Arty stuff this week...

UNBORN

Curated by Gabrielle Banzhaf & Goli Abedini

August 7 - September 18

Opening Reception

Friday, August 7

6 - 8pm

Featuring work by:

Joseph Barbaccia

Travis Childers

Dawn Gavin

Akemi Maegawa

Adrian Parsons

Matthew M Smith

@Washington Project for the Arts

2023 Massachusetts Ave, NW

National Small Works and Julie Niskanen's Joint Opening

12th Annual National Small Works features 42 printmakers from all over the country juried by Jane Haslem. Winners will be announced at the reception. Julie Niskanen took first place last year and now has a solo exhibition entitled "Natural Occurences" also on view.

Opening Reception:

Friday, August 7

5 - 8pm

@Washington PrintMakers Gallery

1732 Connecticut Ave, NW

Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout

July 3 - August 26

First Friday Reception

Friday, August 7

6 - 9pm

Live performance by Deon "CleanCutt" Clark

Food and refreshments will be served
$5 suggested donation

@Hillyer Art Space

9 Hillyer Court, NW

Paris Mavroidis, Divers, Digital video (frame detail), 2009

Introductions5

"MFA Annual"

August 8 -September 5

Opening Reception:

Saturday, August 8

6:30 - 9pm

Discussion with the Artists

Saturday, August

5 - 6pm

@Irvine Contemporary

1412 14th St. NW

Phillips After 5

Thursday, August 6

Café Night

this is not that café- Play Night

5 - 8pm

Music

Minor Thoughts featuring Maureen Mullaney

5 - 8pm

Gallery Talk

The Objects of my Desire: Sex and Death in Contemporary Figure Painting

6 & 7pm

Performance

Mortified: Adolescent Angst on Stage

6:30pm

All included in admission to special exhibition; free for members.

Visitors can also tour the Paint Made Flesh exhibition, which examines the ways in which painters have used oil paint and the human body to convey enduring human vulnerabilities.

Paint Made Flesh and related programming, $12 for adults, $10 for visitors 62 and over and students, free for members and visitors 18 and under.

@The Phillips Collection

1600 21st St. NW

"The Host"

Asian Trash Series

presented by Freer + Sackler Galleries

Thursday, August 6

7pm

“Bong Joon-ho’s wildly entertaining saga,” writes Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly, “should become the hip, thinking-person’s monster movie of choice.” By turns thrilling, terrifying, hilarious, and touching, this unholy marriage of Godzilla and Jaws follows a slimy beast that emerges from the Han River to terrorize the citizens of Seoul.

Korean with English subtitles

@Freer + Sackler Galleries

1050 Independence Ave, SW

Fluidity

Monotypes by Jenny Walton

New works created at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

July 23 - October 19

Opening Reception

Saturday, August 8

4 - 6pm

@Visions Exhibition Space

5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda

almost surely, almost everywhere

August 8 - September 12

Opening Reception

Saturday, August 8

7 - 9pm

@Hamiltonian Gallery

1353 U St. NW

My Space on 7th

90 Artists

August 12 - September 4

Opening Reception

Friday, August 14

6 - 8:30pm

@Touchstone Gallery

406 7th St NW 2nd Floor

The Doppleganger Exhibition

August 5 - 10

Opening Reception

Wednesday, August 5

6 - 9pm

Featuring photography and multimedia abstracts by:

Patrick Allen
Jimmy Bishop
Ashley Cooke
Passon Hannah
Russell Cather Levi
Kristy Simmons

@Z3 Gallery

109 Main Street, Annapolis, MD

Summer Dock

paintings, prints, works on paper

August 8 - 29

Opening Reception

Saturday, August 8

6:30 - 8pm

@Curator's Office

1515 14th St. NW