Archives for Elsabé Johnson Dixon
Through innovative cross-disciplinary gallery programming at the Greater Reston Art Center, the playfully compelling objects made by Stephanie Williams are visually engaging on a personal and a metaphorical level. The artist investigates themes of identity through individual objects hung on the wall in a collective grouping that may look like specimens in a lab. Working with throwaway objects and remnants, Williams’ objects are unsettling and sensually alluring. Read More
East City Art Reviews: Underlying Borders at the Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington DC
The exhibition Underlying Borders aims to address the psychological impact of living between two places. The work of five artists explores identity, gender and nationality as they relate to geographical distances and the sense that one’s body and memory can become zones of transition. Read More
Nancy At Ninety: A Retrospective of Form and Color
All of Nancy Frankel’s work holds a quiet persistence. Her work remains grounded in abstraction. Studying at a time when education institutions, and the art world, did not welcome women, Frankel pursued her craft as sculptor with a great mindfulness of what was happening around her. Each of her works seems to represent a narrative in a three-dimensional journal entry, describing her Zeitgeist and her intellectual musing about art as a formal practice. Read More
East City Art Reviews: Absence and Presence 2018 Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial
As DC exhibition spaces continue to shrink, does the Arts in Foggy Bottom Outdoor Sculpture Biennial, offer a format that can counter this trend? Can this kind of curatorial vetting and collaborative effort between artists, curators and homeowners be replicated in other DC neighborhoods? Read More
River of Resilience: Mapping the Anacostia – A Journey from Headwaters to Confluence on the Anacostia River
River of Resilience is a long-term digital photo documentary project with the aim of digitally mapping, not only the natural river but also the "harvested histories" of the Anacostia River from its headwaters to its confluence, under the scrutiny of Krista Schlyer's lens. Read More
Kate Fleming: Shadow and Light is all in Perspective
Elsabé Johnson Dixon examines the work of Kate Fleming at CHAW's open studio residency. Read More
East City Art Reviews: Portraits of Who We Are
Elsabé Johnson Dixon examines one of the most comprehensive exhibitions to date of African American self-portraits on view at Driskell Center through May 18. Read More
Stones as Remembrance: A Dark and Scandalous Rockfall Reviewed
Curator Laura Roulet, Mexican artist Perla Krauze and DC-based artist Barbara Liotta offer cross-cultural dialogue. Read More
East City Art Reviews: Three Concurrent Hillyer Exhibitions by Grant McFarland, Monroe Isenberg and Kei Ito
Elsabé Dixon Johnson reviews three Concurrent Hillyer Exhibitions Residuals, Lighthouse and Only what we can carry. Read More
East City Artnotes: One House Project—View, Honor, Share
220 immigrant stories told by artists make-up One House Project at Touchstone Gallery. Read More
East City Art Reviews: Sue Wrbican’s Well Past the Echo
Sue Wrbican’s Well Past the Echo, curated by Lily Siegel, shows a trajectory of Sue Wrbican’s work over the last ten years. Read More
East City Art Reviews: Salvatore Pirrone String Room
Cultural DC's SPACE4 inaugurates converted shipping container with interactive work by Pirrone. Read More