Phillips after 5

Phillips after 5

Thursday, November 5

5-8:30 pm

At 6 pm, Afrofunk orchestra Chopteeth invades the auditorium with a blend of American Funk, Afrobeat, and West African music in celebration of Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens. Gallery talks at 6 and 7 pm tell the story of Man Ray, heiress Nancy Cunard, and the jazz and poetry opus Henry-Music. At 6:30 and 7:30 pm, curator Elsa Smithgall shares her perspective on the exhibition Object as Subject: Photographs of the Czech Avant-Garde. Throughout the evening DJ Todd Threats will spin in the Music Room as cash bar and light refreshments are served.

Programs related to Man Ray, African Art and the Modernist Lens are included in admission to the special exhibition; free for Phillips members. All other programs and permanent collection are by donation.

Phillips after 5 is sponsored by GEPPETTO CATERING, INC. and THE WASHINGTON POST

IMAGE: Man Ray, Noire et blanche, 1926. ©2009 Man Ray Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Hillyer Art Space First Friday - Opening

Come join us at Hillyer Art Space on Friday evening for our new opening!
Featuring 'Ass Against the Wall' by Martha Jackson-Jarvis, 'Work', a retrospective by Tom Wolff and live performance by Deon "CleanCutt" Clark.

November 6 - December 18

Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 2009 6-9pm

Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court, NW
Washington, DC

http://www.artsandartists.org/hillyer.html

'Work', Tom Wolff in Retrospect

'Ass Against the Wall', an installation by Martha Jackson Jarvis

Ass Against the Wall explores points of resistance, endurance, and markings that pattern our lives. It is a compelling place of power where forces change, heaviness, strain, anxiety, burdens and the weight of difficulty into something else.

In a chance encounter in the mountains of Tajikistan Jarvis discovered an incredible being in a moment of clarity that bridges the void between animate and inanimate form. A moment when plants, animals, and minerals are one, even the rocks conspire to a fluid and connected greatness.

Martha Jackson Jarvis’ sculptures have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; the Studio Museum of Harlem, N.Y. Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, N.Y.; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, N.C.; Anacostia Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Tretyakov Gallery Moscow, U.S.S.R. Her numerous awards include a Creative Capital Grant, Virginia Groot Fellowship, and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, The Penny McCall Foundation Grant , and Lila Wallace Arts International Travel Grant.

$5 suggested donation but any support is appreciated. Proceeds go towards supporting our local artist series and future events.

Exhibitions developed and coordinated by International Arts & Artists, Washington D.C.

Influence=Convergence opens at WPA, Friday 11/6

Please join us for the opening of Influence = Convergence, a joint exhibition featuring works by WPA member artists: Joan Belmar and Minna Newman Nathanson:

November 6 – 25, 2009

Opening Reception: Friday, November, 2009 6‐8pm with an Artists Talk at 7pm

Washington Project for the Arts
2023 Massachusetts Ave, NW

Washington Project for the Arts presents the fifth installment of Coup d'Espace, a program that invites WPA member artists to stage their own exhibitions and programming in their Dupont Circle office space. For November Coup, member artists Joan Belmar and Minna Newman Nathanson will use the space to mount a joint exhibition, Influence = Convergence.

“What happens when two artists – different in almost every way – share a working space?...”

When they met, Joan Belmar, a Chilean immigrant in his thirties, was painting colorful, two dimensional works incorporating linear runes and circles. Nathanson, a native Washingtonian in her seventies, produced formal statements in monochromatic bent steel and explored reflective effects with plastic and wire. After two years of sharing a studio‐space, the artist both underwent a shift in their practice, which, in retrospect seemed to be directly influenced by each other's work.

In Influence=Convergence, these two artists present a series of 'pairings' that exemplify the the result of their sharing a work space. Please join us for the opening reception from 6-8pm on Friday, November 6th. There will be an informal talk given by the artists at 7pm.