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Jewelry Exhibition in Seoul, Korea
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Torpedo Factory artists in Seoul,
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JEWELRY ARTISTS EXHIBIT IN SEOUL, KOREA
Four artists from the Torpedo Factory have been
invited to participate in a group invitational exhibition
in Seoul, Korea: Studio 201 artists Barbro Eriksdotter
Gendell, Gretchen Raber, and Lisa Vershbow,
and studio 206 artist Susan Sanders. The show
will appear at Craft House Gallery March 19 - April
8 in Seoul. These four metalsmiths were joined by studio
8 artist Lori Katz, ceramics, when they traveled
to Seoul in May 2008 to show their work and meet with
Korean artists to present a lecture based on the Torpedo
Factory called "A Community of Artists."
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Florence Frazier by Laurie Sand
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Stone LXIII by Grace Taylor |
PHOTOGRAPHERS EXHIBIT IN SUFFOLK, ENGLAND
Grace Taylor and Laurie Sand, two
members of Multiple Exposures Gallery, are among six American
photographers in the international exhibit Beyond
the Pond. Both women are showing bodies of work
developed under the guidance of Mark L. Power, writer,
critic, and professor of photography. Power teaches "Beyond
the Image" and invited five of his students to
exhibit with him in England from May 1 - July 26. Taylor
will be exhibiting images from Stone Portraits
and Sand will be showing portraits from The Americans.
These are ongoing and evolving personal projects for
both Taylor and Sand. The exhibition will appear at
the Beyond the Image Photographer's Gallery, Suffolk,
England.
Three new educational displays were installed in the
Torpedo Factory at the beginning of March for the period
of March through June 2009. The featured displays were
created by artists Jamaliah Morais, sumi-e watercolors,
Alison Sigethy, glass, and Felicia Belair-Rigdon,
collage.
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Strong Colors oil painting by Caroline Emmet
Heald
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Strong Colors: Ceremony and Daily Life in Northern
India, an exhibit of oil paintings by Caroline
Emmet Heald of scenes from Northern India, will
be on display in the Gandhi Memorial Center April 4
- 26. After the opening, the exhibit may be viewed on
Fridays and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm and by appointment.
Caroline Emmet Heald paints rural and urban scenes in
oil, using transparent layers of brilliant color. This
collection of 100 paintings of northern India incorporates
collage materials, gold leaf, and oil pastel. She also
paints Washington, DC area landscapes, and images of
low country South Carolina, Minnesota, Maine, and Argentina.
More information: www.gandhimemorialcenter.org.
During month of May, Susan Makara presents a
show of her newest Stone Paintings at Glave Kocen
Galley in Richmond, Virginia. With the addition of metallic
leaf to the textural acrylic pastels and gels, the new
work has abstracted compositions inspired by close-up
segments of cairns.
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Weapons of Mass Consumption
by Rosemary Luckett
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Rosemary Luckett's collage painting Crossroads
at Sea is included in the Union of Concerned Scientists
Earth in the Balance exhibit, 1825 K St., NW,
Washington, DC, through October. Her sculpture Weapons
of Mass Consumption appears in the Target Gallery
Reclaimed exhibit April 1 - 28. Two works are included
in the Torpedo Factory traveling exhibition From
Here 2 There through August 2009.
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Vertical Sunset by JoAnn Clayton
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JoAnn Clayton will have a solo exhibit at the
River Road Unitarian Church in Bethesda from May 1 -
31. All are invited to the reception on May 3
from 3-5pm. For details visit www.rruuc.org.
In May 2009, Carol Dupré embarks on studies
for the doctorate in visual arts. She was accepted into
the graduate program at the Institute for Doctoral
Studies in the Visual Arts: "The admissions
committee especially appreciated your wide range of
interests . . . You submitted an impressive application
and we look forward to helping you build toward the
ideas you so eloquently describe . . ." Her residency
begins in Italy during May and June. She'll be back
in time for a reception in Target Gallery for her Torpedo
Factory Artist of the Year exhibition on July 9.
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Abby Schindler Goldblatt
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Work by Abby Schindler Goldblatt has been included
in the newly released 500 Enameled Objects from
Lark Books.
Alexia Scott presented a solo show of her work
in February at the College of Southern Maryland called
Color Studies: Recent work by Alexia Scott. Scott gave
a lecture on Februray 3 to the faculty, Dean, and approximately
70 students about her art, landscape painting, and the
Torpedo Factory Art Center.
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Risk Cycle by Marcia Dullum
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Marcia Dullum and Laurie Fields will
be exhibiting at The Red Door Gallery in Richmond, Virginia.
The show opens with a reception on May 29 and runs through
July 5.
Alison Sigethy and her glass work were featured
in an extensive article in elan magazine's February
issue. View a PDF of the article Frozen in Time at http://www.elanmagazine.com/featured_artists/sigethy.html
TORPEDO FACTORY ARTISTS IN ARTOMATIC
Several Torpedo Factory artists are presenting work
at the 10th annual Artomatic,
a month-long multimedia arts event like no other. This
year it will be held in Washington, DC's Capitol Riverfront
neighborhood May 29 - July 5. As always, the event is
free to the public. Exhibiting artists include:
- Jeanne Garant with Recycled, a series
of small assemblages from bits and pieces of found street
materials framed in 16" x 20" wood frames.
- Photographer Goknur Olguner, with a recent
series named close-d company which tells the
stories of couples next to each other but so far away.
- Fiber artist Deb Jansen, with an installation
in the form of a cautionary fairy tale about a woman
named Elaine. It will include many morals to the story
including 'Don't mess with someone who has a venue like
Artomatic to hand you a whole wall of karmic whoopass
in front of tens of thousands of viewers'... and the
little 3rd floor Factory artist and her dog lived happily
ever after.
- Alison Sigethy and Lisa Schumaier will
also be participating but you'll just have to go to
Artomatic (or the online show catalog) to see their
work.
The story of Artomatic sounds very much like the early
days of the Torpedo Factory Art Center. Artomatic began
in 1999 in the historic Manhattan Laundry building.
A dozen or so artists toured the empty building and
within a month, three hundred and fifty artists had
cleaned, lit, painted and took over the 100,000 square
foot space. Visual artists, musicians, and an assortment
of performers thrilled 20,000 visitors during that first
run.
The event has grown from there. Last year, over 1,500
artists, including several from the Factory, took part
and presented their work for more than 52,000 visitors.
This year, Artomatic's 10th anniversary, promises to
be even bigger.
More information at www.artomatic.org.
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