WTOP on Artomatic

WTOP has a photo spread on AOM; check it out here.

James Renwick Alliance 

Recognition of Excellence 

ARTOMATIC 2012 

Artist	Work	Type	Floor	Location
Brad Taylor	Chaise	Wood and Metal Furniture	8	305
David D’Orio	Installation	Mixed Media (Glass)	8	147
Donna McCullough	Body of Work	Metal Sculpture	1	152
Helen Baribeau	Body of Work	Fiber Sculpture	4	121
Julia Bloom	Installation	Wood Sculpture	7	208
Matt MacIntire	Body of Work	Mixed Media	9	160
Michael Janis	Body of Work	Glass	2	173
Pierre Davis	Body of Work	Wood Sculpture	10	152
Sean Hennessey	Body of Work	Glass	9	141
Zofie Lang	Installation	Mixed Media	9	112

Tim Tate: Artomatic Top 10 List

Uberartist Tim Tate, in my biased opinion the DMV's best-known artist, sends in his top 10 choices in this year's Artomatic, which opened last night with a monster of a party in Crystal City. Here are his choices:

1) helen baribeau

2) nils henrik sundquist

3) dave d'orio 

4) drew storm graham

5) kelly guerrero

6) zofie lang

7) justin cameron

8) matt macintire

9) sean hennessey

10) melissa burley

Tim Tate

Co-Director

Washington Glass School

3700 Otis St.

Mt. Rainier, Md. 20712

202-744-8222

WashGlass.com

Today --- In the Mix: DC Area Abstract Artists

In the Mix: DC Area Abstract Artists

  A special gallery opening

Saturday, May 19, 2012
3:00 – 5:00 pm  

The Gallery @ Children’s National Medical Center
111 Michigan Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20010

Exhibition on View
May 7 - July 6, 2012
a group exhibition featuring the works of internationally & nationally known artists:
Joan Belmar, Anne Bouie, Elsa Gebreyesus, Wayson Jones
Anne Marchand, Tariq Tucker, Ann Marie Williams and J. Bertram White

Curator: Jarvis DuBois

"Not too unlike a DJ's “digging in the crates” to pull together seemingly disparate musical styles and sound effects, many contemporary artists mine various mediums for their individual art production. This exhibition explores the creative drives and experimentation of mixed media abstract artists from DC, Maryland and Virginia who have often chosen to combine untraditional painting and assemblage materials (acetate, plant pods, metal components, pumice) with more straightforward acrylics, pastels, and oils to create their both energetic and powerful visual "mashups". As curator one of my goals is to expand the understanding of what abstraction is and can be as expressed by these eight artists."   

 – Jarvis DuBois

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
For more information, call 202.476.3225
PHOTO ID REQUIRED

Visit the web site for more information and directions: www.childrensnational.org

The WaPo on Artomatic

The WaPo has a gorgeous photo essay on Artomatic... check it out online here.

Brandon Wetherbee on Artomatic

"The 2012 iteration of Artomatic is the largest to date, with more than 1,100 artists participating. That number will increase with each day of the monthly installation. The sixth floor of the building will be an "Art Reactor," a space where visitors will be able to create their own art with supplies provided by the space."

Read the whole piece on the HuffPost here.

John Anderson on Artomatic

"Walk through Artomatic for two hours and the effect is what you might expect: It's dizzying. Draining. Eleven floors, 10 of them busting with artworks from 1,300 contributors. Some floors are labyrinthine; others are wide-open displays of sculpture and installation, interrupted by a stage and bank of chairs. Like the last time Artomatic was in Crystal City, this year's show is housed in an old office building. The carpet looks cheap; the drop ceiling feels cheaper. The lighting is mostly fluorescent. It is everything a museum or a gallery shouldn't be. And that's the point, because it is neither.

Consider what it is: a six-week event by local artists for local artists, run almost entirely by volunteers in a vacant building. There are the stages: poetry on the 11th floor; Heineken (one of the sponsors) has stages on the 10th and eighth floors; the ninth floor has a dance stage. If it isn't the largest volunteer-run arts organization in the country, it's probably near the top"

Read the whole article in the WCP here.