If you want to get away from the warm weather this weekend, this week’s Arts Agenda is full of art happenings all over town for your indoor enjoyment.
>> This Friday is the monthly Dupont Circle First Friday, with gallery openings across the neighborhood from 5 to 8 p.m. Washington Printmakers opens at 5 p.m. to present recent monotype and printed relief constructions by Bill Harris. A Bachelors and Masters graduate of Howard and instructor at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Harris breaks the 2D mold by combining “printed canvas surfaces on various three-dimensional wooden forms.”
Additionally, the Foundry Gallery will feature new figures, still lifes and abstract paintings by Patsy Fleming on Friday from 6 to 8 p.m., Gallery 10 opens a group small sculpture exhibit, and Aaron Gallery holds a reception for the boldly colored works by sculptor Brad Howe and abstract painter Erika Rukin (pictured right) from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Also in Dupont, head to Hillyer Art Space (9 Hillyer Court NW between 21st and Florida Ave.) from 6 to 8 p.m. for the opening of Dave Morland’s Old Bones and Artifacts, with the evening’s soundtrack provided by DJ Chris Burns and edible treats by Napoleon Bistro and Lounge. Morland’s work explores classical art, Greek Mythology and the history and people of the Native American culture.
>> On 17th Street on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m., Meat Market Gallery opens Time Machine, an exhibit of video, time-based media and sound work by the online video collective Perpetual Art Machine curated by Amelia Winger-Bearskin. Meat Market claims the exhibit “transform[s] the gallery space into a time machine ready to steal moments of your time and store them for future generations.” The opening will include a one-time interactive performance which “will utilize the manufactured darkness of the gallery space to ease the audience into what can only be described as a contraction of time and space.” Like many of Meat Market’s exhibits, the concept may seem confusing, but the experience will likely be well worth it.
>> Saturday night, Warehouse presents an evening of sound, video and spoken word that promises to be “provocative, experimental, and cutting edge.” The annual Queering Sound 08: Pixelation starts at 8 p.m., costs $10, and features live performances and digital presentations.
