The DC Traveler

August 27th, 2008

Richard Diebenkorn’s Abstract Impressionism

American painter, Richard Diebenkorn’s early abstract impressionism work is not well known. But his Albuquerque period (1950-52), created a solid foundation for future work.

His individualist style were based, in part, of earlier works of abstract expressionists from a decade earlier. 
By the 1960s, he had become a known and respected abstract expressionist on America’s Pacific coast.
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April 6th, 2008

Dreams at the Hirshhorn

One of the current exhibits at the The Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image - Part I: Dreams, is a very unique collection of moving-image and cinematic artworks.
Ranging from somewhat predictable Andy Warhol-like black & white still-life movies with not much happening, to some very […]

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December 10th, 2006

Photos by Maxwell MacKenzie - Sky Light

A mostly black and white collection of photographs entitles Sky Light by Washington DC resident, Maxwell MacKenzie, is showing at the Fraser Gallery in suburban Bethesda, MD.  
His eye for capturing the beauty of what is now the practically vanished post-depression-era homesteds of the remote prairies of the Midwest is distinctive.

 
 
 
 
 
The collection consists of haunting panoramic […]

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December 2nd, 2006

Arch of Light - Steel and Glass

In a joint exhibit of German-born artists called Arc d’Light / Lichtbogen, works by steel sculptor Wulf Kirschner and painter Nicola Stäglich are on display at the Goethe-Institut through January 31st.

 
The artists use contrasting materials - welded steel and metal, and translucent painted plexiglass, to show commonalities and effects of light and lighting on their […]

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