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, these letters will be archived for 20 years at The Phillips Collection and The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and re-exhibited in 2037 on the 20th anniversary of the Women’s March. To Future Women has been a six month long roaming project throughout Washington, DC collecting letters in person and by mail with the support of local
museums, galleries, arts organizations and artists.

This exhibition re-interprets the To Future Women project into an artistic sacred space. The installation transforms letters received throughout the project into a processional chamber that reveals our hopes, anxieties and anticipations for a new future generation of bold women. The installation draws on the ritual act of procession and the mythology of the numinous gateway, a threshold space that bridges the present and the prospective, and stands between the known and
unknown. This exhibition is the last time the To Future Women letters will be on view before they enter a time capsule for the next 20 years.

To Future Women has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, as well as, IA&A at Hillyer, The Phillips Collection, the Hirshhorn, Halcyon Arts Lab, and
the Australian Embassy.

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
and feminist practices and traverse sculpture, performance and architecture.

While in Washington, DC, Saxelby is a Visiting Scholar at the Sacred Space Concentration of the School of Architecture at Catholic University of America. She is the recent recipient of the prestigious Australia Council for the Arts Career Development Grant. In 2016-17, Saxelby worked at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the renowned New York art and architecture studio that designed the High Line, and was awarded three prominent artist grants to undertake a series of international sacred space mentorships and residencies. In 2017, Saxelby was chosen to speak at the ninth International Architecture, Culture and Spirituality Symposium on her research and practice.

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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 and non-traditional quilting patterns. Constructing and deconstructing these images until they become highly stylized abstractions, the final compositions simultaneously conceal and
reveal her own body.

The act of crocheting/quilt-making was once a family legacy but has largely dissipated from living memory with the generations past. Morrow (a non-quilter) is reexamining this piece of family history through video, photography and sculptures that utilize found and donated textiles. These personal, collected
materials indicate comfort, intimacy, and traditionally domestic spaces, but aim to reach ideas surrounding solitude, or more precisely, acts of solitude, such as the labor of quilting/crocheting.

Morrow’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Washington, DC, Virginia, Maryland, New York, Canada, and France. Morrow has permanent installations and works on-loan at the National Institute of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD, the Anacostia Arts Center in Washington, DC, and the Arlington Art Center in Arlington, VA, where she is a current Resident Artist.

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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 shifts, and unrestrained economic growth. The movement of these particles could represent natural or man-made geological changes, individual people on the move, or the scattering of resources once taken for granted. The sound creates a suspenseful atmosphere directly correlated to the unfolding action.

Carrie Fucile is an intermedia artist who works with 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 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award and a D’CLINIC residency in Hungary. Her recordings are released through Ehse Records and Protagonist Music. She lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.

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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 displayed for the first time ever in Washington, DC.

“Emilio Cavallini has transformed the very concept of transformation.” With these words, the art critic Peter Frank describes the famed Italian fashion designer, who uses the materials from his noted women’s hosiery designs and transforms them into the artwork we see today. Cavallini’s work in the field of research and fashion has earned him numerous awards: Cavaliere della Repubblica in 1986, Officer of the Republic and Leone d’Oro in Venice for Fashion in 1989, Commendatore della Repubblica in 1993. Becoming the symbol of a revolution not only towards women’s tights, but above all, for the aesthetic and social function that derive from the innovative concept of them.

In addition to his exhibition at Hillyer, the Italian Embassy will present three major works in the artist’s series Fractals (Frattali), inspired by the Italian painter of the sixteenth century, Pontormo (Jacopo Carucci). Cavallini uses nylon socks pulled onto acrylic painted wood that creates geometric figures with repetitive shapes on different scales. The colors are extracted from the works of Renaissance painters such as Piero di Cosimo, Rosso Fiorentino, and Jacopo da Pontormo. This part of the exhibition is by reservation only, inquire with gallery staff.

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Muriel Hasbun

Annette Isham

Mandy Cooper

Brandon Chambers

Fithi Abraham

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 examine the relevance and value of self-portraiture, through the individual artist’s varied approaches to self-representation. Open to artists across the U.S. and internationally, our juror, Nicole Dowd, selected the artwork from the following artists:

Muriel Hasbun

Mandy Cooper

Fithi Abraham

Brandon Chambers

Annette Isham

Luis Flores

Qin Tan

Mike Callaghan

Nicole Dowd is a passionate believer in the catalytic power of the arts. As program manager of the Halcyon Arts Lab, she aims to connect socially-engaged artists with the resources and support structure needed to hone their artistic and entrepreneurial skills and create change through community-based art practices. Prior to joining the Halcyon team, Nicole worked with local emerging artists at Hamiltonian Artists where she managed a two-year fellowship program dedicated to career cultivation and artistic mentorship.