Arts Agenda: Everyone's Open for Business
>> The gallery at Flashpoint opens a new show tonight with works by Christopher Saah. Nightscenes includes 25 photographs that turn back alleys and gritty streets into noir-influenced nostalgia. Check them out during the opening reception tonight from 6 to 8 p.m.
>> The Nevin Kelly Gallery also has an opening tonight, celebrating their first photography show in the four years its been open. Yanina Manolova and Mark Parascandola's images will contrast formal studio work with natural, open landscapes. Stop by between 6 and 9 p.m.
>> The DC Jewish Community Center takes a different turn in their latest exhibition, 5+5: Five Artists Select Five Artists to Watch. The gallery chose five nationally acclaimed artists, each with local ties, who, you guessed it, chose five up-and-comers to show alongside them. This is definitely a show to see, even if only for the pairing of the talented Sam Gilliam with the emerging Jae Ko. The opening reception is tonight, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
>> The DCAC takes a similar path with its new show, By Chance. Curator Lisa McCarty asked her three artists to create something using the element of chance; then asked them to each pick another artist, whose work also appears in the show. The opening reception is Friday, 7 to 9 p.m.
>> Stop by the Randall Scott Gallery this Saturday to see its new show, All Things Said, in Motion. The group show includes six artists who explore motion through a variety of media, from Silas Barrett, who picks out the things we miss as we rush through our surroundings everyday, to Ryan Wolfe, who makes kinetic sculptures that react to the motion of its parts. The opening reception is 6 to 9 p.m.
>> While you're on 14th Street Saturday night, head up to G Fine Art for the opening reception for Anatomies. Graham Caldwell's slightly creepy but mesmerizing glass sculptures will make the gallery feel like a spaceship you've stumbled onto, complete with a collection of aliens and alien parts from every branch of the galaxy. Check it out for yourself, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
>> The Phillips Collection opens an exhibit Saturday that displays the influence artists had on the first films with Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film. The traveling exhibition has received many kind words so far, and showcases paintings, photographs, posters, flipbooks and, most importantly, 53 of the earliest American films playing on 44 flatscreen monitors in the gallery. See their web site for hours and admission prices.
>> Zakouma, Elephant Crisis in Chad opens today at the National Geographic Museum. Photographer Michael Nichols and conservationist J. Michael Fay studied the dwindling African elephant population in this protected park. See and hear Nichols and Fay's experience and what efforts are being made to protect the remaining elephants, who continue to be threatened by poachers searching for ivory.
>> Although Spin Cycle, an exhibit with the sculptural, gadget-like works of Rob Lindsay, has been open at the Washington Printmakers Gallery since January 30, join them this Sunday for a reception with the artist, 12 to 2 p.m.
>> Poets wanted! Submit your work to the Arlington Arts Center by March 12 at 5 p.m. to win a chance to be mentored by Virginia’s Poet Laureate, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda for their In Two Tongues/ En dos lenguas program. Check the web site for more details.
>> Mid-Atlantic Art News tells us that Art-o-Matic finally got their stuff together and are having not one, but two shows this year. Cue Blake Gopnik having a full-blown conniption fit...now.