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BEGINNER'S BREATH: 100 CUPFORMS
Book Launch and Work by Sarah J. Hull
Saturday August 24, 10:30am–1:30pm

In October 2023, Sarah started learning glassblowing to better understand the material properties of glass in service of the start of an idea that merges textiles and glass. Over the course of this endeavor, she started working on a book about her process of learning to blow glass and it grew into something unexpected. Over the span of 130+ pages and through photographs, illustrations, and text, this linen-covered hardback book documents the 100 "Cupforms" Sarah created over the span of 80 hours in a Baltimore hot shop.

A FAREWELL TO CHARMS
Charlie Visconage's Final DC Solo Show
Featuring THE WALL OF FRIENDS
September 21 & 22, 7–9pm
September 23, 4–6pm

Charlie Visconage is an American self-taught artist. When other kids told him he was a "bad drawer" in school, he believed it for far too long. In 2014, a friend suggested he paint just for the hell of it, and Charlie found a new means of expression that he loved and hasn't stopped painting since. Charlie makes landscape paintings, portraits, and sculptures. Charlie's work focuses on capturing the darkly comedic moments of our time, finding joy in spite of the slow death of capitalism and the end of the American empire.

Sarah J. Hull • Solo Exhibition
TAXONOMY OF EVANESCENCE
April 29–May 22, 2022
Fridays 3–7pm, Saturdays 12 noon–4pm and by appointment
Opening Reception Friday April 29, 6:00–8:30pm
Artist talk Thursday May 12, 6:30pm (in person and live stream)
Closing Reception Sunday May 22, 10:30am–12:30pm

Featuring works primarily from two of Sarah J. Hull's recent series, this exhibition considers the mechanics of awareness and memory and how they interact not only with each other, but also with time and space. These themes converge in the thoughtful meditations on the traces of existence that remain and those that fade. Fading, just as energy fields that extend towards a point where its amplitude decreases.

The Art4Us Collective
DC UNSETTLED
March 11–April 2, 2022
Opening Reception: Friday March 11 and Saturday March 12
6:00–9:00 pm

The collective Art4Us brings to Studio 1469 a month of art about DC, our beloved city: "DC never settles – it's a constant flow of intense energy, variable over time, involved in political maneuvers, racial conflicts, and power plays, but somehow able to transform precariousness into growth and rebirth. A city that speaks so many languages, whether screamed through powerful street art or whispered through manicured architecture."

C. Tara & David Gladden
ELECTRONIC MEDITATIONS
June 29–July 20, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 29, 6:30-8:30pm
Outdoor performance: 6:30pm
Indoor performance: 8:00pm

Civilian Art Projects is thrilled to present C. Tara & David Gladden, ELECTRONIC MEDITATIONS — an exhibition of electronic media, site-specific installation and performance — creating an immersive, synesthetic, audiovisual environment within the gallery space. C. Tara and David Gladden have a wide-ranging, multi-layered practice that includes video, sound, animation, performance, installation, photography, collage, and sculpture.

PAST EVENTS

Olivier Ballou
SOVIET ROMANCE
May 3, 2019, 7:00-11:00pm
Artist talk at 7:30pm

Olivier Ballou has long been fascinated by miniature dioramas. This exhibit features intimate scenes he's recreated from Russian cinema of the 1950s and 60s. Video art will also be displayed.

Noelle K. Tan:
Part II Volume 2
April 6 – May 2, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday April 6, 6:30-8:30pm
Artist Talk: Saturday April 27, 2:00pm

Civilian Art Projects presents Noelle K. Tan: Part II Volume 2, an exhibition that combines two projects: An Excerpt From The Ongoing Anthology Of Abandoned Photographs: Part One, 2013; and Expedition Journals: United States of America, Vol. 1, 2015. In each, Tan presented a series of new black and white, darkroom-produced photographs based on ideas of personal and collective memory, ways of thinking and reasoning, and America and American history.

Jason Gubbiotti
Things Are As They Seem
Hosted by Civilian Art Projects
February 16 – March 23, 2019
Opening Reception: February 16, 6:30-8:30pm
Exhibition Hours: Saturdays 12pm-5pm; Sundays by appointment only

For over 15 years, Gubbiotti has created and presented what is most often not considered in painting. Supports, stretchers, staples, screws, glue, and paint have all been exposed and utilized in the making of his art. He incorporates all of the rudimentary elements and gives them equal importance. For this exhibition, he writes, "I decided to remove the how was this made question by having everything directly unfold in front of the audience, an unboxing if you will."

Up Close Step Back Further
Curated by Tony Lewis and Chenée Lewis
Featuring Caroline Kent, Devin Mays, and Kellie Romany
September 15 – October 13, 2018
Opening Reception: September 15, 6pm–9pm
Exhibition Hours: Saturdays 12pm-5pm; Sundays by appointment only

The Artist's hand, and all of its platitudes, provides an unexpected opportunity to connect three Chicago-based artists by examining the proximity of each artist's hand to their work.
Up close, we can see oil paint with turpenoid and galkyd dripping directly from a hand that recalls the raw physiology of one's skin, bodily fluid, and functions. The muscle memory of a skillful painter in conjunction with the ritualistic practice of clay puts forth an internal experience within the body that produces such fluid, and simultaneously shelters it.

TRACES:
A performance engaging memory and imagination, loss and discovery. Written and performed by Jennifer Restak and directed by Thomas Drymon

Thursday April 26
Friday April 27
Saturday April 28
Doors at 7:30pm

It's the story of a relationship. A relationship between a woman and a man. A man with bipolar. And the woman who tries to save him. But her efforts are hijacked by a mineral contained within an igneous rock.

TICKETS

One-Day Pop-Up Exhibition:
Ebtisam Abdulaziz
Saturday, January 20th, 2-6pm

Curator's Office @ Studio 1469 presents
Rushern Baker IV | Tim Doud | Leslie Smith III
The Look of THINGS
A Conversation moderated by Zoë Charlton

Sunday, November 12

A Dialog about Hidden and Urgent issues in Contemporary Abstract Painting

Against the backdrop of Tim Doud's "Parthenogenesis" exhibition, Curator's Office @ Studio 1469 presents artists Rushern Baker IV, Tim Doud & Leslie Smith III in a chewy discussion moderated by Zoë Charlton about how artists are approaching abstraction in painting today. Is abstraction an elitist commodity? Should it be perceived only aesthetically and formally? What is the data hidden beneath its carefully orchestrated surfaces? How is the abstract art object the conveyor of social, spiritual, or political meaning?

Curator's Office @ Studio 1469 presents
Tim Doud
Parthenogenesis

Exhibition: October 14-November 12, 2017
Opening Reception Saturday, October 14, 6-8 pm
Closing Curatorial Event Sunday, November 12, 4-6 pm
Gallery Hours Thursday-Saturday from 12-6 or by appointment

Curator's Office is pleased to present paintings and works on paper by American artist Tim Doud in his first solo exhibition. Doud has been working on a large body of abstract work entitled Cumulus, inspired by the act of gathering information from the cloud and mining the internet for data, particularly as it relates to the origins of visual information. Parthenogenesis is an important sub-series of Cumulus. The phenomenon of parthenogenesis is defined briefly as reproduction from an ovum without fertilization. The paintings in Parthenogenesis play on the self-replicating process of reproduction, particularly as it relates to our current digital age. Just as in natural genetic and environmental evolution, the digital world produces glitches and subtle, sometimes dramatic, variations from the original.

THE EYE OF FAITH FLANAGAN
June 24 - July 8
A memorial exhibition honoring independent curator, arts supporter, patron, collector, and dearly missed friend to many in the greater DC art world

Gallery hours: Thursday-Saturday, 12-6
Opening reception Saturday, June 24
Closing reception Saturday, July 8

Love Hurts, especially when we lose a friend. Mary Faith Flanagan (known as Faith), was an avid arts supporter who participated actively in the greater Washington, DC art world. She died suddenly at age 50 on Thursday, January 12, 2017 in her home in Washington, DC from unexpected cardiac events.

Artist and curator friends are organizing this memorial exhibition to honor her vision and vital support to the art community. The exhibition features a broad array of some of the artists that she worked with as an independent curator and some of the works from her personal art collection. The artworks are for sale. Proceeds from sales of artwork will benefit the non-profit arts organization DCAC (District of Columbia Arts Center) where The Faith Flanagan Memorial Fund is being set up to help fund their Curatorial Initiative program. Faith was an active member of DCAC, former board member, member of DCAC's Visual Arts Committee, and helped program and run Studio 1469 with Norm Veenstra.

Featuring works by Ken Ashton, Alan Callander, William Christenberry, Christopher Ciccone, Mary Coble, Kathryn Cornelius, Derrick De Borgia, Jeremy Flick, Thom Flynn, Jason Gubbiotti, Evan Hume, Barbara Januszkiewicz, Ian Jehle, Christopher Lee, Lauren Shea Little, Jayme Mclellan, Brandon Morse, Mark Parascandola, Maryanne Pollock, Erik Thor Sandberg, Annie Schap, Kelly Towles, and Jenny Walton.

Studio 1469 presents:
a deep expectation of sameness
Drew Feith Tye solo gallery exhibition

Opening Reception Wednesday May 31 7:30pm

Studio 1469 presents:
Matthew Mann
Luxury Trouble: New Drawings, Paintings, and Collages

April 28th - May 28th, 2017
Opening Reception on Friday, April 28 6-8pm
Discussion Wednesday May 24, 7pm
Closing reception on Sunday, May 28 4-6pm

Friday Feb 10th:
Gallery Reading by Stirring and Five Oaks Press (AWP)

Recent contributors to Stirring: A Literary Collection (Sundress Publications) and authors published by Five Oaks Press read from their works. Works by Sundress and Five Oaks Press authors will be on sale.

Debut photography exhibit by Nalinee Darmrong
"The Smiths: 1985-1986"

Photographer Nalinee Darmrong traveled with and captured The Smiths during the height of their creative period in 1985–1986: the Meat Is Murder and The Queen Is Dead tours. Her photographs capture the band's frenetic live energy as well a private, intimate view of the band offstage and behind the scenes. Many of the shots are previously unpublished, and will be included in Darmrong's upcoming book.

Exhibition: June 17 through August 2016
Public Reception: Friday, June 17th, 6-9pm
Artist Talk + Book Signing: Saturday, June 18th, 6-9pm. Remarks at 7pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1-6pm and by appointment.

Available Prints by Nalinee Darmrong - The Smiths: 1985-1986

STUFF
Written and performed by John Feffer

Directed by Natalia Gleason
Produced by Matty Griffiths

A mother gives away her most cherished possessions and reveals her most closely guarded secrets. Other real-life characters describe their own stuff: a filled-to-bursting storage unit of train memorabilia, an art collection lost to the wrecking ball, a Moscow meeting with Paul Robeson, and a long-lost file box of knowledge.

March 3, 4, 10, 17, 19 at 8pm
March 13 at 4pm
http://www.johnfeffer.com/stuff/

Adah Rose Gallery presents:
J.T. KIRKLAND and BRIAN WILLIAMS
"You Stumble Over the New Language But Even It Is Becoming Beautiful": Opening Vernissage
Saturday January 9, 2016 6:30-8:30pm

RISERS
October 2nd, 6pm
Presented by CentroNía and filmmaker Andy Fernandez

RISERS is a film and mixed media installation about America's undocumented immigrant youth, directed and produced by Andy Fernandez. All proceeds benefit CentroNía. Purchase tickets

The Court of 1469 Presents:
LANTERNA with SANSYOU
Friday June 12th 2015, 8pm
Please RSVP

Lanterna: web.lanterna.tv, new recording "Backyards" at soundcloud, Facebook

SansYou: sansyoumusic.com, sansyou.bandcamp.com, moonsoundsrecords.bandcamp.com, Facebook

EVIDENCE: Thom Flynn + Ian Jehle
May 8 – 30, 2015

Studio 1469 with Dot Projects + Artwork is thrilled to present new work from local visual artists Thom Flynn and Ian Jehle. Evidence presents artworks which claim the obvious "mark" of the artist as the primary curatorial interest in each of the artists' practice. While Flynn paints with paper and Jehle currently draws in computer code, both create art that celebrates the hand of the artist and what that leaves behind in the finished piece.

Public Reception: Friday, May 8th, 6-8pm
Closing Event: Saturday, May 30th from 6-8pm
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays 11-6pm. Also by appointment

WANDERFLUX
Group exhibition featuring: Eames Armstrong, Nakeya Brown, Cassidy Garbutt, Naomi Glickman, Ramina Mamedova, Ryan McDonnell, Armaghan Mehrabian, and Dani Smith
May 1-2, 2015

Wanderflux is an exhibition of eight artists working in diverse and diverging forms, brought together by a shared desire for exploring new territory in their practices and for continuous change of scenery. The show is comprised of representational photography, works on paper, abstraction, and various other forms that evade easy categorization.

Opening Reception: Friday, May 1, 6-9pm, performance by Eames Armstrong at 7:30pm
Open Hours: Saturday, May 2, noon-6pm
Roundtable Discussion: Saturday, May 2, 3-4pm

DON'T DIE IN THE DARK
A play in one act by Joe Brack
Directed by Matty Griffiths
April 11-26 2015

John Wilkes Booth fired a single shot Derringer into history exactly 150 years ago. DON'T DIE IN THE DARK sheds light on the personal and patriotic motivations behind one of America's most shocking acts of terror, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and the man on the wrong side of history. This production explores Booth's surrendering fame for infamy, trading family for country, and his attempt to balance stage and reality.

TIME IS A MILK BOWL
An Immersive Installation and Performance
Sunday, January 18 2015; doors at 7:30pm

An experimental music and video collaboration by artist Zoe Friedman and the band Peals (William Cashion from Future Islands and Bruce Willen from Double Dagger). Time is a Milk Bowl was originally performed in April 2013 in the interior of Baltimore's Bromo Seltzer clock tower.

Video clips and images from the Baltimore performance
Information on January 16 New York performance

BRUCE COLBURN
In Retrospect:
France, Pakistan, USA
1994 - 2014

Opening Reception Saturday December 6, 6:00 – 9:00pm
Artist Talk: December 13 6:30 – 7:15pm
Brunch: January 3 11:00 – 1:00pm

Opening Hours 3:00 – 7:00pm on Saturdays
December 6 - January 3, 2015
and by appointment

 

MARK PARASCANDOLA
LA CHANCA: Living on the Margin

Studio 1469 with Dot Projects + Artwork is thrilled to present new photographic work from local artist Mark Parascandola, in his first solo exhibition with the gallery.

Exhibition: October 10-25
Public Reception: Friday, October 10th from 6:30-8:30pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, October 18th from 6:30-8:30pm.
Gallery Hours: Fridays and Saturdays 11:00 am-6:00pm.  Also by appointment.

Top: Brie Husted December 2011 Installation;
photo by Brie Husted
Middle: 1.7 Trillion Euros reception, Nov 3, 2011;
photo by Butler Byrne Rennic
Bottom: Low End String Quartet, Dec 2011 Open House Event;
photo by Cara Pomponio