Artful Weekend April 23-24 – The Art League

Welcome to Suave Weekend, our guideline to entertaining and interesting ways to take pleasure in art in particular person or pretty much.

 

This weekend: Monitor Dream and Daily life is Fragile: Cope with With Treatment at the League Canvas Satisfies Curve at The Athenaeum Tikkun Olam—Repair the World at IA&A at Hillyer and The Ability of the Flower at Yellow Barn Gallery.

 

 

Display screen Dream

Lights! Digicam! Action! Display Dream, our April themed show, normally takes its cue from the massive and smaller monitor. Member artists produced works—drawings, paintings, glass, blended media, sculpture, and photography–—inspired by the tales, pictures, writers, actors, directors, and musical scores from popular movies and tv.

In the spirit of the exhibit’s concept, film and tv actor Xander Berkeley served as juror. He is identified for roles in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Air Pressure A single movies, and a lot more lately primetime series The Mentalist and 24. Together with people credentials, Berkeley is also an attained painter and sculptor.

Display screen Dream is on perspective via May perhaps 1.

 

 

Life is Fragile: Tackle With Treatment by Amy Browning-Dill

In this exhibit, blended media artist Amy Browning-Dill seeks to explore the strategies in which human beings are linked to ecology: how we pollute the earth, demolish it, and how this destruction eventually influences us. As she considers humans to be part of this natural globe, she aims to not only show how we are wrecking havoc on non-sentient life, but to take a look at how humanity alone suffers from our wantonness. Lifetime is Fragile: Cope with With Care is on view through May well 1.

 

 

Canvas Satisfies Curve Paul Cunningham and Sabiha Iqbal

 

 

Sabiha Iqbal and Paul Cunningham have been painting, critiquing, and exhibiting with a group of nearby artists considering the fact that they fulfilled at the Corcoran College of Art and Design 7 years back.  The Athenaeum exhibit is the initial joint exhibition for the two artists.  When the official factors of their do the job surface very different, they have usually been struck by the strategies in which their bodies of work echo each individual other.  At periods their shade palettes converge serendipitously, whilst the summary figurations in Sabiha’s canvases play off the bends and curves of Paul’s 3-dimensional items.  Both of those artists endeavor to produce a feeling of movement and rhythm in their get the job done. Canvas Satisfies Curve is on perspective by means of May perhaps 29. There will be an opening reception this Sunday, April 24, from 4 – 6 p.m. 201 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA.

 

 

​Hillary L. Metal: Tikkun Olam—Repair the Earth

 

“Craft is universal and speaks all languages,” suggests fiber artists and teacher Hillary L. Metal, who specializes in weaving and resist dyeing. “Handmade objects quietly talk volumes about one’s culture and id, aesthetics, and intent.”  Tikkun Olam—Repair the Entire world, Steel’s show at IA&A at Hillyer, features  hand-woven wall parts in which she incorporates ikat and shibori (in Spanish, jaspe and amarras). Metal will perform a demo and artist chat at the gallery this Saturday, April 23, from 1 – 2 p.m. Her show is on look at by way of May possibly 1 9 Hillyer Court docket, NW.

 

 

The Ability of the Flower: Portraits of Buds and Blooms

The Electrical power of the Flower: Portraits of Buds and Blooms at Yellow Barn Gallery in Glen Echo Park, functions 70 operates by nearby painters with the concept of flowers—joyful reminders to treasure the purely natural planet in celebration of Earth Day weekend. With depictions of flowers’ majestic kinds and hues, as well as their fragile yet resilient and playful character, the paintings are an elixir of contentment at this hard time. It opens tomorrow, with a reception from 5 – 8 p.m., and will be on view via Sunday, April 24 7300 MacArthur Boulevard, Glen Echo, MD.

 

Love the weekend!