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Anna Davis at Long View Gallery February 22, 2009 Drop Dead Long View Gallery on 9th Street NW is on one of those always-about-to-become-something-else block (Like the Seventh Street block that houses the Warehouse, where you’d swear you can hear the bulldozer revving up and ready to charge.) They’re best when they’re like this, before everything gets all buffed and scrubbed, when a family-owned Ethiopian restaurant can still afford the rent, along with a little bitty yoga/meditation studio and some housing of the un-gentrified variety. Thanks to the crumbling of the construction industry (and pretty much every other industry) the block stands to stay a little scruffy for the nonce. By me, that’s a good thing. But I digress. Self Portrait Last night, Long View Gallery hosted an opening reception for the smart, idiosyncratic work of Anna U. Davis. My friend Anna is a Scandinavian uber-woman  - think Lynda Carter in her best Wonder Woman days - whose art demonstrates a funny, jaundiced and very personal take on her world, which includes the art world, of course. The images are assembled using a painstaking  technique that involves collaging thousands of tiny bits of paper to form the backdrop of the painting. The effect can be quite dazzling. Certainly the haute art school crowd that attended the opening seem about as dazzled as they allow their snoozy selves to get.     < Prev   Next >