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| Woman Being Lowered from The Heavens Charcoal and Conte on Paper 17.5 x 7 inches, circa 2013 |
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Gift from the Heavens
Friday, April 12, 2013
Alchemical Vessels Benefit
Join me for this exclusive benefit event at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery and add one of the 125 Alchemical Vessels works to your own
collection! Opening is Friday, May 17 from 7-9 PM.
This unique exhibition will feature the work of 125 artists, hand-selected by 16 invited curators (including yours truly) , to engage in a community dialogue on healing and transformation through the arts. Each artist will transform the ceramic bowl by means of his or her own personal aesthetic and medium, drawing inspiration from the bowl as a place of holding, open community, a circle of care, sacred space, nourishment, and even the alchemical vessel.
100% of the ticket sale proceeds will go to support Smith Center’s life-enhancing work and programs for people living with and recovering from cancer.
- Supporter ticket: $50: This price level is good for entrance to the Benefit only. Ticket holders at this level do not get to keep a piece of art.
If you have trouble purchasing tickets, please call 202.483.8600 or email them at outreach@smithcenter.org.
See the Facbeook Event for more photos from the Artists!
Benefit attendees will also be invited to the Artists' Closing Reception for Alchemical Vessels on June 7, 2013!
My donation to this event is below. I debated what to create, and in the end, I gessoed the bowl and once again delivered the visage of the most transformative artist that I know: Frida Kahlo.
This unique exhibition will feature the work of 125 artists, hand-selected by 16 invited curators (including yours truly) , to engage in a community dialogue on healing and transformation through the arts. Each artist will transform the ceramic bowl by means of his or her own personal aesthetic and medium, drawing inspiration from the bowl as a place of holding, open community, a circle of care, sacred space, nourishment, and even the alchemical vessel.
100% of the ticket sale proceeds will go to support Smith Center’s life-enhancing work and programs for people living with and recovering from cancer.
Ticket information:
- Benefit tickets $125: 125 Benefit tickets will be sold, and each ticket holder at this level will be given the opportunity to select a piece of art. Priority will be given by the order in which the tickets were purchased—so the first to buy a ticket will be awarded first pick of the 125 works, and so on. All 125 works will remain in the show until after the closing of the exhibition on June 7, at which time the new owners can pick them up.- Supporter ticket: $50: This price level is good for entrance to the Benefit only. Ticket holders at this level do not get to keep a piece of art.
If you have trouble purchasing tickets, please call 202.483.8600 or email them at outreach@smithcenter.org.
See the Facbeook Event for more photos from the Artists!
Benefit attendees will also be invited to the Artists' Closing Reception for Alchemical Vessels on June 7, 2013!
My donation to this event is below. I debated what to create, and in the end, I gessoed the bowl and once again delivered the visage of the most transformative artist that I know: Frida Kahlo.
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| The Secret Substance of Frida Kahlo Charcoal, conte and graphite on gessoed ceramic |
Seldom has human history seen an artist so transformed by
destiny, events and the agony of constant pain as Frida Kahlo. When Kahlo's
young body was nearly destroyed and re-arranged by a horrible accident in her
youth, where the young art student was impaled on a handrail that pierced her
vagina and emerged through her chest, her agony transformed her into another
being who then proceeded to gift onto the world some of the most spectacular
portraits of pain that we've ever seen.
The intense brutality of pain transformed Kahlo with the same intensity that a thermonuclear reaction transforms its surroundings. She became a being submerged in constant pain for the rest of her life, both physical (she underwent dozens of surgeries) and mental (she experienced many miscarriages and was never able to have a child). And that transformation was the catalyst the propelled her to paint her own image as a mirror of the pain in her life, and in the process to become one of history’s great artists.
The intense brutality of pain transformed Kahlo with the same intensity that a thermonuclear reaction transforms its surroundings. She became a being submerged in constant pain for the rest of her life, both physical (she underwent dozens of surgeries) and mental (she experienced many miscarriages and was never able to have a child). And that transformation was the catalyst the propelled her to paint her own image as a mirror of the pain in her life, and in the process to become one of history’s great artists.
In the process, Kahlo transformed all of us, as a little bit of
her artistic alchemic powers infect all of us who become hypnotized by her
portraits; the power of her gaze, the eloquence of her eye brows and the
intensity of her face, all leave a little bit of the secret substance that
changes artistic matter from the mundane to an aspiration to the sublime.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
WPA Artist Directory Launch Party
WPA 2013 - 2014 Artist Directory Launch Party
Date: April 20, 6-9pm
Location: Capitol Skyline Hotel, 10 I (eye) Street, SW
Washington, DC 20024
The 2011-2012 WPA Artist Directory launches on April 20!
Join them for a free Launch Party at WPA's new home in the Capitol Skyline
Hotel to celebrate their new space and the launch of their latest Directory!
And stay through the evening to celebrate the WPA's move to the Capitol
Skyline at Sleepout, a poolside sleepover party! The Directory launch party is free, but Sleepout is a ticketed event. Purchase tickets here.
This
will be the very first opportunity to see and purchase this full-color
guide to WPA member artists that serves as a reference tool for
curators, gallerists, patrons and artists. The 2013-2014 Artist
Directory is available for $9.95 plus tax. Pre-orders and artist copies
will be available for pick up the night of the event. Additional copies may also be purchased.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
David Gregory: DC Asshole of the week
I know that this is very City Paper of me, but this story about TV talking head David Gregory (D-NBC) throwing a fit over parking issues in his "this is where the rich people live in DC" neighborhood really makes the "Meet the Press" host a perfect choice for my inaugural DC Asshole of the Week.
Hopefully it will be another few years before another one is awarded to some idiot who doesn't understand what "public" means in reference to a street and parking.
Hopefully it will be another few years before another one is awarded to some idiot who doesn't understand what "public" means in reference to a street and parking.
Gregory flatly denied warning the show-house folks that he “knows all the politicians in town,” as witnesses claim."Witnesses" (Plural) -- What a schmuck!
Rousseau on Grand
A great essay by Dr. Claudia Rousseau about the work of
Freya Grand for the current exhibit at the National Museum of Women in the
Arts.
It was posted on the site in two parts.
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Tuesday, April 09, 2013
MFA at Gallery B
Morton Fine Art and its mobile fine art gallery, *a pop-up project, will be showing"Fair Focus," an exhibition of work by artists MAYA FREELON ASANTE, OSI AUDU, KESHA BRUCE, ROSEMARY FEIT COVEY, NATHANIEL DONNETT, VICTOR EKPUK, KATHERINE HATTAM, WILLIAM MACKINNON, JULIA FERNANDEZ-POL and VONN SUMNER at Gallery B in Bethesda.
New wood engravings/paintings by one of the world's greatest living printmaker, Rosemary Feit Covey will be featured. Join her at the opening reception this Friday, April 12, 6-9pm.
Exhibition dates: April 4-27, 2013
Gallery location & hours:
Gallery B
7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E
Bethesda, MD 20814
Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
New wood engravings/paintings by one of the world's greatest living printmaker, Rosemary Feit Covey will be featured. Join her at the opening reception this Friday, April 12, 6-9pm.
Exhibition dates: April 4-27, 2013
Gallery location & hours:
Gallery B
7700 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite E
Bethesda, MD 20814
Hours:
Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm
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