Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Saturday, February 11, 2006
Wednesday Night Art Attack
Hosted by Tracey Austin @ Bar Rouge
1315 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
7:00 p.m. - until
Cozy cocktails, art and a toast to February Artist - Chinedu Felix Osuchukwu. Chinedu is known for his abstract, thought-provoking oil and acrylic paintings. He recently was nominated for the Mayor's Arts and Humanities Award and has received many accolades for his work. This event will give you an opportunitiy to preview and purchase his work, meet other art enthusiasts, collectors, gallery owners and artists, while relaxing and grooving in a soothing and trendy atmosphere with beautiful people.
1315 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
7:00 p.m. - until
Cozy cocktails, art and a toast to February Artist - Chinedu Felix Osuchukwu. Chinedu is known for his abstract, thought-provoking oil and acrylic paintings. He recently was nominated for the Mayor's Arts and Humanities Award and has received many accolades for his work. This event will give you an opportunitiy to preview and purchase his work, meet other art enthusiasts, collectors, gallery owners and artists, while relaxing and grooving in a soothing and trendy atmosphere with beautiful people.
Celebrity Portraits from the Warhol Factory Years
Saturday, February 18 - Friday, March 31
An Exclusive Exhibition
Including Many Photographs Never Before Presented
Irvine Contemporary Art
1710 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 332-8767
Irvine Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of our exhibition Celebrity Portraits from the Warhol Factory Years: Billy Name, Gerard Malanga, Carl Fischer, and Curtis Knapp, which opens to the public on Saturday, February 18 and runs through Friday, March 31.
This exclusive and first-time exhibition brings together iconic and recent portraits by four prominent photographers who were on the scene during the decades that came to define the Andy Warhol Factory years (1960s-80s). The photographs span from the earliest years in the "Silver Factory" through the 1980s. The exhibition includes portraits that have never been exhibited before, and many are from scarce and very limited editions.
Photographs in the exhibition include portraits of Edie Sedgwick, Nico, International Velvet (Susan Bottomly), Jasper Johns, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Gerard Malanga, Alan Ginsberg, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol's mother, as well as several portraits of Andy himself, both formal portraits and images of the artist at work, at play and in repose. Prices range from $1,800 to $6,000 per photograph, all in signed, numbered editions.
Gerard Malanga, photographer, filmmaker, poet, archivist, and artist, worked closely with Andy Warhol in the 1960s, and began working at the Factory as Warhol's silkscreen assistant in 1963 and helped produce Warhol's first silkscreen paintings. He soon began collaborating with Warhol on the famous "Screen Tests" series shot in the Factory and worked on many of Warhol's underground films. His work has appeared in many exhibitions, and most recently during the Vienna "Viennale" in 2005 at the Charim Galerie. Malanga has written twenty- three books and numerous articles, and his most recent publications include No Respect: New and Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2001) and a major book of his photographs, Gerard Malanga: Screen Tests, Portraits, Nudes 1964- 1996 (2003).
Carl Fischer graduated from The Cooper Union and studied in London at the Saint Martins College of Art and Design on a Fulbright Fellowship. He then began his career as an advertising art director in New York, and in the 1950's he opened a photography studio in New York and produced work that has won numerous awards, including, most recently, two works in the top 10 "Best 40 Magazine Covers" awarded by The American Society of Magazine Editors. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography, The George Eastman House, and The Rose Art Museum. His book of photography, Portraits: 1953 to 1984, was published in 2006.
Curtis Knapp attended the Parsons School of Design, New York, and has established an award-winning career in portrait and fashion photography. Since the 1980s, he has photographed some of the greatest artists, musicians, actors, writers, and celebrities of our day, including Madonna (her first portrait magazine cover), Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, REM, Brian Eno, Dennis Hopper, Margaux Hemmingway, John Hurt, and many others. In 1982, he began shooting for Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine, and met Warhol in 1983, the year he shot the portraits in our exhibition. Knapp has published seven books of photography, including Catwalk: Fashion Models of Japan (1993), Foto Portraits (1998), Prison's Inside Art (1999), and a series of nudes shot in Japan. His portraits of Andy Warhol are among the last images we have of Warhol in his last Factory.
Irvine Contemporary is honored and delighted to present these stunning and important portraits by four major photographers who captured one of our culture's most creative eras.
Special Exhibition Event:
Irvine Contemporary in New York
During Armory Show Weekand Opening of the Whitney Biennial
Join us at our Chelsea New York gallery space for a special exhibition of
Irvine Contemporary artists
515 West 29th St., 2nd Floor, near 10th Ave.
March 10-12
Saturday, February 18 - Friday, March 31
An Exclusive Exhibition
Including Many Photographs Never Before Presented
Irvine Contemporary Art
1710 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20009
Phone: (202) 332-8767
Irvine Contemporary is pleased to announce the opening of our exhibition Celebrity Portraits from the Warhol Factory Years: Billy Name, Gerard Malanga, Carl Fischer, and Curtis Knapp, which opens to the public on Saturday, February 18 and runs through Friday, March 31.
This exclusive and first-time exhibition brings together iconic and recent portraits by four prominent photographers who were on the scene during the decades that came to define the Andy Warhol Factory years (1960s-80s). The photographs span from the earliest years in the "Silver Factory" through the 1980s. The exhibition includes portraits that have never been exhibited before, and many are from scarce and very limited editions.
Photographs in the exhibition include portraits of Edie Sedgwick, Nico, International Velvet (Susan Bottomly), Jasper Johns, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, Gerard Malanga, Alan Ginsberg, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol's mother, as well as several portraits of Andy himself, both formal portraits and images of the artist at work, at play and in repose. Prices range from $1,800 to $6,000 per photograph, all in signed, numbered editions.
Gerard Malanga, photographer, filmmaker, poet, archivist, and artist, worked closely with Andy Warhol in the 1960s, and began working at the Factory as Warhol's silkscreen assistant in 1963 and helped produce Warhol's first silkscreen paintings. He soon began collaborating with Warhol on the famous "Screen Tests" series shot in the Factory and worked on many of Warhol's underground films. His work has appeared in many exhibitions, and most recently during the Vienna "Viennale" in 2005 at the Charim Galerie. Malanga has written twenty- three books and numerous articles, and his most recent publications include No Respect: New and Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2001) and a major book of his photographs, Gerard Malanga: Screen Tests, Portraits, Nudes 1964- 1996 (2003).
Carl Fischer graduated from The Cooper Union and studied in London at the Saint Martins College of Art and Design on a Fulbright Fellowship. He then began his career as an advertising art director in New York, and in the 1950's he opened a photography studio in New York and produced work that has won numerous awards, including, most recently, two works in the top 10 "Best 40 Magazine Covers" awarded by The American Society of Magazine Editors. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The International Center of Photography, The George Eastman House, and The Rose Art Museum. His book of photography, Portraits: 1953 to 1984, was published in 2006.
Curtis Knapp attended the Parsons School of Design, New York, and has established an award-winning career in portrait and fashion photography. Since the 1980s, he has photographed some of the greatest artists, musicians, actors, writers, and celebrities of our day, including Madonna (her first portrait magazine cover), Laurie Anderson, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, REM, Brian Eno, Dennis Hopper, Margaux Hemmingway, John Hurt, and many others. In 1982, he began shooting for Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine, and met Warhol in 1983, the year he shot the portraits in our exhibition. Knapp has published seven books of photography, including Catwalk: Fashion Models of Japan (1993), Foto Portraits (1998), Prison's Inside Art (1999), and a series of nudes shot in Japan. His portraits of Andy Warhol are among the last images we have of Warhol in his last Factory.
Irvine Contemporary is honored and delighted to present these stunning and important portraits by four major photographers who captured one of our culture's most creative eras.
Special Exhibition Event:
Irvine Contemporary in New York
During Armory Show Weekand Opening of the Whitney Biennial
Join us at our Chelsea New York gallery space for a special exhibition of
Irvine Contemporary artists
515 West 29th St., 2nd Floor, near 10th Ave.
March 10-12
Collaboration As A Medium: 25 Years of Pyramid Atlantic
I first posted about this show here and had a chance to see the show at Maryland Art Place today in Baltimore before the first snowflake hit the area.
This show celebrates the 25th year of Pyramid Atlantic, based in Silver Spring, Maryland andfeatures some of the wonderful artists that have contributed to the organization during that time.
The artwork that was most impressive to me was:
This show celebrates the 25th year of Pyramid Atlantic, based in Silver Spring, Maryland andfeatures some of the wonderful artists that have contributed to the organization during that time.
The artwork that was most impressive to me was:
- "Women of Color" a screen print with cast paper elements by artist, Hung Liu;
- "Dislocation, Suite 1995", intagio, monotype and pulp painting, 9 panels each with excerpts from Alice in Wonderland by artist, Christopher French;
- "Pyramid for UR Rouge", a pulp painting by artist, Akira Kurosaki
Black History Month Recorder of Deeds Building Tours, Washington, DC
Artist, Anne Marchand on the Painterly Visions blog posted this interesting event for Black History Month. Check it out here
Friday, February 10, 2006
Sculpture Now: 2006 An exhibition of the Washington Sculptors Group
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 6:30-8:30pm
Exhibition: February 6 - May 5, 2006
Washington Square
1050 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC
The Washington Sculptors Group is pleased to announce the opening of member exhibition “Sculpture Now: 2006” at Washington Square. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public. Curator Sarah Tanguy says of the exhibition, “…the 42 selected works offer insights into the Washington Sculptors Group’s current interests as well as a spectrum of approaches, materials, and themes. From figurative stone studies, mixed media installations, to abstract steel compositions, the exhibition explores science and math, and to a larger extent nature, the self and culture.”
Exhibiting artists: Mike Brining, Charlie Brouwer, Elizabeth Burger, Beth Cartland, Amanda Davies, Stephanie Firestone, Mary Annella Frank, Abby Schindler Goldblatt, Judith Goodman, Malcolm Hally, Leonard Harris, Cynthia Hutnyan, Penny Jacoby, Carolyn Jean, Gard Jones, Rebecca Kamen, Maria Karametou, James Kessler, Shirley Koller, Frances Kronstadt, Elaine Langerman, Mary Virginia Langston, Laurel Lukaszewski, Dalya Luttwak, Sharon Murray, Jonathan Ottke, Betsy Packard, Massimo Righini, Tom Rooney, Craig Schaffer, Marilee Schumann, Pamela Soldwedel, Lucy Norman Spencer, Forrest B. Tyler, Raymonde van Santen, Timothy A. Wallace, Janet Wheeler, Adam White, Elizabeth Whiteley, Ami Martin Wilbur, Alice M. Yutzy and Joyce Zipperer.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 6:30-8:30pm
Exhibition: February 6 - May 5, 2006
Washington Square
1050 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC
The Washington Sculptors Group is pleased to announce the opening of member exhibition “Sculpture Now: 2006” at Washington Square. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public. Curator Sarah Tanguy says of the exhibition, “…the 42 selected works offer insights into the Washington Sculptors Group’s current interests as well as a spectrum of approaches, materials, and themes. From figurative stone studies, mixed media installations, to abstract steel compositions, the exhibition explores science and math, and to a larger extent nature, the self and culture.”
Exhibiting artists: Mike Brining, Charlie Brouwer, Elizabeth Burger, Beth Cartland, Amanda Davies, Stephanie Firestone, Mary Annella Frank, Abby Schindler Goldblatt, Judith Goodman, Malcolm Hally, Leonard Harris, Cynthia Hutnyan, Penny Jacoby, Carolyn Jean, Gard Jones, Rebecca Kamen, Maria Karametou, James Kessler, Shirley Koller, Frances Kronstadt, Elaine Langerman, Mary Virginia Langston, Laurel Lukaszewski, Dalya Luttwak, Sharon Murray, Jonathan Ottke, Betsy Packard, Massimo Righini, Tom Rooney, Craig Schaffer, Marilee Schumann, Pamela Soldwedel, Lucy Norman Spencer, Forrest B. Tyler, Raymonde van Santen, Timothy A. Wallace, Janet Wheeler, Adam White, Elizabeth Whiteley, Ami Martin Wilbur, Alice M. Yutzy and Joyce Zipperer.
'Cupidity' presented by Michael Belisle AIA
An artistic interpretation of the personal ads
Reception with the Artist: Sunday, February 12, 4-8pm
February 9 - March 4
Gallery Neptune
4808 Auburn Ave
Bethesda, MD
Phone: 301.718.0809
“Cupidity” features 34 regional artists and writers, focused on creating an artistic interpretation of the personal ads. We are pleased to present such a creative exhibit to our collectors and the new visitors who will make their way into Bethesda for this unique valentine.
“Cupidity” is:
Albert Schweitzer / Katherine Thompson
Alexandra Silverthorne / Heidi Mordhorst
Anna U Davis / Susan Leonardi
Dana Ellyn Kaufman / Charlie Barnett
David Wallace / Mary Kay Zuravleff
Ed Bisese / Levi Asher
Elaine Langerman / Caryn Thurman
Glenn Friedel / Patrick Holway
Greg Ferrand / R R Angell
Helga Thomson / Rebecca Pope
Jean Beebe / Dennis Greza
Kim Bentley / Katie McCaskey
Kirk Waldroff / Dorian Hamilton
Matt Sesow / Doreen Peri
Mike Janis / Claudia Rousseau
Scott Brooks / Frank Warren
Warren Craghead / Roger Noyes
An artistic interpretation of the personal ads
Reception with the Artist: Sunday, February 12, 4-8pm
February 9 - March 4
Gallery Neptune
4808 Auburn Ave
Bethesda, MD
Phone: 301.718.0809
“Cupidity” features 34 regional artists and writers, focused on creating an artistic interpretation of the personal ads. We are pleased to present such a creative exhibit to our collectors and the new visitors who will make their way into Bethesda for this unique valentine.
“Cupidity” is:
Albert Schweitzer / Katherine Thompson
Alexandra Silverthorne / Heidi Mordhorst
Anna U Davis / Susan Leonardi
Dana Ellyn Kaufman / Charlie Barnett
David Wallace / Mary Kay Zuravleff
Ed Bisese / Levi Asher
Elaine Langerman / Caryn Thurman
Glenn Friedel / Patrick Holway
Greg Ferrand / R R Angell
Helga Thomson / Rebecca Pope
Jean Beebe / Dennis Greza
Kim Bentley / Katie McCaskey
Kirk Waldroff / Dorian Hamilton
Matt Sesow / Doreen Peri
Mike Janis / Claudia Rousseau
Scott Brooks / Frank Warren
Warren Craghead / Roger Noyes
Thursday, February 09, 2006
"You aren't a dealer until you've been robbed"
Posted February 9 2006 by The Art Newspaper
NEW YORK. As art prices continue to rise, and the sums paid are publicised, theft has become an increasingly serious problem at arts and antiques fairs. Not surprisingly, fair organisers are worried that publicity will discourage exhibitors, and despite the fact that the scale of theft is difficult to establish. The FBI estimates that about $6 billion worth of art per year is involved. “Thievery at fairs isn’t uncommon at all,” says Steven Pincus of Marsh USA, an insurance company. He believes that the combination of huge crowds and the ready availability of small, valuable objects is driving up the frequency of thefts. Mr Pincus says that he also believes robberies go unrecorded because dealers are reluctant to admit to them.
A number of dealers have been robbed at fairs. Nicolas Kugel, co-owner of Galerie Kugel in Paris, said: “At Maastricht, security spotted a suspicious looking man entering the fair and followed him. He had pocketed a 17th-century German box from my stand and they apprehended him.” Last October at Brian and Anna Haughton’s International Art & Antique Dealers Show in New York, a James I silver gilt cup, valued at $75,000, was stolen from the stand of Manhattan silver dealer S.J. Shrubsole, while Florida fair organiser David Lester says there have been four thefts at his fairs in Palm Beach and Los Angeles, among others. Jewellery is a favoured target. At the 2004 Paris Biennale, thieves made off with a 47-carat white diamond and a 16-carat blue diamond worth over €11.5 million from Chopard at the Carrousel du Louvre. Jewellery was also taken from David Morris at the February Palm Beach! Fair in 2001. The dealer and Fabergé specialist Geoffrey Munn of Wartski in London says: “My late boss Kenneth Snowman once told me that you aren’t a dealer until you’ve been robbed.”
Thefts also take place at smaller fairs. At the Delaware Antiques Show held at the Winterthur museum in Wilmington, Delaware last November, several small antiques were taken from more than one dealer. Manhattan English furniture dealer Clinton Howell reports having had porcelain and small objects stolen at both the Winter Antiques Show and the Haughton fair. Fair organisers are increasing security measures. “We’ve stepped up security with more cameras, more guards and even dogs at the Fine Art Fair in Maastricht”, says London Old Masters dealer Johnny van Haeften. Maastricht has also installed metal detectors. “More plain clothes security personnel, more bag checking and more police are in place at top international fairs,” adds Dorit Straus, of Chubb fine art insurance.
NEW YORK. As art prices continue to rise, and the sums paid are publicised, theft has become an increasingly serious problem at arts and antiques fairs. Not surprisingly, fair organisers are worried that publicity will discourage exhibitors, and despite the fact that the scale of theft is difficult to establish. The FBI estimates that about $6 billion worth of art per year is involved. “Thievery at fairs isn’t uncommon at all,” says Steven Pincus of Marsh USA, an insurance company. He believes that the combination of huge crowds and the ready availability of small, valuable objects is driving up the frequency of thefts. Mr Pincus says that he also believes robberies go unrecorded because dealers are reluctant to admit to them.
A number of dealers have been robbed at fairs. Nicolas Kugel, co-owner of Galerie Kugel in Paris, said: “At Maastricht, security spotted a suspicious looking man entering the fair and followed him. He had pocketed a 17th-century German box from my stand and they apprehended him.” Last October at Brian and Anna Haughton’s International Art & Antique Dealers Show in New York, a James I silver gilt cup, valued at $75,000, was stolen from the stand of Manhattan silver dealer S.J. Shrubsole, while Florida fair organiser David Lester says there have been four thefts at his fairs in Palm Beach and Los Angeles, among others. Jewellery is a favoured target. At the 2004 Paris Biennale, thieves made off with a 47-carat white diamond and a 16-carat blue diamond worth over €11.5 million from Chopard at the Carrousel du Louvre. Jewellery was also taken from David Morris at the February Palm Beach! Fair in 2001. The dealer and Fabergé specialist Geoffrey Munn of Wartski in London says: “My late boss Kenneth Snowman once told me that you aren’t a dealer until you’ve been robbed.”
Thefts also take place at smaller fairs. At the Delaware Antiques Show held at the Winterthur museum in Wilmington, Delaware last November, several small antiques were taken from more than one dealer. Manhattan English furniture dealer Clinton Howell reports having had porcelain and small objects stolen at both the Winter Antiques Show and the Haughton fair. Fair organisers are increasing security measures. “We’ve stepped up security with more cameras, more guards and even dogs at the Fine Art Fair in Maastricht”, says London Old Masters dealer Johnny van Haeften. Maastricht has also installed metal detectors. “More plain clothes security personnel, more bag checking and more police are in place at top international fairs,” adds Dorit Straus, of Chubb fine art insurance.
Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Art Therapy in Treating Cancer Patients
I found this article in Art World News, February 2006, pg. 16:
"Art therapists worked with 50 oncology patients over four months at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital and they report in the Journal of Pain and Sympton Managment that art therapy eases a range of symptoms related to pain and anxiety. Judith Paice, director of the study observes, "Art is one of the healing aids for patients who are increasingly turning to alternative and complementary therapies to reduce symptoms and boost their ability to cope" A therapist created the art for participants who could not use their hands, or together they studied and discussed art. The scientific conclusion: Creative work heals, provides a distraction, and makes patients feel they have control over their lives."--Jo Yanow-Schwartz
"Art therapists worked with 50 oncology patients over four months at Chicago's Northwestern Memorial Hospital and they report in the Journal of Pain and Sympton Managment that art therapy eases a range of symptoms related to pain and anxiety. Judith Paice, director of the study observes, "Art is one of the healing aids for patients who are increasingly turning to alternative and complementary therapies to reduce symptoms and boost their ability to cope" A therapist created the art for participants who could not use their hands, or together they studied and discussed art. The scientific conclusion: Creative work heals, provides a distraction, and makes patients feel they have control over their lives."--Jo Yanow-Schwartz
Gallery Talk: Visual Griots
International Visions - The Gallery
Invites you to attend the gallery talk Visual Griots
Connecting Malian Youth and Photography
(In connection with the current exhibit, "MALI Beyond Timbuktu")
Saturday, February 11th
3:00 - 6:00pm
In January of 2005, the Academy for Educational Development sponsored Visual Griots, a participatory photography workshop that enabled 22 sixth graders from Mali, West Africa to communicate, through the art of photography, about their lives and their communities.
Through instruction and guidance from a team of five U.S. and Malian photographers, whose work is currently showing in the exhibit, "MALI Beyond Timbuktu", the children, who had never touched a camera before, became contemporary griots, telling their stories through a remarkable collection of photographs. These images cut across language barriers and tell the students' stories to the outside world.
The student's work was recently a featured exhibition at the Encounters of African Photography in Bamako, Mali and will open at the Smithsonian Institute in October.
This gallery talk will include the three U.S. photographers who participated in the project in a discussion on how the Visual Griots project came into development - through the photography workshop phase last year to the showing of the student work at the photography encounters this past November. A slide show of the children's work will be shown and discussed.
International Visions Gallery
2629 Connecticut Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
(202) 234-5112
Invites you to attend the gallery talk Visual Griots
Connecting Malian Youth and Photography
(In connection with the current exhibit, "MALI Beyond Timbuktu")
Saturday, February 11th
3:00 - 6:00pm
In January of 2005, the Academy for Educational Development sponsored Visual Griots, a participatory photography workshop that enabled 22 sixth graders from Mali, West Africa to communicate, through the art of photography, about their lives and their communities.
Through instruction and guidance from a team of five U.S. and Malian photographers, whose work is currently showing in the exhibit, "MALI Beyond Timbuktu", the children, who had never touched a camera before, became contemporary griots, telling their stories through a remarkable collection of photographs. These images cut across language barriers and tell the students' stories to the outside world.
The student's work was recently a featured exhibition at the Encounters of African Photography in Bamako, Mali and will open at the Smithsonian Institute in October.
This gallery talk will include the three U.S. photographers who participated in the project in a discussion on how the Visual Griots project came into development - through the photography workshop phase last year to the showing of the student work at the photography encounters this past November. A slide show of the children's work will be shown and discussed.
International Visions Gallery
2629 Connecticut Ave. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20008
(202) 234-5112
Monday, February 06, 2006
Uh, Who Will Pay for that...
Arts Journal posted a rather unfortunate but humorous story about how a museum patron tripped and fell while visiting, shattering some rather old and expensive Chinese vases. Read this story here.
Fakes on eBay
Shelly Esaak's About Art History blog underscores the importance of being cautious when buying art from the site. Read more here.
I'm Feeling this Blog
No, it's not an art blog, but I'm feeling it anyway as a small business owner...
Karen Alston, of Alston Marketing has a blog about her experiences as an entrepreuner....check it out here.
Karen Alston, of Alston Marketing has a blog about her experiences as an entrepreuner....check it out here.
Hanging Out at the Galleries of Dupont Circle...
It was a stormy night
You know the kind where the lightening strikes
And I was hanging out with some of my artsy friends....owee owee owee ooow
-from Appletree by Eryakuh Badu
Well, this past Friday was everything but stormy as I hung out with some of my "artsy" friends from the Women's Caucus for Art, DC Chapter during First Fridays of the Galleries of Dupont Circle. The weather was absolutely perfect for a round of gallery viewing and our group truly enjoyed ourselves. Our first stop was to the Washington Printmakers Gallery to check out the opening reception for Bill Harris's exhibit "Unscheduled Flight." The exhibition gallery was packed with friends, artists, and collectors (see above left) to see Bill's new monoprits and print/relief "constructions" that were a part of the exhibit.
Bill's work was absolutely phenomenal to me. The mounted 3-D work of colorful painted canvas designed into interesting figures on wood really captured the energy and movement of flight by birds and other creatures. The patterns and shapes dared you to touch (which I did). One of my favorites in the exhibition was one called "Revised Bird Image #1" a printed relief construction (25" in dia.) which you can see on above on the right. The pictures do no justice to all of the work exhibited.
We enjoyed our visit with Bill as he discussed his printed relief technique with members of the WCA. He was even gracious to allow some of us to take a picture with him (see above left, Margaret Paris, Bill Harris, Yours Truly, Cherie M. Redlinger, and Holly Dodge) . Bill will have a Brown Bag Lunch and Artist Talk this Thursday, February 9th at Noon to talk about his art and the inspiration of his exhibition. Don't miss checking out the exhibition as well...it ends February 26th.
From Washington Printmakers, we hit Irvine Contemporary, and though she was not the featured artist of the evening, I saw some of the most unique and beautiful work of art from a new comer, Ju Yeon Kim who will have a show there from April 6- May 5, 2006. I'll be back to check that out.
We hit a few other places, but the "stop the press, who's that" moment for me (okay, so I'm a Batman fan), was the sculptures of artist Phillippe Mounge at the Studio Gallery. The exhibition "Spiritual Mediums" showcases the versatility and genius of this French sculptor's work. Phillippe's work includes wood, steel and plaster. There are several show stoppers in this exhibition including "Head of a horse", a beautifully sculpted face of a horse made from sycamore wood, "Silhouette" which features the outline of a female figure made of welded steel, "Aerial" a white abstracted sculpture of plaster on a metal frame, depicting the shape of bird and my personal favorite, "The Observer" (see above right) which stands 42'' high of sheet metal.
Philippe is quite passionate about his work and WCA/DC immediate past president, Marilyn Hayes delved into a deep discussion about his sculpture and his idea for Spiritual Mediums (see photo of Marilyn and Philippe deep in conversation above left). Philippe states that "art carries an unspoken message, and sculptures are timeless expressions of human inspiration, a medium for communication without words yet in every language." And indeed it is a language we liked!
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Solution
Art has always been a vehicle for historic and social change. Artist and their varied forms of art have NEVER shied away from a challenge, and their mediums have taken on problems as large as fair labor to affirmative action and poverty. Now the art community aims to not only provoke thought and discuss issues that plague our community but go a step further to offer Solutions.
Solution is an art exhibition in which emerging and established artists tackle a problem facing the black community and provide (through art) Solutions within a single piece of work. There are no size or medium restrictions, and a diverse group of artist has agreed to participate in this February event. The traditional / visual art will be on display throughout the month. And the weekends we will showcase other non-traditional artisans and their craft blurring the line between fine art and craft all while offering Solutions to complex social problems through art. This event is an attempt to remind individuals of arts historic power and its connection and importance to all people.
Exhibit Details
Location:
The Graham Collection
3518 Twelfth Street North East
Washington, DC 20017
Phone 202-832-9292
Date:
February 1 -28, 2006.
Schedule Events:
2/4/06 – opening reception
2/11/06 – poetry /spoken word
2/ 17 /06 – fashion / trunk show
2/25/06 – musicians / vocalist
2/26/06 – invitation only private party
TWO of FIVE FIFTEEN YEARS
Transnational Aesthetic Celebration
OPENING RECEPTION
Friday, February 3, 2006
6:00-8:00 PM
Showing through February 28, 2006
PARISH GALLERY - GEORGETOWN
1054 31st STREET, NW
WASHINGTON, DC
Group Show #2 Photographers
Llewellyn Berry
Alex Downs
Phoebe Farris
Henry Farrand
Roy Lewis
Harlee Little
Bruce Mc Neil
Askia Muhammad
Curt Nelson
Oggi Ogburn
Deb Willis
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
ARTSMART: outside the BOX inside the FRAME
I'm going to try my hardest to get over to Touchstone Gallery tomorrow and check this forum out.
Collecting for the young professional. Express your personality and uniqueness with ORIGINAL ART. FREE lunchtime forum.
COLLECTORS
Kerry Ellett
Sarah Kahn
Richard Graf, and
ART WRITER/TEACHER Judy Pomeranz will speak.
Question/Answer session follows. Beverages provided. BYOLUNCH!
February 2, 2006, 12:30 P.M.
TOUCHSTONE GALLERY
For more information and reservations: 202-347-2787 or email director@touchstonegallery.com.
10% discount card for the purchase of artwork given to all participants.
Collecting for the young professional. Express your personality and uniqueness with ORIGINAL ART. FREE lunchtime forum.
COLLECTORS
Kerry Ellett
Sarah Kahn
Richard Graf, and
ART WRITER/TEACHER Judy Pomeranz will speak.
Question/Answer session follows. Beverages provided. BYOLUNCH!
February 2, 2006, 12:30 P.M.
TOUCHSTONE GALLERY
For more information and reservations: 202-347-2787 or email director@touchstonegallery.com.
10% discount card for the purchase of artwork given to all participants.
In Memory....
One of the legacies of the Civil Rights Movement and one of my sorors, Coretta Scott King...may your efforts be forever remembered by all.
sjb
Monday, January 30, 2006
Soul Ladders
An Exhibition by Marilyn Banner
Waddell Gallery
Northern Virginia Communitiy College - Loudon Campus
January 16 - February 10, 2006
The Soul Ladders are a group of ladder structures that function as metaphors for the realms of the spirit, and for the connectedness of the human to the otherworldly, to mystery and the sacred. One might say that the spirit world can be known by going inward, through dreams, meditation, and intuition. An artist can travel inward in these ways, using images and materials as a means of travel, of exploration, and of recovery.
The Soul Ladders are visceral, physical, and dark. They are made of many materials, images, and objects. They began with the idea of ladders made of skin coming up, or growing up, from an underworld. An interest in exploring “the dark side of the Feminine” had moved me to create many “skins” of latex, some backed with animal fur, some imbedded with bits of hair, bone, and shells. As they grew, they became more “alive.” Latex skins created the posts and hung from rungs. Bones were wrapped and bound, claws were hung, photos of raw meat, bits of hair, ancestors and guardians were attached. Objects from everyday life appeared: a delicate handkerchief, a used garden glove. And higher up, intuitively placed, emerged birds, wings, and bells.
Seen together the ladders form a forest of resonant images, reflecting realms of the human spirit, or soul, or psyche. We recognize them as mirrors of a world rarely acknowledged but deeply sensed, sometimes frightening, but always, when accepted, healing in its assurance of the connectedness of all living things.
-Marilyn Banner
Without Formula
Local artist, Candace Keegan alerted me to what appears to be an interesting show at Cubicle 10....the opening is this Saturday evening. Read about it here
Titian's "Concert Champêtre" Coming to the U.S.
Masterpiece to Be Part of Groundbreaking
Venetian Painting Show
By Stan Parchin
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
From About Art History
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. announced quietly last Friday that Pastoral Concert, more popularly known as Concert Champêtre (ca. 1510) and painted by the Italian Renaissance master Titian (ca. 1490-1576), will indeed be included in the museum's upcoming special exhibition entitled Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, to be held from June 18 to September 17, 2006. The masterpiece has only left Paris' Musée du Louvre once, in 1955 for a show in Venice on Giorgione (ca. 1477/8-1510), Titian's artistic elder who died from the plague and was thought for some time, amongst others, to have been the work's painter until two decades ago.
This international loan exhibition, organized with Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (where it will be on view from October 17, 2006 to January 7, 2007), will feature one woodcut and 57 paintings from the first 30 years of the Sixteenth Century in Venice, during the same period as the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome. They were created by Giovanni Bellini (act. by 1459, d. 1516), Giorgione, Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), Palma Vecchio (1480-1528), Lorenzo Lotto (ca. 1480-1556) and their Venetian contemporaries. Museums and private collections in Florence, London, Madrid, New York and many other cities are contributing to this effort.
While focusing on religious painting of the period, the show will also examine rediscovered themes from classical antiquity and how these artists chose to portray them innovatively. The show will be divided into four distinct sections dealing with: the pastoral landscape; the female nude and eroticism; male portraiture; and modern scientific revelations about the painters' techniques. Ideas about love and music, prevalent in the literature of the times, imbued the artists' works with a certain sense of poetry that distinguished their masterpieces from those of other Italian Renaissance painters. Titian's Concert Champêtre will take centerstage in the exhibition, which will examine the nature of the Venetian idyllic landscape and its influence on the representation of religious subjects. Portraits of women, partially clothed or nude, were unusual for Venetian painting of the time. The introduction of this wholly revolutionary genre will be explored in the show, also tackling the issue of idealization in female portraiture. Male "action" portraits that depicted men in roles such as lovers and poets will be treated in the presentation.
Finally, advances made in the scientific examination of some of these paintings, and their results, will be documented in the exhibition's conclusion. X-radiographs will demonstrate how the artists developed their compositions through pentimenti or changes of mind, while infrared reflectograms will illustrate the painters' process of constant revision in their compositions. In addition, as reported in this website last year, recent findings about the ingredients of the artists' pigments will serve to explain definitively the luster of the "Venetian palette" previously not fully understood, truly a startling revelation of monumental proportions in the fields of Art History and Renaissance Studies.
Both the special exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, to be published in English, German and Italian, are bound to be landmarks in the scholarly achievements of Italian Renaissance Art History.
Masterpiece to Be Part of Groundbreaking
Venetian Painting Show
By Stan Parchin
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
From About Art History
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. announced quietly last Friday that Pastoral Concert, more popularly known as Concert Champêtre (ca. 1510) and painted by the Italian Renaissance master Titian (ca. 1490-1576), will indeed be included in the museum's upcoming special exhibition entitled Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, to be held from June 18 to September 17, 2006. The masterpiece has only left Paris' Musée du Louvre once, in 1955 for a show in Venice on Giorgione (ca. 1477/8-1510), Titian's artistic elder who died from the plague and was thought for some time, amongst others, to have been the work's painter until two decades ago.
This international loan exhibition, organized with Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (where it will be on view from October 17, 2006 to January 7, 2007), will feature one woodcut and 57 paintings from the first 30 years of the Sixteenth Century in Venice, during the same period as the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome. They were created by Giovanni Bellini (act. by 1459, d. 1516), Giorgione, Titian, Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547), Palma Vecchio (1480-1528), Lorenzo Lotto (ca. 1480-1556) and their Venetian contemporaries. Museums and private collections in Florence, London, Madrid, New York and many other cities are contributing to this effort.
While focusing on religious painting of the period, the show will also examine rediscovered themes from classical antiquity and how these artists chose to portray them innovatively. The show will be divided into four distinct sections dealing with: the pastoral landscape; the female nude and eroticism; male portraiture; and modern scientific revelations about the painters' techniques. Ideas about love and music, prevalent in the literature of the times, imbued the artists' works with a certain sense of poetry that distinguished their masterpieces from those of other Italian Renaissance painters. Titian's Concert Champêtre will take centerstage in the exhibition, which will examine the nature of the Venetian idyllic landscape and its influence on the representation of religious subjects. Portraits of women, partially clothed or nude, were unusual for Venetian painting of the time. The introduction of this wholly revolutionary genre will be explored in the show, also tackling the issue of idealization in female portraiture. Male "action" portraits that depicted men in roles such as lovers and poets will be treated in the presentation.
Finally, advances made in the scientific examination of some of these paintings, and their results, will be documented in the exhibition's conclusion. X-radiographs will demonstrate how the artists developed their compositions through pentimenti or changes of mind, while infrared reflectograms will illustrate the painters' process of constant revision in their compositions. In addition, as reported in this website last year, recent findings about the ingredients of the artists' pigments will serve to explain definitively the luster of the "Venetian palette" previously not fully understood, truly a startling revelation of monumental proportions in the fields of Art History and Renaissance Studies.
Both the special exhibition and its accompanying catalogue, to be published in English, German and Italian, are bound to be landmarks in the scholarly achievements of Italian Renaissance Art History.
Mystic Logic: Works from the
Estate of Simon Gouverneur
January 28-March 4, 2006
Curator's Focus in the Micro-Gallery
Curator's Office
1515 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Mystic Logic: Works from the Estate of Simon Gouverneur is an exhibition of four egg tempera and acrylic paintings and twenty-four never-before exhibited notebook sketches by this African-American/Latino artist (1934-1990). Simon Gouverneur was a critically acclaimed abstract symbolist painter who attracted much attention in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, Amherst, MA; Caracas, Venezuela; Cali, Colombia; Paris, France; and Naples and Palermo, Italy -- cities that he lived and worked in. Gouverneur committed suicide in December 1990.
Born in the Bronx in 1934, Gouverneur was an artist of Venezuelan and Afro-Caribbean heritage. He left home as a teenager to study at the Rome Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of San Marcos in Italy. He received his M.F.A. at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. A worldly and learned artist, Gouverneur lived in New York, Los Angeles, Spain, Italy, Massachusetts, Colombia, Venezuela, and during the last decade of his life, in Washington, DC. He exhibited his paintings internationally in Rome, Paris, Madrid, Zagreb, Palermo, Naples, Caracas, Calí, San Juan, PR, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amherst, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. His paintings are in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC; The Phillips Collection, DC; The Studio Museum, NY; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; the Museo La Tertulia, Calí; The Brandywine Workshop, PA; Howard University, DC; the University of Massachusetts, MA; the University of Maryland, MD; Arnold & Porter, DC; The Washington, DC Convention Center, and the Artery Organization, MD as well as other public and private collections.
Estate of Simon Gouverneur
January 28-March 4, 2006
Curator's Focus in the Micro-Gallery
Curator's Office
1515 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC
Mystic Logic: Works from the Estate of Simon Gouverneur is an exhibition of four egg tempera and acrylic paintings and twenty-four never-before exhibited notebook sketches by this African-American/Latino artist (1934-1990). Simon Gouverneur was a critically acclaimed abstract symbolist painter who attracted much attention in Washington, DC, Baltimore, MD, Amherst, MA; Caracas, Venezuela; Cali, Colombia; Paris, France; and Naples and Palermo, Italy -- cities that he lived and worked in. Gouverneur committed suicide in December 1990.
Born in the Bronx in 1934, Gouverneur was an artist of Venezuelan and Afro-Caribbean heritage. He left home as a teenager to study at the Rome Academy of Fine Arts and the Academy of San Marcos in Italy. He received his M.F.A. at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. A worldly and learned artist, Gouverneur lived in New York, Los Angeles, Spain, Italy, Massachusetts, Colombia, Venezuela, and during the last decade of his life, in Washington, DC. He exhibited his paintings internationally in Rome, Paris, Madrid, Zagreb, Palermo, Naples, Caracas, Calí, San Juan, PR, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Amherst, Baltimore, and Washington, DC. His paintings are in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, DC; The Phillips Collection, DC; The Studio Museum, NY; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; the Museo La Tertulia, Calí; The Brandywine Workshop, PA; Howard University, DC; the University of Massachusetts, MA; the University of Maryland, MD; Arnold & Porter, DC; The Washington, DC Convention Center, and the Artery Organization, MD as well as other public and private collections.
ART:21 Thursday Evening Series @ GRACE Gallery/Reston
ART: 21 Thursday Evening Series
January 21-February 21
Tuesdays, 7:30pm
GRACE Gallery
Reston Town Center, on the corners of Market Street and Saint Francis
cost: $5 Members; $7 Non-members
The Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) presents a new, fun and educational program for this winter based upon PBS’ Art:21 (Art in the 21st Century). For six consecutive Tuesdays, beginning January 17 at 7:30 p.m. and continuing through February 21, GRACE will show a DVD film of some of today’s most intriguing artists followed with a social period where participants may share their ideas concerning what they have just seen. Each evening has a separate theme.
Popcorn, soft drinks, and wine will be available throughout the evening. Each meeting should last approximately 1 ½ hours. Seating is limited to 12. Reservations are requested. Please phone the GRACE gallery at: 703-471-9242 to register or for more information.
January 17– Theme: Place
Introduction: Laurie Anderson
Artists: Richard Serra, sculptor Sally Mann, photographer Margaret Kilgallen and Barry McGee, photographer and graffiti Pepon Osorio, installation and video
January 24 – Theme: Spirituality
Introduction: S. Epatha Merkerson
Artists: Ann Hamilton installation, John Feodorov painter James Turrell, earth works, Shahzia Sikander, minature painter
January 31 – Theme: Identity
Introduction: Steve Martin
Artists: Bruce Nauman, sculptor and installation, Kerry James Marshall, painter, Maya Lin, sculptor, earth works, architect Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
February 7 – Theme: Consumption
Introduction: John MacInro
Artists: Michael Ray Charles, painter Matthew Barney, sculptor and performance Andrea Zittel, sculptor and performance Mel Chin, conceptual
February 14 – Theme: Stories
Introduction: John Waters
Artists: Kara Walker, silhouette cutouts, installation Kiki Smith, sculptor Do-Ho Ray, sculptor Trenton Doyle Hancock, painter
February 21 – Theme: Loss and Desire
Introduction: Jane Alexander
Artists: Collier Schorr, photographer Gabriel Orozco, photographer, sculptor Janine Antoni, sculptor
For more info, check out the Greater Reston Arts Center
January 21-February 21
Tuesdays, 7:30pm
GRACE Gallery
Reston Town Center, on the corners of Market Street and Saint Francis
cost: $5 Members; $7 Non-members
The Greater Reston Arts Center (GRACE) presents a new, fun and educational program for this winter based upon PBS’ Art:21 (Art in the 21st Century). For six consecutive Tuesdays, beginning January 17 at 7:30 p.m. and continuing through February 21, GRACE will show a DVD film of some of today’s most intriguing artists followed with a social period where participants may share their ideas concerning what they have just seen. Each evening has a separate theme.
Popcorn, soft drinks, and wine will be available throughout the evening. Each meeting should last approximately 1 ½ hours. Seating is limited to 12. Reservations are requested. Please phone the GRACE gallery at: 703-471-9242 to register or for more information.
January 17– Theme: Place
Introduction: Laurie Anderson
Artists: Richard Serra, sculptor Sally Mann, photographer Margaret Kilgallen and Barry McGee, photographer and graffiti Pepon Osorio, installation and video
January 24 – Theme: Spirituality
Introduction: S. Epatha Merkerson
Artists: Ann Hamilton installation, John Feodorov painter James Turrell, earth works, Shahzia Sikander, minature painter
January 31 – Theme: Identity
Introduction: Steve Martin
Artists: Bruce Nauman, sculptor and installation, Kerry James Marshall, painter, Maya Lin, sculptor, earth works, architect Louise Bourgeois, sculptor
February 7 – Theme: Consumption
Introduction: John MacInro
Artists: Michael Ray Charles, painter Matthew Barney, sculptor and performance Andrea Zittel, sculptor and performance Mel Chin, conceptual
February 14 – Theme: Stories
Introduction: John Waters
Artists: Kara Walker, silhouette cutouts, installation Kiki Smith, sculptor Do-Ho Ray, sculptor Trenton Doyle Hancock, painter
February 21 – Theme: Loss and Desire
Introduction: Jane Alexander
Artists: Collier Schorr, photographer Gabriel Orozco, photographer, sculptor Janine Antoni, sculptor
For more info, check out the Greater Reston Arts Center
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Maryland Community Suffers Loss as Artist Sell Gallery
From Artinfo.com
GLENELG, Md., Jan. 5, 2006 - For 30 years, local ceramics artist Tatiana has sold fine art from her gallery located in a converted 19th-century Methodist church in this town outside Baltimore. Now, Tatiana is planning to sell the gallery and restart her career in New Mexico, and her move will mean a significant loss to the local art community, the Baltimore Sun reports. According to residents in the community, Tatiana, who goes by her first name only, worked hard on behalf of local artists. "She's very, very generous with other artists ... always trying to help promote local artists,” said Diane Dunn, a fine-art photographer from Laurel. Her gallery, which over the years became a gathering place for many artists, will most likely be converted to a home decorating business when it is sold in a few months. Though she now plans to create her art several thousand miles away in Albuquerque or Santa Fe, Tatiana plans to keep in touch with several thousand customers via the Internet. "This is not a dead end," she said.
Read more here.
Image: ceramic by Tatiana
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
The Art of T.H. Gomillion @ One World Fitness...
Artist, T.H. Gomillion will be exhibiting 14 paintings (mixture of acrylic and watercolor) at One World Fitness Gym, located at 1738 14th Street, NW in Washington, DC. A reception is scheduled for Saturday, January 28, 2006 from 5-7 pm. The exhibition continues through February 8th.
"utopia" @ National Academy of Sciences
Please join the Office of Exhibitions and Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences for an afternoon of art and music on Sunday, January 29. At 1 p.m., join the NAS in welcoming artist Cheryl Goldsleger at areception for her exhibition "utopia." The mixed-media paintings in this exhibition are based on blueprints and renderings by female architects of varying degrees of renown, beginning with the first published drawing (1878) by a female architect, Margaret Hicks, and concluding with the late 20th-century designs of Gae Aulenti and Margreet Duinker.
At 3 p.m., in honor of Mozart's 250th birthday, Jean and Kenneth Wentworth will perform a concert of the composer's masterpieces for one piano-four hands. The Wentworths have played hundreds of concerts in the United States, Europe, the near East and Asia, programming four-handworks ranging from Mozart and Schubert to Charles Wuorinen, Meyer Kupferman and Vincent Persichetti. They have also recorded much of the repertoire, including the complete Mozart, works from the great Schubertrepertoire, the Czerny Concerto for One Piano-Four Hands, and several records of twentieth-century American works.
Exhibition Reception: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m., Upstairs Gallery Concert: 3:00 p.m.,
Auditorium Location: National Academy of Sciences, 2100 C St NW,
Washington, DC 20418
Cost: No charge, no tickets or reservations required
Metro: Foggy Bottom/George Washington University on the blue and orangelines
Please be prepared to present a photo ID to gain entrance to the building. (202) 334-2436, www.NationalAcademies.org/arts
At 3 p.m., in honor of Mozart's 250th birthday, Jean and Kenneth Wentworth will perform a concert of the composer's masterpieces for one piano-four hands. The Wentworths have played hundreds of concerts in the United States, Europe, the near East and Asia, programming four-handworks ranging from Mozart and Schubert to Charles Wuorinen, Meyer Kupferman and Vincent Persichetti. They have also recorded much of the repertoire, including the complete Mozart, works from the great Schubertrepertoire, the Czerny Concerto for One Piano-Four Hands, and several records of twentieth-century American works.
Exhibition Reception: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m., Upstairs Gallery Concert: 3:00 p.m.,
Auditorium Location: National Academy of Sciences, 2100 C St NW,
Washington, DC 20418
Cost: No charge, no tickets or reservations required
Metro: Foggy Bottom/George Washington University on the blue and orangelines
Please be prepared to present a photo ID to gain entrance to the building. (202) 334-2436, www.NationalAcademies.org/arts
Monday, January 23, 2006
Mid City Artists Censored???
Anne Marchand, artist and fellow blogger, provided an interesting account of the current Mid City Artist Show at Results Gym here.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Artnet Magazine's Predictions for 06
Artnet recently interviewed a number of artists, curators, dealders and other art professionald regarding their predictions for art in 2006. Read the full article here.
Friday, January 20, 2006
Dragonfly Design Décor Opening
Joining the happening home to Washington DC’s newest neighborhood, the 14th Street Corridor, Dragonfly Asian Antiques and Collectibles will be relocating from its present Reston location to 1457 Church Street, between 14th and 15th.
The store will open on January 29, 2006 in celebration of the Chinese New Year. Owner Kim Hessler described the move as an opportunity to be a part of neighborhood renewal that includes cutting edge cultural and commercial interests. Items range from Tibetan painted chests, Tibetan rugs, Chinese altars and armoires, textiles, Burmese lacquerware to statuary. Unusual pieces include elaborate swords, tea caddies, and ancestral paintings.
Dragonfly Design Décor will celebrate Year of the Dog with an open house January 29, 2006 from 11a.m. – 6p.m. The Washington Humane Society will be part of the festivities with dogs from the shelter as greeters. Adoption applications will be taken and a portion of selected item sales will be donated to the Humane Society.
Africa!
January 18, 2006 – February 19, 2006
Target Gallery @ The Torpedo Factory
Opening Reception - Sunday, January 22nd @ 3-6 PM
Africa! seeks to bring together art which is in some way: “investigating contemporary and/or historical notions of Africa and its influences”
Artists featured include: Wendy Simmons, Heather Marie Davis,. Michele Harris, Anne Fisher, Rachael Hall, Sonya A. Lawyer, Rosemary Feit Covey, Valerie Watson, Rachael Hall, Valerie Watson, Angela Lubinecky, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter,. Michael Platt, Kerry Young, Beverly Hertler, Denise Ward-Brown, Kimberly King, Lynda Andrews Barry, Mary Ann Charette, Terry a de Bardelaben, Lydia Thompson, Serenity Knight, Earnest Davidson and Lydia Thompson
Target Gallery @ The Torpedo Factory
Opening Reception - Sunday, January 22nd @ 3-6 PM
Africa! seeks to bring together art which is in some way: “investigating contemporary and/or historical notions of Africa and its influences”
Artists featured include: Wendy Simmons, Heather Marie Davis,. Michele Harris, Anne Fisher, Rachael Hall, Sonya A. Lawyer, Rosemary Feit Covey, Valerie Watson, Rachael Hall, Valerie Watson, Angela Lubinecky, Aziza Claudia Gibson-Hunter,. Michael Platt, Kerry Young, Beverly Hertler, Denise Ward-Brown, Kimberly King, Lynda Andrews Barry, Mary Ann Charette, Terry a de Bardelaben, Lydia Thompson, Serenity Knight, Earnest Davidson and Lydia Thompson
Thursday, January 19, 2006
Basquiat "Pairs" with Reebok?
I was surfing art blogs and came across this story about the estate of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat entering into a multi-year agreement with Reebok to produce a new collection of shoes as well as a new global ad campaign.
First released in October 2005 as a limited edition of 60 pairs and available only at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Reebok "Reebopper" Jean Michel Basquiat shoe is now available from select retailers. The shoe is limited to 1500 pairs with 3 different colorways and an intended 500 total pairs per colorway. The new shoe, designed by Maharishi of London, features the late artist's favorite colors -- black, red and white -- as well as his trademark crown logo.
The shoe is priced at $140 and available at Karmaloop. Reebok's "I Am What I Am" campaign is including Basquiat along with other celebrities, including Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Allen Iverson and Christina Ricci. The deal was promoted by David Stark, president of the brand licensing agency Artestar and agent for the Basquiat estate.
Femme Effect...
You Can’t Resist the Effect
It happened over 100 years ago, but she’s obsessed with it…She wakes up on Saturday mornings and wanders the streets looking for thrift stores… Salvation Army outlets… antique shops where she can find some kind of answer.
There is no answer.
Everyone is dead now – and all she has left are these gorgeous boots, pairs and pairs of them, over a hundred years old and scented (she thinks) with the sweat of horses who carried these heroes into bloodshed she can only read about in history books…She dreams about her obsession… writes letters about it… pulls her friends into dark and intimate corners to wave her hands and explain how she feels.
But there is no explanation.
The closest she has come is by creating the blueprint for an installation piece – a work of art – which will now appear for the first time ever at Sub-Basement Artist Studios.
Her obsession will radiate through the gallery… Visitors will take the elevator two floors down from the street, enter the narrow doorway, and wander toward it, unsure of what it is that’s drawing them…
Will you resist the Femme Effect?
Don’t even try: it’s irresistible… Our upcoming show, Femme Effect, will contain this piece and work by other remarkable female artists. Such as one woman whose art has taken her to a forgotten village in Norway, where she stood beneath a Kool-Aid blue sky and tried to reconcile two separate strains in her painting style…
And another woman whose paintings are based on “anonymous rage,” the same aesthetic philosophy that spawned jazz and carried boxer Jack Johnson to the world championship title in the early twentieth century… and led teenagers in early 1980s New York to bomb subway cars with bubble-lettered graffiti…
Don’t even attempt to resist the Femme Effect – just come check out the show and see what it’s all about…It’ll run through March 17th -- and the opening night reception will be held this Saturday, the 21st 5:30P - 7:30P.
There will be lots of fine wine, a gallery full of amazing women who make art, and an atmosphere thick, dazzling, and heavenly with the Effect. There will also be a special surprise!
Featuring artists Jordan Faye Block, Clayton Brant, Helen Elliott, Edna Kurtz Emmet, Arnetta Lee, Valeska Populoh, Amy Sherald, and Lauren Sleat.
Portions of proceeds benefit: Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance
Enjoy Life!
Baltimore, Maryland
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Film and Exhibition @ National Academies
Please join us for a screening of the film Koyaanisqatsi on Thursday, January 19 at 6 p.m. Koyaanisqatsi, Godfrey Reggio's debut as a film director and producer, is the first film of the Qatsi trilogy. The title is a Hopi Indian word meaning "life out of balance." Created between 1975 and 1982, the film is an apocalyptic vision of the collision of two different worlds --urban life and technology versus the environment. The musical score was composed by Philip Glass.
This film screening is held in conjunction with the exhibition The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection. The exhibition features photographs that explore humankind's impact on the planet. It traces the 1970s New Topographics tradition through its derivations over the past four decades. Much of The Altered Landscape imagery focuses on topography of the New West, including military landscapes, mining sites, housing developments, dams and desert trails. It includes work by Robert Adams, Edward Burtynsky, Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee, Robert Dawson, Terry Evans, Peter Goin, Mark Klett, Richard Misrach, Joan Myers, Patrick Nagatani, John Pfahl and Jim Sanborn.
Film: Thursday, January 19, 6 p.m.
Location: Keck Center of The National Academies, 500 Fifth Street NW, Room 100
Cost: No charge
Metro: Judiciary Square on the red line; Gallery Place/Chinatown on the red, yellow, and green lines
Please be prepared to present a photo ID to gain entrance to the building. (202) 334-2436, arts@nas.edu, www.NationalAcademies.org/arts
This film screening is held in conjunction with the exhibition The Altered Landscape: The Carol Franc Buck Collection. The exhibition features photographs that explore humankind's impact on the planet. It traces the 1970s New Topographics tradition through its derivations over the past four decades. Much of The Altered Landscape imagery focuses on topography of the New West, including military landscapes, mining sites, housing developments, dams and desert trails. It includes work by Robert Adams, Edward Burtynsky, Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee, Robert Dawson, Terry Evans, Peter Goin, Mark Klett, Richard Misrach, Joan Myers, Patrick Nagatani, John Pfahl and Jim Sanborn.
Film: Thursday, January 19, 6 p.m.
Location: Keck Center of The National Academies, 500 Fifth Street NW, Room 100
Cost: No charge
Metro: Judiciary Square on the red line; Gallery Place/Chinatown on the red, yellow, and green lines
Please be prepared to present a photo ID to gain entrance to the building. (202) 334-2436, arts@nas.edu, www.NationalAcademies.org/arts
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
New Website Celebrating the Art and Culture of African Americans
A new website has been launched to celebrate the achievements of African Americans in the fields of art, dance, literature and music. Articles featuring the history, culture and people who created the legacy of African Americans in the arts are the focus of this site. The site provides links to museums and historical societies in the United States and Canada which feature African American art.
Check out the site here and visit often
Check out the site here and visit often
“Cézanne in Provence" at the National Gallery of Art
From Art Knowledge News
Washington, DC- The year 2006 marks the centenary of the death of Paul Cézanne (1839–1906), a founding father of modern art who created some of the most powerful and innovative paintings of the late-19th and early 20th centuries. His achievement celebrated in a major international exhibition of 118 of his greatest oil paintings and watercolors of Provence, its people, and its surrounding countryside. Cézanne in Provence is the first exhibition to explore the artist’s complex emotional engagement with his birthplace through some of his most original and compelling landscapes; penetrating portraits of friends, employees, and family members; and the monumental series known as the Bathers.
Cézanne in Provence will be shown in the National Gallery of Art from January 29 through May 7, 2006, and the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence, from June 9 through September 17, 2006, where it will inaugurate a series of events in honor of the artist to mark the reopening of the Musée Granet, one of France’s premier regional museums, after a major renovation.
“Paul Cézanne was one of the greatest post-impressionist painters and has influenced generations of artists to the present. This landmark exhibition will focus on the sense he had of his own achievement, as a celebrant of the very particular and characteristic landscape around Aix-en-Provence,” said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. “The Gallery is deeply grateful for the cooperation of the many lenders worldwide and our museum partners in France, as well as the generosity of DaimlerChrysler in making this landmark exhibition possible.” read more
Emerging Artists: Photography's Digital Divide?
Is there a digital divide in contemporary photography, between a computer-using vanguard and 'purist' artists, dealers and collectors? Art Info investigates.
MALI, Beyond Timbuktu
Image: Mali Woman, by Nestor Herandez
International Visions Gallery
Cordially invites you to:
MALI, Beyond Timbuktu Photographs
by Malian and U.S. Photographers
Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:30 - 9:00 p. m.
MALI, Beyond Timbuktu is an exhibit exploring this West African country through images by Malian photographers Alioune Bâ and Amadou Sow, and American photographers
Nestor Hernández, Shawn Davis, Sora Devore.
Exhibition Dates: January 18 - February 25, 2006
2629 Connecticut Ave. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20008
202-234-5112
(Across from the Woodley Park Metro)
202-234-5112
(Across from the Woodley Park Metro)
Monday, January 16, 2006
From the New York Times, January 6, 2006:
The National Gallery of Art in Washington has announced more than 400 acquisitions. They include one of the earliest engravings made in Western Europe, a marble by Giovanni Francesco Susini, Russian Constructivist works, a recent Stephen Hancock landscape, color panels by Ellsworth Kelly and sculptures by Carl Andre, Claes Oldenburg and Robert Morris. ...
Update on the Barnes Move...
Barnes move now set for 2009
By Edward J. Sozanski
Philadelphia Inquirer Art Critic
From time to time, people ask when the Barnes Foundation is going to move from Merion to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Well, not even the foundation knows for certain, but based on what Bernard C. Watson, chairman of the Barnes trustees, said a few days ago, it would seem that the transplant won't happen until mid-to-late 2009, or perhaps even early 2010.
In mid-December of 2004, Mayor Street announced that the foundation's relocation site on the Parkway between 20th and 21st Streets would be cleared by the end of 2005. That obviously hasn't happened. Watson said the foundation and the city have agreed that the site, now occupied by a juvenile-detention hall called, euphemistically, the Youth Study Center, would not be made available until the fall of 2007.
Even if by that time the foundation is ready to begin construction, a project this complex, which involves duplicating the Merion galleries and moving a massive collection of paintings - including world-renowned masterpieces - and objects, can be expected to take at least two years.
The city has to relocate the center before the site can be cleared, but Watson said that the negotiated postponement had more to do with the foundation's timetable.
"If the site had been available in December, we wouldn't have been able to do anything anyway," he said.
"We're not ready to break ground, we have other priorities to deal with," particularly appointing a new director to succeed Kimberly Camp, choosing an architect and a design for the parkway building, and filling three seats on the board to reach its expanded complement of 15 members. "Fall of '07 works out for both of us," he added.
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By Edward J. Sozanski
Philadelphia Inquirer Art Critic
From time to time, people ask when the Barnes Foundation is going to move from Merion to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.
Well, not even the foundation knows for certain, but based on what Bernard C. Watson, chairman of the Barnes trustees, said a few days ago, it would seem that the transplant won't happen until mid-to-late 2009, or perhaps even early 2010.
In mid-December of 2004, Mayor Street announced that the foundation's relocation site on the Parkway between 20th and 21st Streets would be cleared by the end of 2005. That obviously hasn't happened. Watson said the foundation and the city have agreed that the site, now occupied by a juvenile-detention hall called, euphemistically, the Youth Study Center, would not be made available until the fall of 2007.
Even if by that time the foundation is ready to begin construction, a project this complex, which involves duplicating the Merion galleries and moving a massive collection of paintings - including world-renowned masterpieces - and objects, can be expected to take at least two years.
The city has to relocate the center before the site can be cleared, but Watson said that the negotiated postponement had more to do with the foundation's timetable.
"If the site had been available in December, we wouldn't have been able to do anything anyway," he said.
"We're not ready to break ground, we have other priorities to deal with," particularly appointing a new director to succeed Kimberly Camp, choosing an architect and a design for the parkway building, and filling three seats on the board to reach its expanded complement of 15 members. "Fall of '07 works out for both of us," he added.
Read more here
African Odyssey: Photos by James W. Strongin
From Art Knowledge News....
An extraordinary exhibition of 20 photographs by Hagerstown, Maryland resident, James W. Strongin on view in the Bowman Concert Gallery of The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown from January 13 through February 26, 2006.
An extraordinary exhibition of 20 photographs by Hagerstown, Maryland resident, James W. Strongin on view in the Bowman Concert Gallery of The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts in Hagerstown from January 13 through February 26, 2006.
Strongin retired to Hagerstown from New York six years ago after a career that spanned the fields of broadcasting, magazine promotion and, ultimately, film and video production in which he was a producer, writer, director, still and cinematographer. Such clients as TIME INC, the Magazine Publishers Association, Sony, IBM, Hitachi America, Coffee Growers of Colombia, United States Information Agency and the United Church sponsored his award-winning productions, filmed on five continents. He is currently volunteering for the National Park Service at Antietam National Battlefield and his photographs can be viewed on its website.
The images were taken in the Sub-Sahara and in Southern Africa on assignments for USIA and the United Church. Images on view in the exhibition include Niger River, Mopti, Mali depicting
women dressed in brightly colored clothes on market day, Chindau Tribeswoman, Zimbabwe which shows a mother feeding her child and The Medina, Rabat, Morocco showing a colorful parade of costumes and faces. Other titles include Yabelo, Ethiopia; Two Women, Dar-Es-Salaam; Fish Market, Accra, Ghana; and Masai, Amboseli, Kenya.
For more information on the Museum, please phone (301) 739-5727 or visit www.wcmfa.org.
Assimilation/Dissolution @ Flashpoint
Jeffry Cudlin, Christopher Hoeting & Jefferson Pinder: Assimilation Dissolution
January 19 – February 25, 2006
Opening reception: Thursday, January 19, 6 - 8 p.m.
Assimilation/Dissolution is the result of an intensive collaboration between DC-based artists Jefferson Pinder, Christopher Hoeting and Jeffry Cudlin. Generated over the course of six months, this cycle of works forms an extended conversation on the issues of shifting geographic boundaries and community identities in Washington, DC. At once a creative experiment and critical conversation, the process began with each artist creating one piece inspired by the current real estate boom and related issues of gentrification in DC. Every two weeks, the artists would then trade completed artworks and craft new responses to one another's efforts. The 30 resulting paintings, videos and mixed-media collages each trace intersections and divergences among the artists’ individual perspectives on race, class, urban geography and cultural and artistic histories.
Flashpoint
916 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001
Phone: (202) 315-1310
PHOTO 06
PHOTO 06: Photographs You Have Taken in the Last 75 Years
January 20 - April 1, 2006
Juried photo exhibition for amateur and professional photographers working in any photographic medium who live or work in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, or the District of Columbia.
Juror: Michelle Delaney, Associate Curator, Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 19, 6-9 pm
Awards presentation at 7 p.m.
Live music by Clarendon Strings
Juror's Talk: Thursday, February 23, 7 p.m.
Discussion: Thursday, March 9, 7-9 p.m., Fine art photographers David Applegate and Jim Steele, "The impact of digital technology on the future of the silver gelatin print."
The Ellipse Arts Center
Arlington Cultural Affairs
4350 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22203
phone: (703) 228-7710
January 20 - April 1, 2006
Juried photo exhibition for amateur and professional photographers working in any photographic medium who live or work in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, or the District of Columbia.
Juror: Michelle Delaney, Associate Curator, Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Opening Reception:
Thursday, January 19, 6-9 pm
Awards presentation at 7 p.m.
Live music by Clarendon Strings
Juror's Talk: Thursday, February 23, 7 p.m.
Discussion: Thursday, March 9, 7-9 p.m., Fine art photographers David Applegate and Jim Steele, "The impact of digital technology on the future of the silver gelatin print."
The Ellipse Arts Center
Arlington Cultural Affairs
4350 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, Virginia 22203
phone: (703) 228-7710
Bodies of Work at the Anne C. Fisher Gallery
I received this invitation yesterday from photographer and body artist, Adrienne Mills...thought I would share. (Image above: Untitled, by Jean Beebe and Adrienne Mills)
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I am pleased to announce the opening of Bodies of Work at the Anne C. Fisher Gallery. The exhibition includes paintings, prints and assemblages by Jean Beebe accompanied by my bodypainting photos. (Click here and here to see a little of Jean's bodypainting stuff and here for the regular stuff.) The exhibition opens with a reception on Friday, 20 January, 6-8 pm to which the public is invited and continues through 11 February.
But wait! There's more!!
But wait! There's more!!
On Saturday, January 28th there will be a Beebe/Mills mind meld bodypaint demo and gallery talk extravaganza with live models and artists! You're invited to watch the paint dry. Yes, excitement abounds. Demos are at 1 & 4 pm. Come to one or both and bring your fun friends.
But wait! There's even more!!
You can catch me or Jean at the gallery each Saturday during the show. Jean has painted lots of people so bring your body painting questions or just stop by to chat and see what makes us tick. If you can't visit during regular hours, fret not! The gallery has a glass front so you can see the show even when the gallery is closed.
Info is below.
Anne C. Fisher Gallery
Canal Square
1054 31 St. NW, Mezzanine
Washington, DC 20007
Opening reception: Friday, January 20, 6-8 pm
Bodypaint demo/gallery talk: Saturday, January 28, 1 & 4 pm
"Pictures of Nothing: Abstraction" @ Ozmosis
I have recently discovered the wonderful work of abstractionist, Rosetta DeBarardinis who has a solo show at Ozmosis Gallery entitled Pictures of Nothing: Abstraction, recent works by Rosetta DeBerardinis. The show runs from January 13-February 28, 2006. I plan to check it out this week!
Image Left: Abstract 5 by Rosetta DeBarardinis
Adventures in New Mexico
Sorry for the silence.....been out of town and when I got back, I have been running ever since. I had the opportunity to vist Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico and checked out a little of the arts community in that neck of the woods.
If you never been to New Mexico, you are really missing a treat. I believe New Mexico has one of the most beautiful landscapes in any part of the Southwest. I had lived in the state for a short time as a child and the memories of the land and the people really came swooping back as I drove I-25 between Albuquerque and Santa Fe. The open air, the desert, the mountains have a mystical quality that cannot be placed in words.
The first stop was the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture in Santa Fe. The musuem had some interesting exhibits such as Here, Now and Always, which tells the story of the Southwest's oldest communities of Native American cultures through traditional artifacts and the recordings of elders of many of the tribes represented. However, an exhibition entitled, Iconoclash which opened Feb 15, 2005 and runs through January 16, 2006 captured my attention.
Iconoclash, features the work of artists Marcus Amerman and David Bradley, both Native American. Their work featured in the exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, and a multi-media installation created in "examination and response to the portrayal of indigenous people in popular culture. " Appropriation of Native American art, mythology, religion, and community life is ubiquitous in American popular culture. The exhibit examines how in more than two hundred years, Indian symbols, faces, names, and places have been "trivialized and used to advertise everything from automobiles to baking powder." Professional sports, colleges and high schools across the nation use Indian icons as mascots. Movies and television have depicted Native people as “ruthless and murdering” or as "noble savages," reducing individuals and cultures to simple one-dimensional stereotypes.
Iconoclash includes twelve paintings and two sculptures by Bradley (Minnesota Chippewa), who is well known for his folk-narrative style of painting, which incorporates iconic figures from the historic American West into scenes from everyday life. The work of Amerman (Choctaw) is represented by eight paintings and a multimedia installation, much of it inspired by Amerman's large collection of product packaging and advertising featuring images of Native American people. These were, in my opinion, the most powerful pieces in the exhibit. Life size paintings of product ads using Indian faces and figures to advertise day-t0-day products dares you to challenge the sterotypical marketing ploy that has been used for years. Cigarette boxes that reached my height were placed next to some of David's collages that honored historic heroes of the pat.
Of course, while one is in Santa Fe, one must visit the galleries! A few galleries stood out for me during my albeit brief, gallery crawl in the downtown area. Houshang's Galleries on Canyon Road really caught my attention, particularly the colorful and inspiration work of Janice Howell, whose paintings which reflected the images of angels, Southwestern culture and architecture was awesome. I also visited the Pena Studio Gallery , which featued the art of Amado M. Pena, Jr., a Pascua Yaqui Tribal Artisan. Pena's work includes acrylic paintings on paper, board and canvas, mixed media works in pastel and prisma color and original monotypes, etchings, serigraphs and lithographs. His art is a wonderful blending of the landscapes and the people of the Southwest including his friends and family in a myriad of contrasting colors both brillant and subtle.
There are of course, too many other galleries to name...but for a wonderful, unique and artful journey to another culture that helped shaped this country, I do recommend a trip to this part of the ountry. Hey, I may sneak back for the New Mexico Arts and Crafts Fair scheduled for June 23-26, 2006!
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