Please Join Us for a
Visit to the Studio of Artist
Cianne Fragione
Saturday, November 18, 11:00 am
This Program is Members-Only
Members of the Washington Print Club are invited to visit the Washington, DC studio of artist Cianne Fragione, who shares with us this about her practice:
“My work crosses boundaries between painting and sculpture, object and image. I want the natural rhythms of the life around me to seep into my visual vocabulary and constructive procedures, as a formal motive that unifies my studio environment, my travels, and the immediacy of the daily world.
The current works are in response to two collections of poems by the Italian writer Eugenio Montale: Mediterraneo and Ossi di Seppia.
A significant aspect of Montale’s poetry for me is its ability to develop and vividly express an iconography of ordinary objects in ways that reshape everyday life experience with imagination, unpredictability, and sensitivity. Because I share Montale’s intentions and something of his linguistic spirit,
my work draws upon similar kinds of formal motifs that refer to memories, traditions, and a history at once personal and cultural. These encourage a fluidity of themes and imagery that soon overlap as they continue to reorganize themselves and open different avenues of exploration.”
Registration for this event is limited to 15 members and their guests. Members may register for up to two people. Please be sure to RSVP early as this program will reach capacity quickly.
Member News
Curated by WPC member Helen Frederick, Eternal Paper brings together 20 artists who have collaborated to create hand-formed art in and on paper. Their approaches range from representation to abstraction and address political, ecological, and social issues. These artists honor past traditions while inventing new concepts of materiality. The exhibition includes work by WPC members Soledad Salame, Helen Frederick, Randi Reiss McCormack, and Gretchen Schermerhorn. More information is available here.
Julia Bloom’s work is included in the exhibition Repetition at Ruby Projects, Fairfax, VA. The gallery is located in a private home. Those wishing to visit the exhibition should contact Travis Childers via email.
Jacqueline Crocetta, Elzbieta Sikorska, and June Linowitz will have work in the upcoming McLean Project for the Arts exhibition, Moving Beyond Beauty: Reverence and Reclamation, opening December 7 and running until February 17. Opening reception is December 7, 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
The Fred Schneider Gallery in Arlington, VA will be hosting a solo show of the paintings and drawings by member Delna Dastur. The opening reception is November 11, 5:00 – 8:00 pm. Delna will be giving a talk at the gallery on Saturday, December 9th, 5:00 – 7:00pm. The show runs through December 30. More information is available here. Delna was also interviewed by “Embracing Arlington.” You can hear that interview here.will have work in the upcoming McLean Project for the Arts exhibition, Moving Beyond Beauty: Reverence and Reclamation, opening December 7 and running until February 17. Opening reception is December 7, 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
Carol Reed will have work included in Transformer’s upcoming benefit auction, November 18, at the Katzen Center.
Ana Rendich’s work will be included in Transformer’s upcoming auction at the Katzen Center, November 18. Ana has also recently begun a fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA.
Beverly Ress’ work will be included in McLean Project for the Arts auction.
Julie Wolfe has a number of works on view in the Georgetown University Library exhibition Scientific Illustration. In addition, Julie is participating in the Laconica Biennial in Lithuania.The Biennial is dedicated to senses of vision and smell. Julie is showing an installation of 100 pages stained with chlorophyll that will fill the room with the scent of plant life.
McLean Project for the Arts’ current exhibition (Not) Strictly Painting includes works by WPC members Julia Bloom and Delna Dastur. This exhibition is on view until November 11.
Julia Bloom, Jacqueline Crocetta, and Gail Shaw-Clemons are among the artists whose work is included in DC Art Now! 2023, the exhibition of finalists for inclusion in the 2024 DC Art Bank. On view until December 15. More information here.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose Gallery, Upcoming: works by Susan Stacks and Maggie Gourlay. Dates to be announced.
Addison/Ripley, Dan Treado Double Platinum, until December 2.
Gallery Neptune & Brown, Foon Sham October 21 – December 2.
Hemphill, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, November 11 – December 22.
Morton Fine Art, Mixed media and collages by Amber Robles-Gordon October 12 – November 9. Ink on paper drawings by Hannelie Coetzee, November 11 – December 19. Opening reception November 18, 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
Pazo Fine Art Pazo’s Kensington location hosts Proximities with works by artists Olivier Mosset, Michael Scott, and Blair Thurman until December 7. Upcoming at Pazo’s DC location is a show of work by Kate Sable, November 18 – January 13. Opening reception November 18, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Pyramid Atlantic’s Big and Little Inks features large-scale relief prints selected from past BIG INK events across the country paired with nearly 100 “little inks” curated from an open call for small relief prints. October 14 – November 26. The annual 10×10 exhibition will run December 9 – 24.
Washington Printmakers Gallery’s Confluence of Energies: Film, Print, Painting and Projection by Donna Cameron, until November 26.
Also of Interest
Georgetown University Galleries, Kara Walker: Back of Hand will be on view in the de la Cruz Art Gallery and Kara Walker: Prince McVeigh and the Turner Blasphemies will be on view in the Spagnuolo Art Gallery, until December 3.
American University Art Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Cushner, featuring the works of Steven Cushner, including many works on paper. Until December 10.
National Gallery of Art, Etched by Light: Photogravures from the Collection, 1840-1940. Until February 4.
National Gallery of Art, Dorothea Lange: Seeing People, November 5 – March 31.
The Library of Congress will be hosting a conversation with artist Didier Mutel, From the Atelier Remond (1793) to the Atelier Mutel (2023) about etching and engraving. Works on view will include contemporary examples and rare works from the oldest etching studio in France. November 16, 3:00 – 5:00. Lessing Rosenwald Room, second floor, Jefferson Building.
National Gallery of Art, Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, November 19 – March 31.
Co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a free online symposium on images of women at work. November 16 and 17. Further information here.
The Art Newspaper recently published a very interesting article about prints and printmaking. You can read it here.
Welcome New Member Ana Rendich
Ana Rendich is a visual artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The world of interiority, how we coexist with a particular area and each other, gentrification, displacement, and collective mourning are prominent themes in her work.
Ana studied Scenic Design at Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, before moving on to study Costume Design at the Instituto Superior de Arte at the Teatro Colón, one of the world’s premier opera houses.
She has been concentrating on printing, monoprint, painting, and in three dimensional surfaces incorporating different materials such as ink, organic dyes, oil paint, acrylic, wood, epoxy and special type of papers made from different trees and bushes.
Ana has exhibited in solo shows, at Quirk Gallery in Richmond, and in group exhibitions such as at the Phillips Collection THEARC, Sue Ravitz, 57 W 57 Arts, NY NY, Les Yeux du Monde, Chroma Projects, 1708 Gallery, Margaret Harwell Art Museum, the University of Mary Washington. In May, 2024 she will have her third solo show at Quirk Gallery, Richmond, VA.
Save the Date
December 9, 11am, Visit to the studio of artist Mira Hecht.