New Art Exhibit Starting Sept 13: Rob Rogers
Our newest art exhibit, running from September 13th to November 13th, features artists Rob Rogers.
A native of Sydney, Australia, Rob Rogers has drawn and painted since he was old enough to hold a pencil. Attending Sydney College of the Arts in the 1970s, studying design, he has spent many years as an award winning creative director in advertising. In recent years he moved to New York where he has devoted greater amounts of time to painting, taking up encaustic (wax painting) as a medium in 2009.
Run to White II
After many years painting in oils, he considers his recent choice of medium plays a pivotal role in the creation of his newer abstract work.
“Rich and substantial, sudden and willful, obscuring or revealing, encaustic is a medium that is sympathetic to an instinctual approach. A combination of alchemy and art, it encourages the exploration of surface, the layering of motif and rewards the subconscious impulse. Process continues to play a dominant role as I seek the moments of harmony that occasionally occur when the wax, color and heat collide.”
Rogers’s work is found in private collections in Sydney, Melbourne, Milan, San Francisco and New York. Recently he has exhibited at galleries in Sydney, Brooklyn and Manhattan.
WHERE:
Vastu
1829 14th St NW
Washington, DC 20009
202.234.8344
WHEN:
September 13 – November 13, 2011
New Art Exhibit Featuring Allen Levy
Vastu is pleased to welcome back artist Allen Levy. Stop by between now and July to see and purchase Levy’s great contemporary pieces.
From Fort Wayne, Indian, Levy graduated from Purdue University with a degree in marketing. After spending years in the corporate world, he decided to follow his passion and become a full-time artist, a passion he discovered while taking an elective art class in college.
He considers each painting a new artistic journey and is interested in the experimentation of color, light and luminosity while striving to create a sense of balance within each composition. In Levy’s pieces, you’ll often find an intense interplay between organic flow and structured ideas and the limitless possibilities that lie between.
Levy on his inspiration:
“My inspiration can come from a variety of sources including personal experiences, immediate surroundings, music, and the enjoyment of simply being creative. There are pieces that are densely and aggressively painted, and others that possess a more luminous and tranquil quality. I want my paintings to make you feel something and I use a range of mood, color and composition to get you there.”
Buying local… ART!
This weekend is the summer Midcity Artists Open Studios event. Not only does this annual event allow you to tour the studios of local artists, you can also support these artists by buying local.
What is the concept behind buying local?
These days, it’s very common for people to go to the farmers market to “buy local” products, which have been produced or grown in close proximity to where they live. But do people buy local because they care about the way the products have been treated or because in so doing, they can also sustain and grow the local economy of their neighbors?
New art exhibit featuring Cherie Lester and Emilie Keim
Vastu is pleased to welcome artists Cherie Lester and Emilie Keim.
The recent works of Cherie Lester are inspired by her many years of study of architectural elements. These new abstract paintings are part of her continuing series of textural, mixed media, decollaged works on paper, wood and fabric. Comforting and strong, these pieces offer strength and solidity, with wisps of whimsy.
Emilie Keim works with urban landscape and row-homes of the neighborhoods around her. Read more
Artist Statement: Brian Petro
Vastu welcomes back Brian Petro with one of his most exciting bodies of artworks.
Brian shared that, based from his studies of homeless peoples scavenging practices in Central Pennsylvania and in New York City, he dumpster dives to find cast-off bodega and supermarket signs and discarded denim to create his new series of work. Above is one of 2 styles that presently hanging in Vastu, and will be on display through mid-January.
For more on the current art exhibit, click here.
New art exhibit featuring Hans Kline and Brian Petro
Vastu is pleased to welcome Hans Kline for his first show at Vastu called bad art: {iconograffiti}. Regarding his work, Kline asks the questions…
What defines an icon? A lasting brand? Is it on purpose or a white lie that goes unchallenged? I want to discuss why certain details become larger than life, usually eclipsing, and often misquoting, their origin. More directly: is jesus an alligator you can wear on your shirt?
Brian Petro’s show Cranial Denim explores scavenged denim thrust into hand-built wooden frames, then slathered with paint and polyurethane. The texture conjures up the thousands of folds of a human brain. What are thoughts, and why do we have them?
When:
Nov 9, 2010 – Jan 16, 2011
Where:
Vastu
1829 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
202-234-8344
Work by Hans Kline
The “Take You Home” art exhibit is a must see
The “Take You Home” exhibit currently showing at Gallery Plan B is a must see. Works by both featured artists, Mike Weber and Jason Wright, are breathtaking. Wright uses a modern take on knife painted landscapes to create beautiful, clean-lined pieces. Weber works are the marriage of antique photography and technology, and the results are amazing.
GALLERY
1530 fourteenth street, nw |washington, dc 20005
HOURS
wed – sat 12-7 | sun 1-5
or by appointment
INFO
info@galleryplanb.com | 202.234.2711
Allen Russ: Redefining the World in Photographs
Cecile Oreste, of DC neighborhood blog Borderstan, recently interviewed photographer Allen Russ. Allen, like Kristina Bilonick, is currently showing works as part of Vastu’s ‘$500 or Less Art Exhibit‘.
(photo credit: Luis Gomez Photos)
To learn more about Allen Russ and his work, click here to read Cecile’s post.
New art exhibit: Lynda Ray and Rodger Schultz
Patterns in nature, architecture, and layers of paint on surfaces, are Lynda Ray’s starting points. She is concerned with time as expressed in arranged layers of shapes. Instead of experiencing time in a linear way, as a narrative to be read left to right, bottom to top, or top down, Lynda looks at time condensed and compressed.
New art exhibit!
Colin Winterbottom returns to Vastu to exhibit recent work and favorites. Featured among the dramatic, atmospheric photographs he shows are a series taken as he documented refurbishment of the pediments at the National Archives headquarters in Washington, DC. Other photographs feature New York, Washington DC, and recent studies of smaller towns in between.
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