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# IA&A at Hillyer

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- [Varhung: The Infinite Body of Sound](https://athillyer.org/varhung/) - by Tsui Tsai-Shan (Assistant Curator at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts Exhibition Department) Sounds of breath and reverberation circulate throughout the space, ripples of amniotic fluid within the womb, palpitating into our hearts. Here, the breath is not merely the pulsation of life but also speaks of the harmony between humans and all living
- [She Says, Her Story: Notes on the Female Gaze](https://athillyer.org/she-says-her-story-notes-on-the-female-gaze/) - by Timothy Brown, Hillyer Director The exhibition She Says, Her Story: Contemporary Women Artists from Taiwan, is an eye-opening tribute to the female gaze. The exhibition's curator, Yu-Chuan TSENG, notes that during the nineteenth century, female artists were defined as "women in the bedroom." This patriarchal view of the "male gaze" depicts women as passive rather
- [Q & A with Judith Klausner](https://athillyer.org/q-a-with-judith-klausner/) - What is your favorite thing people usually don't notice? One of my favorite details is the worm on the underside of the soil in “Putting Down Roots.” I enjoy how often children discover it before adults. It's important to me to engage visitors of all ages, and it’s great to have children showing adults things
- [Art and the Dialectic of Possibility](https://athillyer.org/art-and-the-dialectic-of-possibility/) - Art and the Dialectic of Possibility by Timothy Brown, Hillyer Director Elaine Qiu, Kim Richards, and Alexandra Chiou are three solo artists who offer a dialectic of possibility when faced with difficult moments in life. Dialectics start with oppositions that can leave us at an impasse, but each artist finds a way to work through
- [Q & A with Elaine Qiu](https://athillyer.org/q-a-with-elaine-qiu/) - An interview with Tim Brown, Hillyer Director (TB): Your work explores liminal spaces between presence and absence, representation and abstraction. What can you tell us about the painting “Crossing” as an embodiment of this kind of in-between space? (EQ): "Crossing" is part of the ongoing "inner-scape"series that explores the intricacies of threshold moments in life.
- [The Oracle Said “Be Still”](https://athillyer.org/the-oracle-said-be-still/) - by Tim Brown, Hillyer Director The exhibition “The Oracle Said ‘Be Still’,” curated by Renée Stout, on view at IA&A at Hillyer from October 7–October 29, 2023, embraces a paradox that recognizes the value of stillness without eliminating the possibility of “speaking truth to power.” The idea for the exhibition was taken from a print
- [Q and A with Tiffany Chen](https://athillyer.org/q-and-a-with-tiffany-chen/) - An Interview with Advocate Member, Tiffany Chen Tim Brown, Hillyer Director (TB): Tell us about yourself. What is your profession and/or areas of interest? Tiffany Chen (TC): My profession is so DC! I’m a federal government consultant. With two different business degrees (logistics, and international financial management), my day-to-day is focused on technical account management.
- [Q & A with Adam Odomore](https://athillyer.org/q-a-with-adam-odomore/) - Questions by Tim Brown, Hillyer Director (TB): When did you become interested in collecting art? Adam Odomore, Curator (AD): I first developed an interest in collecting as a high school student at the age of 17. I did not have knowledge of art or collecting; I just loved it for what I saw. Growing up
- [Q&A with Artist and Curator Renée Stout](https://athillyer.org/qa-with-artist-and-curator-renee-stout/) - Questions by Tim Brown, Hillyer Director credit: Renée Stout, photo by Grace Roselli Tim Brown (TB): In the special exhibition Pulse 2023, you feature four works that are part of the Hoodoo Assassin series. Can you tell us more about these works? How are they similar and/or different from other works you have produced? Renée
- [Q&A with Artist John Paradiso](https://athillyer.org/qa-with-artist-john-paradiso/) - Questions by Tim Brown, Hillyer Director Tim Brown (TB): In the special exhibition Pulse 2023, you feature several works that appear to be consistent with topics you have explored in the past that address identity and male sexuality. The superimposed patterns over some of the works however suggest a more complex and nuanced interpretation. What
- [Q and A with Yasmine Dabbous](https://athillyer.org/q-and-a-with-yasmine-dabbous/) - Questions by Tim Brown, Hillyer Director Timothy Brown (TB): You have stated that you live for passion and practicality. How do they inform your artistic practice? Yasmine Dabbous (YD): In art, like in life, I think it is important to care, to feel passionate about people and causes, and to express this passion vocally. But
- [Neville Barbour: Blessings in Gray](https://athillyer.org/neville-barbour-blessings-in-gray/) - A review by Elsabé Dixon Neville Barbour states: Blessings in Gray “is a visual exploration of the narratives that define us. It explores what it is to be human and remarks on the ambivalence of that perspective. Neville explores how conflict can take us out of our comfort zone, yet become a force for change.” Timothy
- [Concept and Material Form](https://athillyer.org/concept-and-material-form/) - by Timothy Brown The ideas that inform our understanding of contemporary art are often intertwined with the materials and processes that are used to create art, as well as the content they represent. These approaches find singular expression in the work of Michael Thron, Hillary Steel, and MK Bailey. A General View of Concepts “Cogito
- [Newly Selected Artists, July 2022](https://athillyer.org/newly-selected-artists-july-2022/) - Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron Mascha-Le Gros Party Mascha – Le gros Party questions the notion of celebration in the intimate, public, and political space. Highlighting evocative traces of a past event, this vivid new corpus allows us to imagine a universe in itself. Inspired by the figure of the “mascha” — the etymological root of the
- [Ocean Currents, Islands and the South: The Conception of the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival](https://athillyer.org/ocean-currents-islands-and-the-south-the-conception-of-the-pan-austro-nesian-arts-festival/) - The Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival was introduced by the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts as a more expansive and inclusive.
- [Map, Route, Trail: From Chang En-Man's Snail Paradise to redraw culture-ecological imagination](https://athillyer.org/map-route-trail-from-chang-en-mans-snail-paradise-to-redraw-culture-ecological-imagination/) - The following essay examines the work of Chang En-Man and the them of mapping related to "Snail Paradise Trilogy."
- [Invasion: Words from the Exhibiting Artists](https://athillyer.org/invasion-words-from-the-artists/) - Gerardo Bravo Mother and Dead Child, Oil on wood panel, 16 x 16 in Artist Statement In my art, I explore the human condition, and emotions with a contemporary social perspective. As Nietzsche once said: "We have art in order not to die of the truth. In my art I explore human rights topics and
- [Artist Spotlight: Chang En-Man](https://athillyer.org/artist-spotlight-chang-en-man/) - Fluid Boundaries: Four Artists from the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival [Transcript] Since 2009, I have published at least nine series of artworks themed on African snails. The artworks came with various forms, including sculptures, films, live performances, interviews, recipes, maps, embroidery, painted windows, and so on. But why themed on the snails? The inspiration mainly
- [Artist Spotlight: Labay Eyong](https://athillyer.org/artist-spotlight-labay-eyong/) - Fluid Boundaries: Four Artists from the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival [Transcript] Hi, I am Labay Eyong. I am from Truku, an indigenous tribe in Taiwan. Labay Eyong is my Truku name. My artistic creation is inspired by Truku weaving culture. I often create soft sculptures, making my art works with some weaving stuff. In this exhibition,
- [Artist Spotlight: Tjimur Dance Theatre](https://athillyer.org/artist-spotlight-tjimur-dance-theatre/) - Fluid Boundaries: Four Artists from the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival [Transcript] Djavadjavai (Greeting in Paiwan language) Hello, I’m Ljuzem Madiljin, artistic director of Tjimur Dance Theatre. Today, I would like to share with you the concept “Varhung–The Body of Sound.” The Tjimur Dance Theatre was established in 2006. We’ve learned ancient rhymes in the Tjimur tribe.
- [Artist Spotlight: Idas Losin](https://athillyer.org/artist-spotlight-idas-losin/) - Fluid Boundaries: Four Artists from the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival [Transcript] Hi, I’m Idas Losin. I am both Atayal and Truku. It is a great honor for me to take part in this exhibition co-hosted by the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts and the IA&A at Hillyer gallery. In the time of the pandemic, I hope
- [Artist Series: March Q&A](https://athillyer.org/dc-artist-series-march-qa/) - IA&A at Hillyer is proud to feature a series of newly selected DC area artists during the months of March, April, July, and August. This special group of rising artists were selected from an annual call for proposals that began in 2020. This month we are featuring artists Noah McWilliams, Mary Baum, and Liz Vorlicek. You
- [The Personal and Political Art of Anna U Davis](https://athillyer.org/the-personal-and-political-art-of-anna-u-davis/) - by Timothy Brown There is a widely-held notion that art should not be informed by politics. In this view, politics is seen as propaganda that undermines the integrity of art, which should rise above practical concerns of the state. Reality Check, an exhibition of work by Anna U Davis, challenges this perception by embracing
- [Reality Check: Interview with featured artist Anna U Davis and Tim Brown, Hillyer Director](https://athillyer.org/reality-check-interview-with-featured-artist-anna-u-davis-and-tim-brown-hillyer-director/) - Anna U Davis is a native of Lund, Sweden. Davis began expanding her artistic practice and developing her signature “Frocasian” characters after moving to Washington, D.C., in the 1990s. She is known for her bold, colorful mixed-media work, where she explores social inequalities. Davis is a two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and
- [She Says, Her Story: Q&A with Curator Yu-Chuan TSENG](https://athillyer.org/qa-with-yu-chuan-tseng-curator-of-she-says-her-story/) - Artist, curator, and academic, Yu-Chuan TSENG is a pioneer digital artist who has been pondering the status of human existence in the digital age since 1998. She is currently the Professor of the Department of Public Relations and Advertising, Shih Hsin University and Chairperson of the Taiwan Information Design, Art, Technology, Education Association. Many significant media art
- [Sea of Change: Q&A with Jana Brike](https://athillyer.org/sea-of-change-q-and-a-with-jana-brike/) - Jana Brike was born in 1980 in Riga, Latvia and received her MA in painting from Art Academy of Latvia in 2005. Her artwork was first exhibited internationally in 1996, when she was still in her teens, and since then she has had 13 solo exhibitions and nearly 100 other projects and group exhibitions throughout
- [The Washingtonian Service: Q&A with Neil Forrest](https://athillyer.org/the-washingtonian-service-q-anda-with-neil-forrest/) - Neil Forrest is an artist and professor at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and taught at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts in Norway. He has exhibited at the Denver Art Museum, the Museum Hilversum in The Netherlands, and the Cheongju Biennale in Korea, and has received Established
- [Pathways: Q&A with Stephanie Garmey](https://athillyer.org/pathways-q-and-a-with-stephanie-garmey/) - Stephanie Garmey has received individual artist’s grants from the Maryland State Arts Council in Crafts and Painting and the Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Arts and Culture in Painting. Stephanie teaches in the Drawing and General Fine Arts Departments at the Maryland Institute College of Art, teaching Mixed Media Book Arts, Nature Drawing, and Cut Paper
- [Outliers: Q&A with Emily Campbell](https://athillyer.org/outliers-q-and-a-with-emily-campbell/) - Emily Campbell is a visual artist and educator working in Baltimore, MD. She holds an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA in visual arts from Mercyhurst University. Previous solo and group exhibitions include those at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Baltimore, MD), Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD), St, Johns College (Annapolis,
- [Search Party for Two: Q&A with Tessa Click](https://athillyer.org/search-party-for-two-q-and-a-with-tessa-click/) - Tessa Click is an artist in Portland, Oregon. Originally from Carmel, Indiana, she received a master of fine arts in visual arts from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and a bachelor of science in visual art education from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She was a resident of Washington, DC between 2012 - 2020.
- [Bow and Arrow: Q&A with Suzy Kopf](https://athillyer.org/bow-and-arrow-q-and-a-with-suzy-kopf/) - Originally from Silicon Valley, CA, Suzy Kopf was a resident of NYC for eight years and currently lives and works in Baltimore, MD. She completed her MFA in studio art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016, and holds a BFA from Parsons and a BA in art history from Eugene Lang College.
- [Welcome?: Q&A with Amarist](https://athillyer.org/welcome-q-and-a-with-amarist/) - Amarist is a creative studio based in Barcelona, Spain, founded by artists and designers Arán Lozano and Clara Campo. Childhood friends in a small village in the Pyrenees, Lozano and Campo grew up surrounded by nature and a craftsmanship ethos. Soon they began sharing creative concepts and ideas, and eventually formed an artistic partnership. Amarist
- [Rococo Remastered: Q&A with Noel Kassewitz](https://athillyer.org/rococo-remastered-q-and-a-with-noel-kassewitz/) - Noel Kassewitz is a contemporary artist and third-generation Floridian currently based in Washington, DC. After receiving her BFA in Studio Painting from the University of Florida and working with the prestigious Rubell Museum, she later completed an artist residency in Carrara, Italy with marble master sculptor Boutros Romhein. Kassewitz has guest written for Union of
- [Song of the Wild: Q&A and Guided Meditation with Clay Dunklin](https://athillyer.org/song-of-the-wild-q-and-a-with-clay-dunklin/) - Clay Dunklin is an interdisciplinary artist whose experimental practice includes performative, video, and installation works. Dunklin has exhibited his work nationally including shows at the Orlando Science Center, The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, and the Delaware Contemporary. He received his BFA in drawing from the University of Central Florida and his
- [Recalled in Human Memory: Q&A with Eric Uhlir](https://athillyer.org/recalled-in-human-memory-q-a-with-eric-uhlir/) - Eric Uhlir is a painter and photographer who grew up in the sunny melting pot of 1980s Southern California. He earned his BFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas in Austin in 2003. He currently lives and works in Washington, DC with his wife Phoebe and their dog, Violet. Recalled in Human Memory
- [Raising Our Youth: Q&A with Tyra Mitchell](https://athillyer.org/raising-our-youth-q-a-with-tyra-mitchell/) - Tyra Mitchell is a visual artist born and raised in Washington, DC. Tyra has spent the previous 5 years living and working in New York City. While there, she has had the opportunity to partner with many other creatives and brands. She gained her start by interning and freelancing enough to eventually make a name for herself
- [CONSTELLATIONS/MIGRATION: Q&A with Pietro Ruffo](https://athillyer.org/constellations-migration-q-a-with-pietro-ruffo/) - Pietro Ruffo studied Architecture at the University of Rome before moving to New York for a research scholarship at Columbia University. Since 2004, he has been working in Rome from his studio at Pastificio Cerere. Ruffo’s art investigates the great issues of universal history—especially individual freedom and dignity, which are constantly threatened by the ongoing homogenization
- [Quotidian Shift: Q&A with Nancy Sausser](https://athillyer.org/quotidian-shift-q-a-with-nancy-sausser/) - Nancy Sausser is an artist, curator, and writer living and working in the Washington, DC area. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from the University of Washington, in Seattle, and a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art from Kenyon College. Her sculpture, executed primarily in low-fire ceramic, has been exhibited around
- [What We Forgot to Remember: Q&A with Madeline A. Stratton](https://athillyer.org/what-we-forgot-to-remember-q-a-with-madeline-a-stratton/) - Madeline A. Stratton was born in 1987 in Memphis, TN. She is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Washington, DC. In 2018, she completed her Multidisciplinary MFA in the Mount Royal School of Art at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where she received a Merit Scholarship. She holds a MA in History of
- [In Light Of- : Q&A with Emily Fussner](https://athillyer.org/in-light-of-q-a-with-emily-fussner/) - Emily Fussner (b. 1991, Indonesia) is an artist based in Northern Virginia. She holds a BS in Printmaking from Indiana Wesleyan University (2013) and an MFA in Visual Arts from George Mason University (2019). Studying abroad with Gordon College in Orvieto, Italy, and with American University’s MFA Studio Berlin residency program also influenced her greatly.
- [Secular Relics and Apocryphal Fossils: Q&A with Zofie King](https://athillyer.org/secular-relics-and-apocryphal-fossils-q-a-with-zofie-king/) - Born in Poland and raised in Germany, Zofie King immigrated to the United States in 1998. After graduating with a psychology degree in 2002, she studied interdisciplinary craft at Towson University. For six years she worked in interior design while taking classes at MICA and the Corcoran, and devoted herself to her studio art practice in 2012.
- [Gestate: Q&A with Heidi Zenisek](https://athillyer.org/gestate-q-a-with-heidi-zenisek/) - Heidi Zenisek is a sculptor from Iowa City, IA where she received her BFA in Sculpture from the University of Iowa and spent her younger years on a farm surrounded by dirt, cows, corn and rust. Since then, she has lived and exhibited throughout Iceland, participated in numerous residencies, worked at sculpture parks and galleries,
- [Imagination of Salvation: Q&A with Bryanna Millis](https://athillyer.org/imagination-of-salvation-q-a-with-bryanna-millis/) - Bryanna Millis is a conceptual environmental mixed-media artist focusing on the linkages between heart and mind, feeling and intellect. Her work is situated within broader themes of place and time in the Middle East, and she uses cut paper, paint, thread, objects, and found materials to root esoteric concepts in concrete experiences of specific histories,
- [300.3A Creative-Compulsive Disorder: Q&A with Marcel Artes Deolazo](https://athillyer.org/300-3a-creative-compulsive-disorder-q-a-with-marcel-artes-deolazo/) - Marcel Artes Deolazo studied illustration at Syracuse University before moving to New York City to work in the fashion industry. He later relocated to Milan to work for Maison Valentino and other Italian fashion houses. Since then, he has freelanced as an illustrator for Italian Vogue and other Condé Nast publications. Deolazo currently maintains a
- [Plainclothes Agenda: Q&A with Christopher Kojzar](https://athillyer.org/plainclothes-agenda-q-a-with-christopher-kojzar/) - Christopher Kojzar received a B.A. in International Affairs from George Washington University and an MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. A list of his residencies include the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, Crosstown Arts in Memphis, the Seventh Wave Residency in Rhinebeck, NY, and the Truth and Reconciliation Residency
- [Adam Bradley: Desperate Ones](https://athillyer.org/adam-bradley-desperate-ones/) - Adam Bradley’s work consists of small scale figures cast from both aluminum and bronze. Bradley uses expressive gestures as metaphors for emotional or psychological state of mind. The figures deal with themes of vulnerability, anxiety, desperation. These characters struggle to maintain their sense of self. They have the features of birds and fish to symbolize
- [Standing on Rugs with Goose: Q & A with Braxton Congrove](https://athillyer.org/standing-on-rugs-with-goose-q-a-with-braxton-congrove/) - Braxton Congrove lives and works in Richmond, VA. She received her BFA from James Madison University and attended the Virginia Commonwealth University Summer Studio Program. Congrove's recent solo exhibitions took place at VALET and Arlington Arts Center. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at ADA, Disjecta, and Not Gallery, among others. She has
- [Scrutinearsighted: Q & A with RICHard SMOLinski](https://athillyer.org/scrutinearsighted-q-a-with-richard-smolinski/) - The unusual appearance of my printed name was developed to assist in pronunciation and to distinguish myself from the American children’s book illustrator with whom I share my name. By contrast, I am a Canadian artist interested in the ways that power structures influence and shape our realities and behaviors. I currently reside in East
- [Tender Bits: Q & A with Rex Delafkaran](https://athillyer.org/tender-bits-q-a-with-rex-delafkaran/) - Rex (Alexandra) Delafkaran is a San Francisco, California transplant living and engaging as an interdisciplinary artist and dancer, curator and administrator in Washington, DC, working out of Red Dirt Studios. A San Francisco Art Institute alum, Rex has worked and exhibited in many galleries including the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. She is currently
- [Audio Playback: Q & A with Veronica Szalus](https://athillyer.org/audio-playback-q-a-with-veronica-szalus/) - Veronica Szalus lives in the Washington, DC metropolitan area where she creates installation art. In 2011, Veronica received a Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship and has shown her work at several galleries including The Mansion at Strathmore in North Bethesda, MD and the Cade Art Gallery in Anne Arundel, MD. She is also a
- [Farther Along: Q & A with Mills Brown](https://athillyer.org/farther-along-q-a-with-mills-brown/) - Mills Brown lives and works in Washington, DC. She received her MFA in Studio Art from American University in 2017, and her BA in English and Art History from Wofford College in 2015. Mills has shown work in group shows in Washington, DC and has participated in the GlogauAir Artist Residency in Berlin, Germany. www.millsbrownart.com
- [Disenchanted: Q & A with Kaitlin Jencso](https://athillyer.org/disenchanted-q-a-with-kaitlin-jencso/) - Kaitlin Jencso is a photographer who lives and works in Washington, DC. Jencso explores the emotional terrain of ever-expanding and evolving relationships through loss, ephemera, bloodlines, and the land. Jencso graduated with a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2012. She won Best Fine Art Series at FotoWeek DC in both
- [To Future Women: Q & A with Georgia Saxelby](https://athillyer.org/to-future-women-q-a-with-georgia-saxelby/) - Georgia Saxelby is a Sydney-born, US-based installation artist and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at the art and social change incubator Halcyon Arts Lab in Washington, DC. Her interdisciplinary practice explores ritual and sacred space and their role in re-imagining and re-forming our cultural identities and value systems. Saxelby creates installations that are rooted in participatory
- [Mare Nostra: Q & A with Andrea Limauro](https://athillyer.org/mare-nostra-q-a-with-andrea-limauro/) - Andrea is an artist and city planner born in Rome, Italy and based in Silver Spring, MD, just outside Washington, DC. Andrea’s work explores issues of migration and identity, the fleeting concepts of home and safety, nationalistic narratives, and gun violence in the US. His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the DC metropolitan
- [I Love to Hate You: Q & A with Damon Arhos](https://athillyer.org/i-love-to-hate-you-damon-arhos/) - Damon Arhos presents I Love to Hate You as an extension of his art practice, which seeks to expose the destructive nature of prejudice and uses his identity as a gay American as its frame. A native of Austin, Texas, Arhos explores how individual experiences influence gender roles, sexual orientation, and human relationships. A graduate
- [Nine Patch: Q&A with Olivia Tripp Morrow](https://athillyer.org/nine-patch-olivia-tripp-morrow/) - Olivia Tripp Morrow received her BFA in sculpture at Syracuse University, graduating cum laude in December of 2012. Her most recent works are video and sculptural installations that address concepts relating to beauty, intimacy, memory, sexuality, and the commodification of women’s bodies. Morrow’s work primarily utilizes found and donated textiles as material, which are imbued
- [Measuring the Weight of Longing: Q & A with Gayle Friedman](https://athillyer.org/measuring-the-weight-of-longing-gayle-friedman/) - Gayle Friedman is an artist who was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She lives and works in Washington, DC. For the past decade she’s been a jeweler, teacher, and the founder of Studio 4903, a group art studio space. Friedman received a DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Fellowship Award in 2017. In addition to her
- [Ubiquitous Imagery: Q & A with Sarah Jamison](https://athillyer.org/ubiquitous-imagery-qa-with-sarah-jamison/) - Sarah Jamison's series, Ubiquitous Imagery, is inspired by the amount of time people spend absorbing images on their digital devices. Each piece is a tribute to scrolling through apps, a testament to the fact that through our perpetual media engagement, there is a universal visual language, where everything from cat videos to Kim Kardashian's "Breaking
- [Objectual Abstractions: Q & A with Emilio Cavallini](https://athillyer.org/objectual-abstractions-qa-with-emilio-cavallini/) - English | Italiano A renowned fashion designer, Emilio Cavallini is known the all over the world for his innovations in stockings and hosiery. In a career spanning three decades, Cavallini has collaborated with design houses ranging from Mary Quant to Dior, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, and more. Beginning in 2010, he gave up designing for women’s
- [Drift: Q & A with Carrie Fucile](https://athillyer.org/drift-q-a-with-carrie-fucile/) - Carrie Fucile is an intermedia artist focused on sound, sculpture, installation, and performance. She has exhibited and performed at numerous venues in the United States and abroad including The Walters Art Museum, The Red Room, the (e)merge Art Fair, Vox Populi, VMK – Gönczi Gallery, and Casa Contemporânea. Recent honors include a 2016 Maryland State
- [Lines, Folds, Bends, and Matter: Q & A with Anne Smith](https://athillyer.org/lines-folds-bends-and-matter-qa-with-anne-smith/) - Anne Smith is a visual artist and teacher in Washington, DC. Her art practice spans disciplines of drawing, sculpture and printmaking to study variations on boundaries, paths, and divisions of space. Her subject matter has included her childhood home, the side of the road, and other spaces entirely made up or imagined. Smith is also
- [Cut Canvas and Quiet Beauty: Q & A with Alexandra Chiou](https://athillyer.org/cut-canvas-and-quiet-beauty-qa-with-alexandra-chiou/) - "Initially, I was drawn to the idea of primordial landscapes free of man-made structures. Over time, my interest in unexplored terrains has morphed into a fascination with the beginnings of life, and the connections we humans share with our surrounding geography—for instance, the parallel between rivers and the blood that flows through our veins, and the
- [The Visionary Potential of Science and Art: Q & A with Gloria Duan](https://athillyer.org/the-visionary-potential-of-science-and-art-qa-with-gloria-duan/) - Gloria is a Chinese-American artist currently based in Chicago, IL. Her practice falls within the poetics of science and philosophy, examining concepts of the un-guessed. http://www.gloriafanduan.com/ Tell us how you make the large cyanotypes that are part of this exhibition? Do you consider them 2D pieces or do you think of them as more sculptural?
- [Environments and Dreamscapes: Q & A with Jessica Burnam](https://athillyer.org/environments-and-dreamscapes-qa-with-jessica-burnam/) - Jessica Burnam received her BA with highest honors in sculpture from the University of Virginia in 2015 and was a recipient of the Aunspaugh Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship at the University of Virginia from 2015 to 2016. Jessica has had residencies at Anderson Ranch (2016), Red Dirt Studio (2017-18), and Second St. Gallery. (2019). She has had solo
- [Plaster Transfers and Recycled Materials: Q & A with Melanie Gritzka Del Villar](https://athillyer.org/plaster-transfers-and-recycled-materials-qa-with-melanie-gritzka-del-villar/) - Melanie Gritzka del Villar born 1982 of German-Philippine parents - has lived, worked and studied in Germany, Spain, England, Thailand, the US and the Philippines. With a background in figurative painting, the artist has long been drawn to the use of found surfaces and mixed media processes. Her practice is shaped by an ongoing exploration
- [GRAPHITE AND SUBURBIA: Q&A WITH MATTHEW MCLAUGHLIN](https://athillyer.org/graphite-and-suburbia-qa-with-matthew-mclaughlin/) - What prompted you to use graphite for this series? Does this material and how it looks relate to the idea of suburbia you are trying to convey? The choice to use graphite for the Scenes from Suburbia drawings had two parts. The first part was that I felt that out of all the different drawing
- [COMPLEX NARRATIVES AND CONTEMPORARY ISSUES: Q&A WITH CRAIG SUBLER](https://athillyer.org/complex-narratives-and-contemporary-issues-qa-with-craig-subler/) - Your pieces revolve around the nature of museums, which you have a long personal history of working in. How has working in the museum world influenced your own work? Museums are highly choreographed spaces. The art museum’s fractured discontinuity is a place where visitors have to navigate an artificially constructed world in which the narrative
- [GREATER SENSE OF INTER-CONNECTIVITY: MARYANNE POLLOCK](https://athillyer.org/greater-sense-of-inter-connectivity-maryanne-pollock/) - Artist, “Repression, Resurgence, Reemergence” In your artist’s statement you mention that you went “to Donegal to retrieve something that was lost. Perhaps it was a pride that had been crushed by poverty and starvation”. What role has your art played in retrieving this “something”? I found a rich artistic and oral history that was never
- [UNCHARTED TERRITORY: BART O'REILLY](https://athillyer.org/uncharted-territory-bart-oreilly/) - Artist, “Repression, Resurgence, Reemergence” Your artist’s statement places emphasis on the present, between avoiding placing all interest in the origin of objects, utilizing improvisational exercises, and focusing on perception. Do you believe this central theme of the present should be used more when trying to understand identity? I think that in many ways we now
- [CONFLICTING FEELINGS: COLETTE MURPHY](https://athillyer.org/conflicting-feelings-colette-murphy/) - On your website, Bryan Wizemann describes your pieces as “haunted by a strong memory of youth, the culturally specific fantasies that one always carries as an immigrant to a new land.” Is this effect an inspiration for your pieces, or an involuntary result? As an artist I do not paint in response to emigrating from
- [VISCERALLY EXPRESSING THEMES: ERIN DEVINE](https://athillyer.org/viscerally-expressing-themes-erin-devine/) - Why did you choose video as your medium for your piece? What are the unique possibilities and challenges that this medium offers? My work is performative, whether live or in video. Typically, I enact ambiguous gestures using my own body in the video format, and are based in visual metaphors of some central theme or
- [SEARCH FOR CONTEMPORARY IDENTITY: CONALL CARY](https://athillyer.org/search-for-contemporary-identity-conall-cary/) - Your artist’s statement discusses a recent focus on the damage outdated conceptions of “masculinity” can have on contemporary young men. Does the theme of inherited identity present in this new focus have a connection to the exhibition on Irish identity? Why or why not? In Ireland I think that traditional masculinity and traditional ‘Irishness’ both
- [CONNECTING PHYSICALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY: Q&A WITH JACKIE HOYSTED](https://athillyer.org/connecting-physically-and-psychologically-qa-with-jackie-hoysted/) - Jackie is the curator of June 2016 exhibition “Repression, Resurgence, Reemergence,” and the head of Visual Arts Programming for Solas Nua. As the Director of Visual Arts for Solas Nua, the only non-profit organization in the United States dedicated to contemporary Irish arts, what is the most rewarding aspect of your position? I really enjoy
- [SPONTANEITY OVER PRECISION: Q&A WITH DOMINIE NASH](https://athillyer.org/spontaneity-over-precision-qa-with-dominie-nash/) - What inspired you to experiment with the process of printmaking? Who is your favorite printmaking artist? It happened sort of by accident many years ago. I had been dyeing fabric and yarn, and a friend suggested we try to do batik. We got some books and muddled along until we figured it out. Eventually I
- [CONCEPTUAL CHARACTER: Q&A WITH SASCHA HUGHES-CALEY](https://athillyer.org/conceptual-character-qa-with-sascha-hughes-caley/) - As a multimedia artist, with the No Joke installation at Hillyer featuring performance documentation, sculpture, and video work, how do you ensure unity in your pieces? I trust that formal and conceptual unity will be there. It is important for me to see how each piece works in conversation with the other. For No Joke,
- [COLLABORATIVE VIEWERS: Q&A WITH HELOISA ESCUDERO](https://athillyer.org/collaborative-viewers-qa-with-heloisa-escudero/) - How did you begin creating installation artwork, and what has the medium allowed you to do? I began doing installation artwork in graduate school in 2001. The medium allows me to interact with the space, which makes it easier to connect with viewers who after all interact with the space and the art. What are
- [LIVELY AWARENESS OF OURSELVES: Q&A WITH CHRISTINA SHMIGEL](https://athillyer.org/lively-awareness-of-ourselves-qa-with-christina-shmigel/) - Why did you choose an installation piece to convey your experience moving to Shanghai? Installation is my preferred way of working: I’m inspired by the places where I live and by the spaces in which I present my interpretations of those places. I think of my installations as creating a kind of theater space in
- [WORLD OF THE SENSES: ARTIST Q&A WITH LINA ALATTAR](https://athillyer.org/world-of-the-senses-artist-qa-with-lina-alattar/) - Your new body of work explores identity, and how the surrounding world effects this self-exploration. Why do you think it is important to explore these deeper themes through art? Art, to me, explores the deeper themes of our lives. It makes our experiences richer and deeper and in doing so, nourishes us on a deeper
- [INTUITION AND CREATION: Q&A WITH NICOLE FALL](https://athillyer.org/intuition-and-creation-qa-with-nicole-fall/) - Your mom is also an artist, through both you and your mother’s experiences in the DC art scene, what major shifts or changes have you observed? Growing up with my mother, artist Dorothy Fall, I was exposed to the DC art scene from the 1960s onward ( my childhood). I would be taken to DC
- [BRANCHES OF WORK: ARTIST Q&A WITH MARC ROBARGE](https://athillyer.org/branches-of-work-artist-qa-with-marc-robarge/) - In discussing your recent work on your website, you note that the pieces are focused on two directions, one discussing life and death and the other commenting on cultural, societal, and environmental issues. What message do you hope people will take away when viewing these two themes together? Yes, recently, my work took a new
- [STRIPPED ELEMENTS: ARTIST Q&A WITH ALEX PORTER](https://athillyer.org/stripped-elements-artist-qa-with-alex-porter/) - You mention in your artist statement that you want the viewer to create their own emphasis out of the pieces. What drew you to wanting this more interactive and interpretive response? My impression has always been that the experience of seeing the landscape varies from person to person, and that there are many ways of
- [CHEE-KEONG KUNG: ADJACENT AMPLITUDES](https://athillyer.org/chee-keong-kung-adjacent-amplitudes/) - Chee-Keong Kung begins each piece with the intention to capture the spontaneity and immediacy of the painting process. Washes, brush strokes, or lines are laid down as stimuli for subsequent moves. Kung responds to surface qualities, material characteristics, and the activity of mark-making in developing the work. Accidental drips, smears and fingerprints become impetuses for
- [MICHAEL CORIGLIANO: STUMBLING FORWARD](https://athillyer.org/michael-corigliano-stumbling-forward/) - Michael Corigliano’s work is a playful, yet introspective study of the embarrassing internal struggle of alter egos that befuddle a single father consumed by anxieties of middle age. This visual story is framed by the personal characters of a man propelled into an experience that challenges his identity and conflicts with his own needs and
- [LEAH APPEL](https://athillyer.org/leah-appel/) - "Nathan's" "Coney Island" "Cherry Blossoms" "Bridge 1"
- [MARISA S WHITE](https://athillyer.org/marisa-s-white/) - "I can drink you down"
- [CHRIS VALLE](https://athillyer.org/chris-valle/) - Chris Valle explores the themes of excess and consumption in our society, depicting the human body as a commodity. “The idealized body is the focal point of nearly every commercial and is the center of any noteworthy ad. The commodities that are actually being advertised, such as food or cars, are worth nothing without the commodities
- [MARIE GARDESKI](https://athillyer.org/marie-gardeski/) - Hovering Husbandry “In my small, delicately detailed drawings, I explore relationships between humor and the uncanny. Combining flora and fauna with familiar and mysterious elements, they sometimes suggest violence.”
- [PAM ROGERS](https://athillyer.org/pam-rogers/) - Pam Rogers’ interest in Art History and Botanical Illustration can be seen her work The Last Thicket. Pam’s fascination with nature is the basis for her broad body of work which encompasses paintings, drawings, sculpture, and installation. Her mixed media drawing will be on view at Hillyer Art Space through October 31st.
- [CASEY SNYDER](https://athillyer.org/casey-snyder/) - Casey Snyder is a mixed media artist living in Maryland. She uses various mediums to explore the idea of presence in her work. Casey uses varying fragments to play with the idea of presence and absence, physicality and indeterminacy. Come explore presence and absence yourself at Hillyer Art Space; Casey’s work will be on display
- [LESLIE ROBINSON](https://athillyer.org/leslie-robinson/) - Leslie Robinson uses drawing and video as forums to examine her multiple roles as academic, wife, mother, and artist. She uses these often-conflicting demands as fodder for commentary that may read as critical self-reflection and/or institution critique.- from Robinson’s artist statement. Come to Hillyer Art Space to see these mixed media drawings through October 31st.
- [DAISY PATTON](https://athillyer.org/daisy-patton/) - Daisy Patton explores the meaning of old photographs once they are taken out of the context. She questions, “what place does an old family photo have outside their original home?” Daisy re-imagines and re-enlivens old, abandoned photographs to give them new life.
- [MATTHEW MCLAUGHLIN](https://athillyer.org/matthew-mclaughlin/) - “My work explores the relationship human beings have with their surrounding environments, both natural and man-made, suburban and urban. Through image manipulation and the re-contextualizing of symbols, the work creates new perspectives for the viewer to consider when confronted with their own relationship with the environment. Each different series of work explores different aspects of
- [REBECCA MURTAUGH](https://athillyer.org/rebecca-murtaugh/) - Organic and geometric at the same time, Rebecca Murtaugh hopes her sculptures will engage visitors and cause them to slow down and question what they are looking at. Rebecca’s sculptures will be on display at Hillyer Art Space through October 31st.
- [MO KONG: DATA PAINTINGS](https://athillyer.org/mo-kong-data-paintings/) - “This work is a story collection of coal miners. It is about loss, mourning, and memorial. It happened in my own village, an unknown place in China, but it is a story of everybody.”
- [REMEMBERING A DC ART GIANT: WILLEM DE LOOPER](https://athillyer.org/remembering-a-dc-art-giant-willem-de-looper/) - Mr. Willem de Looper was one of those rare, incredible people who slipped quietly into the DC art scene and, over the course of 59 years, from his immigration here in 1950 until his death in 2009, changed it forever. Born and raised in The Hauge during the second World War, de Looper was fascinated
- [UNDER THE SUN: ARTISTS OF THE SOL PRINT STUDIO](https://athillyer.org/under-the-sun-artists-of-the-sol-print-studio/) - A sneak preview from our upcoming exhibition, Under the Sun: Artists of the Sol Print Studio which will be open between September 4th and the 26th. Under the Sun highlights the recent works of 14 SPS artists, including Gloria Askin, Catherine Behrent, Oletha DeVane, Jane Eifler, Ken Houston, Joe Kabriel, Katherine Kavanaugh, Michelle La Perriere,
- [RUBY YUNIS](https://athillyer.org/ruby-yunis/) - Ruby Yunis Parallel Universes and Parallel Universes II are still up in the exhibition Under the Sun, which is a selection of prints from the Sol Print Studio in Baltimore. Sol Print Studios is dedicated to creating solar plate etchings and using non-toxic forms of print making. Please join us for Culture Blast on Thursday
- [VICTOR PEREZ](https://athillyer.org/victor-perez/) - “Using a lexicon of familiar forms that bind the absurd and poetic, he creates spaces that can be both playful and horrific, in which, like a dream, the delineation of forms can come into question. The contents of these forms exceed their own limits thereby implying the possible collapse of their structures and impending doom.”-
- [JACKIE BROWN](https://athillyer.org/jackie-brown/) - Strata Jackie Brown deals with issues of growth, bioengineering, and the interaction between humans and other organisms: “An important undercurrent in the work is an interest in the human manipulation of living systems”. Brown’s “Strata” is an interesting instantiation of the relation which artists have with their own artwork, mimicking natural ideas of symbiosis and
- [KATHLEEN BENTON](https://athillyer.org/kathleen-benton/) - Brachyura Zoea 1 Kathleen Benton’s “Brachyura Zoea 1” is part of a larger series of Zooplankton images captured by microscopic cameras. Her work explores the relationship between figure and ground, “The translucent to transparent nature of zooplankton and their habitat as a visual investigation is fascinating, as transparency confuses the figure and the ground”. Come
- [BOBBY COLEMAN](https://athillyer.org/bobby-coleman/) - September One Bobby Coleman’s work, “September One”, is currently on view in our latest exhibition! Come check it out in person.
- [SEAN DE](https://athillyer.org/sean-de/) - Sean De is one of the featured artists in our latest exhibition, Perspective. In this work, De’s subject has the cosplay (costume play) features of Rei Ayanami, a fictional character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion manga and anime series.
- [JULIAN CUSHING](https://athillyer.org/julian-cushing/) - Cara Though Cushing has no formal training in art, his paintings explore the depth of space, and the interactions between a figure and the space it inhabits. “Cara” is a portrait of his sister who visited the artist at home over the winter last year. There is a tension between his familiarity with her, his
- [RITA ELSNER](https://athillyer.org/rita-elsner/) - Overlook and Transfer Rita Elsner’s breathtaking and grand chalk pastel landscapes take on a surprisingly personal form. The texturized surface of “Overlook” is entirely made up of reclaimed paper bags and “Transfer” depicts an old subway token carving tracks into the snow. Come see both works in our current exhibition, on view until October 31!
- [SPENCER DORMITZER](https://athillyer.org/spencer-dormitzer/) - “I am asking and I figured it out” Spencer Dormitzer Spencer’s work is a combination of the image which he produces and the complex titles which he ascribes to the work: “I consider myself a broken story teller, using abstract and inanimate forms to ambiguously unite with a title” His piece will be on display
- [TYLER FARINHOLT](https://athillyer.org/tyler-farinholt/) - Jeffery Tyler Farinholt’s striking work, “Jeffrey”, is on view now! Tyler, originally from Westminster, Maryland, is “interested in exploring themes of loss, anxiety, isolation, and identity and uses a variety of materials to erase, sand, and dredge the portrait out from its background.”
- [RIC GARCIA](https://athillyer.org/ric-garcia/) - Man Bond Ric Garcia, “Man Bond” is on view in our current exhibition, Perspective. “My work builds upon the legacy of pop art to present a narrative about blended cultures.” This graphic work questions advertising and its implied messages, referencing hero worship and Latino and gender cultures.
- [ANDREW FISH](https://athillyer.org/andrew-fish/) - Outpost Andrew Fish, “Outpost”: “I seek a painterly aesthetic but mimic photographic visual language through calligraphic mark making.” On view now at Hillyer for the month of October!
- [EMILY GLASS](https://athillyer.org/emily-glass/) - In Conclusion “The socially aware figures originate from the study of cadavers in biology labs, insects in university entomology museums, and local herd animals in paddock enclosures. Some issues explored are ideas of self-image, social indifference, and reactions to being watched.”
- [ROXANA ALGER GEFFEN](https://athillyer.org/roxana-alger-geffen/) - Bildungsroman “I use graphics and content from the computer game Minecraft as source material. This work explores the many places where Minecraft exploration and real-life exploration, including parenting, overlap visually, emotionally, and structurally.”
- [CHARITY HENDERSON](https://athillyer.org/charity-henderson/) - Assemblage Charity uses multiple media and techniques to create a single portrait. “This figure is formed of several sections, some of which are colored, some monochromatic, some detailed, some blurred. This approach suggests a multifaceted psychology of self which is not easily simplified.”
- [RONALD GONZALEZ](https://athillyer.org/ronald-gonzalez/) - Profile “The dramatic tonal range of blacks both obscures and reveals anthropomorphic objects that are brought to life as improbable archetypal beings that provoke a sense of wonder, fear, suffering, and strangeness.”
- [TOM HILL](https://athillyer.org/tom-hill/) - Tom Hill, one of the featured artists in our October exhibition, Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting and Drawing, discusses his work “Rustic Touch”: “I am drawn to lurid, flashy colors applied with layers of paint and glitter and images lifted from advertising and erotica. My work is infused with a queer and feminist
- [MICHAL HUNTER](https://athillyer.org/michal-hunter/) - Selfie #3 Michal Hunter’s painting was based on a photograph taken with an iPad. “The perspective required to include the full figure - my usual format - resulted in surprising distortion that I liked for both the disorienting nature of it as well as how it demonstrated an ongoing theme of my self portraits, i.e.,
- [MICHAEL HUBBARD](https://athillyer.org/michael-hubbard/) - Drums Michael Hubbard’s work “traces a linage of punk rock feminists, starting with the Riot Grrrl bands of the nineties. The works are both heroic portraits of revolutionary women and meditations on digital and painted media. There is a focus on the fierce, youthful, antiestablishment rage of the people portrayed. They’re righteous and strong, and
- [RYAN CARR JOHNSON](https://athillyer.org/ryan-carr-johnson/) - Vector-Visa-Versa 01 “I’m interested in pushing the plasticity of paint through the act of painting itself. Data in the form of paint becomes layered, removed, and reassembled. The order in which colors are applied and subsequently removed through various hand sanding techniques allows each work in the series to have a final aesthetic reflecting its
- [SCOTT HUTCHISON](https://athillyer.org/scott-hutchison/) - Displaced “The painting is is composed of five digitally merged self portraits that are painted as one. The abstracted version of himself is intended to illustrate the complexities of our personalities and the relationship between the individual and the experiences that shape us. We are in flux, forever changing from one experience to the next.”
- [SHARON KOELBLINGER](https://athillyer.org/sharon-koelblinger/) - Sharon Koelblinger, “Perfection as Absolute” is on view now in our October exhibition, Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting and Drawing: Her work explores “cyclical relationships between loss and desire, perfection and fallibility, repetition and rarity. Obsessive gestures underscore these relationships and represent a reverence for ritual through hand drawn lines and enigmatic imagery.”
- [JENNY KANZLER](https://athillyer.org/jenny-kanzler/) - "Mother May I"
- [BROOKE MARCY](https://athillyer.org/brooke-marcy/) - Brooke Marcy explores mass consumerism of fast food in her paintings, focusing on giving them a pop art feel. Come check out these paintings at Hillyer Art Space through October 31st. Photos courtesy of Brooke Marcy.
- [ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: JUDY SOUTHERLAND](https://athillyer.org/artist-spotlight-judy-southerland/) - Artist Spotlight is a weekly series that highlights Hillyer Art Space artists. Judy Southerland is one of our Artist Advisory Committee members at Hillyer Art Space. The Artist Advisory Committee is a group of artists and art professionals who guide HAS with its programming and with this position, Judy curated our August show featuring local
- [MEMBERSHIP SPOTLIGHT: VALERIA CAFLISCH](https://athillyer.org/membership-spotlight-valeria-caflisch/) - Membership Associate Ginny DeLacey sat down with International Arts & Artists and Hillyer Art Space Member and exhibiting artist Valeria Caflisch as she was installing her show Evidences which will be on view in Hillyer Art Space’s NIN9 Members’ Gallery from September 7 to September 28. The works in Caflisch’s Evidences were inspired by images
- [MEMBERSHIP SPOTLIGHT: JACKIE HOYSTED](https://athillyer.org/membership-spotlight-jackie-hoysted/) - Membership Associate Ginny DeLacey spoke with artist Jackie Hoysted before her show Label Me: Call me a Name opens on Friday October 5 in Hillyer Art Space’s NIN9 Member Gallery. In her show, Jackie dares viewers to label her paintings which feature beautiful, but challenging, women on stark backgrounds. This experiment raises questions of gender
- [MEMBERSHIP SPOTLIGHT: MATT MALONE](https://athillyer.org/membership-spotlight-matt-malone/) - Membership associate Ginny DeLacey sat down with member artist Matt Malone as he installed his exhibition Hot Pink in Hillyer’s NIN9 Members’ Gallery. Matt discussed the inspiration for his series which features photographs of deflated, pink balloons strategically placed in urban sites. He explained the way the juxtaposition of a pink party balloon in an
- [MEMBERSHIP SPOTLIGHT: AMY HUGHES BRADEN](https://athillyer.org/membership-spotlight-amy-hughes-braden/) - Membership Associate Ginny DeLacey sat down with Amy Hughes Braden as she was installing her show, Red and Grey Paintings, in Hillyer’s NIN9 Members’ Gallery. Amy discussed her fascination with relationships, her issues with ownership and her love of collaboration. Amy’s show will be on view from February 1-25. Ginny DeLacey: What is your background
- [WRAPPING LEONARD CAVE: ADVENTURES IN THE WAREHOUSE](https://athillyer.org/wrapping-leonard-cave-adventures-in-the-warehouse/) - Snugly sat against brown packing paper and rolls upon rolls of bubble wrap in the sedan of Hillyer Art Space’s Gallery Director, we (two Gallery Interns and a Gallery Director (don’t worry, this isn’t the start of a terrible joke)) headed to the warehouse in Baltimore where International Arts & Artists stores their artworks. Our
- [HILLYER INTERVIEWS CAPITAL FRINGE PERFORMER JEREMY GOREN](https://athillyer.org/hillyer-interviews-capital-fringe-performer-jeremy-goren/) - This July, Hillyer is happy to host a Capital Fringe performance, Wistaria, a traveling meeting that questions our past and present through a hallucinatory amalgam of U.S. texts, traditional song, and actions both mysterious and banal. Wistaria appears in homes and odd spaces, searching alternative ways of living in art and society. Created in part
- [HILLYER SPEAKS WITH RACHEL SCHMIDT AND MICHELE MONTALBANO](https://athillyer.org/hillyer-speaks-with-rachel-schmidt-and-michele-montalbano/) - After being closed briefly for renovations Hillyer is readily anticipating the upcoming September exhibition featuring the works of Rachel Schmidt and Michele Montalbano! With so much excitement for this upcoming show we spoke with both artists as they shared a little more about themselves and their work. These two individuals give a nice preview as
- [HILLYER SPEAKS WITH JEFFERY HERRITY, LEE GAINES, AND ALEXANDRA CHIOU](https://athillyer.org/hillyer-speaks-with-jeffery-herrity-lee-gaines-and-alexandra-chiou/) - The Hillyer Art Space will be exhibiting three amazing artist for this month of October. We got to speak with all three artists as they share information about their artwork and their personal life. Here is a sneak peek of the work that will be at opening during First Friday, October 3rd, 6pm-9pm! Also, a
- [HILLYER SPEAKS WITH ANTHONY PALLIPARAMBIL, JR.](https://athillyer.org/hillyer-speaks-with-anthony-palliparambil-jr/) - Anthony Palliparambil, Jr.’s amazing photography works will be exhibited in November at Hillyer Art Space. We got to speak with him as he shared information about his artwork and personal life. Here is a sneak peek of the work that will be at opening during First Friday, November 7th, 6 to 9 pm! Hillyer Art
- [HILLYER SPEAKS WITH CHRISTINE PEARL](https://athillyer.org/hillyer-speaks-with-christine-pearl/) - Hillyer Art Space will be exhibiting Christine Pearl’s amazing artwork in the upcoming November. We got to speak with her as she shared information about her artwork and personal life. Here is a sneak peek of the work that will be at opening during First Friday, November 7th, 6 to 9 pm! Hillyer Art Space:
- [AN INTERVIEW WITH JASON YEN](https://athillyer.org/an-interview-with-jason-yen/) - Hillyer Art Space: What drew you to the medium of collage? Jason Yen: Money. I used to paint, but I didn’t like to clean my brushes. And I was tired of spending money on paint, spray paint, and canvas– I eventually switched to wood… I’m not sure of anything specific of what drew me to
- [AN INTERVIEW WITH LINDA HESH](https://athillyer.org/an-interview-with-linda-hesh/) - HAS: How did the idea of appropriating commercial advertising techniques (as seen in your Billboard series) emerge in your work? Linda Hesh: When I go to Gay Rights Marches, I am drawn to the handmade signs the protestors carry. It’s so personal, direct and often very clever. But they are only seen for a few
- [PULSE15](https://athillyer.org/pulse15/) - The FINAL #Pulse15 highlighted artist is Arlington-based artist, Pam Rogers, whose work focuses on nature and botany in order to “explore how individuals nurture and develop relationships, societies and ideas and then create carefully crafted identities based in these themes.” She collects plant materials from all over the US as she travels to create her
- [THE HISTORY AND CELEBRATION OF COLLAGE](https://athillyer.org/the-history-and-celebration-of-collage/) - In celebration of the upcoming centennial anniversary of collage as an art form, we thought we would present a mini-retrospective on the last 100 years of collage. Our celebration will culminate (or begin) with the screening of a local, youth-made documentary, Life as a Collage, this Monday, November 21 from 6-8pm in collaboration with Meridian

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- [UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS](https://athillyer.org/upcoming-exhibitions/) - "Écriture with the Body," plus curator Laila Jadallah and artist Elizabeth Coffey. Oct 4 – Nov 2, 2025. The opening is "1st Friday," October 3, 6–8 p.m.
- [Press Release-April 2026](https://athillyer.org/press-release-april-2026/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Isabelle Baldwin Marketing Manager International Arts and Artists isabelleb@artsandartists.org (202) 338-0680 April 4–May 31, 2026 MODERN MOVEMENTS Selections of Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Art Museum of the Americas Curated by Adriana Ospina Modern Movements: Selections of Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Art Museum of the Americasexplores
- [Third Thursdays](https://athillyer.org/third-thursdays/) - On every 3rd Thursday, Hillyer is open for extended hours between 5 and 8 p.m. Visitors can view our exhibitions and participate in public programs.
- [Talks](https://athillyer.org/talks/) - Artist talks are part of Hillyer’s ongoing program offerings that occur on a monthly basis in conjunction with its featured solo artist exhibitions.
- [Second Saturdays](https://athillyer.org/second-saturdays/) - On the second Saturday of every month, Hillyer features a variety of programs including artist talks, workshops, demonstrations, and more.
- [Events](https://athillyer.org/events/) - Hillyer Happenings FIRST FRIDAY DUPONT On the first Friday of every month, Hillyer presents newly selected artists as part of its monthly exhibition series. FIRST FRIDAY DUPONT SECOND SATURDAYS On the second Saturday of every month, Hillyer features artist talks, workshops, and performances by featured artists as well as guest artists and curators. Masks
- [Film Screenings](https://athillyer.org/film-screenings/) - Film Screening: Through a Student Lens Directed by Neha Sati Saturday, March 28, 1 pm Expelled from her home, this video documents an Iranian artist’s journey of resistance towards her home country’s totalitarian regime. A Q and A session will take place following a conversation between Esha Sadr and Neha Sati. This program is organized
- [CURRENT EXHIBITIONS](https://athillyer.org/current-exhibitions/) - Featuring solo artists Jeremy Bolen, Jake Lahah, and Terence Nicholson, August 2 - August 31, 2025 | Opening reception is August 1, from 6-8pm.
- [EXHIBITIONS](https://athillyer.org/exhibitions/) - Learn more about our current exhibitions and featured artists prior to your visit. More information about upcoming and previous exhibitions is also available
- [January 2026](https://athillyer.org/january-2026/) - January 2026 January 3 - March 1, 2026 Jun Lee Unbreakable Elements Unbreakable Elements by Jun Lee explores printmaking through materials such as wood, paper, and glass – each chosen for its ability to withstand pressure. These works consider the ways we gather strength after moments of defeat and how we rebuild both individually and
- [First Friday Dupont at Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/first-friday-dupont-at-hillyer/) - Opening Reception is on 1st Friday, Oct 3, 6-8 pm. Experience "Écriture (Writing) with the Body," curator Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah and artist Elizabeth Coffey.
- [Press Release-March 2026](https://athillyer.org/press-release-march-2026/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Brown Director, IA&A at Hillyer International Arts and Artists hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org (202) 338-0680 March 7 - 29, 2026 Opening Reception, Friday, March 6, 6 to 8 pm Esha Sadr Absence of Us Absence of Us is an interdisciplinary, long-term project that transforms used garments into narratives of memory, identity, and resilience.
- [December 2025](https://athillyer.org/december-2025/) - December 2025 Barbara Liotta A Gathering In this exhibition, A Gathering, Liotta explores how a number of sculptures interact; how they dance together. All of this work is entirely new. The roughly two dozen pieces are smaller than works that have been shown in previous years. Emerging, as if out of a mist, is a congregation
- [November 2025](https://athillyer.org/november-2025/) - November 2025 FAPE GIFT FOR THE NATION 250 A Collection of American Art Celebrating our Nation’s 250th Anniversary FAPE GIFT FOR THE NATION 250 A Collection of American Art Celebrating our Nation's 250th Anniversary Saturday, November 8-Sunday, November 30, 2025 Opening Reception, November 7, 6 to 8 pm International Arts & Artists (IA&A) is proud
- [Fall Jazz](https://athillyer.org/fall-jazz/) - On Saturday, October 25, at 1 p.m., join us in the gallery for the return of our Fall Jazz series. Launching this year's series is the Amy K. Bormet Trio.
- [October 2025](https://athillyer.org/october-2025/) - October Exhibitions Saturday, October 4 - Sunday, November 2, 2025 Écriture (Writing) with the Body: Contemporary Korean Women’s Art Curated by Trio & Beats | Dr. Jung-Sil Lee and Dr. Koh Dong-Yeon Écriture with the Body brings together the work of 18 Korean and Korean American women artists who engage with writing, language, and text-based
- [January Exhibitions 2024](https://athillyer.org/january-exhibitions-2024/) - Newly Selected Artists: George Lorio, Oluwatoyin Tella, and Dan Ortiz Leizman, January 6–January 28, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, January 5 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m George Lorio Sustainable This current body of work is a commentary on ecological destruction and a proposed view of renewal. The works represent the significance of nature’s
- [October 2024](https://athillyer.org/october-2024/) - October 2024 Sarah Reagan, Ana Maria Farina and Hanna Washburn, and Melissa Dorn, October 5 – October 27, 2024. The opening reception are Friday, October 4 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Sarah Reagan The Kids are Talking Crafted from wood and accented with digital and bioplastic components, The Kids are Talking asserts that contemporary
- [Ecriture](https://athillyer.org/ecriture/) - Curated by Trio & Beats | Dr. Jung-Sil Lee and Dr. Koh Dong-Yeon Sponsored by Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE) and Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism of the Republic of Korea. Écriture with the Body brings together the work of 18 Korean and Korean American women artists who engage with writing, language,
- [Inner Loop Event](https://athillyer.org/inner-loop-event/) - Art Responds to Art Location: IA&A at Hillyer 9 Hillyer Ct NW 20008 Free to the public Sign up on Eventbrite!
- [Become a Member](https://athillyer.org/become-a-member/) - Memberships and Individual Giving Memberships appeal to those who are motivated by curiosity, a desire to share ideas, experiencing new things, expand one’s expertise, or simply relax and rejuvenate in an environment surrounded by art. Individual Giving is an investment in Hillyer’s ongoing effort to provide high quality exhibitions and programs, engage diverse audiences, support
- [Individual Giving](https://athillyer.org/individual-giving/) - Individual Giving | Memberships Individual Giving is an investment in Hillyer’s commitment to providing quality solo and group exhibitions, inclusive and diverse public programs, support for artists, exhibition spaces, and operational support. You can also become a member. Advocates ($250) Advocates make a personal investment to support Hillyer’s full schedule of public programs to
- [Press Reviews](https://athillyer.org/press-reviews/) - Press Reviews The following press reviews capture Hillyer’s success since reopening in November 2021. September 25, 2025 Te-Mao Lee, In-Between beings East City Art Reviews Author: Katherine Markoski, PhD September 24, 2025 Vintage Violence Te-Mao Lee seeks a future Taiwan underwater Substack/Discerning Eye Author: Mark Jenkins August 28, 2025 Doors of Perception: Terence Nicholson, The
- [September 2025](https://athillyer.org/september-2025/) - September 2025 Te-Mao Lee, Shelby Shadwell, and Khaleelah I. L. Harris September 6–September 28, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, September 5 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Te-Mao Lee In-Between beings In the exhibition In-Between beings, Te-Mao Lee contemplates the question of existence through a series of video works that gaze toward a future
- [August 2025](https://athillyer.org/july-2025/) - Upcoming Exhibitions Jeremy Bolen, Jake Lahah, and Terence Nicholson, August 2–August 31, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, August 1 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Jeremy Bolen Future Weather In Future Weather, artist and researcher Jeremy Bolen presents a new immersive exhibition of speculative documentary works that confront the realities of the climate crisis
- [Art All Night 2025](https://athillyer.org/art-all-night-2025/) - Art All Night is on Saturday, September 13, from 7 p.m. – 12 a.m. It will be a night of Art, Performance, and Creativity!
- [Te-Mao Lee](https://athillyer.org/te-mao-lee/) - Te-Mao Lee In-Between beings September 6–28, 2025 [TAP TO VIEW] Concepts Engagement This exhibition is supported by the Ministry of Culture (MOC) of Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States (TECRO). Organized in partnership with International Arts and Artists.
- [Call for Proposals 2026](https://athillyer.org/call-for-proposals-2026/) - Call for Proposals 2026 Release Date | Friday, July 18, 2025 Deadline: Friday, August 29, 2025, 10 pm Hillyer is currently accepting proposals for solo and curated exhibitions that will take place at Hillyer’s contemporary art space between January 2026 and January 2027. Proposals are open to local, regional, national, and international solo artists and
- [Press Release Te-Mao Lee](https://athillyer.org/press-release-te-mao-lee/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Brown Director, IA&A at Hillyer International Arts and Artists hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org (202) 338-0680 Te-Mao Lee In-Between beings September 6–29, 2025 VIP and Member Reception: Friday, September 5, 5 to 6 pm Opening reception (general public) 6 to 8 p.m In the exhibition In-Between beings, Te-Mao Lee contemplates the question of existence
- [ARTIST ADVISORY COMMITTEE](https://athillyer.org/artist-advisory-committee/) - The core of our exhibitions are selected through a very competitive annual call for proposals, with selections made by our Artist Advisory Committee, comprised of local established artists and arts professionals. Selected artists are paired with a member from the Committee, who works one-on-one with the artists leading up to their exhibition. This mentoring not only
- [November 2023](https://athillyer.org/november-2023/) - Sensorial's Africana Superrealities: Seven Contemporary Diaspora Artists, Curator, Raul Moarquech Ferreira-Balanquet, and Newly Selected Artists: Ellen Hanauer and Allan Rosenbaum November 4–November 26, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, November 3, 6 to 8 p.m. Sensorial Africana Superrealities: Seven Diaspora Contemporary Artists, curator Raul Moarquech (to the memory of Jeff Donaldson) Weaving symbolic, poetic, political,
- [Press Release August 2025](https://athillyer.org/press-release-august-2025/) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tim Brown Director, Hillyer Art Space International Arts and Artists hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org (202) 338-0680 Jeremy Bolen, Jake Lahah, and Terence Nicholson August 2–August 31, 2025. Opening reception is Friday, August 1 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Jeremy Bolen Future Weather In Future Weather, artist and researcher Jeremy Bolen presents a new
- [June 2025](https://athillyer.org/june-2025/) - July 2025 Avis Collins Robinson, Eszter Bornemisza, and Lou Haney, June 7– June 29, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, June 6 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m From Fabric to Paint Funk, Soul, and Art of Avis Robinson curated by Timothy Brown and Katie Larson, PhD The exhibition From Fabric to Paint: Funk, Soul,
- [Avis Robinson](https://athillyer.org/avis-robinson/) - From Fabric to Paint Funk, Soul, and the Art of Avis Robinson curated by Timothy Brown and Katie Larson, PhD June 7–29, 2025 Avis Collins Robinson, Jimi Hendrix, 2014, mixed media acrylic, 88 x 72.5 in The exhibition From Fabric to Paint: Funk, Soul, and the Art of Avis Robinson weaves together themes relating to
- [Support](https://athillyer.org/support/) - Support Us Individual Support: Ways to Give Thank you for your interest in supporting International Arts and Artists and the Hillyer art gallery. Your support helps us to provide local, national and international exhibitions, as well as educational programs to engage audiences of all ages. The Hillyer art gallery is free to the public, so
- [May 2025](https://athillyer.org/may-2025/) - May 2025 Auction on the Alley, Dawn Flores, and Sheila Crider, May 3– June 1, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, May 2 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Auction on the Alley Celebrating 30 years of supporting artists, art institutions, and the community Auction (Early Bids) Friday, May 2, 5-6 pm (Members and VIPs)
- [Auction on the Alley](https://athillyer.org/auction-on-the-alley/) - In celebration of its 30th anniversary, IA&A is featuring an art auction, fundraiser, and exhibition held at the Hillyer gallery during the month of May, 2025.
- [Avis Robinson-Press Release](https://athillyer.org/avis-robinson-press-release/) - PRESS RELEASE Exhibition Dates: June 7–29, 2026 Exhibition Opening (General Public): Friday, June 6, 2025 Contact: Tim Brown, Hillyer Director From Fabric to Paint Funk, Soul, and the Art of Avis Robinson curated by Timothy Brown and Katie Larson, PhD Avis Collins Robinson, Jimi Hendrix, 2014, mixed media acrylic, 88 x 72.5 in The exhibition
- [April 2025](https://athillyer.org/april-2025/) - April 2025 Hyunsuk Erickson, Arianne Ohara, and Jeffrey Berg, April 5– April 27, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, April 4 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Hyunsuk Erickson Thinggy of Their Town Thinggy of Their Town is a reflection of Hyunsuk Erickson’s cultural hybridity, shaped by both Korean and American influences. Through solo weaving,
- [Auction on the Alley-Videos](https://athillyer.org/auction-on-the-alley-videos/) - Auction on the Alley Auction Overview Interview with Anne Bouie Interview with Gerardo Bravo Interview with Julio Valdez Interview with Karlisima Rodas-Israel Interview with Nikki Brugnoli Interview with Rachel L. Cecelski Interview with Reginald Pointer Interview with Sabiha Iqbal Interview with Sean Riley Interview with Sharon Fishel
- [Auction on the Alley—Artists](https://athillyer.org/auction-on-the-alley-artists/) - AUCTION ON THE ALLEY Below is biographical information about each artist who is featured in the auction. Alice Whealin Alice Whealin is an Arlington, Virginia-based artist who works primarily in ink and watercolor. Whealin has exhibited her artwork extensively in the District of Columbia metropolitan area. She has exhibited at The Painting Center in New
- [WORKSHOPS AND CLASSES](https://athillyer.org/workshops-and-classes/) - This Sunday, October 27, at 12 pm, Hillyer is excited to present a pop-up event and button-making workshop led by solo artist, Sarah Reagan!
- [Call for Proposals 2025](https://athillyer.org/call-for-proposals-2025/) - Hillyer is accepting proposals for solo and curated exhibitions that will take place between Feb 2025 and Jan 2026. Proposals are open to all artists/curators.
- [March 2025](https://athillyer.org/march-2025/) - Current Exhibitions Benjamin Duke, Artemis Herber, and Paloma Vianey March 8– March 30, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, March 7 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Benjamin Duke Chance Factor Chance Factor is a painting exhibition that bridges the monumental and the mundane, questioning how history lingers in the quiet, unassuming moments of daily
- [ABOUT](https://athillyer.org/about/) - About Hillyer IA&A at Hillyer is a program of International Arts & Artists, (IA&A), a non-profit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts through exhibitions, programs, and services to artists, arts institutions, and the public. Hillyer is a non-commercial gallery that is committed to providing support for contemporary artists who are
- [Online Exhibitions](https://athillyer.org/online-exhibitions/) - JOURNEY INTO SPIRITUALITY An online exhibition featuring the work of E.d Adegoke Visit the website THERE, THERE An exhibition that features contemporary Korean artists. Visit the website
- [February 2025](https://athillyer.org/february-2025/) - Current Exhibitions Jude Griebel, Teddy Osei, and Paula Mans February 8– March 2, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, February 7 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Jude Griebel Revenants Revenants presents a series of sculptures and drawings that explore our relationship to the animals we consume and how they are perceived within the popular
- [Press Release March 2025](https://athillyer.org/press-release-march-2025/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Benjamin Duke, Artemis Herber, and Paloma Vianey March 8– March 30, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, March 7 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Benjamin Duke Chance Factor Chance Factor is a painting exhibition that bridges the monumental and the mundane, questioning how history lingers
- [January 2025](https://athillyer.org/january-2025/) - January 2025 Kate Fleming, Rachelle Wunderink, and Adi Segal January 4– February 2, 2025. The opening reception is Friday, January 3 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Kate Fleming AUGUST 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
- [Contact Us](https://athillyer.org/contact-us/) - Join Our Community Hillyer offers monthly exhibitions and weekly programs. To stay informed about upcoming events, sign up for our Constant Contact newsletter and stay up-to-date with the latest developments. [ctct form="18544" show_title="false"]
- [Sketch Saturdays](https://athillyer.org/sketch-saturdays/) - “Sketch Saturday'' is a monthly two-hour program where visitors will have the opportunity to sketch from the art and installations on view.
- [December 2024](https://athillyer.org/december-2024/) - December 2025 Xenia Gray, Alexander D’Agostino, December 7– December 29, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, December 6 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Xenia Gray The Great Silence The Great Silence invites you to step into a world of curiosity and yearning that permeates human nature. Composed of 10 to 15 mid-sized figurative acrylic
- [Future Impact](https://athillyer.org/future-impact/) - As we look to 2025, consider a year-end gift to International Arts & Artists (IA&A), supporting the transformative power of the arts locally and globally.
- [Press Release-December 2024](https://athillyer.org/press-release-december-2024/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE December 2024 Xenia Gray, Alexander D’Agostino, December 7– December 29, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, December 6 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Xenia Gray The Great Silence The Great Silence invites you to step into a world of curiosity and yearning that permeates human
- [November 2024](https://athillyer.org/november-2024/) - Last Day to see Joana Stillwell and Marcel Taylor Joana Stillwell travel lightly In her exhibition Travel Lightly, Joana Stillwell uses personal and found correspondences to inform this series of ephemeral works. The exhibition is a meditation on data, feelings, and touch that examines the tools we use to communicate and the subsequent records we
- [Giving Tuesday](https://athillyer.org/giving-tuesday/) - Making an Impact Through Art This Giving Tuesday, please join us in celebrating the transformative power of art. At International Arts & Artists we believe that art can break down barriers and foster human connection—globally and locally. IA&A’s Cumulative Impact Empower Artists The Cultural Exchange Programs brings visitors from across the globe to learn at
- [Event Rentals](https://athillyer.org/event-rentals/) - Events at Hillyer’s Contemporary Art Space IA&A at Hillyer is a unique contemporary art venue located in the artistic and internationally chic Dupont Circle neighborhood of Washington, DC. This renovated historic livery stable gallery hosts receptions, meetings, small weddings, book signings, memorial services, seminars, lectures, office parties, and nonprofit fundraisers. Hillyer can accommodate up to
- [September 2024](https://athillyer.org/september-2024/) - Newly Selected Artists: Anne Bouie, Anna U Davis, and G. Pack, September 7 – September 29, 2024. The opening receptions are Friday, September 6 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Anne Bouie At the Equinox At the Equinox includes ceremonial objects and assemblages that reflect upon some time-honored traditions and spirituality of the Fall Equinox,
- [Art All Night 2024](https://athillyer.org/art-all-night-2024/) - Art All Night will include live jazz with the Kris Funn trio, a live painting performance by Zhenya Parrish, and printmaking inspired by our exhibitions.
- [August 2024](https://athillyer.org/august-2024/) - Opens on Friday, August 2, 2024 Newly Selected Artists: Joan Cox and Andrea Sherrill Evans, August 3 – September 1, 2024. The opening receptions are Friday, August 2 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Plus, ongoing exhibition Democracy in the Crossfire: Art, Identity, and Resilience, July 6 – September 1, 2024. Joan Cox Sapphic Gaze
- [December 2023](https://athillyer.org/december-2023/) - Newly Selected Artists: Roger Mokbel, Kenny Harris, and James Terrell, December 2–December 22, 2023. Roger Mokbel Dust in My Mouth The Qatar America Institute for Culture's (QAIC) IMPART Artist Grant awards a cash prize to emerging and mid-career artists to support the creation of a new body of work around a selected yearly theme. Lebanese
- [June 2024](https://athillyer.org/june-2024/) - Newly Selected Artists: Kiana Honarmand, Helen Zughaib, Mike Easton, and E.d Adegoke, June 8–June 30, 2024. Opening Reception, Friday, June 7, 6–8 pm, 5–6 pm for members Kiana Honarmand Screeching Silence Screeching Silence is an immersive multimedia installation incorporating sculptures, video projection, and the interplay of light and shadows. This exhibition serves as a tribute
- [July 2024](https://athillyer.org/july-2024/) - Democracy in the Crossfire: Art, Identity, and Resilience July 6 – September 1, 2024 and Newly Selected Artists: April Webb and Redeat Wondemu July 6 – July 28, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, July 5 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m., 5 to 6 pm for members Democracy in the Crossfire: Art, Identity, and
- [April 2024](https://athillyer.org/april-2024/) - Contemporary Echoes: Rediscovering Italian Art from 1950-1980. Artworks from the BFF Collection, April 6–June 2, 2024. Newly Selected Artists: Judith Klausner and Deborah Grayson, April 6–April 28, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, April 5 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Contemporary Echoes Rediscovering Italian Art from 1950–1980 Curated by Renato Miracco The exhibition features
- [March 2024](https://athillyer.org/march-2024/) - Newly Selected Artists: Elaine Qiu, Kim Richards, and Alexandra Chiou, March 2–March 31, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, March 1 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Elaine Qiu Every Place We’ve Been How have the events of the past years, from the pandemic to renewed global conflicts, affected our collective consciousness? How should we
- [February 2024](https://athillyer.org/february-2024/) - Exhibitions in February 2024 Newly Selected Artists: James Brown Jr., Dawn Whitmore, and Sean Riley, February 3–February 25, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, February 2 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m James Brown, Jr. No Justice, No Peace No Justice, No Peace is an exhibition that bears witness to the realities of life for
- [January 2024](https://athillyer.org/january-2024/) - Newly Selected Artists: George Lorio, Oluwatoyin Tella, and Dan Ortiz Leizman, January 6–January 28, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, January 5 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m George Lorio Sustainable This current body of work is a commentary on ecological destruction and a proposed view of renewal. The works represent the significance of nature’s
- [Press Release August 2024](https://athillyer.org/press-release-august-2024/) - "Newly Selected Artists: Joan Cox and Andrea Sherrill Evans" August 3 – September 1, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, August 2 (“First Friday”), 6–8 p.m.
- [Press Release-June 2024](https://athillyer.org/press-release-june-2024/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Newly Selected Artists: Kiana Honarmand, Helen Zughaib, Mike Easton, and E.d Adegoke, June 8–June 30, 2024. Opening Reception, Friday, June 7, 6–8 pm, 5–6 pm for members Kiana Honarmand Screeching Silence Screeching Silence is an immersive multimedia installation incorporating sculptures, video projection, and the interplay of
- [Press Release July 2024](https://athillyer.org/press-release-july-2024/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Democracy in the Crossfire: Art, Identity, and Resilience July 6 – September 1, 2024 and Newly Selected Artists: April Webb and Redeat Wondemu July 6 – July 28, 2024. The opening receptions are Friday, July 5 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Democracy in the Crossfire: Art,
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- [july-8](https://athillyer.org/july-8/) - Democracy in the Crossfire Art, Identity, and Resilience Reception Reservation Form
- [Call for Submission-2024](https://athillyer.org/call-for-submissions-2024/) - Hillyer is currently accepting submissions from artists in DC, Virginia, and Maryland that address the following: -protest -conflict -social justice -democracy Topics should have a local or national focus. A few select works will be selected and exhibited alongside other works that document international regions and subjects. Deadline: May 31, 2024 athillyer.org/call-for-submissions-2024
- [Contemporary Echoes](https://athillyer.org/contemporary-echoes-dc/) - Contemporary Echoes: Rediscovering Italian Art from 1950-1980, Artworks from the BFF Collection Curated by Renato Miracco Twentieth-century Italian art, while recognizable due to its numerous prominent figures, remains on the fringe of popular culture with the general public unaware of its important origins and historical context. In the aftermath of the Second World War, both
- [Creative Alliances](https://athillyer.org/creative-alliances/) - Creative Alliances: Navigating Cultural Diplomacy at the Intersection of Business and the Arts Under the auspices of ANNUAL SPRING MEETING SYMPOSIUM Symposium April 19, 2024 4:00–5:30 PM 1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC 20009 (The Phillips Collection Auditorium and Gardens) Presented by In partnership with RSVP to bff@artsandartists.org PROGRAM OVERVIEW PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS PRESS RELEASE
- [Press Release-May 2024](https://athillyer.org/press-release-may-2024/) - Media Contact Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Newly Selected Artists: Julieta Tetelbaum and Khánh Lê, May 4–June 2, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, May 3 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Julieta Tetelbaum Black Chalk Intimacy Black Chalk Intimacy immerses visitors in the intimate world of a woman with Down’s Syndrome, who
- [Creative Alliances-Highlights](https://athillyer.org/creative-alliances-highlights/) - Creative Alliances Symposium Photo Gallery Renato Miracco and Massimiliano Belingheri
- [Press Release-Contemporary Echoes](https://athillyer.org/press-release-contemporary-echoes/) - Contemporary Echoes: Rediscovering Italian Art from 1950-1980, Artworks from the BFF Collection An exploration of divergent expressions and common threads Press Release Saturday, April 6 – Sunday, June 2, 2024 Opening: Friday, April 5, | 6:00 - 8:00 PM Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Friday 12 to 6 p.m. and Saturday – Sunday 12 to 5
- [Press Release-April 2024](https://athillyer.org/april-press-release/) - Media Contact Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Newly Selected Artists: Judith Klausner and Deborah Grayson, April 6–April 28, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, April 5 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Judith Klausner (de)composed/noturne (de)composed/nocturne is an exhibit in two parts: dark and light. Works in the darkened portion of the space
- [contemporary-echoes](https://athillyer.org/contemporary-echoes/) - 2.29–3.28.24 CONTEMPORARY ECHOES REDISCOVERING ITALIAN ART FROM 1950-1980 ARTWORKS FROM THE BFF COLLECTION CURATED BY RENATO MIRACCO The exhibition features 24 works by 10 prominent Italian artists and serves as a captivating exploration linking the artistic journeys of Italian and American artists, drawing inspiration from BFF Bank's art collection dating back to the late 1980s.
- [BFF Artists](https://athillyer.org/contemporary-echoes-artists/) - CONTEMPORARY ECHOES REDISCOVERING ITALIAN ART FROM 1950-1980 Featured Artists ALBERTO BURRI (1915–1995) Alberto Burri along with Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, was one of the pre-eminent Italian multi-media artists of the twentieth century. While the American avant-garde was headed in the direction of Action Painting, Burri pursued a more studied approach to abstract art. In
- [Press Release-March 2024](https://athillyer.org/press-release-2024/) - Media Contact Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Newly Selected Artists: Elaine Qiu, Kim Richards, and Alexandra Chiou, March 2–March 31, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, March 1 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Elaine Qiu Every Place We’ve Been How have the events of the past years, from the pandemic to renewed
- [Press Release-February 2024](https://athillyer.org/press-release-february-2024/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Newly Selected Artists: James Brown Jr., Dawn Whitmore, and Sean Riley, February 3–February 25, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, February 2 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m James Brown Jr. No Justice, No Peace No Justice, No Peace is an exhibition that bears witness to
- [Sponsorships](https://athillyer.org/sponsorships/) - Sponsorships Hillyer is now offering new sponsorship opportunities in 2024. By supporting IA&A at Hillyer, you can support the operation of our exhibition and program spaces, public programs and events, and valuable assistance for artists. Below are several ways to show your support. Art Gallery Sponsorship Monthly Exhibitions Every month, Hillyer features three solo and/or
- [Press Release January 2024](https://athillyer.org/press-release-january-2024/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Newly Selected Artists: George Lorio, Oluwatoyin Tella, and Dan Ortiz Leizman, January 6–January 28, 2024. The opening reception is Friday, January 5 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m George Lorio Sustainable This current body of work is a commentary on ecological destruction and a proposed view
- [Press Release-December 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-december-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Newly Selected Artists: Roger Mokbel, Kenny Harris, and James Terrell, December 2–December 22, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, December 1 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Roger Mokbel Dust in My Mouth The Qatar America Institute for Culture's (QAIC) IMPART Artist Grant awards a cash
- [Press Release-November 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-november-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE Sensorial Africana Superrealities: Five Contemporary Diaspora Artists, Curator, Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, and Newly Selected Artists: Ellen Hanauer and Allan Rosenbaum, November 4–November 26, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, November 3 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m Sensorial Africana Superrealities: Five Contemporary Diaspora Artists (to the memory
- [Art All Night 2023](https://athillyer.org/art-all-night-2023/) - IA&A at Hillyer 9 Hillyer Ct NW, Washington DC 20008 September 30, 2023 7 to 12 p.m Art All Night, 2022 Led by Nicole Wandera Time: 7 to 8 p.m, As the first kick-off event for Art All Night, Hillyer’s featured solo artist in September, Nicole Wandera, will lead participants through an activity inspired by
- [Video Spotlights](https://athillyer.org/video-spotlights/) - Interview with the Curator, Adam Odomore In this video interview, Adam Odomore addresses his exhibition To Harvest a Dream Buried in Dust—On Care and Blackness. Artist Talk: Katherine Burling The following video features Katherine Burling in her exhibition "Slip Quietly Into My Arms." Artist Interview: Emily Francisco The following video features Emily Francisco in her
- [Press Release-October 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-october-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE The Oracle Said “Be Still,” curated by Renée Stout, and Newly Selected Artist, Shamila Chaudhary, October 7–October 29, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, October 6 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m The Oracle Said, “Be Still.” Renée Stout, curator "During the height of Covid, I
- [Press Release-September 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-september-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE “Newly Selected Artists and Curator: Mark Tan, Nicole Wandera, and Adam Odomore,” September 2–October 1, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, September 1, 2023 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Mark Tan | Adam Odomore | Nicole Wandera Mark Tan Sight Unseen is a representation of
- [Call for Proposals 2024](https://athillyer.org/call-for-proposals-2024/) - Annual Call for Proposals 2024 Release Date | Friday, July 21, 2023 Deadline: Friday, September 22, 2023 Hillyer is accepting proposals for solo and group exhibitions that take place between January and December of 2024. Solo exhibitions are awarded to individual artist submissions and group exhibitions are offered to proposals by curators. You can only
- [Video Spotlights-2](https://athillyer.org/video-spotlights-2/) - Video Spotlights (Continued) Yu-Jung CHEN Yu-Jung CHEN addresses topics in his exhibition "Dynamic Loop-Modulating Algorithm," which is on view at Hillyer during the month of April 2023. Sookkyung Park Sookkyung Park addresses topics in her exhibition titled "Blooming," which is on view during the month of April 2023. Neville Barbour Neville Barbour addresses topics in
- [New CEO](https://athillyer.org/new-ceo/) - New Announcement IA&A appoints a New CEO International Arts and Artists Appoints New President and CEO – Gregory Houston to Lead IA&A into New Era of Global Cultural Engagement Washington, DC - International Arts and Artists (IA&A), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally, is pleased to announce
- [August Exhibitions 2023](https://athillyer.org/august-exhibitions-2023/) - Newly Selected Artists: August 2023 Emily Francisco, Magdolene Dykstra, and Katherine Burling August 5–August 27, 2023 Opening Reception, Friday, August 4, 6 P.M. Member Opening Reception, August 4, 5 P.M Emily Francisco A Brief Study of Time The present does not depend on a notion of duration, because of the relativity and volatility it possesses.
- [Press Release-August 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-august-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE “Newly Selected Artists: Emily Francisco, Magdolene Dykstra, and Katherine Burling,” August 5–August 27, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, August 4, 2023 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Emily Francisco | Magdolene Dykstra | Katherine Burling Emily Francisco A Brief Study of Time The present does
- [Press Release-July 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-july-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE “Newly Selected Artists: Kelley O'Brien, Chris Combs, and Wa PaPo: David Allen Harris and Lyric Prince Harris,” July 8–July 30, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, July 7, 2023 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Left to Right: Kelley O'Brien | | Chris Combs |
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- [Press Release-June 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-june-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE “Newly Selected Artists: Walter Rindone, Elaine M. Erne, and Andrew Hladky,” June 3–July 2, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, June 2, 2023 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Left to Right: Walter Rindone | Elaine M. Erne | Andrew Hladky Walter Rindone Tales from the
- [Press Release: May 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-may-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE “Newly Selected Artists: Claudia "Aziza" Gibson-Hunter, Amber Robles Gordon, and Zhenya Parish,” May 6–May 28, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, May 5, 2023 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Left to Right: Claudia Aziza Hunter | Amber Robles-Gordon | Zhenya Parish Claudio "Aziza" Gibson-Hunter FLIGHT
- [Press Release: April 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-april-2023/) - Media Contact: Timothy Brown Hillyer Director hillyerdirector@artsandartists.org PRESS RELEASE “Newly Selected Artists: Yu-Jung CHEN, Sookkyung Park, and Sharon Shapiro,” April 8–April 30, 2023. The opening reception is Friday, April 7, 2023 (“First Friday”), 6 to 8 p.m. Left to Right: Yu-Jung CHEN | Sookkyung Park | Sharon Shapiro Yu-Jung CHEN Dynamic Loop-Modulating Algorithm Dynamic Loop-Modulating
- [First Friday](https://athillyer.org/first-friday-events/) - On every First Friday of the month, Hillyer opens for extended evening hours to celebrate the grand opening reception of our newest exhibitions.
- [Newly Selected Artists 2023](https://athillyer.org/newly-selected-artists-2023/) - Column 1 Column 2 Column 3 Newly Selected Artists 2023 Hillyer selected nineteen artists and one curator from over two hundred submissions that were received in response to our annual Call for Proposals. During the 2023 exhibition cycle, the following artists and curator will receive solo exhibitions and/or a single gallery, beginning in March. Note:
- [Josh Berer](https://athillyer.org/josh-berer/) - Josh Berer Translation #1 God's pardon we ask, beginning our poem, Lord of all that there is, divine on His throne That He, each error I make, might condone: One who looks to the Lord, his hope will endure. If only you'll hear the advice I provide, The length of your life will be lived
- [NEA Press Release 2023](https://athillyer.org/press-release-2023/) - Press Release 2023 IA&A at Hillyer receives a $30,000 Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts January 10, 2023 Washington DC—IA&A at Hillyer is pleased to announce it has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $30,000. This grant will support Hillyer’s
- [Chief Executive Officer](https://athillyer.org/chief-executive-officer/) - CEO SEARCH Chief Executive Officer, International Arts & Artists International Arts & Artists (IA&A) is a 501(c)3 arts service organization dedicated to promoting cross-cultural understanding and exposure to the arts internationally. IA&A was founded in 1995 and operates in Washington, D.C., with a professional staff of 15 and at a budget of $2m annually. For
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- [Volunteer](https://athillyer.org/volunteer/) - Volunteer Opportunities Volunteers are integral to making Hillyer a success. In addition to their time, volunteers contribute unique skills, experiences and curiosity, helping to create a welcoming environment for patrons, artists, and supporters. In exchange, volunteers find community, share and gain knowledge and skills that are essential to the promotion of Hillyer’s exhibitions, events, and
- [Invasion Artists](https://athillyer.org/invasion-artists/) - Invasion Please enjoy the collection of submitted works of art by our featured artists in this special exhibition “Invasion.” To read the artists' statements, please click here. To listen to the artists who participated in our gallery talk, please visit our YouTube channel here. Gerardo Bravo Mother and Dead Child, Oil on wood panel,
- [Invasion](https://athillyer.org/invasion/) - International Arts & Artists, its board and staff, in the spirit of its mission to “increase cross-cultural understanding internationally,” condemns the war begun by the Russian government and stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. SUBMISSION PERIOD HAS ENDED Invasion International Arts and Artists at Hillyer, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine, announces
- [Event Venues](https://athillyer.org/event-venues/) - [event_venues]
- [MK Bailey Exhibition](https://athillyer.org/mk-bailey-exhibition/) - MK Bailey Secret Garden In the secret garden, everything seems fine. The tulips are blooming, the vines are twining, and even the litter is aesthetically pleasing. A figure pulls her hair out so gently that you almost don’t notice it. The secret garden is an imagining of anxiety as a self-contained, physical space. Each piece
- [PROGRAMS AND EVENTS](https://athillyer.org/programs-and-events/) - ARTIST TALK: Anna U Davis Saturday, January 22, 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday, February 5, 1 to 2 p.m. Anna U Davis will provide two gallery talks of her solo exhibition Reality Check. Visitors are encouraged to sign up in advance. Walk-ins are welcome, but space will be limited to 25 visitors at a time.
- [Connections](https://athillyer.org/connections/)
- [There, There](https://athillyer.org/there/) - An online exhibition about locating presence in absence.
- [Urban Mapping](https://athillyer.org/urban-mapping/) - URBAN MAPPING Public Space Through the Lens of Contemporary Iranian Artists Curated by Gohar Dashti September 1 - October 29, 2017 Featuring photography and video installations, this exhibition examines the concept of “Public Space” from the viewpoint of the artist. The collective experience of Iranian citizens that has been subject to political and social
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## Portfolio

- [Jeffrey Berg](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jeffrey-berg/) - Bearing Witness April 5 - April 27,2025 These drawings bear witness to the lives of people crossing borders—manmade and psychological—who seek to escape hardship and trauma, hoping for safety and refuge. Bearing witness firsthand to others’ experiences makes us present for injustice, gives voice to privation, and connects us on a human level.
- [Arianne Ohara](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/arianne-ohara/) - Soft Archives: Threads and Textures of History Curator: Arianne Ohara April 5 - April 27, 2025 Soft Archives: Threads and Textures of History highlights how textile artists weave fibers of individuality into a tapestry of collective memory. Featuring six early-career artists across the U.S., the exhibition examines diasporic narratives through fiber. Diego Borgsdorf Fuenzalida’s
- [Hyunsuk Erickson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/hyunsuk-erickson/) - Thinggy of Their Town April 5 - April 27, 2025 Thinggy of Their Town is a reflection of Hyunsuk Erickson’s cultural hybridity, shaped by both Korean and American influences. Through solo weaving, knotting, and crochet work, she navigates the tensions of adaptation and resistance within her identity. This ongoing project continuously evolves into an
- [Paloma Vianey](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/paloma-vianey/) - Don’t Zip Me Up March 8 - March 30, 2025 Through Don’t Zip Me Up, Paloma Vianey seeks to challenge common misconceptions about her birthplace and hometown, Ciudad Juarez, which from 2008 to 2012 was widely labeled as, “the most dangerous city in the world.” While crime and violence has drastically decreased, the city
- [Artemis Herber](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/artemis-herber/) - Danger Zones: Beyond the Past March 8 - March 30, 2025 Danger Zones: Beyond the Past is an immersive installation by Artemis Herber that examines the intersection of power, memory, and time in shaping the future of our shared planet. The exhibition explores the lasting consequences of human intervention in the environment, prompting reflection on
- [Benjamin Duke](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/benjamin-duke/) - Chance Factor March 8 - March 30, 2025 Chance Factor is a painting exhibition that bridges the monumental and the mundane, questioning how history lingers in the quiet, unassuming moments of daily life. The work explores themes of survival, complicity, and human folly, weaving together historical echoes with mundane contemporary experience. Drawing on Heidegger’s
- [Paula Mans](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/paula-mans/) - Cotton Flower February 8 - March 2, 2025 The Cotton Flower series uses portraiture to center Black women in historical discourse surrounding enslaved resistance. In slave societies, power was constructed through the use of race and gender. Enslaved women were exploited not only for their labor but also for their capacity to sustain the workforce
- [Teddy Osei](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/teddy-osei/) - Duality February 8 - March 2, 2025 Duality presents the work of Ghanaian artist Teddy Osei, which offers a thoughtful examination of the intersection between traditional Ghanaian art forms and Western contemporary practices, including ceramic sculptural forms and found objects. Osei’s work also examines the evolution of his Ghanaian cultural roots, showcasing how it has
- [Jude Griebel](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jude-griebel/) - Revenants February 8 - March 2, 2025 Revenants presents a series of sculptures and drawings that explore our relationship to the animals we consume and how they are perceived within the popular psyche. The work draws on animated foods from popular culture and history to reflect on contemporary consumer culture, erasure of living identity, and
- [Adi Segal](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/adi-segal/) - Where Are You Really From? An Inquiry into Generational Identity 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
- [Rachelle Wunderick](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rachelle-wunderick/) - 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
- [Kate Fleming](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/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
- [Alexander D'Agostino](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/alexander-dagostino/) - An Index of Fire December 7 - 29, 2024 An Index of Fire examines the history and impact of book burnings, presenting images of historic and contemporary book burnings. These images are printed on textiles using cyanotype,and then reduced—or “bleached”—using ashes from water-damaged books Alexander burned. The work surveys the pervasive and alarming history of
- [Xenia Gray](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/xenia-gray/) - The Great Silence December 7 - 29, 2024 The Great Silence invites you to step into a world of curiosity and yearning that permeates human nature. Composed of 10 to 15 mid-sized figurative acrylic and graphite paintings, the exhibition examines humankind’s—and the artist’s personal—search for connection with others and for something beyond ourselves. At the
- [Collecting Community: Millenium Arts Salon at 25](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/collecting-community-millenium-arts-salon-at-25/) - Collecting Community: Millennium Arts Salon at 25 Curated by Lauren Davidson and Jarvis DuBois November 2 - December 29, 2024 As we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Millennium Arts Salon, we honor a vibrant community that champions creativity, diversity, and dialogue. Collecting Community: Millenium Arts Salon at 25 reflects the organization’s journey through contemporary art,
- [Marcel Taylor](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/marcel-taylor/) - Unapologetic November 2- December 1, 2024 Marcel Taylor’s Unapologetic presents a powerful counter-narrative to the often reductive portrayals of Black culture in popular media. His work not only critiques the sensationalism in the media but also reclaims space for dignity and strength within Black narratives. Through works like "Elegance Personified," Taylor elevates Black womanhood, emphasizing
- [Joana Stillwell](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/joana-stillwell/) - Travel Lightly November 2- December 1, 2024 In her exhibition Travel Lightly, Joana Stillwell uses personal and found correspondences to inform this series of ephemeral works. The exhibition is a meditation on data, feelings, and touch that examines the tools we use to communicate and the subsequent records we create online and physically.
- [Melissa Dorn](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/melissa-dorn/) - Fem-utility Closet October 6- 27, 2024 Fem-utility Closet offers you the time and space to fully feel, engage, and contemplate the world you’ve entered, potentially evoking a sense of wonder and delight. As you get closer to the objects and materials, you may begin to think about the everydayness of what is around you and
- [Ana Maria Farina and Hanna Washburn](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/ana-maria-farina-and-hanna-washburn/) - The Animal Within the Animal October 6- 27, 2024 Ana Maria Farina and Hanna Washburn present The Animal Within the Animal, a vibrant visual conversation that shares the many ways their practices intertwine. Both artists are mothers who use materials associated with the home and femininity to communicate the power and expansiveness of the body.
- [Sarah Reagan](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/sarah-reagan/) - The Kid's Are Talking October 5- 27, 2024 Crafted from wood and accented with digital and bioplastic components, The Kids are Talking asserts that contemporary identity, experimentation, and gender deviation are as valuable —’as classic’—as the masterpieces we idolize. This body of work reimagines three iconic images: The Creation of Adam, The Birth of Venus,
- [G. Pack](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/g-pack/) - Revenge is the least I deserve September 7- 29, 2024 Revenge Is The Least I Deserve visually articulates the ongoing cycle of grief and the process of releasing it. The title initially emerged as a response to perceived mistreatment and disrespect, reflecting on G. Pack’s personal struggle to reclaim his dignity and assert his pride.
- [Anna U Davis](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/anna-u-davis-3/) - And Still We Rise September 7- September 29, 2024 And Still We Rise features a monumental colorful mixed-media painting with a selection of Anna U Davis’s black and white wall sculptures exploring the perpetual misogynistic behavior that has been indoctrinated within society, while investigating the physical and emotional impact it has had on the artist.
- [Anne Bouie](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/anne-bouie/) - At the Equinox September 7- 29, 2024 At the Equinox includes ceremonial objects and assemblage that reflect upon some time-honored traditions and spirituality of the Fall Equinox, a universally acknowledged season when the sun crosses the equator going from north to south. It represents completion, harvest, and preparation for the dark nights and cold days
- [Andrea Sherrill Evans](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/andrea-sherrill-evans/) - New Growth August 3-September 1, 2024 New Growth features a series of site-responsive drawings studying the city landscape surrounding IA&A at Hillyer. Observations of the reciprocal impact of nature and the built world reveal complex, interconnected relationships. These drawings explore ways the local ecology is shaped by its human inhabitants and how, in turn, this
- [Joan Cox](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/joan-cox/) - Sapphic Gaze August 3-September 1, 2024 Sapphic Gaze presents a compelling series of vibrant, life-size portraits that delve into the intimate lives of women-loving women. Drawing from her 23-year relationship and the experiences of lesbian couples in her community, Joan Cox crafts visual narratives that champion intense, celebratory, and nuanced relationships. By reimagining historical art
- [Redeat Wondemu](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/redeat-wondemu/) - Phoenix Series July 6-July 28, 2024 Phoenix Series is a self-portrait series of large cyanotype handmade prints created with digital negatives on watercolor paper. The series is based on the mythical bird which represents renewal, and a very personal form of rebirth. Across the images, deep blue contrasts a moving white figure evoking turbulence, vulnerability,
- [April Webb](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/april-webb/) - Optimal Delusion July 6-July 28, 2024 By highlighting gender inequity in domestic and unpaid labor, Optimal Delusion questions established notions of value. By connecting perceived patterns, Webb maps domestic labor, making new connections with each installation by responding to the limitations of space. A THREE-PART DISSECTION OF THE RUG THAT I SWEEP THINGS UNDER, MAP
- [Democracy in the Crossfire](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/democracy-in-the-crossfire/) - Democracy in the Crossfire July 6-September 1, 2024 Curated by Timothy Brown and Dr. Sarah Klein Democracy in the Crossfire: Art, Identity, and Resilience showcases a collective narrative woven together by a collection of dynamic local, national, and international artists, offering a tapestry of diverse perspectives on the pressing global issues confronting citizens in contemporary
- [Dawn Whitmore](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-dawn-whitmore/) - Human Nature February 3 - February 25, 2024 Human Nature is a video and sculpture installation that reflects on our relationship with nature. As the climate and natural world changes, our behaviors and relationships to nature are also changing. This work is about calling out to nature in hopes of finding familiarity and reconnecting with
- [Sean Riley](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-sean-riley/) - Making Mountains February 3 - February 25, 2024 Making Mountains is a collection of recent paintings that explores space through the relationships between mountains and the encompassing elements of atmosphere, water, the moon, and clouds. Made in the Turano Valley of central Italy, these pieces depict the region’s mountains with a varied and intensified color
- [Elaine Qiu](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-elaine-qiu/) - Every Place We've Been March 2 - March 31, 2024 How have the events of the past years, from the pandemic to renewed global conflicts, affected our collective consciousness? How should we move forward in the remaking of this post pandemic world? Initially a simple chronicle of life in quarantine, the exhibition, Every Place We’ve
- [Kim Richards](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-kim-richards/) - Into the Wilderness March 2 - March 31, 2024 Into the Wilderness is a metaphor for our lives. We can be lost in challenging and impossible situations—not knowing what may lie ahead. It can be scary if we are alone or don’t have some form of guidance and protection. Kim Richards aspires through these paintings
- [Alexandra Chiou](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-alexandra-chiou/) - Remember/Renew March 2 - March 31, 2024 Remember/Renew celebrates the life and legacy of Alexandra Chiou’s late father and her healing journey after his passing. In the exhibition, Chiou gives physical form to abstract concepts and feelings such as hope, love, joy, and wonder, which defined the wonderful life and time she spent with her
- [Judith Klausner](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-judith-klausner/) - (de)composed/nocturne April 6 - April 28, 2024 (De)composed/nocturne is an exhibit in two parts: dark and light. Works in the darkened portion of the space utilize the science of light, including fluorescence, luminescence, and retroreflectivity. All of the pieces beckon the viewer to look closer. Often when something has “gone bad,” it has given rise
- [Deborah Grayson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-deborah-grayson/) - They Think of Love as a Reddening of the Earth Under the Sun April 6 - April 28, 2024 They Think of Love as a Reddening of the Earth Under the Sun is about what happens at the intersection of the archive, biomythography, and spirit memory. For the last seven years Grayson has been deeply
- [Contemporary Echoes](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/contemporary-echoes-rediscovering-italian-art-from-1950-1980/) - Contemporary Echoes: Rediscovering Italian Art from 1950-1980. Artworks from the BFF Collection Curated by Renato Miracco April 6 - June 2, 2024 The exhibition features eighteen works by ten prominent Italian artists and serves as a captivating exploration linking the artistic journeys of Italian and American artists, drawing inspiration from BFF Bank’s art collection dating
- [Kiana Honarmand](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kiana-honarmand/) - Screeching Silence June 8-30, 2024 Screeching Silence is an immersive multimedia installation incorporating sculptures, video projection, and the interplay of light and shadows. This exhibition serves as a tribute to the “Woman Life Freedom” protests in Iran, ignited by the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. This site-specific installation delves into the ongoing
- [Helen Zughaib](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/helen-zughaib/) - Borders + Barriers: Pattern of Resilience June 8-30, 2024 The works included in this exhibition reflect the many barriers people face as they flee their homes from war, violence, economic insecurity or climate change. At the same time, these works represent their resilience through pattern and color that reflect their dignity and heritage as they
- [Mike Easton](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/mike-easton/) - Oh, Say Can You See June 8-30, 2024 The works included in this exhibition reflect the many barriers people face as they flee their homes from war, violence, economic insecurity or climate change. At the same time, these works represent their resilience through pattern and color that reflect their dignity and heritage as they attempt
- [Khánh Lê](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-khanh-le/) - From This Moment May 3 - June 2, 2024 The paintings and installations in this exhibition serve as fragmented memories that allow Lê to create new narratives as he collages them using scrapbooking and mixed-media materials. He transforms everyday family photo albums into colorful abstractions using a gold gelly roll pen, sequins, acrylic stickers, and
- [Julieta Tetelbaum](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-julieta-tetelbaum/) - Black Chalk Intimacy May 4 - June 2, 2024 Black Chalk Intimacy immerses visitors in the intimate world of a woman with Down’s Syndrome, who writes on the wall with black chalk a list of daily activities to organize her life. The exhibition features a continuous screening of “Black Chalk” an 8-minute short film, still
- [Newly Selected Artist: James Brown, Jr.](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-james-brown-jr/) - James Brown Jr. No Justice, No Peace February 3 - February 25, 2024 No Justice, No Peace is an exhibition that bears witness to the realities of life for African people in America. This is Brown’s 85th year as an African man living in the United States. James Brown Jr. presents a body of work
- [Newly Selected Artist: Dan Ortiz Leizman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-dan-ortiz-leizman/) - Dan Ortiz Leizman NUCLEAR January 6 - January 28, 2024 NUCLEAR is an exhibition that explores queer pregnancy and nuclear pessimism in the context of late stage capitalism through digital media and installation. Central to this exhibit is NUKESOUND, a short documentary—style film which contains AI generated imagery and sound to depict a world where
- [Newly Selected Artist: Oluwatoyin Tella](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-oluwatoyin-tella/) - Oluwatoyin Tella Expansion of Oyo January 6 - January 28, 2024 Expansion of Oyo is an exhibition of original paintings and a video installation. These works spotlight the continuous thread between pre-colonial African aesthetic and contemporary Black aesthetic. Despite the trans-Atlantic slave trade traffic that included an insurmountable number of West Africans, the Yoruba culture
- [Newly Selected Artist: George Lorio](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-george-lorio/) - George Lorio Sustainable January 6 - January 28, 2024 This current body of work is a commentary on ecological destruction and a proposed view of renewal. The works represent the significance of nature’s provision of trees. Several fabricated sculptures resembling stumps and logs are placed surrounded by commercially pressed wood pellets. On superficial inspection, the
- [Newly Selected Artist: James Terrell](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-james-terrell/) - James Terrell Transcendence: Beyond the Terrestrial Plane December 2 - December 22, 2023 As humans we are more than what we see on the surface. We are more than just flesh, blood and bone. There are multiple planes of existence. There are multiple layers within our physicality and mental capacity. Within and around us are
- [Newly Selected Artist: Kenny Harris](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-kenny-harris/) - Kenny Harris Envisivivarium December 2 - December 22, 2023 In Envisivivarium, Kenny Harris presents a menagerie of meticulously crafted paper figures designed in harsh contrast of pure white and deep black. Each figure presented in the space represents a different mythological being, demonstrating the diversity and ingenuity of human imagination through overwhelming numbers. These figures
- [Newly Selected Artist: Roger Mokbel](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-roger-mokbel/) - Roger Mokbel Dust in My Mouth December 2 - December 22, 2023 The Qatar America Institute for Culture’s (QAIC) IMPART Artist Grant awards a cash prize to emerging and mid-career artists to support the creation of a new body of work around a selected yearly theme. Lebanese photographer Roger Mokbel was one of the artists
- [Newly Selected Artist: Allan Rosenbaum](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-allan-rosenbaum/) - Allan Rosenbaum Substratum November 4 - November 26, 2023 Substratum presents a series of sculptures featuring meticulously modeled and painted surfaces and inset areas of fabric collage and felted wool. Celebrating materiality and a remixing of the personal and the public, the work in the show probes relationships between craft, painting, and sculpture, while addressing
- [Newly Selected Artist: Ellen Hanauer](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-ellen-hanauer/) - Ellen Hanauer The Life The Children Built November 4 - November 26, 2023 Ellen Hanauer’s exhibition, The Life The Children Built offers visitors a thought-provoking journey into the world of two young child immigrants who arrived in America unaccompanied during the early 1900s. This exhibit visually narrates the immigration experiences of Hanauer’s grandfathers at ages
- [Newly Selected Curator: Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-curator-raul-moarquech-ferrera-balanquet/) - Curator Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet Sensorial Africana Superrealities: Five Diaspora Contemporary Artists November 4 - November 26, 2023 Weaving symbolic, poetic, political, and socio-cultural references, Sensorial Africana Superrealities displays visual and material languages reaching locations such as North Carolina, Maryland, Cuba, Nigeria, England, and Washington, D.C. This exhibition interconnects African ancestral paths and realities that historically
- [Newly Selected Artist: Shamila Chaudhary](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-shamila-chaudhary/) - Shamila Chaudhary Attention Surplus Disorder October 7–October 29, 2023 The 9/11 attacks gave the US government and Americans a lot to think about. Our government reacted with a forceful response but many of us didn’t fully anticipate how a new era of war would reshape what it meant to be an American. I saw this
- [Renée Stout: The Oracle Said, “Be Still.”](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/renee-stout-the-oracle-said-be-still/) - Renée Stout The Oracle Said, “Be Still.” October 7–October 29, 2023 "During the height of Covid, I created a print that featured a disembodied head (the ‘oracle’), in which it suggested in a speech bubble that we should ‘be still.’ In that stillness I had hoped that we would all take the time to care
- [Newly Selected Artist: Nicole Wandera](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-nicole-wandera/) - Nicole Wandera We Meet Again September 2–October 1, 2023 We Meet Again is a visual narrative of personal growth, embracing the wisdom of the past and the aspirations for the future. This exhibition unites the past, present, and future, as the artist delves into themes of childhood, motherhood, catharsis, and the enigmas of what lies
- [Newly Selected Artist: Mark Tan](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artist-mark-tan/) - Mark Tan Sight Unseen September 2–October 1, 2023 Sight Unseen is a representation of displacement, belonging, and defeat through the Department of Homeland Security’s Arrival/Departure Record, known as Form I-94, which is issued to aliens admitted to the United States. This form shows the terms of your admission, including your legal status, the length of
- [Newly Selected Curator: Adam Odomore](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-curator-adam-odomore/) - Adam Odomore To Harvest a Dream Buried in Dust—On Care and Blackness September 2–October 1, 2023 In this group exhibition, curator, Adam Odomore, aims to center and provide space and opportunities for reimagination and interrogation of care as it relates to Black bodies in the built environment. Located at the intersection of race and gender
- [Newly Selected Artists-Magdolene Dykstra](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-magdolene-dykstra/) - Magdolene Dykstra In the shadow of empire August 5–August 27, 2023 This exhibition investigates a key component of the architectural language of empire. Columns convey the hierarchical nature of the socio-political structure they represent. Rather than conveying a sense of stability and power, Dykstra’s interpretations are tenuous. The series of drawings feature columns that balance
- [Newly Selected Artists-Emily Francisco](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-emily-francisco/) - Emily Francisco A Brief Study of Time August 5–August 27, 2023 The present does not depend on a notion of duration, because of the relativity and volatility it possesses. It exists only in the now and never begins or ends. The beginning of the present is located in the idealized future, that immediately turns into
- [Newly Selected Artists-Katherine Burling](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-katherine-burling/) - Katherine Burling Slip Quietly Into My Arms August 5–August 27, 2023 Slip Quietly Into My Arms presents a selection of multimedia works on paper which imagine a world in which humankind, rather than Nature, plays Master Engineer. In this colorful reverie, Nature is no longer capable of properly sustaining itself, and humans intervene with mechanical,
- [Newly Selected Artists-Kelley O’Brien](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-kelley-obrien/) - Kelley O’Brien Residence Time July 8–July 30, 2023 In 2014 it was reported that an unknown quantity of the carcinogen “dioxane 1,4” had leaked into the Cape Fear River Basin contaminating the drinking water of over one million people. Despite the known risks of liver/kidney damage and death, dioxane 1,4 remains unregulated at the city,
- [Newly Selected Artists-WaPo: David Allen Harris and Lyric Prince Harris](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-wapo-david-allen-harris-and-lyric-prince-harris/) - WaPo: David Allen Harris and Lyric Prince Harris Three Sisters July 8–July 30, 2023 Over the course of the Wa PaPo project, photographer David Allen Harris and interdisciplinary artist Lyric Prince experimented with set design and patterns, along with other elements that can symbolize different ideas, feelings, and modes of expression that tell a story.
- [Newly Selected Artists-Chris Combs](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-chris-combs/) - Chris Combs Supercycle July 8–July 30, 2023 A cryptocurrency hedge fund named Three Arrows relentlessly promoted a “crypto supercycle”: a years-long bear market that would eventually pay out individual crypto investors if they just held out a little longer. This hype rallied their followers in times of downturn—until it didn’t, and Three Arrows Capital “vaporized
- [Newly Selected Artists-Walter Rindone](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-walter-rindone/) - Walter Rindone Tales from the Deep Dark Web June 3–July 2, 2023 The paradoxical implications of human activities and their impact on the planet. Actions to organize cultural and religious systems and society. Consumerism as the new ritual dimension of man. These are just some of the topics that form the background of the project
- [Newly Selected Artists-Elaine M. Erne](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-elaine-m-erne/) - Elaine M. Erne They See All June 3–July 2, 2023 The Lives and Traumas of Stuffed Animals is a continuing series of prints and large graphite drawings of Lanie Doll and her friends that represent individuals and their emotional relationships with themselves and others. In recurring stressful situations, people often become like dolls, putting forward
- [Newly Selected Artists-Andrew Hladky](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-andrew-hladky/) - Andrew Hladky Memories fade, soil deepens June 3–July 2, 2023 Memories fade, soil deepens presents paintings made of oil paint and bamboo sticks that are built into high sculptural relief, growing out towards the viewer like living organisms. They play between flat image and sculptural form, exploring the point at which images break down and
- [Newly Selected Artists-Yasmine Dabbous](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-yasmine-dabbous/) - Yasmine Dabbous If You Leave Under Fire, What Would You Take with You? Saturday, February 4–Sunday, February 26, 2023 Amputated from their former lives, refugees find themselves—to borrow from Albert Camus—diverted from their selfness. They leave the territories of their ancestors, in hope to find safety in new and unknown destinations. On these assiduous journeys,
- [Newly Selected Artists-Claudia “Aziza” Gibson-Hunter](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-claudia-aziza-gibson-hunter/) - Claudia “Aziza” Gibson-Hunter Flight School May 6–May 28, 2023 “...spiritual technologies are repeated cultural practices meant to alter the mind, body, or spirit of an individual or community.” (Spiritual Technologies Project) Claudia “Aziza” Gibson-Hunter understands flight to be spiritual technology. It is a powerful technology which creates a dimension that provides protection for the soul.
- [Newly Selected Artists-Amber Robles-Gordon](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-amber-robles-gordon/) - Amber Robles-Gordon Remnants: A visual journey of memory and renewal May 6–May 28, 2023 Amber Robles-Gordon is drawn to the terms, remnants, slivers, and fragments, and believes we are all a compilation of pieces of our experiences, influences, and choices. She uses her artwork to explore and share her perception of cellular and spiritual energy.
- [Newly Selected Artists-Zhenya Parish](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-zhenya-parish/) - Zhenya Parish The Art of Letting Go May 6–May 28, 2023 The pieces chosen for this exhibition are relatively recent. They reflect an evolving use of abstraction to capture a practice of observation and interaction. The works have their origin, primarily, in live painting events the artist held throughout DC, Maryland, and Virginia. During this
- [Newly Selected Artists-Sharon Shapiro](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-sharon-shapiro/) - Sharon Shapiro Visionary Picnic April 8–April 30, 2023 Visionary Picnic is a new body of work that began with a large-scale painting titled The Boulevard is not that bad (2022). Based on photos of two friends who modeled outdoors behind her studio, the image references Manet’s Le Déjeuner Sur l’herbe (1862) and Cezanne’s Luncheon on
- [Newly Selected Artists-Sookkyung Park](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-sookkyung-park/) - Sookkyung Park Blooming April 8–April 30, 2023 Sookkyung Park believes that one small seed is the source, from which a new living organism is born. This work was created to convey the notion that we always live with hope and our lives will bear abundant fruit just as the roots of a plant grow endlessly.
- [Newly Selected Artists-Yu-Jung CHEN](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-yu-jung-chen/) - Yu-Jung CHEN Dynamic Loop-Modulating Algorithm April 8–April 30, 2023 Dynamic Loop-Modulating Algorithm is a research project devoted to exploring the accumulation and superposition of natural mountains and rivers. Just as Deleuze mentioned in the book “Difference and Repetition,” the “folds” are in a state of rheology, in the process of deposition of natural rock formations,
- [Newly Selected Artists-Lauren Pakradooni](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-lauren-pakradooni/) - Lauren Pakradooni Sprig March 3–April 2, 2023 Sprig can refer to either decorative adornment or the act of propagation. One takes cues from the built world and the other from horticultural design. My work in sculpture and print is created from a personal lexicon of glyphs that encode and diffuse the entanglement of images and
- [Newly Selected Artists-Neville Barbour](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-neville-barbour/) - Neville Barbour Archetypes March 3–April 2, 2023 Archetypes is an exploration of the black, white, and gray in society. It is an exploration of their precarious balance in our world. This exhibition reflects Barbour’s surroundings and our shared history as much as it reflects himself and his personal history. It shows off the type of
- [IMPART Grant Artists-Josh Berer, Patricia Daher & Nia Alexander Campbell](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/impart-grant-artists-josh-berer-patricia-daher-nia-alexander-campbell/) - Josh Berer, Patricia Daher & Nia Alexander Campbell IMPART Grant Artists March 3–April 2, 2023 The Qatar America Institute for Culture (QAIC) is pleased to present an exhibition of its inaugural IMPART Artists Grant awardees. The multimedia works on display by Josh Berer, Nia Alexander Campbell and Patricia Daher were supported by QAIC’s IMPART Artist
- [Newly Selected Artists-Lee Nowell-Wilson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-lee-nowell-wilson/) - Lee Nowell-Wilson House Under the Table Saturday, February 4–Sunday, February 26, 2023 House Under the Table is a new body of work that illustrates a wrestling between the commonplace and the divine in the arena of one’s soul. With mothering as the lens, I examine my tendency to resent the mundane, along with the needed
- [Newly Selected Artists-Hoesy Corona](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-hoesy-corona/) - Hoesy Corona PA’L NORTE Saturday, February 4–Sunday, February 26, 2023 PA’L NORTE is the latest iteration of Corona’s ongoing project Climate Immigrants (2017- present) a series that problematizes notions around both immigration and climate change to highlight one of the most pressing issues of our time: environmental displacement in relationship to U.S-centric xenophobia—implicating ideas of
- [Fluid Boundaries: Four Artists from the Pan-Austro-Nesian Arts Festival](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/fluid-boundaries-four-artists-from-the-pan-austro-nesian-arts-festival/) - Fluid Boundaries: Four Artists from the Pan-Austro-Nesian Festival Idas Losin, Labay Eyong, Chang En-Man, Tjimur Dance Theatre May 7 - June 26, 2022 Exhibition Description Setting out from Taiwan, four groups of artists have come to the other side of the ocean. This exhibition, themed “Fluid Boundaries,” reflects the fluidity of artists’ self-identity, accentuating cultural
- [Pulse 2023](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/pulse-2023/) - Pulse 2023 Saturday, January 7 – Sunday, January 29, 2023 IA&A at Hillyer presents Pulse 2023, an exhibition that recognizes the role of Hillyer’s Advisory Committee in identifying artists for solo and group exhibitions at Hillyer’s renowned contemporary art space. The exhibition features work by some of Hillyer’s past notable members such as Helen Frederick,
- [Identity Formations - Muriel Hasbun](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/identity-formations-muriel-husban/) - Muriel Hasbun si je meurs / if I die November 5-December 18, 2022 Throughout her career, Muriel Hasbun has used the medium of photography to investigate issues of identity, memory and inter-subjectivity. Her unique vision creates a dialogue between the past and the present—between personal memory and collective history—sparking provocative questions about identity, cultural memory
- [Identity Formations - Ric Garcia](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/identity-formations/) - Ric Garcia Soy Yo—I’m Me November 5-December 18, 2022 In Soy Yo—I’m Me, Ric Garcia examines identity through reimagined representations of Americana to share and better understand his bicultural experiences. This has led him to create works that are a compilation of visual references from various cultural sources as a commentary and meditation on how
- [Identity Formations - Julio Valdez](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/identity-formation-julio-valdez/) - Julio Valdez Recent Works November 5-December 18, 2022 In his recent work, Julio Valdez explores an oceanic landscape, at once dreamlike and hallucinatory. Valdez has been exploring images of water as a metaphor for consciousness and the creative process—reflecting his interest in spatial uncertainty, a sense of time not yet defined. Rooted in abstract expressionism,
- [Zero Dollar Bill: The Prints of Imar Lyman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/zero-dollar-bill/) - Zero Dollar Bill: The Prints of Imar Lyman Presented by Millennium Arts Salon Curated by Jarvis DuBois and Lauren Davidson Saturday, September 3–Sunday, October 30, 2022. Imar Lyman [Hutchins] Imar Lyman [Hutchins] is an artist known primarily for his mastery of collage. This solo exhibition, Zero Dollar Bill, is the first time Imar’s prolific printmaking
- [The Ties That Bind](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/the-ties-that-bind/) - The Ties That Bind Presented by Millennium Arts Salon Curated by Jarvis DuBois and Lauren Davidson Saturday, September 3–Sunday, October 30, 2022. The Black experience throughout the Diaspora is at once the same and distinct. The dispersal of Black people and the resultant varied historical experiences throughout the world has not dampened the spirit of
- [Newly Selected Artists: Jeremy Jirsa, Lynn Alleva Lilley, and Heather Goodchild](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/newly-selected-artists-jeremy-jirsa-lynn-alleva-lilley-and-heather-goodchild/) - Newly Selected Artists: Jeremy Jirsa, Lynn Alleva Lilley, and Heather Goodchild August 6-August 28, 2022. Jeremy Jirsa Gray Area “Gray area” is defined as an ill-defined situation or field not readily conforming to a category or to an existing set of rules. Within my show Gray Area, I analyze the socioeconomic factors that produced the
- [Newly Selected Artists: Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron, Kate Fitzpatrick, and Kristin Adair](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/new-dc-artist-series-july-2022/) - Newly Selected Artists: Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron, Kate Fitzpatrick, and Kristen Adair July 2--July 31, 2022 Gabrielle Lajoie-Bergeron Mascha-Le Gros Party Mascha – Le gros Party questions the notion of celebration in the intimate, public, and political space. Highlighting evocative traces of a past event, this vivid new corpus allows us to imagine a universe in itself.
- [Invasion](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/invasion/) - Invasion is a special exhibition that was organized in conjunction with IA&A's "Call for Artists" to submit art in response to the war in Ukraine. Unlike Hillyer's annual call for artists, this special call is a non-juried submission process intended to draw a wide range of responses from artists—both local and national—of support and solidarity for
- [New DC Artist Series: April 2022](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/new-dc-artist-series-april-2022/) - Tikkun Olam-Repair the World, Secret Garden, In the Ways Hillary L Steel, MK Bailey, Michael Thron April 1- May 1, 2022 Hillary L Steel, Tikkun Olam - Repair the World Hillary Steel is an artist and teacher who specializes in weaving and resist dyeing. She incorporates ikat and shibori (in Spanish, jaspe and amarras) into
- [New DC Artist Series: March 2022](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/new-dc-artist-series-march-2022/) - Poetry in Still Life, Hidden Creatures, Fleishig Liz Vorlicek, Mary Baum, Noah McWilliams March 4th - 27th 2022 Liz Vorlicek, Poetry in Still Life Liz is an artist and sculptor living in Alexandria, Virginia. Liz shows her work in the D.C. area and around the United States. She is a member of the Washington Sculptor’s
- [Anna U Davis](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/anna-u-davis-2/) - Reality Check Anna U Davis January 15- February 27, 2022 Anna U Davis is known for her bold, colorful mixed-media work, where she explores social inequalities. Reality Check investigates the concept of diffusion of responsibility in regards to pressing global issues. Diffusion of responsibility is a socio-psychological phenomenon whereby an individual assumes that other people are responsible
- [The Hechinger Collection: Select Works](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/the-hechinger-collection-select-works/) - The Hechinger Collection Select Works December 4 – February 27, 2022 The complete Hechinger Collection, featuring nearly 400 works of art, was donated to IA&A in 2003 by hardware-industry pioneer John Hechinger, Sr. The collection’s contemporary prints, drawings, paintings, and sculptures represent a wealth of 20th-century art that incorporates tools and hardware by artists Berenice
- [She Says, Her Story](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/11282/) - She Says, Her Story Contemporary Women Artists from Taiwan November 5 – December 19, 2021 She Says, Her Story: Contemporary Women Artists from Taiwan, curated by Yu-Chuan Tseng, is an exhibition about "her stories," multidimensional narratives that lie between past and present, myth and reality. Wen-Jen Deng weaves together migratory maps that explore the intersection
- [Urban Mapping](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/urbanmapping/) - September 1 - November 29, 2017 URBAN MAPPING PUBLIC SPACE THROUGH THE LENS OF CONTEMPORARY IRANIAN ARTISTS Curated by Gohar Dashti Featuring photography and video installations, this exhibition examines the concept of “Public Space” from the viewpoint of the artist. The collective experience of Iranian citizens that has been subject to political and social transformations.
- [MICA Animation](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/mica-animation-2020/) - Left Out in the Patterning MICA Animation Department 2020 Thesis Exhibition May 16 – June 12, 2020 In partnership with the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Animation Department, Hillyer is honored to present Left Out in the Patterning, an online exhibition featuring the year-long thesis projects of the graduating class of 2020. Animation emerges
- [Renáta Fučíková](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/renata-fucikova/) - Beyond Kafka March 6 – 29, 2020 Time flies by and swirls in the twists of human fates. It leaves its marks on building walls, its footprints on cobblestones, and its traces in our hearts. The city of Prague, its stories and personalities: author Franz Kafka, monarch Charles IV, presidents Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Václav
- [Stephanie Garmey](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/stephanie-garmey/) - Pathways March 6 – 29, 2020 Stephanie Garmey creates imagery inspired by her collection of natural objects, materials, and taxidermy animals. Her meditations on nature explore a variety of media: constructions and installations, book arts, painting, cut paper, embroidery, encaustics, wood, glass, drawing, and light. In Pathways, Garmey creates tableaus of animals’ habitats from around
- [Emily Campbell](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/emily-campbell/) - Outliers March 6 – 29, 2020 Emily Campbell’s Outliers presents an installation of smaller gouache paintings and colorful ceramic sculptures that depict imagined landscapes populated by groups of fictional figures, often female. Each work evokes an individual’s relationship, interactions, and experiences with their surrounding environment—whether scenes of ritual and hedonism or quiet moments where traditional
- [Amarist](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/amarist/) - Welcome? February 7 – March 1, 2020 Spanish duo Amarist presents Welcome?, a comprehensive exhibition of their most recent body of work and a vivid critique of today’s international social, cultural, and economic issues. Created within a framework of reaction, the duo’s artworks transform a series of everyday objects and symbols into one-of-a-kind sculptures that
- [Common Humanity](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/common-humanity/) - Artists in Exile: Art as Fabric for Healing June 7 - 30, 2019 Artists in Exile: Art as Fabric for Healing brings together paintings by six artists whose works respond to a shared experience of exile from their home country of Iraq, each relocated to new countries through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
- [Tyra Mitchell](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/tyra-mitchell/) - Raising Our Youth June 7 - 30, 2019 Raising Our Youth is an exploration of young families who inhabit Washington, DC and how they are navigating through their heavily gentrified hometown along with the many obstacles of parenthood—all while highlighting the beauty that still resides in the former "Chocolate City." Through film photography and VHS
- [RISE 2020: Hillyer Newly Selected Artists](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rise-2020/) - RISE 2020: Hillyer Newly Selected Artists February 7 – March 1, 2020 Hillyer is proud to present our newly selected artists for the 2020/2021 exhibition calendar. RISE 2020 includes work from Hillyer’s rising artists who were selected from our most recent annual open call for proposals, and who will be exhibiting solo presentations starting this
- [Suzy Kopf](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/suzy-kopf/) - Bow and Arrow February 7 – March 1, 2020 Between 1947 and the early 1970s, real-estate developers the Levitt Brothers built more than 140,000 houses in towns they created—in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico—all of which they named Levittown. Suzy Kopf was inspired by two trips she made to Puerto Rico’s Levittown,
- [Tessa Click](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/tessa-click/) - Search Party for Two January 3 – February 2, 2020 Based in symbolic language, this body of work seeks understanding of the real world through the use of absurd characters, props, and settings as forms of proxy. Mundane scenes, intertwined with otherworldly imagery, set the stage for playing out unseen connections between internal and external
- [Neil Forrest](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/neil-forrest/) - The Washingtonian Service January 3 – February 2, 2020 Neil Forrest’s works examine historical events, architectural monuments, and national identities, and use the lens of ceramic history to play out corporeal and material elements of storytelling. His installations aspire to a logos of craft, site, and knowledge. Forrest’s The Washingtonian Service is a colosseum, a
- [Noel Kassewitz](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/noel-kassewitz/) - Rococo Remastered January 3 – February 2, 2020 How does an artist prepare for climate change? Noel Kassewitz’s practice examines how a painter copes with a rapidly changing cultural and environmental landscape. Using experimental techniques that blur the line between painting and sculpture, passive and active object, cultural artifact and survival tool, she works to
- [LabBodies](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/labbodies/) - Reverb November 1 – December 15, 2019 When a work of live art is completed, there is often a space of stillness. The space between the audience, performance, and the site of the performance itself have been transformed through an astro-physical shifting of molecules that took place after that live art action. What can performance
- [Women Photojournalists of Washington](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/women-photojournalists-of-washington-2019/) - WPOW 13 Annual Juried Show November 1 – December 15, 2019 The WPOW 13th Annual Juried Show featured standout photography and multimedia pieces by members of the Women Photojournalists of Washington from the past year. FEATURED ARTISTS: Abby Greenawalt Allison Shelley Amy Toensing Anna Moneymaker Calla Kessler Carol Guzy Caroline Gutman Deveney Williams Erica T.
- [Jana Brike](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jana-brike/) - Sea of Change November 1 – December 15, 2019 Sea of Change, Jana Brike’s most ambitious project to date, comprises a series of eight monumental paintings that explore the physical, emotional, and psychological milestones that commemorate the journey from girlhood to womanhood. The grand scale of the composition not only conjures a powerful intimacy between
- [Bundith Phunsombatlert](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/bundith-phunsombatlert/) - History in Blue October 4 – 27, 2019 History in Blue explores the concept of media archeology and history of immigration. The artworks in the exhibition examine the transition of how digital technology can connect to the historical media art techniques of blue, specifically cobalt blue used in blue and white porcelain and blue cyanotype
- [Jubee Lee](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jubee-lee/) - After the big wind stops, I see gentle waves October 4 – 27, 2019 “Before something happens in the realm of calmness, we do not feel the calmness; only when something happens within it do we find the calmness.” —Zen mind, Beginner’s Mind Engraved glass panels reflect the surface of waving water in Jubee Lee's
- [Clay Dunklin](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/clay-dunklin/) - Song of the Wild October 4 – 27, 2019 “Before something happens in the realm of calmness, we do not feel the calmness; only when something happens within it do we find the calmness.” —Zen mind, Beginner’s Mind Song of the Wild is a self-portrait video installation that responds to notions of the body, consciousness,
- [Zofie King](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/zofie-king/) - Secular Relics and Apocryphal Fossils September 6 – 29, 2019 Using a cabinet of curiosity format, Zofie King reflects on how both geological and cultural objects connect us to history. Fossils serve as a record of geological time, in which humans are a mere blip, while reliquaries encapsulate myths that go back several centuries. The
- [Jamilla Okubo and Lou Dawson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jamilla-okubo-and-lou-dawson/) - Dreaming While Woke: Speak of the Future in the Now September 6 – 29, 2019 Sharing a common thread of exploration, mixed media artist Jamilla Okubo and fashion designer and visual artist Lou Dawson, both native to Washington, DC, come together to present Dreaming While Woke: Speak of the Future in the Now. Inspired by
- [Starting from the Island: Contemporary Art from Taiwan](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/starting-from-the-island-taiwan/) - Starting from the Island: Contemporary Art from Taiwan August 2 – September 29, 2019 Curated by Yan-Huei Chen, Art Bank Taiwan Featuring Yun-Ting Hun, Kuen-Lin Tsai, Tai-Chun Chou, and Don Don Houmwm "Starting from an island, we move; as we do, we live and understand the world." The island is the hometown where we were
- [Emily Fussner](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/emily-fussner/) - In Light Of— August 2 – September 1, 2019 In Light Of— questions notions of time, presence, and healing by bringing into focus the fleeting patterns of light and cracks that often only flicker in our peripheral vision. Considering these mundane ephemeral moments with attention and care, they become thresholds of possibility. Photographs and on-site
- [Christopher Kojzar](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/christopher-kojzar/) - Plainclothes Agenda August 2 – September 1, 2019 Two and a half years ago, I started a research project on the flâneur and referenced the archetype’s habits to explore urban environments. Although the flâneur was originally deemed a mythic dandy penning feuilletons in the crowded streets of nineteenth century Paris, I assess that by twenty-first
- [Parallelism: Halcyon Arts Lab 2019](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/parallelism-halcyon-arts-lab-2019/) - Parallelism: Halcyon Arts Lab 2019 April 5-28, 2019 The language of art transcends the challenges of modern civic dialogue. It is a vehicle to create accessible and multi-layered interaction around topics that we may find uncomfortable or controversial. It is an essential part of our culture, our humanity, and the fabric of society. The Halcyon
- [Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/ibero-american-cultural-attaches-association/) - Women Who Make a Better IberoAmerica: Power Behind the Everyday November 2 - December 16, 2018 Presented in partnership with the Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association (AACIA), this exhibition features work by contemporary photographers from 14 countries across Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. The work shows how women contribute to the cultural, economic, scientific, educational, social, and inclusive development
- [Women Photojournalists of Washington](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/women-photojournalists-of-washington/) - WPOW 12th Annual Juried Exhibition November 2 - December 16, 2018 The WPOW 12th Annual Juried Exhibition featured standout photography and multimedia pieces by members of the Women Photojournalists of Washington (WPOW) from the past year, chosen by three jurors: Magnum Nominee Sim Chi Yin, an award-winning photojournalist, Danese Kenon, the Deputy Director of Photography
- [Kaitlin Jensco](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kaitlin-jensco/) - Disenchanted November 2 - December 16, 2018 Disenchanted is a rumination on the process of death and its lingering aftermath. Jencso’s family grieved the loss of two people and suffered the emotional fallout from decaying family bonds. This series is an intimate yet voyeuristic study of presence and loss—a melancholy that loomed over the family
- [Artists in the Washington Region](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/artists-in-the-washington-region/) - July-August 2006 Scratching the Surface Scratching the Surface was Hillyer Art Space's first exhibition in its series of Washington region programs and aimed to bring recognition to a variety of artists living and working in the Washington region. Hillyer Art Space's advisory committee chose the exhibiting artists which included Jiha Moon, Erin Root, Jody Bergstresser,
- [Hillyer Art Space's Advisory Committee](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/hillyer-art-spaces-advisory-committee-2/) - September–October 2006 Pulse 2006 Pulse 2006 featured artists serving on Hillyer Art Space's advisory committee and included: Maria Barbosa, Margaret Boozer, Bill Christenberry, Manon Cleary, John Dreyfuss, David Driskell, Bill Dunlap, Helen Frederick, Sam Gilliam, Carol Brown Goldberg, Pat Goslee, Rebecca Kamen, Quentin Moseley, Wendy Ross, John Ruppert, Foon Sham, Renee Stout, Lou Stovall,
- [Orna Ben-Ami](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/orna-ben-ami/) - November 2006-January 2007 Links: Iron Sculptures Sponsored in part by the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Division for Cultural & Scientific Relations, Links is an exhibition of 19 iron sculptures by renowned Israeli artist, Orna Ben-Ami. Her sculptures convey thought-provoking contrasts: war and peace, memory and forgetting, private and collective. Critically acclaimed for the surprising
- [Pyramid Atlantic](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/pyramid-atlantic/) - November 2006-January 2007 Across the Page: Selections from Pyramid Atlantic's Artists and Archive Pyramid Atlantic, an organization dedicated to the creation and appreciation of paper, prints, books arts and media, in conjunction with their annual book conference presented a selection of artists' books at Hillyer Art Space. Diverse themes and media illustrated the artist book
- [Bridget Sue Lambert](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/bridget-sue-lambert/) - January-February 2007 It’s Not You, It’s Me It's Not You, It's Me, a series of graphic photography and video by Bridget Sue Lambert is the first individual show in a series of local solo exhibitions at Hillyer Art Space in 2007 and 2008. Lambert continues her investigation of the near-universal experience we all share in
- [Nordic Painters: Michael Knud Ross, Vaino Kola, Kirstine Reiner and Jan-Ove Tuv](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nordic-painters-michael-knud-ross-vaino-kola-kirstine-reiner-and-jan-ove-tuv/) - February-April 2007 Northern Light/ Nordic Visions Northern Light/Nordic Visions introduces audiences to the realist painting revival happening in Scandinavia and the U.S. by Nordic painters. The four artists included in the exhibition are united by their excellent craftsmanship, the emotional power of their work, and their visual links to Nordic light, landscape, culture and art
- [Erin Cluley](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/erin-cluley/) - March-April 2007 Veiled Veiled, an exhibition of paintings and mixed media works by Baltimore-based artist Erin Cluley, explores the nature of religion and its divergent symbols and rituals. Inspired by her up bringing in the Catholic Church, Cluley questions the religious values that shaped her existence, particularly the ritualistic practices of confession, penance, and the
- [Printmakers from The New Northern Ireland](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/printmakers-from-the-new-northern-ireland/) - May-July 2007 Renewal Initiated by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Renewal presents selected works from Northern Ireland's two most active printmaking workshops for artists: The Belfast Print Workshop and the Seacourt Print Workshop. Featured artists include: Anushiya Sundarlingam, Valerie Giananndrea, Simon McWilliams, John Breakey, Fiona Joyce, Struan Hamilton, Veronica Wallis, Ivan Frew, Terry Gravett,
- [Monica Tinker](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/monica-tinker/) - July-August 2007 Out of b[Order] Monica Tinker's Out of b[Order] was a site-specific installation that incorporated the use of natural and man-made materials to create a live studio where experimentation and play, rather than the results of those processes, took center stage. Out of b[Order] evolved organically over the course of two months, as Tinker
- [Mia Rollow](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/mia-rollow/) - August-September 2007 Eve: A Series Eve: A Series by Mia Rollow featured the artist's latest ventures in video and sound. Rollow's large-scale video projections explored microscopic facets of natural phenomena, which transformed under her lens into ambiguous morphing landscapes. Sensually rich environments composed of movement, sound and light emerged onscreen and confounded the viewer with
- [Lisa Sheirer](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lisa-sheirer/) - September-October 2007 Ice Stories: Digital Prints To create her Ice Stories, artist Lisa Sheirer takes photographs of natural landscapes through ice coated windows, then manipulates them to create abstracted compositions. Minimalist in shape, but complex in their detail, Sheirer sculpts the images digitally in order to accentuate the symmetry and repetition found in the pattern
- [The Hechinger Collection](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/the-hechinger-collection/) - September-October 2007 Tools As Art The collection inherited from Washington collector and hardware pioneer, John Hechinger, celebrates the ubiquity of tools in our lives with art that magically transforms utilitarian objects into fanciful works of beauty, surprise and wit. The unique collection of 20th century art represents the theme of tools and hardware while maintaining
- [Soweto School, South Africa](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/soweto-school-south-africa/) - October-December 2007 Beyond The Margins: Selections from Soweto, South Africa Beyond The Margins: Selections from Soweto, South Africa, exhibited a total of 15 works by 15 artists from the 1970s to the present. This exhibition featured both established and emerging artists from Soweto, South Africa. The subject matter, ranging from family and heritage to urbanization
- [Kari Minnick](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kari-minnick/) - November-December 2007 Which Came First? Drawing Conclusions Which Came First? Drawing Conclusions, featured kiln formed glass by local artist Kari Minnick. Minnick's glass "collages" combine bold composition, sensitive drawings and fluid edges to create a body of work expressive in its content and form alike. Using flame-worked linear elements and images drawn directly into glass
- [Bill Schmidt](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/bill-schmidt/) - January-February 2008 Way, Shape, and Form: Small Abstract Paintings Way, Shape, and Form—Small Abstract Paintings, an exhibition by Bill Schmidt, featured a selection of paintings in gouache embellished with colored pencil and water-soluble crayon. The selected works displayed Schmidt's signature miniature, geometric paintings ranging in size from 4x4" to 7x5". By placing bold and intricate
- [The Hechinger Collection](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/the-hechinger-collection-2/) - January-February 2008 Tools As Art, Two: Selections From The Hechinger Collection Tools As Art, Two: Selections From The Hechinger Collection, was Hillyer Art Space's second exhibition of the collection inherited from Washington collector and hardware pioneer, John Hechinger. The collection of approximately 400 celebrates the ubiquity of tools in our lives with art that magically
- [Don Kimes](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/don-kimes/) - March-April 2008 After the Flood After the Flood, an exhibition by Don Kimes, features large-scale, abstract paintings both subtle and dramatic in nature. The work demonstrates Kimes' ability to express the intimate and sensitive effects of change in massive sizes and organic movements. Using obscured contours and vivid color combinations, Kimes reminds us of nature's
- [Brazilian Contemporary Printmakers](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/brazilian-contemporary-printmakers/) - March-April 2008 Brazilian Contemporary Printmakers features a selection of print art representative of more than 30 artists from Brazil. The selected works demonstrate a range of creativity and style that encompass Brazil's vibrant arts scene. The exhibit was developed and curated by Eduardo Benes, director of Galeria Gravura Brasileira, a leading modern and contemporary print
- [Ante Sardelic](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/ante-sardelic/) - May 2008 Cultural Parallels Although Ante Sardeli was trained as a sculptor, he is certainly an artist of many trades: from painting to mosaics to printmaking he has mastered techniques in a variety of mediums and continues to explore and expand his talents. For almost five decades now, Sardeli has consistently presented us with works
- [Anna U. Davis](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/anna-u-davis/) - May 2008 New Work Through her various inspirations, Anna Davis creates a body of work connected through a common perspective: "women in their private life, naked and venerable. Women in the society, strong and brave." Davis' new works feature her latest paintings that demonstrate her wild ability to confront the power of a woman's being
- [Anna U. Davis](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/anna-u-davis/) - May 2008 New Work Through her various inspirations, Anna Davis creates a body of work connected through a common perspective: "women in their private life, naked and venerable. Women in the society, strong and brave." Davis' new works feature her latest paintings that demonstrate her wild ability to confront the power of a woman's being
- [Ben Tolman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/ben-tolman/) - June-July 2008 An Allegory in Ink An Allegory in Ink highlights Ben Tolman's signature style of intensely detailed and micromanaged, large-scale ink drawings. Expanding from his obsession with monsters, fantastical creatures and unusual and bizarre scenes, Tolman presents a series of drawings exploring the human condition. Visit Tolman's website at www.bentolman.com.
- [Dave Moreland](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/dave-moreland/) - June-July 2008 Old Bones and Artifacts Old Bones and Artifacts reveals two of Dave Moreland's explorations back in time and through the history of art. The exhibition features a selection of his newest repousse pieces, drawings, and constructions inspired by classical artwork and its preservation. The two different explorations manifest themselves into two different art
- [Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jason-reynolds-and-jason-griffin/) - July-August 2008 My Name is Jason Jason Reynolds and Jason Griffin are a collaborative artistic duo making their exhibition debut in Washington, DC at Hillyer Art Space. My Name is Jason will feature a selection of their most recent works which seamlessly mesh Reynold's poetic prose with Griffin's expressive paintings. In My Name is Jason,
- [Mandy Burrow](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/mandy-burrow/) - July-August 2008 Every Day Every Day by Mandy Burrow features five sculptural installations that explore life, death and resurrection. Through this artistic investigation, Burrow confronts the issue of time and its effects on memory. The work embodies the contrasts of what is there and what is not, what is remembered and what is forgotten. Burrow's
- [Paul Reuther](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/paul-reuther/) - September-October 2008 Northmen's Place Made Southfolk's Thing: Landscapes from Finland to Nova Scotia Northmen's Place Made Southfolk's Thing: Landscapes of Finland and Nova Scotia is a painterly manifestation of Paul Reuther's attraction to and passion for the landscape and culture of the north. The exhibition features the last few years of Reuther's efforts to represent
- [Maro Vandorou](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/maro-vandorou/) - September-October 2008 Fragmented Light Fragmented Light consists of original photographic material of Kerameikos, an ancient cemetery in Athens, Greece, printed as platinum palladium prints. Vandorou uses an eclectic mix of photographic techniques spanning three centuries of photography to create a series of images that convey a sense of time passing, the brevity of life, and
- [Contemporary Iranian Photography](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/contemporary-iranian-photography/) - November-December 2008 The Burden of Representation Co-curated by Maryam Ovissi and Hillyer Art Space The Burden of Representation: Contemporary Photography from Iran features new works by six Tehran-based photographers: Mehrdad Afsari, Mina Momeni, Farhad Fakhrian, Gohar Dashti, Arash Hanaei, and Ali Zare . The selected works offer insight into the multiple layers of Iranian society
- [Hillyer Art Space and Washington Project for the Arts](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/hillyer-art-space-and-washington-project-for-the-arts/) - November-December 2008 Known Unknowns Hillyer Art Space and Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) in conjunction with FotoWeek DC are proud to present Known Unknowns, a group photography exhibition curated by Amanda Maddox, Assistant Curator of Photography and Media at the Corcoran College of Art + Design. Taking its title from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's
- [The Hechinger Collection](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/the-hechinger-collection-3/) - January-February 2009 Tools for Change: Selections from the Hechinger Collection By now, the Hechinger Collection might be better known that the hardware store that inspired its existence. The diverse collection started by John Hechinger in 1978 exceeds 375 works by 250 established and emerging artists mostly of the post-WWII era. The works were carefully chosen
- [Judy Stone](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/judy-stone/) - January-December 2009 Spirit Spirit will feature a selection of Judy Stone's newest works. Interested in contemporary issues of ritual, iconic power and violence, Stone's recent work integrates aspects of East and West culture. In Praxis (for Kali), a video installation, Stone combines the practice of mediation with discharging firearms, creating an integrated space between East
- [Judit Varga](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/judit-varga/) - March–April 2009 Squaring the Circle; Stretching the Clay Squaring the Circle; Stretching the Clay features a selection of Judit Varga's newest ceramic sculptures. A native of Hungary who now calls Washington, DC, "home," Varga uses malleable clay to speak freely and engage in interactions in a place that does not understand her mother tongue. Varga's
- [Gregory Ferrand](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/gregory-ferrand/) - March-April 2009 La Vida Intensa La Vida Intensa features Gregory Ferrand's most recent works in acrylic. Ferrand's background in film is evident in his strongly narrative paintings which usually capture a climactic moment in a character's life. Through his exaggerated rendering and saturated colors, Ferrand aims to paint life. "No matter how exotic or mundane
- [Post Secret](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/post-secret/) - June 2009 Post Secret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God In November 2004, Maryland resident Frank Warren launched a community art project that would soon become a worldwide phenomenon known as PostSecret. By handing out postcards and leaving them in public places around Washington, DC Warren invited strangers to anonymously send him their secrets. Within
- [Curated by Renee Stout](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/curated-by-renee-stout/) - July-August 2009 Six in the Mix: Selections Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of DC and Baltimore's emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space's summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Dwight, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent. Stout
- [David D'Orio](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/david-dorio/) - September-October 2009 Feeder(s): New work by David D'Orio The "Feeder" project is comprised of a series of sculpture that explore the idea of supply, demand, consumption, and distribution. The work presented explores the construct of consumer and supplier and it’s implication of domesticity, subservience, reliance and the perceived (if not actual) imbalance in power. This
- [Nekisha Durrett](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nekisha-durrett/) - September–October 2009 Colossus Colossus is a full scale installation by Nekisha Durrett inspired by a poem of the same name by David C. Ward. The poem and the installation visualize a land deforested by Colossus, a metaphoric representation of industry and civilization.
- [Martha Jackson-Jarvis](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/martha-jackson-jarvis/) - November–December 2009 Ass Against the Wall Ass Against the Wall is an installation by Martha Jackson-Jarvis that explores points of resistance, endurance, and markings that pattern our lives. It is a compelling place of power where forces change, heaviness, strain, anxiety, burdens and the weight of difficulty into something else. In a chance encounter in
- [Tom Wolff](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/tom-wolff/) - November-December 2009 Work This exhibit will feature a variety of Tom Wolff's iconic portrait work from his years on assignment for various magazines and commissioned portraiture. From political figures to cultural producers, Wolff's eye focuses on the essential and considers the subjects within the frame of his large-format works to be collaborators. Visit Wolff's website
- [Justseeds Artists' Cooperative](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/justseeds-artists-cooperative/) - January 2010 Paper Politics For a New Decade The JustSeeds Artists' Cooperative is a decentralized community of artists who have banded together to sell their work online in a central location, to collaborate, and support social movements. Using print and poster making techniques to address a variety of social and environmental justice issues, collective mates
- [Dana Frostick](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/dana-frostick/) - February 2010 Structured Turbulence The paintings presented in Structured Turbulence have their origins in the chaos and motion found in Dana Frostick's subconscious. Her mystical process involves allowing lines to flow through her until becoming realized into more significant forms and spaces. Once these forms have been established, Frostick then revisits with conte crayon and
- [Elena Patiño](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/elena-patino/) - March 2010 Laborious Futility The accumulative processes used in the making of Elena's pieces make reference to a variety of different aspects of the human condition. Labor, migration and consumption are all subtly examined through her obsessively repetitive methods of construction and systems of assemblage. Laborious Futility adapts from Patiño's previous engagement in the construction
- [Kate Kretz](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kate-kretz/) - March 2010 Purge/Deluge Purge/Deluge will feature an assortment of Kretz's multi-media works ranging from drawings and paintings on paper to embroidery and fabric works. Focusing on the heaviness of day-to-day existence and her experiences with individuals whose lives' visible weight impacts her to the point of creative refuge, Kretz seeks to honor the fragility common
- [A. Clarke Bedford](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/a-clarke-bedford/) - April 2010 Wundergarten: Sa[l]vaging the Family Archive Clarke Bedford, a.k.a. F.D. Kalley, William Tecumsah Sherman, Coleslaw Baklava and Professor Benjamin J. Dreadnought PhD, applies his wry humor and assemblage ingenuity to a many-layered body of work in Wundergarten: Sa[l]vaging the Family Archive. Combining a wunderkammer (cabinet of curiosities) and winter garden, Bedford's installation plumbs the
- [Valentine Nazarian Wolly](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/valentine-nazarian-wolly/) - May 2010 Flipped Reflection, repetition and pattern are central themes in Flipped, a new series of paintings by Valentine Wolly. Examining the way in which reflected surfaces often play tricks with our sense of the "real" world and the "other" world created by these surfaces, Wolly hones her techniques to create images from natural distortions
- [Judith Peck](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/judith-peck/) - June 2010 Original Position Inspired by philosopher John Rawls' A Theory of Justice, Vienna, VA fine artist Judith Peck has taken a legal concept and translated it into a powerful series of paintings. "John Rawls' thought experiment, using a veil to cloak our knowledge of individual's attributes, renders us able to effectively consider the interests
- [Ben Ferry](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/ben-ferry/) - June 2010 Paint is Paint, Surface is Surface Ben Ferry has always been fascinated with the varying physical characteristics of paint media and exploring the divergent ways in which the pigmented material reacts with different surfaces. He will present a mix of his forays, especially those into oil and watercolor painting, in his new solo
- [Pam Rogers](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/pam-rogers/) - August 2010 Germination Projects Pam Rogers' work propels viewers into a nurturing, cocoon-like state of being. Using the natural world as a set focus, both her paper based and sculptural installations evoke a sense of their own potential for organic growth in the viewer. The quite nature of plants and vegetation transcend the canvas and
- [Corwin Levi](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/corwin-levi/) - August 2010 Ruptured Walls: Flower Paintings Corwin Levi's flower paintings transport the viewer into a vortex of nostalgic, youthful wonderment. The fantastical imagery of his work is so visually commanding that the intensity of dreams, ideas, and space are literally punched through the canvas. Levi equates these gaping surfaces to transitioning phases in life. The
- [Soun Hong, Chakraphan Rangaratna, Ding Ren and Eric De Leon Zamuco](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/soun-hong-chakraphan-rangaratna-ding-ren-and-eric-de-leon-zamuco/) - September-October 2010 Puzzling (a) Space Puzzling (a) Space is a site-specific exhibition of painting, installation, video and performance by four contemporary Asian artists: Soun Hong (Korean), Chakraphan Rangaratna (Thai), Ding Ren (Chinese American), and Eric De Leon Zamuco (Filipino). This exhibition is co-curated by Jeong-ok Jeon (Korean) and Jammie Chang (Taiwan), and as a collaborative
- [Association of Ibero-American Cultural Attachés](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/association-of-ibero-american-cultural-attaches/) - November 2010 imMigration imMigration examines the many facets of migration and immigration from the perspective of migrants and immigrants, their families, and the cultures they have either entered or left behind. The exhibition locates the present state of migration and immigration within a comprehensive global narrative, covering current issues of border violence while memorializing the
- [Bill Moore](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/bill-moore/) - December 2010 Fictions of Nature Bill Moore produces giant bronze sculptures that place insects, fish, and birds in fantasy situations that are not consistent with their natural behavior. His sculptures activate the creative imagination of his audience, asking them to develop their own fictional narratives to accompany his naturalistic fantasies. Moore's interests, however, are not
- [The Hechinger Collection](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/the-hechinger-collection-4/) - December 2010 Tools As Art: A Selection The complete Hechinger Collection, featuring nearly 400 works of art, was donated to IA&A in 2003 by hardware-industry pioneer John Hechinger, Sr. The collection's contemporary prints, drawings, paintings, and sculptures represent a variety of 20th-century art which uses tools as art, exploring the line between utility and artistry.
- [Craig Kraft, Lauren Kotkin and Ellen Weiss](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/craig-kraft-lauren-kotkin-and-ellen-weiss/) - January 2011 Dispersed January's show featured the work of Craig Kraft, Lauren Kotkin, and Ellyn Weiss. Utilizing his “found” stream of consciousness sketches as inspiration, Kraft creates neon sculptures designed to remind his audience of the maze of thoughts and emotions that remain unnoticed and unappreciated in the human mind. Kotkin’s paper cut-out arrangements mime
- [Kyan Bishop](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kyan-bishop/) - January 2011 Critical Balalnce: Essential Small Quantities, Harmful in Excess For her show at Hillyer Art Space, Bishop created a large-scale installation work complemented by a new series of sculptures that serve as a continued examination of form and space within her art practice. One of Bishop's key interests with this exhibition was to create
- [Leah Appel](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/leah-appel/) - January 2011 Opposing Planes Savannah, Georgia is built around a series of 21 squares—landscaped areas usually a city block in size, or even larger, with a statue, fountain or some other architectural element in the center. Each of the different squares is dedicated to a notable historical figure. Throughout her college years and thereafter Leah
- [Billy Colbert, John Blee, Tom Wolff, Manon Cleary, Pat Goslee, Barbara Liotta, Judy Southerland and Foon Sham](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/billy-colbert-john-blee-tom-wolff-manon-cleary-pat-goslee-barbara-liotta-judy-southerland-and-foon-sham/) - February 2011 Artists’ Advisory Committee Show February's exhibition featured work by Hillyer's Advisory Committee members. The Committee is comprised of well-known artists from the Washington, DC area and is primarily responsible for selecting artists for Hillyer's exhibitions. Committee members are also very involved in our membership community, often mediating Members' Critiques and curating Members' Shows. Several Committee members
- [Helen Glazer](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/helen-glazer/) - February 2011 Clouds InFormation For the past five years, Helen Glazer's work has been heavily influenced by chaos and complexity theories' perspectives on the unpredictability of natural phenomena. As her latest Clouds series demonstrates, the artistic process is analogous to the dynamical systems posited by chaos and complexity theories—that is, an artwork takes shape within
- [Jessika Dené Tarr](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jessika-dene-tarr/) - February 2011 Monstrous Emerging from the dark yet whimsical world of children's literature, Jessika Tarr's exhibition Monstrous features works that are both narrative and theatrical. Just as German story books combine dark and provocative themes with seemingly innocent illustrations, her works contain a tension between content and style. While overtly signifying fear itself, much of
- [Sacha Ingber](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/sacha-ingber/) - March 2011 Remnants, Traces, and High Maintenance Physical placement of objects and organisms in the world often appears random, unpredictable. Sacha Ingber's work investigates the driving forces and logic, or lack thereof, behind the organization of these things. Things both living and inanimate, microscopic and massive. She is driven by a belief in the inherent
- [Karin Birch](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/karin-birch/) - Match 2011 Meaning in Abeyance Working with materials that are intrinsically seductive, sensuously attractive and easily made beautiful, has led Karin Birch to vigilantly ruminate on meaning, on how art requires more than surface appeal to engage the emotions and the mind. Material alone may mesmerize for a moment, and visualized time caught by hand-work
- [Helen Anne, Jeanne Day,Pepe Piedra, Lauren Kotkin, Lauren Shea Little, Marina Reiter, Monica Jahan Bose, Paul Reuther and Richard Starr](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/helen-anne-jeanne-daypepe-piedra-lauren-kotkin-lauren-shea-little-marina-reiter-monica-jahan-bose-paul-reuther-and-richard-starr/) - March 2011 March Members' Show March's Member Show featured work by Helen Anne, Jeanne Day, Pepe Piedra, Lauren Kotkin, Lauren Shea Little, Marina Reiter, Monica Jahan Bose, Paul Reuther, and Richard Starr. The show was curated by Washington D.C. based photographer Tom Wolff.
- [Hillyer Art Space, Washington Project for the Arts and Black Artists of DC](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/hillyer-art-space-washington-project-for-the-arts-and-black-artists-of-dc/) - April 2011 Process: Reaffirmation Presented by Hillyer Art Space in collaboration with Washington Project for the Arts, and Black Artists of D.C. Curated by Gina Marie Lewis, Process: Reaffirmation focused on and reaffirmed the processes of artists within their studios. The exhibition honored the personal philosophies, practices, and vocabularies of eight artists and attempted to
- [20 Washington, DC Artists](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/20-washington-dc-artists/) - April 2011 In Unison April's exhibition showcased selected works from In Unison: 20 Washington, DC Artists. Sponsored by Millennium Arts Salon, In Unison represents a collaboration of 20 diverse Washington, DC artists in terms of ethnicity, gender, age, and artistic approaches. These artists—painters, sculptors, digital media and installation artists, and a few printmakers—came together in
- [Billy Colbert, Renee Stout, Clarke Bedford, Foon Sham, Tom Wolff, Gregory Ferrand, Manon Cleary, Adam Griffiths, Kenyatta Hinkle, Pat Goslee, Don Kimes, Elena Patino, Marc Roman and Ben Tolman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/billy-colbert-renee-stout-clarke-bedford-foon-sham-tom-wolff-gregory-ferrand-manon-cleary-adam-griffiths-kenyatta-hinkle-pat-goslee-don-kimes-elena-patino-marc-roman-and-ben-tolman/) - May 2011 May Spring Soiree Show May's Spring Soiree Show marked International Art & Artists' first annual fundraising art auction. The auction was comprised of works by Billy Colbert, Renee Stout, Clarke Bedford, Foon Sham, Tom Wolff, Gregory Ferrand, Manon Cleary, Adam Griffiths, Kenyatta Hinkle, Pat Goslee, Don Kimes, Elena Patino, Marc Roman and Ben
- [Khánh H. Lê](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/khanh-h-le/) - May 2011 Know Place Khánh Lê often thinks about his hyphenated identity, as a Vietnamese-American, in the context of a landscape, a thing of earthly and natural status. When people ask him what Vietnam is like, it is almost as though they believe the landscape is permanent and non-changing, as if it is frozen in
- [Brent Crothers](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/brent-crothers/) - May 2011 Still Waking Up Brent Crothers graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art with an M.F.A. in 2003. His works are a collection of 55 years of ideas and materials which are chiseled, stacked, wrapped, burned, and beaten into sculpture. Each piece has its own roots and its own story. Crothers believes that we
- [Rebecca Clark](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rebecca-clark/) - June 2011 Bee Lines Rebecca Clark draws inspiration from the natural world of her backyard. By observing the insects, animals, and plant life of her tiny ecosystem, she engages with the timeless rhythms and patterns of the earth. Her careful examination of nature reminds us of our own unique place within it. Her drawings are
- [Lynn Putney](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lynn-putney/) - June 2011 Wishing Well Lynn Putney's paintings are a response to living, another way to take in and explore the experience of existence. Painting allows her to sort, sift and distill her own thoughts and feelings without preliminary sketches or pre-conceived notions of a final image. The act of painting is thus her means of
- [Gute Brandao and Helga Thompson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/gute-brandao-and-helga-thompson/) - June 2011 June Members' Show June's exhibition featured works by members Gute Brandao and Helga Thompson, curated by Artist Advisory Committee member Cianne Fragione.
- [Chayo de Chevez, Michele Colburn, Eileen Lyons and Mike Shaffer](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/chayo-de-chevez-michele-colburn-eileen-lyons-and-mike-shaffer/) - July 2011 July Members' Show July's exhibition features the work of Chayo de Chevez, Michele Colburn, Eileen Lyons, and Mike Shaffer. The curator for this month is Hillyer Art Space Artists’ Advisory Committee member and prominent Washington, DC artist Barbara Liotta.
- [Yar Koporulin](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/yar-koporulin/) - July 2011 Cryostasis Growing up in Moscow during the post-Soviet Era, Yar Koporulin witnessed the dramatic rebirth of Russian society and culture. His personal experiences, reinforced by those transformations, birthed an interest in the individual's journey towards self-recognition and the emotional and socio-cultural struggles with indoctrination that are universally experienced on that journey. Through the
- [Betsy Packard](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/betsy-packard/) - July 2011 Selected Work Betsy Packard continues to use the found or saved object as a mold or as material for sculpture—re-using, recycling, and transforming this material for reasons of economy, history, and aura. Often employing a mass-produced type of packing container as a mold, she sometimes adds significant material to the casting, and leaves
- [David Emerick](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/david-emerick/) - August 2011 Variations Born in Upstate New York, David Emerick graduated from the University of Kentucky with a BFA in Photography and continued his education at the University of Nebraska where he received an MFA in Photography. He has taught photography at the Corcoran School of Art and Design, Northern Virginia Community College, the Smithsonian
- [James Matthew Crooks](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/james-matthew-crooks/) - August 2011 Opposing Planes Matt Crooks uses photography as a means of exploration. He tries to find the overlooked, forgotten, or decaying parts of our everyday environment. Crooks' is fascinated with pattern, form, and texture and the interplay between them on different scales. He sees the simple beauty that is abundant, perhaps only evident if
- [G.A. Gardner, Kate Boone, Quierra Wells and Ruth Schilling Harwood](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/g-a-gardiner-kate-boone-quierra-wells-and-ruth-schilling-harwood/) - September 2011 September Members' Show The September exhibition is a group show highlighting street-inspired urban themed art. The concept of the exhibition chronicles cultural associations made towards "streetlife" and the silent confidence or "attitude" conveyed within every piece. The contrasting playfulness of bright colors retains and portrays the facetiousness often prevalent in urbanity. Foremost, the
- [Solomon Wondimu](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/solomon-wondimu/) - September 2011 SKIN: America in Black and White Born and raised in Ethiopia, Solomon Wondimu is an Assistant Gallery Director and Adjunct Faculty for the School of Art at George Mason University. For the past five years Wondimu has been working on Human Skin Color Project. Wondimu has always been perplexed by the signifying system
- [Alison Sigethy](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/alison-sigethy/) - September 2011 Sanctuary Commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Alison Sigethy's Sanctuary attempts to bring the viewer closer to achieving inner peace by taking them on a journey inside the human body. Sigethy's belief in the power of the inner-self, a place where one can truly find peace, healing and forgiveness, has been the foundation
- [Michelle Gomez and Jonathan Wille](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/michelle-gomez-and-jonathan-wille/) - November 2011 The First Supper A collaboration between Michelle Gomez and Jonathan Wille, The First Supper is both an installation and three performances that deals with cultural and identity issues by looking at the idea of a non-traditional family. During the performances, viewers witness the artists enacting dysfunction at a family dinner, exploring the notion
- [Joan Belmar](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/joan-belmar/) - October 2011 ONCE Joan Belmar uses iconographies; bikes, spinning tops, toys, etc. often nostalgic items, they reference a time in our collective past that is impossible to recreate, but remains important to remember. Belmar works with the themes of time, change and movement, sometimes ironically and humorously. Born in Chile, Joan Belmar moved to Spain
- [Keith Lane](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/keith-lane/) - October 2011 iwishyouwerehere iwishyouwerehere is an on-going conceptual photography project. The project started as a personal mission for Keith to look closer at the subject and through the restraints of the iPhone, to make more intentional images. Documenting his own story allowed Lane a separate space to define that process through this series of iPhone
- [Seth Remsnyder and Everitt Clark](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/seth-remsnyder-and-everitt-clark/) - October 2011 October Members' Show The October nin9 exhibition is a group show contrasting black and white images of member artist Everitt Clark with the intense colors of Seth Remsnyder’s works. Though dramatically different in media and subject matter each artist highlights the beauty of abstract form in both obvious and hidden ways.
- [David Mordini](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/david-mordini/) - November 2011 dis-member In his new body of work Mordini explores psychological complexities through an internal dialog of competing forces. He uses fragmented body parts made out of fiberboard as a vessel for these forces. Although they originate from different psychological pathologies, the body parts share a common DNA in that they are created from
- [Min Enghauser](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/min-enghauser/) - November 2011 Desert Dwell Min Enghauser began making photographs as a child; exploring, learning, and becoming aware through photography. For Enghauser, photographs, and the act of making them, are glimpses of timeless spirits, of pure and unbiased realities of nature and time. Enghauser's exhbit Desert Dwell are all images from the Anza-Borrego Desert where she
- [Nam Le](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nam-le/) - December 2011 Cycles of Life Nam Le reflects on the fragility of life and how short our time is on earth. Many things in nature adhere to a particular rhythm or cycle. If a cycle is considered to be an occurrence or a series of occurrences, one in which certain events or phenomena repeat themselves
- [Edward Purcell](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/edward-purcell/) - December 2011 Head Wound In titling this exhibition Head Wound, Edward Purcell reveals a number of sources and influences. The format of the drawings recalls conventions of Neoclassical portraiture as well as illustration techniques developed in early medical texts. The title itself, deliberately encourages the viewer to think about the relationship between the words wound
- [Amy Boone-McCreesh](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/amy-boone-mccreesh/) - December 2011 All Idols Fall Amy's work is a tribute to craft and the long human tradition of making. She is interested in exploring the cultural lines between functional items and decoration while revisiting these themes in the context of contemporary art. Found objects, second-hand fabrics, celebratory ephemera, repetition and the amassing of materials and
- [Lucinda Friendly Murphy](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lucinda-friendly-murphy/) - January 2012 Evolution Lucinda Friendly Murphy has been fascinated by science and the process of evolution, from the Big Bang to computers. Change seems to be the only constant. This passion has led her to explore through some of the unanswered questions in science. Most recently, Murphy has focused on exploring order and chaos from
- [Monica Stroik](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/monica-stroik/) - January 2012 Substructure On a broad universal level, Monica Stroik's paintings reflect the fact that each of us makes daily choices, some conscious and others unconscious, which all have consequences. Those areas that are in more focus versus those parts that are more hazy or unclear define this breadth of awareness. The effect of these
- [Fritz Horstman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/fritz-horstman/) - January 2012 A Wayfaring Nature Human society spends a lot of time and energy combating its natural origins. When an aspect of humanity bears too many markers of a natural process, we either privatize it or ritualize it. Over time, those aspects are elaborated upon in the form of clothes, ceremonies, architectural motifs, laws, and
- [Elizabeth Holtry](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/elizabeth-holtry/) - February 2012 Toile de Jouy Holtry's paintings depict animals that few people appreciate, such as hyenas, insects, and rats. Often wondering why it is that people advocate equality between humans, yet so freely discriminate in our opinions of animals, her work addresses our prejudicial attitudes toward these animals. Holtry's inspiration also comes from an ongoing
- [Brian Kirk](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/brian-kirk/) - February 2012 Natural Reaction Brian Kirk is intrigued with the forces of nature. He considers himself a naturalist and a curious spectator of natural phenomena. The natural actions of wind, water, fire on the ever-changing earth hold a fascination for the artist. The cyclical forces play a role in his work;the ebb and flow of
- [David Myers](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/david-myers/) - February 2012 Confined: Visual Synonyms Photography is a tool for Myers, that he uses to explore surroundings and better understand observations made along the way. Confined: Visual Synonyms, is an example of a portfolio of images materializing after working on a theme, unknowingly, for almost a year. The images are more mere documentation; they have
- [Rachel Rotenberg](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rachel-rotenberg/) - March 2012 New Work An enduring commitment to sculpture accompanies Rachel Rotenberg throughout her life. Her sculptures are stories of a life rooted in wood. When people engage with her sculptures, she feels connected to the larger world through the simple presence of the wood tooled into shapes previously unimagined, and her personal story falls
- [Daniel Venne](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/daniel-venne/) - March 2012 Looking for Now As a closeted young boy, Daniel Venne secretly drew his own erotic pictures. Feelings of shame then drove him to unceremoniously destroy the same images with fire. Nothing could be left of the pleasure he could not reconcile, no trace that he had used some "God-given gift" to give life
- [Kathryn Zazenski](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kathryn-zazenski/) - March 2012 A Geometry of Though: Visualizing Binaries Zazenski's work explores the inherent and applied complexity and possibility that exists within words. It focuses on the dynamics of emotion through which we develop relationships and define, categorize, and relate abstract notions. It is about exploring a new visual system for the written word and creating
- [Zachary Jackson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/zachary-jackson/) - April 2012 Getting Ugly Zachary Jackson’s work stems from a fascination with human reactions, both mentally and physically, to ideas of stress and tension. Referencing his own experiences as well as those gathered from interviews with others his work creates a dialogue for these, often unrecognized, occurrences. Recently Jackson has begun focusing on the rigidity
- [Tomomi Nitta](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/tomomi-nitta/) - April 2012 Infinite Set III Infinite Set is a series of works depicting female forms floating in a space of nothingness. It is impossible to completely and precisely understand the body and mind—even our own. Enormous number of cells, knowing their roles, support life by continuously repeating birth and death, while our minds create rich
- [Miori Inata](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/miori-inata/) - April 2012 The Ise Shrine of Japan In 2001, Inata witnessed the tragedy of 9/11 from her apartment window. These grotesque acts of terrorism made her contemplate what elements are behind the directions human beings choose, which paths the Gods around the world direct us as individuals. Inata wanted to stand in places of prayer
- [Erin Bernard](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/erin-bernard/) - May 2012 Rolled Dice and Flicked Matchsticks With tunneled vision, its hard to determine how relatively close or distant flashing lights are. When focused on a desired outcome, the imagined ideal is projected on top of a current actuality; reality is quelled into a fading periphery. Enter a game, a gamble or a gambit and
- [Greg Schmigel](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/greg-schmigel/) - May 2012 Imperfect Strangers: An Exhibit of Mobile Street Photography For Greg Schmigel, there’s something very special and unique about capturing street photography. According to Schmigel, “It’s real, it’s true slices of life as we see it—and many times, slices of life as the rest of us miss them.” Schmigel’s photographs take a quick, candid
- [Rachel Manley](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rachel-manley/) - May 2012 False Impressions As a foreigner living in Tunisia, Rachel Manley often found irony in her surroundings. When the revolution came, she found truth in so many ways. False Impression was started a little over a month before the Jasmine Revolution happened. Now known as the Arab Spring, the long-ruling president was overthrown and
- [Hillyer Artists](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/hillyer-artists/) - June 2012 Hillyer Art Space's 6th Anniversary: A Retrospective of Hillyer Artists (2006-2012) For Hillyer's sixth anniversary, a retrospective Hillyer artists from the past six years were presented for the month of June. Participating artists include: Adrienne Mills, Alison Sigethy, Amy Lin, Anna U. Davis, Ari Espay, Barbara Josephs Liotta, Ben Ferry, Betsy Packard, Bill
- [Mark Earnhart](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/mark-earnhart/) - July 2012 Anecdotes and Paraphernalia Mark Earnhart’s work deals with identity through the examination of environments within daily life. Earnhart believes that the physical action and habits of living leaves behind traces to our own experiences and histories. His work focuses on the acknowledgment of our own detritus and the routine objects that form the
- [Elizabeth Kauffman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/elizabeth-kauffman/) - July 2012 Smoke Signals The work that comprises Smoke Signals serves as an alchemical medium through which messages, simultaneously profound and mundane, can be communicated. The images within these drawings and paintings are constructed like a collage, where disparate elements are fused during the alchemical process of making an image. The elements used have been
- [Deborah Anzinger and Chajana denHarder](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/deborah-anzinger-and-chajana-denharder/) - July 2012 Paint On Known Paint On Known is a collaborative exhibition between Chajana denHarder and Deborah Anzinger that bridges photography and painting to create systems in which decay, distorted perception and the metaphysical co-exist. Within each artist’s practice she attempts to closely connect with photographic scenes, but in doing so negates, abstracts, distorts and
- [Local College Artists](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/local-college-artists/) - August 2012 Fresh Perspectives: An Exhibition of Local College Students College students studying the visual arts spend their time developing work which may pose questions and offer possibilities for themselves, and for all of us, as we try to use opportunities and meet the challenges presented in this age of information. This is a small
- [Felicia Glidden](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/felicia-glidden/) - August 2012 Between Two Rivers Glidden’s work addresses transitional moments between states of being, thoughts living below the surface of others that cannot be brought to the forefront of the mind. She considers the moment just before sleep when images begin to form, the moment just after waking when dream activities disorient, the confusion of
- [Jennifer Pizzillo](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jennifer-pizzillo/) - Looking Glass Jennifer Pizzillo believes that art can simply be a pure exercise in pattern and color. She concentrates on assembling pleasing color palates and striking pattern in order to produce something visually stimulating. Pizzillo enjoys the practice of mark making, the effect of mixing textures and media, and the translucence of layering. Her pieces
- [Lo Studio dei Nipoti](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lo-studio-dei-nipoti/) - September 2012 Lo Studio dei Nipoti: The Studio of the Grandchildren, Nieces and Nephews Lo Studio dei Nipoti (The Studio of the Grandchildren, Nieces and Nephews) was organized in early 2009 as an artistic expression of what has been called the “long-lasting spiral across the sea” that characterizes America’s complex relationship with Italy and the
- [Valeria Caflisch](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/valeria-caflisch/) - September 2012 Evidences In this exhibition, Valeria Caflisch presents what she describes as “dialogues between kitchen tools and the changing process of matter”—titled Evidences. Caflisch theorize that “evidence” is more than a simple dialogue between artifacts. It is the process of dealing with the past and failed judgments, trying to learn from mistakes, and to
- [St. John's Community Services Artists](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/st-johns-community-services-artists/) - October 2012 ART Options: Featuring artists with disabilities from St. John's Community Services In conjunction with Disability Awareness Month, St. John's Community Services and Hillyer Art Space presented works by talented artists from the ART Options program at St. John's Community Servivces, an arts-infused program designed to support the development of vocational, social and fine
- [Jackie Hoysted](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jackie-hoysted/) - October 2012 Label Me: Call Me A Name What’s in a name or a title of a painting and how does it influence you? Do you look at an artwork and turn away confident in your interpretation of it and satisfied with your response to it? Or, do you look for more information to elaborate
- [R.K. Dickson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/r-k-dickson/) - December 2012 New Renaissance Prints These prints are from an ongoing series that responds to Renaissance paintings with abstract, nearly nonobjective, prints. The structure and meaning of the original iconic images are merged and reimagined through contemporary formal strategies. The layering of formal and intellectual information on the paper surface prompts questions about where images
- [Erika Kim Milenkovic](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/erika-kim-milenkovic/) - December 2012 Accumulations Erika Kim Milenkovic's current work focuses on how things—and life—are built by the accumulation of moments. Through her labor-intensive pieces, Milenkovic examines the world today where much is mass-produced and easily discarded. Her work, which uses basic hand-making techniques, strives to reconnect the modern individual to the creative processes of our ancestors
- [Matthew Malone](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/matthew-malone/) - December 2012 Hot Pink These images are part of an ongoing series Malone started in 2003 titled Hot Pink. The basic premise involves using pink balloons as a drawing tool to create temporary installations that he then photographs. Malone chose the color pink because it contrasts so sharply with almost any environment. It screams look
- [Daniela Mastrangelo](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/daniela-mastrangelo/) - November 2012 BHARAT Daniela Mastrangelo is a photographer from Livormo, Italy. Constantly looking for a union between photography and painting her medium of photo prints on wax covered cotton, felt and wood yeild the chiaroscuro Mastrangelo yearns for in her work. She perceives her wax medium as a flexible material able to withstand the elements
- [Christina King](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/christina-king/) - November 2012 Cutting People In Christina King has been attracted to collage and the ability to add visual components to a work for a long time. In conjunction with this aesthetic, she began removing elements as she experimented with the street photography. The process evolved into a removal of specific individuals from the photographs with
- [Leah Appel](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/leah-appel-2/) - November 2012 New Work: Elements of Design Leah Appel is a photographer currently working in the Washington, DC area. She is a graduate from the Savannah College of Art and Design where she received her BFA in photography. Leah works as both a commercial and fine art photographer. She works in a variety of mediums
- [Erin Boland (Washington, DC)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/erin-boland/) - January 2013 Apport The modern Spiritualist movement—the belief in and practice of communication with the dead through psychic mediums—came to prominence in the U.S. beginning in the mid-19th century. A typical séance of this period would include a structure known as a Spirit Cabinet—a curtained area in which the medium would sit that functioned as
- [Susan Main (Rockville, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/susan-main/) - January 2013 The Usual Wilderness Using systematic and chance explorations of the landscape, light and language, Susan Main examines the wildness of attention and perception through video, drawing and painting. Gathering seconds of light, opening the camera to one yard of ground, pairing the breath with a view of the horizon, her work draws simple
- [Nina Ozbey (Charlottesville, VA)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nina-ozbey/) - January 2013 New Work Nina Ozbey’s is about spontaneity, about herself up. In her ongoing series of non-objective paintings, Ozbey let go of subject matter to explore composition, color and line, blending elements of design with intuition. For the artist, it is all about the process of putting paint onto canvas or paper and the
- [Marcia Wolfson-Ray (Baltimore, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/marcia-wolfson-ray/) - February 2013 Rythms "You can't know the way" is a Taoist saying that sums up Marcia Wolfson Ray's feelings toward her work. She believes that the mystery at the center of life is echoed in the forms, rhythms and patterns represented in nature. She is inspiried not only by beauty, but also physical properties of
- [John Reuss (Denmark)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/john-reuss/) - February 2013 Mind and Matter John Reuss’ work is characterized by contrasts—the juxtaposition of opposites on several levels—which can be seen throughout his paintings. Fine detail, drawn lines and meticulously painted shapes clash with bold brushstrokes, spatters and blurred contours. The world Reuss depicts is not a physical location in space and time. It is
- [Amy Hughes Braden (Arlington, VA)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/amy-hughes-braden/) - February 2013 Red & Grey Paintings In her new body of work, Red & Grey Paintings, Amy Hughes Braden interprets the stream of consciousness into two-dimensional rectangles. The collages are created from reserves of paper: magazine cut-outs, photos, photocopies, doodles by other artists, coupons, old books, stickers, miscellaneous scraps that have been preciously collected over the years. In
- [Narciso Maisterra (Spain)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/narciso-maisterra/) - March 2013 Passing Through the Body Without Staying Maisterra’s exhibit Passing Through the Body Without Staying is more than just a collection of works; it is a testament to an emotional process of recuperation from illness via artistic creativity. In January of 2011, Maisterra had an accident that affected his physical appearance. As soon as he regained
- [Jung Min Park (South Korea)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jung-min-park/) - March 2013 The City Stories Jung Min Park is interested in observing and experiencing the relationships between cities, nature and people. Working from her own experiences with the many places she has lived she has found that her imagination takes over and creates a story, or a separate life for these places. In looking back on
- [Garth Fry (New Freedom, PA)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/garth-fry/) - March 2013 A Deeper Look Inside Garth Fry explores the psychology of isolation by creating shapes and forms that are void of applied color. He investigates this concept through his use of raw, coiled paper and glue. The imagery he creates derives from expressive formations, which upon inspection reveals a terrain of emotion that is
- [Fawna Xiao (Washington, DC)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/fawna-xiao/) - April 2013 LOST LAND Lost Land is about landforms, both real and imagined. Printmaker Fawna Xiao creates an abstracted landscape captured in a series of screenprinted monotypes that are a tribute to mountains, canyons, glaciers, and Martian rocks. Xiao’s work is minimalist: rich colors and lively geometrics are embraced by a generous sea of paper. A complex
- [Heather Day (Baltimore, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/heather-day/) - April 2013 Sideways These paintings begin at every seam, edge, and mark. Then layers of paint overlap revealing collected moments of interaction. Every mark creates a series of expectations similar to a conversation. When a question is asked, an answer is anticipated. Stitches and mark making lead to energetic movement reading like handwriting stretching from
- [Hsin-Hsi Chen (New York, NY)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/hsin-hsi-chen/) - April 2013 LUX By using the most basic materials—pencil on paper and wood—Hsin-Hsi Chen continues her commitment in ‘pencil drawing’ to present illusionary and riddled paths in her 3D structures. Chen’s new series, LUX, is an evolution from her previous work. In this series she merges drawing, light, shadow, illumination and a new material, polystyrene. Surreal
- [Lara Bandilla (Berlin, Germany)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lara-bandilla/) - May 2013 Of Time and Light Lara Bandilla’s paintings narrate the light and movement of time and space. Her work is haunting and touching. The observer looks at the snapshot of a moment while simultaneously a room into infinity opens. The paintings serve as gateways for a journey into endlessness. The resemblance to photography leads
- [Melanie Kehoss (Arlington, VA)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/melanie-kehoss/) - May 2013 Intergrowth Cut paper elegantly balances simplicity and complexity: simple because an artwork may consist of only one sheet of paper, complex because the artist can transform that sheet into a design as fine as lace. When put to rice paper, the hand-held blade creates a crisp, controlled, yet gestural line. Like Jewish, Mexican,
- [Millennium Arts Salon (Washington, DC)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/millennium-arts-salon/) - May 2013 Of a Place and Time: Photographic Memories and Imaginings Recollections of places visited, both far and near, people known, and those never met but have only been spoken about, form the foundation of the exhibition Of a Place and Time: Photographic Memories and Imaginings. It explores individual and collective imaginings of the cultural and
- [Marley Dawson (Sydney, Australia)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/marley-dawson/) - June 2013 Big Feelings (going nowhere) In Big Feelings (going nowhere), Dawson slows things down. Hapless symbols of movement – a Mid-Western tumbleweed, a 1979 Motobécane moped, and a series of decommissioned road signs - are employed in sculptural meditations on progress and the passage of time. In Slow Burn (full circle), Dawson castrates a
- [Santiago Rios (Spain)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/santiago-rios/) - June 2013 Living Music This exhibition aims to show Santiago Rios’ drawings and paintings in relation to music. Rios creates his work while attending concerts; using ink and watercolors he works directly on sheets of music or programs from the concert. The works in this exhibition are grouped by music: classical, jazz, and flamenco. Because
- [J.J. McCracken (Mt. Rainier, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/j-j-mccracken-mt-rainier-md/) - June 2013 A Recursive Lens This vignette attempts to hone in on what it was to be inside of the 7-hour endurance performance, Thirst, and the Martyr, originally performed during the (e)merge Art Fair in 2011: The weight of water in pottery and gourds strapped to the backs of two women; the force of the
- [Stephanie J. Williams (Arlington, VA)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/stephanie-j-williams-arlington-va/) - July 2013 Uncommon Bodies Our senses are only capable of gathering bits and pieces of our surrounding environment. They then reformulate the information and assign context to form meaning. Instead of mechanical calculation, this process is designated by a playful gathering of fragmented information only to reorient for personal purposes. Williams is interested in the
- [Soapbox](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/soapbox/) - July 2013 Complexities: Nuvo-Avant-Garde The Nuvo-Avant-Garde represents synthesis, and dwells in the synthetic. As the twenty-first century moves through a kind of puberty, parts of culture are progressing at a rate that society can’t quite reconcile. The N-A-G manifests just such a growth spurt in comceptual art. Through thinly veiled acts of manipulation, the curatorial/authorial
- [Rofi (Singapore)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rofi-singapore/) - July 2013 Psyche Rofi enjoys painting faces and figures. More than mere portraits, the faces in his paintings are metaphors for personifying issues relating to identity, society, spirituality and socio-political affairs. In the Asian world, the concept of face embodies dignity, honour and reputation. By extension, the face idiomatically conveys a map of one’s life. If
- [Megan Crist, Jennifer DeAngelo, Piper Grosswendt, Jessica Hopkins, Zsófia Horváth, Jared Packard-Winkler, Jennifer Small, Mia Weiner](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/megan-crist-jennifer-deangelo-piper-grosswendt-jessica-hopkins-zsofia-horvath-jared-packard-winkler-jennifer-small-mia-weiner/) - August 2013 2013 Young Contemporaries Young Contemporaries presents disparate veils of perception from a generation reacting to the corporeal need for human connection in our fast-paced and detached digital domain. Whether simply looking through the shroud of a curtained window or looking from within numerous masks of personal identity, these nine artists offer layered filters of
- [Joan Belmar (Washington, DC)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/joan-belmar-washington-dc/) - August 2013 Trans Lucid For the past several years, Chilean artist Joan Belmar has been working with translucent materials. Belmar is interested in how pieces of translucent material are perceived differently according to their exposure to light and the angle from which they are viewed. Separately, he wants to explore how the qualities of the
- [Luis Flores (Baltimore, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/luis-flores-baltimore-md/) - September 2013 NUEVE/TRECE The works selected for this mini-retrospective were produced by Flores over the last five years, a period of productivity marked by the numbers nine and thirteen, personal numbers he associates with chance or luck. Most of the images and forms were inspired by recollections of brief observations of boxes, containers, jewelry, simple
- [Melissa McCutcheon (Washington, DC)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/melissa-mccutcheon-washington-dc/) - September 2013 We Are Living Here Melissa McCutcheon is an oil painter originally from Seattle, Washington currently based in Washington, D.C. She received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Washington University in St. Louis. Her paintings are an examination of the sense of identity associated with displacement and its relationship to one's
- [Enrique Castanon (Bethesda, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/enrique-castanon-bethesda-md/) - Fill Circle Of all the life's mysteries, Enrique Castanon feels compelled to express the invisible and from the invisible -the origin of things. Castanon sees an eternal movement of life even in death, a constant transformation and exchange of energy at the micro and macro cosmic level. This is what justifies Castanon's need to know,
- [Lauren Frances Moore Evans (College Park, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lauren-frances-moore-evans-college-park-md/) - October 2013 WHOLEISM: parts & holes All holes plead obscurely to be filled. They are appeals to the triumph of the full over the empty, of existence over nothingness. Lauren Frances Moore Evans' work is influenced by an existential understanding of holes, which is rooted in an ontological (and thus pre-sexual) desire to fill voids.
- [Laura Litten (Washington, DC)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/laura-litten-washington-dc/) - October 2013 OUT OF CONFINEMENT: Soundings from the Inland Sea Growing up in the vast flat spaces of the Midwest triggered my obsession for the infinite space of the horizontal horizon. Now confined to the urban space of Washington DC, my world is peculiarly claustrophobic. As an artist, my response is to leave my world
- [Site95](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/site95/) - October 2013 City Limits: Urban Interactions SITE95 is an alternative non-profit organization established to present exhibitions for emerging and established artists in temporary urban locations. Drawing upon available space in major cities, SITE95 will present over five projects per year, each extending up to two months. The impermanent sites create a platform for artists and
- [Chandi Kelley (Washington, DC)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/chandi-kelley-washington-dc/) - November 2013 Unnatural Histories Inherently, the photograph is a source of information. It is a representation of the world at a specific moment in time. We take for granted that this information is truth, that it is a confirmation of reality. Photography allows the coexistence of nature and artificiality to reflect both our understanding and
- [D.B. Stovall (Bethesda, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/d-b-stovall-bethesda-md/) - November 2013 A Slower Way of Seeing: Photographs of the American Vernacular Although D.B. Stovall calls his work "American Vernacular," it is important that it be understood what it is and what it isn’t. Although some have termed it “old buildings,” that is selling it far too short. Stovall does tend to look for older
- [Pamela Viola (Alexandria, VA)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/pamela-viola-alexanria-va/) - November 2013 Having a Ball Having a Ball grew out of Pamela Viola’s desire to loosen up her work, and the result are works that are light and whimsical. Using images captured from an iPhone and composited on an iPad, this series is full of layered metaphor, symbolism, and subtle mystery, creating a narrative that is
- [Annie Farrar (Baltimore, MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/annie-farrar-baltimore-md/) - December 2013 Paint as Object In her most recent body of work Farrar uses materials from daily life, objects that have cultural associations and points of reference for viewers. She explores the tension between the cerebral concerns of minimalism and an investigation of humanity: emotional, spiritual, symbolic, and narrative. At its core, the work is
- [Sherry Zvares Sanabria](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/sherry-zvares-sanabria/) - December 2013 The Corrections: Prisons and Mental Hospitals Sanabria is drawn to the walls and spaces of old buildings by the perception that they are filled with and colored by the spiritual remnants of the lives lived in them. Thus, they are haunted by such memories, heavy with the presence of the past. She wishes to draw
- [Elizabeth Holtry](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/elizabeth-holtry-2/) - December 2013 High Society Despite its highly-developed social structure, sophisticated hunting tactics, athleticism, and intelligence, the hyena has been portrayed as perpetually deviant. Traditional folklore depicts the hyena as an unkempt, uncivil trickster. Often overlooked in animal rights dialogue and snubbed by zoos, hyenas dwell within a narrow stereotyped existence, misunderstood and marginalized. Popular culture persists
- [JD Deardourff](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jd-deardourff/) - January 2014 Splash! The title of this show, SPLASH!, refers to a splash page: a comic book page filled by a single image. Splash pages are used to capture the reader’s attention and emphasize climactic moments in the narrative. These screen prints are based on collages Deardourff made out of splash pages from his comic
- [Greg Braun](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/greg-braun/) - January 2014 Creating Space: Concept, Content, Context Architecture: a space acknowledged by perimeters, actual or perceived. Greg Braun’s art is a direct extension of the architecture that defines a gallery -- walls. Walls of gypsum drywall become truly inert in most architectural applications. Finished and painted, they seamlessly blend into the un-noticed spatial backdrop. By
- [Fawna Xiao](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/fawna-xiao-2/) - January 2014 HALF WILD responses to black and white photographs of mountains covered in snow, with a focus on rocky faces and folds. Others are dissections of the layers and construction of islands and blue mountain horizons. Fawna and her father built all of the frames by hand. All prints are one-of-a-kind, no editions. Fawna
- [Nancy Agati](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nancy-agati/) - February 2014 PORTICO Objects found, the discarded are resurrected as forms to be considered, to be reconstructed things noticed from the periphery are extracted directly from nature or sidewalks I have a penchant for elegance, a sense of order, to investigate pattern and geometry the essence of the natural state it involves a process of
- [Rosa Spina](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rosa-spina/) - February 2014 Energy of Wire The wire material that Rosa Spina uses to express her creative energy becomes the protagonist of her artwork. With the gesture of painting and filamentous material, the artist combines two main ideas: casual gesture and informal material. She proposes a new way of interpreting the reality of wire, which is released from the wire’s common utilitarian use, instead using it
- [Radio Sebastian](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/radio-sebastian/) - February 2014 Decartography We have grown up in a culture that pursues advancement through maps, charts, and diagrams. We strive to understand, and to some extent control, the world around us. If we look deeply enough, we see the world pushing back. For our exhibit “Decartography” we look at our efforts to map the stars.
- [Katrina Keane](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/katrina-keane/) - March 2014 Fleeting Moments Touched by the ravages of war in Northern Uganda, “Fleeting Moments” is a body of work that chronicles my emotional experiences during the 7 years that I lived in Uganda. In my paintings, I seek to expose the courage and perseverance of a vibrant people whose culture was, for a fleeting
- [Becca Kallem](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/becca-kallem/) - March 2014 Signs and Symbols Of her work, artist Libby Black writes, “Making the work is a way to take pleasure in re-creating attractive objects while also coding my identities (as a daughter, a lesbian, an artist, a mother, a dreamer).” My recent artistic practice involves creating playful, intuitive, and beautiful objects that are also
- [Michael Havneraas](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/michael-havneraas/) - April 2014 It's All About Me My name is Michael, and I am a narcissist. I have been one all my life, I suppose, but have only recently begun to recognize the extent of my condition, as well as its (potentially negative) effects on my life and the lives of those close to me. While
- [Kimberley Parr Roenigk](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kimberley-parr-roenigk/) - April 2014 Change of Place I paint the changing American landscape, particularly real estate development, because it is constant, current, and surprisingly disappointing. This development intrudes upon the places we live, in both memory and real time. Housing units and shopping malls are often ill-placed. Planning feels incongruous, awkward and imposed upon the landscape. This
- [Everitt Clark](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/everitt-clark/) - April 2014 Cities in the Air “Thus we did not build Castles only, but also Cities in the air.” – William Byrd II, on the founding of Richmond During a visit to Belle Isle (a small island in the James River) early last year I was overwhelmed by an impression of many-layeredness. The remains of
- [Jarri Hasnain](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jarri-hasnain/) - May 2014 Construction Jarri Hasnain is an architect by trade, but uses printmaking to explore space and structure beyond a visual composition of elements. Central to his work is the act of making, influenced by process, method, and material. He is interested in how material forms, lines, and colors create relationships and depth to form
- [Eszter Bornemisza](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/eszter-bornemisza/) - May 2014 Urban Textures Eszter Bornemisza is a Hungarian mixed media artist who lives in the city of Budapest, which serves as an ongoing inspiration for her work. Her starting points are ideas that reflect on our relations to traces of settlements of past and modern cultures: the layers of existence. City plans appear in
- [Pam Rogers](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/pam-rogers-2/) - May 2014 Field Guide: The Preface Landscape and botanical elements are the impetus for Pam Rogers’ exhibitionField Guide: The Preface, as they are the familiar reality we can all acknowledge. Her artistic practice is an outgrowth of her interest in how individuals nurture and develop relationships, and consequently ideas that grow into their desired identities.
- [Ana Elisa Benavent](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/ana-elisa-benavent/) - June 2014 Landing I paint emotions, and I paint them in colors. Joy, love, sorrow, frustration, excitement... A warm orange red cheers up a gloomy midnight blue… A big, bold, jealous deep purple takes over… Let’s invite a bit of white to make peace. And so these large fields of color start talking to and playing with
- [Tom Hill](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/tom-hill/) - June 2014 Spark and Stubble In these paintings, I have used images that are directly related to my body, as well as the bodies of men that I have loved and desired. The reclaiming of the gay male body – and all of its inherent sexuality and vulnerability – has connotations that have been deeply
- [Millicent Young](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/millicent-young/) - June 2014 Known / Not Known I began this body of work "known/not known" in April of 2013 in preparation for two solo exhibitions, one in November 2013 and one in June of 2014. My intention was to make forms that I did not know: ones that I had not made before and that had
- [Flesh & Bone](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/flesh-bone/) - July 2014 Flesh & Bone: An Exhibition of Contemporary Figurative Work Hillyer Art Space presents Flesh & Bone, an exhibition that focuses on contemporary figurative art, pushing boundaries and providing a fresh look at the familiar subject of the human figure. This exhibition was juried by DC-based artist Judy Byron, and will feature thirty-three works
- [Rachel Schmidt](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rachel-schmidt/) - 2014 Apocaloptimist: A Future True Story Apocaloptimist [ Apah-cal-Op-tuh-mist] n. Someone who knows things will go to s#!*, but still believes it will work out for the best. Apocaloptimist: A Future True Story is an exploration of myths created in a constantly expanding urban wilderness. By utilizing scale manipulation, architecture, play, and landscape, I hope
- [Hillyer Contemporaries](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/hillyer-contemporaries/) - 2014 This group exhibition features select work from Hillyer’s Artist Advisory Committee, to include Pat Goslee, Lorelle Rau, Cianne Fragione, Ellington Robinson, John Paradiso, Renee Stout, Lorelle Rau, and Pattie Porter Firestone. The Artist Advisory Committee is comprised of a local artists and curators who have a diverse background in the arts and assist the
- [Michele Montalbano](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/michele-montalbano/) - 2014 Babel This body on work takes inspiration from three sources: the bible story of Babel, illuminated manuscripts, and typography. The objective of this series is to express the lack of understanding between people; the “us and them” that is created by a language barrier. This subject is relevant in our current global and local
- [Jeffery Herrity](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jeffery-herrity/) - 2014 Objects of My Devotion We all have memories we can’t let go of, or spend years trying to recall or recreate. We think they are there, but like shadows on walls, they distort and their meanings shift. I don’t have many happy memories from my childhood, but I have vivid memories of the ceramic
- [Lee Gainer](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lee-gainer/) - 2014 Photo Album I create works that examine how memories are constructed and recalled. Snapshots of gatherings, celebrations, and other notable moments are translated into detailed line drawings and then overlaid to create semi-abstract compositions. These new images display a somewhat mysterious yet subtlety familiar space that holds a collision of diluted symbolism and traces
- [Alexandra Chiou](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/alexandra-chiou/) - 2014 The First Inhabitants I first became intrigued with the beauty of the surrounding jungles, caves and foliage that would inspire my current artistic direction during a trip to Southeast Asia. From that moment on, I became drawn to the idea of primordial landscapes free of man-made structures. Since then, my interest in unexplored terrains
- [Christine Pearl](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/christine-pearl/) - 2014 Last Car Running This series of photographs is about a group of people within a subculture who work with what they have as they embrace the charm of destruction. In the process of grinding steel, burning rubber and showering sparks they fulfill their American dream; a dream of creating the indestructible car that is
- [Visible Iceland](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/visible-iceland/) - 2014 Visible Iceland is a group exhibition featuring both American and Icelandic photographers Jillian Watkins, Elena Sheehan, Katrín Elvarsdóttir, Friðgeir Helgason, and Svavar Jonatansson. Organized by Jillian Watkins, this exhibit is presented in partnership with the Embassy of Iceland. Statement by Jillian Watkins Like the fervor of Icelandic volcanoes, this group exhibition was envisioned with
- [Anthony Palliparambil, Jr.](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/anthony-palliparambil-jr/) - 2014 #reIMAGINE With the quick swipe of a finger, a simple photograph can be transformed into a vintage-hued snapshot of life, posted for millions to view, like, share, and comment on. Interested in borrowing this approach to “fast art,” Anthony Palliparambil, Jr., uses photographs from his personal archive and edits them entirely on an iPad.
- [Jason Yen](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jason-yen/) - February 6-28, 2015 Adventures in Cardboard Relief My artwork sometimes takes a critical view of social, political, cultural and personal issues. However, sometimes, there is no significant meaning at all – the works are to just be light-hearted and comical in a fictitious manner. My aim is usually just to see people smile in a
- [Andrea Barnes](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/andrea-barnes/) - February 6-28, 2015 Reconcile Reconcile is about process - the struggle - between order and disorder. I explore an unsettled, inner space of tension and transition, where multiple outcomes are still possible and a solid conclusion has not yet been formed. I approach each piece as an individual arena where the struggle is addressed in its
- [Linda Hesh](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/linda-hesh/) - February 6-28, 2015 Linda Hesh's All Gay Review Growing up in Chicago, two gay men seemed to always be at my mother’s side. My father did nothing to hide his distain for them, which I found confusing since these men seemed fun and sweet. His homophobia was joined by racism and misogyny. My art is
- [Luis Flores](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/luis-flores-2/) - March 6-28, 2015 LAS RUINAS SON TESTIGO (Ruins As Witness) The words TESTIGOS (Witnesses) and RUINAS (Ruins) provide a parenthetical framework for my recent assemblages and works on paper. Collectively, they read like silent, solitary documents of migratory movement and a changing landscape. The fragmentary quality of many of the works, made of found material,
- [Casey Snyder](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/casey-snyder/) - March 6-28, 2015 Residual Forms I explore my relationship with time by creating ambiguous images. Using mixed media and collage painting, my work unfolds parts of a story in a fragmented way. I use collage as a process of collection and isolation in order to reframe personal imagery using enigmatic plots. These motifs are in
- [Ruth Lozner](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/ruth-lozner-2/) - March 6-28, 2015 Legacies “What fascinates me is the intersection of two nearly simultaneous realities–while we live in the present, it is the past that is ubiquitous, indeed, omnipresent.” Ruth Lozner is immersed in the practice of making the immateriality of that concept into something tangible, redolent and evocative. From attics to dustbins, Lozner rescues
- [Glen Kessler](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/glen-kessler/) - April 2015
- [Beyond Layers](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/beyond-layers/) - April 3-25, 2015
- [J.D. Deardourff](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/j-d-deardourff/) - April 3-25, 2015
- [Pulse15](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/pulse15/) - May 1 - 30, 2015
- [Jaanika Peerna](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jaanika-peerna/) - May 1 - 30, 2015
- [Evan Reed](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/evan-reed/) - June 5 - 27, 2015
- [Dane Winkler](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/dane-winkler/) - June 5 - 27, 2015
- [Hsin-Hsi Chen](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/hsin-hsi-chen-2/) - June 5 - 27, 2015
- [Nick Clifford Simko](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nick-clifford-simko/) - July 6 - August 1, 2015
- [Joseph Crawford Pile](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/joseph-crawford-pile/) - July 6 - August 1, 2015
- [Stephanie Williams](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/stephanie-williams/) - July 6 - August 1, 2015
- [Novie Trump](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/novie-trump/) - September 4-26, 2015 Longing for Distant Skies Since ancient times, man has looked up into the heavens and dreamed of distant skies. In this exhibition of porcelain, glass, wax and steel installations, Novie Trump explores the longing we have for those distant skies: that desire to fly away to bluer skies, to drift upwards into
- [Sol Print Studios](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/sol-print-studios/) - September 4-26, 2015 Under the Sun: Artists of Sol Print Studios Curated by Sarah Tanguy Under the Sun brings together 14 artists whose work explores the rich potential of solar plate etching and non-toxic printmaking as a means to convey personal aesthetic. From landscape to text-based and figurative to abstract, their prints brim with passion
- [Susan Grace](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/susan-grace/) - September 4-26, 2015 Lay of the Land Three mountains that were part of the Freedman Land project served as the subject of these paintings. Susan Grace painted “plein air” in West Virginia in front of mountains that evoke the notions of release and of freedom. Grace is interested in both the cool “field painting” aspect
- [Rob Hackett](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rob-hackett/) - August 7-29, 2015 Equidistant
- [Michelle Dickson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/michelle-dickson/) - August 7-29, 2015 Neither Mine Nor Yours Contemplation of time and mortality is not new in my work, but in “Neither Mine Nor Yours” there is a more inward approach. This series of sculptures uses the form of the self-portrait to investigate identity and my place in a world where the future seems more uncertain
- [Kim Llerena](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kim-llerena/) - August 7-29, 2015 Ekphrasis In this body of work, verbal descriptions of visual artworks as well as passages excerpted from books and essays have been transcribed into Braille. Each page is then photographed in a way that interprets an essential element of the text that it features, layering description onto description and questioning what exactly
- [Perspective](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/3414/) - October 2 - 31, 2015 Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting & Drawing Curated by Cory Oberdorfer Having existed for quite a few millennia, painting and drawing are easily dismissed in the digital age as being antiquated mediums. So what keeps them alive? Curiosity. An artist’s job is to explore; both themselves and the
- [Surya Gied](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/3415/) - October 2 - 31, 2015 Looking Into the Distance Becomes Difficult “Looking Into the Distance Becomes Difficult” is a personal response to upsetting contemporary realities, namely the refugee crisis in Europe. Each work takes as its starting point a journalistic photograph found on the Internet, which is then abstracted and fractured to reflect and deal
- [Marisa S. White](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/marisa-s-white/) - November 6-28, 2015 The Paradox of Time The notion of time dances around the intangible. It is ever present and never-ending making us slaves to the ticking clock, to the waxing and waning of the moon, to the sway of the seasons. The great equalizer, it discriminates against no one offering exactly the same amount
- [Leah Appel](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/leah-appel-3/) - November 6-28, 2015 New Work: Holga Panoramas When one looks through the lens of the Holga- a plastic toy camera- you see the present image in front of you. What you don’t see are the light leaks, blurring or vignetting the film is producing when you the click the shutter. That’s what I love about
- [My Kingdom for a Stage](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/my-kingdom-for-a-stage/) - November 6-28, 2015 My Kingdom for a Stage: Contemporary Iberian Staged Photography Curated by Susana Raab Photography is often equated to an indelible truth, but since its infancy the medium has been as much about promoting fantasy as reality. Staged photography has been employed since photography’s inception - in capturing the tableaux vivants of upper
- [Chee-Keong Kung](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/chee-keong-kung/) - December 4-24, 2015 Adjacent Amplitudes Chee-Keong Kung begins each piece with the intention to capture the spontaneity and immediacy of the painting process. Washes, brush strokes, or lines are laid down as stimuli for subsequent moves. Kung responds to surface qualities, material characteristics, and the activity of mark-making in developing the work. Accidental drips, smears
- [Michael Corigliano](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/michael-corigliano/) - December 4-24, 2015 Stumbling Forward Michael Coringliano’s work is a playful, yet introspective study of the embarrassing internal struggle of alter egos that befuddle a single father consumed by anxieties of middle age. This visual story is framed by the personal characters of a man propelled into an experience that challenges his identity and conflicts
- [Adam Bradley](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/adam-bradley/) - December 4-24, 2015 Desperate Ones Adam Bradley’s work consists of small scale figures cast from both aluminum and bronze. Bradley uses expressive gestures as metaphors for emotional or psychological state of mind. The figures deal with themes of vulnerability, anxiety, desperation. These characters struggle to maintain their sense of self. They have the features of
- [Jack Warner](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jack-warner/) - January 8-30, 2016 Heuristic Defenses We are all defensive creatures who need security to develop purposeful lives. In an attempt to look objectively at the structures and mechanisms erected in the mind and physical world, my work traverses the superficial argument of defense politics and global security to place the viewer in a moment of
- [Michelle Lisa Herman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/michelle-lisa-herman/) - January 8-30, 2016 I Just Want to Know You’re There Interdisciplinary artist, Michelle Lisa Herman maintains two artistic practices. In this exhibition “I Just Want to Know You’re There,” Michelle is showing these two bodies of work side-by-side. In one practice, she paints using a pressing technique that allows her to achieve an element of
- [Duly Noted Painters](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/duly-noted-painters/) - January 8-30, 2016 CUBA The inspiration for this project evolved from a desire to connect with our painting on a deeper level. Working in Cuba took us far from the comforts of our day-to-day life in Washington, D.C. Traveling to Cuba allowed us the opportunity to breathe new life and culture into our paintings. Cuba,
- [Marc Robarge (VA) + Alex L. Porter (DC)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/marc-robarge-va-alex-l-porter-dc/) - February 5-27, 2016 Branching Out Branching Out brings together the graphic pen and ink drawings of Alex L. Porter with Marc Robarge’s biomorphic sculptures. Through the carefully detailed rendering of limbs and branches, Porter’s art depicts the language of this natural process. The gesture of these landscape elements is of greater importance than the scenes
- [Nicole Fall (MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nicole-fall-md/) - February 5-27, 2016 The Essential Visible “…on ne voit bien qu’avec le coeur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.” It is only with the heart that one can truly see - for what is essential is invisible to the eye. -Antoine de Saint Exupery This installation represents three years of making. The apparent exuberance of
- [Helen Frederick (MD)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/helen-frederick-md/) - February 5-27, 2016 UNEARTHING: Images of Silence UNEARTHING: Images of Silence feature three sculptures with videos of water (the river/the lake), walking (over sandy areas), and viewing the trees (into slow moving Northern California redwood trees). Round glass surfaces atop the sculptures provide these edited moving images of algae and rocks, dunes and plants. These
- [Lina Alattar (VA)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lina-alattar-va/) - March 4-26, 2016 Embracing Abstraction I draw from my varied life experiences to explore concepts that deal with evolving identity. Having lived on three continents by the age of 12, my work explores rootlessness, belonging, identity, and our shared human experience. These paintings are part of a series that explores ourselves and the world around
- [TYPECAST](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/typecast/) - March 4-26, 2016 TYPECAST Juror's Statement by Jarvis DuBois a charged yet relevant undertaking. It can be ever morphing and often difficult to delineate. Particularly stark since the Presidency of Barack Obama, class, ethnic, gender, political, religious and sexual markers have shifted, been embraced and come under attack regarding ‘self’ and ‘others’. In recent month
- [Sascha Hughes-Caley (PA)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/sascha-hughes-caley-pa/) - April 1-30, 2016 No Joke No Joke is an installation of performance documentation, sculpture, and new video work. The exhibition is framed as a meditation on “endings”: a sunset; a speech never delivered; an interview botched; a rehearsed departure; a miscommunication occurring when symbols of one culture circulate in another. By examining the economic, political,
- [Christine Shmigel (China)](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/christine-shmigel-china/) - April 1-30, 2016 A Foreigner’s Cabinet of Chinese Curiosities Christina Shmigel’s installation will give visitors an opportunity to experience the day‐to‐day in Shanghai as she experienced in 2004, after moving there from St. Louis, Missouri. Visitors can experience the dislocating sense of wonder, frustration, puzzlement, and pleasure that accompanies the idea of “otherness.” Drawing on
- [Heloisa Escudero](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/heloisa-escudero/) - April 1-30, 2016 50/50 Interactive Drawing Installation Project Contemporary art has extended the boundaries of concept and material. I see art in my everyday life … in lines created in snowy ground as pedestrians take short cuts through a field … in an electric cable on a street lamp that forms a delicate tangle at
- [Rikke Kühn Riegels](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rikke-kuhn-riegels/) - May 6-28, 2016 In A State of Impermanence As a bridge between an initial idea and a final result, the model plays a central role in the work of the architect. It serves as an important tool in this process of realization as it allows ideas to become tangible, testifiable, modifiable. In my work as
- [Nordic Stars](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nordic-stars/) - May 6-28, 2016 Nordic Stars Curator's Statement: "Nordic Stars” presents the selected works of the best Nordic fashion illustrators and is an updated selection of a bigger project “New Nordic Fashion Illustration” Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, exhibited at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (2015) and the Helsinki Design Museum (2012). As
- [Dominie Nash](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/dominie-nash/) - May 6-28, 2016 The Recombination Dominie Nash's "The Recombination"' is a series that began as experiments in monoprinting on fabric. Each completed work is a combination of two or more of the original prints: layered, cut through, collaged, and stitched together. The originals are retained but transformed into something new. Some larger fabric pieces incorporate
- [Candice Flewharty](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/candice-flewharty/) - June 3-26, 2016 The EMOJI Project I am working on a series called “The Emoji Project.” These are realistic portraits of me “making faces” to imitate the round yellow faces used in texts to tell the receiver how you feel. Along with the “faces,” I began a group of small paintings of hands gesturing. A
- [REPRESSION | RESURGENCE | REEMERGENCE](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/repression-resurgence-reemergence/) - June 3-26, 2016 REPRESSION | RESURGENCE | REEMERGENCE Solas Nua, in collaboration with Hillyer Art Space, is proud to relaunch its visual arts programming with the exhibition Repression | Resurgence | Reemergence: One Hundred Years of Re-possessing and Re-appropriating Irish Identity. This year marks the centennial anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, a
- [Flesh + Bone II](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/flesh-bone-ii/) - July 1-31, 2016 Flesh + Bone II Juror’s Statement by Lorelle Rau: Flesh and Bone II explores the human figure in a contemporary context and highlights the intimacy involved in its portrayal.Creating art is arguably one of the most intimate forms of self-expression. With the human figure as the single, connective thread for this juried
- [Kayla Plosz Antiel](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kayla-plosz-antiel/) - July 1-31, 2016 tenderfoots I make paintings because of my acute obsession with the stuffness of paint—its color, mutability, sensuality, and more. Color is weird. Individual colors evoke highly particular emotional responses, but color is rarely hermetic: the interaction between traffic cone orange and over-cooked pea green, for instance, engenders something neither color can achieve
- [Jin Lee](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jin-lee/) - August 5-28, 2016 Exploit Exploit. As a verb it means “to take advantage of; to misuse”, as a noun it means “achievement”. Both definitions involve action. The sculptures in this series represent the tools employed to instigate fundamental change and the actions taken to reach that goal, be it personal or an attempt to generate
- [Rachel Schechtman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rachel-schechtman/) - August 5-28, 2016 Consumables "Consumables" is a show about bodies. The forms represent people who have been touched by illness, cut up, and put back together. Schechtman plays with materials that are utilitarian and expendable in an effort to align and mismatch their physical nature to their meaning. In this show their inherent characteristics are
- [Bahar Jalehmahmoudi](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/bahar-jalehmahmoudi/) - August 5-28, 2016 Wayward Passages In Persian you “see” dreams, in English you “have” them. Do we observe or possess dreams? Dreams and works of art are and aren’t true. They both challenge reality, trying to replace what is with what might be, and generate an altered state of consciousness. They are both fleeting and
- [Scott Hutchison](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/scott-hutchison/) - September 2 - October 2, 2016 Synchronicity I was twelve when I first saw Francis Bacon’s Study after Velasquez’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X at the Des Moines Art center. After thirty years I still see his influence on my work. My figurative work like Bacon’s are often solitary and displayed in a series. Our
- [Suzi Fox](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/suzi-fox/) - September 2 - October 2, 2016 Handmade "Handmade" is a series of new sculptures that explore my reinterpretations of common manmade objects and techniques of building forms by hand. I am fascinated with discovering new approaches to working with a material and enjoy the challenge of trying to resolve how I can utilize these to
- [Christian Brahe](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/christian-brahe/) - September 2 - October 2, 2016 Accumulations I see my drawings as places in transition; a tracing and excavation of numerous histories layered within a single form. Based upon my immediate surroundings, the images exist as record of physical, psychological, and spatial navigations: amalgamations of thousands of individual moments of consciousness. The drawings map day-to-day,
- [Joseph Shetler](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/joseph-shetler/) - October 7-30, 2016 Regarding Space The presence and value of simplicity in my upbringing has greatly inspired my practice, both conceptually and aesthetically. Raised in a Mennonite family, the idea of simplicity pervades all aspects of life, from the modest architecture of our churches to our cookbooks, which are titled More With Less and Simply
- [Rives Wiley](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rives-wiley/) - October 7-30, 2016 Dinner Party Download I envision scenes as a blend of the real, surreal, and virtual overlaid with an inner commentary and bound up by contemporary social conventions. In every sense, the figures are trapped in an image. They are confined to the scene in appearance, thought, behavior. My work attempts to expose
- [Jackie Hoysted](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jackie-hoysted-2/) - October 7-30, 2016 #Vote4Pope #Vote4Pope is a public participatory art performance project intended to draw attention to the unequal status of women in the Catholic Church in a fun and jestful manner. It is a traveling trunk show of Papal regalia and props. Participants will don their favorite Papal outfit from a display of clothing
- [Paola Paredes](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/paola-paredes/) - November 4 - December 18, 2016 Unveiled Quito, Ecuador In a three-hour conversation, I told my parents “I’m gay.” Accompanied by my sisters, I documented the event in the experimental photography project “Unveiled.” In the planning process, the reality of Unveiled both excited and unnerved me. At 28, the possibility of rejection by my conservative
- [FORMAT](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/format/) - November 4 – December 18, 2016 FORMAT juried by Laila Abdul-Hadi Jadallah It is a challenge and a delight for a juror to be faced with the problem of too much great work. With little restrictions on submission criteria, in reviewing over 100 submissions, I was reminded of just how diverse the medium of photography really
- [Challenging Adversity](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/challenging-adversity/) - November 4 – December 18, 2016 Challenging Adversity Ibero-America Copes with Climate Change Faced with the adversity generated by climate change, social and economic globalization factors, the populations of Ibero-American countries devised ways to tackle these difficulties through small undertakings with varying degrees of technological influence. This ability to use imagination and creativity, in the hopes of building a better
- [Heather Clark](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/heather-clark/) - January 6-29, 2017 Maintenance In her artwork, Heather Theresa Clark builds systems that critique our current world predicament. Her work plays on what she calls cultural neurosis: the human tendency to over-consume, over-build, over-groom, etc. in lieu of direct physical exertion to ensure survival. She views this as a misdirected attempt to satisfy basic primal
- [Steven Dolbin](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/steven-dolbin/) - January 6-29, 2017 Contemporary Relics Recent works by Steven Dolbin In the making of my work I seek to understand my life experience and creative compulsion. I have found much insight from my exploration of humanities bond with the land. The breadth of my work deals with the spiritual dialogue humans once had with the physical
- [Sarah West](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/sarah-west/) - January 6-29, 2017 mirror/portal/screen This body of paintings explores spiritual seeking through our relationships with the digital. The title of the show, mirror/screen/portal, is a reference to both painting and digital devices. Both objects act as mirrors: the painting reflects the trace of the artist’s hand while the digital device acts as a literal mirrored
- [Pin-Chieh Tseng](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/pin-chieh-tseng/) - February 3-26, 2017 Soliloquize The concept of Soliloquize is to examine the communication between people. Tseng has always been obsessed with observing human behavior - the posture and body language of politicians in a meeting, details of a conversation between friends, passengers communicating with one another, and so on. She likes to watch them and
- [Blaise Tobia](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/blaise-tobia/) - February 3-26, 2017 Plain & Fancy Tobia’s work always takes serial or sequential form, often pairing images and texts or images and images. He is interested in the way that photographs convey meaning, the way they function as formal/esthetic objects, and the way that these two aspects of image-based art interact. This series Plain &
- [Casey Snyder](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/casey-snyder-2/) - February 3-26, 2017 In Between "In Between" serves as a continuation of Casey Snyder’s studio research of the conceptualization of space, presence, and materials. This exhibition presents new and existing works from her current studio practice and focuses on the indeterminate space. Snyder’s art is motivated by the spatial and how light is used to
- [Zeitgeist IV: Preconceptual](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/zeitgeist-iv-preconceptual/) - March 3 - April 2, 2017 Ellyn Weiss Sondra N. Arkin Thomas Drymon CURATORS We have been thinking about a subject that initially rose for us in the context of the art world, but which we see reflected and magnified in the broader society around us. We began to notice that many of the art
- [Osvaldo Mesa](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/osvaldo-mesa/) - March 3 - April 2, 2017 Subconscious Billboards Osvaldo Mesa is a Cuban born artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. Growing up in Miami, he started taking painting classes at the age of ten with a Cuban artist who had studied in Spain, so his training has been very traditional. In college he was
- [Zoe Linn Jarvis](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/zoe-linn-jarvis/) - April 7-30, 2017 In Bloom Growing up, flowers bloomed wild and untamed in the pastures at Jarvis’ family farm and in her mother’s garden. Eighteen years later, at her father’s funeral, flowers became a symbol of love and memorial. For Jarvis, flowers represent nature’s beauty, memory, and love. Nature is a source of solace and
- [Judith Pratt](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/judith-pratt/) - April 7-30, 2017 Point of Origin Everyone has a point of origin—a geographical location, a personally held belief, or a cultural allegiance. Our points of origin shape and affect each of us in ways that last a lifetime. The installation, Point of Origin, addresses this theme and is part sculpture, part theatrical set, and part visual
- [Bonnie Crawford Kotula](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/bonnie-crawford-kotula/) - April 7-30, 2017 Versions Bonnie Crawford Kotula is not interested in, nor does she believe in a world that makes sense. For her, concept is process. She conducts idiosyncratic research making connections across historical medical texts, body horror films, poetry, fiction, political discourse, and her own personal history. She researches results in further inquiry
- [Julie Wills](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/julie-wills/) - May 5-28, 2017 Desire and Its Constraints Wills’ current collage-based and sculptural works are inspired by the tools of desire: wishes, hopes, effort and intention. An evolving understanding of her roles as a parent, child, sibling, spouse, citizen, friend and lover, as well as her awareness of competing external expectations for each of these roles,
- [Joseph Crawford Pile](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/joseph-crawford-pile-2/) - May 5-28,2017 4x4 Dreams Why am I compelled to draw trucks raising hell, dirtbikes peeling out, and army helicopters racing across the canvas? I grew up on a farm in rural Kentucky, deep in the sticks. We only had a handful of neighbors. There were very few children around that were my age, except my
- [MARCO BAGNOLI, DOMENICO BIANCHI, REMO SALVADORI: From The Olnick Spanu Collection](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/marco-bagnoli-domenico-bianchi-remo-salvadori-from-the-olnick-spanu-collection/) - May 5-July 2, 2017 In collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, this exhibition presents three artists from the Olnick Spanu Collection who will also be part of the inaugural exhibition at Magazzino Italian Art, a new warehouse art space located in the Hudson Valley, NY. Dedicated to Post-war and Contemporary Italian Art, Magazzino will open
- [Craig Subler](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/craig-subler/) - June 2 – July 2, 2017 Museum Encounters Drawing and scale is always a starting point for Subler’s work. It represents that intimate moment between self, the material and ultimately the viewer. Museum Encounters has been influenced and shaped by different bodies of work, Domenico Tiepolo New Testament drawings and Mughal and Rajput paintings. What
- [Craig Subler](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/craig-subler/) - June 2 – July 2, 2017 Museum Encounters Drawing and scale is always a starting point for Subler’s work. It represents that intimate moment between self, the material and ultimately the viewer. Museum Encounters has been influenced and shaped by different bodies of work, Domenico Tiepolo New Testament drawings and Mughal and Rajput paintings. What
- [Matthew McLaughlin](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/matthew-mclaughlin/) - June 2—July 2, 2017 Scenes from Suburbia My work explores the relationship we have with our surrounding environment, both natural and manmade, suburban and urban, and how we interact and observe the spaces we inhabit and alter for our own wants and needs. My interest comes from my own observations of the places I have
- [Julia Kwon](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/julia-kwon/) - July 7–30, 2017 Like Any Other Julia Kwon’s work comments on gender and ethnicity. It explores different ways for creating ruptures on Korean patterns.She activates the paintings in relation to the stretcher bars, which become metaphors for framing and societal expectations for the authentic. She also creates figures inside enlarged Korean object-wrapping cloth and lucky
- [Jessica Burnam](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jessica-burnam/) - July 7–30, 2017 Vessel Abstracting and distorting elements of the body, Jessica Burnam creates sculptures and drawings that explore themes of metamorphosis and re-emergence, growth and decay, natural systems and fantastic abnormalities. She builds bizarre environments and dreamscapes for these bodies to dwell, creating unexpected juxtapositions between the ancient and the futuristic, the biomorphic and
- [Gloria Duan](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/gloria-duan/) - July 7–30, 2017 Mobius Waves Mobius strip n. A surface with only one side, and one boundary Wave n. a disturbance that travels through a medium Gloria Duan’s “Mobius Waves” was created using large cyanotypes on fabric sewn together to construct a sculptural environment so the visitor feels as if they are traversing through a
- [Create/Change](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/createchange/) - August 4–27, 2017 Juried by Mary Early There should be no dividing line between artistic excellence and social consciousness. — Joseph W. Polisi, president of Juilliard, The Artist as Citizen CREATE/CHANGE presents the work of seventeen artists from 17 cities around the United States. The call for submissions to this juried exhibition invited artists living and working in the United States
- [Melanie Gritzka del Villar](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/melanie-gritzka-del-villar/) - August 4–27, 2017 Retracing Roots/Routes Gritzka del Villar’s practice is shaped by her ongoing search for harmony out of disparate cultural and environmental elements. This translates into a sensibility towards cast away or overlooked objects as holders of fleeting meaning and of latent possibilities for alternative narratives. In 2016, Gritzka del Villar attended a month-long
- [Alexandra Chiou](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/alexandra-chiou-2/) - August 4–27, 2017 Infinite Worlds As an avid explorer, outdoor enthusiast and visual artist, Chiou has always been struck by the complexity of the natural world. Every time she is outside exploring a new park or trail, she appreciates the sense that there is something out there much larger than ourselves, that the world existed
- [Kei Ito](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/kei-ito/) - January 5-28, 2018 Only What We Can Carry "Only What We Can Carry" is a series of 80+ Contact C-Prints of Japanese Internment Camp (Executive Order 9066) posters exposed with various everyday objects. These everyday objects represent what I would bring with me if I had one day to gather my belongings. This poster became
- [Lloyd Kofi Foster](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/lloyd-kofi-foster/) - November 3-December 17, 2017 Land That We Love Land That We Love is a collection of photos highlighting Foster's stay in the recently Ebola stricken country of Sierra Leone. The exhibtion looks beyond the negative issues of Sierra Leone, including it’s 10+ year civil war, Ebola, poverty, and corruption, and instead showcases a country of people
- [Katherine Akey](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/katherine-akey/) - November 3-December 17, 2017 The Arctic Smiles Now "In the autumn of 2015 I traveled to the arctic, to the scenes of airships and sledging parties, ice floes and glaciers. In the past men came there to push back the shade of Terra Incognita from the maps of mankind and they stayed there as ghosts,
- [Ibero-American Cultural Attachés Association](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/from-here-to-there-immigration-in-ibero-america/) - November 3-December 17, 2017 From Here To There: Immigration In Ibero-America From Here to There, Immigration in Ibero-America is a mirror where people look at their own history, explain their destiny and recompose their identity. Each of these images shows the transformations of a society that evolves from the arrival of new cultures and customs.
- [Monroe Isenberg](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/5505/) - January 5-28, 2018 Lighthouse Every so often, I happen upon a fleeting poetic moment. A moment that is clear yet inexplicable. In this moment, I experience a contemplative state, which drives my will to create. I intuit questions and answers to problems that arise through the act of making. My work reflects this ontology
- [Grant McFarland](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/grant-mcfarland/) - January 5-28, 2018 Residuals This work was born while spending some time on the New York/ Vermont border. Its rural up there, it takes 40 minutes to get anywhere. Farm country, slate country, and like much of America far less industry than 25 years ago. The remnants of what once was are on full
- [Creative Labor: Selections from the Hechinger Collection](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/creative-labor-selections-from-the-hechinger-collection/) - February 2-25, 2018 Creative Labor: Selections from the Hechinger Collection Creative Labor: Selections from the Hechinger Collection brings together a cross-section of diverse works by fifteen visionary artists from the Hechinger Collection, which was gifted to International Arts & Artists by John and June Hechinger in 2003. The collection’s contemporary prints, drawings, paintings, and
- [Mary Murphy](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/mary-murphy/) - February 2-25, 2018 Hybrids My work marries traditional illusionistic painting space with the latent psychological aspects of digital manipulation to explore the sexual unconscious. In my paintings, drawings, and digital images, I explore themes of identity and transformation. These images are intimate, even erotic, and reference various body parts, some comic, others hideous. My
- [Exchanges](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/halcyon-arts-lab/) - February 2-25, 2018 Exchanges The concept of the studio, and with it the artist’s role, is ever-evolving. What once was a “stationary place where portable objects are produced” in Daniel Buren’s original 1971 essay “The Function of the Studio,” is now a sanctuary of creation, a hub for dialogue, and a center of community
- [Anne Smith](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/anne-smith/) - March 2-31, 2018 To Bend/To Fold Architectural and enigmatic, the linear structures of Anne Smith’s work challenge the first glance. Their precision and economy are upset by the strange logic of their construction. Smith presents a world in which these structures exist precariously, at the edges of balance, tension and symmetry. In her drawings, Smith
- [Sarah Jamison](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/sarah-jamison/) - March 2-31, 2018 Ubiquitous Sarah Jamison considers the internet to be a unique vessel for culture to exist, evolve and be archived simultaneously. In this digital space, information intertwines in such a way that we often have little separation between current events, internet vernacular, memes and humorous content, celebrity gossip, images, and fact and fiction.
- [Jeff Hensely](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jeff-hensely/) - March 2-31, 2018 Indexical/Aura The framework of “Indexical/Aura” takes a close look at the ‘index’ and the ‘aura’ in order to reflect how each of the artworks addresses the theme of allographic mark making. The work uses the galleries existing architecture, lighting, and the intervention of objects and paintings to create a situation for a
- [The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/gamaraal-foundation/) - April 6-29, 2018 The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors "The Last Swiss Holocaust Survivors", presented in partnership the Embassy of Switzerland in the United States of America and the Gamaraal Foundation, is a powerful exhibition of photographic portraits and video interviews that give voice to the women and men who built a new life in Switzerland
- [REVEALED](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/revealed/) - April 6-29, 2018 REVEALED From Frida Khalo to Andy Warhol, Vincent Van Gogh to Rembrandt, artists throughout time have been creating work with themselves as the subject. Khalo is quoted as saying ““I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” REVEALED is an all-media exhibition that
- [Tom Olson](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/tom-olson/) - April 6-29, 2018 Truer than True the absurd, by spending countless hours drawing hundreds of pages to arrive at a profound six seconds. With titles like "The Beast and the Lightning Bolt," "How the Sun Becomes the Moon," and "What Maps Do When Nobody's Looking," Olson manages to weave together whimsy and high-minded ideas in
- [Emilio Cavallini](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/emilio-cavallini/) - May 4-27, 2018 Objectual Abstractions Presented in partnership with the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC and the Italian Cultural Institute, Objectual Abstractions is a retrospective of Emilio Cavallini’s works including twenty pieces from his best-known projects: Attuale-Infinito, Biforcazioni, Frattali, and Diagrammi. Cavallini’s colorful and abstract artworks include eye-catching, dynamic wall sculptures that are being
- [Carrie Fucile](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/carrie-fucile/) - May 4 - May 27, 2018 Drift In the installation “Drift,” a fan slowly blows red sand into a bloom that accumulates at the far corner of the gallery. The sound of the moving material is amplified by a pressure-sensitive microphone attached to the floor. The creation of “Drift” was influenced by environmental disasters, geopolitical
- [Olivia Tripp Morrow](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/olivia-tripp-morrow/) - Nine Patch June 1 - July 1, 2018 Nine Patch is a widening exploration into societal notions of beauty, femininity, sexuality, and the body as landscape. In this exhibition, Morrow juxtaposes selfportraiture and traditional quilt patterns in photographic manifestations. This process compiles hundreds of "selfies" taken by the artist, which are digitally assembled into traditional
- [Georgia Saxelby](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/georgia-saxelby/) - To Future Women June 1 - July 1 2018 To Future Women is a 20-year time capsule of letters to the next generation of women, memorializing the anniversary of the Women’s March. The project invites participants across America and beyond to write a letter to women in 20 years’ time. Part art and part history,
- [Gayle Friedman](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/gayle-friedman/) - Measuring the Weight of Longing June 1 - July 1, 2018 There’s a different kind of returning that happens after both parents have died. In my case, my childhood home shattered and their deaths brought so much stuff to me. My mom’s obsessive collecting of Delftware and my dad’s beloved tools, compelled me to dig.
- [Veronica Szalus](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/veronica-szalus/) - Audio Playback July 6 - July 29, 2018 In her current installation, artist Veronica Szalus dramatically deconstructs a technology from the past to initiate a conversation that is very relevant today. Utilizing technology that, in its time was revolutionary and became a part of almost every household, yet which has now been all but rendered
- [Mills Brown](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/mills-brown/) - Farther Along July 6 – July 29, 2018 In early spring, the children at my school became obsessed with spending all of their playground time digging in the dirt. They had never shown a serious interest in digging before, but it was now a furious passion, as they had somehow come to realize that along
- [Braxton Congrove](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/braxton-congrove/) - Standing on Rugs with Goose July 6 - July 29, 2018 Standing on Rugs with Goose is a fiction based directly on Braxton Congrove’s everyday life. She uses the materiality of performance and the staging of an exhibition space to build and populate a nebulous world for the viewer to enter and be immersed into.
- [Damon Arhos](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/damon-arhos/) - I Love To Hate You August 3 - September 2, 2018 What does it mean to concurrently love and hate something? To experience physical and emotional attraction and repulsion at the same time? How is it confusing to be affirmed and reviled? This disorienting state of affairs embodies the artworks in this installation: “The Antidote,”
- [Rex (Alexandra) Delafkaran](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rex-alexandra-delafkaran/) - Tender Bits August 3 - September 2, 2018 Tender Bits is dedicated to those sweet, gritty places, tender thoughts and desires; it calls attention to our bodies and their dubious relationship to both cultural identity and intimacy. What languages and tools do we have to describe and access that intimacy in our bodies and in
- [Under Another Roof](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/under-another-roof/) - Under Another Roof Marina Buening, Kristien De Neve, Anita Guerra, Maria Korporal August 3 - September 2, 2018 Under Another Roof is an exhibition based on the site-specific installation, Under the Same Roof presented at the gallery Sala 1 in Rome, Italy in May 2018. Four artists born in four different countries—Buening (Germany), De Neve
- [MicroMonuments II](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/micromonuments-ii/) - MicroMonuments II: Underground Ursula Achternkamp, Alan Binstock, Janet Brome, Marc Fromm, Judith Goodman, Caroline Hatfield, Linda Hesh, Simon Horn, Margit Jäschke, Michael Krenz, Esther Eunjin Lee, Jacqueline Maggi, Georg Mann, Joan Mayfield, Nina Viktoria Naussed, Sara Parent-Ramos, Alim Pasht-Han, Kristina Penhoet, Judith Pratt, Diane Szczepaniak, Marilyn and Gil Ugiansky, Steve Wanna, and Janet Wittenberg. September
- [Jenna North](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/jenna-north/) - The Joan Dare Gallery September 7 - September 30, 2018 Joan, a Senators wife, recently and enthusiastically arrived in Washington D.C. from her homestead in rural Kansas. As the privileged, albeit sheltered, and latest alter ego of Jenna North, Joan spends her days on self-expression through her passion for Broadway musicals, tap dancing, and her
- [Uprooted](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/uprooted/) - Uprooted September 7 - September 30, 2018 Uprooted is an all-media, juried exhibition that examines the concept of “home” and the after effects of leaving one’s home behind. This exhibition was juried by Adriel Luis, Curator of Digital and Emerging Media at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. Selected artists include Jenny Balisle (CA), Mills
- [Andrea Limauro](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/andrea-limauro/) - Mare Nostra October 5 - October 28 2018 Andrea is an artist and city planner born in Rome, Italy and based in Silver Spring, MD, just outside Washington, DC. Andrea’s work explores issues of migration and identity, the fleeting concepts of home and safety, nationalistic narratives, and gun violence in the US. Mare Nostrvm (Our
- [RICHard SMOLinski](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/richard-smolinski/) - Scrutinearsighted October 5 - October 28, 2018 Informed by the incomprehensibility of the US Presidential election and what ultimately became the UK’s “Brexit” referendum, Scrutinearsighted combines the notion of the “scrutineer,” an official appointed to ensure that various competitions’ rules and regulations are met by their combatants, with the condition of “nearsightedness” or myopia where
- [Samantha Sethi](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/samantha-sethi/) - Permanence January 4 - January 27, 2019 In her work, Sethi explores our experience of the natural world, our impact on it, and its relationship to our built environment. These objects and systems examine the ways in which the world we see and move through can be modeled visually and experientially. By layering natural materials
- [Salvatore Pirrone](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/salvatore-pirrone/) - You and Me January 4 - January 27, 2019 You and Me is an installation working with themes of memory, material and immaterial where I build a group of sculptures that simultaneously inhabit recollections from my childhood and proclivities of adulthood. Concrete, wood, acrylic and sawdust mirror my life as professional fabricator while hard candy,
- [Danni O'Brien](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/danni-obrien/) - Play Date January 4 - January 27, 2019 "Play Date" explores childhood landscapes through camp, craft, and humor. The immersive set of candy colored, fuzztastic objects echo forms of both playground equipment and O'Brien's memory of her own awkward, pubescent body. Plush "paintings" and skins emerge from the nostalgic and kitschy process of latch hook
- [Lindsay Hall](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/7325/) - Luscious and Pluscious February 1 - February 24, 2019 “Luscious and Pluscious” addresses pleasure, desire and intimacy in relation to fantasy playscapes of the body and beyond. The body is the vehicle for all human experience and sensory engagement and so it becomes an origin of inspiration for shapes, textures and interactions of forms in
- [Michael West](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/michael-west/) - Conversation Piece February 1 - February 24, 2019 A conversation piece is an 18th century term referring to portraits of family or society engaged in genteel conversation, usually staged in a domestic setting. More recently, the term refers to a unique object which arouses discussion. “Conversation Piece” is a modern version of these concepts. The
- [RISE 2019: Hillyer Newly Selected Artists](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/rise-2019-hillyer-newly-selected-artists/) - Rise 2019: Hillyer Newly Selected Artists February 1 - February 24, 2019 Hillyer is proud to present our newly selected artists for the 2019/2020 exhibition calendar. RISE 2019 includes work from Hillyer’s rising artists who were selected from our most recent annual open call for proposals, and who will be presenting solo exhibitions starting this
- [Michal Gavish](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/michal-gavish/) - Crystal Architecture March 1 - March 31, 2019 To a chemist, urban structures are familiar: they look naturally constructed, growing like crystals under the microscope. Michal Gavish, originally a scientist studying these formations, now creates large, handmade prints of cityscapes in the manner of the crystals she used to research. In her new exhibition, Crystal
- [Spencer Dormitzer](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/spencer-dormitzer/) - Ponder... er ING, I AM THE ASTEROID March 1 - March 31, 2019 In September of 2017, I embarked on a year-long series of drawings titled: PONDER... er ING or, I AM THE ASTEROID. Each piece contains several layers of frenetic, haphazard marks, methodically drawn over extended drawing sessions. The first layer (or conversation) starts
- [Transcendence](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/transcendence/) - Transcendence March 1 - March 31, 2019 Juror’s Statement The artists featured in “Transcendence” provide a starting point for individual and collective action through their radical uses of presence and absence. Blurring the boundaries of genres, mediums, and visualities, the works presented all challenge the traditional binaries and patriarchal notions of gender associated with Western
- [Bryanna Millis](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/bryanna-millis/) - Imagination of Salvation: Actions on the Land April 5 - April 28, 2019 “One of the challenges of our time is that people feel disconnected from – perhaps even insensitive to – the world’s great problems…there is a huge gap between what we know and what we feel. How can we translate knowledge into action,
- [Heidi Zenisek](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/heidi-zenisek/) - Gestate April 5 - April 28, 2019 Currently, my work parallels society’s abuse of ecology with man’s mistreatment of women; an ecofeminist epic in the age of the Anthropocene. Facets of my childhood on an Iowa farm inform how I embody scale, movement, insemination, and renewal—agricultural detritus being my material of choice. I use sculptural
- [Eric Uhlir](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/eric-uhlir/) - Recalled in Human Memory May 3 - May 26, 2019 Eric Uhlir’s current body of work explores abstraction in a visceral language of paint to consider the line between reference and history in an attempt to give voice to conflicted space. Irreverence and absurdity battle amid parables of conflict between civilization and the natural world.
- [Marcel Artes Deolazo](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/marcel-artes-deolazo/) - 300.3A Creative-Compulsive Disorder May 3 - June 2, 2019 The essential features of Creative-Compulsive Disorder are recurrent obsessions or compulsions to create just about anything—severe enough to be time-consuming and even to cause marked distress or significant impairment when the creative process cannot be carried out to satisfaction. For Deolazo, the title of his first
- [Pietro Ruffo](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/pietro-ruffo/) - CONSTELLATIONS/MIGRATION May 3 - June 30, 2019 For an artist, it is always a unique challenge to glean new insights from complex phenomena, such as that of human migration—an ancient, mysterious process that involves many peoples and nations and a welter of data and cultural forces. In CONSTELLATIONS/MIGRATION, Rome-based artist Pietro Ruffo draws inspiration from
- [Nancy Sausser](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/nancy-sausser/) - Quotidian Shift July 6 - July 28, 2019 Nancy Sausser is interested in exploring the conversation that exists between interior and exterior worlds. She is drawn to containers and vessels, as they encapsulate, protect, preserve and metaphorically point to the coexistence of the universal and the individual. Working primarily through abstraction, Sausser draws on the
- [Madeline A. Stratton](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/madeline-a-stratton/) - What We Forgot to Remember July 6 - July 28, 2019 Madeline A. Stratton’s work is an investigation of the memory and the importance of domestic objects and spaces. Utilizing traditional media such as paint, textiles, thread, and printmaking, Stratton challenges herself to create representations stemming from her memory. By creating silhouettes of objects and
- [Flesh + Bone III](https://athillyer.org/portfolio/flesh-bone-iii/) - Flesh + Bone III July 6 - July 28, 2019 Juror’s Statement “Flesh + Bone III” is a selection of contemporary artists representing the figure in a diverse range of techniques, mediums and meanings. Three hundred original entries were curated down to twenty by selecting those that I felt had the greatest visual and psychological

## Posts

- [Exhibitions](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/exhibitions/)
- [Call for Proposals](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/call-for-proposals/)
- [Auction](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/auction/)
- [Giving Tuesday](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/giving-tuesday/)
- [MMII](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/mmii-6/)
- [MMII](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/mmii-5/)
- [MMII](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/mmii-4/)
- [MMII](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/mmii-3/)
- [MMII](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/mmii-2/)
- [MMII](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/mmii/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-16/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-15/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-14/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-13/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-12/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-11/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-10/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-9/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-8/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-5/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-3/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-15/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-13/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-12/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-11/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-10/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-9/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-8/)
- [Call for Entry - Flesh & Bone](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/call-for-entry-flesh-bone-5/)
- [Call for Entry - Flesh & Bone](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/call-for-entry-flesh-bone-4/)
- [Call for Entry - Flesh & Bone](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/call-for-entry-flesh-bone-3/)
- [Call for Entry - Flesh & Bone](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/call-for-entry-flesh-bone-2/)
- [Call for Entry - Flesh & Bone](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/call-for-entry-flesh-bone/)
- [Membership](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/membership-5/)
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- [Membership](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/membership-2/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-7/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-6/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-4/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer-2/)
- [About Hillyer](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/about-hillyer/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-7/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-6/)
- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental-4/)
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- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider/venue-rental/)

## Posts

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- [First Friday](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider/first-friday/)
- [Programs](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider/programs/)
- [Event Rentals](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider/event-rentals/)
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- [2024](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider/2024/)

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- [2020](https://athillyer.org/portfolio_category/2020/)
- [2021](https://athillyer.org/portfolio_category/2021/)
- [2022](https://athillyer.org/portfolio_category/2022/)
- [2023](https://athillyer.org/portfolio_category/2023/)
- [2024](https://athillyer.org/portfolio_category/2024/)
- [2025](https://athillyer.org/portfolio_category/2025/)

## Categories

- [Venue Rental](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider_category/venue-rental/)
- [Membership](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider_category/membership/)
- [Giving Tuesday](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider_category/giving-tuesday/)
- [Auction](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider_category/auction/)
- [Call for Proposals](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider_category/call-for-proposals/)
- [Exhibitions](https://athillyer.org/pexnivoslider_category/exhibitions/)

## Categories

- [Homepage](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/homepage/)
- [2024](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/2024/)
- [Giving Tuesday](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/giving-tuesday/)
- [Current Exhibitions](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/current-exhibitions/)
- [Event Rentals](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/event-rentals/)
- [Programs](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/programs/)
- [First Friday](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/first-friday/)
- [Future Impact](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/future-impact/)
- [Auction](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/auction/)
- [Upcoming Exhibitions](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/upcoming-exhibitions/)
- [Women’s History Month](https://athillyer.org/pexcontentslider_category/womens-history-month/)