Sculpture 1275:

Solo Exhibits for WSG members

 at 1275 Pennsylvania Avenue

As everyone is aware, the WSG has established an agreement with Axent Realty Group to organize juried solo exhibitions in the lobby space of the office building located

at 1275 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in a series entitled Sculpture 1275. For 2010, the first artist selected is

 

Craig Kraft

January 18 - March 19, 2010 

Closing Reception:  Thursday, March 18 from 6:00 until 8:00 pm

Sculpture 1275 Solo Shows provide the WSG with a terrific opportunity to showcase our members’ work in a prime downtown Washington, DC location. In 2008/2009 the shows were curated by two DC-area gallerists, Anne Surak, former director of Project 4, and Norman Parrish, founder and owner of Parrish Gallery-Georgetown.

 

For 2010, Peter Winant was selected to serve as the curator. Peter Winant is Assistant Professor of Sculpture in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at George Mason University and, since 2006, has been a panelist on WETA's "Around Town" program, which offers reviews of Washington-area arts and theater events and programs. Mr. Winant has been active in the D.C. area arts community since the 1980s and is best known for his abstract figurative steel sculpture, and for his groundbreaking work in architectural installations and other media with Art Attack, a collaborative artists' group whose work has questioned ideas of authorship, context and the locus of artwork since the late 1970s. He earned his Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from Indiana University in 1982. Prior to assuming his role at George Mason University, he taught at St. Martin's Academy and at Montgomery College. 

These curators make their selections by reviewing the images that are posted to the WSG’s Member Gallery such that there is not an official Call for Entry, but rather an intentional incentive for everyone to create their Member Page on the WSG Member Gallery. For questions about the 1275 series, contact WSG Exhibitions Chair Kyan Bishop at kyanbishop@hotmail.com.

 

WSG CALL FOR ENTRIES: CONSTRUCTED PLACE
March 20 – May 8, 2010                                
Deadline for submissions: Monday, February 15
Juror: Megan Rook-Koepsel
See attached file or visit www.washingtonsculptors.org for more information

The Washington Sculptors Group (WSG) is pleased to announce a new juried exhibition opportunity for its members. Constructed Place will showcase artworks that form environments or that are themselves environments; and works should invite viewers to interact with, or be immersed in the spaces that are created. Artists are encouraged to submit indoor and outdoor sculptural work that explores contemporary relationships between viewer and artwork. Freestanding, wall-hung, and lightweight ceiling-hung sculpture will be accepted. Performance works, time-based, and new-media works will also be considered. Furthermore, artists are encouraged to propose site-specific or previously unrealized works that can be completed on site.

The exhibition will take place at Annmarie Garden, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, home to a thirty-acre public sculpture park and arts center. Annmarie Garden is located in Solomons, MD, just over an hour’s drive from DC. The WSG has invited Megan Rook-Koepsel to serve as juror for this exhibition. She is the Graduate Assistant Coordinator of the Stamp Gallery in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union Center for Campus Life at the University of Maryland, College Park and is currently Ph.D. candidate in Contemporary Art there.

Outdoor work for Constructed Place will be installed in the sculpture park, situated alongside the 25+ works that are currently on loan from the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Selected indoor work will be featured on the first floor gallery of the recently-constructed arts building. This exhibition represents a unique opportunity for WSG members and a new relationship for the WSG as an organization. A first place prize sponsored by Annmarie Garden will be awarded.

Remember to see on-going WSG Exhibitions:

 

 

Sculpture on the Grounds at the Kreeger Museum – work by WSG members Wendy Ross and Foon Sham

Now through June 2010

2401 Foxhall Road, NW

Washington, DC 20007

The sculpture garden is free and open to the public

Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 am – 12 pm and 1– 3 pm, and on Saturdays, 10 am – 4 pm.

 

Sculpture Now 2010

 

January 5 until February 12, 2010

 

John Simpkins-Camp

Financial Disaster, 2008

Monopoly money, screen, foam-core, cardboard

24" x 84" x 24"

 

The exhibition was juried by Ryan Hill, Curatorial Research Associate for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Adjunct Professor at George Washington University, and artist. Speaking about his selections, Mr. Hill stated that he was interested in artworks that used non-traditional materials, explored layering and decentered compositions, and reflected our information-driven society. Mr. Hill earned a Master’s degree in studio art from the California Institute of the Arts and a Master’s degree in film and television from University of California, both located in Los Angeles, CA, where he was born and raised.

 

Artists selected to participate in the exhibition include: Karen Bondarchuk, Leah Frankel, Kerry Furlani, Tom Greaves, Jason Haber, Ray Hau, Leila Holtsman, James Mallos, Bill Moore, Elena Patino, Mike Shaffer, John Simpkins-Camp, Erwin Timmers, Patricia Tinajero, Elizabeth Whiteley, and Alice Yutzy.

 

Note New Location:

Pepco’s Edison Place Gallery

702 Eighth Street, NW

Washington, DC 20001

Open to the public Tuesdays-Fridays from noon until 4 pm.

Doors will also be open on two Saturdays - January 9 and 30 - from noon until 4 pm.

Gallery Place/Chinatown is the closest metro stop, however Metro Center is also nearby.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.