Exhibitions 2007

Red Dirt Open Studio

Sunday, November 11, 2007
1 - 5 pm


red dirt studio
3706-08 Otis Street, Mt. Rainier, MD  20712     
202.607.9472
Directions 

Please join us for our fall Open Studio show and sale. Visit
neighboring artists also opening their studios to the public: Ellen Sinel

From top left:  Kate Hardy, Ani Kasten, Sean Lundgren, Mila Kagan,
Sandra Dwiggins, Leila Holtsman, Judit Varga, Margaret Boozer,
Joe Hicks, J.J. McCracken, Elizabeth Kendall, Liz Lescault, Kyan Bishop, Tetyana Wittkowski and Laurel Lukaszewski.

Red Dirt Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition of work by artist-in-residence Ani Kasten through Dec. 9. www.anipots.com



information about red dirt seminar

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Herman Miller Design
Washington, DC

Contemporary Art and Modern Design
a collaborative exhibition with Project 4 Gallery

June 2007

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Arlington Arts Center

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Disintegration
April 10 - September 22, 2007

opening reception: Friday, April 13
  
6  – 9 pm

Arlington Arts Center
3550 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22201
(703) 248-6800

www.arlingtonartscenter.org

I am participating an outdoor sculpture exhibition, Disintegration, located at Arlington Arts Center, curated by Twylene Moyer, managing editor of Sculpture magazine. I am pleased to be exhibiting along with Cory Wagner and Michele Kong, as well as the Spring Solo exhibitions indoors at AAC .

I’m working on a site-specific dirt drawing/painting that will evolve and disintegrate over the 6-month course of the exhibition.  Here’s a little blurb about my project....

Dis/Integration
an evolving dirt drawing installation

This work makes use of area clays, dug from different sites and transported to Arlington where they will become integrated with the ground here and with each other.  The red is from Mt. Rainier, MD;  the gold is from Hyattsville, MD;  the white is from Stancills Mine in Perryville, MD.  The purple and raspberry clays are from the Ft. Lincoln neighborhood in Northeast Washington, DC. 

As the large chunks weather, clay washes down from the pedestals into the drawing below.  A slight grade coaxes everything down hill.  Metal bands separate colors and direct flow.  This piece is an amplified, self-conscious version of what occurs naturally at construction sites or anywhere clay is unearthed.  The different colors of clay run together on the ground, drying, cracking and re-hydrating with the changes in weather, creating a drawing that will evolve over the course of the exhibition. 

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McLean Project for the Arts

Natural Inclinations: Works by Margaret Boozer, Elizabeth Burger, Marc Robarge and Laura Thorne

January 25 through February 24, 2007

Reception and Gallery Talk,
Thursday January 25, 7 - 9 PM

Curator's Essay

This exhibit features four artists who create work derived from the natural world.
Fantastical imagination is combined with the most familiar of natural forms and the most basic materials and surfaces to create sculptures that grow up, around or out of nature. Both the grand vastness of the world and the fascinating, magnified minutia are represented in these works, many of which seem to have sprung up or eased into being on their own. Natural materials are deftly exploited and sometimes placed in contrast with the industrial to create a sharp and potent visual and conceptual dialogue.