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| Horses in Virginia Charcoal and Ink on Paper c. 1994 F. Lennox Campello |
Location:
Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies – House A
3100 Whitehaven St NW
Washington, DC 20008
Free and open to the public.
Call for WSG Member Submissions:
Submission Deadline: Monday, November 21, 2016
Email jpegs to Greg Braun:
Each WSG member may submit up to five (5) jpeg images for the Annual Members Image Show presentation (guidelines below). You must be present at the Image Show while your images are projected. New members are encouraged to take advantage of this opportunity to show their work, and for all members to show new work and receive feedback from the audience. DC area art representatives, gallerists, curators, and reviewers will be invited to attend, so it is important exposure for member’s work. Following the presentation, everyone is invited to stay for drinks, snacks, and discussion. WSG will provide refreshments, and Image Show participants are welcome to bring food to share.
Image preparation:
• Resize the dimensions of your images (jpegs) to be no larger than 1000 pixels on the longest side with a resolution of 72 dpi. If you need help with resizing your images, or are unable to resize them yourself, send them to Greg Braun at the above email address, and he will adjust them accordingly.
• Please provide images in jpeg (.jpg) format only.
• If you would like your website address on your title slide for the presentation, please include it in the body of your email to Greg.
First submitted, first shown. See you there!
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We opened the the Alper Initiative space this past January as a dedicated space within the AU Museum to promote an understanding and appreciation of the art and artists of the Washington Metropolitan Area. Even before celebrating our first anniversary, we've exhibited 65 artists, had 3 opening receptions, 17 salons, gallery talks, panel discussions, even a jam-session, and we're just getting started!
We're looking for new ways to be a resource for local artists through a new program and we're looking to you - artists and community members - for input in shaping this program. We want to provide the space for local artists and art enthusiasts to create social programming that would foster community creativity.
We hope we can have a few minutes of your time to respond to the survey below and send us your ideas. Thanks!
We look forward to hearing from you!
The urban watering hole is visually comforting and enticing. There exists a constant familiarity of the physical and symbolic bar, through its creation of pockets of intimacy within a fluid public space.
Girardi explores the visual and social subjects of the bar through drawings made on-site and from photos of bars she has collected from her social encounters. Through these mixed media drawings, she makes an attempt to mimic and recollect setting, sound, color, and taste of the aesthetics surrounding these memories created through the social habits of today’s young urban and suburban populations. By mixing different media such as charcoal, pastel, gouache, and watercolor, this series not only remains fluid and colorful, like the setting’s main subject, but also honors the craft and versatility of modern bar mixology. By combining seemingly juxtaposed or even redundant ingredients (mediums) in an innovative manner, the visuals mimic the works of art created by the bartenders and mixologists to complete this liquid social ritual.
“ After Hours: Social Rituals”, says Barbara Januszkiewicz, curator, “is seeing more than just original artwork done by Christina Girardi , it is a reflection on today’s sense of community. Sense of place is not a static concept; rather, it evolves and develops over time, reflecting the spectrum of social values within and around the community. Ms. Girardi's art is about this connection that we have with our hangouts, the bar scene.
It is about socializing today, outside of work, school, or the apartment, a context that spans from the first pubs to the 21st-century, a location now more prolific and diverse than ever, for many social engagements.
The Speakeasy event Oct 22 6-9 pm offers an art performance that ties in the fine art context with a non-traditional interdisciplinary expression. This Micro Speakeasy offer a live, unscripted performance bartender who will offer dialogues and spontaneity to audience participation.
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| "Cuban by Ancestry, But American by the Grace of God." Charcoal and Conte and Embedded Video. 18x24 inches, circa 2016. |
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| "Cuban by Ancestry, But American by the Grace of God." Charcoal and Conte and Embedded Video. 18x24 inches, circa 2016. |
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| "Cuban by Ancestry, But American by the Grace of God." Charcoal and Conte and Embedded Video. 18x24 inches, circa 2016. |
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| "Cuban by Ancestry, But American by the Grace of God." Charcoal and Conte and Embedded Video. 18x24 inches, circa 2016. |
“Curators from the Hirshhorn or National Gallery would rather take a cab to Dulles Airport to look at emerging artists in Berlin than they would take a cab to Adams Morgan to look at emerging artists here,” says Lennox Campello, an artist and former gallery owner. “They don’t do a good job of tending their own back garden.”The current issue of Washingtonian magazine has a terrific article on ubercollectors Mera and Donald Rubell and the powerful impact they've had upon the DMV's art scene and the even more tectonic impact they're about to deliver with their plans for The Randall School:
Read the article by Brendan L. Smith here.
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| Whitney Museum of Art, one street over from my NYC hotel |
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| Tipping Point 2016 by Alma Selimovic 110x60x75in Welded steel, wire, copper patina, stone |
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| Lori Katz Wall of Squares 55” x 45” x 2.5"
Stoneware with slips, underglaze, glaze, and mixed media including high-temperature wire,
oil paint, cold wax, metal leaf |
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| “At the Altar of Modern Art" by F. Lennox Campello 2016. Charcoal, Conte and Embedded Electronics. 36 X 18 |
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| “At the Altar of Modern Art" by F. Lennox Campello 2016. Charcoal, Conte and Embedded Electronics. 36 X 18 |
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| “At the Altar of Modern Art" by F. Lennox Campello 2016. Charcoal, Conte and Embedded Electronics. 36 X 18 |
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| “At the Altar of Modern Art" by F. Lennox Campello 2016. Charcoal, Conte and Embedded Electronics. 36 X 18 |
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| “At the Altar of Modern Art" by F. Lennox Campello 2016. Charcoal, Conte and Embedded Electronics. 36 X 18 |
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| The Batman Naked and The Boy Wonder Naked - unfinished - by F. Lennox Campello, c. 2016 |
Janis is clearly one of the DMV's blue chip artists, and in the many years of my seeing thousands of artists' works at art fairs all over the planet, I've yet to see anyone whose work comes close to Janis' enviably distinct approach to a very difficult technique.
Born in Chicago, IL, after a 20 year career as an architect in the United States and Australia, Michael Janis returned to the US with a focus on working with glass. In 2005, Janis became a Co-Director of the Washington Glass School and Studio. Awarded a Fulbright Scholarship in 2012, Janis went to England's University of Sunderland and taught at the UK's National Glass Centre where he became an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute for International Research in Glass (IIRG). The James Renwick Alliance (JRA) named him as their Distinguished Glass Artist in 2014, and he presented and lectured about his work at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) recently advised that they had selected Janis as a finalist in "Excellence in the Arts" category of the 31st Annual Mayor’s Arts Award . 
