5x5 Exposed Reception Photos

5x5 Exposed Reception on Thursday, November 11 was great! Thank you to all who came out for it. Kathleen Ewing did a great job!

Congratulations to the 5x5 Exposed artists!

Congratulations to the following artists for being chosen by juror Kathleen Ewing to be featured in the Target Gallery's 5x5 Exposed exhibition.

Exhibition: November 6-21
Reception: November 11, 6-8pm; juror talk with Kathleen Ewing @ 7pm
Workshop: Introduction to Cyanotypes; November 13, 10-6pm



International Artists:
Greg Shapley, Australia
Agnieszka Sosnowska, Egilsstadir, Iceland

DC Metro Area Artists:
Jane Rader, Potomac Falls, VA;Barbara Johnson, Washington DC; Savitri Maya Sedlacek, Washington, DC; Amy Carmichael Smith, Silver Spring, MD; E. de Planque, III, Fairfax, VA; Michael Wolly, Rockville, MD; Chris Fedderson, Alexandria, VA; Linda Plaisted, Clarksburg, MD; Hugh Jones, Arlington, VA; Amanda Archibald, Alexandria VA;Ivy Bigbee, Centreville, VA; Amy Bruce, Alexandria, VA; Louise Noakes, Manassas VA; Deb Jansen, Alexandria, VA; JoAnn Tooley, Arlington, VA; Danny Conant, Chevy Chase, MD; Colleen Henderson, Bethesda, MD

Regional and National Artists:
Adrian Davis, Fort Collins, Colorado; Michael Maizels, Charlottesville, VA; Jessie Redstone, Seattle, WA ;Therese Brown, El Cerrito, CA; Chieko Tanemura, San Jose, CA; Nicholas Dantona, Franklin, TN; Scott Groeniger, Honolulu, Hawaii; Jesus Sanchez, Brooklyn, NY; Maria Fulmer, Fairfield, CA; Denise Stewart-Sanabria, Knoxville, TN; Diana Brennan, Greenville, RI; Sky Bergman, San Luis Obispo, CA; Leslie Getz, West Harrison, IN; Jordanna Kalman, Poughkeepsie NY; C. Matthew Luther, Milwaukee, WI; Joel Leeb, Chapel Hill, NC; Randy L. Waln, Peru, Ne; Alison Overton, Raleigh, NC; Joseph Mougel, Sarasota, FL; Terri Bright, Greenville, SC; Elizabeth Meggs, Brooklyn, NY; John Francis, Boise, ID; Ann Madden, Saint Louis, MS; L.S. King, Pulaski, VA; Peggy Shaw, Mahomet IL; Dave Magyar, Newton, NJ; Clarence Talley, Sr., Prairie View, TX

5x5 Exposed: small works in photography opens November 6

Exhibition Dates: November 6-21
Reception: November 11, 6-8pm; gallery talk with Kathleen Ewing at 7pm
Workshop: November 13, 10-6pm; Introduction to cyanotypes with Allison Nance

Target Gallery joins the photography madness of FotoWeek DC

Target Gallery is excited to participate in FotoWeek DC by offering an exhibition, lecture and workshop geared towards photography enthusiasts everywhere. 5x5 Exposed, a small works photography exhibition, opens to the public on November 6 and runs through November 21. We will have a reception to meet the artists and listen to a gallery talk by our juror, photography expert and gallery owner, Kathleen Ewing on November 11, 6-8pm. Ewing will speak at 7pm.

5x5 Exposed brings 46 photographers from across the country and around the world to exhibit in the gallery. Out of the 46 photographers, two are international artists from Iceland and Australia. The remaining 44 are from around the country with 17 of the artists from the DC metro area. The photography chosen for the exhibit does not exceed 5 inches in any direction inclusive of frame. This created a challenge for many photographers who would not normally work on such a small scale.

Juror Information:
Kathleen Ewing represents over 40 contemporary photographers and maintains an inventory of 19th and 20th century vintage photographs. The Kathleen Ewing Gallery has also organized exhibitions, which have traveled to university galleries and museums throughout the United States and Canada. She was the Executive Director of AIPAD, The Association of International Photography Art Dealers, from 1991 to 2007. Also, Kathleen was responsible for organizing AIPAD’s annual fine art photography trade show, The Photography Show, in New York City. She is also the Executive Director of the art Dealers Association of Greater Washington, and she is a board member of the Washington Animal Rescue League.

Workshop Information:
The gallery will also host an all day cyanotype workshop with photographer Allison Nance on November 13 from 10-6pm. In keeping with the theme of small-scale photography, Allison Nance will lead an all day workshop centered on the alternative photography process of the cyanotype. Each participant will leave the workshop having created three small prints and the knowledge to continue creating cyanotypes on their own. This workshop is suitable for beginners with little or no previous art experience and for skilled artists looking to try a different artistic process. The cost for the workshop will be $75, which includes materials. Contact the gallery directly to register.

Allison Nance is an artist whose focus is in photography and mixed media. She received her degree in photography from East Carolina University’s School of Art and Design in 2003, and currently lives and works in the Alexandria, VA. She is also co-founder of microWave project, whose mission is to act as a conduit between artists & groups and businesses to provide space for temporary pop-up, “micro” galleries in the DC metro area.

Shaun Richards:Closed Captioned opens October 2nd with reception on October 14

October 2-31, 2010
Reception: October 14, 6-8pm; artist talk 7pm

“The experience of viewing Shaun Richard’s work is like finding a time capsule from an unspecified era. The sundry media and material book pages, repetitious stenciled forms, carefully delineated figures that combine to form larger forms positioned alongside one another without explanatory narration, beg a greater story, a structure against which their meanings might be deciphered. The strength in his work lies in his unwillingness to fully answer the questions they raise. It is the product of an artist constantly searching.”
-Lauren Turner, curator and artistic writer

“Closed Captioned” will consist of approximately 10 60” x 44” and larger paintings crafted from acrylic, graphite, paper and oil on canvas, which examine themes of role-modeling, gender identity, social dynamics, and how media affects our opinions, actions, and identity. Several of the pieces in “Closed Captioned,” from a recent show entitled “Women and Children First,” feature images of a veiled woman in an iconic, powerful pose. These paintings explore spirituality, religion, identity, sexuality and self-actualization, while the rest are reflections on the economy: the auto industry, environmental concerns, and resource exhaustion, and our complacency towards these concerns.

Early in Shaun Richards’ career, he was concerned solely with traditional, figurative painting. Now his focus has shifted to juxtaposing media, mark making, incorporating elements of traditional painting and text to create artwork that presents a message on multiple levels. Richards includes the art-historical perspective, ethical considerations, and the political, but prefers to raise questions rather than taking an overt stance. According to juror Shauna Lee Lange, “In his case art is not a matter of personality but of respect earned from displaying a thorough grounding in deeply narrative works, classical art history, and contemporary risk-taking. Richards strikes one as an independent thinker, philosopher, and influencer well beyond his present young age.” Juror Joey Mánlapaz states that, “Shaun Richards’ energetic brushwork on a large-scale canvas is what captivated me. Despite the vigorous and passionate imagery, though, his work is fraught with social content that is conveyed via a formalistic approach to painting techniques, which in the end is what makes his work stand out among the rest.”

About the Artist:
Shaun Richards attended Hagerstown Junior College in Maryland before transferring to UNC Wilmington to earn a B.A. in Art in 1999. In 2003, he enrolled in SUNY Empire State College as a non-matriculated graduate student, where, through the MSLA program, he obtained a studio in Manhattan with weekly studio visits and critiques from established artists, critics and curators. Richards returned to North Carolina in 2006 to pursue art full time, and in January 2007, he was awarded the Regional Emerging Artist Residency at Artspace. In September 2007, Richards was featured in Southwest Art’s annual emerging artist issue, 21 under 31. In November 2007, Richards was included in his first museum show, “The Human Scale,” at the Cameron Museum in Wilmington, N.C. In April 2008, he was awarded Best in Show for his piece, “Bootleg Romanticism,” by Dr. Larry Wheeler, Director of the North Carolina Museum of Art, Juror for the North Carolina Artists Exhibition. From October through December 2009, Richards completed a 3-month residency at The Bemis Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The artist currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, is represented by Flanders Art Gallery, and holds studio space at Artspace.

Juror Information:
Shaun Richards was awarded the Target Gallery’s prestigious solo exhibition spot for 2010. The Target Gallery annually selects one contemporary artist for a solo show. A panel of three jurors selects the winning proposal and the gallery produces a catalog for the winning artist. This year, the juror panel consists of: Cynthia Connolly, visual arts curator for Arlington County’s new Artisphere; Joey P. Mánlapaz, a D.C.-based painter and faculty member at the Corcoran College of Art and Design; and Shauna Lee Lange, founder of Shauna Lee Lange Arts Advisory and Design Studio.

September 23 @ 7pm: Gallery talk by Sarah Tanguy for Systems Failure Closing Reception

The gallery will be hosting a closing reception on Thursday, September 23rd from 6-8pm. Beginning at 7pm our juror from Systems Failure will be here to discuss the work on exhibit. Meet a few of the artists in this exhibition and take in the works one last time. The show closes on September 26.