Reviews

East City Art Reviews—Heloisa Escudero: Tools for the Mind

By Miguel Resendiz on February 17, 2020

Colorful assemblages containing lightbulbs, string, glass vials, plastic bottles, metal handles, and other recycled materials make up the entirety of the exhibit, Tools for the Mind, currently on view...

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East City Art Reviews—Dialog: Landscape and Abstraction—Freya Grand and the Permanent Collection of the Art Museum of the Americas

By Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. on February 11, 2020

Freya Grand does large scale landscape paintings. The key to understanding her work is to realize that her paintings are not so much descriptive of the places she...

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East City Art Reviews—Dialogues at Stable

By Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. on February 5, 2020

Dialogues, the inaugural exhibition in the gallery of STABLE, the new art studio space in northeast Washington, opened last fall. Featuring the work of 32 artists working there,...

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Weekly Events List: February 26–March 1

By Editorial Team on February 25, 2020

Receptions at Takoma Park Community Center, The OAS AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, National Portrait Gallery, Washington Sculptors Group, Studio Gallery, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, and Watergate Gallery + Talks at Washington Project for the Arts, Washington Studio...

ECA News Briefs

National Portrait Gallery Announces Winners of National Teen Portrait Competition

By Editorial Team on February 26, 2020

Grand Prize-winning Works To Be Displayed Alongside Museum’s Exhibition “The Outwin 2019: American Portraiture Today” The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced Chiemeka Offor of California and Sofia Gress of Florida as the grand-prize winners of the museum’s nationwide Teen Portrait Competition. Open to students between the ages of 13 and 17 residing in the…

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Hill Center Announces 2020 Juried Exhibition Winners

By Editorial Team on February 17, 2020

Hill Center Galleries is proud to announce the winners of the Hill Center Galleries Juried Exhibition. Juried by Myrtis Bedolla, owner of Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD, 165 artists submitted nearly 700 pieces for consideration. Bedolla selected 94 pieces for the show, representing work from over 80 artists. At the exhibition’s opening reception on February 5, Bedolla…

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National Portrait Gallery Announces Five-City Tour of the Portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama

By Editorial Team on February 17, 2020

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery has announced a five-city tour next year of the portraits of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Michelle Obama by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald, respectively, that will launch during the summer of 2021. Next year, in mid-May 2021, the Obama portraits, commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery, will temporarily…