D.C.’s big art news arrived yesterday, when Artomatic announced the dates and location for their semi-annual massive and all-inclusive art exhibit. If you want to help organize the event, join them for an All Hands Meeting this Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Capitol Plaza 1 building, located at 1st and M Streets NE. Artomatic is not until May 9, however, so get your art fix this week with the exhibits and events highlighted below….
At Art Whino’s Indulge event on Saturday evening, Ted Kliman’s life-sized paintings filled the gallery’s largest room with a haunted feeling. The artist paints not from life, but from mannequins — posing figures draped with plain cloth, and adorning the flowing shapes with tassels and Hebrew writing. Many of the paintings, such as Bondage I and II, portray anguish and torture — the figures hang by cuffed hands, heads down, with folds of cloth subtly…
The front room at Art Whino has one of the only seating arrangements found in the vast recesses of the gallery. The old sofa flanked by two chairs makes a nice, quaint vignette, completely at odds with the disturbing yet humorous paintings by JoKa, now on display. Viewing the dark-humored compositions littered with meat, women and pirate paraphernalia, you can’t help but wonder where these images come from and how they are concocted. The artist,…
FRIDAY: >> The 18th Street Lounge’s regular Wednesday night reggae stars SEE-I are at the Rock and Roll Hotel to celebrate the holidays with some friends who are sure to get you dancing too — DJ Mat the Alien and remix artists Fort Knox Five. Tickets for the Happy FKX-XMas are $10. >> Rufus Wainwright begins a two-night stint at the 9:30 Club tonight with his sister, Lucy Wainwright Roche. Tickets are still available for…
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…
>> Art Whino, the new 22,000 square foot exhibition and studio space at 717 N. Asaph St. in Old Town Alexandria, holds its grand opening tonight. The gallery’s debut event will be soundtracked by DJ Stylo, and marks the start of two new exhibits: a solo show by artist Derrick Wolbaum and a group show of Pop-Surrealism work in the Permanent Gallery. The opening reception is tonight from 6 to 11 p.m, admission is free….
