5x5(x5) Is Back - December 8th - 30th

Back by popular demand, Target Gallery presents our small works exhibition 5x5x(5). This show examines work on a very intimate scale with all of the work measuring at five inches or less. The show will consist of all media, from painting, sculpture, photography, ceramics, jewelry, fiber and more. With close to 112 art works created by 68 artists from around the country, there is definitely something for everyone.

Please join us for a special reception on
Thursday, December 13th, 6-8pm
Our juror Stefanie Fedor will give a gallery talk at 7pm. 

Selected Artists: Susanna Speirs Ali (CA), Fabiano Amin (DC), Robin Arnold (NY), Roger Bisbing (NY), Adam Bradley (VA), Therese Brown (CA), Susan Callahan (MD), Susan Cohen (VA), Danny Conant (MD), Theresa Devine (AZ), Jackson Echols (TX), Kirbi Eckerty (IL), Barbara Januszkiewicz (VA), Susan Field (CA), Dave Fischer (MI), Jeanne Garant (VA), Annette Giaco (SC), Jeanne Goodman (VA), Amy Gross (FL), Joni Gruber (AL), Max Heller (NC), Gail Higginbotham (MD), Harrison Higgs (WA), Jamie M. Jamison (OH), Leslie Johnston (DC), Michael Kalish (LA), Hugh Jones (VA), Jordanna Kalman (NY), Sally Kauffman (DC), Joo Kim (FL), Erika Kissinger (VA), Richard Lapham (NY), Nancy E. Lohmiller (WI), Ann Dinwiddie Madden (MS), Chalda Maloff (TX), James Mai (IL), Diana Manchak (MD), Anne Marchand (DC), Sue Marrazzo (PA), Ceci Cole Mcinturff (DC), Elizabeth Meggs (NY), Karen Mullarkey (VA), Larissa Norman (UT), Charles Norton (MD), Amy Ordoveza (VA), Elizabeth Palovick (PA), Domingo Parada (IL), Kate Patsch (VA), Dan Perkins (DC), Jane Pettit (MD), Casey Scharling (NC), Richard Sele (VA), Donna Sinclair (VA), John O. Smith (WI), Janos Somogyi (VA), Denise Stewart-Sanabria (TN), B. Avery Syrig (NY), Laura Tabakman (PA), Carol Talkov (VA), Hester Thomas (NY), Guillermo Ubilla (VA), Paul Valadez (TX), Susan  Walen (MD), Jane Walker (UK), Patricia Sarrafian Ward (MA), Karen Watson (VA), Steve Whitfield (OK), Melissa Woodburn (CA)

Upheaval opens Saturday, November 3rd in Celebration of Fotoweek DC

 

What: Upheaval – Part of Fotoweek DC
When: November 3^rd – December 2^nd, 2012
Reception: Thursday, November 8^th, 6-8pm; juror talk with Brie Castell at 7pm
 
In celebration of Fotoweek DC, the Target Gallery hosts a juried exhibition that examines how photographers interpret the theme of Upheaval – whether in their personal lives dealing with illness, divorce, death of a parent – or on a more global level with subjects such as climate change, political unrest, and natural disasters.

The exhibition will showcase 16 works by 9 artists from across the country, including two local artists, Sascha Hughes-Caley (Great Falls) and Angela Kleis (Arlington). Other selected artists are Therese Brown (CA), Lisa DiLillo (NY), Jodie Mim Goodnough (MA), Annie Hogan (NJ), Matthew Moore (MD), Brandon Pilcher (NY), and Allison Rufrano (NY)

Juror Information
Our juror for this exhibition is Brie Castell, owner and chief curator of Castell Photography in Asheville, North Carolina, one of the south's finest galleries specializing in contemporary photo-based media. Castell works with established and emerging artists from around the globe for exhibition and representation, and brings to Asheville leading authorities in the field of photography for educational programming. Castell has also been a working photo-based artist for over 12 years, has exhibited extensively around the country, and is in numerous public and private collections. Castell received her MFA from East Carolina University, and currently teaches photography at Virginia Intermont College.

 

Homage: Past Influences
Exhibition Dates: October 6 - 28, 2012
Reception: October 11, 6 - 8pm - juror talk at 7pm

Homage is an all-media, juried exhibition featuring work that pays respect or dedication to past influences. Our juror, Brooke Seidelmann, is the director of DC's Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, located in the vibrant U St. corridor and part of the larger community center, Smith Center for Healing & the Arts. In 2011, Brooke was co-director of the citywide arts initiative, The 9/11 Arts Project, which brought together over 30 DC arts organizations to mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11 with multi-genre programming.

Selected Artists
Diane Blackwell (VA), Stephanie Booth (VA), Abigail Cassner (GA), Sarah Fagan (OR), Jodie Mim Goodnough (MA), Matthew Hall (PA), Daniel Koterbay (RI), Alexander L. Landerman (WI), Luisa Mesa (FL), Dawn Nye (ME), Dale Odell (AZ), Brenda Oelbaum (MI), Diane F. Ramos (OH), Katrazyna Randall (ME), Scott Michael Raynor (NC), Ryan Schroeder (MD), Sandra Sitron (NY), Jenny Wiener (FL), Helen Zughaib (DC)

Ben Duke's Sublime Rupture Open in Target Gallery

What: Sublime Rupture, Paintings by Benjamin Duke
When: August 4 – September 2, 2012
Reception: August 9, 6 - 8pm; gallery talk with Benjamin Duke at 7pm

“Duke’s canvases are energetic and chaotic; he is unafraid of scale, lush surface, high contrast, saturated color, unstable angularity, exaggerated gesture and any of a number of devices that may make a self conscious, defensive painter squeamish. This exuberance is girded by masterful drawing, seemingly effortless mark and convincing picture structure; Mr. Duke applies his craft with conviction, enthusiasm and without apology.” – David Page, 2012 Open Exhibition Juror

The Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Target Gallery presents the exhibition Sublime Rupture, featuring a series of large paintings by artist Benjamin Duke, winner of the gallery’s 2012 Open Exhibition competition. A distinguished panel of three arts-experts who reviewed over eighty submitted proposals unanimously selected Duke’s work. The exhibition will open on Saturday, August 4^th and run through Sunday, September 2^nd, 2012. Please join us on August 9^th, from 6-8pm for a reception to meet the artist and hear him speak at 7pm.

When asked about this series of work, Duke says:
“In my paintings I ask myself ‘Is this the way the world is?’ I reshape and retool my painting experience to answer that question.  But while the question begins with the world, it ends with the work itself: ‘Is this the way the world is in this work?’ The search is for the world in painting and painting in the world (painting worlds/ painting’s world). Am I in the world or is the world in me? I allude to my life, to writers’ works, to imagery, and it is my hope that this record of allusion conjures and creates the same. I am referring to text, theory, idea - but I am also finding myself already there, looking out to see in.”



About the Artist
Benjamin Swallow Duke was born in Louisville, Kentucky and grew up in Utah. He studied Literature, Philosophy and Art at the University of Utah receiving his BFA in 2002. He received his Master of Fine Arts at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore Hoffberger School of Painting, and has been teaching painting and drawing at Michigan State University since 2006. Duke has had numerous solo and group shows at the national and international level including at the Fitton Art Center in Hamilton, Ohio, “Weak Painting Group” exhibitions at The Kuandu Museum of Fine Art in Taipei and Da Xiang Art Space in Taichung City, Taiwan, and several solo exhibitions at Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago. Duke’s work has been represented since 2006 by Ann Nathan Gallery, a well-established and respected downtown Chicago Gallery with a focus on contemporary realism.  Duke has also been awarded international residencies at Bamboo Curtain Studios, Taiwan from May to July 2009 and The Kuandu Museum of Fine Art from December 2009 through January 2010 at Taipei National University of the Arts, the premier Art University in Taiwan.

About the 2012 Open Exhibition Competition
When the artists of the Torpedo Factory Art Center conceived the Target Gallery in 1987, it was tasked with the mission to feature emerging and established artists from all over the country in shows that would engage and challenge the viewer. We accomplish this through a series of juried exhibitions that are open to all artists nationally and internationally. One opportunity that we offer annually is our Open Exhibition competition, which invites artists to submit exhibition proposals for a chance at a solo exhibition in the gallery. In addition to the honor of having a solo exhibition in a world-renowned art center, the gallery offers the artist a show catalog.  We choose a panel of three arts experts to choose the winning exhibition proposal. This year’s distinguished juror panel included Jack Rasmussen, Director and Curator of the American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center in Washington, Catriona Fraser, international award-winning photographer and the Director of Fraser Gallery, and David Page, South African-born, internationally acclaimed Baltimore-based sculptor.

Peace Paper Project - Workshop & Exhibition

Made possible through out Art in Public Spaces program, this was a free workshop designed as a collaborative effort between Peace Paper Project and the Torpedo Factory Art Center's Target Gallery.



The workshop was be led Peace Paper Project Directors Drew Matott and Margaret Mahan, as well as Art Therapist Arielle Matthews. Participants were comprised of Torpedo Factory Artist and survivors of trauma and veterans in the Washington, D.C. area.

Through making paper from their own clothing and prints from their own images, workshop participants will utilize both traditional and contemporary applications of the paper arts as a means to tell their individual stories. The workshop will culminate with an exhibit of handmade paper, pulp paintings, pulp prints and broadsides made throughout the workshop.

About Peace Paper Recognizing the therapeutic benefits of the medium, Peace Paper works to make hand papermaking available to the world in numerous ways. Peace Paper works with survivors of trauma and uses a portable paper making studio and fibers that hold significance (such as articles of clothing that one might have worn during chemo treatment, or part of a military uniform, etc) to create hand made paper. Their goal is to bring paper to the people so that they may transform their unique fibers into works of art; expressing their stories through the pulp while using the medium of papermaking to enrich their artistic voices.