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3.08.2007

Civilian Art Projects


I don't know much about Civilian Art Projects but I know the work of some of the artists involved and I have confidence that they can make this gallery work. Check out their new space tomorrow night at the grand opening reception.

Civilian Art Projects
406 7th Street (near D St.)
Friday, March 9
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Revitalizing the former home of one of Washington's top galleries, Civilian Art Projects proudly launches in its new location and gallery space a two-person exhibition of new photographic work by Jason Falchook (NY) and Jason Zimmerman (DC), and a group show in the project space called "Behind the Wall" including work by nine emerging artists from across the United States. An essay by Andy Grundberg, educator, curator and writer, will accompany this exhibition. A reception for the artists will be held Friday, March 9, 2007 from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Public exhibition hours are Wednesday through Saturday 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and by appointment.

Prior to this exhibition, Civilian operated as a roving gallery without a physical home base. Operating virtually and with spaces throughout Washington, DC, Civilian had the pleasure and opportunity to grow its program and audience while learning from and working side by side with leaders in the art community. Civilian is thrilled to announce the acquisition of a permanent home base at 406 7th Street NW, Third Floor, in the bustling Chinatown/Penn Quarter neighborhood of downtown Washington, DC. Civilian's new home is a few blocks from the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery of Art, and the newly renovated Reynolds Center featuring the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and National Portrait Gallery.

In concurrent exhibitions Contours & Detours and Natural Acts, Jason Falchook and Jason Zimmerman present decisive, unique bodies of work that examine the world around us. Questioning our connection to the spaces we develop and inhabit, Jason Falchook's large-scale, color-saturated photographs depict a landscape in continual transition. Capturing a world between the debris of the industrial past and the promise of a more austere, technological future, Falchook's images convey "the areas where edges meet, observing what we have access to and what we are excluded from." Mediating through shape, form and detail; isolated yet beautiful images of parking lots lush with foliage, a street corner satellite dish hanging with a network of wires and utility poles, and high rise communities caught in the glow of lighting from an on ramp draw attention to an underlying plan of living and security. In "Contours & Detours," Falchook examines how we are guided through these spaces by planned design, architecture and lighting, capturing in captivating detail how these spaces shift as we condition and adapt our surroundings to suit our changing notions of fear, anxiety, and desire.

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