Eight abstract paintings by DC artist Anne Marchand are now on view at the Silva Gallery. The new exhibition space was the result of a collaboration between Latela Curatorial and the Silva DC, a new apartment development in Adams Morgan opened with the intention of providing new opportunities for local artists in the Washington DC region.
Read MoreThe nineteenth iteration of the finalists of the Trawick Prize for Contemporary Art is now on view at Gallery B in Bethesda. The work in this exhibit falls into two distinct categories: reflections on identity and heritage, and meditations on nature and climate change. Of the eight artists exhibited, six fall into the former, with two in the latter.
Read MoreEmbodying what she called an “organic geometry,” Nancy Frankel’s sculpture is a testament to the richness of her inspiration, whether it came from the hidden mathematical structures of nature or those inherent in music.
Read MoreColors of Confidence, the current exhibit at the relatively new Pazo Fine Art gallery (PFA) in Kensington, MD shows a small but powerful group of ten works by eight DC abstract painters, three of them major names from the Washington Color School: Tom Downing, Howard Mehring and Paul Reed.
Read MorePyramid-Atlantic is hosting an exhibition of the work of nine African-American women artists who participated in a collective project variously titled Project 2020 or 2020 Visions. For it, each conceived an artist’s book that would express her experiences through the difficult and tumultuous times through which we have lived over the past year and a half.
Read MoreA small portfolio of new drawings by painter Erik Thor Sandberg is now available for viewing at CONNERSMITH Gallery. There are only five of them in this group, but they are arresting and memorable both for Sandberg’s amazing draftsmanship and their fascinating iconography.
Read MoreFor their June-July schedule, Studio Gallery is hosting a show of work by photographer Gary Anthes and multi-media artist Carolee Jakes in the upper gallery with new photo transfers by Harriet Lesser stands in the lower gallery space. All three shows address themes of transience, impermanence and the inevitability of change.
Read MoreThe annual Bethesda Painting Awards have been decided, and the exhibition of selected works by each of the eight finalists is currently at Gallery B in Bethesda. A point of interest this year is the fact that nearly all the paintings in this show are figurative to a greater or lesser degree.
Read MoreThe Gallery at Glenstone is the only US venue scheduled for a retrospective exhibition of five decades of work by African-American artist Faith Ringgold. The exhibit provides a unique opportunity to see the trajectory of Ringgold’s work as activist, artist and author seriously engaged in the struggle for African-American civil and women’s rights over her long career.
Read MoreTwo excellent exhibits currently at Hemphill are clearly intended as two solos, and are in separate spaces in the Gallery. Yet one might wonder why these two artists, whose work seems such a contrast, would be shown at the same time.
Read MoreThis month there are two concurrent exhibitions featuring the later work of Kenneth Victor Young: one at CONNERSMITH, the other at Bethesda Fine Art. It also marks the fourth anniversary of the death of this remarkable but relatively little known Washington DC artist in 2017. At his death, at 83, he had had a career of over fifty years painting, teaching, and designing exhibitions.
Read MoreA large and emotionally charged solo retrospective of photographic work by Muriel Hasbun is currently on view at RoFa Projects in Potomac, MD. The exhibit fills a number of galleries in this large house venue, including an outside location, a miniature playhouse in the back yard.
Read MoreTwo exhibits at the McLean Project for the Arts are in separate spaces but their pairing makes sense, even if at first this is not obvious. Each solo features the work of an artist concerned with pattern and texture, but each approaches these quite differently.
Read MoreA timely exhibit of works by artist Chawky Frenn is on view at the Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE featuring a series of forty-seven mixed media paintings made on posters of the United States Constitution. Begun in 2010 in response to Citizens United, the series morphed into a broader range of social critique.
Read MoreAdah Rose has moved into a new space with more exhibition area and more light. The inaugural show there features two artists who work with the subject of nature and earth processes. Showing are paintings by Gabe Brown and sculpture by Scott Hazard, work characterized by techniques that, in a sense, mimic the natural structures they are referencing.
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