HAPPY 2009!
It is the first Friday in 2009 and we are having an Opening Reception tonight! We would love for you to join us and meet four very excellent artists who brought their work from the Mississippi to the Potomac, braving blizzards, interstate architecture and - come to find out and see for yourself!!!!! at Gallery 10, from 6-8pm tonight. FREEEE !
Please find details below and if you are a person who stands up for the arts to be seen at so many openings you can't possibly remember where they all are, there is a mapquest link if you scroll all the way down. The stairway seperating us from the sidewalk on Connecticut is sadly still there, still no elevator, but once you get up to our beautiful gallery, LOOK OUT! great art, great company, and nibbles and sips!
G a l l e r y 10 Ltd
1519 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington DC 20036
Hours: Wed - Sat, 11 - 5 202.232.3326
www.gallery10dc.com info@gallery10dc.com
Reception: Friday, Jan 2, from 6-8pm
'Mid Coast Art'
Dec 31, 2008 - Jan 31, 2009
Constance DeMuth Berg, Dennis Ringering, M. Royal Schroll, Tim Schroll
The exhibition features sculpture, drawing, painting and photography by four native Illinois artists who represent the Midwest Campus of the Washington, DC based Earth Center for the Arts.
Gallery 10 Ltd.
1519 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036, 202-232-3326
Hours: Wed - Sat, 11 - 5 www.gallery10dc.com , info@gallery10dc.com
Mapquest link:
http://www.mapquest.com/maps/Gallery10+Ltd:1519+Connecticut+Ave+NW+Washington+DC+20036-1115/#a/maps/l:Gallery+10+Ltd:1519+Connecticut+Ave+NW+&35;+201:Washington:DC:20036:US:38.910526:-77.043792:address:/m::12:38.910526:-77.043792:0::/
Friday, January 2, 2009
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Talk About Quasi-Painting Article
Gallery 10 artist Claudia Vess wants to talk about this article.
Quasi-PaintingCurated by Cara Ober
(read more from Cara Ober on her BLOG.)
Painting has been dead for over a century, yet artists keep making them. Despite the invention of photography, video, and digital art, painting still remains a vital method of present-day artistic expression.
Even in a Post-Greenburgian era, full of dire predictions from critics, painting continues to be an important component of the vocabulary of contemporary art. The main appeal of painting lies in its inherent physical qualities: both liquid and solid, it forces its practitioner to think spatially and abstractly, rather than in a linear way. This immediate access to color, light, atmosphere, and form is as important as the product of such thinking.
Painters tend to think globally, to see the big picture rather than in parts, and to rely on experience and intuition, rather than logic. As shape and space merge in the mind of a painter, physical and emotional sensations combine into a one-of-a-kind product, which visually references the artist's hand, brain, and heart.
Even in photographs, prints, drawing, and sculpture, a painterly sensibility often persists in modern modes of thinking. Despite new tools and technologies, which promise to render physical painting obsolete, the liquid, nonverbal thought process seems to grow.
Painterly thinking is evident in cinematography, in theatre, in contemporary art, in bio-chemistry, literature, and education, as well as in other multidisciplinary fields.
In Quasi-Painting, I have chosen to exhibit nine emerging artists together, not necessarily because they make artwork with paint, but because they share a painterly sensibility, expressed nine different ways.
Pursuing her wish to talk about this article Claudia sent the article to Anne Banks, another Gallery 10 artist. Anne responded.
Dear Claudia, I like your idea of talking about painting....
And anyone who paints does not think that painting will ever be obsolete because it is so personal and connected to thoughts and emotions, like poetry.
Also like drawing, painting is not dependent on technology per se....It comes straight from the right brain, except of course when there is a grand scheme involved.
The criteria of excellence for painting, composition, etc are the same for design, Architecture and the arts in general, so it sometimes gets confusing..The same general standards about what makes any art good are valid in spite of the different media....We could have a discussion about what these criteria ARE, especially in recent contemporary art!!!
I am struggling with some of these ideas in my web site http://www.designer-artbanks.com/ Best, Anne=
What do you think? You can join the discussion by leaving a comment.
Quasi-PaintingCurated by Cara Ober
(read more from Cara Ober on her BLOG.)
Painting has been dead for over a century, yet artists keep making them. Despite the invention of photography, video, and digital art, painting still remains a vital method of present-day artistic expression.
Even in a Post-Greenburgian era, full of dire predictions from critics, painting continues to be an important component of the vocabulary of contemporary art. The main appeal of painting lies in its inherent physical qualities: both liquid and solid, it forces its practitioner to think spatially and abstractly, rather than in a linear way. This immediate access to color, light, atmosphere, and form is as important as the product of such thinking.
Painters tend to think globally, to see the big picture rather than in parts, and to rely on experience and intuition, rather than logic. As shape and space merge in the mind of a painter, physical and emotional sensations combine into a one-of-a-kind product, which visually references the artist's hand, brain, and heart.
Even in photographs, prints, drawing, and sculpture, a painterly sensibility often persists in modern modes of thinking. Despite new tools and technologies, which promise to render physical painting obsolete, the liquid, nonverbal thought process seems to grow.
Painterly thinking is evident in cinematography, in theatre, in contemporary art, in bio-chemistry, literature, and education, as well as in other multidisciplinary fields.
In Quasi-Painting, I have chosen to exhibit nine emerging artists together, not necessarily because they make artwork with paint, but because they share a painterly sensibility, expressed nine different ways.
Pursuing her wish to talk about this article Claudia sent the article to Anne Banks, another Gallery 10 artist. Anne responded.
Dear Claudia, I like your idea of talking about painting....
And anyone who paints does not think that painting will ever be obsolete because it is so personal and connected to thoughts and emotions, like poetry.
Also like drawing, painting is not dependent on technology per se....It comes straight from the right brain, except of course when there is a grand scheme involved.
The criteria of excellence for painting, composition, etc are the same for design, Architecture and the arts in general, so it sometimes gets confusing..The same general standards about what makes any art good are valid in spite of the different media....We could have a discussion about what these criteria ARE, especially in recent contemporary art!!!
I am struggling with some of these ideas in my web site http://www.designer-artbanks.com/ Best, Anne=
What do you think? You can join the discussion by leaving a comment.
Monday, September 1, 2008
September Show - Sabine Carlson
September 3 – 27, 2008
SABINE CARLSON
‘Igor Sikorsky Knew about Trees’
Reception: Friday, Sep 5, from 6-8 pm
Helicopters without rotors encounter ‘kite-eating’ trees as Carlson’s cheerfully ominous paintings explore themes of power and vulnerability.
In 2004, New York critic Ed McCormack described Carlson’s style as “Abstract Realism”, where subjects are depicted fairly accurately but are then placed into contexts that “simultaneously emphasize their formal qualities and imbue them with a mysterious suggestiveness.”* Carlson continued this approach with new imagery in her Gallery 10 exhibition ‘Trees and Helicopters’ in 2006.
While the pictorial spaces in these earlier works offered a sense of location within the landscape, in ‘Igor Sikorsky Knew about Trees’ the horizon line drops out of view. The compositions in the 2008 paintings bring the viewer close up to the action and, as if elevated off the ground, at eye level with the intertwined branches generally associated with the crowns of large trees.
The show’s title pays homage to the diligent attention to practical questions that Igor Sikorsky brought to the process when he engineered his first helicopter, an aircraft that re-defined mobility. Carlson’s paintings evoke aspects of past and current conflicts where helicopters symbolize the power to reach anywhere, but have also come to be seen as an emblem for insufficient planning, short-cuts and arrogance.
Carlson exhibits internationally and in the United States. Her work is included in public, corporate and private collections in Germany, Italy, in the Netherlands and in the United States.
* Ed McCormack, “Sabine Carlson and the Enigma of the Ordinary”, Gallery & Studio, Vol. 7 No. 1 September / October 2004, New York, New York
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Monday, August 25, 2008
Pat Segnan in Italy
Gallery 10 artist Pat Segnan will be based in Venice until October 30, 2008. Over the past few years Segnan has established a profile as an exhibiting artist in Italy while maintaining her exhibiting status in the US.
In a September exhibition in Erba, Italy her works will be included in a group exhibition of the artists of Venezia Viva Gallery.
In October her collage mono-prints will be featured in a solo show at Venezia Viva Gallery in Venice.
Segnan, like artists through-out art history, translates the feeling of Venice, its water world and light and culture with grace notes of color and image references into her works. She says that working with the artist of Venexia Viva Gallery has strengthened her commitment to the traditions and craft of making art over following the trends of the moment.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Small Sculpture Show
Small Sculpture Show - June 4 - 28, 2008
Gallery Hours: 11 - 5 Wed - Sat
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 6, 2008 6-8 PM
Gallery 10 artists explore the concept of the third dimension in sculpture and in its virtual forms of collage, prints, painting and drawing. Each artist draws on the ideas inherent in his/her own work with materials and media to suggest those concepts either as ideas or as 3-D sculptural form.
Gallery 10 In Italy
The artists of Gallery 10 have an exhibition in Florence, Italy in June 2008.
The works will be seen later this year at Gallery 10 in Washington, DC
The works will be seen later this year at Gallery 10 in Washington, DC
Thursday, December 6, 2007
DECEMBER EXHIBITION
OPEN SEASON
Gallery Artists & Great Guests
December 5 - 29, 2007
Opening Reception
Friday December 7, 6-8 pm
Holiday Receptions:
December 8
December 15
December 22
1 - 5 PM
Gallery 10
1519 Connecticutt Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 2006
202-232-3326
Regular hours : W - Sat 1 - 5 PM
Gallery Artists & Great Guests
December 5 - 29, 2007
Opening Reception
Friday December 7, 6-8 pm
Holiday Receptions:
December 8
December 15
December 22
1 - 5 PM
Gallery 10
1519 Connecticutt Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 2006
202-232-3326
Regular hours : W - Sat 1 - 5 PM
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