FIRST FRIDAY JULY 1ST

Studio Gallery will be opening it's doors this Holiday Weekend on First Friday to welcome anyone looking for a little taste of art in spice up their evening!

Bring out of town friends and family to see some work that might just inspire and thrill them more than Monday's Fireworks!

New members Trish Palasik and Sally Levie have an incredible show downstairs where sculpture and drawing seamlessly and beautifully play off each other.

Upstairs the viewer takes flight as Suzanne Goldberg's paintings take them on a journey from East to West coast. Inspired by Anselm Kiefer Goldberg's rich textured canvases have a unique dimensionality that feels intricate and malleable.

First Friday is from 6-8 pm at 2108 R. Street NW. Also stop by Alex Gallery, Gallery A, and Hillyer Art Space for more artistic experiences.

Please join WPA for Oneness, Shock and Return, part of Dupont Circle's First Fridays!

Washington Project for the Arts presents the first installment of the 2010 series of Coup d’Espace:

Oneness, Shock and Return
An exhibition of works by WPA member artist Chajana denHarder

Exhibition Dates: May 7 – June 4, 2010

Exhibition Location: WPA Headquarters, 2023 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Opening Reception: Friday, May 7, 2010 6-8pm, Artist’s talk at 7 pm
Hours: Monday - Friday, 11am - 5pm

WPA Member artist, Chajana denHarder presents, Oneness, Shock, and Return. The exhibition launches the 2010 season of WPA’s Coup d'Espaceseries that invites WPA member artists to stage their own exhibitions and programming in our Dupont Circle office space.

Oneness, Shock and Return documents a month long performance in which the artist spent time in the WPA office, uniting her body with the space. After photographing her performance, the images were digitally manipulated to create “photographic sculptures” that will be reinserted into the setting in which they were created. During the May 7th opening, the artist will complete her piece by inviting the audience to eat a life-sized bread sculpture of her body.

Click here to see Chajana denHarder's Artftile Online Profile>>

March at Studio Gallery

Upstairs Gallery:
Bud Hensgen "Mindful of Morandi: An Exploration"
**50% of artist's proceeds for "Mindful of Morandi" will be donated to Haiti through Doctors without Borders













Downstairs Gallery:
Duo Show:
Harriet Lesser, "Geometry of Hong Kong"












Joyce McCarten "Sonia and Moonpie"











Third Floor:
"Carte Blanche" : Work by Members of Studiio Gallery in a Rotating Exhibit

First Friday Reception: March 5, 6-8 pm.
Artist Receptions: Friday March 12 6-8p.m. and Saturday March 20 3-5 p.m.

Studio Gallery 2108 R. St NW, Dupont Circle
www.studiogallerydc.com
202-232-8734
Studio Gallery is located in a beautiful brownstone in Historic Dupont Circle. The gallery features unique outdoor sculpture and is available for rental. The Gallery represents over 35 International artists residing in the metropolitan Washington area.

FIRST FRIDAY POSTPONED

Studio Gallery and Hillyer Art Space will be POSTPONING their First Friday festivities due to the incoming storm.
Join us for Second Wednesday Opening Reception (February 10th) and enjoy food and drinks, meet the artists, and see some great work.

February at Studio Gallery

Exhibitions: February 3 - February 27, 2010
First Friday Reception (as part of the Dupont Circle Galleries openings): February 5, 6 - 8 pm
Artist's Reception: Saturday, February 6, 5 - 7 pm
Artist's Reception: Saturday, February 27, 4 - 5:30 pm

Solo Show: Synthesis
Suzanne Yurdin

"Synthesis" is a collection of work featuring Italian landscapes and other work from the artist, in mixed media on both canvas and paper.

Duo Show: Playing with Fear
Trix Kuijper

Duo Show: Oblivion

Iwan Bagus

Guest Show: Songs of the Earth - Great and Small

January 6 - January 30, 2010
First Friday Reception (as part of the Dupont Circle Galleries openings): January 8, 6 - 8 pm
Meet the Artist Reception: January 9, 4 - 6 pm

Look closely at nature's wonders - its intricacies, its beauty, its poetic patterns - the very web of life of which we are a part. Beginning in 2004, the 16 artists known as Studio 155 have offered their visions of the natural world, expanding the boundaries of botanical art.

Debbie Bankert, Roberta Bernstein, Neena Birch, Elizabeth W. Carter, Wendy Cortesi, Jill Hodgson, Vicki Malone, Donald B. Myer, Kappy Prosch, Michael Rawson, Eva-Maria Ruhl, Ellen Tuttle, Julie Weihe, S. M. Wilson

At Studio Gallery
Wednesday and Thursday, 1 - 7pm
Friday, 1 - 8pm
Saturday, 1 - 6pm

We put the call out...

We put the call out, and the community responded in a tremendous way!



Over 200 people dropped by Studio Gallery's "Call and Response" All Members Show reception on Friday, December 4th.

With a piece by every member on display, the exhibit showed the range of the gallery's membership.

Several new artists juried in this fall, making this show a great opportunity to get to know work by artists you may not be familiar with, and of course to see what's new from names you know.

If you dropped by, thank you! If you didn't get a chance to see what's new (and who!) the show runs through December 19th.

Happy holidays from everyone at Studio Gallery!

WPA's 'ICEBOX' holiday shop opens tomorrow 6-8pm!

Icebox Dates: December 4 - 21, 2009
Opening Night: December 4, 2009, 6 - 8pm with generous food Donation by Darlington House
Special Shopping Event: December 21, 2009, 6-8pm
Hours: Monday - Friday, 11am-5pm and by appointment
Location: WPA headquarters, 2023 Massachusetts Ave, NW, WDC 20036

Washington Project for the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of our holiday gift shop, IceBox at WPA headquarters. The shop features artworks and products for sale by WPA artists.

Small works, photographs, hand sewn brooches, notecards, ornaments, jewelry, candle holders, accessories, apparel and more- made by hand by WPA member artists. Items range from $4 to $250 (most under $100, many items under $25)

Participating WPA member artists: John M Adams, Beth Baldwin, Tom Block, Maureen Burns-Bowie, Cynthia Connolly, Charles Farmer, Sandy Gold, Alex Goldschmidt, Julie Hart, Linda Hesh, Rebecca Kallem, Kathleen Kelley, Erica Orgen, Project Dispatch, Susana Raab, Lisa Rosenstein, Amy Carmichael Smith, Jerry Svat, Claudia Vess, and Robert Weiner

December Show at WPG

New etchings, woodcuts and rubbings by Baltimore-based Trudi Y. Ludwig will be on view in the new show, Days o' Work, at Washington Printmakers Gallery December 1^st through January 2^nd. This is Ludwig’s third show at Washington Printmakers, and her first after a three year hiatus from the privilege of working in a studio.

Using the tapestry of nature as a backdrop, Ludwig’s current work grapples with contemporary conundrums by invoking time, motion, passages, pathways and perception, all with a whiff of art historical reference. A tension of opposites pervades her work: fleeting moments versus the unfolding of geological time; sacred beauty versus secular ephemera; big versus little picture; unscripted versus premeditated; acceptance versus denial; fearless freedom versus patient control.

Ludwig has been a member of Washington Printmakers Gallery since 1995. Her work has been shown in numerous regional and national solo and juried shows. She currently teaches Art History and Drawing at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), following eight years of teaching in MICA’s Printmaking Department.

Days o' Work Exhibition Dates: December 1-January 2.

First Friday Opening: Friday, December 4 5:30-8:00 pm.

Artist Talk: Saturday, December 12, 1:00-3:00 pm.

SPECIAL ADDITION: WPG Holiday Party 2009: Sunday, December 20, 3:00-5:00 pm.

Gallery Hours: Tue-Thu: 12-6, Fri: 12-7, Sat: 10-5, Sun: 12-5.

1732 Connecticut Ave, 2nd Floor. 202.332.7757 info@washingtonprintmakers.com

Call and Response

EXHIBITION: November 25 - December 19, 2009
First Friday Reception (as part of the Dupont Circle Galleries openings): December 4, 6 - 8 pm
Group Show: Call and Response
All Members

The world calls to us, and as artists, we respond.

We have ways of creating, and each chooses the "way" according to our own sensitivities.

As an exercise in understanding, this group show by Studio Gallery artists has been arranged according to the way that we work and respond to the world.

The categories are: gesture, line, figure/ground relationships, the grid, organic and big forms, We welcome the public to view the variety and playfulness of 42 artists in this metropolitan area!

GALLERY RENTAL
Want to host your private event in an artistic atmosphere? Our gallery floors can be rented. Contact our director for more information.

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An art gallery featuring contemporary work and located in Washington, DC in a neighborhood called Dupont Circle, Studio Gallery is the longest running, artist-owned gallery in the area. Thirty-seven local, professional artists exhibit in solo and group shows in addition to invitational or juried exhibitions. For gallery hours and other information, call (202) 232.8734 or visit www.studiogallerydc.com. Studio Gallery is located at 2108 R Street, north of the circle on R Street. and just around the corner from the Phillips Collection.

Hillyer Art Space First Friday - Opening

Come join us at Hillyer Art Space on Friday evening for our new opening!
Featuring 'Ass Against the Wall' by Martha Jackson-Jarvis, 'Work', a retrospective by Tom Wolff and live performance by Deon "CleanCutt" Clark.

November 6 - December 18

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 2009 6-9pm

Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court, NW
Washington, DC

http://www.artsandartists.org/hillyer.html

'Work', Tom Wolff in Retrospect

'Ass Against the Wall', an installation by Martha Jackson Jarvis

Ass Against the Wall explores points of resistance, endurance, and markings that pattern our lives. It is a compelling place of power where forces change, heaviness, strain, anxiety, burdens and the weight of difficulty into something else.

In a chance encounter in the mountains of Tajikistan Jarvis discovered an incredible being in a moment of clarity that bridges the void between animate and inanimate form. A moment when plants, animals, and minerals are one, even the rocks conspire to a fluid and connected greatness.

Martha Jackson Jarvis’ sculptures have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Studio Museum of Harlem, N.Y. Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, N.Y.; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, U.S.S.R. Her numerous awards include a Creative Capital Grant, Virginia Groot Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, The Penny McCall Foundation Grant , and Lila Wallace Arts International Travel Grant.

$5 suggested donation but any support is appreciated. Proceeds go towards supporting our local artist series and future events.

Exhibitions developed and coordinated by International Arts & Artists, Washington D.C.

Influence=Convergence opens at WPA, Friday 11/6

Please join us for the opening of Influence = Convergence, a joint exhibition featuring works by WPA member artists: Joan Belmar and Minna Newman Nathanson:

November 6 – 25, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, November, 2009 6‐8pm with an Artists Talk at 7pm

Washington Project for the Arts
2023 Massachusetts Ave, NW

Washington Project for the Arts presents the fifth installment of Coup d'Espace, a program that invites WPA member artists to stage their own exhibitions and programming in their Dupont Circle office space. For November Coup, member artists Joan Belmar and Minna Newman Nathanson will use the space to mount a joint exhibition, Influence = Convergence.

“What happens when two artists – different in almost every way – share a working space?...”

When they met, Joan Belmar, a Chilean immigrant in his thirties, was painting colorful, two dimensional works incorporating linear runes and circles. Nathanson, a native Washingtonian in her seventies, produced formal statements in monochromatic bent steel and explored reflective effects with plastic and wire. After two years of sharing a studio‐space, the artist both underwent a shift in their practice, which, in retrospect seemed to be directly influenced by each other's work.

In Influence=Convergence, these two artists present a series of 'pairings' that exemplify the the result of their sharing a work space. Please join us for the opening reception from 6-8pm on Friday, November 6th. There will be an informal talk given by the artists at 7pm.

Aaron Gallery: "Structures of the Sublime"

Join Aaron Gallery for an exhibition of paintings by Carol Engles, Josh George and Kevin Conklin. Cityscapes collide with color and expression, abstract form and shape, which gives the audience a taste of the city never before seen.

An opening reception for the artists will be held on Friday, November 6th, from 6-8 pm. The exhibit will be on display through November 30th, 2009.

1717 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington DC 20009
http://www.aarongallerydc.com/
info@aarongallerydc.com
202 234 3311

Available Parking: 2001 S Street, Location No. 531, 202.667.3030





"Voracious Vehemence"
Josh George
36''x48''
mixed media on board