Image Courtesy of Manna.

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Visit www.mannadc.org for more information.

Are you an artist?  Do you bring home less than $40,000 last year? Looking for rent under $1,000 a month?

Manna is finalizing plans for The Left Bank Studio-House, an affordable artist work/live space in Northeast Washington’s Langdon neighborhood for artists and their families.

Great location:
This converted warehouse at 2414 Douglas Street NE is two blocks from bus lines that travel down Rhode Island Avenue (just minutes to the Rhode Island Avenue Metro) and Bladensburg Road. We are conveniently located in the growing arts corridor running from H Street to Brookland and onto Mt. Rainier, MD.

Specialized services:
The Left Bank Studio-House will provide local artists with an integrated community where you can share ideas and materials and build your social and business networks. There will be a common area that residents can use for performances and exhibitions. Residents will also have access to business training and legal advice to help their business thrive.

Join:
If you are an artist looking for affordable work/live space, join our waiting list today by completing this form.  In the additional features box, please provide suggested services or features you have for work/live space.

By joining the waiting list, you are expressing an interest in affordable artist work/live space. You are not committing to anything.

For more information www.mannadc.org/detail/property.cfm?property_id=13&id=103

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Photo by Davonna. Image Courtesy of Critical Exposure.

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Open reception Wednesday, May 23 from 6 to 9pm.

Critical Exposure hosts its annual spring exhibit of student photography. The opening celebration for SEE CHANGE: Youth -> Cameras -> Action! will be held on May 23rd from 6 to 9pm at the Hill Center near Eastern Market. This is their 7th annual event. Students will be there to present new work completed over the past year, including multimedia stories on D.C.’s high school drop-out crisis.

Guests are asked to register as soon as possible by May 19th.
Visit the link to RSVP with a suggested donation of $35. http://criticalexposurespringexhibit.eventbrite.com/

The Hill Center is located at 921 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington, DC (Eastern Market).  For more information visit criticalexposure.org/see-change-youth-cameras-action.

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Image Courtesy of Open Studio dc.

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Visit openstudiodc.com for March and April class schedule.

Open Studio dc announces their screenprinting workshops for May and June 2012. More information about classes can be found at OpenStudiodc.com.

May 14  - Introduction to Screenprinting T-shirts workshop

May 20 – Introduction to Screenprinting workshop

May 27 –  Introduction to Screenprinting workshop

June 3 – Introduction to Screenprinting on T-shirts workshop

June 10 -  Introduction to Screenprinting workshop

Workshops will be taught by Carolyn Hartmann, Open Studio dc’s owner and an Adjunct Professor in the Print Department at the Corcoran College of Art and Design.

You can sign up for workshops by sending an email to Carolyn@openstudiodc.com.

Each workshop can accommodate up to 8 students – first come, first serve. Payment can be made either by check, cash, or on-line with credit cards through PayPal. When you sign up for a class we will send you back payment information and let you know if the class still has openings.

For more information visit their website at openstudiodc.com, call 202.271.7620, or email Carolyn Hartmann at carolyn@openstudiodc.com.
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Entrance to Gallery

Opening this Saturday, May 12th at the 39th Street Gallery and Project Space is Love, Loss and Lipstick, a two-artist show featuring Virginia-based artists Taliaferro Logan and Caryl Burtner.  The opening runs from 5:30-8:00pm and coincides with the 8th annual Gateway Open Studios tour.  East City Art recently visited the gallery for a personal tour with the show’s curator Tosha Grantham.

The modus operandi of each artist is strikingly similar.  Visitors walking into the gallery are bombarded by multiple series of small-scale works, each methodically hung in groups of cohesive vignettes that when taken together paint a nostalgic portrait of emotional moments long since past.  Integral to each artist is the use of found objects and materials as totemic emblems within each small-scale work.  Grantham specifically chose these artists based on the way their pieces naturally “converse”, and while visually each artist’s work could stand on its own as a small solo show,  there is indeed a symbiosis as the grids play off one another.  While visually similar, these two artists take different approaches in how they manifest past memories.  Where Logan’s work references commonly understood artistic idioms, the impetus for Burtner’s pieces lie firmly within her own experience.

"Paint Swatch Series" by Taliaferro Logan

Taliaferro Logan’s Paint Sample Series pulls the visitor through the front doors into center of the gallery.  Using small strips of Benjamin Moore paint swatches, Logan draws whimsical landscapes, portraits and nudes whose individual titles are based on the name of the swatch’s paint color.  Each piece is framed in a rococo-inspired, black frame that literally leaps off the wall.  According to Grantham, the “colors have innuendo”, most keenly expressed in small, Parisian-style nudes done in seductive shades of pink and red.  Here Logan deftly examines the ways in which color can trigger an emotional response.  In a similar vein, her Lucretia Series, features multi-hued interpretations of The Suicide of Lecretiaby Lucas Cranach the Elder.  By riffing on Northern Renaissance imagery with colorful, found materials, Logan is taking an emotionally-nuanced view of “the feminine mystique”, causing us to question how women have been artistically portrayed in epochs past.

"Flowers Series" (installation detail) by Caryl Burtner. Image courtesy of the artist.

Where Logan’s work toys with emotional impulses cloaked in whimsy, Caryl Burtner’s vignettes present a very personal emotional landscape with hills and valleys eroded by the passing of time.  Burtner has spent the past three decades collecting the minutiae of daily life and using these found articles as a basis for series of remembrances.  Painstakingly documented, these ephemeral objects present us fragments of emotional moments muted by the years.  In Flowers, Burtner presents individual, dried flowers alongside imagery and a notation regarding the moment she received (or gave) the particular botanical.  Flowers are a conduit for emotion in Western culture (often given for weddings, funerals and as declarations of love), and used in this way Burtner presents personal emotional moments stripped of outright pain or joy, leaving a feeling akin to nostalgia.

Other works by Burtner document her social bonds over time with close friends and associates.  Since 1978, Burtner has asked brides for their signature after their wedding.  These signatures, captured on everything from stationary to cocktail napkins, form the impetus for Brides First Signature.  Individually, these items honor the emotionally-laden, life changing moments in her friends’ lives.  As a collective,

"Bride's First Signature" (installation view) by Caryl Burtner. Image courtesy of John Paradiso.

they document the changing of social mores relating to how married women choose to identify themselves by the use of hyphenated and maiden names.  In a similar vein, the series Hair Locks, comprised of locks of hair and a dated photo, highlights the changing appearances over time of the artist, her long-term partner and close friends, highlighting the fact that time doesn’t stand still.

While both artists works’ tend to play off of another, there is one quiet moment in the gallery where they intersect in an almost collaborative way.  Displayed together on a plinth to one side of the room are Sensory Cells by Ms. Logan and Box of Fingernails by Ms. Burtner.  Both works use cast-off “items” from the body to document the passage of time.  Sensory Cells is Logan’s most personal piece in the show (though the curator is quick to point out she has other bodies of work along this vein) and as such perhaps resonates most closely with Burtner’s pieces.  This intimate pairing of pieces added a sweet, harmonious note to the overall exhibition.

Works by Taliaferro Logan and Caryl Burtner. Image courtesy of John Paradiso.

Love, Loss and Lipstick runs through June 30th, 2012.  For more information, visit the gallery’s website at www.39thstreetgallery.org

Paper Chair 3. Photo Courtesy of INDUSTRY.

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Opening Reception, Saturday, May 12 from 5 to 8 pm.
Opening Remarks by Ambassador Taksoe-Jensen, Embassy of Denmark, at 6 pm.

INDUSTRY Gallery announces SPUN, an installation by Mathias Bengtsson, May 12 to June 29, 2012.  Born in Copenhagen in 1971, Mathias Bengtsson studied furniture design at the Danish College of Design and the Art Centre College in Switzerland before returning to Copenhagen to form the design collective known as ‘Panic’, with a mission to give young designers a voice within the Danish furniture industry and create new opportunities. Bengtsson relocated to London in 1996 to study under Ron Arad and earned a degree at the Royal College of Art in 1999 before collaborating with fellow graduates to create design studio ‘At the Third Stroke’. A year later, Bengtsson co-founded ‘Design Laboratory’ in partnership with Sam Buxton before eventually establishing his own studio in 2002.

Bengtsson’s work began gaining acclaim internationally in 1998, when his Slice and Homage to Panton chairs were exhibited at Galleria Post Design in Milan. In 2002, his work was shown in the ‘Design by Aluminium’ exhibition at the Design Museum in London. Sotheby’s Contemporary Art department presented Bengtsson’s work in 2003 and 2004, and also in 2003 the British Council featured Bengtsson’s furniture in the ‘Great Brits’ exhibition held in Milan during the Salone del Mobile, which later travelled to Tokyo and Sao Paulo.

Recently Bengtsson was personally presented with the Finn Juhl prize in Japan. His pieces have been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Carnegie Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, High Museum of Art in Atlanta and the Houston Museum of Fine Arts.

Gallery Hours:

• Tuesday through Saturday noon to 5 pm

INDUSTRY Gallery is located in the Atlas Theater District at 1358 Florida Ave., NE, Washington, DC. For more information call 202.399.1730 or visit their new website soon at industrygallerydc.com.

For more about Mathias Bengtsson visit www.bengtssondesign.com.

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Opening Reception: 6pm to 9pm
Poetry Reading: Starting at 7pm

In collaboration with accomplished poets mostly rooted in the DC area, Corcoran Graduate Art and the Book Students and Faculty have created a series of prints drawing inspiration from the theme Patina.

Artists include:

• Christy Ball
• Georgia Deal
• Erik Delfino
• Marjorie Devereux Zöbisch
• Julie Garcia
• Li Pallas,
• Jennaway Pearson
• Sydney Reisen
• Maria San Martin
• Whitney Stahl

All artists paired themselves with the words of a poet before setting text and imagery in print medium of their choosing.

Featured poets include:

• Beth Baruch Joselow
• Carol Beane
• Christopher Cunningham
• Jenn DePalma
• Nan Fry
• Doug Lang
• Tom Mandel
• Casey Smith
• Bernard Welt
• Maged Zaher

The exhibit will include 10 eloquent and inspirational new works in etching, letterpress, screenprinting, digital, lithograph, or mixed print mediums.

Open Studio DC is located at 1348 Florida Ave, NE, Washington DC.
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Image Courtesy of Evolve Urban Arts Project.

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Opening Reception, Thursday, May 10 from 5:30 to 9 pm.

“The High Plains of Northwest Kansas was my place of birth, a small, rural community of rolling hills, tall grasses, and yucca. As a farm girl my contact with crops, livestock, old buildings and the varying personality of nature instilled in me a desire to record this ever-changing cycle of the seasons.

After high school graduation, I married and started a family. I went to college to become an elementary school teacher and formal arttraining did not arrive until years of self teaching had eclipsed.

My more in-depth training came through community college classes and I joined the Palco Art Club in the early 1980’s, enjoying participation in local art shows.  As the club president since 1990, I have been instrumental in developing a program to bring professional artists to this rural community to teach painting workshops.

I work with oil, pastel, watercolor, pencil and a bit of acrylic. The majority of my paintings are landscapes interspersed with still life and old buildings, in particular barns and churches that anchor my heart in the beauty of the High Plains.

Along with dabbling in the art world, I have broadened my creativity by taking up needle and thread.  Women of the High Plains have always exhibited their creativity through the creation of quilts to use daily on the beds of the family.  My mother pieced quilts together and then hand-quilted the entire article.  Fabulous, beautiful works of art.

For several years, I have wanted to expand on this media but did not have the extra hours to do so. Since my retirement from the school system, I have regained this time.

My training with color combinations and nuances in the painting world has overflowed into my world of quilting.”

The exhibit runs Thursday, May 10 through July 5, 2012. To view this exhibit, please call 202-744-6439 for an appointment.

The Project space is located in the Pierce School Lofts at 1375 Maryland Avenue, NE, in the H Street Arts and Entertainment District. For more information evolvedc.com.

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Image Courtesy of Art Enables.

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Opening Receptions, Saturday, May 12 from 2 to 4 pm.

Celebrate spring with fresh new artwork from Art Enables

• Indoor picnic featuring artwork, music, and a raffle of custom designed picnic baskets holding treats from local business

The Art Enables Off-Rhode Studio

• Lindbergh Smith & other Miriam’s Kitchen Studio Artists

Art Enables is located at 2204 Rhode Island Ave, NE, Washington, DC 20018. For more information call 202.554.9455 or visit them online at art-enables.org.

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Monica Perdomo Studio. Shrine

The arts’ showcase is the brainchild of painter and resident Monica Perdomo.  Ms. Perdomo has lived in the building for several years and loves that the residents have created a warm, nurturing environment with their neighbors.  It was during her 2011 residency at the Gateway Arts Center that she began to fully embrace the depth of artistry in the neighborhood.  Her neighborhood explorations also opened her eyes to the rich Latino culture in the neighborhood, a group she notes does not always have access to the arts.  She noted that the Gateway Open House weekend would be the perfect opportunity to begin integrating the Artspace lofts into the wider community.  Along with pianist (and resident) Philippa Smith-Tyler, Ms. Perdomo is opening a pop-up gallery in the building’s commercial spaces and organizing a full roster of music and performing arts.  To help foster this nascent spirit of community outreach,  the two residents have also invited artists of the new Brookland Artspace Loftsto participate.  Ms. Perdomo will also be hosting a bilingual arts workshop for neighborhood grade-school youth at 3pm in her studio.

Monica Perdomo Studio. Display Wall

Monica Perdomo Studio. View from loft.

After touring the studio (we couldn’t help snapping a few photos), we moved downstairs to tour the pop-gallery, located in two, unused retail storefronts on the street level of the building.  The day we visited, Ms. Perdomo was in the midst of receiving works from the dozen artists participating in the gallery show.  The large, airy space with windows onto Rhode Island Avenue is perfect for a gallery (perhaps one will open here sometime soon!), and works of art were gently propped along the walls, ready for hanging.  Directly across the lobby is the Urban Eats Arts and Music Cafe, which will be co-hosting the musical line-up.  Ms. Smith-Tyler has organized a performance space for musicians(from classical to Go-go) directly on cafe’s sidewalk space, as well as roving performance artists inside the gallery.

The pop-up gallery and performances will continue all afternoon.  Be sure to include the Art Lofts on your itinerary on May 12th!  For more information about the Gateway Arts District 8th annual Open Studio’s tour, click here.

Pop-up Gallery Artists:  Gary Coltrane, Joanna Lawrence, Karen Brown, Marsha Stein, Otto Connor, Rachel Kerwin*, Rajan Sedalia*, Toni George, Valerie Phillips, Mathew Malone*, Quest Skinner*

Performers:  Jason Blake, Rodger Coleman (band), Wyckham Avery, Sharon Richman, Valentine Nine (fronted by Buffy Rouse)*, Datjwan Woodland, Maurice Johnson, Jay Wasserman, Cleveland Chandler

* denotes Brookland Artspace resident.

Image Courtesy of G Fine Art Gallery.

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Opening reception on Saturday, May 12, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

“In Michael Tournier’s fable The Legend of Painting, a caliph holds a competition to establish the better of the two paintings commissioned to cover opposing walls in his palace. The first painting, by an artist who’d never left home before, is unveiled to show the beautiful picture of a Chinese garden. A week later, the second, widely travelled, painter pulls back the curtain to uncover a vast mirror in which the first painting is brilliantly reflected. He hadn’t lifted a brush but was immediately declared the winner as not only did his secondary image contain the beauty of the first, but its garden was also alive, populated by those viewing it (Tournier 1992). In Peter Osborne’s Travelling Light: Photography, Travel and Visual Culture.

Vesna Pavlović’s recent works explore obsolete photographic technology and its objects. Using a large collection of vintage tourism slides, which depict one family’s travels around the world in the 1960s, Pavlović reproduces in print and installation the experience of viewing these slides as a way of confronting photographic representation. The slides, the projectors, the lights, the screens; these reveal the layers that make up the image.

The installation and the prints dissect the idea of an image, and the idea of the image as it is being viewed. In a similar fashion, this archive of travel photography represents a mediation of cultural experience. Tourism of this era came at a time of projection of American power, when traveling to exotic locations was easy. Five decades later these images are what we have left, whose fading colors also represent a fading of the framed experiences in American consciousness.

Yet as the images are fading, revisiting the viewing experience now introduces nostalgia for the past. By transforming the two-dimensional objects into three-dimensional spaces, Pavlović allows for a bodily experience of that nostalgia. Sentimentality operates as an agent to refer to the inevitable shifts in technology, perhaps even to critique our nostalgic view of a bygone era. This is an obsolete technology whose bulkiness serves as a visual and audible reminder that the chance to experience such a naïve experience of the world is long gone. Even so, the graininess and discoloration serve to reveal our former aspirations, and our histories.

Vesna Pavlović (Serbia/US) obtained her MFA degree in visual arts from Columbia University in 2007. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Vanderbilt University. She has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Museum of History of Yugoslavia in Belgrade, and the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. Most recently, Pavlović’s work has been featured with a solo presentation at the Untitled, 12th Istanbul Biennial, 2011, and in group exhibitions at the Le Quartier Center for Contemporary Art in Quimper, France (From Closed World to the Infinite Universe), NGBK in Berlin, Germany (Spaceship Yugoslavia, The Suspension of Time), Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade (Conversations), Serbia, Tennis Palace Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland (Situated Self, Confused, Compassionate, Conflictual), Photographers’ Gallery in London (Mediterranean, Between Reality and Utopia), Kettle’s Yard in Cambridge, UK (Rear View Mirror), and FRAC Center for Contemporary Art in Dunkerque, France (De-Collecting). Pavlović’s Search for Landscapes installation will be on view at the Bucharest Biennale 5 in Romania (Tactics for Here and Now, May 25 – July 22, 2012). Vesna Pavlović is the recipient of the Robert Penn Warren Fellowship at Vanderbilt University, and the City of Copenhagen Artist-in-Residence grant (June 2012).

An essay by Alexandra Schwartz, Curator of Contemporary Art at Montclair Art Museum in New Jersey is forthcoming.

Gallery Hours:

• Wednesday through Saturday noon to 6pm

G Fine Art Gallery is located at 1350 Florida Ave. NE, Washington, DC 20002. For more information visit www.gfineartdc.com.

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Copyright Leo Villareal - Scramble, 2011. Installation view, courtesy Conner Contemporary Art.

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Opening reception on Saturday, May 12 from 6 to 8pm.

Conner Contemporary Art presents Leo Villareal’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. Villareal’s latest body of work enacts formal inquiries into imagery closely identified with modernity, reimagining colors and forms in the works of post-painterly abstractionists Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, and Ellsworth Kelly.

Villareal introduces temporal actions of light into traditional abstract imaging, using LEDs (light emitting diodes), custom software and sequencing. With these new media the artist explores, in single digital sculptures, extensive frameworks produced in serial paintings, such as the colorful concentric squares in Frank Stella’s Scramble series. Villareal activates familiar static forms, changing their color, definition, intensity, and duration. His imagery unfolds gradually, as if revealing the live application of pigments, a process that color painters of the 1950s and 60s concealed in their canvases.

The diffuse, pared down and unhurried imagery of Villareal’s new works place them among his most minimal creations. Target (2) recalls Noland’s gravitation toward the center in the iconic Target series. Concentric rings of glowing color gradients appear to push out beyond the surface of the piece and pull behind it, evoking the plasticity of Anish Kapoor’s optical sculptures. Villareal achieves a different sense of depth in Coded Spectrum, where thirteen planes of color vibrate subtly within a white metal grid that seems to pop out from the color ground like bars in a Peter Halley painting. Though Kelly embraced randomness as he explored color relationships in the Spectrum series, Villareal limits its role in this work. Selecting the palette himself, rather than letting the computer do it randomly, he distills artistic judgment into his own code.

As Villareal reconsiders post-painterly forms and colors, he re-conceptualizes the art historical category of abstraction and updates the modern aesthetic with digital color-field imaging

Villareal’s work was recently acquired by The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC and his site-specific installation, Multiverse, is in the permanent collection The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Both works are currently on view.

Additionally, the artist’s is represented in the following international collections: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Arario Museum, Seoul, Korea; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY. Site-specific installations include: Borusan Music & Art House, Istanbul, Turkey; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; PS1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY; Grand Central Station, New York, NY.

Villareal’s first major museum survey debuted at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA last year and is currently on view at the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA. The survey will open September 8th at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art in Madison, Wisconsin and be on view through December 30, 2012. A catalogue published by Hatje Cantz accompanies the exhibition.

There will be an opening night reception at Conner Contemporary Art, Saturday, May 12th from 6 to 8pm. Artist in attendance.

Gallery Hours:

• Wednesday through Saturday 10-5pm
• and by appointment

For further information or images, please contact the gallery @ 202-588-8750 /info@connercontemporary.com.

Conner Contemporary Art is located at 1358 Florida Avenue, NE –Washington, DC 20002 in the Historic Atlas/H Street Area.

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"Maine Patterns." by Alan Bradley. Image Courtesy of CHAL.

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Opening on Saturday, May 12, from 5:00-7:00 pm.

The Capitol Hill Art League (CHAL) presents its third annual metro DC open juried exhibit entitled “It’s a Wonderful World?” The juror for the exhibit is F. Lennox Campello, DC area art critic, award winning artist, and supporter of the visual arts. Opening reception is Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 5:00-7:00 pm at CHAW, 545 7th St, SE. Lenny Campello will present his remarks at 5:30 pm at the reception. Admission is free.

F. Lennox Campello is a well-known and widely published DC area art critic, award winning artist and supporter of the visual arts. He is often heard on NPR and the Voice of America discussing art issues. Since 2003, his blog, Daily Campello Art News has been one of the most widely read art blogs on the web. He was the co-founder of the Fraser Galleries of Georgetown and Bethesda and is currently the co-owner of Alida Anderson Art Projects.

The exhibit runs until June 1, 2012.

Gallery Hours:

• Monday through Thursday 9:30 am – 9 pm
• Friday 9:30 am – 6 pm
• Saturday 9 am – 2 pm

Capitol Hill Art League is located at 545 7th Street, SE Washington, DC 20003.

For more information, please call (202) 547-6839 or visit www.chaw.org.

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Frederic Nauczyciel. "Serge". Photo Courtesy Honfleur Gallery

This article is cross-posted in the following DC Blogs:

DC Style is Real

Free In DC

Frozen Tropics

H Street Great Street

The Hill is Home

Friday May 4

Honfleur Gallery (7pm to 9pm)

Honfleur Gallery Presents Le Temps Devant (our time ahead) by Parisian photographer Frederic Nauczyciel.  Nauczyciel masterfully captures the inhabitants of the Gers countryside in lifesize, Rembrant-like portraits.  Each subject’s gaze and body language tells his/her story of life in rural southwestern France.  For more information click here.

Honfleur Gallery is located at 1241 Good Hope RD SE

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions (5:30pm to 8pm)

The East of the River photography gallery presents the work of local artist Benjamin K. Nguyen birdsdecay.  The photographer captures beauty’s temporality and anguishes over its ephemeral nature.   For more information click here.

The Gallery at Vivid Solutions is located at 2208 Martin Luther King Ave SE

LUMEN8Anacostia Temporiums (6pm to 9pm)

The LUMEN8Anacostia Temporiums which are normally open from noon to 5pm on Saturdays will be open Friday night along with the two Anacostia galleries Honfleur and Vivid.  Participating venues include site specific installations, artwork and crafts all made by area artists and artisans. For more info go to www.lumen8anacostia.com/temporiums-2

The LUMEN8 Anacostia Temporiums are located between 2208 MLK AVE SE and 2208 Good Hope RD. 

The Fridge (7pm to 11pm)

The Fridge will present a group show featuring the DC Latino Art Collective whose artists draw their inspiration from Kahlo, Rivera, Dali and Picasso.  The event will feature live music by Machetres. For more information click here.

The Fridge is located at 516 1/2 8th Street rear alley, SE

Saturday May 5

The Brentwood Arts Exchange at the Gateway Art Center (3pm to 5pm)

Tosha Grantham, Philippa Hughes, Christina Marsh and John Yeh discuss what makes a portfolio great and not-so-great. Hear what makes them look twice or not at all, what they’ve seen that works, and where trends are going. Discussion to be moderated by Alonzo Davis.

This workshop is free but Advance Registration Required to http://smartlink.pgparks.com/smartlink to register and use code SMARTlink #883815

Brentwood Arts Exchange @ Gateway Arts Center is located at 3901 Rhode Island Avenue Brentwood, MD 20722

Sunday May 6

The Corner Store

The Corner Store presents beloved CHAW art instructor and figurative artist Ellen Cornett.  Cornett’s latest pastel series Fact from Fiction interpret dreams, fairytales and myth through archtypes as a means of explaining contemporary life. For more information click here.

The Corner Store is located at 900 South Carolina Avenue, SE

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"Smokescape" Photo Courtesy of the Artist

Event: Live Painting from 6pm to 9pm

Rachel Kerwin’s paintings seek to complicate the idea that nature is merely a scenic backdrop for our lives.  “Anyone who’s watched the Discovery channel will tell you that nature is also dangerous, chaotic, and destructive. I find that fascinating – when beauty can arise from survival.”  By exploring this tension, Rachel’s depictions of flocks of birds and billowing smoke reflect the duality of chaos and grace she finds inherent in being human.

Rachel has been painting for the past 7 years with shows in New York, Chicago, and the greater DC area.  Her work was featured during the LUMEN8Anacostia art festival and will continue to be on display at 2208 Martin Luther King Ave above Vivid Solutions Print Lab through June 16. Rachel is extending a special 50% off pricing for all visitors to her
Temporium space.

On Friday, May 4th, Rachel will be painting live in her space from 6-9pm in conjunction with the opening receptions at Vivid Solutions and Honfleur Gallery.  Her work will be on display at 2208 Martin Luther King Avenue above Vivid Solutions.

See more work at rachelkerwin.com and follow Rachel’s art at www.facebook.com/RachelKerwinART

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Linn Meyers, 'Untitled', Etching, ED 20. Image courtesy of G FIne Art Gallery.

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Signing on Sunday, May 6 from noon to 2:30 pm.

G Fine Art announces the publication of a 44 page catalogue of Meyers’ wall drawings dating from 2007-2011.

In addition to the soft-bound catalogue, the gallery is producing a limited edition etching, numbered 1-20, which is encased in a hardbound cloth box with a signed copy of the book. Join them at the gallery for a book signing. The catalogue and the boxed set will be available at the event.

If you cannot attend and wish to purchase a soft-bound book, send a check for $28 (includes postage) along with your address. We will send a signed copy to you.

G Fine Art is located at 1350 Florida Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002. For more information visit www.gfineartdc.com.

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