First Friday Dupont: Art Walk

The Dupont Underground will be open this First Friday of September for exploration.  While the old trolley station that closed in 1962 under Dupont Circle does not have a current show, guests are welcome to explore this underground space before the show is installed – opening September 13^th.  Dupont Underground is located at 19 Dupont Circle NW – use the red entrance behind Starbucks. Visit www.dupontunderground.org to learn more.

 

The Embassy of Portugal is showing, “Unknown Unknowns” by Inês Tique. Unknown Unknowns reflects on a constant subject in our lives. It’s a voyage into our nature of explorers and fearless humans. Accessing places and establishing relations that we don’t even know we don’t know. Bringing our senses and instincts alive. Polarity and gravity, movement and rhythm, union and balance, chaos and order, transcendence and infinite. Tique created a new environment where everything comes together.  The Embassy of Portugal’s art gallery is located at 2012 Massachusetts Avenue NW.

 

Join the Heurich (Open) House: Children’s Hobbies! It’s back to school season, we’re taking you into the lives of the Heurich kids. Chris Jr. (born 1901), Anita (born 1905), and Karla (born 1908) attended Western High School, the building that is now the Duke Ellington School of the Arts.  And while they all learned how to play the piano at home, they had their own hobbies after school as well; Chris Jr. and Karla played sports, Karla played the violin, and Anita read (a lot). The children played on an upright piano in their playroom. Although we do not have that piano in our collection, the Museum regularly tunes the Model C Steinway piano in the music room. To celebrate their hobbies, pianist Jay Frost will play during the evening and staff will highlight objects in the house and photos from the archives.  This is an open house, so guests are invited to come at any point in the evening. This event is free. RSVP is requested, but not required. Last entrance at 7:45pm The museum’s biergarten will also be open.  The Heurich House Museum is located at 1307 New Hampshire Avenue, NW.

 

IA&A at Hillyer invites the public to see three exhibitions: “At the Equinox” by Anne Bouie; “And Still We Rise” by Anna U Davis; and “Revenge is the Least I Deserve” by G. Pack. We invite you to take this opportunity to meet the artists in person and mingle with friends and colleagues. Admission is free but a $10 donation is suggested.  IA&A at Hillyer is Dupont Circle’s largest nonprofit gallery, located in a carriage house at 9 Hillyer Court, NW – behind the Phillips Collection.  To learn more, visit www.athillyer.org.

 

Ipade is hosting Tracey Coleman, a mixed media artist.  Her work is defined by selecting paint colors and allowing the process to determine the direction.  As an intuitive creative, she rarely begins with a clearly defined picture of what she is creating.  Her artwork is created on canvas, empty glass bottles, and paper.  She even uses the scraps to design jewelry! Her work is fabricated by layering acrylic paint, oil pastels, handmade papers, textiles, collected stamps, and a multitude of bought and found items. Ipade is located at 1734 20^th Street, NW – up the steps.

Louder Than Hearts: Women Photographers from the Arab World and Iran is presented by The Middle East Institute’s Arts & Culture Center in partnership with Tribe magazine. Curated by Rania Matar, the exhibition explores the work of ten women photographers who capture the resilience, creativity and humanity of women in the Middle East region, often in the face of great adversity. The leading Egyptian, Iranian, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Saudi and Yemeni photographers explore the diversity of experiences and personal narratives told by women across a vast geographic area. The Middle East Institute Art Gallery is located at 1763 N Street, NW.

 

The Museum of the Palestinian People will be open for you to experience the powerful connection between Palestinians and their land – a bond that is both deeply rooted and fiercely resilient. This connection is vividly captured in Chris Ghazaleh’s striking artwork, “The Soil Resists.” In this piece, Ghazaleh explores how Palestinians, through music and tradition, maintain a spiritual and cultural relationship with their land. Also, explore the current exhibition, “Testimonies: Resisting Erasure Through Culture,” where you can experience this powerful connection firsthand and delve into the richness of Palestinian heritage and culture.  The Museum of the Palestinian People is located at 1900 18^th Street, NW.

 

The National League of American Pen Women will feature original works, improvisations, and arrangements by pianist and accordionist Simone Baron. The performance will be juxtaposed with pieces of art from the League’s permanent collection, including paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts. Come early at 5:00 p.m. and enjoy the works of this amazing musician and art from earlier centuries. The National League of American Pen Women is located at 1300 17th Street, NW.

 

Just returned from his travels, painter Rafael Gallardo and Q Street Fine Art are pleased to feature new paintings and delighted to host a reception on First Friday.  This hidden gem will stay open until 9:00 p.m., and is located in a carriage house behind Saint Matthews Cathedral at 1 Saint Matthew’s Court NW.  Please call if further directions are needed: (202) 255-2893.

 

Studio Gallery presents “Marking Time: Maps and Memories,” a solo exhibit by Elizabeth Curren, located on the upper floor of the gallery. This exhibit, curated by Gaby Mizes, is inspired by times, places and memories. Curren describes these inspirations as strong influences in her life as an artist and as an individual. Here, collage is not only a technique but is a metaphor, connecting these themes which are central to her work as an artist. On our lower level, we are exhibiting “Microchips and Memory” by Carolee Jakes and curated by Gaby Mizes. This exhibit combines old and new; techniques of the past and technologies of the present.  Also on the lower level is Irene Pantelis’ “When Time Is a Keyhole,” curated by Aneta Georgievska-Shine. The works in this show were inspired by her houseplants and their quiet presence in her home. In the Garden Gallery, we are exhibiting “Tulip Fever” by Iza Thomas, curated by Deborah Addison Coburn and Miriam Keeler. Tulip Fever was four years in the mid-17th century Netherlands when a speculative frenzy arose out of the trading of tulip bulbs where a single bulb cost more than a house. This combination of something evanescent and beautiful with a frenzied mania is what she is trying to show in her exhibit. Our second Garden Gallery exhibit is “Embodied Freedom” by Olivia Bruce. Curated by Deborah Addison Coburn and Miriam Keeler, Olivia Bruce captures the fluidity of the body in each painting, using watercolor and Sumi-e techniques to convey movement and emphasize the beauty of skin tones through layers of blue, red, and yellow. Studio Gallery is an art cooperative located at 2108 R Street NW.

Synergy & Serenity hosts a meet and greet with the artist Ice the Endless – a closing ceremony to end the artist’s residency in the space. Visitors will have the opportunity to see live painting demonstrations, learn more about the artist’s creative process, as well as leave with limited edition merchandise. Ice the Endless is an international and multidisciplinary artist from the DMV developing his practice through painting and design. Having reached the upper rooms in animation and fashion, and having spent a lifetime mastering the pen and brush.  Synergy & Serenity is located at 1803 Connecticut Avenue, NW – on the second floor.

 

The Ven art gallery is hosting internationally acclaimed artist Shiri Achu, who celebrates 10 years of African lifestyle and culture through her art with the opening of “45InPrint: DMV.” Born in Cameroon, raised in London, and now residing in Washington DC, 45inPrint marks the 10^th “InPrint” exhibition. With her “InPrint” annual series of exhibitions, Shiri selects a focal destination city to exhibit her art and showcase African culture to its people.  The Ven art gallery is located at 2015 Massachusetts Avenue, NW – in the lower level.

 

The Washington Center of ADA Art Gallery, an extension of ADA University’s Art Program, welcomes their Summer 2024 exhibition Parallax Paradigms. The works from the Perspective, Architectural, and Garden Pond series were created over the past three years. This collection embraces serendipity and contradiction, blurring reality while prioritizing color over shape and form. Abol Bahadori is an award-winning Azerbaijani American artist who lives in Northern Virginia. He was born in Tabriz, the capital city of Iranian Azerbaijan and started painting at a very early age, inspired by the colorful carpets in his hometown.  Bahadori masterfully renders space to create immersive environments that viewers can imaginatively enter – what Mark Jenkins, art critic for The Washington Post, described as “inviting but impossible.”  The Washington Center of ADA University is a 501 (c) 3 organization promoting social, fraternal, and networking opportunities, facilitate education activities, and advance cultural ties between the United States and Azerbaijan. You can find the Washington Center of the ADA Art Gallery at 1627 21st Street, NW on Gallery Row.

 

Join the Washington Studio School for First Friday Artwalk for an exciting night of art trivia by putting your art knowledge to the test! Think you know your Manet from your Monet?  Whether you’re an art history buff, a casual gallery-goer, or just love a good challenge, join the WSS and show off your art smarts! Trivia will have prizes round by round so that you can drop in, or you can form a team of six and try to win the grand prize mystery art bundle!  The Washington Studio School is located at 2129 S Street, NW.  You can sign up for classes too!

 

The Arts and Museum Affairs Committee of the Woman’s National Democratic Club is excited to announce our new exhibition, “Reckoning” by Aishwariya Chandrasekar. The works in this exhibition come out of a period of reckoning for the artist as she responds to both internal and external aspects of human experience. She uses ink mixed with embroidery and draws upon the tradition of kolmas, geometric line drawings made from chalk powder of lines, curves, and loops practiced in southern India and southeast Asia. Through small, repetitive motifs, Chandrasekar pays homage to the small, ephemeral moments that leave a lasting impression.  A cash bar will be available from 6:00 p.m. The Woman’s National Democratic Club is located at 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW.