Ross Bleckner

time (kingdom of time)

http://www.rbleckner.com/paintings.html

natalie frank

go look at her work, now! now! natalie frank

HOPE CHEST: emerging women artists

HOPE CHEST
: a young woman's accumulation of clothes and domestic furnishings (as silver and linen) kept in anticipation of her marriage; also : a chest for such an accumulation


Join us for a special event featuring artwork by DC/Baltimore artists Mariah Anne Johnson, Becca Kallem, Chandi Kelley, Michelle McAuliffe, Erin Murray, Elle Perez, Katherine Sifers, and Dafna Steinberg. These emerging artists challenge and reinvent tradition, romance, gender roles/expectations, and sexuality. Their work also investigates what we keep, save, and treasure in contrast to what is discarded. Photography, installations, mixed media work, and paintings present the domestic, nostalgic, and personal in new contexts.

September 15, 2011, 6-9 pm
@ GreenHouse 11
1123 11th St NW
Washington, DC
work on view September 15 - November 15 by appointment
**another special event will be held on September 24 to coincide with Shaw's NUIT BLANCHE Art All Night and the (e)merge art fair.**

HOPE CHEST is curated by Becca Kallem and hosted by Michael Schaeffer and Taurus Development Group. GreenHouse 11 is a unique new work space designed to grow small businesses and non-profits. Limited space is available.

images (details), l-r: Chandi Kelley, Two Stories, from Timelines; Becca Kallem, Pillow II; Erin Murray, Hope Chest; Dafna Steinberg, from Whenever I'm With Him, I'm Thinking Of You; Michelle McAuliffe, Ideas Begets Ideas; Katherine Sifers, Kalf #13; Mariah Anne Johnson, Sheet Installation; Elle Perez, A., from Conversations.

Taking on Tradition

Taking on Tradition: Six Virgina Painters and Printmakers. A group show at Washington & Lee University this fall with work by Kathleen Hall, Rebecca Kallem, Brian Kelley, Devin Mawdsley, Anna Wagner, and Amanda Wagstaff.

In My Room*

*So this is a song title from the Beach Boys, and apparently also the Insane Clown Posse. In any case, I just wanted to post some really nice, personal, room paintings.

Brian Michael Dunn, Floored

Andrew Cranston, Partition

Katrin Heichel, Pure Love

Women by Women

Such a Good Listener, watercolor on wood panel, Suzannah Sinclair

If you are in DC, you should stop by Heiner Contemporary in Georgetown to see their current show. Here's my write-up for the blog Where the Girls Go:

Heiner Contemporary is a fresh new gallery in Georgetown, with an awesome bright pink door and some awesome art inside. Currently on view is “Women by Women,” a group show of women artists. According to gallery owner Margaret Heiner, the exhibition focuses on “conceptions of femininity and the ways that women both embrace and struggle against gender stereotypes.”

Originally, Heiner considered staging a show about domesticity. But she ultimately decided to show work featuring diverse manifestations of femininity, with depictions of women by women artists who deal with a broad range of themes in various media.

Kim McCarty presents large watercolors of waif-like adolescent girls, sometimes vulnerable, sometimes self-assured. Her pieces are somewhat similar in technique to work by Egon Schiele and Marlene Dumas (a contemporary South African/Dutch artist who is definitely worth a look). The blurry watercolor conveys how slippery and constantly changing adolescence can be.

Edwina White’ fashionable ladies are fun, stylized, and cartoony — she draws women with cinnabon coifs, aristocratic masculine dress, and fanciful swimming costumes, with surprising little moments of collage studding the drawings.

Suzannah Sinclair’s works reference vintage erotica as well as more contemporary subjects. She paints with watercolor on wood panel, gently staining the surface so that the images seem to emerge like delicate projections or overexposed camera film. Her sexy, beautiful pieces capture women in intimate moments — are they posing for the viewer, reveling in their own desires and sexuality, or both?

Judie Bamber’s amazing drawings riff on mid-century photos. Her “Mom Reading 2″ shows a domestic but intellectual woman. Australian artist Bridget Mac’s photos feature less conventional presentations of female identity and the female body — her subjects are athletic, androgynous, powerful. She explores and blurs gender categories in such works as "Masculine/Feminine", a portrait of the same woman in both “masculine” and “feminine” guises. Mickalene Thomas, known for her powerful paintings of women of color, has the screen-print "Michelle O" in the show. It is a bold, pop-art portrait — made of Mrs. Obama before she became first lady, but showing her with all the iconic power she has since attained.

Women by Women will be on view at Heiner Contemporary through August 20, 2011. The gallery is located at 1675 Wisconsin Ave, NW. BONUS! If you are looking for queer art in DC, check out the beautiful photography by Elle Perez at Conner Contemporary Gallery’s “Academy” group show of work by DC-area art students.

Anne Connell and Caren Canier

Caren Canier

Anne Connell, Branching Stone

"I am not a copyist. Though I have claimed the work of late-medieval masters as my primary subject matter, it is merely a point of departure for a working process that is as intuitive as it is intellectual. My paintings are indisputably modern. The attainment of beauty is always an objective; I believe that beauty, in and of itself, has consequence. My pictures are dense, allusive, cerebral, intimate; their small size demands a necessary physical proximity in order to read them. I want the viewer to be drawn in, to be compelled to linger. Each painting presents a sort of enigma, an obscure narrative, a collage-like recombination of images whose exegesis requires more than half a minute and more than one look." -- Anne Connell

Andrew Cranston

After An American Painting

Incubus

Squash Court Studio

some paintings

some paintings. images from Culturehall:

Yoke, Clare Grill

Hooded Stove, Josephine Halvorson

Enthusiasm, Steven Grant La Rose

Computer with Notes, Emily Wick

cy twombly

Cy Twombly, Bacchanalia: Fall (5 Days in November)” from 1977

Each line he made, he said, was “the actual experience” of making the line, adding: “It does not illustrate. It is the sensation of its own realization.”

Fayyum still life

I feel terrible about posting this without crediting the artist -- I saved the image but can't find the artist's name. Does anyone know??

Edwin Dickinson, Hanneline Rogeberg

Edwin Dickinson, Nude with a Pinecone (Marie)


"The painted/scraped surface is a body up against mine." -- Hanneline Rogeberg

Hanneline Rogeberg, Istid

Hanneline Rogeberg, Spread

Hanneline Rogeberg, Outdoor Exchange

Hanneline Rogeberg, Thaw

Kimberly Trowbridge: Teaching Painting

I'm a fan of Kimberly Trowbridge's work, and I really like Ms. Trowbridge's page of student work and information on her methods of teaching painting. She writes:

In teaching painting, I aim to teach a mode of thinking and seeing rather than a stylistic approach. My hope is that students can apply this critical thinking to any number of personal and expressive forms throughout their development. No matter the specific subject matter addressed in my courses, my primary focus remains consistent: Color and Space. I teach the direct painting method from observation as the means for engaging with a formal visual vocabulary...

I am part of a lineage of painters that descends from Charles Hawthorne, including Edwin Dickinson, Lennart Anderson, and Tim Kennedy. As part of this lineage, I believe in the rigorous translation of the observed world and the power of “spots” of true color to express the essence and integrity of a given space or form. At the very heart of learning how to paint is the ability to see color relationships and to mix equivalent responses on the palette. I stress the importance of palette organization as a tool for organizing one’s thoughts. Each color decision is based on the three relative questions that are fundamental to my teaching: What value is it? What temperature is it? How intense is it?

Paint Mix Closing Pics

Here are some photos from the DCAC show:

A Young Man and His Plant

Rembrandt Peale, Rubens Peale with a Geranium, 1801

David Deutsch

Albert Kresch and Merlin James

Albert Kresch, Red Sky, Red Earth

Merlin James, Untitled

Joe Morzuch and Julia Brown

Some amazing paintings:

Joe Morzuch

Golden Years

Still Life with Violet and Ribbon

Julia Brown

Untitled

Shorty's Miami

Fruit Pie

quote on painting from perception/observation

William Barnes:

“The most neutral arbitrary subject is always impregnated with the substance of the viewer. I think it’s a rather strange activity what we do, what Chardin, Vuillard, did. Basically we empathetically stare at our subject in space hoping to discover something as we play our instruments. Poetry often comes in through the window of no importance so maybe what’s basic is to forsake knowing and explaining and just stare.”

paint mix

save the date!!!! you're invited to our opening reception, february 11 7-9 pm

work by emily do, christopher dolan, mike dowley, brian kelley, and joren lindholm
curated by becca kallem

feb 11 - march 13
the dc arts center
2438 18th st NW
washington DC