Clinton Bush Haiti Fund provides relief & support to earthquake survivors more...
Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction @ the Phillips Collection more...
ARTrageous @ the American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery 2/27 more...
WPA Art Auction Exhibition The Washington Project for the Arts Art Auction Exhibition @ the Katzen Arts Center with the auction taking place on 3/6 more...
Adam Lister Gallery Float, Stack and Shift Group Show January 22 - February 28 Ten artists with work including painting, photography, mixed media, sculpture and site-specific installation. Artists: Diana Adams Jill Braman Sarah Colby Tweety Dong Adam Lister Robbie Namy Stephanie Rivers Dennis Tarnay Chris Ulrich
Skimming Spider, Dennis Tarnay
Addison Ripley Fine Art Watercolors Patricia Tobacco Forrester January 30 - March 6 Large scale watercolors of scenes from exotic locales, Northern California and Washington DC.
Alexandria Black History Museum Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art February 4 - March 13 Traces the evolution of the ancient art of the coiled basket while examining rice growing societies which exported their cultures to America
American Painting Fine Art Modern Painters: Potomac River School Brenda Kidera Mary Kokoski Andrei Kushnir Barbara Nuss February 6 - March 13
Jennings Chapel Pasture, Brenda Kidera
American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center Past and Present Tom Green January 23 - March 14 Green taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design for about 35 years and has been extremely influential in the Washington, D.C., art scene. During his tenure at the Corcoran, Green led a new generation of artists out of the dominance of the Washington Color School toward a more personal process and iconography.
Personal Interiors Alan Feltus and Lani Irwin Recent work by two artists with ties to AU's Department of Art who now live and work in Assisi, Italy.
Cult of Hand Robert Devers Interdisciplinary exploration retracing and reimagining the influences of culture, craft, and place on the artist. Devers maps his own journey in the form of paintings, ceramics, and installations to offer a new translation of pattern, form, and space and to provide new perspectives of cultural influence as an American artist working in Mexico and Italy.
Cream: Washington Project for the Arts Art Auction Exhibition Features work by Washington Project for the Arts member artists, as well as national contemporary artists selected by top curators from some of the most important art institutions in the country.
Witness: Beirut, Tom Green
Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century: In Retrospect Andy Warhol Opens February 25
Arlington Arts Center Transhuman Conditions January 29 - April 3 Features ten artists thinking about the future of the human body
Athenaeum Kazaan Viveiros January 14 - February 28 Large, richly complex paintings that evoke collage
Blueberry Art Gallery Red Thread Group Show February 12 - March 1 A common theme of "red"
Carroll Square Gallery 3D: Contemporary Collage Kyan Bishop, Leah Frankel & Elizabeth Kendall January 22 - March 26
the myth of the extraordinary, Kyan Bishop
Conner Contemporary Art Anyone Other Than Me .... Jeremy Kost Living Fossil Taylor Baldwin Sounds a Grown Man Should Not Make Matthew Sutton January 16 - March 6 Jeremy Kost's latest body of work, "Anyone Other Than Me...," reveals the intensely personal nature of his art. The growing notoriety of the artist's captivating photographs - of club kids, celebrities, transsexuals, and beautiful young men - issues from his prowess in the New York social scene, a deliberately cultivated capacity, which lies at the core of his creative process.
In "Living Fossil," sculptures and drawings by Conner/*gogo artist, Taylor Baldwin, explore personal, economic, and environmental relationships between people and objects
In "Sounds a Grown Man Shouldn't Make," Conner/*gogo artist, Matthew Sutton, presents a selection of sounds, which, he explains, "I make on a regular basis. These sounds sometimes meet with disapproval from friends, family, and coworkers." Sutton elaborates, "Sound making is probably my longest established, most consistent, and maybe most personal activity." This will be Sutton's second solo exhibition with the gallery.
Untitled (from LifeBall) detail, Jeremy Kost
Corcoran Gallery of Art Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales January 30 - April 25, 2010 An outstanding group of 19th and 20th century paintings and works on paper from the National Museum Wales-an internationally acclaimed collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art-and features masterpieces by Paul Cezanne, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, J.M.W. Turner, and Vincent van Gogh. The exhibition traces the evolution of early modern art, beginning with examples of dramatic Romanticism exemplified by Turner through the expressionist Post-impressionism of van Gogh. Spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition contains masterworks of Realism, Naturalism, and Impressionism, by their greatest exponents.
A Love of Europe: Highlights from the William A. Clark Collection January 30 - April 11, 2010 Ranging from ancient Antiquities to Impressionist paintings, Senator Clark's collection today forms the core of the Corcoran's holdings of European art. Timed to coincide with Turner to Cezanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales (on display at the Corcoran from January 30 through April 11, 2010), A Love of Europe displays Clark's particular enthusiasm for 19th-century French painting. The exhibition will include works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Jean-Francois Millet, and Edgar Degas. American Bronzes from the Corcoran Gallery of Art Ongoing
Honore Daumier, The Night Walkers, 1842-47. Oil on board. National Museum of Wales;
District of Columbia Arts Center Memory Meets Imagination Halfway Adam De Boer Curated by Laura Roulet January 15 - February 21 Themes of social ritual and emerging sexuality are set against the luminous landscapes of Southern California and Mallorca, Spain in Adam de Boer's new series of narrative paintings, Memory Meets Imagination Halfway. Evoking Vladimir Nabokov as psychological literary muse, de Boer also engages the art historical influences of Francisco Goya, Balthus and Eric Fischl.
Foundry Gallery Four at Foundry New Members Show February 3 - February 27 Fran Abrams, polymer clay
Sarah Alexander, photography
Katherine Blakeslee, watercolor
Nancy Donnelly, glass sculpture
The Fridge Empty Time Group Show Curator: Trevor Young February 6 - March 3 Pairs painting and photography from artists across America who express the immediacy of memories of vanished time. Often forgotten as quickly as it passes, "Empty Time" celebrates the quiet moments of idle numbness and self-indulgence, in which time is not killed, but savored. Featuring: Al Miner Adam Wallacavage Brady Robinson Martha Rich Tim Callaghan Aaron Smith Jenny Axner Kate McDonnell Victoria F. Gaitan Dave Molesky Alex Schaefer
Gallery 50 New Acquisitions Group Show February 12 - March 11
Arms Around Column, Bernardo Siles
Gallery 50 The Ghosts of Pittsburgh Rob Larson January 8 - February 12 Rob Larson focuses on the use of photography, stencils, and silkscreening to create urban settings and surreal environments that not so much tell a story, but show a scene that lets the viewer fill in the blanks.
Rob Larson
Gallery Plan b Paintings with a mini photography show Ted Milligan February 10 - March 7 Intricate, fibrous, colorful, and multi-layered gouache paintings by Ted Milligan accompanied by a small group show of abstract color photography.
Hamiltonian Gallery Call + Response January 23 - February 13 Sixteen writers and sixteen visual artists from Washington, D.C., and beyond have paired to create artworks that resonate with each other for a new exhibition. Participants have given a new twist to the term "call and response" (a succession of two distinct phrases played by different musicians in which the second phrase comments on or responds to the first). For each pairing, the writer has provided the call and the visual artist has created the response. The result is paired works that resonate with each other, building a bridge between two distinct but fertile communities.
Hemphill Fine Arts Vintage Kodak Brownies William Christenberry January 23 - March 13
Distortion, Delay & Sustain Robin Rose January 23 - March 13 Flower Studies Donald Baechler January 23 - March 13
Corn Sign, William Christenberry
Hillyer Art Space Structured Turbulence Dana Frostick February 5 - February 27
Honfleur Gallery Stories Antoine Sanfuentes Ann Curry January 22 - February 26 Photography An exhibit of photographic stories created by three artists to help raise awareness and funds for relief efforts in African nations. Stories features documentary photography created by Antoine Sanfuentes in a 2008 visit to East Goma with NBC's Ann Curry covering topics such as children soldiers of Africa, education and rape. Works by Ann Curry will be presented from the same trip, alongside Deborah Terry's images of Sudanese and Ugandan refugees and conflict victims as well as multimedia presentations of the grassroots work done by International Lifeline Fund. Proceeds from this exhibition support International Lifeline Fund.
International Visions Gallery In Abandoned Places Michael Platt February 3 - March 13 Known for his fusion of digital and conventional photography, drawing and printmaking, Platt's subjects - "the marginalized and the survivors" - exist in spaces that are discarded - a bare forest, a drained fountain or a crumbling room.
The Fountain, Michael Platt
Jane Haslem Gallery it's a beautiful thing Bill Hill January 27 - March 15 An exhibition honoring the artist, his new paintings, artists who he has helped by hiring them to work at HMB Art Transport, and those artists works. Among the artists Hill selected to be included are: Kristen Bourtles, Mathew Duffy, James Eichelberger, Liz Ensz, Steve Lewis, Ben O'Brian, Kevin Omeara, Aika Romulo, Jose Ruiz, Molly Seigel, Aline Shkurovich, and Dan Tredo.
Freaky River Goddess I
Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery Inside/Outside Curated by Mia Choumenkovitch February 3 - February 27 Over the past thirty years Mia Choumenkovitch of the Lorton Art Program has revealed art's liberating and rehabilitative power in her work with residents of the DC Department of Corrections facilities, and was duly honored with the Mayor's Art Award in 2007. This rare collection of her students' works exhibits the unique perspective of an artist living behind bars- looking to the outside world, not only from physical confines but also from the interior of the soul.
The Second Meal, Taurus Evans
Long View Gallery Till Death Do Us Part Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow
February 5 - March 1 These DC local artists will exchange nuptials at the opening reception
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery Warhol February 3 - March 5 Photographs selected from the George Washington University permanent collection.
McLean Project for the Arts New Synergy Nicole Fall January 21 - March 6 Sculpture Terry Schupbach-Gordon: Artist Books, Prints and Drawings from Catbird (on the Yadkin) Press January 21 - March 6
New Works Gretchen Schemerhorn January 21 - March 6
Nicole Fall
The Phillips Collection Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction February 6 - May 9 The exhibition demonstrates O'Keeffe's important contribution to the history of American abstraction. Showcasing over 100 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculpture dating from 1915 to the late 1970s, the exhibition also includes 14 photographic portraits of O'Keeffe by Alfred Stieglitz. By assembling works from her entire career, this exhibition reveals O'Keeffe as a painter who adopted abstraction as early as 1915, worked extensively with it throughout the 1920s, and used it thereafter as the foundation for her art.
Project 4 Underbelly Adam "5100" Feibelman January 30 - March 6 Drawing from historical influences in photography, printmaking and painting and combining them with the contemporary process of graffiti, Adam "5100" Feibelman creates photorealistic, monochromatic scenes reminiscent of the grit of industrial cities.
ockham's razor
Studio Gallery Synthesis Suzanne Yurdin February 3 - February 27 A collection of work featuring Italian landscapes and other work from the artist, in mixed media on both canvas and paper.
Oblivion Iwan Bagus
Playing with Fear Trix Kuijper
Iwan Bagus
Transformer Gallery Snow Globe January 16 - February 20 An artist-built environment created by DC-based artists Jessica Cebra and Zach Storm that playfully incorporates painting, drawing, mixed media collage, and sculptural elements to create a whimsical, life-size winter wonderland. Includes video installation of a series of new dance pieces choreographed by Washington Ballet Artistic Director Septime Webre, and performed by Andile Ndlovu and The Washington Ballet Studio Company dancers.
Washington Printmakers Gallery 25th Anniversary Reunion Show February 4 - February 29 WPG moves to new space at Pyramid Atlantic with over 50 artists participating in the inaugural show in the new space.
Washington Sculptors Group Sculpture 1275 Craig Kraft January 18 - March 19 Sculpture exhibition, curated by Peter Winant, is the seventh in a series of exhibitions in the lobby of 1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Craig Kraft, a member of the faculty of the Smithsonian Institution Studio Arts Program, has been working with rolled aluminum and neon to create monumental public arts works for the last 10 years.
Workhouse Arts Center Black History Month Exhibition Margo Humphrey Martha Jackson Jarvis Michael B. Platt Preston Sampson Stanley Squirewell Therman Statom February 3 - February 27 Mr. Platt's imagery centers on ritual and the transformation of the human spirit that occurs when it confronts imagined or actual events and circumstance. Preston Sampson sees his figurative portrayals as attempts "to emote, to touch, to move you to the center of it all, to enable you to feel certain changes, like fleeting moments of memory," while Stanley Squirewell's current work is an investigation of the political destruction of all things related to "Blackness." Therman Statom has been described as a "tornado" and "hurricane" of activity. He is known for his daring temporary installations as much as for the gallery pieces which are included in numerous museums all over the world.
