Mia Feuer‘s sculptures don’t care for your personal space. They take inspiration from the inner workings of the urban landscape and bring fractured outdoor structures into the gallery, usually at such a large scale that you’ll have to duck. Her massive site-specific installation at Conner Contemporary Art, Stress Cone, on display through April 30, is no different.

Brandon Morse’s third solo show at Conner Contemporary Art, High Pressure System, on display through March 5, finds the artist considering natural processes within the exceedingly quantitative framework of generative art. The three works presented by Morse are computer visualizations of dynamic, physically-based systems driven by scientific algorithms, coded and implemented using the C++ programming language. This, of course, is only the technological jargon — but technique is half the charm of High Pressure System. The other half is Morse’s ability to efface most of its outward traces.

Installation image of “The Wait”, by Joyce Lee, courtesy of Conner Contemporary Art Conner Contemporary Art co-founders Jamie Smith and Leigh Conner believe in the viability of emerging artists from the D.C. area, as displayed in Academy, their yearly survey of MFA/BFA standouts from the D.C.-Baltimore area and *gogo emerging art projects, which evolved from Academy and serves as their arts incubator program. You’ll be hard-pressed to find another gallery in the area that…

For the last eight years, Conner Contemporary Art has been one of the creative hubs of Dupont Circle with its focus on emerging and experimental artists. Located on the north end, it has served as a entryway to the neighborhood, leading into the plethora of neighborhood galleries, bookstores, and craft shops. But the gallery announced today that it will soon be shifting homes to Trinidad, in the large, 12,000 sq. ft. former auto body shop…

Academy 2007, at Conner Contemporary Art, is the gallery’s seventh invitational survey designed to give wider exposure to recent graduates of the area’s university level fine art programs. Jamie Smith, a product of formal art academia herself, curated the show along with Karyn Miller and chose the pieces after attending area BFA/MFA exhibitions between January and June. The show is designed not only as a platform for talented artists, but also as a profile…

Have you ever put off seeing a movie dealing with man’s inhumanity toward man, such as Hotel Rwanda or Life is Beautiful, know it will be shocking and sometimes painful, and will force you to confront the ugly reality that people often do very bad things to other people? That’s how one might feel when approaching Mary Coble’s new show, Aversion, at Conner Contemporary Art. Coble confronts the horrible effects of electro shock therapy prescribed…

With so many art galleries featuring recent graduate shows, we couldn’t resist scouring the walls for a few of our choice picks. Today we begin a brief series featuring local artists who look prepared to make some strong waves in the art world. Growing up in Annapolis, Maryland, Brian Twilley was always pulled towards the visual arts and, particularly, photography. “Miserable” as a business major, he quickly switched to fine arts and never looked back….

Though the galleries are usually slow in the summer, we still get the occasional rainstorm during the drought. And what better weekend to take a walk outside and sooth your overheated body than this one, which looks to be the blessed fever break from our soul-crushing heat wave? When you’re ready to hit the cool(er) Friday evening air, many of the city’s galleries will be open and waiting with heaven-sent A/C and thirst quenching libations….

>> This month marks Irvine Contemporary’s second anniversary. Help celebrate by checking out their exhibit, “Christine Kesler: New Directions,” opening Friday (reception 6-8 p.m.). Work on display includes multi-media collages by the MICA graduate. >> Conner Contemporary Art also opens a new exhibit Friday, featuring the work of Wayne Gonzales. A New Orleans-born but New York-based artist, Gonzales uses his paintings as a means of political commentary. For the works in this show, he focused…

It’s Labor Day weekend, and you thought everybody had gotten the hell out of Dodge City, hadn’t you? Well, they probably have, and we’re experiencing serious envy of anyone who’s on a beach right now with a margarita in hand. But don’t despair – there’s still tons to do in D.C. this weekend, and we’ve rounded up the best of the best for you to do in a special extended version of Weekend Picks. But…