Friday, May 17, 2013
Corcoran, Phillips and others to offer free admission or special deals.
A number of local art museums will offer free admission in honor of Art Museum Day (Saturday, May 18), according to The Washington Post. In the District, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the National Museum of African Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Phillips Collection will offer free admission this Saturday, while the Hillwood Estate, Museum and Gardens will honor the day on Saturday, June 8, when “Living Artfully” opens. In Maryland, the Baltimore Museum of Art will allow visitors free admission to view its 90,000 works of art on Saturday. Art Museum Day was developed by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) in 2009 to dovetail with the International Museum Day, created by the International Council of Museums …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Bethesda's "Fair Focus" Art Exhibition artist discusses the inspirations behind her work and what her life would be like without paint.
As part of Bethesda’s Art Walk festivities, the “Fair Focus” Art Exhibition was an event for the community to enjoy unique masterpieces by reputable artists from all over the world, including Julia Fernandez-Pol. The Argentinian-American artist grew up looking either under a microscope or through a telescope. Over time, Fernandez-Pol used those same observation techniques to create her paintings. After moving across the country to Los Angeles, Fernandez-Pol is establishing herself on a new coast and her work is just getting started. Bethesda-Chevy Chase Patch: Who is Julia Fernandez-Pol? Julia Fernandez-Pol: I think Julia the artist is allowing my eccentricity to be my important feature. One of the things for me is that I love the …
Friday, May 10, 2013
New York City may have Vincent van Gogh's "Starry Night," but Bethesda's got the David van Go-berg one.
New York City's Museum of Modern Art may have Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night, but Bethesda's got the David van Go-berg original. And, van Go-berg's Starry Night is a lot bigger, and may be seen from the street, free-of-charge. The 146-inch-by-96-inch mural is affixed to the side of Union Hardware (7800 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda)—see it around the corner on Norfolk Avenue. Union Hardware co-owner David Goldberg—aka van Go-berg—created the mural out of left-over hardware stock (more than 1,250 door knobs, levers and backplates from Germany, Italy and the U.S.), according to the description at the side of the mural. Goldberg describes his creation as "Post-Door Hardwareism," in homage to van Gogh's Post-Impressionism. Read more about Goldberg…
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Bethesda’s Gallery B’s May exhibition features work by local artists, as well as a collaborative piece to be sold for charity.
Gallery B’s May exhibition includes pieces from seven local artists who, in addition to their individual works, will contribute to a group piece to be auctioned off during the month. The exhibition, called “Seven Variations and a Conversation,” features seven artists from Dupont Circle’s Foundry Gallery: Fran Abrams, Nancy Donnelly, Naomi Taitz Duffy, Judy Gilbert Levey, Donna K. McGee, Robert Wiener and Patricia Zannie. Several of the contributors are from the area; Levey is an oil painter from Bethesda, Abrams works on polymer clay out of Rockville and Wiener is a Washington, DC, native who owns a private art glass studio. As part of the exhibition at Gallery B (7700 Wisconsin Ave., Suite E, Bethesda), the artists collaborated on a group…
The 10th annual Bethesda Fine Arts Festival will be held May 11 and 12 at Woodmont Triangle, with more than 20,000 expected to attend.
The Bethesda Fine Arts Festival will take place the weekend of May 11, with its 10th anniversary celebration featuring more than 100 artists from around the country. The festival, which is produced by the Bethesda Urban Partnership and the Bethesda Arts and Entertainment District, is slated to draw more than 20,000 attendees during the weekend. Last year, there were somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 people on the streets of Bethesda partaking in the festival. The attending artists cover a wide variety of artistic mediums, such as ceramics, glass, printmaking and photography. A complete list of artists who will be at the event can be found online at the Bethesda Urban Partnership’s website. In addition to the 130 artists, the festival …
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Chevy Chase glass artist Kathie Perry Lynch will be one of the more than 250 artisans to show work at the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival this month.
Chevy Chase glass artist Kathie Perry Lynch is one of the more than 250 artisans chosen by jury to show work at the Sugarloaf Crafts Festival this month. Lynch's speciality is creating hand-crafted fused glass artworks. "Fused glass is cutting layers of glass, assembling and then firing in a kiln at between 1,250 to 1,500 degrees," she explained to Patch. Lynch began her glass career 20 years ago at Glen Echo Park. "I was interested in fiber arts but stumbled into a fused glass class instead and never looked back," she said. She was a founding member of the Glen Echo Glass Art Consortium, she explains at her online shop. Lynch makes both sculptural and functional glass, bowls, platters, jewelry and more. "I have taken many classes from …
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Works by Chevy Chase artist Betty Pomarede will be featured next month in a show at New York City's Agora Gallery.
Works by Chevy Chase artist Betty Pomarede will be featured next month in a show—Interpretive Realms—at New York City's Agora Gallery, according to a gallery statement. "Pomarede’s beautifully understated abstractions reveal the world of possibility that resides in a single color or shape. With oil paint and pastel, Pomarede transforms both outdoor vistas and small-scale objects into expanses of tone," the statement described her work. "Though her colors are divided into bold, angular forms, their hue and shade undulate with the utmost subtlety. In this tension between rigidity and flexibility, she finds the life of her work. There is no discernible representation of realist proportion or depth, but the artist’s chosen colors nonetheless …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
A rooftop sculpture garden is part of a renovation planned for the landmark modern art gallery.
The National Gallery of Art has unveiled plans for a $30 million renovation of its East Building, The Washington Post reported. The renovations include more than 12,000 square feet of additional space for exhibits as well as a rooftop sculpture garden. Earl A. Powell III, the National Gallery’s director, told The Post that the renovation is a "gift to the nation" in service to the gallery's world-class modern art collections, which will be viewed in a "spacious, airy and contemplative" environment. Donors for the project include Washington-based philanthropists Victoria Sant (the gallery’s president) and her husband Roger, gallery board member Mitchell Rales and his wife Emily, and David Rubenstein, who heads the private equity firm The …
Saturday, March 9, 2013
A photo exhibit features the heyday of the Baby Boomers, millions of whom settled in the DC suburbs.
The aging population in Montgomery County is often the topic of discussion among local planning officials, with the Baby Boom generation entering the retirement years. That makes this area, with its millions of boomers—many of whom who came to DC decades ago—a prime audience for what The Washington Post calls a captivating photo exhibit of the 1970s, a decade known for disco, polyester, pollution and political strife. The exhibit, Searching for the Seventies: The Documerica Photography Project, seeks to tell the story of the turbulent decade in a series of color photographs taken for the Federal Documerica project. The Environmental Protection Agency initiated the project in 1971 to document the “environmental awakening” and “that era’s …
Monday, March 4, 2013
What do you get when you mix art supplies, artists, museum educators and 411 students? Drawing across the curriculum at the sixth annual NCCES Big Draw!
Amy Morton
1:53 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Our "Fair Focus" exhibition in Bethesda was great! To view JULIA FERNANDEZ-POL's work please visit our permanent gallery space: Morton Fine Art located at 1781 Florida Ave NW (at 18th & U Sts), Washington, DC 20009. www.mortonfineart.com more ›