Prosser Stirling (performance)
Videos by:Anarchy in the Kitchen, Vin Grabill, Ayo Okunseinde, Champneys Taylor, and original footage of Cabaret Re-Voltaire from 1992
Food by Dangerously Delicious Pies
Tickets $20 (does not include the price of food and drink)
click here to purchase tickets
Cabaret [re]ReVoltaire, Night II
curated by Alberto Gaitán
Monday May 17, 2010, 6-9pm
at Gallery O/H, 1354 H Street NE DC
Maida Withers and Company perform, Collision Course, at
Cabaret [re]ReVoltaire Night I (photo by Vincent Gallegos)
Check out the lineup below. And be sure to buy your ticket online beforehand since they are going fast!
Monday, May 17, 2010 6-9pm
(doors at 6, performances begin at 7)
EMCEE: Dodi DiSanto
HOUSE BAND: Bob Boilen
Performances by: Karin Abromaitis with Kristina Bilonick and Tzveta Kassabova (theater/dance), Bradley Chriss (performance art), Kristin Garrison (theater), Happenstance Theatre (Mark Jaster & Sabrina Mandell), James Hesla, Reuben Jackson (spoken word), Matthew Pauli (performance),
and Prosser Stirling (performance)
Videos by:Anarchy in the Kitchen, Vin Grabill, Ayo Okunseinde, Champneys Taylor, and original footage of Cabaret Re-Voltaire from 1992
Food by Dangerously Delicious Pies
Tickets $20 (does not include the price of food and drink)
click here to purchase tickets
Major Exhibition of Donovan’s Sapphographs in Athens, Greece
Govinda Gallery announces the upcoming exhibition Sapphographs by Donovan opening on June 1st at the Hellenic American Union in Athens, Greece. This exhibition is organized in collaboration with Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies and Govinda Gallery in Washington, D.C. The exhibition’s curator is Christopher Murray. An online catalogue is being published for the exhibition. The large format works on paper are being produced by master printers Adamson Atelier.
This exhibition will feature twelve monumental works on paper from the Sapphographs series,
Here is a link to the announcement for that exhibition.
This exhibition will feature twelve monumental works on paper from the Sapphographs series,
Here is a link to the announcement for that exhibition.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
"Space / Place" at the 39th Street Gallery
"Space / Place" opens this Saturday, May 15th, from 5-7 PM, at the 39th Street Gallery in the new Gateway Arts Center in Brentwood, MD. The show presents the work of painter Matt Klos, draftsman Matt Woodward, and photographer Andrew Zimmermann. The work of each of the three artists presents a different concept of space and of how that space is used to describe a particular place.
Gateway Arts Center at Brentwood
3901 Rhode Island Ave.
Brentwood, MD
Gateway Arts Center at Brentwood
3901 Rhode Island Ave.
Brentwood, MD
Janet Biggs and Mary Coble at Conner Contemporary Art
Janet Biggs: Nobody Rides for Free
Mary Coble: Source
May 15 – July 3, 2010
Opening reception Saturday, May 15 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Coble's performance begins at 2 p.m. and ends during the reception and focuses on the significance of water.
Conner Contemporary Art announce two concurrent solo exhibitions featuring new video and photographs by Janet Biggs (New York, NY) and performance and video by Mary Coble (Washington, DC). Nobody Rides for Free is Biggs' first solo exhibition with the gallery; Source marks Mary Coble's third exhibition with the gallery.
Gallery opening of the week: Janet Biggs and Mary Coble at Conner Contemporary Art http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/13/AR2010051301818.html
Conner Contemporary Art
1358-60 Florida Ave. NE.
202-588-8750.
http:/
Free and open to the public.
Mary Coble: Source
May 15 – July 3, 2010
Opening reception Saturday, May 15 from 6 to 8 p.m.
Coble's performance begins at 2 p.m. and ends during the reception and focuses on the significance of water.
Conner Contemporary Art announce two concurrent solo exhibitions featuring new video and photographs by Janet Biggs (New York, NY) and performance and video by Mary Coble (Washington, DC). Nobody Rides for Free is Biggs' first solo exhibition with the gallery; Source marks Mary Coble's third exhibition with the gallery.
Gallery opening of the week: Janet Biggs and Mary Coble at Conner Contemporary Art http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/13/AR2010051301818.html
Conner Contemporary Art
1358-60 Florida Ave. NE.
202-588-8750.
http:/
Free and open to the public.
Dana Ellyn Open Studio
Dana Ellyn
OPEN STUDIO
Saturday, May 15, noon - 6pm
This "open studio" will feature the full range of Dana Ellyn's artistic output from the past 10 years. Included will be some classics from 2009 "Blasphemy Show" and the recent 2010 "Wedding Show". As well, you will be able to get a sneak peak paintings from Dana's upcoming "Banned Books" solo exhibition.
www.danaellyn.com
Dana Ellyn
Mather Studios
916 G Street, NW #304
(phone) 202-737-6161
OPEN STUDIO
Saturday, May 15, noon - 6pm
This "open studio" will feature the full range of Dana Ellyn's artistic output from the past 10 years. Included will be some classics from 2009 "Blasphemy Show" and the recent 2010 "Wedding Show". As well, you will be able to get a sneak peak paintings from Dana's upcoming "Banned Books" solo exhibition.
www.danaellyn.com
Dana Ellyn
Mather Studios
916 G Street, NW #304
(phone) 202-737-6161
The Art of Jophen Stein
The Gamies
The Art of Jophen Stein
Saturday, May 15th, from 6pm – Midnight
The Art of Jophen Stein
Saturday, May 15th, from 6pm – Midnight
Entertainment has held a position of helping people cope with the everyday drudgery of life. The Game show, moreover, offers both the value of entertainment and a promise at a chance of making life better. Loosely based on Franz Kafka's The Trial Jophen Stein's latest series The Gamies explores the idea of systems that are in place but not fully understood. From the exhilaration of winning to the disappointment of losing The Gaimes is a look into the bipolar effects of game shows as entertainment.
Art Whino Gallery
173 Waterfront St.
National Harbor, MD 20745
Show end date: June 12th
The event is FREE and open to the public.
“Look In/Look Out"- Portraits in Progress” An exhibit of original photography and mixed media artwork
CREATE Arts Center
STUDIO DOWNSTAIRS
A therapeutically informed art studio program for adults living with post-trauma & mental illness
“Look In/Look Out"- Portraits in Progress”
An exhibit of original photography and mixed media artwork
Free Symposium: Friday, June 4th, 1pm - 5 pm.
1-2:30 pm-Keynote Address: “Matt Sesow: One Man’s Journey Through Art and Healing”
Speaker: Matt Sesow, self-taught artist
2:30-4:00 pm- Panel Presentation and Discussion:
“Unique Perspectives”: The Healing Power of Making Art in the Context of Therapy and Community
Moderator: Katherine Williams, PhD ATR-BC
Panelists: Jenny Sawle, member, Studio Downstairs
Sally Brucker LCSW-C, ATR-BC, Founder/Director, Studio Downstairs
Matt Sesow- Self-taught artist
TBA
4:00- 5:00 pm- Community discussion, Q and A
5:00 -8:00 pm- Opening Reception for Art Exhibit-“ Look IN/Look OUT”
Takoma Park Municipal Center Gallery
8600 Maple Avenue
Takoma Park, MD. 20912
Studio Downstairs is a program of CREATE Arts Center, Silver Spring
www.createartscenter.org
RSVP- sbrucker2ATgmail.com
For more information contact: Sally Brucker 301 588-2787(ARTS)
Visit: www.studiodownstairsinsideout.blogspot.com
Website: www.studiodownstairs.org
*for social workers, art therapists, counselors) The Symposium is suitable for mental health consumers, family members, mental health practitioners, artists, and the general public.
STUDIO DOWNSTAIRS
A therapeutically informed art studio program for adults living with post-trauma & mental illness
“Look In/Look Out"- Portraits in Progress”
An exhibit of original photography and mixed media artwork
Free Symposium: Friday, June 4th, 1pm - 5 pm.
1-2:30 pm-Keynote Address: “Matt Sesow: One Man’s Journey Through Art and Healing”
Speaker: Matt Sesow, self-taught artist
2:30-4:00 pm- Panel Presentation and Discussion:
“Unique Perspectives”: The Healing Power of Making Art in the Context of Therapy and Community
Moderator: Katherine Williams, PhD ATR-BC
Panelists: Jenny Sawle, member, Studio Downstairs
Sally Brucker LCSW-C, ATR-BC, Founder/Director, Studio Downstairs
Matt Sesow- Self-taught artist
TBA
4:00- 5:00 pm- Community discussion, Q and A
5:00 -8:00 pm- Opening Reception for Art Exhibit-“ Look IN/Look OUT”
Takoma Park Municipal Center Gallery
8600 Maple Avenue
Takoma Park, MD. 20912
Studio Downstairs is a program of CREATE Arts Center, Silver Spring
www.createartscenter.org
RSVP- sbrucker2ATgmail.com
For more information contact: Sally Brucker 301 588-2787(ARTS)
Visit: www.studiodownstairsinsideout.blogspot.com
Website: www.studiodownstairs.org
*for social workers, art therapists, counselors) The Symposium is suitable for mental health consumers, family members, mental health practitioners, artists, and the general public.
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