“Please join us from 6:30 until 10PM November 12th for an evening of art & discussion with Ann Elkington.
“Four Miles from the White House”
Ann’s photography and cartographic renderings showcase the
spectacular breadth of Washington DC’s less traveled landscapes hiding within plain sight of the White House.
The show will run until December 13th.
CoreHaus DC
825 Upshur Street NW
Hours Wed- Sat 11-7
Sunday 11-6″
We’ve seen this artist before in the Mt. Vernon Square area but this new piece on 9th St, NW in Shaw is pretty wild (not far from the 9:30 club). Do you like it?
This is on the side of the soon to be Smith Commons located at 245 H St, NE. [You can sneak peek their menu here.
Not clear if this is social commentary or just fun.
From a press release:
Video artist Alberto Roblest brings his latest public art project to the heart of Adams Morgan for two nights only November 5 + 6, 2010. “Present Interval/Intervalo del Tiempo” is a temporary video installation that will transform the alleyway at the intersection of 18th Street and Columbia Road NW into a museum experience without the museum or even a roof. It will, in fact, be a cultural experience that you can stroll through under a starry sky.
“Present Interval” is part of the “Circling the Issue” series of public art projects that reflect on the inner lives we lead while going about our daily routines. Using video projectors, Roblest will broadcast his signature form of videoart (a subgenre know as videopoetry) onto buildings in the alley behind SunTrust Bank’s Adams Morgan branch. Images will pan left and right across the curved back wall of the bank building using a motorized mirror system custom-built by the project’s technicaladvisor Joseph Kinnard. Additional projectors will throw moving images against other walls in the alleyway, transforming this much-traversed public space with a kaleidoscope of images and sound.
WHERE: Adams Morgan – The SunTrust Bank alley
intersection of 18th Street + Columbia Road NWWHEN: Fri. + Sat., Nov. 5 + 6, AFTER DARK!
Image courtesy of Michael Hurst
From a press release:
“extraORDINARY is a group art show that steps away from the H st/ 14th st aesthetic and slips from the Color School strangle hold. What it is is a group of talented visual artists who found a gallery that believes in their vision as much as they do. On November 13th at Cre8 Gallery (1314 9th St, NW), the 1st of many shows created, and curated by this new collective will open the doors at 7:00pm.”
Just noticed that the U Street area got a new gallery. According to their Web site:
This new gallery located near the intersection with U Street will present a broad range of Contemporary art, with a theme-oriented exhibition program focused on sociologically as well as aesthetically relevant topics, emphasizing a concept-based rather than a monographic approach. Within the framework of a Washington/Baltimore metropolitan scene that has morphed within the past five years or so to include a wide variety of art-related phenomena, this commercial undertaking seeks to find a middle ground, incorporating aspects of both ends of that artistic spectrum.
Since this citys all-inclusive cultural setting now ranges from alternative spaces, temporary venues, public artworks, and events to the more traditional commercial galleries, independent curators and consultants, and increasingly independent curators and consultants, and increasingly contemporarily-oriented museums as well as university-associated exhibition spaces, DC Loft Gallery would like to combine aspects of this variegated artworld fabric into a synthesis potentially appealing to a diverse audience.
Such an effort seems particularly appropriate within the context of a neighborhood itself in transition, incorporating diverse ethnic cultures as well as innovative commercial and residential areas into a neighborhood that is in the process of defining itself. Perhaps it can be suggested this constitutes a kind of suggestion for what urban areas might be projected to become in the near future, and we see ourselves as intimately involved in that ongoing self-conception.
You can see some photos of the gallery here.
Photo from Exhibit by Matt Dunn
From an email:
“Members of local underground photography group, The Cult of Frank Van Riper, kick off Halloween weekend with the opening of their photography show, Cult, at the Gallery @ Social (14th and Meridian Pl, NW). Hosted by creative collaborative, The Dunes, Cult is a full-fledged art event offering art, music, and food. For $10, attendees can let
their creative spirits out on the dance floor with music from DJ Adrian Loving (and a special guest), enjoy restaurant quality appetizers and finger foods, walk away with an original masterpiece on their face painted by Seema Khanna, or support their local arts scene with the purchase an original photograph from The Cult. Mark your calendars- it all begins at 6:30p October 29, 2010 at Social (14th and Meridian Pl, NW in Columbia Heights).”
I’m certainly no art critic but the new (to me) exhibit at 4th and H St, NE looks awesome. Do you like this one better than the previous exhibit from ‘I Am Art’ that was there in June? And of course still a great use of temporary vacant space. What’s your favorite piece?
Lots more photos after the jump. (more…)
‘Descent of the Holy Spirit. Zhuravin, now Poland, first half of the 16th C. Wood, tempera, gilding. 32 1/4” x 26 3/8”. Courtesy of Meridian International Center
From a press release:
“Meridian International Center will present The Glory of Ukraine: Sacred Images from the 11th to the 19th Centuries—a rarely seen collection of more than 70 objects including icons, liturgical objects, textiles, and rare crosses—at Meridian’s Cafritz Galleries from October 20, 2010 – January 16, 2011. Featuring some of Ukraine’s most important national treasures from the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Preserve and the National Museum in Lviv named for Andrei Sheptitsky, the collection traces the evolution of Ukrainian iconography from its early Byzantine roots through the Baroque and Renaissance periods.
Meridian International Center
1630 Crescent Place, NW, Washington, DC
www.meridian.org”
