Place: Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC!
From September 9 - December 9, 2017
Artists-in-Residence @The Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, FL!
Residency: June 5- July 7, 2017
"The Rauschenberg Residency is a creative center that welcomes artists of all disciplines from around the world to live, work, and create. The residency is located on Robert Rauschenberg’s former property on Captiva Island, Florida, where he lived and worked for nearly four decades. The facility, which includes the 8,000-square-foot studio Rauschenberg built in 1992 and a collection of historic homes and studio spaces, is infused with beauty and tranquility and marked by its unique history. "
‘Ae Kai: A Culture Lab on Convergence presented by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Honolulu, HI!
More info: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
Place: Former site of Foodland at Ala Moana in Honolulu, HAWAIʻI
From July 7-9, 2017 11AM - 9PM
‘Ae Kai is a thread which brings together elements stretching from mountain to ocean and serving as a gathering place for conversations and convergence to occur. Traditionally in Hawaiʻi, some of the most important conversations are held at ‘Ae Kai when the sun is up and the waves are out.
With this in mind, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center is pleased to present ʻAe Kai: A Culture Lab on Convergence on July 7-9, 2017 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. ʻAe Kai will take place in the former site of Foodland in Ala Moana Center, an 18,000 sq ft supermarket situated in the neighborhood between Waikiki and Kaka‘ako, and will explore the meeting points of humanity and nature in Hawaiʻi, the Pacific Islands and beyond.
The Outwin : American Portraiture Today @Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA!
The Outwin : American Portraiture Today @Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA!
Place: Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
From February 4 – May 14, 2017
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4, 2017
photo by @julirama723 (Thank you!)
Selected press:
Seattle Times: http://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/at-tacoma-art-museum-portraits-that-reach-out-and-touch-you/
South Sound Magazine: http://southsoundmag.com/smithsonian-exhibit-comes-to-tacoma-art-museum/
The News Tribune: http://www.thenewstribune.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article133499559.html
TV: KING 5’s Saint Bryan for Evening Magazine: http://www.king5.com/entertainment/television/programs/evening/smithsonian-portrait-exhibition-now-at-the-tacoma-art-museum/406858147
INVEST @ Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO!
Place: Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO
From October 27 - December 3, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 27th. 5:30-8pm
"INVEST" celebrates the investment that artists in the inaugural Urban Culture Project Studio Residency made in their work, as well as the culture of downtown Kansas City. The artists selected for this exhibition are all former UCP Bank studio residents that have taken their work and careers in divergent directions, but each demonstrates a level of commitment and focus on their artistic practice that has proven to have paid off.
Permacounterculture @ Hamiltonian gallery
Place: Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC
From August 13 - September 10, 2016
Opening Reception: Saturday, August 13th. 630-10pm
Taking its namesake from the notion of 'Permaculture', an agricultural system characterized by its reciprocal self-sufficiency and community ethics, this exhibition creates a unique ecosystem revolving around the U Street community, DC's punk scene and urban farming
Hamiltonian Gallery will be transformed into a music venue, in which a series of punk shows will be hosted inside a garage-like structure that doubles as a greenhouse for growing wheatgrass. Sound waves from the punk music coupled with the increased exhalation of carbon dioxide from the showgoers will circulate air around the plants. In return, the plants will accelerate the production of oxygen for the punk celebration. The plants will then be converted into nutritious wheatgrass shots that will be offered to the public on a weekly basis.
By drawing from the shared intensity and raw energy of wheatgrass and punk culture, “Permacounterculture” highlights the mutually beneficial ecosystem formed by the two, which in turn extends to our everyday life. Simultaneously, we inclusively energize the wider DC community as they partake in the holistic benefits of this communal wheatgrass shot.
The Permacounterculture punk show series will be open to all ages. Doors at 6:30PM, shows 7:00PM. Suggested donation of $5 - 10 for local bands is appreciated.
Saturday, August 13 : LITERALS + HEATWAVE + UNKNOWN THREAT + SMART HEARTS
Thursday, August 25 : EARTH GIRLS + SEM HASTRO + BBC
Friday, September 9 : VIDEO PRICKS + IRON CAGES + 1 more TBA
Project Management by: Nicole Dowd and Rebekah Pineda
Contributions by:
Sarah O'Donoghue, Chris Moore, Kohei Urakami, Alexander Dowd, Sarah Puralewski, Tef Reese, Emanuel Cooper, Beck Levy, Hannah Eliasoph, Kenzi Waddell, Hillary Rochon, Andy Clark, Joana Stilwell, Farrah Skeiky, Joseph Shaikewitz and many more!
Support from:
The Awesome Foundation DC
City Orchard: Bread for the City
DC Punk Archive
Damaged City
In-Kind Support from
Washington Project for the Arts
The Home Depot (Rhode Island Ave, DC)
&Pizza (U street, DC)
Mellow Mushroom (Adams Morgan, DC)
Timber Pizza Co.
The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today @National Portrait Gallery
Place: National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC
From March 12, 2016 - January 8, 2017
The Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition invited artists from across the country to submit their best works in the art of portrayal. The dazzling variety of media and diverse approaches to the exploration of "self" and "other" challenge preconceived notions of portraiture and expand visitors’ imaginations. This competition and resulting exhibition "The Outwin2016: American Portraiture Today" will showcase excellence and innovation with a strong focus on the variety of portrait media used by artists today.
Fellows Converge: re: gift @ Hamiltonian gallery
Place: Hamiltonian Gallery in Washington, DC
From November 14 - December 19. 2015
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 14 from 7-9pm
Featuring new work by Nancy Daly, Lisa Dillin, Dan Perkins,
Will Schneider-White, Allison Spence, Dane Winkler, and Naoko Wowsugi.
Fellows Converge is an annual exercise in which Hamiltonian Fellows create new work around the premise of an invited guest curator. This year, we invited Jennie Carlisle, Program Director at Elsewhere, a living museum inside a three story thrift store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The exhibition largely examines the multifacetedness of objects; their assigned usages; and how an object’s meaning can shift depending on context, ownership, and history. Hamiltonian’s artists spent a weekend at Elsewhere partaking in activities that allowed them to consider how objects mediate our experiences; function in our daily lives as objects of history, memory, and utility; and contribute to identity.
Following the visit, Carlisle assigned the seven participating artists with the following directive:
Step 1: Give a gift. Make it meaningful. Wrap it nicely.
Step 2: Receive a gift.
Step 3: Create a new artwork based on the gift.
The result is an exhibition that challenges each artist with the exchange of objects whose meanings emanate from their personal use and existing significance. When gifted to a fellow artist, these earlier meanings take on new associations as personal connections re-define how the thing is subsequently perceived and deployed. Here, a mouse trap, a memoir, a cassette tape, a sonic amplifier, a stamp collection, a souvenir, and a bottle of whiskey all undergo a semantic shift, spurring original paintings, sculptures, and installations that record these re-assigned possibilities.
Project 837: Home and Homelessness, Part 2 @ VisArts, Rockville
Place: VisArts, Rockville, MD
Open: October 28 through December 13, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, October 30, 7 - 9 PM
Project 837, Part 2 is an exhibition series* designed to start a conversation about the definition of home and homelessness. The exhibition brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists, the public, activists and organizers for workshops, gallery exhibition and symposium.
***The number 837 refers to the space, in square meters, that each homeless person could occupy if Baltimore’s vacant buildings were renovated into adequate housing. The figure is equivalent to 9,009 square feet per person.
COME BACK TO ROCKVILLE!
COME BACK TO ROCKVILLE! is a two-person socially engaged art project with Graham Coreil-Allen, curated by Laura Roulet and sponsored by VisArts at Rockville, MD and the Windgate Charitable Foundation.
Wednesday, September 2 to Sunday, October 18, 2015
Opening Reception: Friday, September 4 !
Happy Happy Happy Hour
Photo credit: Esther Hur
Personal Tour and Conversation with Naoko Wowsugi
Happy Happy Happy Hour
Wednesday, February 4 from 6 - 8 pm
Wednesday, February 11 from 6 - 8 pm
An after-hours viewing of "Assignment: Happy Birthday" featuring work from Wowsugi's students from 2011 through 2014.
Light refreshments will be served.
Here, Throw This Off A Building
Here, Throw This Off A Building by Randall Lear