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Jessica Drenk at Adah Rose

Opening at Adah Rose Gallery
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www.adahrosegallery.com

"The Evocation of a Moment..a Gesture" - Jessica Drenk

January 19-March 2, 2018
Vernissage Saturday January 20 6:00-8:00 pm.
Live Music by Bud Wilkinson

Tactile and textural, the sculptures of Jessica Drenk highlight the chaos and beauty that can be found in simple materials. Jessica's work is influenced by systems of information and the impulse to develop an encyclopedic understanding of the world. Jessica’s interests in archaeology, paleontology, biology, botany and geology influence not only the shapes and textures of her sculpture, but also lend a visual framework for creating, collecting and classifying her own specimens of the present. The sculptures are both fragile and strong, complex and simple; always elegant and unique. Her materials  are as varied as marble, PVC pipes, toilet paper, books, pencils, wood, coffee filters, and q-tips. 

Jessica was raised in Montana, where she developed an appreciation for the natural world that remains an important inspiration to her artwork today. Jessica was awarded the International Sculpture Center's Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award.  Her work has been pictured in Sculpture Magazine and she has exhibited in shows at the International Grounds for Sculpture in NJ, Skidmore College, the Albuquerque Museum, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Everhart Museum, Yale University and the Brooklyn Public Library. Her work is in many prominent individual and corporate art collections. Jessica has exhibited in numerous solo and duo shows in Washington DC, Dallas, San Francisco, Hawaii, Florida, Massachusetts and Arizona. She has exhibited with the gallery at PULSE Miami, PULSE NY and the Silicon Valley Art Fair. This is her third show with Adah Rose Gallery.

Jessica Drenk received an MFA from the University of Arizona in 2007 and a BA from Pomona College in 2002. She currently lives and works in Florida.

Adah Rose Gallery
3766 Howard Ave
Kensington MD 20895
Thursday-Sunday 12:00-5:30 and always by appointment

East City Art's 2017 Year in Review

Always free, pick up a copy of East City Art's 2017 Year in Review at one of the following participating locations:

• American University Katzen Arts Center
  4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
• Anacostia Smithsonian Museum 
  1901 Fort Place SE
• Arlington Arts Center
  3550 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA
• Art Enables
  2204 Rhode Island Avenue NE
• Art League Torpedo Factory Art Center
  105 N Union St, Alexandria, VA
• Artist and Makers Studios
  11810 Parklawn Dr, Rockville, MD
• Arts Council of Fairfax
  2667 Prosperity Ave A, Fairfax, VA
• Artworks Studio School
  3711 Rhode Island Ave, Mt Rainier, MD
• Black Rock Center for the Arts
  12901 Town Commons Dr, Germantown, MD
• Brentwood Arts Exchange
  3901 Rhode Island Ave, Brentwood, MD
• Capitol Hill Arts Workshop 
  545 7th Street SE
• Congress Heights Arts & Culture Center
  3200 MLK Jr. Ave. SE
• Convergence Gallery
  1801 N Quaker Ln, Alexandria, VA
• Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences 
  500 Fifth St NW
• DC Arts Studios
  6925 Willow St NW
• DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities  
  200 Eye St SE
• District Clay
  2414 Douglas St NE
• Driskell Center (University of Maryland) 
  1214 Cole Student Activities Bldg, 1214 Union Ln, College Park, MD
• Fisher Gallery
  4915 East Campus Lane, Alexandria VA
• Flashpoint Gallery
  916 G St NW
• Foundry Gallery
  8th Street NW
• Gallery Neptune and Brown 
  1530 14th St NW
• Gallery OonH 
  1354 H Street NE
• Glen Echo
  7300 MacArthur Blvd. Glen Echo, MD
• Greater Reston Arts Center
  Reston Town Center, 12001 Market St #103, Reston, VA
• Hamiltonian 
  1353 U St NW
• Harmony Hall 
  10701 Livingston Rd., Fort Washington, MD
• Hemphill 
  1515 14th Street NW
• Hill Center 
  921 Pennsylvania Ave SE
• Joan Hisoaka Healing Arts Gallery 
  1632 U St NW
• Joe’s Movement 
  3309 Bunker Hill Rd, Mt Rainier, MD
• Latela Art Gallery 
  716 Monroe St NE #27
• Long View Gallery 
  1234 9th St NW
• Lorton Arts 
  9518 Workhouse Rd, Lorton, VA
• McLean Project for the Arts 
  1234 Ingleside Ave, McLean, VA
• Monroe Street Market 
  625 Monroe Street NE
• Montpelier Arts Center
  9650 Muirkirk Rd., Laurel, MD
• Morton Fine Art 
  1781 Florida Ave NW
• National Postal Museum 
  2 Massachusetts Avenue NE
• Olly Olly Gallery 
  10417 Main Street, Second Floor, Fairfax, VA
• Open Studio DC 
  1135 Okie Street NE
• Otis Street Arts Project 
  3706 Otis St, Mt Rainier, MD
• Plaza Artist Materials Bethesda 
  7825 Old Georgetown RD, Bethesda, MD
• Plaza Artist Materials Downtown 
  1120 19th Street NW
• Plaza Artist Materials Fairfax 
  3045 Nutley Street, Fairfax, VA
• Plaza Artist Materials Rockville 
  1776 E. Jefferson Street Unit 119, Rockville, MD
• Printmakers Gallery 
  1641 Wisconsin Ave NW
• Project Create 
  2028 Martin Luther King Ave SE (2nd Floor)
• Pyramid Atlantic 
  4318 Gallatin St, Hyattsville, MD
• Recreative Spaces 
  3501 Perry Street Mount Rainier, MD
• Red Dirt Studios 
  4051 34th St, Mt Rainier, MD
• Rhizome Arts 
  6950 Maple St NW
• Susan Calloway Fine Arts 
  1643 Wisconsin Ave NW
• Tanglewood Works 
  5132 Baltimore Ave, Hyattsville, MD
• THEARC 
  1901 Mississippi Ave SE
• Torpedo Factory 
  105 N Union St, Alexandria, VA
• Touchstone 
  901 New York Ave NW
• Visarts
  155 Gibbs St, Rockville, MD
• Washington Studio School 
  2129 S St NW
• Waverly Street Gallery
  4600 East-West Hwy #102, Bethesda, MD

My continuous fascination with this

The curious case of people taking a selfie inside a F. Lennox Campello interactive video drawing
Context Art Miami art fair, Miami Florida during Art Basel week

Happy 2018!

Here's a wish for a Happy New Year's wish to all planetary life, but especially to all my fellow veterans, and all Americans on active duty; and to all of the men and women in our Armed Forces all over the planet, and who are away from their families and their nation on New Year's Day, with a special cyber hug to all my U.S. Navy brothers and sisters at sea - we've got your back!

Confessions Of A Nasty Gallery Girl

Flirt alert: Working in a gallery obviously means looking after (male) clients, collectors and artists alike. So how do you manage to maintain a relationship that’s the perfect balance of friendly and professional, without enticing them to send flirty WhatsApp messages after having one too many at the opening?

Read the whole piece here. 

Artist Lifestyle Survey

 Art Festival Newsletter National Survey:

"Art Festival Artists: Who We Are 2017" 

You are invited to take part in the latest nationwide artists' survey conducted by Art-Linx. The subject is "Art Festival Artists: Who We Are 2017".  You need not be an Art-Linx subscriber to participate.

A revised version of the surveys conducted from 2011-2016, "Art Festival Artists: Who We Are 2017" continues to build on the information about the composition, demographics, festival practices and goals of festival exhibitors nationwide--and how our community has changed in the last, tumultuous year. 

Your responses are completely anonymous. They are automatically collated and tabulated. Neither Art-Linx, nor anyone else, knows who participates in the survey or their answers to the questions.

As always,we will prepare a report on the survey. In addition, with the goal of assisting shows in their efforts to respond to artists' needs, we will make the survey report available to over 1,500 art and craft festivals across the United States.

In just a few minutes of your valuable time, you can add your experiences, opinions and plans to those of other artists and help reach a cohesive understanding of who we are.

We sincerely hope you decide to join us in this important endeavor.

 Please click HERE to make your voice heard in the art festival industry.