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Rachelle Wunderink—A Online Conversation 

Saturday, January 18, 6 pm (Register)

Kate Fleming—An Artist Talk 

Saturday, January 25, 1 pm (free to the public)

For information about programs call: 202.338.0680

Current Exhibitions

Kate Fleming | Rachelle Wunderink | Adi Segal

January 4–February 2, 2024 (“First Friday” opening, January 3, 6–8 pm)

Kate Fleming, August | Rachelle Wunderink, Your Comfort, My Silence | Adi Segal, Where Are You Really From?

Check out current exhibitions to learn more.

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IA&A at Hillyer

IA&A at Hillyer
Kate Fleming AUGUST January 4–February 2, 2025 AUGUST is a re-creation of a suburban summer night. Growing up in Arlington, Virginia, Kate Fleming spent nights driving around in cars with friends, drinking slurpees under sodium street lights, breathing in the humid scents of lawn grass and hot asphalt, and listening to the crickets sing. For Fleming, a hot summer night is a magical, limitless experience, full of infinite possibilities. Featuring paintings, sculptural works, scents, and sounds, AUGUST transports the viewer to another time of year and another time of life. Late summer, like late adolescence, is rich with the sweetly melancholic realization that something is coming to an end.
Interview with Kate Fleming
Rachelle Wunderink Your Comfort, My Silence January 4–February 2, 2025 Society censors, rather than confronts, stories of rape and harassment. Rachelle Wunderink’s work unveils the consequences of sexual assault trauma by engaging viewers with the emotional affect. Incorporating influences from Affect Theory, Relational Aesthetics, and Trauma therapy, Wunderink’s site-specific exhibition for IA&A Hillyer, Your Comfort, My Silence, examines the ways that trauma lingers leaving lasting imprints on lives. She does this in three key ways throughout her body of work: “Blankouts,” an immersive wheat-pasted installation, which looks at the covert ways in which society suppresses women’s stories of assault through the use of coded language and censorship. Secondly, “Trauma Embodied,” looks at how the artist self-censors her own stories through a multi-layered editing process of nine different videos. Lastly, the artist activates the gallery space by creating various modes of interaction that invites her audience to consider how the work leaves an imprint on their own experiences. Hillyer is funded in part by @thedcarts, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the Galena Yorktown Foundation, and the Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation.
Interview with Rachelle Wunderink
Adi Segal Where Are You Really From? January 4–February 2, 2025 Where are you really from? What connects you to a place, a culture, an ancestor? I am a first-generation American of parents from disparate worlds. What is my relationship to this country? What do I claim from my ancestors? What do I hold on to, and what do I pass down to my children? In this exhibition, I investigate these questions through the language of geometry. Quilting patterns, meaningful geometric shapes, my grandfather’s paper-folding games, and traditional Polish craft materials, all help me actively bridge my family’s layered identities. ___ Hillyer is funded in part by @thedcarts, the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the Galena Yorktown Foundation, and the Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation.
Interview with Adi Segal
The following video is part of Hillyer's technology-based workshops to show how technology can be used to enhance productivity and creativity when using multimedia.
Chroma Key Video Editing by Tim Brown
Alexander D'Agostino led an artist talk about his exhibition "An Index of Fire."
An Artist Talk with Alexander D’Agostino
Xenia Gray was joined by Obi to discuss her exhibition “The Great Silence” on view at Hillyer in December 2025.
Xenia Gray in Conversation with Obi
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Hillyer is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, the Galena Yorktown Foundation, the Jon and Mary Shirley Foundation, and the Mars Foundation.