Embracing the Storm
Mixed media paintings by Gavin Sewell
October 28 - November 26, 2022
MEET THE ARTIST RECEPTIONS:
Friday, Oct 28, 4-8 PM | Saturday, Oct 29, 2-6 PM
At 1429 Iris Street NW, Washington DC 20012
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Mixed-media artist GAVIN SEWELL specializes in contemplative, large-scale collages and intricate wall-sculptures. Often exploring themes of history and time, Sewell’s works can be seen as contemporary takes on mandalas, icons, memory gardens, or totem poles – thought provoking objects in which viewers may find reflective calm or personal insight in the face of deep complexity.
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Continuing in the found-object traditions of Kurt Schwitters, Louise Bourgeois, the Kienholzes, and Julian Schnabel, the artist uses gestural painting, photography, and salvaged 3-d items in his constructions. He weaves together layers of different materials like plots in a novel, adding elements strategically or intuitively to reach a dynamic equilibrium of storytelling and emotion.
Sewell’s paradoxical experience as a vision-impaired painter makes him particularly sensitive to the ambiguous, the marginal, and the different. Conceptually his work suggests the inter-connectedness of seemingly different things and communities, while aesthetically the work favors rich surfaces that invite the human touch and ask us to ‘see’ them with our hands as well as with our eyes.
These meticulously crafted and durable works are best appreciated over long periods of time, where their interplay of storytelling and hypnotic suggestion invite viewers to imagine their own narratives of the coincidental, the sublime, and the hopeful.
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Lightening on the Masthead - American Flag Series |
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PRIMARILY ABSTRACT
Sculpture by Brian Kirk & Paintings by Anne Marchand
Showing now through November 19, 2022
At 1111 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC 20004
Hours: Mon-Fri, 8am-7pm; Saturday, 8 am - 4 pm * Enter on 12th Street and press button for entrance.
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BRIAN KIRK uses reclaimed steel, conveying industrial prowess and bold, raw energy, while also bearing an acceptance of natural chemical reactions that–with time–enable simple elements of water and oxygen to disable even the strength of steel. The ebb and flow of tides, changing phases of the moon and evolutions of patterns in Nature are frequent themes.
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Initially inspired by the Hubble telescope images of outer space ANNE MARCHAND's paintings emulate the same energy from nebulae and galaxies. “These works invite the visual vibration in the eye of the viewer, along with their sense of wonder, introspection, and imagination.” Anne Marchand has been a force in the DC art scene since the 1970s and currently has an exhibit at the International Museum of Art & Science in McAllen, Texas.
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Currently on display | Upper Georgia Ave |
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Gallery Owned Inventory
& Non-profit Art Sale
Proceeds to benefit Zenith Community Arts Foundation
At 7350 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20012 (Corner of Geranium & Georgia Ave)
By Appointment only or Call Zenith Gallery for entry Wednesday - Saturday, Noon - 6 PM | 202-783-2963
Image right: Fragmented Figures, by Lou Kaplan |
See more items or purchase items HERE
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Zygote, by Mark Sfirri &
Robert Dodge
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Twist
by Paul Martin Wolf
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Sailor's Sunset
by Sue Klebanoff
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The Big Build | National Building Museum
Saturday, November 5, 2022, 11 AM – 4 PM
All ages are invited to The Big Build, a FREE hands-on festival exploring a wide variety of unique, interactive activities with roofers, plumbers, home re-modelers, construction workers, carpenters, artisans, and the ZCAF Mobile Woodshop!
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The ZCAF Mobile Woodshop invites the public to try their hand at turning wood on a mini-lathe, and to see the innovative truck that is a woodshop on wheels. Find out about our Pre-Apprenticeship Carpentry Training in DC's ward 8.
For information, contact Lynda Smith-Bugge at 202-783-8005 | email: zcaf@zcaf.org
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"Classroom on Wheels Teaches Woodworking Skills to Young People."
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Support Zenith Community Arts Foundation (ZCAF)
‘Classroom on Wheels’ Teaches Woodworking Skills to Young People
Margery Goldberg, Zenith’s director, said the goal of the Woodshop is “to get people jobs.” Goldberg is an artist, wood sculptor and longtime member of the D.C. art community. She had long dreamed of creating a mobile woodshop to assist students. That dream finally came true in 2020, when the city gave her a large grant for the program.
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September 24, 2022
FOX 5 NEWS
D.C. showcased the city's talent at the "Art All Night" Festival. FOX 5 photojournalist Nick Petrillo was there at Zenith's Geranium Market Space to check out the art and to interview Khalid Thompson!
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From power tools in his hands to a paintbrush, that's the change that took over artist Robert C. Jackson's life when he went from a 10-year career as an electrical engineer to an award-winning published artist. His creative work is on display at Zenith Gallery in Northwest D.C. and FOX 5's Gwen Tolbart stopped by the exhibit to share it all with us.
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Right Place-Right Time: Robert C. Jackson
Nov 25, 2022- March 5, 2023
Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio
For more information click HERE
MORE works by Robert C. Jackson
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Now celebrating 44 years in the Nation’s Capital, Zenith is recognized for its unique mix of contemporary art in a wide variety of media, style, and subject. The gallery provides high-quality acquisition, art consulting, commissioning, appraisal and framing services, through its gallery/salon/ sculpture garden off 16th Street at 1429 Iris Street NW, Washington DC 20012. Zenith also curates rotating exhibits at the Eleven Sculpture Space at 1111 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Wash DC 20004.
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