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New Now 2010
Opening / Saturday, July 24, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
July 24 - September 4, 2010
Introducing the 2010 Hamiltonian Fellows:
Selin Balci
Joyce Lee
Ryan Hoover
Elena Volkova
Jessica van Brakle
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EXHIBITION SURVEY
Each Spring, Hamiltonian Gallery culminates its year of exhibitions by selecting an established artist to curate and exhibit in a group show that will include all of the Hamiltonian Fellows. This year, we are honored to have renowned sculptor, David Page, to conceptualize the theme for this compelling show, and to put to task the Hamiltonian Fellows as well as himself.
Hamiltonian Gallery is proud to present Private Practice: Bad Ideas, Dead Ends and Guilty Pleasures.
As written by David Page:
During his trial before the Inquisition for heresy (for including extraneous elements such as drunkards dwarves monkeys and armed Germans in a biblical painting) the 16th century painter, Veronese declared the following: "We painters take the same license the poets and the jesters take" or in another translation: "We painters allow ourselves the same liberties as do poets and madmen."
Today, the notion of poetic license is well trodden, but the assertion of jester's, fool's or even madman's license is still interesting and provocative.
A colleague, when asked if he kept a sketchbook answered in the affirmative, adding almost sheepishly: "... If only to record my bad ideas."
A loft in my studio is dedicated to the storage of half-baked attempts and fragments that have defied resolution for any number of reasons. This bone-yard of failures serves as my storehouse of ideas.
The problem with success is that we are tempted to emulate it, we develop formulae, develop a "brand"; we begin to believe our own mythology. In short we take ourselves too seriously.
While I sincerely wish the fellows overwhelmingly more success than failure, my charge is for them to occasionally root trough their own mishaps, incomplete ideas impossible plans and improbable scenarios: The madman's liberty for which our old friend Veronese risked his neck.
Artists: David Page, Christian Benefiel, Jon Bobby Benjamin, Anne Chan, Ian MacLean Davis, Leah Frankel, Linda Hesh, Mike Iacovone, Magnolia Laurie, Katherine Mann, Jonathan Monaghan, Bryan Rojsuontikul, Michael Enn Sirvet, and Lina Vargas De La Hoz.
Please contact Hamiltonian Gallery Director Jacqueline Ionita with all inquiries. 202.332.1116, Jackie [@]hamiltoniangallery.com
upcoming show
Speaker Series
Sweets and Tweets
Leah Frankel, Magnolia Laurie and Lina Vargas de la Hoz - Hamiltonian Gallery | May 8 - June 9, 2010
SOFAlab2 - Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Conference Room and Great Room, George Mason University | Friday, April 23, 2010
Legal Smorgasbord - Hamiltonian Gallery | April 28, 2010, 7 p.m.
John D. Mason will be discussing an array of of important legal issues for artists. Topics include contracts, licensing, negotiations, online/internet legal issues, business formation and maintenance, intellectual property and copyright/trademark. Please come prepared with questions because he likes an interactive discussion and is happy to explore the questions artists always want to ask an art lawyer.
John D. Mason, of The Intellectual Property Group, PLLC, is a Washington DC/Maryland-based art and entertainment and intellectual property attorney. His practice focuses on copyright and trademark matters, litigation, contracts, and commercial matters. He works with writers, artists, and creative people and companies to protect, promote and exploit their work and is also a literary agent. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Washington Lawyers for the Arts and the Advisory Board of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.
Please RSVP to this event.
Danish Embassy and Hamiltonian Gallery Present Free Jazz Concert!
In celebration of Nordic Jazz Week in Washington, DC, the Danish Embassy and Hamiltonian Gallery are hosting a night of jazz at 6:00 pm on Wednesday, June 16th at Hamiltonian Gallery. The event will feature Little Red Suitcase, a quirky, alternative female jazz duo from Copenhagen.
Little Red Suitcase delicately mixes improvised music, spicy cabaret and theatre live on stage. With simple stage effects and an array of instruments, their performances are full of surprises and peculiar stories that expand into many musical styles and genres. Be sure not to miss out on this event!
Where: Hamiltonian Gallery, 1353 U Street NW, Suite 101, Washington, DC.
When: June 16, 2010, 6:00 - 8:00pm
What: Free Jazz Concert with Little Red Suitcase (DK)
The Hamiltonian jazz event will not only give the audience a taste of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, it will kick off the Nordic Jazz Festival in Washington, DC, which takes place June 16-18, 2010. The Danish concert will be followed by events at the House of Sweden and the Finnish Embassy. Be sure to get the full Nordic Jazz Experience in DC and buy tickets for the other performances at www.ticketweb.com
About Copenhagen Jazz Festival
This year, the Copenhagen Jazz Festival takes place July 2-11, 2010. The festival will present an impressive array of international and Danish jazz names, dispersed over the entire city at a record number of venues. The program also includes a series of themes that will hopefully make it a bit easier to get an overview of the more than 1,000 concerts that will be held over these ten days. This year’s headliners include giants like Herbie Hancock, Caetano Veloso and Diana Krall, not to mention Martha Wainwright, Joe Lovano, Joshua Redman, Marcus Miller, David Samborn, Dianne Reeves, Bill Frisell and Esperanza Spalding. jazz.dk
DC's Most Influential Women in Technology
Tuesday, June 15, 2010, from 6:30 - 8:00 pm (ET) at Hamiltonian Gallery
Click HERE to register!!This event is $20
Attn: Cupcake Lovers
oin us for the Digital Capital Week edition of Sweets and Tweets. Digital Capital Week is a 10-day festival in DC (June 11 - 20, 2010) focused on technology, innovation and all things digital in our nation's capital. Sweets and Tweets will feature a panel discussion by Washington DC's 2010 Most Influential Women in Technology, as named recently by Fast Company:
- Ellen Miller, co-founder of The Sunlight Foundation
- Shireen Mitchell, founder of Digital Sisters
- Allyson Kapin, founder of Women Who Tech
- Debbie Weil, author and corporate social media consultant [moderator]
Also on Fast Company's Most Influential list are Teresa Carlson, VP of Microsoft Federal Government and Sheila Campbell, co-chair of the Federal Web Managers Council. Joining us on the panel, barring last minute travel, will be former Googler Katie Stanton, now working at the U.S. State Department.
Yes, there will be cupcakes, from Baked and Wired, and we will be serving wine and coffee. You will also have the chance to rub shoulders - and learn from - those working in DC's innovative and increasingly active social media and Gov 2.0 space.
Sweets and Tweets features leading voices from DC's diverse technology community on the use of social media by the public and private sector, from the White House and federal agencies to local startups. The event series is produced and hosted by author and corporate social media consultant Debbie Weil.
Leah Frankel, Magnolia Laurie and Lina Vargas de la Hoz - Hamiltonian Gallery | May 8 - June 9, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Hamiltonian Gallery is pleased to present a new three-person exhibition of paintings and installations by Hamiltonian Fellows Magnolia Laurie, Lina Vargas De La Hoz and Leah Frankel. By presenting physically binary relationships such as inside/outside and construction/destruction, each artist investigates exchanges of energies, and the ebb and flow of natural and social forces.
Within her paintings and installations, Magnolia Laurie creates environments centered upon masses of broken, crooked lines that could resemble a dense, organized nest, the aftermath of a natural disaster or an architectural armature. Due to Laurie’s manipulation of perspective and line quality, these structures are always just short of being logical. Magnolia Laurie’s arrested jumble of lines, flags, plastic fencing, gusts of dusty wind and color all develop into a haphazard system that depicts the automatic, and sometimes incessant, obsessive human need to build and create. Magnolia Laurie relates this act of construction and destruction to the cyclical rise and fall of civilizations.
Lina Vargas De La Hoz designs and creates objects that tenant, command, and address its surrounding space. One work, “Pull Over 2,” is composed of repurposed knit sweaters sewn together and stretched tautly across the gallery so that the neck and armholes are intact. We interact with the plane of sweaters by approaching it from underneath, and putting our heads and arms up through the holes where we can then see the top surface of the installation, and the heads and arms of the other participants. The expanse of blue sweaters cut through the gallery to create two literal and psychological spaces, analogous to above and under water, or penetrating borders.
In Leah Frankel’s installation titled (im)Balance, formed spheres of ice nestled in mounds of table salt are flecked throughout the gallery floor. Incontestably, the salt will melt the ice and the water will dissolve the salt, but in that process of cancelling each other out, themes of codependency and dominance emerge. Once the process ends, we are left with ambiguous, geological forms, which depict the results of the destructive exchange between these quotidian elements.
Please contact Hamiltonian Gallery Director Jacqueline Ionita with all inquiries. 202.332.1116, Jackie [@]hamiltoniangallery.com
Speaker SeriesLegal Smorgasbord - Hamiltonian Gallery | April 28, 2010, 7 p.m.
John D. Mason will be discussing an array of of important legal issues for artists. Topics include contracts, licensing, negotiations, online/internet legal issues, business formation and maintenance, intellectual property and copyright/trademark. Please come prepared with questions because he likes an interactive discussion and is happy to explore the questions artists always want to ask an art lawyer.
John D. Mason, of The Intellectual Property Group, PLLC, is a Washington DC/Maryland-based art and entertainment and intellectual property attorney. His practice focuses on copyright and trademark matters, litigation, contracts, and commercial matters. He works with writers, artists, and creative people and companies to protect, promote and exploit their work and is also a literary agent. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Washington Lawyers for the Arts and the Advisory Board of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.
Please RSVP to this event.
Special EventsSOFAlab2 - Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Conference Room and Great Room, George Mason University | Friday, April 23, 2010
Reception: 2:00 - 2:45 p.m | Discussion: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
The program supported by the Center for Consciousness and Transformation explores similarities and differences in how scientists and artists use experimentation and visualization in their search for larger truths and making sense of the universe, and how the way in which these tools are used affects consciousness, understanding and outcome. This dialog is also designed to prepare us for a series of "laboratory/studio" exchanges in which artists will be invited to observe and participate in laboratory sessions and scientists will be invited into artist's studios for collaborative projects.
For more information and directions, please click here.Please RSVP to this event.
Fellow Related EventsLeah Frankel
"DCCA Annual Juried Member Show" at Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts - Wilmington, DE | April 9 - July 25 | Opening April 9, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Linda Hesh
"Why Do Art About Social Issues? Activist Artists Panel Discussion"at Montgomery College Cafritz Arts Center Auditorium #101 - Silver Spring, MD | Saturday, April 24 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
"TRUST and DOUBT Benches" on display at West Mt. Royal near Oliver - Baltimore, MD | On view until May 2010
Michael Dax Iacovone
"Art Obsessional" at Herman Maril Gallery - Baltimore, MD | March 22 - April 9
Jonathan Monaghan
"MIDPOINT: 2nd-Year MFA Work" at Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland - College Park, MD | April 15th - May 14th 2010 | Opening Thursday, April 22 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Mentor Related EventsDavid Page
"Simultaneous Presence" at Evergreen Museum and Library - Baltimore, MD | May 2 - September 26
James Rieck
"Mead Hall" at Lyons Wier Gallery - New York City, NY | April 23 - May 21
Hamiltonian Artists is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.