Friday, July 1, 2011

PAST: ART: Guest Post from East City Art highlighting shows on view August - Sept




NOW SHOWING


All exhibitions listed below are free of charge. Click on individual gallery websites for hours of operations. Many galleries have seasonal hours which change frequently. Exhibitions are listed in order of closing date.

Off Rhode Studio Gallery

On view July 15 - August 9, 2011


The folks at Art Enables have opened up a new gallery space on Rhode Island Avenue NE. The inaugural exhibition will show work from artists living along the Rhode Island Avenue communities in NE Washington and just over Eastern Avenue in Maryland. Free of Charge. For more info including a list of artists, click here.


Off Rhode Studio Gallery
2204 Rhode Island Avenue, NE


Industry Gallery

On view through August 13, 2011


On the heels of Conner Contemporary’s 11th annual Academy program comes Industry Gallery’s first MFA invitational. Organized by University of Virginia graduate students Michael Maizels and Brittany Strupp, the exhibition pairs up-and-coming artists from the mid-Atlantic region with emerging scholars, critics and curators. For more information about the exhibition including a list of artists, click here.


To read a review of Untitled click here.


Industry Gallery

1358 Forida Avenue NE



The Brentwood Arts Exchange at the Gateway Arts Center

On view June 27 – August 13, 2011


Artistic Reflections will showcase the works of David C. Driskell, Jeremy Austin, Starmanda Bullock, Sylvia Snowden in honor of David C. Driskell’s 80th Birthday. A world-renowned authority on African American ArtOver, Dr. David C. Driskell has created an unquestionable and profound impact in the arts through an extensive body of artwork, scholarship, curating, and teaching. This is an excellent occasion to see Driskell's work and meet him in person. For more information about the exhibition, click here.


To read a review of the exhibition click here.


Brentwood Arts Exchange at the Gateway Arts Center
3901 Rhode Island Avenue Brentwood, MD


Conner Contemporary Art

On view July 9 - August 22, 2011

Conner’s annual Academy program featuring the most promising graduates from the Washington-Baltimore area’s BFA and MFA programs returns to Trinidad. This is your chance to see emerging artist on their way to stardom. For more information about the exhibition including the artists showing, click here.

Conner Contemporary Art

1358 Florida Avenue NE



Capitol Hill Arts Workshop - CHAW

Art by Laura Vernon-Russell at Capitol Hill Arts Workshop (CHAW)

On view August 6th - September 1, 2011


A series of silver gelatin prints that focuses on nature and the intricacies, mysteries and energies of the Earth by Laura Vernon-Russell.


Capitol Hill Arts Workshop

545 7th Street, SE

Metro: Eastern Market (Blue and Orange Lines)


Honfleur Gallery
Fifth Annual East of the River show and 61 Honfleur GalleryOn view August 5 - September 16, 2011

61 leaves a little earlier, on Sepetember 9th, 2011


Honfleur celebrates the opening of the Fifth Annual East of the River show featuring six local artists selected by a panel of jurors. Upstairs, artists Mei Mei Chang, Honfleur’s summer resident artist presents 61 which pushes the boundaries of paper and canvas onto the gallery’s walls.


Honfleur Gallery

1241 Good Hope Rd, SE

Metro: Anacostia (Green Line)


The Gallery at Vivid Solutions

(Un)Lock It at The Gallery at Vivid Solutions

On view August 5 - October 7, 2011


The East of the River Festival spills over into the Gallery at Vivid Solutions with Thomas Sayers Ellis' (Un)Lock It: the Percussive People in the Go-Go Pocket with a photographic retrospective on DC’s autochthonous and iconic musical movement- Go-Go.


Vivid Solutions

2208 MLK Jr. Ave, SE

Metro: Anacostia (Green Line)


Metro: Please see Metro for best access from where you are coming from. Many of these locations are best reached by bus or taxi from the nearest metro.

Phil Hutinet is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art. You can get more information about East City Art on Facebook or follow them on Twitter

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