Past Exhibitions: January 2006

Remembering Marc and Komei

This exhibition introduces the outstanding art collection of H. Marc Moyens, who, with Komei Wachi, owned and operated Gallery K in Washington for nearly three decades until their deaths, months apart, in 2003. Mixing local and national artists with Europeans often known better abroad than in the United States, Moyens and Wachi eschewed fashion in favor of the offbeat, the magical, and the visually arresting. This selection, the first of its kind since Walter Hopps curated a show of Moyens’s holdings for the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1969-70, encompasses surrealistic/fantastic images by Ernst Fuchs, Jess, and Sandy Skoglund; expressive, metaphorical, and raunchy figures by Lisa Brotman, Roy de Forest, Jean Dubuffet, Fred Folsom, Jody Mussoff, and Joe Shannon, and diverse abstractions by Edward Dugmore, Tom Green, Pierre Soulages, and Ken Young.

Body Languages:
Mary Coble and Robert Flynt

This exhibition is presented in conjunction with the 13th Annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference held at American University, where common themes are two-fold: how lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgendered persons, and queers use language in everyday life, and how language gets directed against the LGBT population by others. Extending the concept to visual art, the exhibition features Robert Flynt’s rumination on the language of desire, in which large-scale, sepia-toned photo-collages of male and female nudes are glimpsed through overlays of 18th- and 19th-century anatomy charts, and Mary Coble’s painfully direct indictment of hate crimes, in which the names of 430 victims appear on an expansive grid of small paper sheets. The artist’s “medium” for this performance-based work is her own blood, created by typographic, self-healing tattoos. The exhibition is organized by Provisions Library Resource Center for Art and Social Change (Sita Reddy, Director of Education and Donald Russell, Executive Director).

From the Studio

This exhibition will showcase work by the 21 artists who make up the studio faculty in the Department of Art for the 2005-2006 academic year. The work addresses a wide range of contemporary issues through painting, drawing, sculpture, and multimedia installation. Exhibiting artists include Tom Bunnell, Zoe Charlton, Mary Cloonan, Billy Colbert, Tim Doud, Ben Ferry, Sharon Fishel, Carol Goldberg, Lee Haner, Kristin Holder, Tendai Johnson, Deborah Kahn, Don Kimes, Isabel Manalo, Mark Oxman, Randall Packer, Luis Silva, Jeff Spaulding, Robert Tillman, Seth Van Kirk, and Susan Yanero.

Comic Reality:
Political Cartoons by Ibero-American Artists

This exhibition presents more than 100 new or never-before-published political cartoons from 20 Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal by Ibero-America’s best-known practitioners of the genre. Chico Caruso of Brazil, Oscar Sierra of Costa Rica, Elizandro de Los Angeles of Guatemala, Jimmy Scott of Chile, Pancho Cajaz of Ecuador, and others present humorously incisive images leading the charge against hypocrisy, the misuse of power, scandal, incompetence, and buffoonery.

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