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Connersmith
Connersmith is an art gallery in Washington, DC, owned and founded by Leigh Conner and Jamie Smith. History CONNERSMITH, (originally Conner Contemporary Art), was founded in 1999. The gallery, initially located in Dupont Circle, moved to the Atlas Arts District in 2007 and to the Shaw Historic District in 2015. CONNERSMITH specializes in contemporary art and post war painting, including Washington Color painting of the 1950s and 1960s. CONNERSMITH participates in international art fairs, which have included The Armory Show, Art Brussels, ARCO, EXPO Chicago, ZONA MACO, and UNTITLED Miami Beach. CONNERSMITH hosts Academy, an annual invitational group exhibition featuring works by students and graduates of college art programs in the greater Washington, DC region. Jamie Smith founded CONNERSMITH's Academy exhibition in 2001. Artists CONNERSMITH has hosted exhibitions of works by many contemporary artists, including: Leo Villareal, Erik Thor Sandberg, Janet Biggs, Joe Ovelman ...
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Janet Biggs
Janet Biggs is an American visual artist, known for her work in video, photography and interdisciplinary performance art. Biggs lives and works in New York City. Biggs' work focuses on individuals in extreme landscapes or situations, such as the Taklamakan desert of Western China, the Horn of Africa, the Arctic, and the Mars Desert Research Station. Her work explores challenges faced by diverse groups including the Uighurs, Indonesian sulfur miners and Yemini refugees. In 2022, Biggs worked with CERN and the Spencer museum. Reviews of her work have appeared in the ''New York Times'', the ''New Yorker, ArtForum, ARTNews, Art in America, Flash Art,'' and ''ArtReview''. Biggs was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fine Arts in 2018. Recent works From September 2024 to January 2025, Janet Biggs participated in the CyberArts Exhibit at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia. This exhibition, organized by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative, explores the intersection ...
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Wilmer Wilson IV
Wilmer Wilson IV (born 1989) is an American artist based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who works in performance, photography, sculpture, and other media. Although typically identified as a performance artist, Wilson also works with sculpture and photography. Early life and education Wilson was born in Richmond, Virginia. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Howard University in 2012 and later his Master of Fine Arts from the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. Awards Wilson's work has been exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe in galleries, art fairs and museums. Wilson has been the recipient of a Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Fellowship and an American Academy in Rome Fellowship. He has also been awarded several public art and museum commissions including the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (5x5 Public Art Commission) and a Films4Peace Commission. Additionally, Wilson's work and performances have been presente ...
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Joe Ovelman
Joe Ovelman (born 1970 in West Chester, Pennsylvania) is a US contemporary artist and author who works with video, photography, sculpture, installation art, performance art, artist's books, and drawing. His work has featured in several New York City street murals. Ovelman currently lives and works in New York City. He has also lived in Philadelphia, Palm Springs, California, and São Paulo, Brazil. Career Ovelman surveys sexuality, social norms, and marginalized communities in his work. He often invites individuals to participate in projects, whether asking them to don his father's United States Marine Corps Uniform on 12th Street Beach in South Beach Miami, or as recipients of an epic cross-country book-gifting performance, "Boondocking: You I See," 2019. Ovelman's first cited work was an image in The New York Times whose tagline read simply, "Street Art." Ovelman pasted images along the construction wall surrounding Larry Gagosian's Chelsea Gagosian Gallery in a project titl ...
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Alma Thomas
Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American artist and art teacher who lived and worked in Washington, D.C., and is now recognized as a major American painter of the 20th century. She is the first African-American woman to be included in the White House's permanent art collection. "Resurrection" by Alma Thomas.
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Thomas is best known for the "exuberant", colorful, abstract paintings that she created after she retired from a 35-year career teaching art at Washington's Shaw Junior High School. Thomas, who is often considered a member of the Washington Color School art movement but alternatively classified by some as an Expressionism, Expressionist and/or Black Abstractionism, Black Abstractionist, earned her teaching deg ...
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