Rousseau on Goodwin and Shapiro at Iona Center

By Dr. Claudia Rousseau

Something like a retrospective of the photographs of Lee Goodwin is now on view at the Iona Center in NW Washington. Goodwin, who was named “Artist in Residence” there for this year, is widely known for his photos of the area, especially the Potomac and the C&O Canal area.

The photos in this exhibit include both the gelatin silver prints that he was creating until a couple of years ago, and his new archival digital prints, many in color.

The subject matter remains the same: familiar places made to look very unfamiliar, exotic, desirable. One delicately colored photo of a figure reading a newspaper on an early foggy morning on the Mall looks like an impressionist painting. Another, taken after the first snowfall this past winter, is a study in perfection. Taken just at dawn, the rising sun is framed in the center of trees covered in white. All the photos are both sensitively and expertly composed, using features in the landscape to create unusual effects.

Goodwin’s photos are accompanied by sculptural work by 98-year-old special guest artist Marilee Shapiro. Shapiro has been working in bronze for decades, and many of her more recent works are figurative, naturalistic, expressive, and rather small.

They are all displayed in vitrines. Yet, to her great credit, recently, when working in bronze became too much of a burden, this Washington DC artist reached out, took a Photoshop class, and hired a private tutor to teach herself everything about the program and its potential to transform imagery.

Creating large sheets of paper printed with exotic patterns created in Photoshop, Shapiro wraps these around shipping tubes. The results are reminiscent of those “rain maker” cylinders that sound as they are turned. These don’t make that lovely sound, but are fine, inventive works just as they are.

Iona Center
4125 Albemarle St. NW
Washington DC 20016

Patricia Dubroof, Gallery Director. Call for information: 202-895-9407

Vote now!

The Washington Post asked readers to submit their work to their "Real Art D.C." contest on Washingtonpost.com:

Since April, Galleries columnist Jessica Dawson has been scouring the submissions, and from the 4,000 images submitted, she chose 10 finalists. The finalists work with neckties, petri dishes and Bertoia chairs; they use Holga cameras, watercolor, needlepoint, video and pixels. Their subjects range from the inside of a Korean liquor store to the inside of the artist's studio. Now it's your turn. Go to http://washingtonpost.com/realartdc to vote for your favorite.

Vote now and vote here.

Opportunity for Photographers

Deadline: October 18, 2010

This competition has an interesting twist to it. It features figurative and Fine Art Nude photography with a twist of fetish to celebrate Halloween. It is titled the "Halloween Fine Art Nude/Figurative Photography Show" and it is being held at the The Carriage House Studio and Gallery in DC. All entries are submitted online.

Submission Guidelines: Content may be any image in the realm of fine art nude photography. Winners will be selected and exhibited in the following categories:
1) best figurative image
2) best costume/fetish image
and two special exhibits
3) best figurative/fine art nude image shot on film and
4) best image of Nika (www.modelmayhem.com/853632), who is returning to to Washington DC from Germany and will attend the show as their Feature Model.

The images for the exhibit will be selected by three judges with background in fine art photography, who will be announced shortly. The top selection in each category will receive a complementary shoot at the Carriage House studio during the 60 days following the exhibit. Participants whose work is not selected will also have their work displayed on a wide-screen display.

All images must be received by 11 pm on Mon, October 18th. You may send up to 5 jpegs (1200 px x 1200 px max) for consideration.

All the details are here. The show will be at The Carriage House Studio and Gallery, a new arts cooperative in Washington, DC, located in the historic Logan Arts Circle District. The studio is located in a historic landmark 1860's carriage house.

ARCH's Artist Residency Program

Deadline(s): December 1, 2010 and March 1st, 2011

This artist residency program is:

"an opportunity for artists to pursue their creative projects amid DC's vibrant and diverse urban environment. Two residencies (for up to 4 artists each session) are offered; spring and fall. The residencies are approximately 8 weeks each.

Each artist will work closely with the creative staff at the Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions to determine the parameters of the residency and needs of the artist in advance of their arrival. These parameters will focus primarily on details of the artists' project, but are also about how to best connect to the local community, foster dynamic interaction and develop exposure to the resources of the greater DC cultural community."

The program will offer free housing and free workspace to participating artists. Application fee $25.

* Winter/Spring: DEADLINE December 1st, 2010 - The Winter/Spring Residency will run from February 21st - April 22nd 2011 and is open to any type of visual arts.

* Summer DEADLINE March 1st, 2011 - The Summer Residency will run from May 30th - July 22nd 2011 and is open to any visual arts.

More details on how to apply:
www.honfleurgallery.com/news.html
www.vividsolutionsdc.com/gallery/newsgallery.html

Questions: arts@archdc.org

Wanna go to an artists' talk tomorrow?

Charlie Dale and Rosemary Luckett invite you to a free artist's talk about the creative processes and how they arrived at the works in their current solo exhibits.

The artist talk is Sunday, October 17, 2 pm at Touchstone Gallery.

RSVP to info@touchstonegallery.com

The Power 100

Art Review has their "Power 100" list up.

It would be fun to come up with a Power 100 list for the DMV.

I think I will start working on that just for fun and see what trouble I can get into.

Meanwhile here's the list and guess what? 3% of those on this list own one (or more) of my drawings!

Is that cool or what?

Now I need to work on the other 97.

1. Larry Gagosian
2. Hans Ulrich Obrist
3. Iwan Wirth
4. David Zwirner
5. Glenn D. Lowry
6. Bice Curiger
7. Sir Nicholas Serota
8. Eli Broad
9. RoseLee Goldberg
10. François Pinault
11. Adam D. Weinberg
12. Jeffrey Deitch
13. Ai Weiwei
14. Agnes Gund
15. Alfred Pacquement
16. Anton Vidokle, Julieta Aranda & Brian Kuan Wood
17. Bruce Nauman
18. Marc Glimcher
19. Beatrix Ruf
20. Dominique Lévy & Robert Mnuchin
21. Iwona Blazwick
22. Marian Goodman
23. Marc Spiegler & Annette Schönholzer
24. Barbara Gladstone
25. Jay Jopling
26. Mike Kelley
27. Cindy Sherman
28. Dakis Joannou
29. Franz West
30. Gavin Brown
31. Peter Fischli & David Weiss
32. Steven A. Cohen
33. Tim Blum & Jeff Poe
34. Anne Pasternak
35. Marina Abramovic
36. Bernard Arnault
37. Victor Pinchuk
38. Eugenio López
39. Takashi Murakami
40. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
41. Matthew Slotover & Amanda Sharp
42. Okwui Enwezor
43. Matthew Higgs
44. Tino Sehgal
45. Maja Hoffmann
46. Monika Sprüth & Philomene Magers
47. Jeff Koons
48. Nicholas Logsdail
49. Sadie Coles
50. Brett Gorvy & Amy Cappellazzo
51. Tobias Meyer & Cheyenne Westphal
52. Ann Philbin
53. Damien Hirst
54. Emmanuel Perrotin
55. Gerhard Richter
56. Nicolas Bourriaud
57. Matthew Marks
58. Udo Kittelmann
59. Michael Ringier
60. Kasper König
61. Daniel Buchholz
62. Anish Kapoor
63. Daniel Birnbaum
64. Toby Webster
65. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
66. Christian Boros & Karen Lohmann
67. Germano Celant
68. Maurizio Cattelan
69. Neo Rauch
70. Boris Groys
71. Helga de Alvear
72. Thaddaeus Ropac
73. Ralph Rugoff
74. Victoria Miro
75. Jerry Saltz
76. Anita & Poju Zabludowicz
77. Massimo De Carlo
78. Maureen Paley
79. Yana Peel & Candida Gertler
80. Roberta Smith
81. Charles Saatchi
82. Tim Neuger & Burkhard Riemschneider
83. Mario Cristiani, Lorenzo Fiaschi & Maurizio Rigillo
84. Johann Konig
85. Caroline Schneider
86. Johnson Chang Tsong-zung & Claire Hsu
87. Dimitris Daskalopoulos
88. Rirkrit Tiravanija
89. Wolfgang Tillmans
90. H.H. Sheikha Hoor Al-Qasimi & Jack Persekian
91. Massimiliano Gioni
92. Magnus Renfrew
93. Nicolai Wallner
94. Stefan Kalmár
95. Christine Tohme
96. Gregor Podnar
97. Elizabeth Dee
98. Richard Chang
99. Bruce High Quality Foundation
100. Margot Heller

Opportunity for Artists

Deadline: November 12, 2010

Gallery West in Old Town Alexandria has a call for artists for their 14th Annual National Juried Show (Exhibit Dates: February 9–March 6, 2011).

The all media show will be juried by yours truly and awards to total $1,000. Click here to download the prospectus.