Friday, January 05, 2018

Art Scam Alert!!!!

Beware of this mutant trying to rip off artists!
From: Kevin Spiker spikerk48@gmail.com

Subject: Art Work Inquiry 
My name is  Kevin Spiker from Washington DC. I was looking for some artwork online and i found your contact while searching. I will like to purchase some of your work for my wife as a surprise gift for our 20th anniversary.Please kindly send pics and prices of some of your art which are ready for immediate sale within price range $500- $5000, i could be flexible with price. So i will hope to hear a lot more about any available piece in your inventory ready for immediate sale. 
Thanks and best regards,
Kevin

Opportunity for Artists

Mozilla is taking proposals for visualization pieces focused on misinformation - will be installed at the Tech Museum of Innovation

https://challenges.mozilla.community/tech-challenge/ 

Thursday, January 04, 2018

Wednesday, January 03, 2018

Jessica Drenk at Adah Rose

Opening at Adah Rose Gallery
adahrosegallery@gmail.com
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

Tuesday, January 02, 2018

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

People taking selfies inside a Campello artwork 2017
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

Monday, January 01, 2018

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!