ARTISTS
2021
As the coronavirus ravaged the world, Helen Frederick thought of the Ramayana, the sacred Hindu epic.
The work in The Travel Section points to the isolation of a lockdown, but it鈥檚 not without moments of release.
Fabulist-realist painter Erik Thor Sandberg keeps one foot planted in the 16th century, but recently that remote era shifted forward for him.
2019
In minimalist color paintings, tiny variations in hue or texture can generate a surprising amount of drama.
Like American landscape photographers of earlier eras, Noelle K. Tan likes to hit the road with a camera and a cache of black-and-white film.
By most accounts, except his own, President Trump hasn鈥檛 started to build his 鈥渂ig, beautiful wall鈥� on the southern U.S. border.
The former D.C. painter has turned his shaped canvases into full-on sculptures.
2017
For "Glass Giant," a show of about two dozen new works, Gubbiotti brings most of his signature strategies to bear.
2015
Robert Caro starts The Years of Lyndon Johnson, his multi-volume and as-yet-unfinished biography of the president, deep in the bowels of the earth.
2014
A masterful D.C. painter's geometric, balanced world isn't as simple as it seems.
Ball pits were fun to play in as a kid, but now that I'm old enough to worry about things like staph infections and hidden pools of vomit, the thought
2013
On Dec. 19, Mount Vernon Square gallery Civilian Art Projects held a holiday party for all its artists, friends, and supporters. It was the last event
Civilian Art Projects was on to something when they paired photographic exhibits by Kate McDonnell and Noelle K. Tan.
2012
When Transformer marks its 10th anniversary this Friday, some of D.C.鈥檚 best artists will be among the revelers. And so will some of its worst.
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