Welcome to Artful Weekend

-our listing of area art exhibits and events-

This weekend: December Open Exhibit, Love in the Time of Covid by Donna Cramer, and Gallery 75 at the League; One-on-One: Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius at The Phillips Collection; Sanah Brown-Bowers: Bloodlines at Touchstone Gallery; and Eternal Paper at University of Maryland Global Campus.

December 2023 Open Exhibit

Diverse artworks by member artists are the feature of Open Exhibits at The Art League. This month, 92 artworks—painting, drawing, photography, fiber art, and mixed media—are on view. The December Open Exhibit was juried by David Culpepper, artist and gallery exhibitions manager at Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. It is on view through January 7, 2024.

Love in the Time of Covid: Portraits of Altruism and Perseverance by Donna Cramer

In her solo exhibit, Love in the Time of Covid: Portraits of Altruism and Perseverance, Donna Cramer shares portraits, painted in acrylic, as a way of saying thank you to those she admired for their acts during the COVID-19 pandemic. The artist hopes her paintings will inspire reflection in her viewers about their own experience what they learned and how they grew during the Covid scourge.

Cramer is hosting Coffee and Conversation on On Saturday, January 6, at 2 p.m., to share stories and experiences about the quarantine period.

Gallery 75

Gallery 75, the gallery within our Gallery, is a great place to find affordably priced artwork by our local member artists. Framed, unframed, and three-dimensional work is available to purchase. Shop here for the art lovers on your holiday gift list! Click here to see what’s on view through January.

One-on-One: Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius

The Phillips Collection presents One-on-One: Ugo Rondinone / Louis Eilshemius, a One-on-One exhibition that focuses on the intersections of poetry and nature in visual art. For the sixth edition of One-on-One, acclaimed contemporary Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone presents his large-scale forest landscape paintings, a selection of poems on paper, and diary paintings in dialogue with over 50 paintings by American painter and poet Louis Michel Eilshemius. Rondinone is a longtime collector and admirer of Eilshemius’s work, and, unique to this iteration of One-on-One, the exhibition includes paintings by Eilshemius drawn from Rondinone’s extensive private collection as well as the Phillips’s permanent collection.  It is on view through January 14; 1600 21st Street NW, Washington, D.C.

Sanah Brown-Bowers: Bloodlines

Painter and collagist Sanah Brown-Bowers offer viewers an intimate glimpse into her family’s joyous and everyday experiences in Bloodlines, her solo exhibit at Touchstone Gallery. Skillfully fusing nostalgia with elements of realism and fantasy, the artworks conjure memories from the cartoons, cinematic references, and text used. Employing acrylic, oil, pray paints, paper collage, typography, assemblage art, LED lighting, film, video, and sound, she creates her “family altars.” These altars offer a contemplative space for viewers to connect with their own childhood recollections. It is on view through January 7; 901 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C.

Eternal Paper

Eternal Paper, at University of Maryland Global Campus Arts Program Gallery, brings together 20 artists who have collaborated to create hand-formed art in and on paper. Their approaches range from representation to abstraction and address political, ecological, and social issues. These artists honor past traditions while inventing new concepts of materiality. It is on view through May 19; College Park Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 3501 University Blvd. East, Adelphi, Maryland.

Enjoy the weekend!