Pictured above: Edward Hopper, Room in New York, 1932, oil on canvas. Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Anna R. and Frank M. Hall Charitable Trust, H-166. Photo © Sheldon Museum of Art © 2019 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
East City Art Reviews—Looking In: Edward Hopper’s Hotel Interior Views
By Claudia Rousseau, Ph.D.
Edward Hopper and the American Hotel is a major exhibition of paintings, watercolors, prints and never before exhibited drawings at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. With a focus on Hopper’s representations of hotel interiors, it includes works that show Hopper’s extensive influence in this genre. Hopper’s works were designed to encourage the viewer to look in—even in cases where they’d rather not.
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Pictured above: image courtesy American University Museum at the Katzen Center.
Click on image above for this weekend's gallery openings and artist talks.
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Pictured above: Kelly Posey, Psychedelic Petri Dish Installation, oil on canvas, dishes 16” x 16”, 2019. Photo Eric Celarier for East City Art.
East City Art Reviews: Meditations and Epiphanies
By Eric Celarier
Curated by Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, the Betty Mae Kramer Gallery & Music Room of downtown Silver Spring hosts artists who describe the metaphysical with paint. Though ineffable and intangible, Judith Benderson, J. Jordan Bruns, Kelly Posey, and Terry Sitz bring various visions of those things that might only be felt. With bright colors and subtle textures, these artists seek to describe the indefinable nature of human experience through abstraction.
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