Communicating Vessels: Ed Bisese, Elyse Harrison, Wayne Paige features recent artwork by three Washington, D.C.-area artists. Opening Reception: 6 to 9 p.m., Jan. 25. Free and open to all - at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.
Harrison and Bisese’s work are acrylic paintings and Paige’s includes oil paintings and pen and ink drawings. While their work shows continuity with Surrealist ideas of the 1930s and 40s, it is also related to the Chicago Imagists of the 1960s and 70s and reflects the prevalence of surrealist imagery in contemporary visual art.
For Harrison, the paintings in this exhibition represent a departure from much of her previous work, both in style and content.
While there will be three large paintings by Bisese from his ongoing series featuring the “Bunnyman” character, the exhibit will be a first exposition of a series of smaller, more abstract paintings with a bird-like creature personifying various characters. Paige continues working with his “celestial inkwell” in small drawings selected from different series that represent his signature “clothespin” figures in a strange and dangerous world.
Closes March 15.
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art and curated by Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. Free Parking: Communicating Vessels, 5:30 to 7 p.m., March 5.
Curator Claudia Rousseau will join the three D.C.-based, Surrealist-inspired artists in conversation.
Free and open to all; please RSVP to tinyurl.com/AlperTickets
Harrison and Bisese’s work are acrylic paintings and Paige’s includes oil paintings and pen and ink drawings. While their work shows continuity with Surrealist ideas of the 1930s and 40s, it is also related to the Chicago Imagists of the 1960s and 70s and reflects the prevalence of surrealist imagery in contemporary visual art.
For Harrison, the paintings in this exhibition represent a departure from much of her previous work, both in style and content.
While there will be three large paintings by Bisese from his ongoing series featuring the “Bunnyman” character, the exhibit will be a first exposition of a series of smaller, more abstract paintings with a bird-like creature personifying various characters. Paige continues working with his “celestial inkwell” in small drawings selected from different series that represent his signature “clothespin” figures in a strange and dangerous world.
Closes March 15.
Presented by the Alper Initiative for Washington Art and curated by Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. Free Parking: Communicating Vessels, 5:30 to 7 p.m., March 5.
Curator Claudia Rousseau will join the three D.C.-based, Surrealist-inspired artists in conversation.
Free and open to all; please RSVP to tinyurl.com/AlperTickets
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