Marilyn Banner's Top 10 AOM List

DC area artist Marilyn Banner is an exhibiting AOM artist and the is co-founder and co-director of Washington Musica Viva, a popular new music, poetry, and visual arts performance series which takes place in her Kensington, Maryland studio.

Greg Minah
Dylan Scholinski
Ira Tattelman
Elena Patino
Gina Marie Lewis
Louise Kennelly
Sheila Crider
Anne Marchand
Matt Sesow
Joyce Zipperer

WPA/C Anonymous Returns

The WPA/C concept of ANONYMOUS returns with an opening preview reception on Thursday, Dec. 9, 6:30-8:30pm and the first day to purchase artwork is Friday, Dec. 10, 6-8pm.

This is a second installment of this popular show concept featuring all new artists and curators. 100 artists create two feet by two feet works of art to be sold for $500 each. Buyers will not know the artist until the work has been purchased. No works will be sold at the preview reception and only one piece is allowed per patron. Curated by: John Aaron, K.B. Basseches, Mary Del Popolo, Djakarta, Chawky Frenn, David Jung, Prescott Moore Lassman, Anne Marchand, Marie Ringwald and Alan Simensky.

Sales will commence on Friday, December 10 at 6:00pm. One piece per patron. You may send a proxy if necessary. Cash, checks and credit cards accepted. First come, first served. The show hangs until December 23, 2004.

Location: 1027 33rd Street, NW (Georgetown)
Times: Thursday & Friday 12pm-8pm
Saturday & Sunday 12pm-6pm

New Transformer Show Opens Next Saturday

Transformer celebrates the work of six artists furthering a new and engaging fashion sensibility in Washington, DC with Rejoice! This new Transformer show Features dynamic visual creations by Washington DC area artists and designers Jess Feury, Sarah Hagen, Jennifer Potter, Karie Reinertson, Valerie Soles, and Justin Spivey.

Opening Reception: Saturday, December 11, 2004 7-9pm. The show runs until January 22, 2005.

Blake Gopnik Buys Artwork

"At first glance, any big survey of contemporary art is likely to come across as an anything-goes mess of unrelated objects. But hang around in the art world long enough and you start to notice that a certain sameness, built around a handful of recurrent themes and strategies, underlies all that variety."

Gopnik does a pretty good mini-review of Jennifer Dalton's PowerPoint presentation at Curator's Office and buys a CD ROM of Dalton's piece.

Bravo Blake!