This newsletter contains information on two upcoming programs. Please be sure to scroll down to see both.
Please Join Us for a Curator-Led Tour of
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary
American Collage
The Phillips Collection
Tuesday, September 17, 2:15 pm
Please join us on Tuesday, September 17, 2:15 pm for a tour of the Phillips Collection exhibition Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage with senior consulting curator Adrienne Childs.
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is the first large-scale exhibition dedicated to exploring collage by contemporary Black American artists such as Mark Bradford, Kerry James Marshall, Tschabalala Self, and Kara Walker. Featuring nearly 60 works by 49 artists, this exhibition celebrates the broad variety and complexity of Black identity in art. Building on a technique that has roots in European and American traditions, the diverse, inter-generational group of artists have created innovative works with pieces of paper, photographs, fabrics, and/or other salvaged materials. The bold compositions, created with an array of experimental techniques, offer poignant expressions of human experience, including fragmentation and reconstruction, shared history and memory, cultural hybridity, gender fluidity, and notions of beauty.
Please use the blue “button” below to RSVP. WPC members may register for themselves and one guest. Attendance is limited to 25, so be sure to register early to secure your spot.
More information about the exhibition can be found here.
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A Tour of
Faces and Figures: Identity Through Printmaking Between DC and South Africa
with Alissa Maru, Associate Curator and
Exhibition and Program Manager,
George Mason University School Of Art
Please join us on Saturday, September 28, 2:00 pm for tour of an exhibition of prints by South African artists organized by George Mason University. The exhibition that explores artists’ expressions of identity in contemporary South Africa through the lens of printmaking. The artists are alumni and current students of the Artist Proof Studio (APS), a community printmaking center in Johannesburg, South Africa.
The tour will be led by Alissa Maru, associate curator and exhibition program manager, and will enriched by input from Washington Print Club artist member Cheryl Edwards, who will offer personal insights into the work based on her experiences in South Africa.
Also showing in the gallery will be The Printmaking Legacy Project’s latest video project documenting the work of printmakers Percy B. Martin and Michael B. Platt.
Attendance is limited to 25. Please use the blue “button” below to RSVP. WPC members may register for themselves and one guest.
The Gallery is located at 3601 Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA, located near the Ballston Metro stop.
Artist Member News
Cianne Fragione will have an exhibition of her work at the Saint Mary College Museum of Art (California), September 18 – June 22.
Galerie Myrtis (Baltimore) is presenting Susan Goldman’s new print series, Squaring the Flower VI. Click here for more information.
Mira Hecht’s exhition at the American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, in the center thereof rose a fountain, opens September 7 and runs through December 8. Mira’s work is also included in the online exhibition Pattern & Repetition, Conversations with Artists. Until September 30. More information here.
Mary Higgins, Cross The Meadow: Drawings by Mary Welch Higgins, September 5 – October 15, Goodwin House – The Art Studio Gallery, 4800 Fillmore Ave, Alexandria, VA. Reception September 27, 4:00 pm.
Robert Hunter’s print Divergent received a Juror’s choice award in the 2024 Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community’s National Juried Art Exhibition held at the Park Gables gallery in Harrisonburg VA. Robert also had two of his artist’s books selected for the 13th Juried International Exhibition – The Art of the Book, until November 30, 2024.
June Linowitz’s show Elemental will be at the Fred Schneider Gallery September 7 – October 27. Opening reception September 7; artist talk October 6.
Kate Lowman leaf & luminosity: constructed prints and photographs will be on view at the Washington Printmakers Gallery August 29 – September 29. Reception September 8, 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
linn meyers and Soledad Salamé have artwork in the Kreeger Museum’s 30th anniversary exhibition. Until October 5.
Charles Ritchie, Journals & Drawings will be on view at BravinLee Programs, New York, October 5 – November 2, 2024. Opening Saturday, 5 October 2024, 6-8 pm
Elzbieta Sikorska, Susan Due Pearcy, Gail Shaw-Clemons, and Clare Winslow have work in the Biennial Maryland Regional Juried Art Exhibition, hosted by the University of Maryland Global Campus. Until September 8.
Rosemary Feit Covey is a finalist for the prestigious Trawick Prize. Work by Trawick finalists will be on view at Gallery B (Bethesda, MD) September 5 – 29. Reception September 13, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Gallery Member News
Adah Rose GalleryWinter Silence, Midnight Sun, North Star, Noonday Night, the paintings of Gabe Brown, September 13 – October 27. Opening September 13, 5:00 -7:00 pm
Addison/RipleyNancy Sansome Reynolds Wave, September 7 – October 19. Opening reception September 7, 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
Gallery Neptune & BrownDiane Szczepaniak: Meditations on Color and Form, September 7 – October 19. Opening reception September 7, 5:00 – 7:00 pm.
Hemphill, Works by Rush Baker IV, September 14 – October 26.
Morton Fine Art New Experimental Printmaking by Rosemary Feit Covey, September 4 – October 4. Opening reception September 14, 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
Pazo Fine Art, DC location. Michael Scott: Fantastical Landscapes, September 7 – October 26. Opening reception September 7, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Pazo Fine Art, Kensington location. 10012: The Abstract Vanguard. Ross Bleckner, Alan Cote, Max Gimblett, and Kevin Teare. September 14 – November 23. Opening reception September 14, 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Pyramid Atlantic, Errantry, works by Alonzo Davis, September 7 – October 6. Opening reception September 7, 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
Washington Printmakers Gallery, Leaf and Luminosity: Constructed Prints and Photographs by Kate Lowman (see above). Until September 29. reception September 8, 2:00 – 4:00 pm.
Welcome New Member Sofia Knapp
Sofia Knapp is the talented printmaker who is the winner of the 2024 Student Printmaker Award. Sofia says,
“I just recently got into printmaking and it has truly been an amazing experience. It has opened up doors of interest that I never even considered or thought possible! I’m excited to be a part of The Washington Print Club and get to know other members as we explore shared passions for printmaking. I’m excited to get involved and become a contributing member as time goes on. Thank you so much for inviting me into this artistic space and I hope to explore and get to know this shared passion better!”
Letter to the Washington Post in Response to
Announced Changes in Local Arts Coverage
There is an adage that says “If you build it, they will come.” Actually, the more appropriate version should be “If you build it, and advertise it well, they will come.” As a longtime Washington Post subscriber, and someone intimately involved in the vibrant, large, and always creative local visual arts community, I strongly believe that press coverage is necessary for its well being—indeed, its survival. It is the advertising of gallery openings, exhibitions, and pop up events that informs readers, encourages them to attend, and provides an enjoyable experience while simultaneously offering a sense of community and intellectual enrichment. Beyond this, there is the economic impact. Attendance at local art galleries often leads to sales which support the gallery, the artist, and the larger community. Elimination of local coverage of the visual arts will have a deleterious economic effect which will reverberate throughout the region. The Posts decision to discontinue print coverage of local galleries and alternate spaces will cripple the areas visual arts scene through no—or only minimal—coverage. I know that multiple reasons lie behind any major decision of this sort, but I sincerely suggest a compromise that will allow the local visual arts establishment to not only build it, but find it well advertised. Sincerely, Christopher With President, The Washington Print Club