Imperato Film Fest Friday, July 10

Still from Spider by Corrine Bot

Imperato Film Fest: An exhibition of short films

July 10 - August 8, 2009
Opening Reception: July 10, 7-10pm

Gallery Imperato is pleased to announce the very first Imperato Film Fest, a group exhibition of short films. Professional and amateur filmmakers, video artists and enthusiasts from across the globe were invited to submit entires under ten minutes in length. Submissions came in from Canada, France, the Netherlands, and across the U.S., allowing for an interesting and diverse group of artists. The exhibition will feature short videos and films in a variety of genres including narrative, documentary, experimental, animation and multi-media.

Set up in true exhibition style, the films will be displayed on individual pedestals and viewing screens around the gallery. Viewers have the freedom to pick and choose which images are enticing enough to listen in on. Viewing stations are conveniently equipped with headphones to prevent the disruption of outside noise. The line-up of artists includes Corrine Bot, Christine Chin, Bill Domonkos, Matthias Egger, Laura McClanahan, Joe Parker, Gautam Rao, Carl Stevens and Celine Trouillet.

Bill Domonkos' film embodies "Innocence, wonderment and the allure of the moon." Nocturne is a magical dreamscape inspired by the music of Tchaikovsky and the words of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

By capturing the hypnotic and fluid movements of Jellyfish, Laura McClanahan takes us on a psychedelic trip in her video Free Associations.

Joe Parker brings us an amusing tale that tells the life of a boarding ticket named Charlie.

Gautom Rao's video Restless Portrait: A Disappearing Painting portrays the process of creating a self-portrait on single canvas, as the image is painted and repainted continually.

Carl Stevens... psychotic and hilarious. You'll just have to witness his work yourself.

Selected Bios

Corrine Bot has participated in over 30 international film festivals. Her most recent awards include 2nd Prize in the Algoma International Film Association (AIFA) 4th Annual Video Competition and 1st Prize Total Film Festivals at Cinema Paradiso in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Corrine currently resides in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Bill Domonkos

Bill Domonkos' work combines computer animation, still photography, live footage and archive film footage. His work has been broadcast and shown internationally in cinemas, film festivals, galleries and museums including MoMA in NYC. His films have won numerous awards including Best Experimental Film - New Orleans International Film Festival (2004), and Best Film Short - Victory Media Network (2007). Domonkos currently resides in San Francisco, CA.
Nocturne Preview Nocturne by Bill Domonkos

For additional information or still images, please contact the gallery at 443.257.4166 or galleryimperato@mac.com.

Six in the Mix opens July 3 at Hillyer Art Space

A Gift from Me to You by Kenyatta Hinkle

Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout
Hillyer Art Space
Exhibition | July 3rd - August 26
First Friday Reception: July 3rd, 2009, 6-9PM
Sounds by DJ Deep Sang
Food and refreshments will be served / $5 suggested donation

Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of D.C. and Baltimore's emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space's summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Griffiths, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent.

Stout has set out to create a mixed bag of local talent not based in the obligatory conceptual framework predominantly exhibited in group shows. Instead of the varying inspiration and ideas behind the individual bodies of work, it is the "natural dialogue that may occur between these works" which Stout would like the audience to experience.

International Arts & Artists is a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally through exhibitions, programs and services to artists, arts institutions, and the public. IA&A programs include:

Traveling Exhibition Service | USArts International Training Program | Design Studio | Membership Services and the Arts Partnership | Hillyer Art Space
9 Hillyer Court NW | Washington, DC | 20008 | MAP
T. 202.338.0680 | Gallery Hours: 10am - 5pm Monday,
10am - 7pm Tuesday - Friday, 11am - 4pm Saturday, Otherwise by appointment
www.artsandartists.org

Grimaldis Gallery Summer 09 opens July 1

SUMMER '09 - July 1 - August 22, 2009 at Grimaldis Gallery

A selection of the gallery's artists including Chul-Hyun Ahn, Henry Coe, Don Cook, Grace Hartigan, Hidenori Ishii, Isaac Julien, Elizabeth Laudenslager, Dimitra Lazaridou, Eugene Leake, Neil Meyerhoff, Raoul Middleman, Christopher Myers, Christopher Saah, Rex Stevens, Rene Trevino, Costas Varotsos, Andy Warhol, John Waters and Lu Zhang.

Opening reception: Wednesday, July 1st, 6-8pm
For more information, go to www.cgrimaldisgallery.com.

Venice Biennale Photos from Michael Koryta and Soledad Salame

All photos courtesy of Michael Koryta.

School 33 Studio Artists Open Studios: Sunday, June 28 | 1-3pm

School 33 Studio Artists Open Studios: Sunday, June 28 | 1-3pm

Current Studio Artists include: Anne Chan, Rosetta DeBerdardinis, Amanda Engles, Matthew Freel, Aaron Yamada-Hanff, Seon Kim, Kathleen MacKinnon, James Murphy, and Bill Tamburrino

In conjunction with Federal Hill Jazz Festival

This is a wonderful opportunity to meet the Studio Artists of School 33 Art Center, learn more about their practice, and to give feedback about their work. This is the final open studio day before the Studio Artists Exhibition taking place July 9 – August 1, 2009.

For more information about current studio artists please visit our new website: www.school33.org.

MICA MFA Thesis Reception Friday, July 10

MICA this summer features an exhibition of thesis work of 11 graduating artists in the MFA in Studio Art, a low-residency program that allows experienced artists to develop a professional body of work, a unique personal voice, and an expanded understanding of contemporary art through intensive studio practice. Artwork will be on view Monday, June 29-Saturday, July 11 in Decker, Meyerhoff, and Fox 3 galleries of Fox Building, 1303 W. Mount Royal Ave., and Pinkard Gallery of Bunting Center, 1401 W. Mount Royal Ave. A public reception with the artists takes place Friday, July 10, 6-8 p.m.

Many of the MFA artists explore the everyday, the ordinary, the mundane; it is a theme found throughout much of the diverse work in the exhibition. For example, artist Nicole Herbert seeks to encourage active perceptions of the physical environment by challenging conventional ways of looking.

"My aim is not only to suspend fleeting impressions of familiar objects and contexts, but to also explore how signification can shift when the same object is represented in a variety of media," Herbert said.

Other artists investigate the "atrocity landscape," "urban landscape," and "human constructed landscape." Katie Walberg makes comic books, graphic novels, and environmental gestures/installations featuring collected refuse to illuminate the relationship between practical human life in a consumerist society and the excessive levels of waste and environmental congestion that result from it. Kelly Valdez's textured and multi-layered cityscapes show how she repeatedly encounters specific areas in the city and how her position and movement throughout it as an observer shift

Artists include: Kerry Adams, Julie Benoit, Leah Cooper, Salinda Deery, Bruce Feldman, Nicole Herbert, Michael Iacovone, Jennifer Miller, Sondra Peron, Kelly Valdez, and Katie Walberg

To see more images of MFAST artwork, click here.
Image credit: Kelly Valdez, Church Corner (Pratt Street), acrylic on canvas, 2008-2009.

To hear MFA artist Leah Cooper on WYPR's Maryland Morning with Sheilah Kast, click here.

MICA Affiliated Trawick Prize and Bethesda Painting Award Honorees 2006-08

This exhibition proudly acknowledges sixteen MICA artists who have excelled in competition for the notable Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards and the Bethesda Painting Award during the period 2006-2008. In MICA's Fox and Myerhoff Galleries.

Magnolia Laurie MFA, MICA, Mount Royal School of Art, ’07
Trawick Prize Award, 2008, Semi-Finalist

Youngmi Song Organ MFA, MICA, Mount Royal School of Art ’02
Trawick Prize Award, 2008, Finalist

Lillian Bayley Hoover MFA, MICA, Mount Royal School of Art, ’05
Bethesda Painting Award, 2008, 2009, Finalist

Molly Springfield MICA Post Baccalaureate Certificate, ’00
Trawick Prize Award, 2006, Third Place; 2008, Finalist

Jo Smail MICA Faculty
Trawick Prize Award, 2007, First Place

Melissa Dickenson BFA, MICA, ’02
Trawick Prize Award, 2008, Semi-Finalist
Bethesda Painting Award, 2009, Semi-Finalist

Laura Amussen MFA, MICA, Rinehart School of Sculpture, ’06
Trawick Prize Award, 2006, 2008, Semi-Finalist

James Rieck MFA, MICA, Mount Royal School of Art, ’03, BFA, ’87

Trawick Prize 2006, First Place
Bethesda Painting Award 2006, Second Place

Katherine Tzu-lan Mann MFA, MICA, Hoffberger School of Art, ’09
Bethesda Painting Award, 2008, 2009, Finalist

Ryan Browning MFA, MICA, Mount Royal School of Art, ’08
Trawick Prize Award, 2008 Young Artist Award

Phyllis Plattner MICA Faculty
Bethesda Painting Award Finalist 2006, 2007

Bill Schmidt MFA, MICA, Hoffberger School of Painting, ’71
Bethesda Painting Award, 2008, Finalist

Christopher Bathgate MICA Merit Scholar, ’98
Trawick Prize Award, 2008, Semi-Finalist

Andrew Wodzianski MFA, MICA, Hoffberger School of Painting, ’02
Bethesda Painting Award 2005 and 2006, Finalist

Cara Ober MFA, MICA, Studio Arts, ’05

Bethesda Painting Award, 2008, Second Place

Judy Stone MFA, MICA, Rinehart School of Sculpture, ’09
Trawick Prize Award, 2007, Semi-Finalist