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By Editorial Team on June 16, 2020
COVID-19 Pandemic Resources for the DC Area Visual Arts Community
The following is a list of relevant grants, loans and impact surveys East City Art has compiled to assist the visual arts community. This list will be continuously updated during the pandemic. ++Last updated: June 15++ Continue reading COVID-19 Pandemic Resources for the DC Area Visual Arts Community
Read MoreBy Juliana Biondo on July 9, 2019
East City Art Profiles: von ammon co Gallery
Georgetown’s newest gallery, von ammon co, which opened in April, has an ambitious program to present internationally rising artists to the DC arts community.
Read MoreBy Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. on June 11, 2019
East City Art Reviews: Bethesda Painting Awards 2019
Gallery B in downtown Bethesda is hosting the finalists of the annual Bethesda Painting Awards competition. This year’s selection exhibits a pronounced showing of painting, in the traditional sense, both figurative and abstract. It’s been some time since we’ve seen such a strong feeling of hand is in the works represented, that is, of paint on surface, made into recognizable or abstract imagery.
Read MoreBy Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. on June 4, 2019
Recovering Tintoretto, Painter of the Venetian Late Renaissance
The retrospective exhibition of the work of Venetian artist Jacopo Robusti, known as Il Tintoretto, is still on view at the National Gallery. Although Tintoretto was enormously successful in his own time and place, he remains relatively unknown to the general public. The reasons for this are many. Not least among them are the many myths that stubbornly follow the artist’s reputation portraying him as an outsider, a rebel, a difficult and bizarre personality, and perhaps most problematically: a Mannerist.
Read MoreBy Phil Hutinet on April 30, 2019
Maker Space Comes to DC’s Ward 8
Nonstop Art Opens community maker space at the Overlook at Oxon Run. The Community-at-large is encouraged to tour the space and apply for membership
Read MoreBy Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D. on October 26, 2021
East City Art Note—Maryanne Pollock Rebirth the Earth
Without a doubt, the most interesting and arresting painting in the current solo exhibit of recent work by Maryanne Pollock is her Rebirth the Earth (2021), also the title of the show. Against a black background that appears cosmic, explosions of aqua, blue and white acrylic burst forward, along with translucent orbs that seem to be in a state of formation.
Read MoreOctober 25-31, 2021
DC AREA ARTIST TALKS, CLASSES, EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS October 25-31, 2021
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 25, 2021
Catholic University of America Presents The Sacred in the Modern: The Art of Helen Schrider Higgins
A reception is scheduled for Thursday, October 28 from 4pm to 7pm.
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 25, 2021
Brentwood Arts Exchange Presents Helen Zughaib Do Not Forget Us & LAYERS: Cause and Effect Curated by Maria Gabriela Mizes Hickey
An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, October 30 from 5pm to 8pm and an artist and curator talk is scheduled for Saturday, November 6 from 2pm to 4pm.
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 25, 2021
Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences Presents Reflections on a Tool of Observation: Artwork Inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope by Tim Makepeace
Meet Tim Makepeace on Wednesday, October 27 from 11am to 12pm.
Read MoreBy Editorial Team on October 25, 2021
Yellow Barn Gallery Presents The Spirit of the Landscape: Painted Visions
The exhibition and sale is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, October 30 and 31 from 12pm to 5pm.
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