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 at the BlackRock Center for the Arts. The exhibit contains twenty-four participatory artworks, by local artist Heloisa Escudero, that aim to engage and heal the mind.
Read MoreFreya 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 visited to make them, but are about the experiences of being there. This exhibit pairs her work with abstract paintings by Latin American artists in the OAS/AMA collection.
Read MoreDialogues, 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, it is slated to be the first and last of its kind there as the organizers plan never to repeat this group show idea.
Read MoreCurated by Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery & Music Room of downtown Silver Spring hosts artists who describe the metaphysical with paint. Though ineffable and intangible, Judith Benderson, J. Jordan Bruns, Kelly Posey, and Terry Sitz bring various visions of those things that might only be felt. With bright colors and subtle textures, these artists seek to describe the indefinable nature of human experience through abstraction.
Read MoreEdward Hopper and the American Hotel is a major exhibition of paintings, watercolors, prints and never before exhibited drawings at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. With a focus on Hopper’s representations of hotel interiors, it includes works that show Hopper’s extensive influence in this genre. Hopper’s works were designed to encourage the viewer to look in—even in cases where they’d rather not.
Read MoreThe first encuentro of printmakers in the city of Medellín in 2018 was the brainchild of Washington DC artist Felix Angel. From among the seventy in that show, Angel has selected eighteen artists for an exhibit at the International Development Bank Staff Association Art Gallery. The exhibit shows the diversity and richness of the printmakers currently living and working in the city of Medellín.
Read MoreFreight Gallery, a new exhibition space in northeast DC’s Langdon neighborhood, creates experiential moments by displaying works in a non-traditional environment. With the passing of the artist this fall, the installation represents her final, fully-realized solo exhibition.
Read MoreThe history of art includes numbers of cases where students of a particular artist have very nearly eclipsed the reputations of their teachers. Andrea del Verrocchio, the subject of a superb exhibit at the National Gallery, is among them. Teacher of Leonardo da Vinci and many others, his importance can now be re-evaluated.
Read MoreRobin Bell may be best known for his guerilla projections on the façade of the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, DC, which addressed themes of corruption and accountability. His recent exhibition at Lost Origins Gallery expanded upon this work while asserting that viewers have a responsibility to speak out...
Read MoreFrom the Margins, on view at Gallery 102, is a response to the recent 30-year anniversary of the Corcoran’s cancellation of a retrospective on Robert Mapplethorpe. The show consists mostly of photographs by queer artists and addresses issues in queer representation, identity, and the act of critique.
Read MoreWhat does it mean to have an Arab identity? Are there commonalities between regional identities as one journeys from the Atlas Mountains eastward to the Persian Gulf? This question is posed by the artists in the Middle East Institute’s inaugural gallery exhibition Arabicity|Ourouba.
Read MoreWorks from a large series of paintings watercolors and prints by Cianne Fragione is on view at Gallery Neptune & Brown. They were inspired by a residency the artist had at Monasterace (Reggio Calabria) near the destroyed Greek town of Caulonia on the southernmost coast of Italy. Facing the Ionian Sea, ancient Caulonia is now an archaeological site reached through an iron gate and a flight of 50 or 60 steps down to the water—a gate to the sea.
Read MoreTimber, now on view at the Mansion at Strathmore, explores the versatility of wood as a medium of artistic expression. The group show features both regional and national artists who place wood at the center of their practice. The exhibition is notable for the way in which it mixes works of fine art with those of fine craft. By blurring the lines between “fine art” and “craft”, the exhibition highlights the similarities between these approaches to woodworking.
Read MoreTom Kim highlights environmental issues, while incorporating an element of playfulness and his own personal experiences into his work. In the series, Milk Relics at Lost Origins Gallery, he speaks to his own appreciation of our surroundings, while also encouraging others to play their part in tackling environmental issues.
Read MoreHonfleur Gallery is currently filled with works that speak of the influence, the teaching and the mentoring, the spirit of collaboration, and the love of “making things” that characterized the life and work of Michael Platt.
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