Saturday, July 9, 2011

PAST: ART: These Three Exhibits at the Corcoran leave SUN, August 14th - Open late THURS 11th, Free SAT, August 13th $10 /$8 otherwise

Three exhibitions are leaving the Corcoran this Sunday!
On view now - Sunday, August 14th
$10 otherwise, $8 for students and seniors, free for members

Note that the Corcoran is also open until 9:00pm this Thursday night and there is a free art Opening at the Corcoran's Gallery 31 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm. It'll still cost you $10 if you want to see the shows on view, listed below.

Charles Sandison: Rage, love, hope, and despair (pictured above)

"Using darkness as his canvas and language as his medium, Scottish-born artist Charles Sandison is known for creating hypnotic digital projections that fill galleries and cover architectural facades."

Mads Gamdrup: Renunciation

For this project, Danish artist Mads Gamdrup traveled to Egypt, Iceland, Morocco, and the United States and captured 16 spectacular, large-scale color photographs in an attempt to explore the desert as a place of unexpected promise.

Washington Color and Light

View works by artists associated with the Washington Color School and their contemporaries. The exhibition reveals the artistic innovations and individual approaches that shaped new directions in abstract painting and sculpture from the 1950s through the late 1970s.

Image below from CultureCapital: Howard Mehring, Gemini, 1965-1966. Acrylic on canvas, 85 x 70 1/8 inches. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Gift of the Woodward Foundation 1977.34. © The Estate of Howard Mehring, Courtesy of GARY SNYDER Project Space, New York.

Regular hours:

Tuesday - Sunday
10:00am - 5:00pm

open late on Thursdays
'til 9:00pm

500 17th St, NW
Metro: Farragut North or West and walk down 17th St about ten minutes

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