ARTISTS
2024
Also: African artists鈥� distinctive techniques, creative takes with paper and wood, and ethereal self-portraits of handmade prints.
2023
A multimedia exhibit on pollution's damaging effects, gadgets that critique technology, a group show of striking black-and-white photographs, and figurative sculptures that explore African roots.
The world is distilled into colored dabs of electronic light in the art of Yu-Jung Chen and Ignacio Gatica.
Many of the spaces people enter these days, whether actual or virtual, lack a distinctive character.
2022
Newly Selected Artists: Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron, Kate Fitzpatrick and Kristin Adair offers unique takes on text.
A single, intentionally one-dimensional figure stands at the center of each painting in MK Bailey鈥檚 鈥淪ecret Garden.鈥� Yet the pigment itself is not always flat.
The Swedish artist鈥檚 latest exhibit, on display at Hillyer Gallery, invites us to examine how we may be perpetuating social injustices.
2021
About 40 artists contributed to Studio Gallery鈥檚 鈥淥rganic Geometry: A Tribute to Nancy Frankel,鈥� but many of the highlights are, fittingly, by the late abstract sculptor herself.
2020
Although Eve Stockton鈥檚 pictures are unusually large for woodcut prints, their scale suits her subjects, which include sea, sky and sun.
The sky is falling and the ocean is rising at IA&A at Hillyer, where art by Neil Forrest and Noel Kassewitz ponders the state of the union, with a few nods to French history.
2019
One of the National Gallery of Art鈥檚 more cinematic holdings is Thomas Cole鈥檚 鈥淭he Voyage of Life,鈥� a four-painting suite.
Dead is dead, but there鈥檚 a special finality to separating head from body.
The seven artists and two projects featured in Greater Reston Arts Center鈥檚 鈥淥verlooked鈥� may or may not be neglected, but that鈥檚 not the meaning of the show鈥檚 title.
A quick glance around the main gallery at IA&A at Hillyer doesn鈥檛 reveal much that would have surprised museum-goers a century ago.
While the Smithsonian鈥檚 art galleries remain closed to the public, there's plenty of terrific galleries art lovers can visit around the city.