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Curating at Studio Gallery

January 6, 2009

Veronica Szalus's snowflakes

Laurel L. installing her piece

I just finished a curating gig at Studio Gallery in DuPont Circle. The show is called “Studio Presents Artomatic Artists” and includes the work of 18 artists selected from the last Artomatic by Studio members. Some are well-known in town (e.g. Laurel Lukaszewki, Pat Goslee, Novie Trump, Joan Belmar) and some were entirely and pleasantly new to me. It is always a challenge to assemble and hang a group show where the only thing that the participants have in common is the venue (here, not even the sensibility of the curator, since the artists were chosen prior to my involvement.) I am, on the whole, quite pleased with how it came out, especially the top front room, which I think is spare and elegant. (Elegant not generally being a word associated with my own art.)

Studio Gallery lives on two floors of a stately townhouse at 2108 R St.NW (R and Florida) and has some beautiful and surprisingly generous wall and floor space as well as two gorgeous Victorian fireplaces. There is a “meet the artists” reception on Friday Jan.16 from 6-8 (l'llbe there) as well as a First Friday reception on Jan. 9 and a closing reception on Jan. 29. (These guys are apparently deeply into the cheap wine.)

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