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News & Events
The following is the gallery's current or immediately
forthcoming exhibition. For more current news and updates
about what's going on in the gallery this week, check out
the Nevin Kelly Gallery Blog at
nevinkellygallery.blogspot.com
Following its grand
opening exhibition entitled "Color + Mood"
in June 2003, an exhibition that featured works
by Polish artists Krzysztof Kokoryn, Mikolaj
Kasprzyk, Lukasz Huculak, Stasys Eidrigevicius,
Tomasz Karabowicz and Darek Pala, the Nevin
Kelly Gallery
hosted these exhibitions
from 2003 through 2008, continuing in
2009 with:
Open House in
Celebration of Our New Space
Please join us for a special Open House to
celebrate our new space in Columbia Heights.
Take a tour of the gallery, enjoy
refreshments, and view new works by many of
our gallery artists as well as some old
favorites.
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Affordable Art
Fair New York City
 Nevin
Kelly Gallery will be exhibiting again
this year at the
Affordable Art Fair in
New York City. We will be showing new
works by Sondra Arkin, Molly Brose, Mary Chiaramonte, Anna U. Davis, Laurel
Hausler, Ellyn Weiss and H. Wesley
Wheeler. If you are in the area or would
like to take a trip to NYC, stop by and
see us at booth #A-300.
Atmospheric
Conditions:
New Paintings by H. Wesley Wheeler
New
paintings by New York-based H. Wesley
Wheeler will be featured in a solo
exhibition. With an exquisite instinct
for balancing composition, color and
energy, Wheeler creates canvases on
which each of us may overlay our own
sense of mood and meaning.
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Desire (2008)
oil on canvas, 36" x 36" |
Stimulus
The gallery presents
"Stimulus," a group exhibition of
works by local artists to stimulate
the mind and the economy. All works
in the show will be priced at $500
or less, many at limited-opportunity
prices.
Participating artists include John
M. Adams, Sondra N. Arkin, Joan
Belmar, Tanja Bos, Anne Bouie, Molly
Brose, Lenny Campello, Mary
Chiaramonte, Anna U. Davis, Jenny
Davis, Thomas Drymon, Stirling
Elmendorf, Pat Goslee, Emily Greene
Liddle, Laurel Hausler, Eve Hennessa,
J. Ford Huffman, Rosalind Kennedy,
Mark Parascandola, Anneliese
Sullivan, Ming Yi Sung Zaleski, Ruth
Trevarrow, Claudia Vess, and Ellyn
Weiss.
Local restaurants
Commonwealth
Gastropub,
Pete’s New
Haven Style Apizza and
Rumberos
are offering dinner specials for the
Stimulus audience on the night of
the opening.
Radiance
Medspa, a neighborhood
day spa, is also offering specials.
Please check back for more
participating neighborhood
businesses.
Dark Matter: New Work in Tar by
Ellyn Weiss
A solo exhibition for local
artist,
Ellyn Weiss,
will be held in September. The
images resulting from her
interaction with tar-as-medium have
an eerily organic quality to them,
appearing to the artist like living
things “swimming up from the
primeval darkness.” They register
with us at the most basic level of
all, as if triggering a memory we
carry in our DNA of the moment life
began.
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Lost Continent
(2009)
asphalt on board, 30" x 30" |
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NKG becomes finalist in Best of
Express 2009
The Nevin Kelly Gallery has become
one of the finalists in the Best of
Express 2009 reader-favorite awards!
Go to the
Express
website from October 5-16
to vote for us, as well as other
finalists in categories from food to
shopping to sports.
Watch for the winners in the Express
Best of 2009 special section, which
will be published Friday, Nov. 6.
Zeitgeist II: What's Important Now
In October 2008, the Nevin Kelly
Gallery hosted the first "zeitgeist"
show, titled
Under
Surveillance. Curated by
Ellyn Weiss and Sondra N. Arkin, it
presented the responses of twelve
artists to what Weiss and Arkin saw
as one of the most important
elements of the then-prevailing
ethos: "the increasingly diminishing
zone of personal privacy available
to any of us as we are constantly
under surveillance by a growing
array of government, corporate and
media technologies." As a follow up,
Weiss and Arkin are asking a group
of local artists to reflect upon an
uncertain future and respond to the
question: "What's important now?"
Participating artists include Sondra
N. Arkin, Carol Beane, Scott G.
Brooks, Judy Byron, Groover
Cleveland, Richard Dana, Anna U.
Davis, Thomas Drymon, Aziza Claudia
Gibson-Hunter, Deb Jansen, Rosina
Memolo, Michael Platt, Renée Stout,
Tim Tate, Ruth Trevarrow, and Ellyn
Weiss.
NEVIN KELLY GALLERY SET TO CLOSE ITS
DOORS
With a little bit of sadness
and great appreciation for your support
over the years, we wish to announce that
Nevin Kelly Gallery will close its
permanent gallery space effective
January 31, 2010 in favor of a different
approach to exhibiting art. For the past
seven years or so, we have tried to
bring a fresh perspective to offerings
of contemporary art in the Washington,
DC area. We have featured work by
established Polish and other European
artists and showcased works by talented
local artists. Along the way, we have
made some great friends and have had the
pleasure of being surrounded by some
really fine art.
The past year has been exciting. After
six years on U Street, we moved to the
Highland Park Building in Columbia
Heights. We are grateful to Chris
Donatelli and Bozzuto Management for
their support of our efforts and for the
use of public space in the building to
display art. We also made a second trip
to the Affordable Art Fair in New York
City and received a heart-warming
nomination for Best Gallery in DC
courtesy of the readers of Express
Newspaper, owned and printed by the
Washington Post. In the last year, we
hosted two solo shows featuring works by
H. Wesley Wheeler
and
Ellyn Weiss,
respectively, and staged two group
exhibitions that reflected the issues of
the day. The first,
Stimulus,
was meant to stimulate the mind and the
economy by offering all works at $500 or
less. The second,
Zeitgeist II:
What's Important Now?, a
follow-up to 2008's Under
Surveillance, presented the
participating artists' views on the most
important issues we currently face as
Americans.
Although we are closing our retail
space, we hope to continue our
participation in DC's vibrant art scene.
We will seek opportunities to host shows
in pop-up locations and will continue to
gather artists together to talk and
showcase their ideas.
So, stay tuned by checking out our blog
or by receiving updates via our
newsletters. Thanks for being part of
our community during the last few years!
If you are interested in one of the
artists you see on our site, feel free
to inquire about it. Our email address
and phone number are
still active. Viewings are by
appointment only.
P: 202.232.3464
E:
Stay tuned by
checking out our blog or by receiving updates
via our newsletters.
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