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New Studios in the DMV

open may 5 and 6, 10-6 pm

and

spring art walk
Friday may 5, 6-8pm
MICHELINE KLAGSBRUN
raye leith
joe hall
the tuesday night group

1662 33rd street NW in georgetown
 

SPRING ART WALK:
Seven galleries will host an evening stroll and a viewing of their fine art

exhibitions in the most beautiful part of Washington, DC.

WWW.GEORGETOWNGALLERIES.COM

Wanna draw the figure?

Fridays, June 2 & 16 – Friday ARTnights: Drop-In Figure Drawing – The Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW) hosts a drop-in “Working from the Figure” session on Friday, June 2, 2017 and Friday, June 16, 2017 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. at CHAW, 545 7^th Street, SE. Work on drawings or paintings in front of a live model in a session without formal instruction, facilitated by artist Will Fleishell. Please bring your own drawing materials. Easels are available. The session is $15 for drop-in students. For more information, visit www.chaw.org or call (202) 547-6839. 

Call

Art Impact USA's 2017 Juried Art Exhibition at Pepco Edison Place Gallery is now ready to receive your art entry.  You are invited to submit up to eight works for "Climax: The Best of the Best."  There is no entry fee and over $850 in cash awards and prizes.  


Submission deadline is June 16, 2017, 9:00 pm firm.  Don't wait until the last minute.

The chief juror is Prof. Curlee Holton, Executive Director of the David C. Driskell Center,  at the University of Maryland.  Fewer artists will be chosen and more of their work will be exhibited - four pieces.

Visit this page for all the details:  http://www.artimpactusa.org/climax-call. 

Victor Ekpuk solo at MFA

These Moments

A solo exhibition of mixed media artwork by VICTOR EKPUK

Friday, May 12th - May 29th, 2017

OPENING DAY RECEPTION

Friday, May 12th, 6pm-8pm

The artist will be in attendance. 

EXHIBITION LOCATION

Morton Fine Art (MFA)

1781 Florida Ave NW (at 18th & U Sts)

Washington, DC 20009

HOURS

Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm

Sunday 12pm-5pm

About VICTOR EKPUK & These Moments

What can one say about an artist like Victor Ekpuk? Graphically stunning, with a carefully crafted use of color, and evincing a commitment to the power of the line, Ekpuk's work in These Moments applies Ekpuk's enviable skill, theoretical grounding, and consistent engagement with what it means to be human in a more figurative approach. These Moments highlight thirteen works all grounded by the form, structure, and strength of the bold line's arc through space. Inspired in part by a four-month residency in Nigeria, the country of his birth, Ekpuk was struck by how central the head was in daily life in Lagos. Ekpuk explains that he was "struck by people carrying things on their heads, metaphorically or otherwise."
- Izetta Autumn Mobley, 2017

These Moments marks VICTOR EKPUK's third solo exhibition at Morton Fine Art.  His artwork is included in the permanent collections of the

Smithsonian Institution Nation Museum of African Art, Brooks Museum,

Krannert Art Museum, US Department of State, Newark Museum, Arkansas Art Center, Fidelity Investments,  The World Bank, and University of Maryland University College Art Collection.

Call for Proposals

One month left to submit your proposals for an exhibition at artspace in the first half of 2018

APPLY ONLINE

Entry Fee: $25
Deadline: June 1, 2017

Frida Kahlo Show... and?

Over 20 years ago, The Washington Post called me "A Kahlophile since age 17", and even after all these years, that description still fits me to a tee.


Subsequently, I was lucky enough to curate two (in partnership with the Mexican Cultural Institute for the first one, and with the same Institute and the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City for the second) worldwide "Homage to Frida Kahlo" shows - the first one at Georgetown's iconic Fraser Gallery, and the second one online with art.com.

Campello's works are more than one-liners, though. They're also explorations of one of Campello's pet topics: race. In Las Siete Fridas (The Seven Fridas), he's envisaged Kahlo as Nordic, Arab, African, punk, Native American, Vulcan, and Beatle. The drawing was inspired by the 1980 census, the first to offer a complex menu of ethnicities for each American's self-identification. "This was my way of poking fun at the census and our governmental need to put labels on people," Campello explains on a nearby card. Las Siete Fridas was recently acquired by Seeds of Peace, an organization that promotes cross-cultural understanding.   ---  Pamela Murray Winters, Washington City Paper

Over the years, as documented here, I've done hundreds, if not thousands of works inspired, related or obsessed by Frida Kahlo, the Champagne Communist, pain-ridden lead for the title of most famous and influential Latin American artist... ever. And soon, very soon, I will be announcing another major Kahlo-related project... stay tuned!


Just found out that a new Kahlo-inspired show is about to make its debut in the DMV:

Exhibit:

Frida en Nosotros

Artworks inspired by Frida Kahlo

May 5- May 29

DMV area artists pay tribute to Frida Khalo as a transcendent Latin American cultural icon. Each artist has taken her image or imagery related with her as a starting point to explore how she relates to their own ethnic traditions and customs. Featured artist are Marily Mojica, Osbel Susman-Peña, Nicole Oxendine, Ric Garcia, Marla Mclean, David Amoroso, Gus Rodriguez, Kate Heneghan, Jobi Jovanka Magana, Juliana Vallejo, Shyama Kuver, Cluadio Olivos, Eloy Areu, Sergio Olivos 

Reception:

Opening Night and Cinco de Mayo Celebration

Friday, May 5

5 pm-12 midnight

Happy Hour

Tapas, Vino y Margaritas

Location:

Cuba Cuba Galerie café

2309 18th Street, NW

Washington, DC 20009

An artistic culinary initiative in Adams Morgan, where art, music and Spanish food traditions fuse into a cultural experience. Patrons can enjoy art exhibits in the restaurants' basement gallery space and then pair the experience with a good glass of wine and a variety of  tapas or a dinner that samples Spanish and Cuban cuisine traditions.