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Friday May 3: “People & Places” The Arts Club of Washington (Washington, DC)
Friday May 3: “The Gun Show” The Dunes (Washington, DC)
Saturday May 11: “Domesticated” Art Enables (2-person exhibit) (Washington, DC)
Saturday June 29: “Bar Crawl” Adah Rose Gallery (2-person exhibit) (Kensington, MD)
everyday July: “31 Days in July” 10th & final year!
OPENING Reception:
Friday, May 3rd 6-8pm
“People & Places”
I am very happy to have been selected as one of the four artists in the“People and Places: Four Distinct Views” exhibit which opens this Friday night. I’m showing a collection of work that is an assortment of politics, portraits and, of course, a bit of irreverence.
There will be an artist talk on Wednesday, May 15th, 5pm-8pm.
“Happy Place” 27”x40” acrylic on canvas
“Hare Trigger”
24”x36” acrylic on canvas
In the midst of the current gun debate, opinions once widely polarized seem to be nearing agreement on reasonable gun laws. The Gun Show assembles DC area artist's views on guns,
from all perspectives - including the reach of their various impacts on society, family, and pop culture - in this month long exhibition.
I hope to see some of you at one (or both!) of these two openings THIS Friday night. I’ll be at The Arts Club first and then headed up to The Dunes in the later part of the evening.
You can always visit me online to see my most recent paintings:
“Domesticated”
an new exhibit by:
OPENING Reception:
Sat., May 11th, 1-4pm
This exhibition focuses on Ellyn and Sesow’s definition of "domestication", where the DC artist power-couple have created a series of paintings that celebrate their philosophy on life, art, and being married. Sesow's popular animal creatures and icons are an expected interpretation of his work, as are Ellyn's familiar creations that celebrate her vegetarian lifestyle and respect for animal rights. "Domesticated" takes an unexpected turn with the artist's interpretation of marriage. They live and create paintings separately throughout their creative week. Sesow in Adams Morgan while Ellyn is downtown in her subsidized artist housing at Mather Studios. Their living situation is non-traditional; however, it works, and perhaps the only way married artists can continue to create is separately. Additionally, marriage has somewhat 'domesticated' the reckless animal spirit of Sesow, making him more focused and able to create a concentrated body of work - with spurts of primitive behavior (oftentimes alone during long creative sessions from his Adams Morgan studio). Whereas Ellyn's "domestication" has given her the confidence of commitment, process, and much needed "quiet time". Ellyn's paintings come from long periods of quiet and study, where she is able to carefully plan the composition, and execution of her work. Together the duo of Sesow and Ellyn are eclectic, unexpected, non-traditional, but unmistakably "domesticated", at least according to their definition.
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In their newest duo show artists Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow explore the spirit and soul of Washington, DC through its neighborhood bars. Whether chatting and sipping at the Black Squirrel, Madam’s Organ, or The Standard both artists draw inspiration from the people and places that host our teachers, Representatives, artists, lawyers, bureaucrats, entrepreneurs and the rest of us. “Heck, we love drinking, we love painting and we love DC.”
“Bar. Crawl.” 24”x36” acrylic on canvas