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We knew this was coming, but Randall Scott of the eponymous art gallery on 14th Street NW confirmed with us today that he'll be closing up his D.C. shop at the end of next week. Scott told us this morning:

I have been considering NY for over a year, the pace of the city attracts me, as does the community of artists and people involved in the arts. I have met an amazing group of people in DC over the past 2+ years, from collectors and gallerists, to artists, but I have been feeling that northward pull.

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Ichikawa's work is consistent as each piece is an abstract pattern made from the glass on paper. The marks are brown and smokey and the color shifts ever so slightly depending on the pressure and intensity of the heat from the glass. Each piece captures the movement used in its making. Some have delicate strokes and others have harsh, hurried lines. It is beautiful and simplistic but the result isn't as captivating as the process.

The first two photographers, Kyoko Hamada and Tema Stauffer, will be on display until July 26. Hamada’s soft, still, white-framed images appear to be telling a story, and left us curious to see the full exhibition. Two of her images featured a contemplative character, still among his and her environs. In Teacup (pictured right), a middle-aged woman in enviable sunglasses and mother-like business attire holds a beige teacup and sits centered on a similarly beige couch, framed by translucent yellow window coverings. Hamada's work left us wondering if the additional photographs in her repertoire will tell us more about these characters, or are they simply portraits? Hamada’s counterpart, Tema Stauffer, displayed three beautiful nighttime gas station landscapes which, while lovely, don’t leave us quite as curious as Hamada’s.

Cara Ober is a painter, writer and teacher living in Baltimore and showing her work around the region. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Towson, Johns Hopkins, and Loyola College. A lifetime area resident, Cara, 33, also writes art reviews for Art US Magazine, Art Papers, and Gutter Magazine. Her latest show, I Am Who I Pretend to Be, runs at Randall Scott Gallery through April 12.

If you're a regular reader of the Arts Agenda, be sure to check out yesterday's summary of the benefits of becoming a member of one of the local arts venues in D.C. Right after we put that online, we heard that WPA is relaunching their online database ArtFile (one of the benefits of becoming a WPA member is a free artist profile on the site, where you can store images of your work). Visitors can browse the site for free and save "lightboxes" with work of their favorite local artists.

Last week a little dose of relief came to the city's art lovers and critics, as the National Gallery of Art announced they've filled the position to head up their department of modern art, vacant for around six months now. Harry Cooper comes to the NGA from the Harvard University Art Museums, and Washington City Paper's Jeffry Cudlin does a good job putting it in perspective. In other museum news, camera-in-cell-phone technology is officially history....

>> Author Paul Karasik will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his book, I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets, which chronicles the life of Fletcher Hanks, old school comics illustrator from the 1930s and creater of Stardust, and why he disappeared from comics. 7 p.m. >> Catch up on your parking lot loitering tonight to see Colombian born artist Kata Mejia perform Healing at 1622 14th Street NW. Presented by the Randall...

As a Japanese immigrant growing up in West Virginia, Hiroyuki Hamada spoke little English. Frustrated by the inability to communicate, Hamada started to create his own language through art. Now on view at the Randall Scott Gallery, is a collection of this language and an exploration of texture, form and composition.

It's the first day of summer, which means it's about to get real slow in the art world. Take advantage of the gallery shows before they break for the season, then move on to the air conditioned goodness of the museums come the heat of August. >> Project 4 breathes life into a razed electrical switch room in Ireland that had been abandoned 25 years earlier in Building. A group of Belfast and Brooklyn artists...

Is it terrible to say that one of the reasons I love long weekends is that the entire town empties out, and while my friends are all stuck in traffic on the way to the beach, I can roam the blissfully quiet streets of D.C.? For those of us inclined to stick around town to enjoy the peace, or maybe because we're just plain broke, take the chance to fill your Saturday night dance card with an art opening or two.

Motion is colorful, awkward, and sometimes, kind of hilarious. At least, at the Randall Scott Gallery it is. The theme is captured well here, and not just because it's kind of an easy one to grasp. This group show features media across the board — photographs, video, even kinetic sculpture — and though some works seem to be overshadowed by one piece in particular, solely for its "awesomeness" factor, the show as a whole is generally a strong one.

>> 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...

>>Does This Mean Spring Will Be Here Soon? Please?: If you find yourself in Virginia instead of Maryland, begin your weekend with an opening reception for Equinox at the Arlington Arts Center. This "juried all media exhibition" will feature twenty-two regional artists who work in, well, all media. The pieces fit into three categories: manipulated materials, abstraction and the figure. Stop by tomorrow between 6 and 9 p.m. for the reception.

What's that you say? You have nothing to do Saturday? Fear not, art lovers, we've found so many events for you this Saturday that you'll have to practice your wind sprints in order to make it to every one. >> Fourteenth Street NW is a good home base for your gallery hopping on Saturday, as three galleries will be hosting parties. The Randall Scott Gallery is celebrating its grand opening with a reception for No...