Food: Friend or Foe
Exhibition Dates: June 8th – 30th, 2013
Reception: June 13th, 6-8pm; Gallery Talk at 7pm

Food: Friend or Foe is an all-media exhibition featuring work that examines the complex relationship that we have with food – whether it be a personal examination of food and our bodies, or one with a more political focus such as food production and distribution. It is open to all artists nationally and internationally.

Our juror, April Wood, received her MFA from Towson University in 2008, and currently teaches at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She has received several awards including the Individual Artist Award in 2010 for Works on Paper, and the Individual Artist Award in 2009 for Sculpture, from the Maryland State Art Council. With her work, the viewer is confronted with the vulnerability and frailty of the body as well as the violence inherent in consumption and digestion. She uses materials designed to both attract and repulse, highlighting the beauty intrinsic in the visceral, the convergence of interior and exterior, and the connection between nourishment and sensual arousal. In an age of fast food, TV dinners, and disposable silverware, she creates artwork that has a sense of history, sensuality, and a direct connection to the physicality of the human experience.

Ruth Gowell:Optical Studies
Friends of the Torpedo Factory’s Artist of the Year
Exhibition Dates: July 6th – 28th, 2013
Reception: July 11th, 6-8pm; Artist Talk at 7pm

Optical Studies is a solo exhibition of work by Torpedo Factory artist Ruth Gowell, featuring work in woven fiber, kilnformed glass, and glass and fiber combined. The work will explore the distortion of pattern using bubbles created in the glass. Gowell is the winner of the 2013 Artist of the Year Competition sponsored by the Friends of the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The juror was J.W. Mahoney, a writer and curator based in VA. A graduate of Harvard University, he is currently the Washington Corresponding Editor for Art in America, a contributing editor for the New Art Examiner, and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland.

Radio Sebastian: You, Me, and the Void
Exhibition Dates: August 3rd – September 1st, 2013
Reception: August 8th, 6-8pm; Artist Talk at 7pm

Radio Sebastian, a collaborative between Corwin Levi and Yumiko Blackwell, was named the 2013 winner of our annual Open Exhibition call for proposals. The jury panel for this competition - Foon Sham, Samantha May, and Morgan Hungerford West - reviewed over 45 proposals and selected Radio Sebastian’s You, Me, and the Void, which will include a site-specific installation, a series of two-dimensional drawings and collages, as well as two-interactive video pieces.

In the Flesh 4
Deadline for Entry: July 8th, 2013 - Click here to apply online
Exhibition Dates: September 7th – 29th, 2013
Reception: September 12, 6-8pm; Gallery Talk at 7pm

In the Flesh 4 returns after popular demand; this is an exhibition that examines contemporary figurative art. An all media exhibit that invites artists nationally and internationally to submit work for consideration that includes the human figure as its subject.

Our juror is American realist painter Jason John, currently represented by The Principle Gallery in Alexandria, VA. Jason’s work can also be seen at WWA Gallery in Los Angeles, CA and Sylvia White Gallery in Ventura, CA. Recently Jason was inducted into the Museum of Realist Art in Boston, MA. Jason’s work has been on the front covers of Blue Canvas Magazine, Art Calendar, Poets and Artists Magazine, and Visual Arts Overture Magazine. Jason’s work has been featured in American Arts Quarterly, American Art Collector Magazine, Manifest Gallery’s International Painting books 1,2, and 3, Studio Visit Magazine, And Aesthetica Magazine. Jason is presently assistant professor of painting at University of North Florida. Jason received MFA Degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA.

Disconnect Exhibition
Deadline for Entry: August 5th. 2013 - Click here to apply online
Dates: October 5th – November 3rd, 2013
Reception: October 10th, 6-8pm; Gallery Talk at 7pm

Disconnect is an all-media, juried exhibition with a focus on artwork that examines how the development of new technologies and social media has caused a shift in how people relate to and interact with one another. It is open to all artists nationally and internationally.

Our juror, Phil Hutinet, is the Editor-in-Chief of East City Art.  Hutinet began East City Art in 2010 to document and promote the growing contemporary art movement in the eastern communities of Washington, DC.  A DC native and third generation Capitol Hill resident, Hutinet holds undergraduate degrees in History and Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park and an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.  Hutinet opened Studio H gallery, one of H Street Northeast’s first fine arts galleries, in 2009 and opened CITY Gallery in 2010 on the heals of Studio H’s success.  In addition to publishing East City Art, Hutinet is currently the Chief Operating Officer of ARCH Development Corporation where he runs the nonprofits’ arts programming including Honfleur Gallery, the Gallery at Vivid Solutions and LUMEN8Anacostia.

Reflections – Part of Fotoweek DC
Deadline for Entry: September 2nd, 2013
Exhibition Dates: November 9th – December 1st, 2013
Reception: November 14th, 6-8pm; Gallery Talk at 7pm

Reflections is a media-specific exhibition with a focus on photo-based artwork that examines the theme of “reflections.” both literally or figuratively. This is a juried exhibition open to all artists nationally and internationally.

Our juror, Lindsay Harris, is an art historian who specializes in photography and Italian modern art and architecture. A native Washingtonian, she earned her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University with the dissertation, “Picturing the ‘Primitive’: Photography, Architecture, and the Construction of Italian Modernism, 1911-1936”. Her research focuses on the ways in which photographs both document and shape the emerging modern landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries. She has received several awards for her scholarship in the history of photography, including an outstanding dissertation prize from the Institute of Fine Arts and The Joan and Stanford Alexander Award from The Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She has designed and taught courses in modern and contemporary art, architecture, and museum studies at New York University, Northeastern University School of Architecture in Rome, and, most recently, Amherst College, where she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Art and the History of Art. She currently works in the Department of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Small Worlds is an all-media, juried exhibition with a focus on artists who work in miniature/small scales to create worlds - dioramas or sets - to be photographed or exhibited as objects themselves. Submissions are open to sculptural work as well as photography documenting these “worlds.” Sculptural work must be no larger than 24” in any direction. It is open to all artists nationally and internationally.

Our juror, Thomas Doyle, was born in Michigan and now lives and works in New York. Doyle’s work combines his formal training as a painter and printmaker with a fascination with scale models that began at an early age. Doyle’s work has been shown at the Centro di Cultura Contemporanea at the Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (2012), the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (2011), LeBasse Projects gallery, Culver City, California (2010, 2011), Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California (2011), Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California (2011), Yoo Art Space Gallery, Seoul (2009), and Mixed Greens gallery, New York (2008, 2009), among others. He is a recipient of the 2009 West Collection purchase prize and is a MacDowell Colony fellow.