Counterculture Art
This summer is the 40th anniversary of the “Summer of Love”. In 1967, Hippies, revolutionaries, “peacenicks” and radicals fought against the establishment and The Man.
Young people from Haight-Ashbury to the East Village were told to “Turn on, tune in, drop out”. Hair got longer and the generation gap got wider.
Musical events helped define a generation – the New Port Jazz Fest, Woodstock, Altamont, the Monterey Pop Festival and Woodstock.
Social conscienceness and activatism in the 1960s and 70s stopped a war and brought about huge social change. The evening news with Walter Cronkite or Huntley and Brinkley featured live news reports from Vietnam complete with daily KIA and MIA tallies, peace and civil rights marches, riots, campus sit-ins, and the assignations of JFK, RFK and MLK.
A new group art show at District Fine Arts presents works from artists who lived and expressed their personal visions of the turbulent 1960s. The artists include:
- Abstract painter and photographer Richard Friedman, who painted scenes from the Western U.S.
- Photographer Robert Otter, a resident who documented the old and new in the 1960s bohemian Greenwich Village in black and white.
- Painter Steven Rosenberg, who tried to capture some of the “loss of innocence and anger at the polarizing forces that co-opted our values”.
- Abstract painter and photographer Gene Markoski, who painted scenes from the Western U.S.
- Painter and sculptor Karl Umlaut.
Counterculture
District Fine Arts
1726 Wisconsin Ave. NW, between R & S Streets
Washington, DC (map it)
202-328-9100
Date and Times - Tuesdays – Saturdays thru Sept. 8th - 11:00 a.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Nearest Metro Subway Station – Foggy Bottom - Blue and Orange lines, then a 1.5 mile walk.
Images – All images are copyrighted by the respective artist.
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