Mark Jenkins on Superfine

The WaPo pops through the DMV MSM apathy wall towards the local visual arts!

Yeah Mark!

Like its more grown-up-oriented competitors, Superfine is a lively, glamorous bazaar that exists to sell art offered by galleries, dealers and artists. Mitow says he brought the fair to Washington because of its large population of young, high-income residents, as well as its booming real estate market and location between Miami and New York, the first two Superfine cities. 

“There’s a rift in the art market. It’s the only industry that has historically tried to keep customers out,” Mitow says over coffee at Union Market on a scouting trip to Washington. “I want people to be able to see themselves as collectors.”

Read his article here.

Rubenstein Guest Artist Lecture

Rubenstein Guest Artist Lecture featuring the work of

LOU STOVALL

master printmaker and renowned DC artist

  

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Special Reception
6:00 p.m.
Daryl Reich Rubenstein Gallery

Guest Artist Lecture
7:30 p.m.
Robert L. Smith Meeting Room

Kindly RSVP by Friday, Nov. 2nd 

Three vintage illustrations from the 70s

These three vintage pieces from the late 70s - which I did as illustrations for a privately printed book and which were sold at the Pike Place Market in Seattle while I was an art student at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle (1977-1981) -- are being sold directly by the owner.

Anyone interested? Send me a note and I will put you in direct touch with her...

MoCo Awards

County Executive Isiah “Ike” Leggett will present nine community leaders with awards in recognition of significant contributions to Montgomery County’s arts and cultural community during a special award ceremony held at the Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center, Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus. Take a look at this year's honorees. 

SOFA Chicago

We're at SOFA Chicago again - our fourth or fifth year participating! This year we're showcasing the work of DMV artists Lori Katz and Laura Beth Konopinski, as well as the work of artist Christine Kaiser!

November 1-4!

Come see us in booth A39 at SOFA - November 1-4

            600 East Grand Avenue
            Festival Hall at the Navy Pier
            Chicago, IL 60611

Send me a note for a free admission pass!

SOFA Chicago coming...

Great Moments in Art, III

Zenith Gallery continues its 40th Anniversary celebration with a new exhibit from Stephen Hansen, who has been with the gallery all 40 years! In this, his third Great Moments in Art show at Zenith, Hansen has meticulously recreated selections from two centuries of painting, and then added small sculpted painters on scaffolds who appear to be doing the actual painting. Their interactions with the paintings are witty and surprising. In each charming parody, from Trumbull’s iconic portrait of Alexander Hamilton, to Lichtenstein’s Pop Art Nurse, Hansen’s survey of great paintings is sure to please.

“This series started with a Rothko, and the notion that one's life work might have been accomplished one brilliant weekend with a roller. What if art work really was, well...work? And paintings were done by, well… painters? It had never occurred to me, until I became involved in this project, to pretend to be someone else for a few days. It is a bit like a holiday, though I would recommend Gauguin over van Gogh.”

Hansen has had one-man shows in galleries and museums in Detroit, Chicago, Santa Fe, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Scottsdale, Palm Springs, and New York. His unique paper mache sculptures are included in museum, corporate, private, and government collections including the New Mexico Capitol Art Collection in Santa Fe, The Federal Reserve and Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and United States Embassies in Naples, Italy and Caracas, Venezuela.

Great Moments in Art III

Works by Stephen Hansen

Show Dates:  November 9 - December 1, 2018

MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTIONS: 

Friday, November 9, 5:00-8:00 PM

Saturday, November 10, 2:00-6:00 PM 

1429 Iris Street, NW, Washington DC 20012-1409