Monday, December 15, 2003

Salvador Dali once said: "If you can't paint well, then paint big," and now in YBA Land, The Guardian has a very good story about the impact of size on our (their?) perception of art.

I call it "acreage art."

Tyler Green at Modern Art Notes has a very interesting observation about the National Gallery of Art, space on the Mall and the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Conner Contemporary and its hard working owner, Leigh Conner, celebrate five years of being around - this is a huge milestone, as any Chamber of Commerce stats will tell you, 90% of all art galleries in the USA will close after one year.

And Conner Contemporary is without a doubt one of the key galleries in our city's cultural tapestry. This is a gallery with a hard-working owner, a vision and some of the best artists in the our area and the nation, plus a terrific commitment to young artists, as evidenced by their annual student show.

Their fiveYear retro is a revolving survey celebrating the gallery's first five years, and features photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, digital media and starts December 5 and runs until January 31, 2004. The exhibition is revolving, and features new work every two weeks and will include the following artists: Chul-Hyun Ahn, Olivia Barr, Mark Bennett, Maria Friberg, Corin Hewitt, Damien Hirst, Kenny Hunter, Muriel Hasbun, Robert Indiana, Avish Khebrehzadeh, John Kirchner, David Levinthal, Robert Longo, Bradley McCallum & Jacqueline Tarry, Tracey Moffatt, Sabeen Raja, Erik Sandberg, Leo Villareal, Andy Warhol, Mary Woodall and others.

Congrats Leigh!

Opening December 2 at Elizabeth Roberts Gallery:

Eleven Artists: Works on Paper. The participating artists are Sara Clark, Kate Cunningham, Donald Depuydt, Ellen Hill, Tadzio Koelb, Melek Mazici, Nancy Magnus, Susan Singer, Kathryn Stedham, Bob Worthy, Yumiko Yoshida. The opening will be part of the 1st Friday's Dupont Circle gallery openings on December 5 at the Elizabeth Roberts Gallery, located at 2108 R St NW in the Dupont Circle gallery area.

For video artists and filmmakers:

The Guerrilla Film Festival is now accepting submissions for its 3rd edition. There is no application fee and there is no deadline. Screenings are bi-monthly, so if you don't make it in time for GFF3, you will be considered for GFF4.

The application form can be found here. Once downloaded and filled in, please email this application to John Hanshaw and mail a DVD or VHS screener to:

GUERRILLA FILM FEST
Attn: John Hanshaw
1421 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Suite 20
Washington, DC 20005