The DC visual arts season is well underway and my mailbox overfloweth with invitations to new shows at galleries, art spaces, embassies and museums. The gallery season started with the Bethesda Art Walk last Friday, and Options 2005 Curator Philip Barlow was making the rounds in Bethesda.
Read Blake Gopnik's falls preview here and then the full Washington Post's visual arts preview here.
And now that we're underway, next is the Third Thursday Gallery Openings around the 7th Street corridor on Sept. 16 and the next day, the Georgetown gallery openings with the four Canal Square Galleries opening next Friday.
We will host the Washington, DC solo debut of Bay Area photographer Hugh Shurley.
Shurley manipulates photography to create a fascinating blend of the unusual, the odd and the contemporary. His work is in the collection of several public institutions and museums including LACMA.
Shurley was the Best of Show winner at the Second Annual Bethesda International Photography Competition juried by Philip Brookman, Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Opening reception Sept. 17 from 6-9 PM.
The next day, on Saturday, Sept. 18, Transformer presents "sub-TEXT" featuring three generations of Sala Diaz artists with Jesse Amado, Andréa Caillouet and Chuck Ramirez.
And of course, that day is also Arts on Foot between 11:00am and 5:00pm, when Downtown Washington's Pennsylvania Quarter will hold its 12th Annual Arts on Foot Festival.
At Spectrum Gallery, J. Lea Lansaw, whose show opened a while back, has an artist's talk on September 19 at 2:00 PM. The show runs until Sept. 26.
A bit north, the Rockville Arts Place just opened "A Sense of Place," which features three artists conversing on thematic subjects: Prescott Moore Lassman (who is slowly but surely becoming one of the best-known photographers in our area), Constance Bergfor and Neena Birch.
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