DC Art Gallery Openings This Week: August 7-20, 2023

By Editorial Team
Bell Jar Magic, Renée Ruggles.  Work on view at the Luminous group exhibition at Falls Church Arts..

 

NOTE: This Weekly Events List includes listings for both the week of August 7-13 and August 14-20. There will be no newsletter on Wednesday, August 16.

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A R T I S T  T A L K S

National Museum of Women in the Arts | NMWA xChange: Holding Ground | Tuesday, August 8 at 12 (online)

Columbia Pike Documentary Project Artist Talk | Saturday, August 12 at 1pm

The Phillips Collection | Artist talk with Frank Stewart, Hortense Spillers, and Fred Moten | Thursday, August 17 at 6:30pm

Hillyer | Artist Talk with Katherine Burling | Thursday, August 17 at 6:30pm

BlackRock Center for the Arts | Mandy Chesney is gaudy | Friday, August 18 at 6pm

Artists & Makers Studios | Artist Talk with Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell | Saturday, August 19 at 1pm

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C L A S S E S —  W O R K S H O P S

Register for art classes, summer camps and workshops here:

Ongoing
Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
Glen Echo
Harmony Hall
McLean Project for the Arts
Montgomery College (Community Art Classes for Adults & Teens)
Montpelier Arts Center
Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (Formerly Arlington Arts Center)
Project Create
The Art League
The Studio Visit
Workhouse Arts Center

NEW This week

Montgomery College (Community Art Classes for Adults & Teens) Classes Start August 28

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E V E N T S

DWIGHTMESS | STORYBOX Comics Fair | Event: Friday August 11 & Saturday, August 12

Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture | Art Walk in the Park | Event: Saturday, August 12 from 6-8pm (Rescheduled date)

Workhouse Arts Center | Second Saturday Art Walk | Event: Saturday, August 12 from 6-9pm
 

E X H I B I T I O N S

Newly listed this week

Back End Studios | Amy Gilbert, Mary O’Neill-Wood and Warren Williams ‘Escape Hatch: Quinquennial Photographs’ | August 19—October 1 | Reception: Saturday, August 19 from 6-9pm

Culture House | Cory Oberndorfer ‘ICE CREAM and POPS’ | July 22—August 20

Falls Church Arts | ‘Luminous’ | August 19—October 1 | Reception: Saturday, August 19 from 7-9pm

Frame of Mine | Ralston Cyrus ‘Singularities’ | August 12—26 | Reception: Saturday, August 12 from 5-7pm

Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries: Park View Gallery | Holly Buehler and Pamela Betts ‘Painted Visions: Plein Air Inspired Works’ | August 12— October 1 | Reception: Saturday, August 12 from 6-8pm

Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries: Stone Tower Gallery | Cory Oberndorfer ‘Pop: Artists Prints’ | August 12— October 1 | Reception: Saturday, August 12 from 6-8pm

Glen Echo Park Partnership Galleries: Popcorn Gallery | Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann ‘Knot Forest’ | August 12— October 1 | Reception: Saturday, August 12 from 6-8pm

Homme DC Gallery | Jessica Wachter ‘Rewild’ | August 10—25 | Reception: Friday, August 11 from 5-8pm

Amy Kaslow Gallery | ‘Mother Earth: Fine Fiber Works from the Middle of the Americas’ | Reception: Thursday, August 10 from 6-7:30pm | August 10, 2023 — October 1, 2023

Nepenthe Gallery | Caroline and John Rufo ‘RufoArt’ | August 10—24 | Reception: Thursday, August 10 from 6-7:30pm

Reston Art Gallery and Studios | Marthe McGrath ‘Magic & Mystery’ | August 13—27 | Reception: Sunday, August 13 from 2-4pm

The Athenaeum | Tinam Valk ‘Obscura’ | August 13— September 3 | Reception: Sunday, August 13 from 4-6pm

Workhouse Art Center | Vulcan Gallery | ’13th Annual Workhouse Clay International’ | August 12—October 22 | Reception: Saturday, August 12 from 6-8pm

Zenith Gallery | Mitzi Bernard, Marija Djakovic, and Barbara Baron Rubin ‘The Three Graces’ | August 10—September 2 | Receptions: Thursday, August 10 from 5-8pm and Saturday, August 12 from 2-6pm

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann, Salamander Room. Courtesy of Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann. Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann’s solo exhibition opens at Glen Echo this Saturday.

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Currently on View (Previously Listed Exhibitions)

Adkins Arboretum | Artists in Dialogue with Nature: Outdoor Sculpture Invitational | June 1-September 30

Art Enables | ‘WORLDS COLLIDE!’ and Summer Showcase | June 24-October 21

Artists & Makers Studios | Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell ‘The Coming of Middle Age’ | August 2—23

Art Museum of the Americas | ‘As We Are’ | July 28 — October 8

Art Museum of the Americas | ‘Sobre una mujer / About a Woman’ | July 28— October 8 

Artist in the House Gallery at Locals | Alan Gramley ‘Some Call It Home’ | July 5—August 13

Art Roving at Selina Union Market | 2023 Queer Art Salon Group Exhibition | July 7-August 13

Arts in Foggy Bottom | ‘Sites for Centering and Reflection’ | May 6-October 21

Capitol Hill Art League | ‘Dislocation’ | July 25 — August 25

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities | ‘RE/ENVISIONING’ Group Exhibition | July 5-August 18

Del Ray Artisans Gallery | ‘Treasures of the DMV’ | August 4—26

DISTRICT Arts | Robin Davisson ‘Truth’ | August 2—27

Dwell Fine Art and Craft | Jodi Ferrier ‘Take Me Away’ and Jo Levine ‘The Secret Life of Flowers’ | June 10-July 30

Falls Church Arts | ‘Street Life: Real Life Reimagined’ | July 1-August 13

Foundry Gallery | Artist Choice August Regional Juried Exhibit | August 4—27

Gallery Underground | ‘Out of the Blue’ National Juried Show | July 31— August 25

Gaslight Gallery | Homer Yost ‘The Solitary Figure’ | August 5— October 1

Japan Information & Culture Center, Embassy of Japan | ‘Chanoyu Culture: Invitation to Tea’ | July 25 — September 8

Jo Fleming Contemporary Art | ‘Coastal Abstractions 2023’ | July 1— August 31

Foundry Gallery | All-Member Exhibit ‘Altered Perspectives’ | June 30— July 30

Gallery 44 | ‘HUE’ | July 1-August 25

Glenstone Museum | ‘Ellsworth Kelly at 100’ | May 4-March 1, 2024

Green Spring Gardens Horticultural Center | ‘Captured: Plants and Places’ | July 30 — September 17

Hill Center | Capitol Hill Art League Juried Exhibition | May 17-September 10

HEMPHILL | ‘Jump, Twist, Flow…’ | July 15—August 19

IA&A at Hillyer | Emily Francisco ‘A brief study of time’, Magdolene Dykstra ‘In the Shadow of Empire’, and Katherine Burling ‘Slip Quietly Into My Arms’ | August 4—27

Love for Immigrants | ‘Awakening: Transforming Experiences’ | August 5— September 30

Mason Exhibitions Arlington | The Healing Artists Collective ‘Edges of What I Feel’ | June 2-August 26

MEI Art Gallery | ‘A River Flows Downstream’ | June 14-October 13

miXt Food Hall | Andrei Trach ‘ETHEREAL’ | June 21—September 23

Montpelier Arts Center: Residential Gallery | Linda Bernard | July 11—August 27

Montgomery College’s King Street Gallery 2023 Annual Student Exhibition | May 18-September 8

Morton Fine Art | ‘Salon Style: Summer Small Works’ | July 29— September 2

Multiple Exposures Gallery | Eric Johnson ‘KEY BRIDGE’ | August 1— September 10 | Meet the artists dates: August 12, 13, 27 & September 1, 10 | 11am-5pm

Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington | Zaq Landsberg ‘Reclining Liberty’

National Building Museum | Warren Elsmore ‘Brick City’ | May 27-May 25, 2025

National Building Museum | Suchi Reddy ‘LOOK HERE’ | July 1-September 4

National Gallery of Art | ‘Philip Guston Now’ | March 2-August 27

National Museum of the American Indian | Robert Houle ‘Red Is Beautiful’ | May 25, 2023-June 2, 2024

National Portrait Gallery | ‘Kinship’ Group Exhibition | October 28-January 7, 2024

National Portrait Gallery | ‘1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions’ | April 28, 2023-February 25, 2024

Pazo Fine Art | ‘Q & A’ | July 8-August 24

PG Sports & Learning Complex | Denise Wamaling and Rick Ruggles ‘Pixels & Patterns’

Qatar America Institute for Culture | ‘Pearls of Wonder: a digital era’ | June 2-December 15

Renwick Gallery | ‘Sharing Honors and Burdens: Renwick Invitational 2023’ | May 26-March 31, 2024

Rhizome and Art Enables | ‘Trilogy’ | July 15—August 27

Sandy Spring Museum | Shanye Huang ‘Regeneration-Connection-Celebration’ | July 9-September 8

Southern Area Aquatics and Recreation Complex | Gail Shaw-Clemons ‘Stick a Fork in Me, I’m Done’ | July 29—September 15

Stamp Gallery | ‘Love is destructive./I need you’ | July 28, 2023 — August 19, 2023

Strathmore | Creative Crafts Council Exhibition | June 8-July 29

Studio Gallery | ‘See You Soon’ | July 19—August 12

TAG/The Artists Gallery | Le Salon | August 4—28

Takoma Park Community Center | Julius Kassovic, Lynn Alleva Lilley, and Steven Robinson ‘Celebrating Sligo Creek’ | June 15-September 7

The Kreeger Museum and Hamiltonian Artists | ‘Doing The Work’ | May 13-August 5

The Nicholson Project Presents Zachary Fabri Mourning Stutter | May 6-August 12 | Performance: August 5th, time TBA

The Nicholson Project | Antoine Williams ‘Mythic Futures’ | June 3–December 10 | See the murals June 3 through December 10, 2023

The Phillips Collection | Frank Stewart Nexus “An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present’ | June 10-September 30

The Writer’s Center | Jennifer Lillis and Christopher Kardambikis ‘Metamorphosis’ | June 15-August 28

Touchstone Gallery | ‘People and The Planet’ | August 2—27

Transformer | ‘E20: Printmaking / Am I the Past, Am I the Future’ | July 8— August 19

Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art | COLLECTOR’S EDITION | July 7-December 31

Washington Printmakers Gallery | ‘This Land’ | August 3—27

Washington Studio School | ‘See-and-be-Seen 2023: Face to Face’ | July 9— August 25

Watergate Gallery | Stephen Bates ‘Abstraction as Narrative’ | August 5—September 5 |

Watkins Nature Center | Diane Shipley ‘Relaxing with Nature’ | August 5—September 22

Woman’s National Democratic Club | Jasmin I. Smith ‘In the Forest of the Night’ | May 18-September 5

Workhouse McGuireWoods Gallery | ‘VFMA: Futures’ | June 17— October 15 | Reception: Saturday, October 14 from 6-8pm

Workhouse Muse Gallery | Dani Figueroa ‘Together’ | July 1—September 10

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