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Washington, D.C. is an art connoisseur's paradise -
- More than a dozen academic institutions that offer undergraduate or graduate degrees in art.
- A wealth of local and national museums that require no admission fee.
- Many local jurisdictions offer various incentives (e.g., grants, lower taxes) to local artists.
- Gallery exhibits, community bazaars and art shows are plentiful.
Bask in the plethora of fine art venues throughout the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Take a leisurely stroll on a Sunday afternoon to the Hirshorn Museum, The National Gallery of Art, or any of the other excellent art venues in the area. This experience is sure to heighten your enthusiasm and enhance your appreciation of art.
"Around Town" will keep you informed of all significant fine art activities in the metropolitan area and other selected cities. Perhaps, you will be inspired to consider acquiring a piece of art from one of our local artists, especially one featured on this Web site.
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Location |
| (New) March 5 - 13 |
"Many Thousand Gone: Songs of My Father "
An enlightening art exhibit by renowned artist, Cynthia Farrell Johnson
For more than two centuries, millions of people around the world have enjoyed Negro Spirituals. These beautiful songs, filled with joy, hopes, pain, and despair, have been interpreted in countless ways. Cynthia Johnson's exhibition is a visual interpretation of these songs.
Lawrence Brown was Paul Robeson's arranger and piano accompanist for a time. He also accompanied the artist's father, Arthur T. Farrell, a bass-baritone. During the 1960s they performed Negro Spirituals and other works from the Robeson repertoire in the New York metropolitan area. Audiences were emotional and enthusiastic.
It was not until Cynthia Johnson heard the CD "Paul Robeson - The Power and the Glory," that she realized why. Listening to her father and Mr. Brown was like reliving Mr. Robeson's performances. This exhibition honors Arthur Farrell, Lawrence Brown and Paul Robeson and the work they did to preserve precious songs in our collective memories.
Cynthia Johnson is a connoisseur of vibrant colors. Her gouache, acrylic and collage works have been inspired by people she met and places she lived during 25 years of globetrotting as a diplomat.
Opening reception Friday, March 5, 6 - 8 pm
Artist talk, Saturday, March 13, 4 - 6 pm
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Parish Gallery Georgetown
1054 31st Street NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 944-2310
http://www.parishgallery.com |
(New) Thursday, March 4, 2010
5 - 8:30 pm |
"Phillips After 5: Thursday, March 4, 2010"
"Phillips After 5", a lively mix of jazz performances, food and drink, gallery talks, films and more held on the first Thursday of each month: 5 - 8:30 pm
Wine Tasting:
5 - 8 p.m. Veritas Wine Bar
Samples of four white wines.
Music:
5 - 8 p.m. DJ Todd Threats
Threats spins a set of international female artists.
by donation [by donation]
6:30 pm, O'Keeffe and the Line of Dance
Georgia O'Keeffe's radical and psychologically charged paintings are the inspiration for this dance interpretation choreographed by Lonnie J. Hightower III, 1999 YoungArts winner in dance and Presidential Scholar in the Arts.
[Included in admission to special exhibition; free for members]
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The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW (at Q Street)
Metro: Dupont Circle, Q Street exit
Washington, DC
(202) 387-2151
http://www.phillipscollection.org |
| (New) March 1 - 28 |
"Deron DeCesare: Drypoints and Other Works on Paper"
Join Washington Printmakers Gallery (WPG) for the opening of their first solo exhibition at their new space at Pyramid Atlantic, featuring the work of WPG member artist Deron DeCesare. The February member show will be on view as well.
Opening Reception: Friday, March.
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Washington Printmakers Gallery
1732 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20009
DuPont Circle Metro Stop,
Q Street exit
(202) 332-7757
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday through Thursday - Noon to 6pm
Friday - Noon to 9pm
Saturday through Sunday - Noon to 5pm
http://www.washingtonprintmakers.com |
| (New) March 3 - 28 |
"Exhibitions at the Foundry Gallery "
Gallery 1
The Kurdistan Regional Government Office in the District of Columbia will be sponsoring a show of the work of Kurdish artists.
Artists participating in this exhibit are: Falah Shwan, Raouf Hasan, Jamal Mushir, Hekmat Hndi, Sardar Kestai, Kurdo Hasan and Jawhar Mohamad
Gallery 2
Monthly Members' Show
Featuring work by: Fran Abrams, Sarah Alexander, Amy Barker-Wilson, Graciela Bernasconi, Katherine Blakeslee and Judy Gilbert Levey
Opening Reception: Friday, March 5, 6 to 8 pm
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Foundry Gallery
1314 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 463-0203
Gallery hours: Wed - Sun,
noon - 6:00 pm
http://www.foundrygallery.org |
| (New) March 5 - April 30 |
"Two Exhibits at Hillyer Art Space "
(1) Laborious Futility by Elena Patiño
March 5 - March 27
This exhibit adapts from Patiño's previous engagement in the construction of organic structures based on repetition with a strong connection to fiber arts. While not always made with fiber materials, the work borrows from the pliable quality of textiles. The accumulative processes used in the making of Elena's pieces make reference to a variety of different aspects of the human condition. Labor, migration and consumption are all subtly examined through her obsessively replicative methods of construction and systems of assemblage.
(2) Purge/Deluge by Kate Kretz
March 5 - April 30
This exhibit adapts from Patiño's previous engagement in the construction of organic structures based on repetition with a strong connection to fiber arts. While not always made with fiber materials, the work borrows from the pliable quality of textiles. The accumulative processes used in the making of Elena's pieces make reference to a variety of different aspects of the human condition. Labor, migration and consumption are all subtly examined through her obsessively replicative methods of construction and systems of assemblage.
FIRST FRIDAY RECEPTION: March 5, 6 - 9 pm
Free food and refreshments. $5 suggested donation.
With ambience by Matthew Hemerlein!
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International Arts and Artists
Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court, NW,
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 338-0680
http://www.artsandartists.org |
| (New) March 3 - 27 |
"Exhibitions at Studio Gallery"
[1] "Mindful of Morandi: An Exploration"
Bud Hensgen
Bud Hensgen's paintings in this exhibit capture the simplicity and elegance of Giorgio Morandi's famous bottles and bowls. Note: Fifty percent of Bud Hensgen's proceeds will be donated to the people of Haiti through Doctors without Borders.
[2] "Geometries of Hong Kong"
Harriet Lesser
Mixed media landscapes and abstractions of Hong Kong.
[3] "Sonia and Moonpie"
Joyce McCarten
he exhibition is a series of small paintings made of a model and her dog.
First Friday Reception (as part of the Dupont Circle Galleries openings): March 5, 6 - 8 pm
Artist's Reception: Friday, March 12, 6 - 8 pm
Dessert in the Gallery: Saturday, March 20, 3 - 5 pm
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Studio Gallery
2108 R Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 232-8734
Gallery Hours:
Wed and Thur, 1 - 7pm
Fri, 1 - 8pm, Sat, 1 - 6pm
http://www.studiogallerydc.com |
| (New) March 7 - April 5 |
"Anamario Hernandez: Reflections"
The Arts Council of Metropolitan Memorial UMC invites you to a art show featuring oil paintings by Mexican-born Bethesda artist Anamario Hernandez.
Opening Reception: Sunday, March 07, 5 - 6:30 pm
Location: Great Hall
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Metropolitan Memorial
United Methodist Church (UMC)
3401 Nebraska Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 363-4900
http://www.nationalchurch.org |
| Through May 9, 2010 |
"LEGACY OF AMERICAN ICON RE-EXAMINED IN GEORGIA O'KEEFFE: ABSTRACTION"
Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) is widely celebrated for her iconic paintings of flowers, animal bones, and stark New Mexican cliffs. While she has long been regarded as a central figure in 20th-century art, the radical abstract work she made throughout her career has remained less known.. Showcasing more than 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors dating from 1915 to the late 1970s, the exhibition also includes 12 photographic portraits of O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. By assembling works from her entire career, this exhibition reveals O'Keeffe as a painter who adopted abstraction as early as 1915, worked extensively with it throughout the 1920s, and used it thereafter as the foundation for her art. Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction is organized by The Phillips Collection, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum. |
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street, NW
[Metro: Dupont Circle,
Q Street exit]
Washington, DC
(202) 387-2151
The Phillips Collection is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended evening hours on Thursdays until 8:30 pm, and on Sundays from 11 am to 6 pm.
http://www.phillipscollection.org |
| (New) March 5 - April 2 |
"Hueman: Paintings and Sculpture by Adnan Charara"
Chararas exhibit "Hueman" will feature paintings and sculpture in his signature cartoon imagery, using whimsy and a cacophony of colors to comment on our common humanity, injustice, the
immigrant experience and much more. Adnan Charara, born in Lebanon, attended boarding school there, then lived in Sierra Leone during the 1974 civil war in Lebanon. From his studio at the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit he has produced his unique oevre of paintings, drawings, cast sculpture and found object works.
Local jazz vocalist Lena Seikaly will kick off the exhibit with a performance on March 5 at 6:30 pm accompanied by Jonathan Rogerson on guitar and Tom Baldwin on bass. Currently Artist- in-Residence at the Strathmore Music Center, with sold out performances, Lena Seikaly released her first solo album, Written in the Stars, February 2009.
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The Jerusalem Fund Gallery
2425 Virginia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20037
Tel. (202) 338-1958
Gallery hours: M - F, 9 am. - 5 pm
or by appointment
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org |
| Through April 25 |
"Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales "
An outstanding group of 19th- and 20th-century paintings and works on paper from the National Museum Waleshome to an internationally acclaimed collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art.
The works in this exhibition have been drawn exclusively from the extraordinary collection of Gwendoline and Margaret Davies, granddaughters of the wealthy industrialist David Davies. The Davies sisters collected during a crucial moment in the history of art, when European painting was undergoing a revolution in style, theme and technique. Between 1908 and 1922 the sisters actively sought to collect works that reflected the major movements of the time. They assembled one of the earliest and most extensive collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in Britain, which they later bequeathed to the National Museum Wales.
The exhibition will feature 53 worksmany of which have rarely been exhibited outside of Europeincluding masterpieces by Paul Cézanne, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Honoré Daumier, Augustus John, Edouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent van Gogh.
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The Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 639-1700
http://www.corcoran.org |
| January 14 - March 21 |
"Kazaan Viveiros "
Kazaan Viveiros crafts large, richly complex paintings that evoke collage. She states, "...[My] Current works explore complex perceptual relationships within the context of an evolving mental landscape. Each piece presents fragments of an inner life: assembled images referring to experiences, books, conversations, and thoughts within a structural framework. The images rendered inhabit fields of color and pattern which divide and sub-divide the picture plane. Imagery stems from a rich library of personal and cultural references, ranging from folk art and architectural details to ancient relics and religious text..." |
The Athenaeum Gallery
201 Prince Street
Alexandria, VA
22314
(703) 548-0035
http://www.nvfaa.org |
| February 19 - March 19 |
"Inside/Outside"
Curated by Mia Choumenkovith of the Lorton Art Program, Inc
Over the past thirty years Mia Choumenkovitch of the Lorton Art Program has revealed art's liberating and rehabilitative power in her work with residents of the DC Department of Corrections facilities, and was duly honored with the Mayor's Art Award in 2007. This rare collection of her students' works exhibits the unique perspective of an artist living behind bars- looking to the outside world, not only from physical confines but also from the interior of the soul.
Opening Reception: Friday, February 19, 6 - 8 pm
Artworks will be available for purchase.
The GLU Between Our Words: A Poetic Exploration of Culture and Controversy
Thursday, February 18, 6 - 8 pm
Free & Open to the Public
An evening of passionate performance art and conversation about the issues and problems facing young people and our world. Part theater show, part poetry reading, this journey into the eyes and lives of DC youth will awaken and inspire your spirit. Hosted by Generations Leading Us (GLU), a monthly youth open mic, creative writing and performance workshop team from Washington, DC's Sol y Soul.
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The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery
at Smith Farm Center
1632 U St NW
Washington DC
20009
(202) 483-8600
Gallery Hours: Wed - Fri 11 am - 5 pm, Sat 11 am - 3 pm and by appointment.
http://www.SmithFarm.com |
| Through December 31, 2010 |
"Smithsonian Marks 50th Anniversary of Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-in"
On Feb. 1, 1960, four African American college freshmen [Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and, posthumously, David Richmond - the Greensboro Four] sat down at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and politely asked to be served. When they remained in the seats after their request was refused, they ignited a youth-led movement to challenge injustice and racial inequality throughout the South.
A four-stool, eight-foot portion of the Woolworths lunch counter is on view at the museum as a powerful artifact of the civil rights movement and represents a community's defiance of the policy of racial discrimination. The student-led protests involving the lunch counter heightened awareness of such injustices throughout America and were a catalyst to wide spread change.
"The Greensboro lunch counter, one of the museum's landmark objects, represents the determination of a generation of Americans that decided that segregation was unjust and who worked to end it," said Brent D. Glass, director of the museum. "The Greensboro Four serve as a reminder that ordinary people can accomplish extraordinary things."
Throughout 2010, the museum marks the 50th anniversary of this sit-in and other civil rights milestones with programming that explores America's stories of freedom and justice. More information about the lunch counter, the Greensboro sit-in and how the museum is commemorating the anniversary is available at http://americanhistory.si.edu/freedomandjustice.
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The National Museum of American History
14th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC
(202) 633-1000
http://americanhistory.si.edu |
| February 11 - April 11, 2010 |
"Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration"
The Hirshhorn possesses one of the worlds largest and most comprehensive collections of work by Josef Albers (American, b. Bottrop, Germany, 1888; d. New Haven, Connecticut, 1976). Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration presents nearly seventy works spanning the artists 50-year career, many of which are on view for the first time. Supplementing the installation are key objects on loan from the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
The exhibition encompasses the artists distinguished career, from his years teaching at Germanys famed Bauhaus and Black Mountain College in North Carolina, through his influential role as chairman of the art department at Yale University. Albers early years are represented by bold designs in black and white, as well as those in red, yellow, and blue. These works demonstrate the artists interest in commercially manufactured materials, such as glass, and what would be an enduring focus on abstract forms. By the time Albers began his tenure at Yale University in 1950, he believed that color has no inherent emotional associations, and he emphasized the subjectivity of perception by meticulously examining its nuances. He eventually limited the shape and number of his forms, which resulted in a standardized format that he called Homage to the Square, for which he is best known. These images create optical illusions, challenging viewers visual acuity. Josef Albers: Innovation and Inspiration also includes documentary photographs, a video, and examples of Albers teaching aids, and concludes with several galleries representing a range of works by artists who knew, studied under, worked with, or directly inspired Albers. Pictured: Josef Albers Glow (1966), from the Hirshhorn's collection.
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden - Smithsonian Institution
Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW
Washington, D.C.
202) 633-4674
HOURS:
Open daily except December 25;
Museum: 10 am to 5:30 pm (EST)
Plaza: 7:30 am to 5:30 pm
Sculpture Garden: 7:30 am to dusk
Admission is free.
http://hirshhorn.si.edu |
| February 20 - March 20 |
"New Work - Hamiltonian Gallery "
An exhibition of new works by Alex Kondner, Hamiltonian Fellows Ian MacLean Davis, Linda Hesh and Bryan Rojsuontikul, opening Saturday, February 20, 2010. Through the repetition of a particularly burdened word, object, material or image, each artist utilizes the visual residue of popular culture to address the roots of current sociopolitical mores.
In the series "Evacuate," Alex Kondner trades in the seemingly nonessential physical attributes of traditional artist materials for disposable ones, such as play-sand and faux fur.
Ian MacLean Davis appropriates imagery from mass-produced sources drawn from fine art and pop culture. Davis then distorts and layers these images to depict how technology and information saturation affect our memory and perception of gender. Two paintings, Golem and Lithe, bring to mind clichéd male and female bodies from popular media. Pours of syrupy paint are covered by overlapping threads of viscous enamel, masking an underlying image and portraying the murky lens with which the two sexes view each other.
"In the Garden," is the tale of original sin retold by Linda Hesh using apples laser-etched with the word "EVIL."
"In Words in Space," Bryan Rojsuontikul creates minimalist works by spray painting text on canvases faced with tiny foam balls that make up the underlayment of linoleum tile. One work consists of the phrase "Art is Cancer" repeated on canvases differing only in their background colors. Below the canvases, 80 silver floor tiles reflect the phrase back at the viewer.
Opening reception: Saturday, February 20, 2010, from 7 - 9 p.m.
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Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
(14th and U Streets)
Washington, DC
(202) 332-1116
http://www.hamiltonianartists.org |
| Through - March 14 |
"Yeondoo Jung: Moving Perspectives"
Through photography and video, Yeondoo Jung, who was born in Jinju, Korea, in 1969, invites viewers into the dreams and memories of others. In two new video works, including a multi-screen installation, anonymous strangers are filmed as they recall moments in their lives. While they share their stories of past loves, youthful ambitions, hardship, and lifelong secrets, a team of stagehands reconstructs the settings for these memories. Jung emphasizes the artifice of each scene by orchestrating clever set recreations and filming the process from beginning to end, or by manipulating camera angles and lighting effects in long outdoor sequences. Ultimately, these videos suggest that, when filtered through nostalgia and the passage of time, reality exists somewhere between truth and imagination. |
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
1050 Independence Avenue
Washington, D.C.
(202) 633-1000
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions |
| February 14 - May 23, 2010 |
"Cézanne and American Modernism "
Discover how Cézanne's transformed American art at the beginning of the 20th century. THis groundbreaking exhibition brings together 16 dazzling paintings and watercolors by the French master with more than 80 works by artists such as Marsden Hartley, Maurice Prendergast, Alfred Stieglitz, and Man Ray.
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is universally acclaimed as the father of modern art for his revolutionary use of flattened perspective, carefully structured compositions, and his signature technique of painting with patches of color. This exhibition is the first to reveal how a small group of pioneering American artists championed the reclusive French artist and created an array of breathtaking landscapes, vibrant still lifes, commanding portraits, and lively scenes of bathers that demonstrate the transformative impact of Cézanne's painting.
Note: a visit to Gertrude's restaurant [serving delicious regional cuisine] at BMA is also highly recommended.
Call (410) 889-3399 for reservations
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Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA)
10 Art Museum Drive
Baltimore, MD 21218
(410) 396-7100
http://www.artbma.org |
| February 3 - March 13 |
"Michael Platt: In Abandoned Places"
A solo exhibit of new works by Washington, D.C. artist Michael Platt. For the last three decades Platts work has evolved trough thought provoking observations of the world with the human body. His current work involves tension between setting and subject, history and identity, and conventional representation with non-conventional representation. Throughout his career, Platt has tried to create a new order and direction to explain his personal truth. In his new work his techniques engages us in several layers of artistic involvement, including painting directly on a model, photographing the model in the studio, and digitally collagen multiples images to compose the final work.
Artist Talk: Saturday, March 6, 4 - 7 pm
SUBMIT YOUR QUESTIONS!
email, intvisions2@gmail.com, with inquiries about "In Abandoned Places," Michael's latest body of work. Tim (Gallery owner) will select questions for him to address during the presentation, and will include others in his upcoming newsletter.
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International Visions - The Gallery
2629 Connecticut Ave NW
Across from Woodley Park Metro stop
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 234-5112.
http://www.inter-visions.com |
| February 18 - March 27 |
"Marco Delogu: Cardinals and Criminals"
Marco Delogu has always embarked on projects focused on groups of people who have experiences or idioms in common, and in doing so has always drawn inspiration from his own life.
The idea of photographing Vatican Cardinals (Cardinali) for example was inspired by Delogu's uncle who was a Bishop. Photographed in their private chapels, their apartments, austere or regal, in the magnificent Vatican buildings or in their hospital beds, these portraits recall the iconography of classical painting while being in the language of contemporary portraiture.
Captivity (Cattavita), Delogu's portraits of criminals in Rome's Rebibbia Prison stems from his fear of imprisonment, a constant concern for the people of his generation and their extreme expressions of the political struggles of the 70's. After twenty years, many of Delogu's former schoolmates are still in prison.
Cardinals and Criminals are complete opposites. Each represent societal extremes: Good and Evil. However, through Delogu's lens, these opposites manifest a collision of ethos and pathos. Delogu sees each person as an inhabitant within a web of imposed and self-imposed rules and regulations that are indecipherable to those who do not know their experience. Beyond the rules are men and women just trying to survive.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 18, 6 - 8 pm
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Randall Scott Gallery
111 Front Street #204
Brooklyn, NY 11201
212-796-2190
http://www.randallscottgallery.com |
| February 19 - March 27 |
"Alma Mater"
The first solo exhibition in Washington, DC by area photographer Jennifer Dorsey. The show highlights Dorseys interest in revealing the unexpected beauty in everyday, ordinary places. Alma Mater features a series of photographs of the stark and haunting interiors of two area schools: National Cathedral School, where
the artist teaches, and St. Albans School.
Similar to Dorsey's past work, the pictures depict specific places while alluding to collective experiences. The artist chose to photograph high schools because audiences have a direct, personal connection to the spaces. The photographs reflect the artist's continuing interest in familiar spaces devoid of people. Shot from 2007 through 2008, the photographs depict empty interiors, yet evoke a timeless and universal feeling.
Opening reception: Friday, February 19, 6 - 8pm |
Gallery at Flashpoint
916 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 315-1305
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 12-6 pm or by appointment
http://www.flashpointdc.org |
| November 10 - March. 7, 2010 |
"Yinka Shonibare MBE "
British-born Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare was awarded a Member of Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2005, an award that he accepted with some irony, given the critical focus of his work for over a decade. He has chosen to adopt this title at all times, using it as a "platform" from which to explore further the colonial legacy, class structure and social justice issues that remain in the country he calls his home.
Shonibare works across diverse artistic media to explore ideas about African contemporary identity and the legacy of European colonialism in the present.
Shonibare's art considers social class and aesthetics, and is characterized by recurring visual symbols such as "Dutch wax" fabric since the mid-1990s. This exhibition presents 12 years of the artist's career, encompassing painting, sculpture, large-scale mixed-media installations, photography and film.
Originally introduced in place of canvas for Shonibare's paintings, Dutch wax fabric is rich with meaning for the artist. Inspired by Indonesian batiks and produced in Europe for the West African market in the 19th and early 20th centuries, it has come to symbolize for Shonibare the complex web of economic and racial interactions-and interdependencies-between Europe, Asia and Africa
Yinka Shonibare MBE is organized and toured by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. The exhibition is curated by Rachel Kent.
****Meet the artist: Yinka Shonibare MBE****
Thursday, November 12, 2009, 7 - 8 pm
Location: Hirshorn Museum, Ring Auditorium
Independence Avenue at Seventh Street SW
Washington, D.C.
During the opening week of the artist's major midcareer survey at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA), UK-based Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare visits the Hirshhorn to discuss his work with NMAfA curator Karen Milbourne. |
Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art
950 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 633-4600
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits/shonibare |
| Through April 11, 2010 |
"The Katzen Center: Winter 2010 Exhibitions"
(1) Tom Green: Past and Present
January 23 - March 14
Tom Green has been a legendary figure in the Washington, D.C., art world for over 40 years. His paintings, drawings, watercolors, and installations somehow manage to move freely between the formal and the accidental, the iconic and the idiosyncratic, the serious and the absurd. This exhibition samples the career of this important and influential Washington artist.
Gallery talk with Tom Green: Saturday, February 6, at 4 pm
(2) Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin: Personal Interiors
January 30 - March 14
This exhibition presents recent work by two artists with long associations with the AU Art Department who now live and work in Assisi, Italy. This exhibition features paintings, drawings, and collages that reveal relationships of the figure in still, intimate spaces.
Gallery talk with Alan Feltus & Lani Irwin, Saturday, Jan. 30, 5 pm
(3) Robert Devers: Cult of the Hand
January 23 - March 14
This interdisciplinary exploration retraces and reimagines the influences of culture, craft, and place on the artist. Through the multicultural perspective provided by the history of maiolica glaze painting, the artist maps his own journey in the form of paintings, ceramics, and installations to offer a new translation of pattern, form, and space and to provide new perspectives of cultural influence as an American artist working in Mexico and Italy.
Gallery talk with Robert Devers: Saturday, February 20, at 4 pm
(4) Cream: Washington Project for the Arts Art Auction Exhibition
January 30 - March 6
This exhibition features work by Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) member artists, as well as national contemporary artists selected by top curators from some of the most important art institutions in the country. WPA invites contemporary art aficionados to indulge their passion for art at the WPA Art Auction Gala on Saturday, March 6, at 6 p.m. All proceeds benefit WPA programs and exhibitions. For tickets and more information, please visit http://www.auction.wpadc.org.
Curators talk: Thursday, February 25, 6 - 8 pm
Washington Project for the Arts Auction: Saturday, March 6, 6 pm
(5) - John Dreyfuss: Inventions
Through April 11, 2010
Featuring six large-scale works by sculptor John L. Dreyfuss, this exhibition is an exploration into the evolution of form and the wonder of invention. Referencing bones and early tool shapes, each work examines the relationship between form, strength of materials and the harnessing of power. Beginning with sketches, wax, plaster and cast metal models,
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The Katzen Arts Center at
American University
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 885-2787
Museum Hours:
11:00 am to 4:00 pm, Tues - Sun
http://www.american.edu/museum |
| January 22 - February 19 |
"Stories and Migrations: Photography by Antoine Sanfuentes and Ann Curry of NBC and Deborah Terry of International Lifeline Fund"
Concurrent Exhibitions Raise Awareness and Funds
"Stories," an exhibit [Honfleur Gallery] of photographic stories created by three artists to help raise awareness and funds for relief efforts in African nations. Stories features documentary photography created by Antoine Sanfuentes in a 2008 visit to East Goma with NBC's Ann Curry covering topics such as children soldiers of Africa, education and rape. Works by Ann Curry will be presented from the same trip, alongside Deborah Terry's images of Sudanese and Ugandan refugees and conflict victims as well as multimedia presentations of the grassroots work done by International Lifeline Fund. Proceeds from this exhibition and the opening night fundraiser will go to support International Lifeline Fund.
Concurrently, Terry will be exhibiting at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions, also in Historic Anacostia, with a solo exhibition entitled Migrations, illuminating the lives of two disparate groups at odds in the Darfur conflict; nomadic herders/warriors known as Janjaweed, and the refugees displaced by them.
The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
2208 Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE
Washington DC 20020
( 202) 631-6291
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Honfleur Gallery
1241 Good Hope Rd. SE
Washington , D.C. 20020
(202) 536-8994
Gallery Hours: Noon - 5pm , Tuesday through Friday and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays.
Gallery will be closed on Sundays and Mondays
http://www.honfleurgallery.com |
| January 23 - March 13 |
"Hemphill Fine Arts Exhibitions"
Three exhibitions are featured:
(1) William Christenberry: "Vintage Kodak Brownies"
An exhibit of vintage photographs [taken with a Brownie camera] by this renowned Washington, D.C. (Cleveland Park) artist.
(2) Robin Rose: "Distortion, Delay & Sustain"
Collages of miscellaneous musical instruments.
(3) Donald Baechler: "Flower Studies"
Miscellaneous flower prints |
Hemphill Fine Arts
1515 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 234-5601
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat,
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Or by appointment.
http://www.hemphillfinearts.com |
| November 9, 2009 - July 4, 2010 |
"The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present "
This is a traveling exhibition developed by curators Sagrario Cruz-Carretero and Cesáreo Moreno at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. The exhibition examines the history, culture, and art of Afro-Mexicans, and begins in the colonial era and continues 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.
This exhibition is accompanied by Who Are We Now? Roots, Resistance, and Recognition, developed by curator Elena Gonzales. Who Are We Now? charts the history of the relationship between Mexicans and African Americans in the United States as well as the relationship between African Americans and the country of Mexico.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Anacostia Community Museum
1901 Fort Place, SE
Washington, D.C. 20020
(202) 633-4820
http://www.anacostia.si.edu |
| January 16 - March 6, 2010 |
"Three Solo Exhibitions at Conner Contemporary Art"
Connor features three concurrent solo exhibitions by three gallery artists: Jeremy Kost, Taylor Baldwin and Matthew Sutton:
(1) Jeremy Kost: Anyone Other Than Me &
Kost's latest body of work reveals the intensely personal nature of his art. The growing notoriety of the artist's captivating photographs - of club kids, celebrities, transsexuals, and beautiful young men - issues from his prowess in the New York social scene, a deliberately cultivated capacity, which lies at the core of his creative process.
(2) Taylor Baldwin: Living Fossil
Baldwin's sculptures and drawings explore personal, economic, and environmental relationships between people and objects.
(3) Matthew Sutton: Sounds a Grown Man Should not Make
Sutton, presents a selection of sounds, which, he explains, I make on a regular basis. These sounds sometimes meet with disapproval from friends, family, and coworkers.
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Conner Contemporary Art
60 Florida Avenue, NE
(in the H Street corridor)
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 588-8750
Gallery hours: Wed - Sat,
11-5 pm or by prior appointment.
http://www.connercontemporary.com |
| January 9, 2010 - February 20 |
"The Timkov Collection"
A near recreation of the acclaimed 2008 Meridian International Center exhibition "The Timkov Collection," provided by Timothy and Lisa Wyman, features remarkable landscapes by renowned Russian painter Nikolai Efimovich Timkov (1912-1993). The exhibit was co-curated by Dr. Alison Hilton of Georgetown University and Dr. Curtis Sandberg of the Meridian International Center.
Recognized as an Honorable Artist of the Russian Federation in 1987 at age 75, Timkov spend much of his career out of favor with the Soviet government and the Social Realist movement en vogue during his younger years. Timkov pursued his own style of Impressionism, depicting the landscapes and scenes of rustic country life.
Working largely outside the mainstream throughout his career, Timkov's work received little international attention or representation until very late in his life. While his work is distinctively of his time and place, as well as demonstrating both passion and mastery of his form, opportunities to view such a collection of Timkov works have been rare. |
The Mansion at Strathmore
10701 Rockville Pike
North Bethesda, MD 20852
(301) 581-5200
Mansion Hours - Galleries and Gift Shop
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday -
10 am - 4 pm
Wednesday, 10 am - 9 pm
Saturday, 10 am - 3 pm
Closed Sunday
http://www.strathmore.org/ |
| December 10 - February 28, 2010 |
"Zenith Gallery Presents: The Soul of Seoul"
Painting by David Richardson
At Chevy Chase Pavilion
This new series by Zenith Gallery artist David Richardson was inspired by his years living in Seoul, South Korea 2007-2009, as an officer in the US Marine Corps. The work reflects the symbols seen on the streets of Seoul and their change in appearance as day turns to night. "During the day," he says, "the city is drab and gritty, but at night the neon lights go on, adding color and radiance to the Greek and Latin crosses topping the churches perched on the mountains surrounding the city."
Exhibit Hours: Mon - Sat, 10 am - 8 pm Sun, 11 am - 6 pm
PLEASE NOTE: For this show and others in the future, Zenith Gallery is teaming up with Chevy Chase Pavilion as a venue for showing its eclectic mix of art in all media. This exhibit is displayed throughout the Pavilion.
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Zenith Gallery @
Chevy Chase Pavilion
5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Metro Stop (Red Line):
Friendship Heights
Chevy Chase, D.C. 20015
(202) 783-2963
http://www.zenithgallery.com |
| Through March 14, 2010 |
"Exhibits at The National Gallery of Art"
(Exhibit 1) In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes before the Digital Age
Duration: Through - March 14, 2010
This exhibition chronicles the major technological developments in photographic processes from the origins of the medium until the advent of digital photography. Drawn from the Gallery's permanent collection, the exhibition is organized chronologically and includes some 90 photographs that range from an early photogenic drawing by William Henry Fox Talbot, the inventor of photography, to Polaroid prints by Andy Warhol. Superb examples of the major photographic processes, including salted paper, albumen, gelatin silver, and chromogenic prints, will be on view, along with examples of photomechanical processes such as photogravure and halftone. The selections in the exhibition will highlight the artistic vitality and technological virtuosity of the medium's practitioners and demonstrate the many factors--not only the choice of process, but also scale, tone, cropping, enlarging, and paper selection--that shape the aesthetic quality and meaning of a photograph.
The exhibition is on view in the National Gallery's West Building, Ground Floor, Galleries 30-32.
(Exhibit 2) The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850 -1900
Passes: Passes are not required for this exhibition.
Duration: Through - January 18, 2010
For much of today's public the art of the late 19th century connotes impressionism, an art of the open air and the café-concert, invoking the pleasure of the landscape and the city with its many entertainments. But there is another side to the storythe discreet world of individual collecting in which prints, drawings, and small sculpture were kept aside in portfolios or stored away in cabinets. Organized around the city centers of Paris, London, and Berlin, the exhibition will include more than 100 worksmainly prints, but also drawings, illustrated books, and small sculpturefrom the Gallery's extensive collections that reveal the romantic sensibilities of the arts of privacy. Here the experience of art was a private affair, like taking a book down from the shelf for quiet enjoyment. The arts of privacy encouraged the expression of darker thoughts and moody reflectionsa milieu that recruited the talents of academics, realists, impressionists, and symbolists.
The exhibition will be accompanied by an unprecedented catalogue on the study of the nature of the private aesthetic experience in 19th-century collecting.
Exhibit located in the West Building Ground Floor.
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The National Gallery of Art
West Building
4th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20565
(202) 737-4215
http://www.nga.gov |
| October 16 - August 8, 2010 |
"Brian Jungen: Strange Comfort "
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian presents a major exhibition of the
critically acclaimed works of Brian Jungen, one of the leading contemporary artists of his generation. The exhibition features new pieces never seen before in the United States. This is the first exhibition in which works by the Vancouver, Canada-based artist, whose heritage is Swiss-Canadian and Dunne-za First Nations, have been organized by a Native American museum. It is also the first solo exhibition of a contemporary artist at the museum since it opened five years ago. Both monumental and intimate in scale, Jungen's installations are playful and provocative, transforming familiar everyday consumer items into exquisite works of art.
Gallery Tours:
During the run of the exhibition, the museums cultural interpreters will provide special gallery highlight tours lasting 45 minutes to 1 hour in the third-level gallery. Check at the Welcome Desk for times. Visit the Web site for more information about these events and for updates.
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National Museum of the American
Indian (NMAI) On the Mall
4th Street & Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20560
Phone: 202-633-1000
http://www.nmai.si.edu |
| October 1, 2009 - May 2, 2010 |
"The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works"
Ten themes--Scrape, Concentricity, Line, Gesture, Art on Art, Drip, Stripe to Zip, Figure or Ground, Monochrome, and Picture the Frame--illuminate specific works across the Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection. The resulting juxtapositions, often surprising and provocative, provide a new way to tell the story of postwar American art, and of a great collection. Through remarkable acuity, exhaustive study, and close relationships with the artists, the Meyerhoffs amassed one of the most outstanding collections of modern art, with an emphasis on six American masters: Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Brice Marden, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella, in addition to important works by leading abstract expressionists and younger artists. A number of the ten themes concern the material process of creation, others address issues of form and composition, and still others extend past material and formal issues to broach the self-reflexive aspects of modernist painting. Some 126 paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints include several acquisitions made after the collection was last highlighted in a major exhibition at the Gallery in 1996. All of the works in the exhibition have been donated or promised to the National Gallery of Art and continue to shape and greatly enhance the Gallery's modern and contemporary collection.
The exhibition is shown in the National Gallery's East Building,
Mezzanine Level |
National Gallery of Art
4th Street and
Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC
(202) 737-4215
http://www.nga.gov |
| Through January 30 |
"Gallery 10, Ltd Art Events"
Sculpture Invitational featuring works by: GARY IRBY, ELIZABETH CRISMAN, MELISSA BURLEY, MAXINE CABLE,JUDITH RICHELIEU, CLAUDIA VESS, WAYSON JONES, HOWARD MCCOY, MARY MCCOY, JUDITH KORNETT, JESSICA BRAITERMAN, SAM NOTO, ANDREA URAVITCH, MARIAH JOSEPHI, ADRIENNE HEINRICH, DAVID HUBBARD.
Opening Reception: Friday, January 8, 6 - 8 pm
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Gallery 10, Ltd
1519 Connecticut Ave., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
(202) 232-3326
http://www.gallery10dc.com |
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