PROTEST CENSORSHIP AT THE SMITHSONIAN

t r a n s f o r m e r

 1.28.11

Protest of Smithsonian Censorship this Monday 1.31.11
 Lauren Rice: Heirlooms Opens at Transformer 2.5.11  

Tell the Board of Regents - Clough must go!

Monday, January 31, 1:00pm
Meet outside the Smithsonian Metro station, at the Mall entrance. From there, we'll head to The Castle, Smithsonian Headquarters.

Last November, Smithsonian Institution head G. Wayne Clough touched off a firestorm of controversy when he quickly capitulated to the complaints of right-wing politicians and an anti-gay religious group and removed a video work by seminal gay artist David Wojnarowicz from the ground-breaking National Portrait Gallery show Hide/Seek.

His shocking and unconscionable decision to censor this exhibition triggered widespread condemnation - a New York Times editorial called it "an appalling act of political cowardice" and protesters marched in Washington, New York, and Los Angeles. Today, Clough still refuses to put the video back in the show, and has publicly defended his censorship, saying he would do it again "only handle it better."

When the Smithsonian's Board of Regents meets Monday, Jan. 31 in Washington they will be confronting this controversy and Clough's action for the first time. They have the power to restore the video and fire Clough.  We want to be there to let them know that this decision was wrong and it will not stand.  Clough's actions are a clear threat to this country's largest cultural institution, the Smithsonian.

View the Facebook event here.

Organized by ART+, a New York City-based
art action groupfighting censorship and homophobia.

With support from:
Transfomer
Museum of Censored Art

Karlisima / Art Show Reception & Mural Presentation

Karlisima
"The Light of The World"

Mural Presentation 
Art Show through February 4
(mural on the outside wall of the Potter's House)

Reception: Saturday Jan. 29th, 4 - 6:00 pm

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The Potter's House
Mary Cosby Gallery

(Bookstore and Cafeteria / Community Art Gallery)

1658 Columbia Road NW
Washington DC 20009

202-232-5483

The Potter's House
www.PottersHouseDC.org

www.Karlisima.com
Karlisima, Fine Art, Murals & Design 
202-483-3630

Note: 30% of the paintings will go to the Potter's House for their Programs to feed the Homeless. Mural was sponsored by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Potter's House and it was painted in the Summer, 2010.

OPEN SOURCE / Carroll Square Gallery

OPEN SOURCE

January 28 – March 25, 2011

Kelly Criscuolo-DeButts
Floating Lab Collective
Olivier Giron
Lindsay Hawks
Peter Lee 
Brooke Marcy
Ryan McCoy
Alex Straub

Opening Reception: Friday, February 4
6 pm – 8 pm

Carroll Square Gallery
975 F Street NW
Washington DC 20004
www.carrollsquare.com

Open Source reflects the collective resource base from which the students and faculty at George Mason University’s School of Art approach the inspiration, inquiry and methodology that brings ideas into form. This exhibition is co-curated by Tom Ashcraft and Peter Winant, professors, the School of Art at George Mason University.

Gallery Open During Business Hours
Monday through Friday, 8 am – 6 pm

The Freedom Place Collection at Monroe Community College

The Freedom Place Collection

February 2–February 27, commemorating Black History Month.

Reception: Wednesday, February 2, 7–9pm

Gallery Talk at 4pm

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Mercer Gallery at Monroe Community College 

Rochester, NY

Photos courtesy: Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF)

Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF), which manages and tours The Freedom Place Collection of seminal works by African-American artists Romare Bearden, Benny Andrews, Alma Thomas, Richard Yarde and Robert Freeman, announced today that the exhibition will be on view at Mercer Gallery at Monroe Community College in Rochester, NY, February 2–February 27, commemorating Black History Month. Robert Freeman, one of two living artists featured in the collection, will conduct a Gallery Talk on Wednesday, February 2 at 4pm, followed by a reception from 7–9pm.

In making the announcement, Margery E. Goldberg, a Rochester native and ZCAF’s executive director said, “This is a wonderful opportunity for Rochester residents and students to experience these rarely seen works, painted during a time when African-American artists were overlooked in the mostly white art world. The five artists in the collection followed their vision, and paved the way for generations to follow.”

Although linked by the African-America experience and heritage that inspired their work, the Freedom Place Collection artists speak with their own styles in their drawings, collages, lithographs, oils, acrylics and watercolors. Their subjects and messages range from abstract to figurative and rural to urban. Scenes of cotton fields, paintings of jazz musicians and partygoers and geometric forms share the walls in this exhibition.

Showing of Robert Freeman’s “Love Letter” Paintings, One Night OnlyIn conjunction with The Freedom Collection exhibition, the Zenith Community Arts will also showcase paintings from Robert Freeman’s Love Letter series on Thursday, February 3, at a reception at Brio Grill, hosted by Sami Mina, from 6-8pm, at 3400 Monroe Avenue, Pittsford Colony Plaza in Rochester. The paintings are for sale, and represent Freeman’s more recent works.

202-783-8005
www.zcaf.org

DICKSON CARROLL / NEW WORK

DICKSON CARROLL
NEW WORK 
January 29 - March 5, 2011
 

Opening Reception
Saturday, January 29, 5 - 7 pm

Intersection, 2010, painted wood sculpture, 66 x 38 x 6 inches 

Image courtesy Addison Ripley Gallery

There is no one who makes more distinctive three dimensional forms than Dickson Carroll. This new exhibition, which celebrates form, color and function in all the overlapping complexity of carved and manipulated wood and in the readily identifiable palette which is solely Carroll's, is as pleasing to look at as it is accomplished in its execution.

This exhibit, featuring a series of abstract wall pieces, incorporating mirrors, brings together the architect and artist, the craftsman and dreamer. These bright fantasies are concrete, engaging and provide food for thought. Carroll, in whichever scale he works, provides us, the viewers, with a Through the Looking Glass glimpse at the possibilities of his world.

Addison/Ripley
1670 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20007
202.338.5180 .
www.addisonripleyfineart.com

Coup d'Espace: Fort Distraction

Coup d'Espace: Fort Distraction
Mariah Johnson
January 17 – February 11
First Friday Reception: February 4, 6-8pm

For the project Fort Distraction, artist Mariah Johnson will transform the WPA office space by slowly folding, arranging, stacking and layering bed sheets around the architectural features and furniture in the space. Part performance, part site-specific installation, Fort Distraction invites viewers to witness Johnson’s process and the work behind her beautifully arranged installations. Throughout the project’s four-week run, Johnson will add to the installation on a daily basis. The public is welcome to stop by during the installation process to view the installation’s progress and watch Johnson at work. After weeks of adding, rearranging and layering, Johnson’s installation will engulf the audience, transforming the WPA office space into a kind of artist’s pillow fort. A First Friday reception in honor of Fort Distraction will be held on Friday, February 4, 2011.

Washington Project for the Arts
2023 Massachusetts Ave
Washington, DC

"Color and Shape" at City Gallery DC

"Color and Shape" showcases Nancy Donnelly’s elegant glass art and Jill Finsen’s whimsically primitive paintings executed in oil paint. 

Openmg Saturday: February 5, 2011 from 6-9pm 
Closing party: February 26 from 3- 5pm.

Fascination with texture as a component of color and shape is apparent in the work of both these artists. Allusive of the natural world, they are direct and accessible. Yet surface abstraction is paramount to the success of these art pieces—the texture of the glass complements layered textures in the paintings. These works complement each other and pull the exhibit in new and exciting visual directions. Both artists find negative space crucial to this effect, moments of rest that energize each work and in this sense make each more complete. Donnelly and Finsen’s works provide tension between familiarity and abstraction and at the same time question placement within imagined space. 

www.citygallerydc.com

Rachael Ray Show - How to Rent Anything - including art at Raandesk Gallery

 Improvisation by Anne Marchand, 48 x 48 IN, acrylic and mixed media canvas 
featured on the Rachael Ray Show
1.25.11
Courtesy of Raandesk Gallery, NYC

The Rachael Ray Show, How to Rent Anything aired on January 25 and featured the work of Washington, DC based Anne Marchand, courtesy of Raandesk Gallery in NYC. You can see the clip on art 3 minutes 32 seconds into the The Rachael Ray Show video online. Hope you enjoy the show!

Look for Raandesk Gallery credits online at Rachel Ray website.

Rachael Ray Show - How to Rent Anything

Raandesk Gallery

Anne Marchand

Art Openings DC

CAG presents Georgetown Arts 2011
Group show of 30 Georgetown Artists 

Shops at Georgetown Park, Level 2 

Reception, Thursday Jan 27, 6-9 pm 

Show continues 11-6 until Feb 1 

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DC Loft Gallery

January 21-February 19, 2011

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Paintings by Michal Hunter      

Opening Reception at the Arts Club of Washington

Friday, February, 4th, 2011, 6:30 to 9:00 PM     
 

The Monroe Gallery 

2017 I Street, N.W.  

Washington, D.C. 20006

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Hamiltonian Gallery Presents "Bound"

Selin Balci & Katherine Mann
January 22 - March 5, 2011

Artist Talk with Katherine Mann and Selin Balci 

 Thursday, January 27th, at 7:00 pm

*Rescheduled  artist talk, with Selin Balci and Katherine Mann, for Monday, January 31st, 7:00pm.

Hamiltonian Gallery | 1353 u street, nw | suite 101 | washington | DC | 20009

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DRIVE BY

February 5 - March 5, 2011

                OPENING RECEPTION at PROJECT 4 GALLERY                  

SATURDAY, February 5, 2011: 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.

 Artist talk at 8:15 pm

*Image Credit: Artist: Zlatko Cosic, Title: CCTV East, Year: 2010, Medium: Video

Project 4 Gallery

1353 U Street N.W. 3rd Floor

Washington, D.C.

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Color & Shape

Opening SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 6-9 PM

Closing party on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 3-5 PM

City Gallery is at 804 H St NE, Washington DC. Phone: 202-468-5277.

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 Jane Pettit 

 *UNEXPECTED MATERIALS BRING PORTRAITS TO LIFE*

                  Old Metal and Recycled Dishes Team Up With Glass

February 6, 2011 from 3-5PM 

The River Road Unitarian Universalist Congregation (RRUUC)

6301 River Road in Bethesda, MD. 

Pettit creates a new aesthetic out of commonplace, disparate parts with evident influence from the abstract expressionists, Klimt and Modigliani. Intricate mosaic combined with asymmetrical forms defines her style. The three-dimensional nature of her work means dramatic changes come as the light shifts, shadows emerge and mirror creates shifting shapes. The art expresses emotion in unexpected ways. www.janepettit.com

Call for Art: The Center for Green Urbanism

http://www.centerforgreenurbanism.orgCall for Art: "Making Herstory 6: The Era of Our Dreams"

The ThickArt Collaborative, LLC, in conjunction with Authentic Contemporary Art and The Center for Green Urbanism (Washington, DC), seeks submissions for "Making HerStory 6: the era of our dreams."

Deadline: Expressions of interest must be received by February 11, 2011 to be considered.
Exhibition Dates:   Exhibition dates are March 4 - 31, 2011
The Grand Opening Reception Friday, March 4, 2011, at the Center for Green Urbanism, Tubman-Mahan Gallery.  
For Additional Information: Contact Michelle d. Parrish at mik(at)thickart.com.
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Call for Art: "Mama Earth"

Entry Deadline: February 12, 2011

Mama Earth is a visual celebration of the beauty of the planet Earth through a variety of artistic mediums. It will serve as the backdrop to the Center for Green Urbanism’s first annual Earth Day Celebration in April 2011 and related activities.

For download prospectus
http://www.authenticartonline.com/call-for-artists.htm

See "Improvisation" on Rachel Ray talk show

Check out Anne Marchand's Improvisation painting on Rachael Ray on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011
Raandesk Gallery

Show time: January 25, WJLA 7 10:00 AM, Washington, DC
http://www.rachaelrayshow.com



Raandesk Gallery
16 W. 23rd Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10010

Anne Marchand Embraces the Element of Surprise

Abstraction has been the consistent thread in Marchand’s work. Within the last five years, she has focused on abstract painting and exploring the physical,mental and emotional connection between people and their surrounding environment. Her interest in mystical poetry has inspired her to create art that questions man’s place in the universe.

written by Cecile Oreste

Read more at Borderstan 

Cecile covers the arts in Borderstan and writes about dance at her blog, danceDC. 

(Luis Gomez Photo credit) 


www.annemarchand,com

100 Artists of Washington, DC / Schiffer Publishing

Our own Lenny Campello has put together a book on Washington, DC Artists, published by Schiffer Publishing and coming out in June. Check it out!


Book Details:
ISBN: 9780764337789
8 1/2 x 11" Hard Cover
735+ images, 224 Pages 
Available Jun 2011

@Amazon
100 Artists of Washington, D.C.

Art Peek-Show Pops Up on U Street Corridor

The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery announces the launch of its 2011 window-installation series, IN-FLUX window peek-show. Kicking off the IN-FLUX series this year, John M. Adams presents his site-specific drawing, Efflux.

Adams' work straddles the domains of performance and installation art; his drawings are designed and created specific for their space, and immediately destroyed at the close of the exhibition. The feathery line-quality of his graphite drawings evoke plumes of smoke, equally transitory and in keeping with the larger work's momentary existence.

 Alongside the installation's gestural work, a TV monitor loops footage of Adams creating the piece itself. Then, on Monday, February 14th at 6pm Adams will destroy the piece on site. Thus, together Efflux's components offer a metaphor for evolution - moving the viewer through creation, existence, and eventually destruction.

Don't miss your chance to see his elegant and fleeting work transform the gallery space, now on display thru February 13th, with a final performance of the work's destruction on Monday, February 14th at 6pm.

  www.smithfarm.com/gallery

Harmonious environment in "Universe" / Anne Marchand & Craig Schaffer

Harmonious environment in "Universe" written by Tara Heuser @ Pink Line Project

Anne Marchand, Stratum, 40" x 40" acrylic and mixed media

 The name of the exhibit that brought us to the Sculptural Space of 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue is called “Universe” and consists of paintings by Anne Marchand and bronze and steel sculptures by Craig Schaffer.... Even though their work is of a different origin, their pieces create a surprisingly harmonious environment. 

 Read more HERE

Universe showing through January 28^th, 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, open weekdays from 8:00-7:00, Saturday and Sunday by appointment

Art Openings DC

Eve Hennessa at The Art Registry Gallery

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Marian Osher 

ART MATTERS: a selection of eco-spiritual paintings and prints  

January 9 - February 6, 2011 

Artist's Reception and Talk: Sunday, January 23, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm 

The composit image:  Left: Airescape 8 (mixed media acrylic painting), Sacred Site (monotype) Tribute 2 (painting) Star-Crossed (monotype)  bottom image:  Shells (mixed media acrylic paint and collage)

Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville
100 Welsh Park Drive, Rockville, MD 20850    Phone: 301-762-7666
The exhibition is located in the entrance corridor, fellowship Hall, founder's Hall and Lobby.
Ask in the office to have the lights turned on.
Hours:  Monday thru Friday, 10 am - 4 pm    Sundays, 11 am - 12 pm
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Woven with Her Brush
Paintings by Zohra Ben Hamida

At the Jerusalem Fund Gallery

 

January 21—March 4, 2011

Reception to meet the artist Friday, January 21, 6-8 p.m.

Artist Zohra Ben Hamida says of herself “I am an Arab and Berber by ancestry, Tunisian by birth, Mediterranean and African by a lucky chance, American by destiny, and who I am today by choice.”  

In her paintings at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, color is the theme. “The blazing sun straddling the cool shades over the desert in Saudi Arabia, memories of the bright garments adorned with gold and silver fibulae my Berber grandmother always wore with such pride; colors encountered every day, the colors of the bougainvillea and jasmine, indiscriminately lending their beauty and fragrance to modest and luxurious houses alike; a bigger than life icon inhabiting a Roman church for hundreds of years, still calling attention to itself with its dazzling gold-leaf garment, ,bright colors, sprinkled everywhere you look, reminding us that beauty exists around and within us, reminding us that beauty will always prevail.”

www.thejerusalemfund.org/gallery
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Tania Karpowitz, photo courtesy Washington Studio School

Washington Studio School presents
paintings by Tania Karpowitz
Work on view: January 10- Feb 11, 2011.

Artist's Reception: Friday, January 21, 6-8pm.
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  Film|Neu

The latest  in subtitled cinema from Germany, Switzerland and Austria appears January 21-27 at Landmark’s E Street Cinema.

www.filmneu.org
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ARTiculate Gallery presents I'm A Fan
a collaborative project with Mandarin Oriental that opened at The Gallery at The Mandarin in November.
CANCELLED
(for now), contact gallery for rescheduling
January 20th, from 5:30-7:30PM
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! Light refreshments will be served.

ARTiculate Gallery
1100 16th St. NW, Washington, DC
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Call to Artists

ONGOING;  CALL FOR ARTISTS TO SHARE WORKS
ADDICTION AND ART

On-line Gallery.  AddictionAndArt.Org is seeking artworks addressing the complexities of addiction and recovery to post/share with a worldwide audience - for the good of mankind.  Works in any media, completed in any year are eligible.  www.addictionandart.org - go to "Submit Art Images" in the menu.  Questions:  editor@addictionandart.org or call 301-639-3520. 

Ernesto Santalla - Symmetries @ Long View Gallery

Ernesto Santalla - Symmetries 

January 20 - February 13, 2011 

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 6:30-8:30

Please RSVP to info[at]longviewgallery.com by Monday, January 17th.

EErnesto Santalla's photographs from his collage series uniquely document Washington's record-breaking snows of 2010. With camera in hand, he trudged through the inhibited landscape and captured monotonous images from the storm. His shots were not wholly unlike the thousands of photographs many amateurs captured on their camera phones, but, according to Santalla, his otherwise "uneventful, uninspired and often mundane images evolve into fascinating kaleidoscopic photographs." Santalla's process of repeating and mirroring images results in a view of our city, under the blanket of a blizzard, unlike anything you've seen before. The images that emerge from the process are images that speak to the viewer on an individual level, from the prurient to the metaphysical, similar to inkblots

Source: Long View Gallery Website

Long View Gallery
1234 9th St NW
Washington, DC 20001
202.232.4788

Art Openings DC Area

Special Invitation: Mixing Bowl: Reception this Thursday 6-8pm

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 Alison Sigethy Understory @ The Art League Gallery

January 6 – February 7, 2011

Opening Reception and Meet the Artist with a performance by Karen Reedy Dance:
Thursday, January 13, 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Artist Talk: Thursday, January 20, 7:00 pm

Storyteller Laura Bobrow: Sunday, January 23, 1:00 – 2:00 pm

Environmental artist Alison Sigethy draws inspiration from the natural world surrounding her. From collages created of natural fibers to sculptures made from recycled glass, her works have an innate organic quality.

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Controversial Characters of Portraits Past
an exhibition of epoxy resin paintings by Eric Finzi, curated by Cherí Landry
January 14 - February 18, 2011

Opening Reception: Friday January 14th @ 7pm
Honfleur Gallery / Workshop @ 1241 Good Hope Rd. SE
2nd Floor, Washington, D.C. 20020 

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Jonah Takagi / NEW AMERICAN DESIGN
a collaboration with Apartment Zero

artist talk & closing reception
Sat. Jan 15th 4pm @ Civilian Art Projects

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Black Artists of DC (BADC) presents juried show "Black Abstraction" 

@ Harmony Hall Regional Center, 10701 Livingston Rd, Ft. Washington, MD.
Curator: Jarvis DuBois
Exhibition Dates: Jan. 17 
Artists Reception: Jan. 22, 5-7pm 

Art Reception @ Gary Fisher Gallery

ARTISTS RECEPTION

GARY FISHER GALLERY

@ Houndshell Real Estate

1506 14th Street NW, WDC

JANUARY 15, 2011

6:00 - 8:00 PM

Exhibiting Artists: Chuck Baxter, Scott Brooks, Jane Cave, Gary Fisher, Glenn Fry, Jill Garrity, Charlie Jones, Hanna Naomi Kim, Anne MArchand, Lucinda Murphy, Dave Peterson, Ronald Riley, Peter Alexander Romero, George H. Smith-Shomari, Isabelle Spicer, Robert Weiner, Colin Winterbottom