January 22, 2015
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WPA Extends Life of 5x5 Project by Replanting 20 Trees


 

In September 2014, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) and its public art initiative, The 5x5 Project, served as the impetus to convert a vacant lot in Southwest DC to a short-lived but dynamic temporary sculpture park. Nonuments Park was the brain-child of Lance Fung of Fung Collaboratives, one of five curators selected for The 5x5 Project. As a California-based curator unfamiliar with the DC arts scene, Fung reached out to WPA to assist him as a Programming Partner, tasking WPA with creating valuable and engaging projects that would enhance his curatorial vision and strengthen the DC artistic community's connection to Nonuments Park.

From the beginning, our goal was clear: to help create a lasting impact on the community with a temporary public art project...

 

You are invited to the Opening Reception of SELECT 2015, WPA's 34th Annual Art Auction Exhibition 


 

DATE: January 29, 2015
TIME: 7-9pm
LOCATION: Artisphere, 1101 Wilson Blvd, Arlington, VA
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
FREE PARKING with validation after 5pm at the Artisphere garage


 

Participating Artists: 
 
Lauren Frances Adams | Kalee Appleton | Glen Baldridge | Alan Steven Binstock | A. J. Bocchino | Margaret Boozer | Catherine Borg | Alex Braden | Amy Hughes Braden | Otho DeWitt Branson | Milana Braslavsky | Noah Breuer | Julia Brown | Dwayne Butcher | F. Lennox Campello | Laura Carton | Mei Mei Chang | Hsin-Hsi Chen | Ben Chetta | Maya Ciarrocchi | Hannah Cohen | Billy Colbert | Cynthia Connolly | Joseph Corcoran | Adam Davies | Frank Hallam Day | Jenn DePalma | Lisa Dillin | Daniel Todd Doughty | Mary Early | John Edmonds | Hector Emanuel | Suzanna Fields | Emily Francisco | Mary Freedman | Lee Gainer | Zaki Ghul | Hope Ginsburg | Edel Gregan | Jason Gubbiotti | Stephen Hendee | Jay Hendrick | Daniel Heyman | Cooper Alan Holoweski | Erik Hougen | Karen Hubacher | James Huckenpahler | Janna Ireland | Ashley Kauschinger | Jeffrey Kent | Hannele Lahti | Kh�nh H. L� | Kakyoung Lee | Cary Leibowitz | Liz Lescault | Nate M. Lewis | Dalya Luttwak | Tamara Natalie Madden | Katherine Tzu-lan Mann | Caitlin Alexandra Masley | Christina McCleary | Patrick McDonough | Matthew Moore | Evan Nesbit | Tomomi Nitta | Chris Oh | Kwame Shaka Opare | Mike Osborne | Nikki Painter | Lydia Panas | Nara Park | Sui Park | Pamela Pecchio | Emilio Perez | Serena Perrone | Cameron Petke | Michael B. Platt | Caitlin Teal Price | Susana A. Raab | Ding Ren | Siobhan Rigg | Pam Rogers | Sandra Rottmann | Phil Sanders | Dana Schutz | Joyce J. Scott | Molly Springfield | Eve Stockton | Martin Swift | Monika Sziladi | Rob Tarbell | R. L. Tillman | Stephen Marcus Towns | Fahimeh Vahdat | Michael Vasquez | Terri Weifenbach | Levester Williams | Audrey Wilson | Julie Wolfe | Meseretu Wondie | Eva Wylie | William Wylie | Helen Zughaib | Malandela Zulu


 

Curators:
 
Asantewa Boakyewa | Kristi-Anne Caisse | Jennifer Farrell | Sarah Hanley | Ryan Holladay | Sarah Kennel | Phyllis Rosenzweig | Brian Young | WPA Board of Directors

 

Are you ready for Laser Cat?


 

Lasers! Video Art! DJs! And a giant, 20-foot inflatable cat head that projects crowd-sourced art out of its eyes! Laser Cat is coming to The Yards! Free and open to the public, this once in a lifetime event is not to be missed!
 


Laser Cat is a giant cat head with lasers for eyes that uses high-powered projectors to beam crowd-sourced personal art onto public buildings, in this case, the interior of the historic 200 Tingey Street Building. Laser Cat curates the art submitted, but it's the public that fires it into public space. The viewer controls the content by pressing a giant button to change the art, lasers, and music. 

 


EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS
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January 29 - March 6, 2015

SELECT 2015: WPA Art Auction Exhibition 

Opening Reception:
January 29, 2015, 7-9pm

SELECT 2015 consists of a 5-week public exhibition and a ticketed auction party to support contemporary art and the local artist community.


Friday & Saturday, February 20 & 21, 2015, 8-11pm

Saturday, February 20, 2015, 12-4pm

 

LASER CAT 

 

Lasers! Video Art! DJs! And a giant, 20-foot inflatable cat head that projects crowd-sourced art out of its eyes! Laser Cat is coming to The Yards! Free and open to the public, this once in a lifetime event is not to be missed!




Thursday, February 12, 2015, 6:30-8pm

SELECT 2015: Curator Talk with Jennifer Farrell, Ryan Holladay, Sarah Kennel, and Brian Young

Free and open to the public, the curator talks provide an excellent opportunity to learn more about the artists and artworks featured in the SELECT 2015.



Thursday, February 19, 2015, 6:30-8pm

SELECT 2015: Curator Talk with Asantewa Boakyewa, Kristi-Anne Caisse, Sarah Hanley, and Phyllis Rosenzweig

Free and open to the public, the curator talks provide an excellent opportunity to learn more about the artists and artworks featured in the SELECT 2015.



Saturday, March 7, 2015, 7-11pm

SELECT 2015: WPA Art Auction Gala


Please join us for WPA's 34th annual art auction gala. The longest running contemporary art auction in the city, SELECT engages a group of highly accomplished and esteemed curators who select works by established and emerging artists which are auctioned off to benefit the artists and WPA. The festive SELECT gala is one of the highlights of the contemporary art calendar in the Washington region with collectors, curators, artists, and art lovers coming together to celebrate and support one of DC's most important art organizations.

  


January 16 - March 15, 2015


WPA partners with NY-based bitforms Gallery to present Hothouse Video: Marina Zurkow. The exhibition will feature six HD video animations which take the form of mesmerizing narratives posing uneasy questions about man's intervention in the physical environment. 

 

LAST CHANCE TO VIEW...


December 11, 2014 - January 30, 2015

Lobby Project: JD Deardourff

WPA presents an exhibition by JD Deardourff that brings the NOMA neighborhood to life through works created in the style of comic book splash pages.



November 10, 2014 - January 31, 2015

South Capitol Skyscape: Amber Robles-Gordon

Amber Robles-Gordon creates new public art commission for WPA's South Capitol Skyscape series.

 

MEET A MEMBER
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Veronica Szalus

Veronica Szalus, volume.color.collage (pedestal), cardboard packaging with product graphics, pedestal, 42" x 48" x 48"


 

Elements of light, shape and balance combine with time to form the means for transition from one state of being into the next. From the macro to the micro, nothing is permanent - everything is evolving and changing, the life of organic matter, the existence of non-organic material and even the earth itself. 

 

Through these concepts I examine transition ranging from minutes and hours to days, weeks and beyond. Changes in light happen within minutes while changes in shape and balance are only visible over extended periods of time. 

 

Through a process of manipulating materials that are fragile, delicately balanced, and often ethereal and porous, I explore continual nuanced shifts and precarious balance of elemental forms and the environmental intersection upon them and invite the viewer to become a witness to the grace and beauty of change.
 

 
- Veronica Szalus

 


MEMBER NEWS
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We want to share YOUR News! If you are a WPA Member and have an exhibition or piece of news you want us to share, you can submit via our Newsletter Item Submission Form.  

 


 
SELECT WPA MEMBER EXHIBITIONS:

 

Openings:

 

Lee Gainer and Jon Malis at Maryland Art Place on January 22 - April 14

 

Nancy Daly at VisArts at Rockville on January 23 - February 22

 

Maggie Gourlay at Workhouse Arts Center on January 24 - April 5

 

Jessica Kallista at Olly Olly on January 24 - February 6

 

Julia Bloom at Addison/Ripley Fine Art on January 31 - March 14

 

Helen Zughaib at University of Maryland University College on February 1 - March 29

 

Monika Stroik at Artisphere on February 4 - April 24

 

Jennifer Barlow at Bodzin Art Gallery, JCCNV on February 10 - April 6

 

Kung Chee Keong and Steven Pearson at School 33 through March 21

 

Billy Friebele, Maggie Gourlay, Mariah Anne Johnson, Nicole Salimbene, and Dawn Whitmore at Arlington Arts Center on January 24 - April 4

 

Tatiana Gulenkina and Becca Kallem at American University Museum on January 24 - March 15

 

Becca Kallem and Stephanie Williams at Aferro Gallery on February 21 - March 28

 

Arlette Jassel at Strathmore Mansion Gallery on March 7 - May 31

 

Joel D'Orazio at Watergate Gallery on February 7 - March 7 and VisArts at Rockville on March 11 - April 12

 

Cynthia Bickley-Green at b.j. spoke gallery on April 11 - April 30

 

Phyllis Jaffe at Strathmore Mansion Gallery on June 6 - July 26

 

 

Ongoing: 

 

Frank Adams, Amy Hughes Braden, Becca Kallem, Dana Maier, Kendall Nordin, and Jerome Skiscim at E.M.P. Collective through January 24

 

Mike McConnell at Creative Alliance at the Patterson through January 24 

 

Felisa Federman at the Embassy of Argentina through January 30

 

Wilfred Brunner, Jeremy Flick, Joyce Jewel, Katherine Knight, Kate Kretz, Renee Lachman, Cory Oberndorfer, Alexandra Silverthorne, Megan Van Wagoner, and Jenny Walton at King Street Gallery through January 30

 

Bridget Sue Lambert at Civilian Art Projects  through January 31


 
Karen Schulz at Black Rock Center for the Arts through January 31

 

Vian Borchert at Local Colour Old Town Art Gallery through January 31


 
Tim Horjus at Randall Scott Projects on through February 7

 

Naoko Wowsugi at Hamiltonian Gallery through February 14
 

Phyllis Jaffe at the Art Institute and Gallery through February 13

 

Stephanie Firestone, Stephen Schiff and Richard Paul Weiblinger at Strathmore Mansion Gallery through March 1

 

Saya Behnam at Hill Center Galleries through March 1 

 

Richard Paul Weiblinger at Washington Artworks through March 16  

 

Cynthia Bickley-Green at University of Hawaii at Hilo through February 14

 

Felix Angel and Marta Gutierrez at All We Art through February 19

 

Ellyn Wiess and Pat Goslee at Brentwood Arts Exchange through February 28 

 

Julia Kim Smith at Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers University through April 15

 

Stephen Schiff at American Center for Physics through April 10

 

Helen Zughaib at Arab American Museum through April 19

 

Brian Feldman at American Poetry Museum at The Center for Poetic Thought through December 27 (Sundays)

 

Howard and Mary McCoy at Robert E. Lee Park through December 31


MEMBER OPPORTUNITIES
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We want to provide our Members with Resources to help them further their careers.  We are always updating our Member Opportunities page for our Artist Members to find the latest Calls and Opportunities. Log into your account on our the WPA Website to view current listings.

SUPPORT CONTEMPORARY ART IN DC
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IMPACT. CREATIVITY. VISION. 

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