Kick off the New Year by checking out some of the plentiful new exhibits around town.
>>The Dupont Circle galleries will be open late (6-8 p.m.) for First Friday this week. Highlights include two new solo shows at Irvine Contemporary, featuring paintings and drawings by Brooklyn-based Bede Murphy and photographs by D.C.’s own Jason Zimmerman. The artists will give gallery talks about their work on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. Zimmerman’s Straight, Street, Traditional is shown at right.
>> Over at Conner Contemporary, artist Dean Kessmann gives new significance to the plastic shopping bags that permeate our lives with his recent digital photographs. In Plastic on Paper is his second solo show at the gallery.
>> The new show at Washington Printmakers Gallery features work by four printmakers, selected by Library of Congress curator Katherine L. Blood and Eric Denker, curator of prints and drawings at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
