"Organic" opens May 1st!

ORGANIC |  Anne Marchand & Nancy Frankel

Exhibition: May 1 - August 17, 2019

OPENING RECEPTION: MAY 1, 5-8PM

Eleven Eleven Sculpture Space  | 1111 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 202.783.2963  |  www.zenithgallery.com

Details here.

How Anti-Money Laundering Legislation Could Impact the Art Market

A resolution in the United States Congress suggests that galleries and auction houses could soon be subject to strict reporting requirements about their customers amid a global push for greater transparency in art transactions. While these requirements could have significant benefits in terms of helping to curtail money laundering by bringing greater oversight to an often opaque art market, the law could also burden dealers and auction houses with onerous administrative and reporting duties that will be especially challenging for smaller and mid-size galleries.

Details here. 

New Gallery in DC: Von Ammon Co

Also in Georgetown, there’s a tiny slip of a street called Cady’s Alley, which in the first days of April welcomed a completely different kind of local establishment: Von Ammon Co, a contemporary art space started by Todd von Ammon, a former director at the influential New York outfit Team Gallery in SoHo.

Read the Artsy article by Nate Freeman here. 

Art Scam Alert!

Beware of this art scammer:

From: Ethan Meyer meyerethan886@gmail.com

Subject: PIECE SUGGESTION FOR MY FAST APPROACHING ANNIVERSARY.

 Hi there,

         I am Ethan from Richmond Indiana. thoughts of the best anniversary gift of the century to my wife has been roaming my mind for a while now. i figured out later that my wife spends noticeable time on viewing artworks from your page on my laptop and i can easily guess she likes your work, which i found quite impressive and intriguing too. I must admit your doing quite an impressive job. You are undoubtedly good at what you do. 

      With that being said, I would like to purchase some of your works as a surprise gift to my wife in honor of our upcoming wedding anniversary. It would be of help if you could send some pictures of your piece of works, with their respective prices and sizes, which are ready for immediate (or close to immediate) sales. My budget for this should be anything that falls under $8000, and if i have to pay more, there should be a reason in terms of worth and value. Your works are impeccable anyways.  .

      I look forward to reading from you in a view to knowing more about your pieces of inventory. As a matter of importance, I would also like to know if you accept check as a means of payment

Regards,

        Ethan.

DC Arts Forum—a call to action for the arts

The DC Arts Forum is a grassroots initiative for the arts community to address the current state of the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities — and to meaningfully engage independent artists and small organizations in shaping the future of the arts in DC.

From the WPADC:

Hi all,

If you are an artist who cares about arts funding in city, Monday's DC Arts Forum at Eaton Workshop is an opportunity to get up to speed on the proposed changes to the Commission of the Arts & Humanities (CAH) and the Mayor's plans to cut arts grant funding by $7-8M next year. Concerned arts commissioners will be present to answer your questions, as will other cultural activists. 

This Forum is one of several efforts right now to combat the erosion of CAH's independence, authority, and grant funds. Of them all, it is the one most tailored to small organizations and artists, and the one most invested in equity and diversity. The organizers are looking for a strong turn-out. As of yesterday, 100 people had signed up to attend. They would like many more. Please circulate this to people whom you think would want to attend.

Thank you,

Peter

CLICK HERE TO RSVP AND DETAILS

Mon. Apr. 29, 
7:00pm EDT 
Eaton Hotel & Workshop 
1201 K St NW Washington DC  

Save the Date | Senior Thesis Exhibition

Gormley Gallery - Notre Dame of Maryland University 

Featuring Sabine Hern-Nagle, Esther C. Jones, Caroline O'Donnell, and Nia Willis

Artists' Reception
Monday, May 6, 2019
4:30 to 6:30pm
Kappa Pi Art Honor Society Induction Ceremony at 5:30pm

Exhibition on view May 6 through May 19, 2019

The Senior Thesis Exhibition showcases the work of Sabine Hern-Nagle, Esther C. Jones, Caroline O’Donnell, and Nia Willis, four seniors graduating from the Art department. Works include oil paintings, works on paper, illustrations, mixed media pieces, and an art history thesis. The students are working with concepts such as myths and fables, power and the human form, the intersection of psychology and art, and the reclamation of the gaze.

Gormley Gallery is located on the second floor of Fourier Hall on the campus of Notre Dame of Maryland University
4701 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21210

Call for art

ENTRY DEADLINE: April 26, 2019

Reminder, deadline to enter the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County and the Montgomery County Public Arts Trust's Contemporary Works on Paper Collection call for art is tomorrow, April 26th, 11:59 pm. Be sure to submit on time! 

This juried call seeks to purchase original and unframed two-dimensional works of art that are contemporary and modern in style by visual artists located in Montgomery County and the Greater Washington area.

Artwork in the collection will be owned by Montgomery County under the county’s Public Arts Trust program and loaned to county agencies for exhibition in public buildings.

DETAILS HERE

IMPORTANT DETAILS: 
Submission Deadline: April 26, 2019
No Entry Fee
Required Materials: 
 - Artist Statement
 - Artist Resume
 - List of Artworks
 - Images

ELIGIBILITY:
This Call for Art is open to artists residing in Montgomery County, MD and the Greater Washington Area.

All work must be original and unframed two-dimensional works that are contemporary and modern in style. 

Lida Moser in New York

Neel / Picasso 
April 30 - July 20, 2019
Opening reception: April 29, 2019 6:00-8:00pm

Sara Kay Gallery | 4 East 2nd St, New York

A series of vintage and lifetime photographs by the amazing Lida Moser accompanies this new exhibition in NYC:

Sara Kay Gallery is pleased to present Neel / Picasso, on view from April 29 through July 20. The exhibition will feature significant portraits from private collections by the artists Alice Neel (1900-1984) and Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). 

Neel and Picasso were contemporaries who transformed and revitalized portraiture. Through select paintings by both artists, this exhibition offers a revealing parallel view of two key 20th century painters. 

Neel, a self-described “painter of people,” chose not to idealize her subjects. Instead, with bold strokes, an imaginative line between the interior experience and the outward appearance of the sitter is revealed. 

In her portrait of Lida Moser from 1962, Neel focuses on facial expression, body language and clothing, illustrating the overlapping of inner essence and outward appearance, of vanity and vulnerability. Painted by her artist friend during the rise of the feminist movement, Moser was an accomplished photojournalist at a time when women were a rarity in the field. Moser is an unmistakably dynamic figure. Painted in lucid tones with fingers jutting out like spindles, her form is magnetic and commanding.

In juxtaposition to Neel’s probing of the space between the inner and outer life, Picasso reconfigures his subject’s features revealing his own interpretation of their essence, inadvertently serving as a barometer for his own emotional state. 

Painted in 1937, Femme au béret orange et au col de fourrure depicts the artist’s young mistress and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter. Here, the formal experimentation and emotional intensity that characterize his most celebrated portraits of women are embodied. The small group of portraits that he painted on 4 December 1937, the present work included, make it almost possible to track the slow transition from his relationships with Marie-Thérèse Walter to Dora Maar, and reflects the artist’s conflicted feelings surrounding this transition. 

The final two works of the presentation highlight a shared acknowledgement of the artists’ own mortality, as both turn their gazes inward. Picasso, in Homme assis les bras croisés II from 1964, portrays an energetic vibrant sitter, unlike a man of Picasso’s age, though the features are unmistakably those of the artist. In 107th and Broadway, Neel offers an anthropomorphic view of her final home painted as a portent with dark shadows nefariously playing across the surface of the canvas. She described the large shadow that engulfs the building’s facade as the “shadow of death.” 

Picasso said that his work acted as a “sort of a diary.” Neel claimed she was “a collector of souls...” capturing “what the world has done [to her sitters] and their retaliation.” Linked in time, differing in approach, the parallel viewing of these two innovative 20th century painters offers insights into both their artistic achievements and the radicalization of portraiture. 

$51K in awards!

With the help of the Jerry Goldstein Foundation, Jerry's Artarama, and its sponsors, they are giving away a minimum of $51,000* to artists with great personal stories, incredible talent and/or unique creativity and achievements to share! Jerry always liked a good personal story and we hope that you share one with them. No matter if you have achieved immense success, are still struggling or are a student wanting to go to art school your story is important to them!

How To Enter

Enter Now – April 28th, 2019

1. What is your achievement?

2. Submit a picture of yourself, a group or maybe a piece of artwork
• Include: Your personal story
• Include: How you or someone you know can benefit from the award
• 102 artists will receive $500 to do what they want with it!

SUBMIT NOW

Call for entries...

Bad Things Galleries Do To Artists and Bad Things Artists Do To Galleries

A bad thing that unethical galleries do to artists:
Unethical galleries all over the nation and in most countries will take in a piece of artwork by an artist, and when the price is discussed, the gallery says: “What’s the price?” and the artist says: “$1000″ The gallery nods OK and the artist leaves, knowing that if sold, he’ll get $500 (most galleries in the US charge 50% commission — in NYC some are as high as 70%). The gallery then sells the piece, but for $2,000, sends the artist a check for $500 and pockets the extra $1,000. That is why artists should insist on having a contract with a gallery, and the contract must specifically address that the artist will get 50% of the actual sale price.

A bad thing some artists to do galleries:
A good reputable gallery is a work of love, with gallerists usually running the business by the skn of their teeth. And when a gallery gives an artist a show, they go through all the various multiple expenses associated with doing so (rent, electricity, staff salaries, publicity, ads, post cards, opening reception catering, etc.) - usually before a single work of art is sold. So far the gallery has put forth a considerable investment in presenting the artist’s works - all because the gallerist believes in the artist’s work. An interested novice collector meets the artist at the opening and expresses interest (to the artist) in buying some of his artwork. The artist, wishing to stiff the gallery for their commission says: “See me after the show and I’ll sell it to you directly and save myself the gallery commission.”This is not only unethical, but it’s also guaranteed to ruin the artist’s reputation in the city, as these things always come out in the wash, and soon no gallery will exhibit any work by this artist. Remember, when a gallery gives an artist a show, and nothing sells, the artist still walks away with all his/her work, and maybe even a review, plus the art has been exposed to collectors and the public. The gallery gets to pay all the bills, even though no sales were made.

What’s wrong with Showtime Dexter’s Cubans?

An oldie but a goodie!

Read this: http://blog.art-tistics.com/?p=211

Call for artists

Homegrown Opens Tomorrow!

OPENING RECEPTION OF HOMEGROWN 

APRIL 19, 2019  6:00–8:00 PM

 COMMISSION ON THE ARTS AND HUMANITIES GALLERIES 

200 I (Eye) Street, SE Washington, DC 20003

Michael Crossett, Cheryl D. Edwards, Justyne Fischer, Ric Garcia 

Gail Shaw-Clemons, Henrik Sundqvist 

HomeGrown explores the creative process of six art­ists from the Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia region who utilize the medium of printmaking to express issues of racial injustice, genetics, ancestry, gentrification, cultural identity, and the environment    |   CURATED BY CLAUDE L. ELLIOTT

Mila arrives!

At 9:08 AM, my first grandchild - Mila Audrey Tarasova y Campello was born to my daughter Elise!

Mila Audrey Tarasova y Campello

Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Grants Winners

Congrats to all these talented and lucky folks - they are winners of the 2019 Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Grants!

That "Florence" down there is me - this is my first award since I was an art student at the University of Washington School of Art, when I received Ford Foundation art grants 1977-1981.

Painting

Lesa Cook Frederick

Bobby Coleman Baltimore City

Lania D'Agostino Baltimore City

Sally Davies Prince George’s

Brian Michael Dunn Montgomery

Ric Garcia Prince George’s

Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi Montgomery

Jahru Anne Arundel

Matt Klos Baltimore

Kate Kretz Montgomery

Lindsay McCulloch Montgomery

Gregory McLemore Baltimore City

Ping Shen Anne Arundel

Grace Doyle Baltimore City

Jessica Van Brakle Montgomery

Nicole Dyer Baltimore City

Taha Heydari Baltimore

Sam Lacombe Baltimore City

Giulia Piera Livi Baltimore City

Janet Olney Baltimore City

Randi Reiss-McCormick Baltimore

Carolyn Case Baltimore

Maud Taber-Thomas Montgomery

Deborah Tomlin Montgomery

Alice Valenti Baltimore

Karen Warshal Baltimore City

Lauren Frances Adams Baltimore City

Scott Ponemone Baltimore City

McKinley Wallace III Baltimore City

Works on Paper

Erin Fostel Baltimore City

LaToya M. Hobbs Baltimore City

LeJea Williams Howard

Amy Boone-McCreesh Baltimore City

Florence Lennox Campello Montgomery

Deborah Addison Coburn Montgomery

Elliot Doughtie Baltimore City

Ariston Jacks Baltimore City

Kristina King Montgomery

Angelo Kozonis Baltimore City

Mike McConnell Baltimore

Jerry Truong Montgomery

Lu Zhang Baltimore City

Amanda Burnham Baltimore City

Jackie Milad Baltimore City

Leslie Suzanne Shellow Baltimore City

Julie Wills Kent

Jowita Wyszomirska Baltimore City

On Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory Art Center

A decade ago I wrote this about the Torpedo Factory in Old Town Alexandria - one of my fave places in the DMV... how much of it has come to pass?

Read my 2009 thoughts here...

At the CATO Institute

Should art offend? Does it matter if people are offended? Should offensive art be displayed? Should it be censored? Who decides what is offensive or appropriate? Join us to hear a discussion of these questions and more.

A discussion panel featuring Philip Kennicott, Chief Art and Architecture Critic, the Washington Post; Janis Goodman, Panelist, WETA Around Town, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, George Washington University; Lenny Campello, Author, Daily Campello Art News; and Jason Kuznicki, Research Fellow, Cato Institute and Editor, Cato Books; moderated by Caleb O. Brown, Cato Daily Podcast host, Director of Multimedia, Cato Institute.

REGISTER HERE

May 22, 2019 
6:30PM to 8:00PM EDT

Cato Institute
1000 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20001-5403

Phone (202) 842 0200

Awake

“Awake”

It’s about a child suffering from insomnia and anxiety. It’s a topic not often addressed in children’s books, but something that the author - Susanna Fields-Kuehl, a licensed therapist and artist in Maryland sees daily in her practice. 

I Hope you can all support the project and spread the word! Kickstarter end April 24! 

kck.st/2CguKH8

Lyrical Flight | Barbara Januszkiewicz

My good friend Barbara is opening at the gorgeous Athenaeum in Old Town Alexandria - easily one of the most beautiful art spaces in the DMV!

Lyrical Flight | Barbara Januszkiewicz

April 18 – June 2, 2019

Artist Reception: Sunday, May 12, 4 - 6 pm

Collaboration: Light Exists, Sunday, June 2, 1 pm

Artist Talk: Sunday, June 2, 2 pm

Barbara Januszkiewicz luminous and elegant paintings evolved out of her early work in watercolor, a progression evident in the almost liquid flow of colors across her large compositions. In these acrylic works, tones melt together and "veils of pigment appear to fold over one another, creating illusory creases and hollows. The overall affect is one of slow, powerful visual rhythms. Januszkiewicz semi-translucent colors floats across her surfaces, soaking into the unprimed canvas and paper to create tactile fusions of paint and support that envelope the viewer in diaphanous veils of paint. 

Januszkiewicz pure abstract forms call to mind the stained canvases of Morris Louis and Helen Frankenthaler, but her work embodies a unique elegance that differentiates it

from that of her color fields with wonderful abstract shapes that are rendered loosely with a great feeling of fluidity and motion. "My brushwork is applied in waves of curving, color shapes, submerged in translucent washes. My goal is to achieve the highest degree of richness, with a light source that comes not from applied paint, but rather from the luminosity of the brilliant white paper or canvas," said Januszkiewicz. Here we see Januszkiewicz produce zen-like brush strokes across large formats with watercolor-like acrylics effortlessly.