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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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| (New) February 2 – June 22, 2012 |
"Successions: Prints by African American Artists from the Jean and Robert Steele Collection"
An exhibition of works by some of the most highly regarded African American artists, organized by the David C. Driskell Center for the Study of the Visual Arts and Culture of African Americans and the African Diaspora.
Forty-five artists, using traditional printmaking techniques such as etching, monoprint, lithography, linocut and silkscreen, created the sixty-two works on display. The exhibition highlights the remarkable focus of the Jean and Robert Steele collection. For the last four decades, the Steeles have developed a collection of hundreds of prints and works on paper by African American artists.
Instrumental in the Steele’s collecting has been their patronage of printmaking workshops that have been established by, and focus on, African American artists, such as Bob Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop, Inc. in New York City; Allan Edmunds’s Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA; Lou Stovall’s Workshop, Inc. and Percy Martin’s WD Graphics Studio, both in Washington, DC.
The extraordinary depth of this collection provides an opportunity to appreciate a variety of styles and thematic expressions embodied in the works by some of the most celebrated African American artists of the 20th century. Important to the exhibition are prints by Romare Bearden, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, David C. Driskell, Margo Humphrey, Emma Amos and James L. Wells. Many other seminal African American artists such as Benny Andrews, Bob Blackburn, Robert Colescott, Stephanie Pogue, Allan R. Crite, Loïs Mailou Jones, Betye Saar, Sam Gilliam, Samella Lewis, Lou Stovall and William T. Williams are featured in the exhibition. The works of these influential figures, as well as those of emerging and mid-career artists, inform the viewer of the significant role the print medium has had in African American visual culture.
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The David C. Driskell Center
1214 Cole Student Activities Building
University of Maryland
College Park , MD 20742
(301) 314-2615
Driskell Center Gallery Hours:
Monday-Friday: 11-4 pm
Wednesday: 11-6 pm
http://www.driskellcenter.umd.edu |
| (New) January 12 - February 11 |
"Bill Dorsey: A Retrospective (1961-2011)"
Closing Artist Talk: Saturday, February 4, 4 - 6 pm
Bill Dorsey, a graduate from Howard University, has been painting in Washington, DC for over fifty years. Bill studied with notables as Lois Mailou Jones, James V. Herring, James Wells, and James Porter. “Bill Dorsey: A Retrospective (1961-2011)” encompasses Dorsey’s 50 year artistic journey to visually capture the tranquil elegance and splendor found in nature.
Dorsey’s intensely personal renderings in oil paint express the world in which he sees. Dorsey states, "These soul-felt renderings represent my humble attempt to visually capture what nature so willingly and graciously makes available to us on a regular basis, but so often is lost in just a mere twinkling of an eye."
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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 |
| (New) February 3 - 24 |
"Hillyer Art Space Exhibitions "
First Friday Opening: Friday, February 3, 6 – 9 pm [Suggested Donation, $5]
[Exhibit 1] Elizabeth Holtry: “Toile de Jouy”
Holtry's paintings depict animals that few people appreciate, such as hyenas, insects, and rats. Often wondering why is it that people advocate equality between humans, yet so freely discriminate in our opinions of animals her work addresses our prejudicial attitudes toward these animals.
[Exhibit 2] David Myers: “Confined:Visual Synonyms”
Photography is a tool for Myers, that he uses to explore surroundings and better understand observations made along the way. The work in this exhibit is documenting underlying and not yet, well-understood preconceptions of zoos and aquariums, and our interaction with the animals housed within their confines.
[Exhibit 3] Brian Kirk: “Natural Reaction”
In this exhibit the natural actions of wind, water, fire on the ever-changing earth hold a fascination for the artist. The cyclical forces play a role in his work; the ebb and flow of the tides, the changing stages of the moon, the emblazoned autumn leaves.
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International Arts and Artists
9 Hillyer Court, NW,
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 338-0680
http://www.artsandartists.org |
| (New) January 28 - April 15 |
"Exhibits Featured at the Katzen Museum, American University"
Artists’ Reception: Saturday, January 28, 6 – 9 pm
[Exhibit 1] Anil Revri: "Faith and Liberation through Abstraction"
Anil Revri’s paintings function as aids to meditation, while at the same time the process of their creation is itself an act of meditation. On view through April 15.
[Exhibit 2] Gabarrón’s "Roots"
This is Cristóbal Gabarrón’s first exhibition in Washington, D.C. His vibrantly colored sculptures are larger than life, yet human in scale and effect, his paintings evoke archaeological and zoological mysteries. On view through April 15.
[Exhibit 3] Raoul Middleman: "City Limits"
An exhibit featuring paints of Baltimore artist Raoul Middleman’s nudes, cityscapes and narrative paintings. On view through March 18.
[Exhibit 4] "Regaining Our Faculties:" Zoë Charlton, Tim Doud, Deborah Kahn, and Luis Manuel Cravo Silva
This exhibit features works (undertaken during their respective sabbaticals) of American University faculty members Zoë Charlton, Tim Doud, Deborah Kahn, and Luis Manuel Cravo Silva. On view through March 18.
(Exhibit 5] Kids@Katzen: "The Photographic Life"
Photographs by Kids@Katzen participants. On view through February 28.
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The Katzen Arts Center at
American University
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 885-2787
Museum Hours:
11:00 am to 4:00 pm, Tues - Sun
http://www.american.edu/museum |
| (New) February 4 - May 6, 2012 |
"THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION --- Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard "
Curator Elsa Smithgall leads a tour of French Drawings from the Aaronsohn Collection on Thursday, March 29, at 6:30 pm
The Phillips Collection highlights a gift of 27 works on paper by modern masters active in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It marks the first drawing by Edouard Vuillard (1868–1940) to enter the collection and the Phillips’s first holdings by Bernard Lamotte (1903–1983), Fernand Léger (1881–1955), and Kees van Dongen (1877–1968). The rich array of portraits, nudes, landscapes, and cityscapes offers a glimpse into the essential role drawing played in the modern artist’s creative process. French Drawings from the Aaronsohn Collection is on view Feb. 2 through April 29, 2012.
The gift from the D.C.-based collectors Jonathan and Roseann Aaronsohn enriches The Phillips Collection’s important holdings of work by Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947), Stuart Davis (1892–1964), and André Derain (1880–1954). “The Phillips is grateful to the Aaronsohns for this gift of drawings that strengthens our commitment to the graphic arts,” says museum Director Dorothy Kosinski. “It underscores the important synthesis between drawing and painting that invigorated modernist practice.”
Artists of the Parisian avant-garde embraced the expressive potential of line, charting a course for modern art with the medium. The exhibition features 25 drawings by Bonnard, Vuillard, Dutch-born painter van Dongen, French masters Derain and Lamotte, and renowned cubist Léger, along with two lithographs by American modernist Davis based on his drawings of Paris. Whether rapid sketch or well worked study, each drawing reveals a fresh and personal vision, from Derain’s classical line to Léger’s abstract geometry.
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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) January 13 - February 18 |
"Part of Art @ Work"
In partnership with Albus Cavus, an arts group that transforms communities through public art, this art venue will use graffiti-style mural art to bring Washington DC residents together in beautifying their neighborhoods. Three on-site, mural workshops facilitated by Albus Cavus' team of graffiti-style mural artists will transform the Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery into a working studio. Visitors of all artistic backgrounds, adults and kids (ages 12 and up) are invited to work with Albus Cavus to create a public art piece incorporating their unique voices and perspectives, which will eventually be installed in a local neighborhood as part of Albus Cavus' Open Walls project.
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The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery
at Smith Farm Center
1632 U St NW
Washington DC
20009
(202) 483-8600
Regular Gallery Hours: W-F 11am-5pm,
Sat 11am-3pm, and by appointment
http://www.SmithFarm.com |
(Upcoming) Thursday, March 1, 2012
5 - 8:30 pm |
"Phillips After 5: Thursday, March 1, 2012"
"Phillips After 5", a lively mix of art and musical entertainment on the first Thursday of each month. Due to the event’s popularity,
reservations strongly advised for this popular event. $12; $10 for visitors 62 and over and students. Members always admitted free, no reservation needed.
www.phillipscollection.org/phillipsafter5.
6:30 & 7:30 pm, Shadow Theater:
Artists featured in Snapshot attended, designed, and documented shadow plays at the popular Parisian cabaret Le Chat Noir.
Baltimore-based Nana Projects presents a shadow puppet show inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s Eureka set to an original score and live performance by songwriter Ellen Cherry.
6 & 7 pm, Gallery Talk: "Rivière and Paris: From Le Chat Noir to the Eiffel Tower"
Henri Rivière produced dynamic photographs depicting all aspects of the "city of light," including arresting images of Le Chat Noir cabaret and the Eiffel Tower.
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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) Through February 29 |
"Parish Gallery Hosts: A DUTCH AUCTION "
Opening Reception: Friday, January 20, 6 – 8 pm
A Dutch Auction is a type of auction where the auctioneer begins with an asking price which is lowered until some participant is willing to accept the auctioneer's price or a predetermined reserve price (the seller's minimum acceptable price) is reached. The winning participant pays the last announced price.
Works of mid-career thru master artists will be presented: Louis Delsarte, Antonio Carre?o, Edward McCluney, Kenneth Pasley, Yvette Watson, Nature, Eugene Martin, Nurieh Mozaffari, Kenneth Young, Richard Mayhew, Herbert Gentry, Edward Clark, Allen Stringfellow, William Pajaud, et
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Parish Gallery Georgetown
1054 31st Street NW
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 944-2310
http://www.parishgallery.com |
| (New) February 4 - March 10 |
"Conner Contemporary Art Exhibitions"
Artists Reception: Saturday, February 4th from 6 – 8 pm
[Exhibit 1] “Patricia Cronin: Bodies and Soul”
Conner Contemporary Art is honored to present Patricia Cronin’s first solo exhibition in Washington, DC, Bodies and Soul. The exhibition features Memorial to a Marriage, a new bronze sculpture depicting the nearly life-size, sleeping figures of Cronin and her life mate, artist Deborah Kass, joined in a tender embrace.
[Exhibit 2, Gallery 2] Die Vettern: A special gogo projects installation -- Wir packen in unseren Koffer / Packing Our Suitcase
By Die Vettern, an international artist group formed by Lina Vargas De La Hoz, Christine Aue, Evi Leuchtgelb and Christa Aistleitner. In their collaboration, these four artists draw upon individual perceptions of living respectively in the Austrian cities of Vienna and Linz and here, in Washington, DC.
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Conner Contemporary Art
1358 Florida Ave, NE
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 588-8750
Gallery summer hours: Wed - Sat,
10-5 pm or by prior appointment.
http://www.connercontemporary.com |
| (New) January 19 – February 19 |
"Long View Gallery Presents: Homestead"
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 19, 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Long View Gallery is pleased to announce, “Homestead,” featuring about 20 new mixed media works by Los Angeles artist Mike Weber. It would be an understatement to call Weber’s mixed media pieces layered. The color, texture and pattern in his pieces are inspired by the artist’s memories of the abandoned homesteads.
Weber’s work beckons the viewer to share in his unique childhood experiences, transporting them back to the abandoned homesteads, and viewing his subjects reincarnated, full of new life and with stories to tell.
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Long View Gallery
1234 9th Street NW
Washington, DC, 20001
(202) 232-4788
http://www.longviewgallery.com |
| (New) January 27 - October 14, 2012 |
"Slavery at Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty"
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture and Monticello present this exhibition of artifacts from the Smithsonian’s collections and from excavations at Thomas Jefferson’s Virginia plantation.
Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence and called slavery an “abominable crime,” yet he was a lifelong slaveholder. The exhibition will provide a look at the lives of six slave families living at Monticello alongside Jefferson and his family. Personal belongings and working tools will be on display, and visitors will have a chance to learn about the families’ connections to one another, their religious faith and their efforts to pursue literacy and freedom.
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Smithsonian
National Museum of African American
History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Constitution Avenue & 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20560
(202) 633-1000
Open Daily 10 am - 5:30 pm
http://nmaahc.si.edu/ |
| (New) February 1 - 26 |
"Foundry Gallery: Feb Four "
Opening Reception -- Friday, February 3, 6 - 8 pm
About the Four New Member Artists:
Linda Button paintings explore the visual eloquence of Window Dressing through drawings and oil paintings.
Lesley Clarke uses acrylics and found objects in complex abstract works focusing on emotion and conflict.
Peter Loge works in assemblage, bringing together found objects and images to represent an idea of an object or emotion, rather than the object or emotion itself. Peter’s work shows reflection of the world as we imagine it to be.
Edward Bear Miller is an emerging artist whose recent oil paintings explore a range of subjects: human forms, portraits, cityscapes, the mountainous Adirondacks, and the parks and waterways of his native Washington, DC.
February Members' Show:
In addition to the Feb Four show in the main gallery, Foundry's Gallery 2 features member artists’ work that has not been shown before at the Foundry. For an exciting array of work that changes monthly exhibited by a group of talented artists, please be sure to visit Foundry Gallery regularly. All work is for sale
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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) Through March 10 |
"Zimstone Gallery Presents: CONVERGIING CULTURAL TAPESTRIES"
Converging Cultural Tapestries artist Antionne Goho will be at Zimstone Gallery at 1 pm on Saturday, February 4, to talk about the current exhibition and his recent travels to his home in
the Ivory Coast.
Artist Eileen Cave will discuss her work Saturday, February, 25th at 1 pm.
This exhibition features renowned artists Eileen Cave and Pierre-Antoine Goho collaborating to create a series of paintings reflecting their respective journeys. Both Eileen and Antoinne have traveled extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa and bring the sights, sounds, and aroma of two distinct paths together for this exhibit.
Zimstone Gallery is a Washington metro area gem for unique and reasonably priced African Sculpture. The gallery owner, Jeff Brown, travels frequently to Southern Africa to meet with some of the world’s most talented sculpture artists and to select works for the Gallery based on their beauty, value and cultural significance. In addition to hosting periodic art exhibits at the Gallery, Jeff also provides private art consultations. Check out the Gallery Web site for an informative tutorial on types of sculpting stone. |
Zimstone GALLERY
4814 Rhode Island Avenue
Hyattsville, MD 20781
(301) 699-1499
GALLERY Hours: Wed - Fri, 3 - 7 pm; Sat - Sun, 12 - 5 pm
http://www.ZimstoneGallery.com |
| (New) January 27 - March 3 |
"Kay Jackson - Thinking Inside the Box"
Opening reception: Saturday, January 28, 6:00 pm
An exhibit of new work by Kay Jackson. |
Addison/Ripley Fine Art
1670 Wisconsin Avenue
Washington, DC 20007
(202) 338-5180
Gallery Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday, 11am – 6pm and by appointment.
http://www.addisonripleyfineart.com/ |
| (New) January 26 - March 11 |
"GA Gardner: Interconnections "
Artist's Reception / Sunday, January 29, 2012 from 4 - 6 pm
GA Gardner addresses our often complicated relationship with mass communication by infusing his paintings and mixed media works with the energy and vibrant colors of his native Trinidad and Tobago.
Gardner’s works deal with the proliferation of media in contemporary society and the resulting cacophony of mixed messages. Layers of painted printed strips cover some canvases to represent both today’s advanced, digital modes of communication as well as the nature of the original thought or message. His palette recalls the sky, sunsets, sea, and terrain of his Caribbean roots—yet his subject matter, style, and content speak more to our fast-paced, urban environment.
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Athenaeum
201 Prince Street
lexandria, Va
22314
(703) 548-0035
GALLERY HOURS:
(Thurs, Fri and Sun -- 12 - 4 pm)
(Saturdays -- 1 - 4 pm)
Closed on holidays
[Admission is free]
http://www.nvfaa.org |
| October 15, 2011 - February 12, 2012 |
"Weaving Abstraction: Kuba Textiles and the Woven Art of Central Africa"
A resplendent exhibit of textiles of the Kuba kingdom of Central Africa. The Kuba kingdom grew into a powerful and wealthy confederation of 18 different ethnic groups located in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo. While they have fascinated artists, collectors and designers for over a century, this will be the first major museum exhibition in the U.S. to showcase the artistic inventiveness and graphic power of Kuba ceremonial dance skirts within a wide-ranging survey of Kuba design. More than 140 exceptional 19th- and early 20th-century objects will be on view, including ceremonial skirts, ‘velvet’ tribute cloths, headdresses and basketry from the permanent collection of The Textile Museum, the National Museum of African Art, and several private collections. |
Textile Museum
2320 S Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 667-0441
Museum Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday:
10 am - 5 pm
Sunday: 1 - 5 pm
Closed federal holidays and
December 24
http://www.textilemuseum.org |
| (New) January 19 - May 7 |
"The Gallery at Iona"
Artist Reception: Friday, February 10, 5 – 8 pm
The Gallery at Iona features an exhibition of the highly acclaimed local artist, George Smith-Shomari, who is also their next selected artist-in-Residence. George is a printmaker, painter, and artistic consultant. He has been featured at several local galleries (e.g., Strathmore Mansions) and at over national art venues. Other artists participating in the gallery’s current exhibit are special guest glasswork artists Varda Avnisan and Jill Tanenbaum.
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The Gallery at Iona
4125 Albermarle Street, NW
Washington, DC 20016
(202) 895-9407
Gallery Hours:
Mon - Fri, 9 am - 5 pm
http://www.iona.org |
| (Upcoming) February 12 - May 20 |
"Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection Gift"
Assembled from the John Bourne collection of art of the ancient Americas, this exhibition will feature 129 Precolumbian artworks from Mexico to Peru. Organized thematically by culture, the artworks present more than 2,500 years of creativity in Mexico, Central America and Andean South America from 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1520. |
The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
(410) 547-9000
Museum Hours: 10 am –5 pm
Wednesday through Sunday.
Closed: Mondays and Tuesdays
http://thewalters.org/ |
| (New) February 1 - 26 |
"Carol Lopatin: 'Coast To Coast' and Dina Volkova: 'Last Two Years'"
Exhibits Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6 - 8:30 pm
[Exhibit 1] CAROL LOPATIN: “COAST TO COAST”
This exhibit features large plein air paintings, consisting of the artist’s favorite locations throughout our great USA --- the coast of Maine, the Big Bend area in Texas, the mountains of New Mexico, Maryland lowlands and mountains of Wyoming.
[Exhibit 2] DINA VOLKOVA: “Last Two Years”
Dina Volkova’s exhibition consists of art work painted in the duration of the past two years. The works, not connected by a single overpowering theme, were created based on the artist’s state of being.
February 2012 Member Exhibit: “Love and Cravings”
This exhibit features fifty of the gallery’s member artists. Their work on exhibit and materials and color palettes will be as varied as their definitions of LOVE, including oil, water media, photography, sculpture, clay, wood and metals.
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Touchstone Gallery
901 New York Avenue, NW
Metro: Mt. Vernon Square, or
Metro Center, Chinatown
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 347-2787
GALLERY HOURS:
Wed - Thurs, 11-6,
Fri 11-8, & Sat - Sun 12-5
http://www.touchstonegallery.com |
| (New) January 14 – March 10 |
"Franz Jantzen: Ostinato"
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 14, 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
In music, “ostinato” is the repetition of a note, motif or phrase wherein no one element is more important than any other. In common use, the term can include slight variations in repetitions to aid the development of the piece as a whole. This musical tool is the backbone of Jantzen’s newest body of assemblages, which range in subject matter from a Santeria altar to the historic Loew’s Theater, and the artist’s own bathtub.
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Hemphill Fine Arts
1515 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 234-5601
Gallery Hours: Tues - Sat,
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
http://www.hemphillfinearts.com |
| (New) January 13 – March 30 |
"Second Look: Selections from a Print Lab’s Archives"
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 6 - 8 pm.
A group photography exhibit of images printed at Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab. Some of the notable photographers include: Michael Platt, Bruce McNeil, Ed Mays, Deborah Terry, Adam Davies, Ben Droz, Pat Padua, Marlon Norman, Jonathan French and others.
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The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
2208 Martin Luther King Ave SE
Washington DC 20020
(202) 365-8392
http://www.vividsolutionsdc.com |
| (New) January 7 - February 4 |
"The Mansion at Strathmore Exhibit: Stepping Over the Line"
Opening Reception: Sunday, January 8 from 2 - 4 pm
Art Talk: Saturday, January 21, 1 pm
Children's (Ages 5 and up with adult) Talk and Tour: Saturday, January 21 at 10:15 am [Note: Call to reserve]
The exhibit, “Stepping Over the Line,” redefines how we look at art. Fresh, forward thinking and utterly unexpected, this is the show that transcends the restrictions of media and artistic genres. Mixed media artist and painter Shahla Arbabi and water-media artists Kathleen Alexander, Carol Carter, Mark Mehaffey, Thomas Schaller, Nicholas Simmons and Keiko Tanabe upend the familiar with unique application of color, mesmerizing media manipulation, and intense point of view and emotional outlook.
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The Mansion at Strathmore
10701 Rockville Pike
North Bethesda, MD 20852
(301) 581-5125
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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/ |
| (New) February 3 - March 2 |
"A New Exhibition of Photography: Suwarna"
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3, 6 - 8 pm
Suwarna, meaning “our pictures” in Arabic, is an exhibition of photography taken by the participants in “Triple Exposure,”a public art project at Tomorrow’s Youth Organization (TYO) in Nablus in the Northern West Bank, in which Palestinian youth use their cameras to capture their homes, neighborhoods, schools, friends, hobbies and daily moments of beauty.
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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 |
| (New) Januay 11 - February 26 |
"Gallery plan b features: Works by Bernardo Siles"
Opening Artist Reception: Saturday, January 14, 6 - 8 pm
Bernardo has shown in several group shows in the area but his exhibition at Gallery plan b will mark his first solo show. In this exhibition at plan b, he will be presenting a series of abstract paintings (oil on canvas) along with a series of figurative drawings (Prismacolor pencil on paper). Both series are a testament to his precision, patience, and control of his mediums.
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Gallery plan b
1530 14th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20005
(202) 234-2711
http://www.galleryplanb.com |
| (New) September 14, 2011 - March 4, 2012 |
"Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley "
This evocative international exhibition from central Nigeria features more than 148 objects used in a range of ritual contexts, with genres as varied and complex as the vast region itself. Featured are some of the most abstract, dramatic and inventive sculpture from sub-Saharan Africa including full-bodied maternal images, sleek columnar statues, helmet masks adorned with naturalistic human faces, horizontal masks designed as stylized animal-human fusions, imaginative anthropomorphic ceramic vessels and elaborate regalia forged in iron and cast in copper alloys. |
Smithsonian
National Museum of African Art
950 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, D.C. 20560
(202) 633-4600
http://africa.si.edu/exhibits |
| (New) December 1 - February 25, 2012 |
"Zenith Gallery at Chevy Chase Pavilion: Year’s End / New Beginnings"
Artists Reception: Wednesday, December 7, 6 - 8:30 pm
A mixed media exhibition of work featuring hanging neon jellyfish by Eric Ehlenberger; the paper mache work of social humorist Stephen Hansen; the dreamy landscapes of realistic painter Bradley Stevens; the architectural illusions and manipulations of Ken Wyner and Karen Starika; Cassie Taggart’s hyper-detailed fantasy world; paintings created via fire by Peter Kephart; light dancing through three dimensional pieces by multi-media artists Joan Konkel and Justin Beller; the gestural art of Brooke Fierce Bronner; and more. The show will be in Zenith Gallery and displayed throughout the Chevy Chase Pavilion.
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Zenith Gallery @ Chevy Chase
Pavilion
[Level 2, next to Embassy Suites
Hotel]
5335 Wisconsin Avenue NW
Washington, DC
(202) 783-2963
Gallery open Wednesday-Saturday,
noon - 6 pm and by appointment
http://www.zenithgallery.com |
| (New) December 12, 2011 – March 18, 2012 |
"Artuaré"
The second exhibition in the Call & Response series (December 12, 2011–March 18, 2012) presents the works of artists Steven Cummings and the work of Creative Junkfood, a multi-media production studio. In Artuaré, artist Steven Cummings looks at the power of representation and how images shape our ideas of who we are.
The artists of Creative Junkfood, under the creative direction of Candice Taylor and Nabeeh Bilal, present Conversations in the Contemporary, a multi-media installation of animation, video, poetry, and sound that explores personal identity in the immediacy of the political, social, and cultural environment and calls upon viewers to craft their own response.
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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 |
| (New) August 20, 2011 – Summer 2012 |
"Sweet Silent Thought: Whistler's Interiors"
Freer Gallery of Art
This exhibit features a selection of prints by American expatriate artist James McNeill Whistler. Images of private, enclosed spaces, inhabited by quiet, self-contained figures, recur from his earliest etchings in the mid-1850s to his later watercolors and lithographs. Family members, close friends, or the artist's current mistress almost always serve as the focus of these interior scenes. This sense of intimacy is underscored by the works' small scale, which compels the viewer to stand close and study the scene carefully. |
The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Smithsonian Institution
1050 Independence Avenue
Washington, D.C.
(202) 633-1000
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions |
| (New) October 30 - March 25, 2012 |
"Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein"
The BMA offers a treasure trove of fine art venues. Take a leisurely drive to our sister city, Baltimore, and visit its many cultural offerings. (I enjoy driving up on a Saturday morning, staying overnight - having dinner and breakfast at Gertrude's [serving delicious regional cuisine] restaurant in the BMA)
FEATURED EXHIBIT:
The replete exhibition is an epic tour of serial printmaking, featuring more than 350 prints, spanning 500 years.
Singled out by The Baltimore Sun as the Critic's Pick for fall 2011, nearly 30 complete series of prints—many never before on view—reveal the true vision of renowned artists, including Dürer, Picasso, Canaletto, Lichtenstein, Duchamp, and many more.
The exhibition is drawn exclusively from the BMA’s 60,000+ print collection, considered to be one of the most significant collections of works on paper in the country.
Note: Gertrude's restaurant, 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 |
| (New) October 28 - April 22, 2012 |
"Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders: The Black List"
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Elvis Mitchell worked together to develop a list of 50 individuals whom they thought would represent the African-American experience in the 20th century. Greenfield-Sanders created large-format fine-art photographs, and Mitchell interviewed the subjects on film; the portrayals provide insight on the struggles, triumphs and joys of black life in the United States.
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National Portrait Gallery
Eight and F Streets NW
Metro Stop: Gallery Place-Chinatown
Washington, DC 20001
(202) 633-8300
Museum Hours: 11:30 am – 7:00 pm, Daily
http://www.npg.si.edu |
| (New) September 7 - January 22, 2012 |
"Momentum: A National Juried Exhibition for Emerging Artists with Disabilities, Ages 16-25"
This exhibition features the work of 15 emerging artists with disabilities who examine the vital creative spark behind their work. This year’s artists are Dimelza Broche (Florida), Holiday Campanella (Pennsylvania), Will Copps (District of Columbia), Angela Godoy (Maryland), Brian Kellett (Ohio), Krista Kuskye (Indiana), Emily Gail Lyles (South Carolina), Artur Matveichenkov (Puerto Rico), Emily McPeek (California), Caitlin Miller (District of Columbia), Xi Nan (Maryland), Sonya Seitz (Pennsylvania), Jansen Smith (Florida), Rea Walsh (Pennsylvania), and Beth Zarden-Benson (Wisconsin).
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Smithsonian Institution
S. Dillon Ripley Center,
International Gallery
1100 Jefferson Drive, SW
Metro: Smithsonian Station
(Use Mall Exit)
Washington, DC
(202) 633-1000
http://www.si.edu/Museums/ripley-center |
| (New) January 13 - February 24 |
"Visual Audio: Inquiries into Found Media"
Opening Reception: Friday, January 13, 7 pm
Two art venues featuring: Radio Transmission Ark + Vernacular Preservation Society
Radio Transmission Ark:
Rob Peterson and Lindsay Reynolds will be in residence at Honfleur Gallery collaborating and creating Radio Transmission Ark, an exploration at the crossroads of transmission art and community archiving. The result of this collaboration will be an installed portrait of the community surrounding Honfleur Gallery, combining found sounds, observational writings, and documentary drawings, using found and refused media.
Vernacular Preservation Society:
Formal investigations of the typographic vernacular of cities from Detroit, Rochester and Baltimore are the foundation of a new initiative in Baltimore by graphic designers Ryan Clifford and Joe Galbreath, the Baltimore Vernacular Preservation Society. BVPS’s first exhibition will focus on 70?s era audio-visual signage. Photographs and silkscreened prints explore the visual language including
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Honfleur Gallery
1241 Good Hope Rd. SE
Washington , D.C. 20020
(202) 536-8994
Gallery Hours:
12 - 5 pm, Tues - Fri
11 am - 5 pm, Sat.
Closed on Sun and Mon
http://www.honfleurgallery.com |
| (New) November 10 - February 4, 2012 |
"Conversación: Photo Works by Muriel Hasbun and Pablo Ortiz Monasterio"
The show thus uses photography to probe the possibilities of cultural and visual exchange in a digital age. Taking place with a single photograph being sent over the Internet from one artist, Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, in Mexico City to a fellow artist, Muriel Hasbun, in Washington, D.C. Muriel responded by sending Pablo one of her own digital photographs. The exchange between the two artists went on for months. A year later this collaborative exchange has produced a remarkable exhibition. “Conversación” is ultimately about how art is made and how meaning is constructed. |
Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street, NW
Metro: Blocks from the Columbia
Heights Station
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 728-1628
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday 10 am - 6 pm
Saturday: Noon - 4 pm
http://www.instituteofmexicodc.org |
| (New) December 10 - February 4, 2012 |
"Hamiltonian Gallery Exhibits"
NOTICE FROM HAMILTONIAN GALLERY:
Hamiltonian Gallery will reopen on Tuesday, January 31st. We have extended our current exhibition, including the work of Selin Balci and Ryan Hoover, until Saturday, February 4, 2012. The next exhibition, featuring Matthew Mann and Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, will open on Saturday, February 11, 2012, from 7-9 pm. We hope to see you all then.
Two concurrent spectacular solo exhibitions by Hamiltonian Fellows, Selin Balci and Ryan Hoover
[1] SELIN BALCI - Interact and Transform
Selin Balci applies an acute scientific laboratory practice to create her current body of works on paper and board. Balci researches simple microorganisms in the lab and records the manners in which they interact with one another, as well as the colors and aesthetics those interactions produce.
[2] RYAN HOOVER- Sculpting with Satellites
The works in this exhibition include sculptures and drawings on Plexiglas that began as walks through the artist's neighborhood, in which he tracked his travels via global positioning
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Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U Street, NW
(14th and U Streets)
Washington, DC
(202) 332-1116
http://www.hamiltonianartists.org |
| September 26 - February 12, 2012 |
"THE CORCORAN CELEBRATES 30 AMERICANS WITH SPECIAL PROGRAMMING"
Mark your calendars Art Connoisseurs—the Corcoran’s “30 Americans” is heralded as one of D.C.’s best fine art venues for the year 2011. You’ll be overwhelmed by a wide-ranging survey of works by many of the most important African-American contemporary artists of the last three decades. By bringing seminal artistic figures together with younger and emerging artists, the exhibition
explores artistic influence across generations and sheds light on issues of racial, sexual and historical identity. Often provocative and challenging, “30 Americans” at the Corcoran explores ideas central to the American experience. It is also worth noting that Corcoran members receive discounts on tickets to the many events surrounding the “30 Americans” exhibit. View the accompanying pdf file of the exhibit on this Web site Home page for a complete listing of the events.
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Corcoran Gallery of Art
500 Seventeenth Street NW
Washington, DC 20006
(202) 639-1700
http://www.corcoran.org/30americans |
| (New) July 6, 2011 – February 2, 2012 |
"IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas"
This 20-panel banner exhibition focuses on the interactions between African American and Native American people, especially those of blended heritage. It also sheds light on the dynamics of race, community, culture, and creativity, and addresses the human desires of being and belonging. With compelling text and powerful graphics, IndiVisible includes accounts of cultural integration and diffusion as well as the struggle to define and preserve identity. Stories are set within the context of a larger society that, for centuries, has viewed people through the prism of race brought to the Western Hemisphere by European settlers.
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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 |
| (New) Through January 8, 2012 |
"The Great American Hall of Wonders"
The exhibition features 161 objects, including paintings and drawings by pre-eminent artists, including John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Thomas Moran, and Charles Willson Peale, as well as sculptures, prints, survey photographs, zoological and botanical illustrations, patent models, and engineering diagrams. The exhibition explores six subjects that helped shape America during the period—the buffalo, giant sequoia, and Niagara Falls represent American beliefs about abundant natural resources for fueling the nation’s progress, while inventions such as the clock, the gun, and the railroad link improvements in technology with the purposeful use of time. |
Smithsonian American Art Museum
9th and G Streets NW
Metro: Gallery Place metro station
Washington, DC
(202) 633-1000
Museum Hours: 11:30 am - 7:00 pm, daily
http://americanart.si.edu |
| (New) September 25 - January 15, 2012 |
"Andy Warhol: Shadows"
This exhibit, created in the last decade of Warhol’s life, “Shadows,” 1978 comprises 102 silkscreened and hand-painted canvases featuring distorted photographs of shadows generated in the artist’s studio. The paintings, which are always installed edge-to-edge, will extend uninterrupted for almost 450 linear feet around the Hirshhorn Museum’s distinctive curved galleries, emphasizing the cinematic quality of the work and providing a unique opportunity to see the work in its entirety.
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Smithsonian Institution
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Independence Avenue at 7th Street SW
Washington, D.C.
(202) 633-4674
Hours of Operation:
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
http://hirshhorn.si.edu/ |
| (New) September 25 - January 2, 2012 |
"Warhol: Headlines"
Warhol: Headlines will define and bring together works that the artist based largely on headlines from the tabloid news. Warhol had a lifelong obsession with the sensational side of contemporary news media, and examples of his source materials for the works of art will be presented for comparison, revealing Warhol's role as both editor and author.
The rich headline motif will be traced through about 80 works representing the full range of its treatment in Warhol's practice—from paintings, drawings, prints, photography, and sculpture to film, video, and television.
The exhibition is on view in the East Building of the National Gallery of Art, Mezzanine and Upper Level.
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The National Gallery of Art
East Building
4th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC
(202) 737-4215
Hours:
Open Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and Sunday from 11 am to 6 pm. The Gallery is closed on December 25 and January 1.
http://www.nga.gov |
| (New) May 8 - November 27, 2011 |
"Sensational Exhibitions at The National Gallery of Art "
[Exhibit 1]: "Italian Master Drawings from the Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, 1525–1835"
May 8 to November 27, 2011
On view in the Gallery's West Building
The splendors of Italian draftsmanship from the late Renaissance to the height of the neoclassical movement are showcased in an exhibition of 65 superb drawings assembled by the European private collector Wolfgang Ratjen (1943–1997). Works are featured by many of the most important artists of the period, from Giulio Romano to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Outstanding Venetian examples include those by such artists as Domenico Tintoretto, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Canaletto, whose elegant rendering of the "Giovedì Grasso" festival in Venice is perhaps his finest surviving drawing.
[Exhibit 2]: "The Gothic Spirit of John Taylor Arms"
May 8 to November 27, 2011
On view in the Gallery's West Building
The astonishing dexterity and passion for detail of American printmaker John Taylor Arms (1887–1953) is revealed in the first exhibition of his works at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The exhibit features some 60 prints, drawings, and copperplates that span the artist's career, from his early New York series to his finest images of cathedrals. |
The National Gallery of Art
West Building
4th and Constitution Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20565
(202) 737-4215
http://www.nga.gov |
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