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Pictured above: Robin Bell, Mirror I, video installation with mirrors, Mac mini, camera, and LED lights, 2019. Photo: Sarah McGavran for East City Art

East City Art Reviews—Refractions: Prints and Projections by Robin Bell at Lost Origins Gallery
By Sarah McGavran, Ph.D.
Robin Bell may be best known for his guerilla projections on the façade of the Trump International Hotel in downtown Washington, DC, which addressed themes of corruption and accountability. His recent exhibition at Lost Origins Gallery expanded upon this work while asserting that viewers have a responsibility to speak out as well.

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Pictured above: Stanley Stellar, John on Howard, 1994. Pigment print. 16” x 20”. Courtesy of Stanley Stellar.

East City Art Reviews—From the Margins at Gallery 102
By Miguel Resendiz
From the Margins, on view at Gallery 102, is a response to the recent 30-year anniversary of the Corcoran’s cancellation of a retrospective on Robert Mapplethorpe. The show consists mostly of photographs by queer artists and addresses issues in queer representation, identity, and the act of critique.

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Pictured above: Penelope, 2010. Raeda Saadeh. C-type color print. 36 x 48 in. Photo for East City Art by Eric Hope.

East City Art Reviews—Arabicity|Ourouba at MEI Gallery
By Eric Hope
What does it mean to have an Arab identity?  Are there commonalities between regional identities as one journeys from the Atlas Mountains eastward to the Persian Gulf? This question is posed by the artists in the Middle East Institute’s inaugural gallery exhibition Arabicity|Ourouba.

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Pictured above: Cianne Fragione, Caulonia, Monasterace, mixed media on paper, 38 ½” x 50”, 2018. Photo courtesy of Gallery Neptune & Brown.
 
East City Art Reviews—Cianne Fragione: Gate to the Sea
By Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D.
Works from a large series of paintings watercolors and prints by Cianne Fragione is on view at Gallery Neptune & Brown.  They were inspired by a residency the artist had at Monasterace (Reggio Calabria) near the destroyed Greek town of Caulonia on the southernmost coast of Italy. Facing the Ionian Sea, ancient Caulonia is now an archaeological site reached through an iron gate and a flight of 50 or 60 steps down to the water—a gate to the sea.

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