Our new show opens on June 13, 2009 4-6pm
artdc gallery
5710 Baltimore Ave.
Hyattsville, MD 20781
Artists Sy Gresser, Michael Winger, and Steven Dobbin are simply amazing. This is a great opportunity to see some important sculpture.
If there’s a phenomenal established artist in the Washington, DC area it’s Sy Gresser. He’s a master and has an amazing control on the surfaces that he works with. For years he’s worked with stone, however he’s started to develop a series of wood panels that convey love, fear, suffering, and more. You have to see his work, and that’s not enough. I visited his studio the other day, and took this snap shot to give you an idea of his work. I’m blown away by this sculpture. I could stare at this panel for a life time. I think that’s really the judge of a great work of art, a piece that you could stare at for the years to come, constantly finding new things. With lack of reference in my snapshots, It’s important to note that these panels are quite large. Many are over 8ft wide. The figures and faces tend to be close to life size.
Sculpture by Sy Gresser 2009
Materials: Wood Panel
Dimensions: Over 8ft wide.
Detail image of Sy Gresser’s Sculpture
You can read more about Sy in a City Paper article here.
City Paper image: Committed Stoners: Sculptors Sy Gresser, left, and Bill Taylor aren’t concerned with arty trends. (Darrow Montgomery)
Alexandra Zealand, who we’ve listed below in our “art you must acquire category” has created an amazing installation at this year’s Artomatic. I am constantly blown away by her work, and her drive. I’m proud to say, that we showed her work first in DC at our ‘07 U st. show, which was curated by Mark Waskow where we were pleased to sell one of her coffee filter works to a local collector. Then, this year we curated a duo show with Lexi, and Andam Eig entitled surfaces.
Some times there are moments, while they are rare, I feel like I can see the future. In this case, I see great success for Alexandra. People are starting to notice her, and I hope I’m right about my gut feeling towards her success. I’m excited that I can say that we were the first!
Her grapefruit pith installation is simply wonderful. She keeps finding new materials to work with!!! Buy her work now while you can still afford your very own Zealand. Contact me if you would like to set up a studio tour.
Check out her new peice for Artomatic here:
We’ve made great progress with the 12×12 show at the artdc gallery in Hyattsville. We invited artists to hang works limited only by size and price. All works were 12″x12″ or smaller and each work under $250.00US. We had 140 works of art in the gallery. The show is a great success so far. We opened on the 16th, the same day as the Hyattsville Arts Festival. There was an amazing turn out of art lovers. EYA counted over 1,000 visitors. We sold 19 works of art on that day, and that really leaves us with a warm feeling for the community and DC art buying scene. The success of this event really brings us closer to the idea that here are people who want to buy affordable art, and support our efforts, even in the current rough ecconomy.
We have a new show at the artdc space in Hyattsville, MD.
Artists Adam Eig, and Alexandra Zealand.
The show will Run April 5, to May 2.
Opening: April 11, 6 to 8pm
This duo show exhibits amazing works of two very important sculptors from the DC metro area. They are both developing new and exciting techniques to push their work in a wonderful direction. They are exploring surfaces in dramatically different ways. We think they contrast nicely with each other. Both are gentle and delicate in unique ways, opposing paper food trash and the raw power of steel. Take this opportunity view an important movement. For many years we’ve been concerned with the study of new surfaces, now these artists are experimenting with materials and techniques to develop something different and exciting.
Find more information here:
http://artdc.org/forum/index.php?topic=11529.0
Ev is a wonderful artist. Often on this site, I find myself with a very positive introductory statement like that, but I seriously mean it. I look at her work, and I’m taken away to another place. I start thinking about color, layers, glazing and dreams of composition. She’s a master of mixing texture with semi-gloss paint. It makes me think about conversations with my Mom about paint. She’s an artist too, and we had a conversation about painting my place, I told her I did the ceiling in semi-gloss, and I remember this gasp that sounded with a longing and desire for semi-gloss. I like that about Ev’s work. There’s a sparkle, a layer of brightness that really screams look at me.
I like the direction of her current series, and I look forward to seeing more. They are of great construction on wooden boxes built by her husband. That is such a wonderful sign of support. The fact that he builds surfaces for her is so exciting to me. I like it when couples support each other’s creativity.
Seriously, buy this work now, while we can all still afford it. The paintings are much more valuable than the price! Ev believes in her work, and I think she’s in it for the long haul! I look forward to watching her career as an artist expand.
Read details about our art you must acquire project: here.
Elements and Language, The Arctic Ice Speaks, #1
Elements and Language Series, The Arctic Ice Speaks, #2
Dimensions, each: 28″x35″
Materials: mixed-media on reclaimed wood panel
Price: $800.00USD each or $1600.00 for the pair
This is seriously an amazing price!
Artist Statement:
Most of my paintings are constructed of mixed-media on reclaimed wood panels. The process is one of layering opaque colors and transparent glazes and trying to achieve the patina that natural elements give to a surface over time.
My paintings are an exploration of the textures, colors and surfaces I observe in nature. I like the strength and solidity of images that are abstracted down to their most prominent colors and shapes. A sprig of leaves visible through a window on an overcast day suggests a simplified composition of grey and green in a rectangular field.
I am interested in how colors interact with each other on a textured surface and the transition of colors at the border between them. I like the idea that borders and horizons are less rigid the closer you inspect them.
I’m intrigued by how much variety exists in natural earthy surfaces, and how different patterns and surfaces form as a result of environmental changes. My latest paintings, belonging to the series “Elements and Language” explore the idea that variety in nature is like a language that we can “read” or “hear” if we choose to.
Kim knocks me out. There are few artists that really have a visceral impact on me like her work does. The first time I experienced this physical reaction to art work was with Rosemary Covey. It could boil down to the shock of seeing an artist that really understands pain. This really allows them to create incredibly personal work that allows you to see inside their heads, or maybe even their spirits. Again, if you don’t own work by Kim Reyes, you should. She’s quite serious about what she does, buy her work before we can’t afford it!
She creates wonderful sculptures out of ceramics. Included in this post is a large image of the whole series and a few detail shots. They are for sale individually.
Title: Imperfect
Price: $3000 for the collection; $300 each individual bust
Dimensions: 15 pieces hung together is 42″ x 44″.
Each individual piece is about 12″ x 5″ x 3″.
Detail 1
Detail 2
BIO:
In many ways I feel my journey as an artist has just begun even though as a child I was always creating.
Growing up in Europe exposed me to such creative and diverse designs, people and experiences which have had a strong influence in my artistic development. I learned the basics of ceramics in my late twenties from my mother and father, both accomplished potters. Later I enhanced my techniques by studying at Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of the Arts and Crafts. I am drawn to dark and emotionally charged figurative sculpture and often use elements from nature in my pieces.
Each bust is hand-sculpted from stoneware, fired once, broken into pieces and then pit-fired for smoke markings. The pieces are then re-assembled, and embellished with gold oil paint, gold leafing and mixed media.
A series of 15 Ceramic/Mixed Media Wallpieces that contemplate varied physical and emotional imperfections in humanity. Some of the imperfections are obvious, some implied and therefore each piece is not individually titled to leave an impression in the viewer’s mind. “Imperfect” is not meant to be judged as good or bad, rather indifferent. We all have imperfections, some seen, some unseen, some imagined, some real.
Please contact us if you would like to purchase one of these great works of art.
Antoinette is a close friend of mine and a former Studiomate from the NY ave. space. From day one I knew she was a talented artist. While she doesn’t live in the DC area anymore (she left for New York like many great artists) she had a lot to do with the start of artdc.org, so I think it’s important to post some of her art here on artdc.com.
Back in March of 2004, she posted an ad on Craig’s list looking for artists who wanted to see changes in the Washington, DC area art scene. Stevephen Mead was there too. We’ll post some of his art soon. We all agreed, we loved being artists and we wanted to see changes develop. We wanted to see more awareness of the art scene. That night, I spent a great deal of time on the computer, and I put together the beginings of artdc.org which at that time were just a brief glimpse of things to come. The site lived as a small subdirectory in my personal site. Talking about the idea with Antoinette, Steve, and others, we realized this idea was too big to be part of my site, and soon the domain was acquired. The site had to be it’s own thing. Many hours were spent developing the bulk of the content, and Antoinette’s knowledge of art and the world around it have always impressed me with an impact on our direction.
I think her work is quite important, and if you are a serious art collector, you should know Antoinette’s work, and more importantly, you should own it. If you’d like to know more about her work, or possible receive more images, please contact us through this article: art you must acquire.
Title: Pacific Time
Dimensions: 22×30 inches
Materials: on rag paper
mixed media-ink charcoal acrylic graphite
Price: $800.00USD
Work on hold for a collector!
BIO:
BFA 2000, Painting, San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, California 1993-1995 Interdisciplinary
Maryland Institute College of Art Baltimore, Maryland
1995,2004 Continuing Education, Corcoran College of Art Washington, DC
Antoinette is an expressionistic painter that uses mixed media on organic material. Creating images of an obsessive repetitive nature, by use of manipulating various mediums that change and metamorph into a recognizable theme.
Through bold brush strokes, violent colors, and often heavy inks; she lures the viewer into close introspection of the organic forms. A diary is then revealed of hidden drawings and text that seduce the viewer to be a voyeur for a moment into her world..
Antoinette was a grant recipient for an artist program through the Sante Fe Art Institute. Antoinette has shown in galleries in San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle, New Mexico, New York, London, as well as the Washington DC metropolitan area, including the Mid Atlantic Painters exhibition at Mary Washington College. Antoinette has worked as an artist-in-residence with inner city schools in San Francisco, assisted in public art pieces with the San Francisco Art Education Project, worked with emotionally disturbed adolescence in the District as a Special Education teacher and created community service programs for students with severe emotional disturbances. Antoinette is a member of the Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, a founding member of ARTDC.org and currently resides in Washington, DC.
We took a few days off for the Holidays, and now we’re back with another suggestion for our Art You Must Acquire project. Matt Sesow is an incredible force. Sesow works and lives art. IMHO he’s really doing it, which moves him far above many artists I run into. He has a very positive philosophy about art and art sales. He believes everyone should own a work of art, and he prices many of his paintings accordingly. You need to have a studio visit now to meet this artist.
He’s recently painted this amazing work of art that we’d like to see you buy:
Title: ”Early Supporter”
Dimensions: 60″ x 30″
Materials: oil/mixed on DC street banner
Price $600
A gallery just picked this painting up! Matt is amazing! If you’re interested in more of his work, we’d be glad to send you pics.
Contact us if you are interested in this work of art.
Find more information here.
We’d love to improve our comprehensive list of Washington, DC area studios. Find our art studio list here: artdc.com/other-dc-studios . If you’d like to add a link, or tell us about a Washington, DC area group studio that we missed, please let us know.