We are pleased to announce our 18” x 18” small works exhibit at the artdc gallery. This show offers us the opportunity to open the gallery doors to anyone who wants to show. We break down the barriers of the traditional gallery gatekeeper role that may prevent emerging artists access to exhibit. All works are limited to 18” x 18”  or less which often places it in a very affordable range! This is a unique opportunity to connect with new and emerging artists!

Find the artdc.org event discussion here:
artdc.org/forum/index.php?topic=16100

Find the original call for entry here:
artdc.org/forum/index.php?topic=16024

Visit this show during the Gateway open studio tour on the same day as our reception:
artdc.org/forum/index.php?topic=16099

To view the artists in the show, click continue reading to read more!

SallyAnn Cobia Rogers
www.bluegatorjewelry.etsy.com
Gregory Lam Nang
Annie Armstrong
Rachel Baron
Daniel Brooking
Denise Brown
www.denisemariebrown.com
Richard Brown
www.denisemariebrown.com
Dehejia Butler
www.dehejiamaat.com
James Campbell
www.jamescampbell.us
Madeline Close
Amy Cohen
Jesse Cohen
www.jessecohen.com
Roger Cutler
Sarah Dale
www.sarahedale.com
Michael Diggs
www.etsy.com/shop/ArtbyDiggs
Jamie Downs McLaughlin
Jennifer Droblyen
droblyen.com
Chidinma Dureke
Cheryl Edwards
Nancy Ewing
www.nancyewing.net
Janelle Fernandez
www.cameravitae.com
Deborah Fitzgerald
www.deborahlfitzgerald.com/gallery.htm
Ric Garcia
www.ricgarciastudio.com
Marilyn Gingras
Melissa Glasser
www.melissaglasser.com
T.H. Gomillion
www.thgomillion.com
Peter Gordon
www.petergordonart.com
Grayson Heck
www.graysonheck.com
Jay Hendrick
www.jayhendrick.com
Beth Hess
www.wunderaround.com
Jessica Hopkins
Ruth Horlick
Brian Johnson
www.artfulanml.com
Dennis Johnson Jr
Monna Kauppinen
Angela Kleis
angelakleis.com
Julia Kwon
www.juliakwon.com
Mary Ann Lipovsky
Christiann MacAuley
www.stickycomics.com
EV Marinucci
Donald McCray
patricia Mcdonald-hartnett
www.patriciahartnett.com
Russ McIntosh
www.russmcintosh.com
Minda Merinsky
NicoleMoore
Magruder Murray
www.magrudermurrayart.com
Sergio Olivos
www.olivosartstudio.com
Claudia Olivos
www.olivosartstudio.com
Sara Prigan
www.prigansara.blogspot.com
Kandeepan Ramanan
Joe Rogers
Melissa Romulus
Leslie Rottach
Michael Schaeffer
www.art-enables.org
Emily Scheeler
John Simpson
www.art-enables.org
Linda Smith
www.bakerartistawards.org/nominations/view/lindasmith/
Stephanie Spring
Kimberly Stark
www.KimsWorldofArt.com
Alex Swain
www.zoom.sh
Loretta Thompson
Nonja Tiller
www.art-enables.org
Laurie Tylec
www.laurietylec.com
Roy Utley
www.peacewarrior.com
Jenn Verrier
www.jlvart.com
Akua Walker
www.wix.com/sibyakua/akua
Lacy Walker
Byra Zimmerman
www.byrazimmerman.com
David Allen Harris
www.flickr.com/divadsirrah

Reception: Saturday, April 13, 2013 7:30-10PM
Please invite your friends and Retweet.
Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/154564408045896/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/artdc/status/322824545188859904

Every Artist is a Hoarder

HYATTSVILLE, MD— April 10, 2013 —artdc Gallery announces a new and compelling exhibition called Hoarders, curated by local artist, Kunj Patel. Throughout the creative process, artists gather information, imagery, and overall inspiration to prepare for their work. As a compulsive collector gathers valued materials within the home, artists gather elements of all that surrounds them to be used within their creations. Hoarders is a show depicting the artistic collection process through such devices as repetition and found objects.

In a minimal style, the works range in prints, paintings, and installations, leaving the popular perception of hoarding in a more humbling aesthetic. “I wanted the exhibit to be less cluttered than the homes of extremists you see on that television show,” said the curator. The show features artists: Eloy Areu, Michael Booker, Mark Earnhart, Adam Echavarren, Rob Hackett, Grayson Heck, Matt Kim, Ava Lowe, Christine Suh, and Janelle Whisenant. All of whom are current or former University of Maryland undergraduate and graduate art students.

“It was important to show work from artists that study or have studied at the nearby university, as the gallery is very community based,” says Kunj. ArtDC Gallery, established in March 2004, is located at the historic, Lustine Center in Hyattsville, MD. Their mission has been to initiate the discovery of artist and create movement in the metro area. They also emphasize the discussion of art through connecting the public with local made artwork.

Hoarders will be up April 10, 2013 to April 28, 2013 at the artDC Gallery. There will be a reception Saturday, April 13, 2013, open to public between 7:30pm and 10:00pm. The artDC Gallery is located at 5710 Baltimore Avenue, Hyattsville, MD 20781. They are open by appointment only; please visit and contact www.artdc.com for any further information about the space.

About the Curator:

Kunj Patel lives and works in the DC-Maryland area. He has a background in both Anthropology and Studio Art, having studied at the University of Maryland. His roles in art are defined by activities in printmaking, sculpture, performance art, installation, curation. Kunj uses repetitive actions and ritualized behavior to portray the unstable identity that spawns from life as a first-generation American. He explores the tense nature that may result, and the ideas of being stuck in a situation of no-identity or new-identity. Kunj has exhibited work at the Gateway Art Center and Hillyer Art Space, with an upcoming performance exhibition at the Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, NY. His website can be found at kunj-patel.tumblr.com, and can also be contacted at kunj.artist@gmail.com

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!

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.”

(Painting on canvas, Artist: Juan Hernandez, Title: arenero)

About HCAA:  Hyattsville Community Arts Alliance is a non-profit organization founded in 1994. The association is comprised of prestigious painters, sculptors, photographers, crafts makers and musicians, primarily from the local region.

HCAA curates numerous exhibits, working in conjunction with the City of Hyattsville and the Prince George’s Arts Council to provide artists with show space and the community with art program venues and educational workshops. HCAA’s ongoing programs at Franklin’s Restaurant, Prince George’s Plaza Community Center, and “ArtSpin” are well known throughout the region.

We’re excited to collaborate with HCAA.  They are our neighbors and their artists are a vital part of the Hyattsville Arts District.  It’s our pleasure to show a wonderful grouping of their work.

17 artists in a group exhibition of HCAA artists at the artdc Gallery!

Artists:
Gary Jimerfield
Maureen Wheatley
Mary Ann Lipovsky
Denise Marie
Richard Brown
Monna Kauppinen
Delia Mychjaluk
Pierre-Antoine Goho
Joseph Shepperd Rogers
Charles Reiher
Mia Enns
Cheryl Edwards
Malika Bryant
Jaun Hernandez
Ruth Horlick
Nancy Sims
Jose Pepe Piedra

Find the flyer on HCAA’s website here: www.hcaaonline.org

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.

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.

(Work by Roger Cutler)

We could argue the importance of three-dimensional art, but we won’t. We could mince words about the significance and material impact of metal. However, this show isn’t about words. This show is a survey of Washington, DC-area sculptors who are passionate about metal.

These artists are an important part of the development of the Washington, DC-area movement in metal. This is part of our material series, which in the past included wood and glass exhibitions.

Many of the artists represent work as members of the Washington Sculptor’s Group, and some are from as far as Frederick, MD.

Metal is a long-standing material in the art world. This sculpture show, by nature, is heavy, solid, and at the same time, delicate and light. This work defies gravity, reaching out of its material. These works all attract with the gravity of heavenly bodies, yet float at the same time.  artdc has gravity.

(Work by: Leila Holtsman) 

Artists:
Adam Eig - www.adameig.com
Brian Kirk - www.studiogallerydc.com/artists/sculptor/works.shtml
Bob Sibbison -
Leila Holtsman - www.leilaholtsman.com
Nancy Frankel - www.nancyfrankel.com
Frank Fishburne - www.fishburne-metalsculpture.com
Grayson Heck - graysonheckart.weebly.com
Roger Cutler - www.rogercutler.com
Paul Sikora - www.lightspacemobiles.com
Philippe Mougne - www.studiogallerydc.com/artists/Philippe/works.shtml
Sam Noto - www.washingtonsculptors.org/profile.php?artistid=65
Steven Dobbin - www.stevendobbin.wordpress.com/

(Artists in this photo include: Adam Eig, Nancy Frankel, Sam Noto, Philippe Mougne, and Brian Kirk)

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The artdc Gallery is pleased to announce Glass 2012.  This exhibition highlights work from DC GlassWorks, a glass blowing and sculpture studio. DC GlassWorks is a public access glass studio that fosters a creative community.  It is a forum for exchanging ideas and learning.  They came together to show at the artdc Gallery.  The art exhibited demonstrates that glass has many applications and techniques that vary greatly.  Some of the artists find inspiration in making traditional murano vessels and work to master the archaic art form, while others use it in a much more contemporary manner. This work is evidence of the limitless possibilities of glass.

Karyne Messina

Joe Corcoran

David D’Orio

Scott Mitchell ”Scott finds glass a unique medium encompassing fine art and the high-wire act of production, integrating the optical effects of transparency and opacity, lens effects, and the intricate chemical reactions that generate color.”
www.foolsnightout.com/Glass

Leo Lex “With a focus on using traditional vessels as a palette, Leo Lex explores color interactions through the medium of blown glass.”
www.lexartglass.com

Pat Burke ”Subtlety is not my strong suit.”

Joseph Corcoran “I attempt to capture and suspend light providing the catalyst for vibrant color.”
www.josephacorcoran.com

Megan Van Wagoneer: “Everyday objects tell stories.  The bushel basket and the stray potatoes that surround it are part of the narrative of agriculture in the U.S.”
www.meganvanwagoner.com

Steven Jones “1/2 man, ½ chicken (1/2, not so good with fractions).”
www.stevenjones504.com

Chris Stever “Murrine vessels”

Karyne Messina “I believe my work originally emerged as a reflection of my intrigue with creatures from the sea.”
www.karynemessina.com

Beth Hess “With these pieces, I use the optics of clear glass to focus attention on lush bits of nature easily overlooked. “
www.wunderaround.com

Dave D’orio “This body of work presents studies and models that imagine systems of organ forms.”
www.daviddorio.com

Press:
Hyattsville Patch
East City Art  The artdc Gallery Presents

The artdc Gallery
Against the Grain Reception
5710 Baltimore Ave., Hyattsville, MD
July 7th, 7-9:30pm

We are pleased to invite you all to the artdc Gallery for the opening reception of “Against The Grain” this Saturday, July the 7th from 7-9:30 pm.

We’ve got wood.  That is, we have a reception for our contemporary sculpture exhibition of 3-d wood objects.

Wood is one of the first materials used by mankind to create art and has been relevant since the beginning.  Today, contemporary wood art has evolved to a new level with the use of modern tools to create sculptures and kinetic works.

The exhibition is entitled, ‘Against the Grain’, as these works rub against the grain of traditional sculpture in a new direction.

This show includes:
Anthony Comes
Camden Place
Emma Holland Denvir
Grayson Heck
Ian McDermott
Kelly Guerrero
Levon Kojoyan
Mark Earnhart
Pat McGowan
Richard Brown
Ryan McKibbin
and Teddy Brice.

As always, there will be light refreshments and snacks.  Neil Cotterill, of Infinite Honey, will performing during the reception.  Please come by and join us at the artdc Gallery for a fun filled night of art and live music.  We, the artists and artdc, appreciate your support.