Summer program, events, and artists' news
June 19-July 24
Picture Planes: Robert Mellor & Alexa Meade
June 19-July 24
Gaia: The Urban Romantic
July 31-September 4
Introductions 6
Weekly on-site portrait performances
by Alexa Meade
Music performance by Yoko K, July 10
Alexa Meade will create new photographs of portrait performances each week in her installation at Irvine Contemporary. The first new photographs of the portrait performance during the opening evening are now on view and available at the gallery. Gallery visitors are invited to observe the weekly performances and the artist's photography of her portrait models in unique installations from 4-6PM on the following Saturdays: |
Alexa Meade, Mediation 1, 2010. C-print, direct painting on human subject, artist's installation. |
Schedule:
| June 26: |
Dan Zak (Washington Post Style writer) |
| July 10: |
Anne Goodyear (Curator of Prints and Drawings, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery) |
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With music performance by Yoko K: 4:00 |
| July 17: |
Joff Masukawa (Washington contemporary art collector) |
| July 24: |
Blake T. Kimbrough (Washington contemporary art collector) |
Recent Artists' News
Alexa Meade is featured in the July Juxtapoz magazine.
Shawne Major will have an exhibition at the Dallas Contemporary museum, opening Sept. 16.
Phil Nesmith has been on the Louisiana and Mississippi gulf coast documenting the BP oil spill and its effects. He's shooting with large format wet collodion plates and digital cameras. Here is a description of his project, Exposure.
Kerry Skarbakka is planning a project in collaboration with the Corcoran Gallery of Art that will involve photographing "museum visitor" performers experiencing the "Stendahl syndrome," being overcome with emotion in the presence of sublime artworks. He also recently co-curated Art Scouts, and artist-curated exhibition at the Arlington Arts Center.
Gaia recently created a large-scale, hand-painted mural on the alley wall behind Irvine Contemporary (alley wall of Whole Foods, P and 14th-15th Sts.). The painting features imagery in his current exhibition, Gaia: The Urban Romantic. Slideshow of mural.
The new book featuring Gaia, Beyond the Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art (2010), is available at the gallery. This major work documents the artists, curators, museums, and galleries that have defined street art in the past two decades.
[Right: Gaia, Cease, 2010. Mural, spray paint on white painted ground on cement block. Approx. 20 x 50 ft.] |
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Introductions 6: Artists
We are delighted to announce the artists selected for our annual invitational exhibition of recent art college graduates. Opening reception with the artists, Saturday June 31, 6-8 PM.
| Firelei Baez |
Drawing, mixed media |
MFA, Hunter College |
| Claire Callagy |
Photography |
BA, Georgetown University |
| Steven M. Cummings |
Photography |
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art |
| Hedieh Ilchi |
Painting, mixed media |
MFA , American University (2011) |
| Brendan Loper |
Painting, drawing, installation |
MFA , American University |
| Wafaa Yasin |
Video, installation |
MFA, California College of the Arts |
For further information contact Lauren Gentile, Director, 202-332-8767 or lauren@irvinecontemporary.com.
IRVINE CONTEMPORARY
Martin Irvine, Proprietor & Director
Lauren Gentile, Director
Thomas W Powell, Gallery Manager
Emily Biondo, Gallery Assistant
1412 14th St., NW, Washington, DC 20005
www.irvinecontemporary.com
Phone: (202) 332-8767
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