Seven Update
Today, together with a few artists, one of the interns, and Kim Ward from the WPA/C and a photographer from the Washington Times, I walked the seven spaces at the Warehouse Gallery again.
We assigned some spaces already, and selected a few more artists. The WPA/C website will soon have the final list, which now includes Chan Chao, Adam Fowler, David Jung, Marie Ringwald, Rick Wall and many others.
I've also turned Mark Jenkins loose on the building, and I am sure that he will have an interesting tape people army present at the opening and for the duration of the show.
Now closing the loop on a drawing class that I want to have present at the opening. I have focused one of the seven galleries on the nude figure, and on opening night (June 30), I want to have a small drawing class present and drawing from a live nude model or two.
Monday, June 20, 2005
Saturday, June 18, 2005
Wanna go to an opening?
Tomorrow, Sunday June 19, the League of Reston Artists (LRA) is having the opening reception for the show that I curated for them.
The reception is from 2-4PM. Directions here. See the award winners here.
See ya there!
25th Biennial Exhibition
The Creative Crafts Council recently announced the winners of the 25th Biennial Exhibition Awards at a reception held at Strathmore Mansion in Rockville, Maryland.
Awarded "Best in Show" was a fused art glass piece by artist Robert Wiener, a native of Washington, DC. The winning piece is entitled "Beauty in the Breakdown" and it is a wall triptych that includes over 2,250 individual murrine pieces handmade by the artist. Each murrine is approximately a quarter of an inch thick and consists of seven layers of hand cut art glass specifically created for fusing. See it here.
The Creative Craft Council is made up of ten local craft guilds, including the National Capital Art Glass Guild. The purpose of the Council is to present to the public a biennial exhibition of high quality crafts made in the metropolitan area. For the 25th Biennial Exhibition 214 artists submitted close to 600 pieces including works in clay, enamel, fiber, glass, metal, mixed media, polymer and wood.
The juror was designer, craftsman, teacher and artist Donald Stuart served as the juror for this special event. Mr. Stuart traveled from Canada where he has won numerous awards for his own work in metal and precious stone inlay.
The Creative Craft Council’s 25th Biennial Exhibit runs through July 9 at the Strathmore Mansion.
DC Art Beat
DC Art Beat is a new (new to me anyway) site focusing on art, music and ideas.
Visit them here.
Uncensored
Ming-Yi Sung, the artist whose work was censored at the "Not the Knitting You Know" Sculptural Knitting and Crochet exhibition, emailed me some "before" and "after" images of her "offending" work from the "Settlement with the Monkeys" piece:
Settlement with the Monkeys (Uncensored)
Settlement with the Monkeys (Censored)
Friday, June 17, 2005
Georgetown Openings Tonight
The five Canal Square Galleries (Alla Rogers, MOCA, Parish, Fraser and Anne C. Fisher) will be having their new show openings or extended hours tonight.
The openings start at 6PM and go through 9PM. They are catered by the Sea Catch Restaurant and are free and open to the public.
We will be hosting mixed media pieces by Andrew Devlin, who was the winner of last year's Georgetown International Fine Arts Competition.
See ya there!
Cover the Penis
All the way in the earthquaky Left Coast I've been hearing about "Not the Knitting You Know" Sculptural Knitting and Crochet exhibition at Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space (located at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue, in DC).
One reader emailed that this exhibition is a "cunning content-driven craft spectacle!"
The exhibition is curated by Binnie Fry and features work by: Ann Citron, Katharine Cobey, Jeanne Garant, Kathleen Holmes, Norma Minkowitz, Elizabeth Lundberg Morisette, Karen Paust, Carien Quiroga, Gayle Roehm, Blanka Sperkova, Alex and Viviana Santamarina, Ming-Yi Sung, Daina Taimina, Andrea Uravitch, and Joyce Zipperer.
The show has apparently caused some controversy, and I am told that the work of Ming-Yi Sung has been "sanitized" in order to keep it in the show. A reader notes that the "management didn't seem to mind the breast exposure, but the dicks had to be covered up."
She even crafted a cute little cod piece for her Hermaphrodite on the window sill.
And has put some fig leaf on others
The exhibition runs through September 10, 2005.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
When Everything is Art
Anything, no matter how silly or tasteless, becomes art. Read it here.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Target Gallery Seeks New Director
The fair Claire Huschle, who'd done a spectacular job as the Director of the Target Gallery in Alexandria has accepted a new position and will soon become the Program Director at the Arlington Art Center. Congratulations to Claire!
And thus the Target Gallery is now looking for a new director!
Monday, June 13, 2005
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Reads like a good read
I'm going to get this book once I get to California and read it on the flight back.
Saturday, June 11, 2005
Shafer on Bethesda Painting Prize
Karen Shafer of The Gazette discusses the inaugural Bethesda Painting Prize and the final eight. Read it here.
The opening of the show was last night, although the winners were announced two nights ago.
Some pictures...
Dr. Claudia Rousseau, one of the three jurors, discusses the jurying process.
Carol Trawick with the $10,000 winner (Joe Kabriel) and Catriona Fraser. The painting on the background that looks like it's about to deliver a knockout punch to Catriona is "Jacob" by Andrew Wodzianski.
And six foot five Andrew Wodzianski as the world's tallest Ninja.
Friday, June 10, 2005
The Weekly Reviews
In the City Paper, Louis Jacobson reviews our current Gabriela Bulisova at Fraser Gallery Georgetown.
In the WaPo, Michael O'Sullivan reviews Craig Doty at Strand on Volta. Earlier, Jonathan Padget discussed "Queering Sight -- Queer Insight," at the Warehouse Gallery.
