HIRSHHORN
The Andy Warhol exhibit Shadows is at the Hirshhorn through January 15. All you can see to either side is the repetition of the shadow print in multiple color combos. My fav: the pink/black and the salmon/black next to the turqouise/grey.
Dan flavin light exhibit feels like a similar exercise in light, disorienting, but not as large.
And Ali Kazma’s video installation is meditative and worth some time.
Black Box: Nira Pereg @ Hirshhorn Museum
Check out this eerie video installation at the Hirshhorn.
Nira Pereg (Israeli, b. Tel Aviv, 1969) creates documentary-based video works that transform quotidian actualities into dramatic scenarios. This Black Box presentation features 67 Bows, 2006, a work inspired by visits to the Karlsruhe Zoo, where Pereg studied a flock of flamingos. Employing various camera angles, the artist offers sumptuous close-ups of these exotic animals calmly going about their instinctual business. Over the muffled noise of the birds’ squawks and clucks she adds a provocative, sporadically timed soundtrack, implying disturbing human intrusion into their peaceful realm and evoking a sense of suspense and heightened apprehension among viewers who must question the relationship between what they see and what they hear.Black Box: Nira Pereg
August 22, 2011 to November 13, 2011
Washington Project for the Arts Opening, Gun Show 8/12
Gun Show Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) is pleased to present Gun Show, a Coup d’Espace project by artist John James Anderson. In Gun Show, the artist approaches the gun control debate by focusing on two distinct but often overlapping narratives: coping with violent crime and interpretation of the Second Amendment, specifically the conflict between the individual’s right to bear arms and the government’s authority to regulate their sale and possession. Approaching a heated, emotional discussion from a dispassionate, almost clinical, perspective, the artist collects facts, statistics, and newspaper articles, synthesizes the information, and presents it through hand-drawn quotes, charts, and video. Focusing on DC’s unique and well-documented roles in both the debate over gun rights and discussions of gun violence, Anderson approaches the topic as a concerned citizen, attempting to untangle a complex and contentious issue. ABOUT THE ARTIST ABOUT COUP D’ESPACE
A Coup d’Espace Project by John James Anderson
August 12 - September 2
Opening Reception: August 12, 6-8pm
at the WPA Office at 2023 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC
Exhibition Hours: Monday - Friday, 10am-6pm
John James Anderson is an associate professor of art at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland. He has taught at the American University, George Washington University, George Mason University, and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. He is the recipient of several grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, including two Young Artist Grants and a 2011 Artist Fellowship. Anderson received his MFA from American University, Washington, DC and BFA from Iowa State University, Ames, IA. He has exhibited his work in solo and group exhibitions in venues including Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA; American University Museum, Washington, DC; The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center, Washington, DC; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA. Anderson is also a contributing writer for the Washington City Paper.
Coup d’Espace is WPA’s member-generated programming series. By inviting member artists and curators to plan installations, exhibitions, and events in its office project space, WPA provides a venue for unusual collaborations, exploration of new concepts, and the production of new and experimental work. Coup d’Espace allows artists and curators to utilize the WPA office as a laboratory or workshop space, to introduce new and in-process projects and present challenging ideas.
Chris Martin at the Corcoran and Amy Winehouse
R.I.P. Amy Winehouse 1983-2011
Today at the Corcoran I saw two Chris Martin paintings featuring Winehouse’s image.
See “Painting for the Protection of Amy Winehouse” by Chris Martin hanging as part of the Chris Martin exhibit in the Corcoran rotunda above the door.
And a detail on Martin’s Painting Big exhibit that includes the same image of Winehouse in the upper center upside down.
Full image of the piece below as part of the Corcoran’s Say It Big! summer programming.
Charles Sandison: Rage, love, hope, and despair at the Corcoran Gallery of Art June 29-August 24
Jenny Sidhu Mullins: American Temple @ FLASHPOINT 916 G Street NW
