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Openings

 

"ONCE, UPON"


September 12 - October 17, 2009

opening reception for the artist
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 5- 8 PM
In her premiere exhibit at Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Isabel Manalo presents a collection of paintings and drawings that give new definition to the concept of Magic Realism. Her exhibition, "Once, Upon", seems to allow innocence and experience to exist on the same white surfaces. The places are primeval forests. The persons are, initially, her two, young daughters. A flash of time-stopping white light sears each of these works, freezing them in dreamy color at once fantastic and foreboding. Like the manipulated photographs that are the artist's starting point, the paintings and drawings have a quality of captured time. 


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"Idylls"

May 29- July 3, 2009 at

Washington Project for the Arts and the World Bank Art Program present:
IDYLLS 
Juried by Andrea Pollan
May 29, 2009 - July 3, 2009
Opening Reception Friday, May 29 6-8pm 
(rsvp to kbilonick@wpadc.org by May 20th to attend)
The World Bank
        Main Complex Front Lobby Gallery
1818 H Street, NW
Washington, DC 20433

 

Washington, DC - Washington Project for the Arts and the World Bank Art Programare pleased to present a collaborative exhibition, Idylls.  The show features works selected by juror Andrea Pollan from submissions by WPA member artists. Andrea Pollan is an independent curator and director and founder of Curator's Office, a contemporary art gallery in DC. In this unique collaboration with Washington Project for the Arts, the World Bank Art Program will, for the first time, be working with a DC-based curator to show works by area professional artists.

Selected artists include: Joan Belmar, Christene Carr, Sara Clark, Benjamin Edwards, Amy Glengary Yang, Pat Goslee, Tom Greaves, Bridget Sue Lambert, Barbara Liotta, Isabel Manalo, Mark Parascandola, and Diane Szczenpaniak.

The idyll is a special variant of utopia, an imagined paradise-like, timeless little piece of earth, but actually not of this world. Formally, the idyll is a literary category, a mode of narrating and writing. This literary mode was joined by a musical one, and later by a visual artistic one, a mode of the drawn picture and of painting. This mode is fully furnished...The premise of this exhibition, which was selected from a juried process across the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area, is to define how diverse that vision of an idyll can be. After all, most of the artists in this exhibition have urban lives...  -Andrea Pollan

 

The World Bank Art Program began shortly after the opening in 1997 of the Bank's new Washington DC Main Complex - a spacious building of steel and glass that permits ample natural light into an atrium. This new space was the catalyst for developing a collection policy and creating a program that showcases the visual arts of member countries. The Art Program's activities reflect an implicit understanding of art and culture as integral forces of human development in the broadest sense. Its mission is to promote and draw awareness to contemporary art from member nations with particular emphasis on emerging artists from developing countries. 

Washington Project for the Arts, established in 1975, provides essential resources to support the creative spirit and success of regional artists. WPA presents contemporary art through imaginative and provocative programs, and connects artists with the community in both traditional and unexpected ways. The organization boasts over 1,000 local artist members that are represented online in their virtual ARTFILE ONLINE.

Idylls opens on May 29 and will be on view through July 3. Please join us for the opening reception on Friday, May 29 from 6-8pm at the World Bank's Front Lobby Gallery at 1818 H Street, NW. You must rsvp by May 20th to attend. RSVP to:kbilonick@wpadc.org

The exhibition will be open for public tours on Fridays June, 5, 12, 19 & 26th at 12pm and 4pm. To sign up for a tour, contact Kristina Bilonick at: kbilonick@wpadc.org at least 2 days prior to your desired tour date. The works can also be viewed around the clock from the glass exterior of the building on H Street between 18th and 19th Streets, NW.

The opening reception and exhibition are free, open to the public, and handicapped accessible. 

For more information on Washington Project for the Arts and the World Bank Art Program visit:
www.wpadc.org
www.worldbank.org/artprogram