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Who: The artdc Gallery
What: The Chemical View
Where: 5710 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20781
Exhibition dates: 5-26-13 to 6-23-13
Reception: Saturday: 6-1-13 7 to 10pm
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/492773407461934/
Twitter: twitter.com/artdc/status/339388467073150976
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Curator: Barry Schmetter

Alternative-Process Photography Exhibition to Open at the artdc Gallery on June 1

The Chemical View: Alternative Process Photography will open on Saturday, June 1 at the artdc Gallery in Hyattsville, Maryland. The show will highlight the work of eight Washington-area artists working in the medium of alternative process photography. The show will include examples of tintypes, ambrotypes, platinum and palladium prints, cyanotypes, Van Dyke prints, bromoils, gum prints, and hand-painted liquid emulsion prints.

“This is a rare chance to see a wide range of handmade prints that represent the gamut of chemical-based photographic processes.”, said Barry Schmetter, the show’s curator. “The artists are drawing on the history of the photographic process to explore contemporary themes.”

The artists included in show are: Scott Davis, Henry Friedman, Eddie Hirschfield, Carole Hollander, Suzanne Izzo, Joanna Knox, Barry Schmetter, and George L. Smyth.

Eddie Hirschfield www.emhphoto.com
Carole Hollander www.carolehollanderphotography.com
Joanna Knox www.joannaknox.com
Barry Schmetter barrys.carbonmade.com
George L. Smyth http://glsmyth.com
Scott Davis www.theflyingcamera.com

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Who: artdc Gallery
What: “Chew It Up!” Reception
Where: 5710 Baltimore Ave. Hyattsville, MD 20781
When: Saturday, March 9th, 2013, 7:30-10pm
Web: artdc.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/613872845294465/
Twitter: twitter.com/artdc
The show hangs: from 3/3/13 to 3/31/13

We have a wonderful new show installed at that gallery titled, “Chew It Up!” The exhibit is raw, full of energy with strong sculpture and mixed media works that are rearing to chew it up. Stone, wood, rusty metal, and some amazing 2D works. We are elated to have such a great line-up of works from tremendous area artists! Drop by to view the work, and don’t let the art bite.

The artists include:

Alexandra Zealand - alexzealand.com
Barry Schmetter – barrys.carbonmade.com
Bill Woodbridge
Frank Fishburne – fishburne-metalsculpture.com
Grayson Heck – graysonheckart.weebly.com
Lisa Rosenstein – lisakrosenstein.com
Nick Collier – ngcarts.com
Park Swan – parkswan.com
Roger Cutler – rogercutler.com
Suzanne Firstenberg – suzannefirstenberg.com
Sy Gresser – sygresser.com
Zac Jackson – zacjackson.com

Would you like to visit after the reception? Find gallery sitter dates at artdc.com/calendar/

View a video walkthrough of the show during the reception!

Who: The artdc Gallery
What: Whodunit – Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
Where: 5710 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, MD 20781
When: February 3rd to March 3rd, 2013
Reception: Saturday February 9th, 2013
Facebook Invite: here.
Twitter: here.
artdc.org: here.

Artists included in this show will either show an original from their own collection in their own style or imitate another artist’s style… or maybe both! The viewers exploring the works in the show will embark on a treasure hunt as they try to determine if a piece was done by the original artist or someone else. If the piece is a copy — then who did the copy?

Artists:  “Stay tuned, coming soon.”

Who: The artdc Gallery
What: Opening Reception “Refracted View”
Where: 5710 Baltimore Ave. Hyattsville, MD
When:  7-10PM Saturday, November 24, 2012
Show run: November 24 – January 5
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/101405396694052/

Artists:
Alan Binstock
www.alanbinstock.com/

D.B. Stovall
www.dbstovall.com/

Christopher Brady
www.bradyphotography.us

Barry Schmetter
http://barrys.carbonmade.com/

This is a reception for our final show this year!

Don’t miss the opportunity to celebrate the work of 4 fine artists from the Washington, DC area. With the great spirit of the past Photo Week, we bring you the show, Refracted View. A group of 3 photographers contrasting the sharp edges of one of DC’s top sculptors, Alan Binstock’s.  These 4 artists are all working in their own unique direction.  There is an architectural connection between Binstock, Schmetter, and Stoval, while Brady sets it off with a little heat from his figure studies.  It’s a great experience to fill a space with a diversity of work.  From sharp edges to sharp focus there’s a unique mix of works.

Alan Binstock:

This show brackets a year of activity with large scale work as well as experiments with my favored media in smaller pieces.  It also presents an opportunity to lend my energies to the PG Arts District I am so much a part of.  The pieces in this show were selected to express my affinity with glass, steel and resin and their rich dialogues.  My sculptor’s career is balanced with a concurrent career as architect at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.  I have a continued exposure to near and deep space images as well as a bit of quantum physics which are all powerful influences on my work.   All this, tempered by an avid emersion in the teachings of Yoga, allows me to express the nature of the seeker’s inner passage while capturing the wonder of the explorer’s outward search to find meaning in the universe.  Light is captured.  Radiance becomes a part of my palette, through a matrix of re-purposed tempered glass, resins and dyes, I engage the changing qualities of daylight to inform and enrich these sculptures.

DB. Stoval:
A Washington, DC area native, bought his first camera at age 10 – a Rosko purchased for 88 cents at Murphy’s Five and Dime.  Quickly moving on to various Instamatics, an old Leica D, and finally Japanese 35mm SLRs, Stovall explored various aspects of black and white photography, becoming adept at all kinds of darkroom work by the time he entered high school.  Stovall was introduced to the view camera at the Rochester Institute of Technology in the early 1970s and eventually moved on to large format color transparency in a realism-based vision, which he still practices today.

Christopher Brady:
An edgy photographer, riding the fine line between figure photography and erotic art. Specializing in portraiture and figure work using both medium format films as well as digital mediums.  His images inspire and ignite emotions while they explore the fine focus of the human body in varying grouping of scenarios.  The human body is fine art on it’s own with or without paper to represent it.

Barry Schmetter:
A Washington DC based photographer and artist using historic photographic processes as a means to explore memory, forgetting, and other human cognitive processes. He frequently uses large format cameras and antique lenses dating to the early history of photography in his work.  He also teaches workshops and seminars in alternative and historic photographic processes—most recently for the Maryland Institute College of Art and the Frederick, Maryland Historical Society.  He was the event director of Artomatic 2012, the largest independent art and performance exhibition in the Washington area and a founding member of Art Reactor, an art and teaching collective.  His work is in private and public collections and was seen in the ABC Television series, Happy Town.

Who: The artdc Gallery
What: Opening Reception “On The Surface”
Where: 5710 Baltimore Ave. Hyattsville, MD
When:  7-10PM  Saturday, October 20, 2012.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/events/403234526412844/

You are invited to the opening reception for “On The Surface”, this Saturday the 20th from 7 to 10 PM.  The reception will be held at the artdcGallery. We will be serving light refreshments and snacks. As always the event is free and open to the public. The show description and flyer follows.

All visual art necessitates, creates and/or transforms surfaces. “On The Surface” intends to explore theutilization and idea of surface in art. The selected artists incorporated many mediums. The exhibit includes; paintings, prints, multimedia, sculpture and more.

Featuring artists;
Roger Cutler
Cheryl Edwards
Ric Garcia
Kevin Gomes
Peter Gordon
Grayson Heck
Camden Place
Caren Quinn
Marite Vidales
Sarah Young

Musical performance by Neil Cotterill of Infinite Honey.

We have invited HCAA to Jury another show at the Gallery! This is about community! Come and enjoy. We beleive it’s important to network with other organizations and create opportunities to develop relationships, and reach out beyond our normal boundaries!

EARTH DAY EXHIBIT at artdc

The art works chosen for this exhibit are imaginative as well as beautiful and representational. The work is done using various techniques and media defining nature for the viewer. The work is almost magnetic in the way it draws you to it! The artists are all members of HCAA (Hyattsville Community Arts Alliance).

Mary Ann Lipovsky uses the history of a place when creating her watercolor painting,” It’s The Mud Season”, you imagine the time when the barn was in use and feel the dampness in the air as the snow melts.

Monna Kauppinen in “Catskill Quiet” chooses a remote space to capture Earth’s beauty in watercolor, a respite from the urban setting we find impinging on us and we are called by its nurturing effect on us. Marie Crow, in “Dancers II“, using acrylics in a sculptural technique, creates magical images grounded in realism. We long to be lost in the magic places.

Barbara LoMacchio in her image, “How Far Have We Come “ uses nature, and abstracts the image for a fantasy effect.

Delia Mychajluk in “Wolf Woman Dreams” uses a sculptural technique to impose the feeling of ‘the wild‘, looking at the boundaries of life, death in the physical and spiritual worlds.

Allita Irby with her Photography,” First Shoots“, aspires to capture in color the compositions, the detail, and clarity of nature.

Roxanne Ando with her Chinese Watercolor in “Floral Fire”, achieves a peaceful, wistful, space you want to experience.

Sally Ann Rogers uses her time in Maine every summer to capture special images such as “Mountain Mist”, in pastel, you can feel the moisture in the air.

Richard Brown with his walnut wood sculpture “Standing On The Rock” evokes crossing streams and hiking, interacting with nature, being physical and immediate drawing what
healing power he can from the rock. Denise Marie uses silhouette and bright color in her sunset oil painting, ”Pine Branch Sunset”.

Take a little vacation from your hectic pace and stop by artdc for a respite in the Earth Day Exhibit at artdc from March 25 through April 21. Opening night, SaturdayMarch 31 and Friday April 6 from 7-10pm. Artdc is located at 5710 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, MD 20781. For more info contact Jesse Cohen at fineartventures@gmail.com

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Who: The artdc Gallery
What: Reception for Hand Picked
Where: 5710 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, MD 20781
When: 7-10pm Saturday March, 3rd 2012
Details: www.artdc.com

Hand picked is a selection of Washington, DC area artists who work in a range of mediums from works on paper to wet plate photographs and beyond. The Washington, DC area art scene is active, and it takes someone in that scene to find connections. Our creative manager, Grayson Heck a previous guest curator for the artdc Gallery is an active artist, and he sees connections and activity developing in his peers. We invited Grayson to select artists that he things are important with developing careers in our art scene. This show is representative of the relationships he’s developed through the University of Maryland, and artdc.org.

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Barry Schmetter
Barry gives us a modern view of darkroom photography. His treatment of light and composition, choice of objects and mastery of process make him a giant in his field.

Camden Place 
Camden brings us a layered view of life. His intricate carvings evoke emotions and questions. Each piece seems tell a story.

Justin Strom
Justin’s work demonstrates a stellar blend of concept, design and process. The work he has included in this show consists of strong, multi-faceted images. He is a master of print.

Peter Gordon
Peter is a non-stop multiple medium artist. He is always producing and exhibiting. Peter is showing two pieces from a new body of work, which is quite exceptional.

Ryan McKibbin
Ryan is a Lecturer and Fabrication Lab Director, Catholic University’s School of Architecture and Planning. Ryan’s work references communication and human interaction through the use of a variety of materials.

Henrik Sundqvist
Henrik is a print maker, who brings the frame into the image which adds an exciting layer so that the whole work is a sculpture.  He deals with life, death, and the toxicity of the world

View a video of our reception here:

Eric Hope from East City Art wrote a review of Retold.  Find it here.

Show dates:  Jan. 28 to Feb. 25
Reception Saturday, January 28,  7:30 – 9:00pm

Retold is an invitational exhibit featuring 9 Mid Atlantic artists who were asked to consider the words of T.S. Eliot found in The Art of Assemblage/MOMA 1961 by William C. Seitz.

The memory throws up high and dry
A crowd of twisted things;
A twisted branch upon the beach
Eaten smooth, and polished
As if the world gave up
The secret of its skeleton,
Stiff and white.
A broken spring in a factory yard,
Rust that clings to the form that the strength has left
Hard and curled and ready to snap.

- T. S. Eliot (1917)

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Poetry is a visual language; The culmination of this show brings together photographers, sculptors and mixed media artists who contribute to
a visual dialog that retell the story. Come see for yourself.

Featuring works by:

C. Mason – photography
Michael Mendez – photography
Carlos Fyfe – photography
Jenny Wallace – photography
Brian Slagle – sculpture
Steven Dobbin – sculpture
Kristin Bohlander – mixed media
Jeff Bohlander – mixed media
Jesse Cohen – photography

Deborah Winram – guest curator, artist and educator

Art Exhibition Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month

October 7 – 30, 2011 

Artists’ Reception:
Saturday, October 15, 2011 7-10pm
artdc Gallery at the Lustine Center
5710 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, MD 20781

Inspired by the words of Spanish poet Antonio Machado, “Caminante no hay camino, se hace el camino al andar…” Traveller, there’s no road. The path is made as we travel.

In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, local Latin American artists join to explore their journeys through art and life in the US.
Come and enjoy canvas of colors and symbols deeply rooted in the cultures of Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico.

Elba Molina.

Born in Santiago, Chile and lives in the DC area since 1973.  Elba has studied art at the Corcoran School of Art, The Art League in Old Town Alexandria and Georgetown University, and has exhibited in DC, Miami, New York and New Delhi, India. Her palette varies widely demonstrating a strong sense of color, intimacy and freedom.

Claudia Olivos.
(www.claudiaolivos.com)

Raised in Chile and born in US, holds an MFA from Vermont College, and a BFA in painting from George Mason University.  Her paintings have been featured in several publications and CD covers.  She teaches art and is involved in the local DC art community.

Sergio Olivos.
(www.sergioolivosm.com)

Born in Villahermosa, Mexico, holds a BFA in painting from Universidad de Queretaro, Queretaro, Mexico.  He has exhibited throughout Mexico and the Washington DC Metro area to and in other locations in the USA.  He teaches painting, printmaking, drawing and encaustics.

Gloria Valdes “Tarasca”.
(www.gloriavaldes.com)

Born in Michoacán, Mexico.  Self taught artist inspired by the culture of the Tarascan ancestral people from which she interrelates her work, colors and shapes, and draws an artistic identity. Gloria has exhibited throughout the DC area. 

Marité Vidales.
(www.maritevidales.com)

Born in San José, Costa Rica, graduated from the School of Fine Arts of the University of Costa Rica.  For over 20 years, Marité has exhibited throughout United States, Costa Rica and Germany.  Her work reflects a passion for symbols and colors.