This weekend: August 2024 Open Exhibit, Tabletop 2024, Why Be Real by Linda Bankerd, and Gallery 75 at The Art League; Hung Liu: Making History at NMWA; Come Together: A CoLab Collage Project at Fred Schnider Gallery of Art; and Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism at the National Portrait Gallery.
Experience the vibrant diversity of our member artists’ work at The Art League’s Open Exhibits. This month, we’re proudly showcasing 89 unique pieces, featuring a wide range of mediums such as painting, drawing, photography, glass, sculpture, collage, and mixed media. The captivating selection for our August 2024 Open Exhibit was thoughtfully curated by painter and sculptor, Andy Yoder.
At this annual favorite, you’ll find a delightful array of ceramic, glass, wood, and metal wares, expertly crafted for both function and aesthetic appeal. Tabletop 2024 features 28 artworks, and was juried by potter and educator Naomi Clement.
Linda Bankerd, our featured solo artist for August, passionately uses elements like shape, color, form, line, collage, and gestural marks in her artwork. Her creations thrive in their own existence, requiring no tangible reference or desire. This authentic approach to artistry makes her work truly unique and engaging.
Join us for our August Reception and Artist Talk with Linda Bankerd on Friday, August 23, from 6:30–8 pm.
Come and explore Gallery 75, our vibrant art hub nestled right here in our main gallery. It’s a treasure trove where you can find a range of affordable, extraordinary artwork created by our talented local member artists. Whether in the market for framed, unframed, or even three-dimensional pieces, you’ll find a wealth of pieces waiting for you to take home and display.
Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu (1948 to 2021) transformed her canvases and paper surfaces into memorial sites for the women and children who she represented. Growing up during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution in China, she toiled in forced labor and trained as a painter before immigrating to California in 1984, where she continued her art education. Hung Liu: Making History, at the National Museum for Women it the Arts, highlights the array of techniques that Liu used to create her poignant portraits, including collage, layered colors and motifs, and screens of drip marks that she described as a “veil of tears.” It is on view through October 20; 1250 New York Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
Since June 2023, nine local artists have been meeting monthly, sharing food and unusual found or created collage papers, while working on individual collage projects. Thus began the CoLab Collage Collective. In Come Together, at Fred Schnider Gallery of Art, the artists, who each have their own idiosyncratic language and use their own unique materials, created a few larger pieces to explore the concept of collectively made artworks. The larger collages in this exhibit are the resulting collaborative collages created by the group. It is on view through Sunday, August 18, with a closing reception from 3–5 p.m.; 888 N. Quincy Street, #102, Arlington, Virginia.
Forces of Nature: Voices that Shaped Environmentalism, at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, presents some of the key people—scientists, politicians, activists, writers and artists—whose work has influenced attitudes toward the environment in the United States from the late 19th century until today. It features more than 25 portraits of people who have made an enduring impact on public perceptions of the natural world, including the well-known figures Rachel Carson, George Washington Carver, Maya Lin, Henry David Thoreau and Edward O. Wilson. The exhibition brings together portraiture, visual biography and the sitters’ own words to probe this important—and complicated—history. It is on view through September 2. The National Portrait Gallery is located at Eighth and G streets NW, Washington, D.C.
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