We knew this was coming, but Randall Scott of the eponymous art gallery on 14th Street NW confirmed with us today that he’ll be closing up his D.C. shop at the end of next week. Scott told us this morning:I have been considering NY for over a year, the pace of the city attracts me, as does the community of artists and people involved in the arts. I have met an amazing group of…

Trace #1197 By Etsuko Ichikawa. Courtesy of Randall Scott Gallery From the traditional to the more experimental, artists have used many different things to make marks on paper, and visual artist Etsuko Ichikawa tends toward the experimental. In Trace, now at Randall Scott Gallery, Ichikawa showcases her smokey, abstract drawings that were created with hot molten glass. Ichikawa’s work is consistent as each piece is an abstract pattern made from the glass on paper….

Teacup by Kyoko Hamada, courtesy Randall Scott Gallery Friday marked the opening of 8 Photographers at Randall Scott, with previews of all eight artists’ work hung. Over the course of the next eight weeks, two photographers at a time will adorn the walls for two week spans, after which the walls will be refilled with the next pair of picture-takers. Gallery owner Scott did not pick these artists with a curatorial mission in mind,…

Cara Ober is a painter, writer and teacher living in Baltimore and showing her work around the region. She teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Towson, Johns Hopkins, and Loyola College. A lifetime area resident, Cara, 33, also writes art reviews for Art US Magazine, Art Papers, and Gutter Magazine. Her latest show, I Am Who I Pretend to Be, runs at Randall Scott Gallery through April 12. What are some of the…

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…

Last week a little dose of relief came to the city’s art lovers and critics, as the National Gallery of Art announced they’ve filled the position to head up their department of modern art, vacant for around six months now. Harry Cooper comes to the NGA from the Harvard University Art Museums, and Washington City Paper’s Jeffry Cudlin does a good job putting it in perspective. In other museum news, camera-in-cell-phone technology is officially history….

>> Author Paul Karasik will be at Politics and Prose to talk about his book, I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets, which chronicles the life of Fletcher Hanks, old school comics illustrator from the 1930s and creater of Stardust, and why he disappeared from comics. 7 p.m. >> Catch up on your parking lot loitering tonight to see Colombian born artist Kata Mejia perform Healing at 1622 14th Street NW. Presented by the Randall…

As a Japanese immigrant growing up in West Virginia, Hiroyuki Hamada spoke little English. Frustrated by the inability to communicate, Hamada started to create his own language through art. Now on view at the Randall Scott Gallery, is a collection of this language and an exploration of texture, form and composition. Hamada uses various materials to create large two and three-dimensional artwork. Many of the pieces take several years to finish. Layering the numerous materials…

It’s the first day of summer, which means it’s about to get real slow in the art world. Take advantage of the gallery shows before they break for the season, then move on to the air conditioned goodness of the museums come the heat of August. >> Project 4 breathes life into a razed electrical switch room in Ireland that had been abandoned 25 years earlier in Building. A group of Belfast and Brooklyn artists…

Is it terrible to say that one of the reasons I love long weekends is that the entire town empties out, and while my friends are all stuck in traffic on the way to the beach, I can roam the blissfully quiet streets of D.C.? For those of us inclined to stick around town to enjoy the peace, or maybe because we’re just plain broke, take the chance to fill your Saturday night dance card…