Anacostia Fotoweek November 6 - 13

| OPENINGS |

Reception, November 6th starting at 7pm:

Stop by Anacostia's newest creative space, Blank Space SE, to check out American Poetry Museum's presentation O R G A N I C A: Photographic Series by Melani N. Douglass & Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab is displaying Mixed Up: A Photography Showcase (a selection of client images printed by the Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab) at Big Chair Coffee & Grill. This group exhibit showcases select photographs from some of the clientele who have helped make the first year of business a great success.

 
Reception: November 10th from 6pm to 8pm:

 In his solo exhibition Neither...Nor, Vietnamese born artist Khanh H. Le is presenting 14 large scale images using the multiple plate polymer photogravure etching technique at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions. Le examines identity, through the bits and pieces of personal memory, the collective history from two cultures; Vietnam and the US.

Starting promptly at 8:15pm is a free performance from the contemporary classical group, The Analog Arts Ensemble. The group will be performing works by Roussel and Francaix, as well as a world premier by Dolf Kämper.

Reception, November 11th starting at 6pm:

 Honfleur Gallery is hosting "Likeness", the brainchild of DC based photographer, Joshua Yospyn. The exhibition includes twenty artists: ten photographers and ten street artists with an end result of ten original portraits and ten interpretations of that portrait.

Photographers and artists include:
Bo Zhang, Chris Usher, David Holloway, Erica Allen, Jason Horowitz, Josh Yospyn, Lois Bielefeld, Joshua Cogan, Matt Dunn, & Michel Frankfurter. Diabetik, Brandon Hill, Decoy, Asad Walker, Matthew Shlian, Lance Wiggs & Buck, Heather Stevens, Earnest Concepcion, Mike Estabrook, and Peter Chang.

Upstairs at Honfleur Gallery is a solo exhibit by Charlotte L'Harmeroult who is a painter and video artist based in Paris, France.  Her experimental, energetic video and photography projects use humor and colorful, surreal narratives.

Extended FOTOWEEK DC Hours are as follows:

Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
11/6 11am-8pm
11/7 and 11/8 12pm-5pm
11/9 12pm-8pm,
11/10 and 11/11 12pm-9pm
11/12 12pm-8pm
11/13 11-5pm

Blank Space SE
10am - 6pm

Big Chair Coffee & Grill
7am - 8pm

Anacostia Fotoweek November 6 - 13

| OPENINGS |

Reception, November 6th starting at 7pm:

Stop by Anacostia's newest creative space, Blank Space SE, to check out American Poetry Museum's presentation O R G A N I C A: Photographic Series by Melani N. Douglass & Rachel Eliza Griffiths.

Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab is displaying Mixed Up: A Photography Showcase (a selection of client images printed by the Vivid Solutions DC Print Lab) at Big Chair Coffee & Grill. This group exhibit showcases select photographs from some of the clientele who have helped make the first year of business a great success.

 
Reception: November 10th from 6pm to 8pm:

 In his solo exhibition Neither...Nor, Vietnamese born artist Khanh H. Le is presenting 14 large scale images using the multiple plate polymer photogravure etching technique at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions. Le examines identity, through the bits and pieces of personal memory, the collective history from two cultures; Vietnam and the US.

Starting promptly at 8:15pm is a free performance from the contemporary classical group, The Analog Arts Ensemble. The group will be performing works by Roussel and Francaix, as well as a world premier by Dolf Kämper.

Reception, November 11th starting at 6pm:

 Honfleur Gallery is hosting "Likeness", the brainchild of DC based photographer, Joshua Yospyn. The exhibition includes twenty artists: ten photographers and ten street artists with an end result of ten original portraits and ten interpretations of that portrait.

Photographers and artists include:
Bo Zhang, Chris Usher, David Holloway, Erica Allen, Jason Horowitz, Josh Yospyn, Lois Bielefeld, Joshua Cogan, Matt Dunn, & Michel Frankfurter. Diabetik, Brandon Hill, Decoy, Asad Walker, Matthew Shlian, Lance Wiggs & Buck, Heather Stevens, Earnest Concepcion, Mike Estabrook, and Peter Chang.

Upstairs at Honfleur Gallery is a solo exhibit by Charlotte L'Harmeroult who is a painter and video artist based in Paris, France.  Her experimental, energetic video and photography projects use humor and colorful, surreal narratives.

Extended FOTOWEEK DC Hours are as follows:

Honfleur Gallery and The Gallery at Vivid Solutions
11/6 11am-8pm
11/7 and 11/8 12pm-5pm
11/9 12pm-8pm,
11/10 and 11/11 12pm-9pm
11/12 12pm-8pm
11/13 11-5pm

Blank Space SE
10am - 6pm

Big Chair Coffee & Grill
7am - 8pm

City Gallery presents Geoff Ault "Running with Scissors"

| OPENINGS  |

Opening Reception: Saturday November 6 from 6pm to 9pm

Geoff Ault "Running with Scissors" Photo Courtesy of CITY Gallery

 In Ault’s words:

“As children we are told what not to do.  Don’t touch that, it’s hot.  Don’t eat that, it’s dirty.  Don’t swallow your gum, don’t play with matches.  Don’t run with scissors.

Yet we did everything we were told not to do because we wanted to know why the adults didn’t want us to do these things.  So we found out what ‘hot’ is, what dirt tastes like, what happened when we swallowed our chewing gum, and the consequences of playing with matches.  But somehow we knew the consequences of running with scissors and usually didn’t try that one out.

In the art world, often we are told that we shouldn’t paint with acrylics because oils are better.  In photography, we should use film instead of digital cameras.  Often artists are admonished that we should stick to the tried and true methods.  To a certain point this is true.  One must walk before he or she can run.  The basics of  composition, technique and color are important in creating art in all forms.

At some point the artist must take a creative leap and forget the rules; run with the scissors this time and see what happens.    I like to twist the composition, play with color and try out new ways of creating images.   It is painting to the extent in that I use brushes, layering and blending.  The only difference is that I have a canvas and brush that are electronic, not physical.  This allows me to create work that can have various textures, colors that can be subtle or vibrant.  It also allows me to alter images to the point that they are unrecognizable from the original image.  

Some images begin as film photographs taken with toy cameras that produce blurry, dreamlike images.  I scan the negative into the computer and what is usually a black and white image of something rather mundane can become a colorful abstraction.  Other images are created from objects placed on a flatbed scanner and digitally manipulated to produce distorted, unrecognizable images.   A flower can become a landscape, a piece of slashed matboard becomes a seascape.  The possibilities are endless”.

City Gallery is located at 804 H ST NE second floor, Washington, DC 20002. Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturday 1-5pm. 

City Gallery presents Geoff Ault "Running with Scissors"

| OPENINGS  |

Opening Reception: Saturday November 6 from 6pm to 9pm

Geoff Ault "Running with Scissors" Photo Courtesy of CITY Gallery

 In Ault’s words:

“As children we are told what not to do.  Don’t touch that, it’s hot.  Don’t eat that, it’s dirty.  Don’t swallow your gum, don’t play with matches.  Don’t run with scissors.

Yet we did everything we were told not to do because we wanted to know why the adults didn’t want us to do these things.  So we found out what ‘hot’ is, what dirt tastes like, what happened when we swallowed our chewing gum, and the consequences of playing with matches.  But somehow we knew the consequences of running with scissors and usually didn’t try that one out.

In the art world, often we are told that we shouldn’t paint with acrylics because oils are better.  In photography, we should use film instead of digital cameras.  Often artists are admonished that we should stick to the tried and true methods.  To a certain point this is true.  One must walk before he or she can run.  The basics of  composition, technique and color are important in creating art in all forms.

At some point the artist must take a creative leap and forget the rules; run with the scissors this time and see what happens.    I like to twist the composition, play with color and try out new ways of creating images.   It is painting to the extent in that I use brushes, layering and blending.  The only difference is that I have a canvas and brush that are electronic, not physical.  This allows me to create work that can have various textures, colors that can be subtle or vibrant.  It also allows me to alter images to the point that they are unrecognizable from the original image.  

Some images begin as film photographs taken with toy cameras that produce blurry, dreamlike images.  I scan the negative into the computer and what is usually a black and white image of something rather mundane can become a colorful abstraction.  Other images are created from objects placed on a flatbed scanner and digitally manipulated to produce distorted, unrecognizable images.   A flower can become a landscape, a piece of slashed matboard becomes a seascape.  The possibilities are endless”.

City Gallery is located at 804 H ST NE second floor, Washington, DC 20002. Gallery hours are Fridays and Saturday 1-5pm. 

Today in History - John Paul Jones Sets To Sea

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On this day in 1777, the USS Ranger, with a crew of 140 men under the command of John Paul Jones, leaves Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for the naval port at Brest, France, where it will stop before heading toward the Irish Sea to begin raids on British warships. This was the first mission of its kind during the Revolutionary War.

George Bagby Matthews (1857-1943) John Paul Jones

Commander Jones, remembered as one of the most daring and successful naval commanders of the American Revolution, was born in Scotland, on July 6, 1747. He became an apprentice to a merchant at 13 and soon went to sea, traveling first to the West Indies and then to North America as a young man. In Virginia at the onset of the American Revolution, Jones sided with the Patriots and received a commission as a first lieutenant in the Continental Navy on December 7, 1775.

Bookcover from John Paul Jones and the Ranger Edited by Joseph G. Sawtelle

After departing Brest, Jones successfully executed raids on two forts in England's Whitehaven Harbor, despite a disgruntled crew more interested in "gain than honor." Jones then continued to his home territory of Kirkcudbright Bay, Scotland, where he intended to abduct the earl of Selkirk and then exchange him for American sailors held captive by Britain.


Although he did not find the earl at home, Jones' crew was able to steal all his silver, including his wife's teapot, still containing her breakfast tea. From Scotland, Jones sailed across the Irish Sea to Carrickfergus, where the Ranger captured the HMS Drake after delivering fatal wounds to the British ship's captain and lieutenant.

E. Benjamin Andrews, History of the United States from the Earliest Discovery of American to the Present Day, Volume II (New York Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895)

In September 1779, Jones fought one of the fiercest battles in naval history when he led the USS Bonhomme Richard frigate, named for Benjamin Franklin, in an engagement with the 50-gun British warship HMS Serapis. After the Bonhomme Richard was struck, it began taking on water and caught fire. When the British captain of the Serapis ordered Jones to surrender, he famously replied, "I have not yet begun to fight!" A few hours later, the captain and crew of the Serapis admitted defeat and Jones took command of the British ship.

USS Ranger and HMS Drake

One of the greatest naval commanders in history, Jones is remembered as a "Father of the American Navy," along with fellow Revolutionary War hero Commodore John Barry. John Paul Jones is buried in a crypt at the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel in Annapolis, Maryland, where a Marine honor guard stands at attention whenever the crypt is open to the public.
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All Mixed Up: A Juried Exhibition of Mixed Media Work

| OPENINGS |

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4 from  6:00 to 9:00pm 

Featuring the work of Melissa Burley, Nancy Donnelly, Angelina Hein, Tom Hill, Katie Dell Kaufman, Judith Kornett, Allen Linder, Megan Mueller, John Paradiso, Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Linda Lee Uphoff and Steven Williams.

Juror: Philippa Hughes

Exhibition Dates:  November 1 - 27, 2010.

Hosted at the Brentwood Arts Exchange in the Gateway Arts District for the first time, the 2010 Prince George's County Annual Juried Exhibition, All Mixed Up, is a prominent showcase for artists living, working, and studying in Prince George's County.  

"Dynamic, layered, textured and a little weird."  The juror uses these words describe herself as much as the works in All Mixed Up.  The words also come together as a surprisingly succinct way to sum up the Zeitgeist of contemporary art.  The title "All Mixed Up" proceeds to take on its own layers of meaning.  As it traverses from installation to abstraction, provocation to beauty, the show strikes a chord at the heart of what makes contemporary art so exciting.

Co-sponsored by The M-NCPPC Department of Parks & Recreation  and the Prince George's County Arts Council, All Mixed Up is also a bold reminder of the role Prince George's County increasingly plays at the forefront of the region's art community.  It is nationally prominent and emerging artists.  It is raw and refined, traditional as well as edgy, challenging and also affirming.

The Brentwood Arts Exchange at the Gateway Arts Center is located at 3901 Rhode Island Avenue Brentwood, MD 20722.  Call the center at 301-277-2863/ tty. 301-446-6802.  Hours are Monday through Friday: 10am - 8pm and Saturday: 10am - 6pm.

All Mixed Up: A Juried Exhibition of Mixed Media Work

| OPENINGS |

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 4 from  6:00 to 9:00pm 

Featuring the work of Melissa Burley, Nancy Donnelly, Angelina Hein, Tom Hill, Katie Dell Kaufman, Judith Kornett, Allen Linder, Megan Mueller, John Paradiso, Tim Tate, Erwin Timmers, Linda Lee Uphoff and Steven Williams.

Juror: Philippa Hughes

Exhibition Dates:  November 1 - 27, 2010.

Hosted at the Brentwood Arts Exchange in the Gateway Arts District for the first time, the 2010 Prince George's County Annual Juried Exhibition, All Mixed Up, is a prominent showcase for artists living, working, and studying in Prince George's County.  

"Dynamic, layered, textured and a little weird."  The juror uses these words describe herself as much as the works in All Mixed Up.  The words also come together as a surprisingly succinct way to sum up the Zeitgeist of contemporary art.  The title "All Mixed Up" proceeds to take on its own layers of meaning.  As it traverses from installation to abstraction, provocation to beauty, the show strikes a chord at the heart of what makes contemporary art so exciting.

Co-sponsored by The M-NCPPC Department of Parks & Recreation  and the Prince George's County Arts Council, All Mixed Up is also a bold reminder of the role Prince George's County increasingly plays at the forefront of the region's art community.  It is nationally prominent and emerging artists.  It is raw and refined, traditional as well as edgy, challenging and also affirming.

The Brentwood Arts Exchange at the Gateway Arts Center is located at 3901 Rhode Island Avenue Brentwood, MD 20722.  Call the center at 301-277-2863/ tty. 301-446-6802.  Hours are Monday through Friday: 10am - 8pm and Saturday: 10am - 6pm.