Image of work by Adam “5100” Feibelman, courtesy Project 4The neighborhood around the Convention Center seems to be the hot spot for new galleries lately. First Long View Gallery moved a few blocks down 9th Street to their new location last autumn, followed by Civilian Art Projects’ move to the old Warehouse spot on 7th Street a few months ago. If you remember, all three tenants of the Penn Quarter 406 7th Street NW building — Civilian, Touchstone Gallery, and Apartment Zero — fled last year. Apartment Zero transitioned into a design consultant business (with no more need for expensive overhead), but Touchstone has just announced their new home at 901 New York Avenue NW, just a few blocks from Long View and Civilian. No word on their first opening, but the member-run gallery is looking for new blood, so interested artists should submit their work by Feb. 20.
>> The Washington Project for the Arts opens their massive annual exhibition this Saturday at American University’s Katzen Arts Center. Cream features over 100 pieces chosen by eight curators, including Joanna Marsh from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Charles Richie from the National Gallery of Art and a collection of other impressive names. Opening reception is this Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m.; the exhibit is also part of the annual WPA Auction Gala on March 6; dinner tickets have sold out, but you can still purchase a party ticket.
>> Project 4 opens a new show this Saturday featuring Adam “5100” Feibelman’s work in Underbelly. His paintings draw “from historical influences in photography, printmaking and painting and combin[e] them with the contemporary process of graffiti.” 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
>> The Corcoran opens a must-see exhibit for the painting lover: Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales. The set of 52 works, rarely displayed outside of Europe, are a veritable history book of turn-of-the-20th-century artistic styles, with works by Manet, Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir and more. Opens Saturday, see it during their regular hours.
>> See the stencil drawings of Cutthroat at Art Whino this Saturday in Un Cachito de lo Nuestro (A Little Slice of Ours). His meticulous pieces draw from his childhood experiences traveling back and forth across the Mexican border. 6 p.m. to midnight, featuring the Black Cat’s resident DJ Lil’e.
>> Here’s a little warm-up for March, and all for a good cause: a bunch of former and current DCist Exposed winners (and other talented local photographers) are offering up prints for auction, with the proceeds going to the Hope for Haiti Now Charity. Bid on works by Kerrin Kastorf, Angela Kleis, Jim Darling, Kai Harth and Erin Lassahn, who’s hosting the auction (and offering up her prints from the 2008 and 2010 Exposed shows), which closes on Friday.
