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Take Me To The River at Momento Gallery

April 7, 2009

David Carlson in front of Andres' prints

Judy Jashinsky's water woman

“Take Me To The River” is an ever-evolving international art project founded in 2001 in Washington, DC. The core group of about 15 joins with local artists in all of the countries they travel to. (Yes, over-educated twits, I know it’s “places to which they travel”.) In some cases, a local artist may be invited to become a permanent part of the group as it moves on to its next destinations.
TMTTR has thusfar set up shop in Egypt, Brazil, Pakistan and South Africa, among other exotic ports of call. Their last show prior to this one was in Istanbul earlier this year. Wherever it goes, the group, augmented by local talent and supported by local venues, holds workshops with students and creates other projects to promote the interplay of cultures and create an exhibit that reflects that exchange. God, this makes me crazy jealous.

Richard Dana hates to have his picture taken. tough

David Carlson's fish

The current US show is at Momento Gallery, a new art space on the third floor of a small office building on Wisconsin Ave. in Glover Park. The gallery is quite a pleasant surprise - much nicer than that description suggests – reached off a third-floor outdoor mezzanine over a courtyard now blooming with spring.

bad picture of Andres - sorry!

The work in this stateside TMTTR is varied and interesting, often arresting. I love David Carlson’s oversized print of a column of compressed dead fish – both visually stunning and thematically spot-on, as are Judy Jashinsky's floating women. Andres Tremols’ work is always gorgeous and the prints shown here have a depth that is particularly successful. Richard Dana’s terrific new work plays with visual complexity and dimensionality in a way that reminds me of those lavishly decorated Indian buses. Not that it looks like them, but it somehow shares their spirit of playfulness and surprise.

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