Now permanently located on the second floor of 1019 7th Street NW, the entrance to the new Civilian Art Projects gallery boasts a menacing archway with crudely sharpened bed posts poised to strike any who enter. While the large haunted house-type installation by Trish Tillman isn’t the most welcoming art piece, it is a great representation of the type of work the gallery can once again house.
Chuck Close, Emma, 2002, 113-color Japanese-style ukiyo-e woodcut, 43 x 35 inches, edition of 55. Pace Editions Inc., New York, printer (Yasu Shibatu). Pace Editions, Inc., New York, publisher. Courtesy of the artist and Place Editions, Inc. The Arts Agenda is a bit light this week as we head into a holiday weekend, but be sure not to miss the opening of Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration at the Corcoran this Saturday. Renowned…
Three weeks ago, we met up with Civilian Art Projects’ Jayme McLellan to see their progress as they made the move from their previous space above Apartment Zero in Gallery Place to their new 7th Street location in the old Warehouse Arts Complex. At that time, the road ahead of them seemed long, with the walls still peeling and piles of work ahead of them before their grand opening in the new space tomorrow from…
Al Farrow will accompany Shepard Fairey tomorrow night in a discussion on political art at the Corcoran. Mausoleum II (front view), is made of bullets, artillery shells and steel, and will be shown alongside the work of Fairey and Paul D. Miller in Regime Change Starts at Home. Image courtesy Irvine Contemporary. Phew, it’s a busy week for artlovers. If you dig political art, graphic design, or street art, head to cloud nine, and…
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….
The 2008 DCist Exposed Photography Show has been quite a ride this year. We started with nearly 600 fantastic entries, giving our judges the tough job of picking only 47 winning images. We watched people line up down the street to get into our packed opening reception. The folks at Civilian Art Projects have watched a constant stream of visitors come into the gallery during their regular opening hours. Wednesday night we teamed with…
We hope you RSVP’d early to tonight’s Emerge Exposed panel, because it’s gonna be a packed house. Philippa Hughes and the Pink Line Project, in conjunction with Civilian Art Projects, have set up a fantastic line up for the panel discussion tonight, starting promptly at 7 p.m. Our four panelists will discuss the ins-and-outs of becoming an art collector and what you really need to know to make that first purchase. Our first panelist is…
On Saturday morning, we gave you a little DCist Exposed post-reception wrap-up, featuring pictures of the packed gallery and the line down the street; today, we have even more awesome footage. Last week, our Food and Drink Editor, Eddie Kim, posed the idea of making a time-lapsed video of the opening reception. So our own Eric Petersen brought in his camera equipment and set it up high on the gallery partition (did any of…
We’re left with only a few short hours until the second annual DCist Exposed Photography Show opens to the public. Yesterday a few of us went to Civilian Art Projects to hang the 47 winning entries, and were blown away seeing them all professionally framed and on a gallery wall. We’re so used to seeing the talents of our photography contributors on our monitors while surfing the Flickr pool, it’s almost hard to believe how…
Currently in its 23rd year, the 2008 Corcoran print portfolio show brings a wide range of talent and interpretation on the theme You Won’t Believe your Eyes to the walls at Civilian Art Projects (soon to be host of DCist Exposed.) What started as a portfolio exchange to give Corcoran’s students a professional experience has grown into a highly competitive program involving current students, faculty, alumna and visiting artists. Participants in the project create a…
