Identification is an all-media self-portrait exhibition exploring alternative definitions of self through the juxtaposition of the artists’ objective and subjective identities. Our juror is Dara Engler, artist and Assistant Professor of Art at Ithaca College. Selected Artists: Amber Eve Anderson (DC), Matthew Boonstra (MD), Jeff Carpenter (PA), Joshua Chambers (LA), Julia D. Dzikiewicz (VA), Katarzyna Jablonska (UK), Michael McCaffrey (KS), Sarah Noreen (MD), Sara Paige (WI), Kate Patsch (VA), Biata Roytburd (NY), Liz Wolf (MD)

In celebration of the Torpedo Factory Art Center’s 40th Anniversary, Chicago-based artist Sara Black and the art duo Hideous Beast will transform the Target Gallery into a community library. Constructed from repurposed and locally sourced building materials, this community space will feature a diverse array of public programming. While on the one hand serving to archive and share TFAC’s rich history as a creative place, the exhibition also questions newly emerging modes of both art making and arts funding.

Steven Walls’ large-scale figurative paintings depict the states between visual perception, memory, waking life and dreams.

Coming to Alexandria from Norway, this exhibition of contemporary video, sound, text, and sculpture that reflects the indigenous culture and worldview of Sámi people.

Public Reception: Thursday, December 11, 6 – 8 pm; Gallery Talk with Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, 7 pm   In a new Target Gallery exhibition, artists were challenged to express themselves in a work of art that is no larger than five inches in any direction. 5×5(x5) is an all-media exhibition featuring little works that make a big impact. “As a grouping, the artwork on view in this exhibition is a study in modernity across many voices,” said Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell, guest juror for…

Public Reception: Thursday, February 12, 6-8 pm; Gallery talk with Juror Jeff Huntington   Back by popular demand, In the Flesh V is an examination of contemporary figurative art. This all-media exhibition features work by 19 artists, all of whom express the human form in a unique and thought-provoking way. “The selected works, through varied mediums and interpretations, whether overt or figurative in meaning, evoke a sense of flesh, physicality, or different ideas about the human presence.” ­–Jeff Huntington  …

2015 Newly Juried Artists of the Torpedo Factory Art Center Exhibition Dates: March 28 – April 12, 2015 Reception: Sunday, April 12 • 3-5pm • Presentation at 4pm Target Gallery welcomes the 11 newly juried artists of the Torpedo Factory Artists Association (TFAA)! These artists were selected from a competitive group of artists via our annual jury process. 2D Artists: Julia Dzikiewicz, Courtney Hengerer, Nathan Leibowitz, Donna K. McGee, Joe Regan, Tom Sliter 3D Artists: Kate Westfall, Nooree Suh, Whitney Staiger, Alice Kresse, Mark…

Korean artist Eunsook Lee explores what it means to be a family maintaining connections across the globe. She uses black-light-sensitive threads, resulting in a dramatic fluorescent palette.

This all-media exhibition examines work inspired by the outsider’s perspective. Artists comment on geographic, personal, societal, and other boundaries.

Four artists explore the sublime dance of archetypal masculinity and femininity in a new exhibition at Target Gallery. The body serves as a binding theme in this presentation of aesthetically diverse work, as each artist negotiates ideas of femininity and power.

Target Gallery features an interactive selfie wall, the story of banished Quakers, an experiment in the financial value of art, and a ghostly history of the Torpedo Factory.

Public Reception: Thursday, December 10 • 6 – 8 pm • Juror Talk with Gretchen Schermerhorn at 7pm Target Gallery explores the fine art of printed matter in this exhibition featuring printmaking, graphic design, illustration, artsits’ books and zines. Our juror for this exhibition was Gretchen Schermerhorn, Artistic Director of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center in Silver Spring, MD. Participating Artists: Mark Bischel (NY), Tyrus Clutter (FL), Jake Ingram (NY), Annie May Johnston (TX), Michele Montalbano (VA), Leah Oates (NY), Danielle…

Target Gallery partners with the Women’s Caucus of Art to present Trending: Contemporary Art Now! The exhibition is part of WCA’s 2016 national conference in Washington, D.C. Trending features work by 12 self-identified women who are driving the direction of contemporary art.

Women Do It!, is the mail art exhibition of WCA’s International Caucus and its UN Program. ”Women Do It!” was inspired by and highlights the work of UN Women’s HeForShe campaign, its Beijing+20 program and their efforts toward advancing women’s rights and gender equality in society, economics and politics. The exhibition is hosted in partnership by the Target Gallery and the Women’s Caucus for Art as an extension of Trending: Contemporary Art Now!

Target Gallery’s popular annual fundraising exhibition and art sale, March150, returns to the Torpedo Factory Art Center to raise money in support of the Gallery’s special exhibitions and programs.

Target Gallery is pleased to welcome the new artists of the Torpedo Factory Artists’ Association! These artists were selected via our annual jury process from a competitive group of applicants.

Main-based Lisa Kellner’s work is intended to be immersive, Using silk organza in a painterly process, she sews thousands of bulbous shapes and creates structures that seem to grow from the walls and ceiling. The work will envelop the entire gallery in a room-sized singular form.

Reception: Saturday, April 16 • 3 – 5 pm • Artist Talk at 4pm Always into Now is a site-responsive Painting in Space that uses the room as canvas. Maine-based Lisa Kellner’s work is intended to be immersive, inviting the viewer to experience the intimacy of being absorbed within a room-sized painting. Come meet the artist as she talks about the inspiration and creation of the full-scale installation. This is the first exhibition as part of Target Gallery’s New Media…

Visitors are encouraged to touch, feel, dine upon, and even lick the artwork in this all-media exhibition.

This is an Open Call for proposals for an exhibition in the summer of 2016. Artists from North America working in all visual media are eligible to apply. Proposals for exhibitions by both individuals and groups will be considered. The individual or group associated with the chosen proposal will recieve a solo exhibition at the Target Gallery from July 23 – August 28. The artist(s) will also recieve a stipend and digital exhibition catalog.

Three women who use the female body to explore issues of equity, power, politics, and memory

Target Gallery presents the 2016 Torpedo Factory Post-Graduate Residents! This group of artists have spent three months each developing new work in Studio 12. This exhibition is a sampling of their best work created during their time here.

Target Gallery explores the future of contemporary fiber and textile art in Future of Fiber. This call is open to national and international artists working in textile, fiber and wearable arts.

This all-media exhibition invites national and international artists to submit work that explores this concept of individual identity through works that contextualize themes of race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, disability and all other ‘labels’ we might use to identify ourselves.

The newest exhibition in Target Gallery, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center, presents work that is fleeting and impermanent. Ephemera features the work of 22 national and international artists who contemplate themes of nature, time, memory, and brevity.

Reception: Thursday, June 8 | 6 – 8 pm | Juror Talk 7 pm The newest exhibition in Target Gallery, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center, explores emerging technological and interactive media in art. Glitch: An Exploration of Digital Media features the work of 11 artists from across the country, five of whom are from the region. Adriel Luis, curator of digital and emerging media at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, juried the show. “Ever…

Opening Reception: Thursday, July 13th 6 – 8 pm | Artist Talk 7 pm Target Gallery, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center, welcomes Detroit-based mixed-media artist Sarah Nesbitt for her first solo exhibition in the greater D.C. metropolitan area. Nesbitt’s show arrives at a time where our society, the media, and government aim to establish a concrete line between fact and opinion, history and myth, evidence and conspiracy theory. She studies forgeries, censorship, the writing and…

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 14th 6 – 8 pm | Gallery Talk 7 pm Target Gallery, contemporary exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, presents Culture Shock, an exhibition exploring pop, graffiti, and street styles in contemporary art. Culture Shock addresses topical socio-political issues and pokes fun at pop culture, illustrating the influential role visual art and creative expression plays into building cultural identity. The juror for this exhibition is Mojdeh Rezaeipour, a storyteller, artist, The Moth‘s Washington DC StorySlam…

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 9th 6 – 8 pm | Artist Talk 7 pm Target Gallery Presents the 2017 Torpedo Factory Post-Graduate Residents: Jay Hendrick, Samantha Sethi, Lindsay Hall, and Fumi Amano. This group of artists have each spent three months over the past year  developing new work in our Residency studio 12. This exhibition is a sampling of their best work created during their time here. Jay Hendrick   ●   George Mason University January – March Jay Hendrick questions the value…

Opening Reception: Friday, December 15, 7 – 9 pm | Gallery Talk 7:30 pm The newest exhibition in Target Gallery, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center, presents artwork left both intentionally and unintentionally unfinished. Interlude: Unfinished Works features the work of 21 artists from across the globe. It is on view Saturday, December 9, 2017 through Sunday, January 21, 2018. Unfinished artwork gives insight into the artist’s hand and methodology. The unresolved and open ended nature…

Interlude: Unfinished Works Reception: Friday, December 15 • 7 – 9 pm | Gallery Talk • 7:30 pm Exhibition Dates: December 9, 2017 – January 21, 2018 Target Gallery presents Interlude: Unfinished Works, an exhibition that gives the spotlight to the artistic process. Interlude: Unfinished Works will include artwork left both intentionally and unintentionally unfinished, giving insight to the artist’s hand and methodology. The unresolved and open ended nature of the art gives new context to the viewer of the themes and…

Opening Reception: Friday, April 13, 7 – 9 pm | Artist Talk 7:30 pm Jury Panel Talk: Thursday, May 10, 8 – 9 pm Target Gallery, the contemporary exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center, introduces a new annual exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists of the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia region. The public reception will be part of the Torpedo Factory’s Late Shift: What is Art event. There will also be a talk with the jury…

Exhibition Dates: July 20 – September 2, 2018 Opening Reception: Friday, July 20 7 – 9 pm | Gallery Talk 8 pm Target Gallery presents Illuminate, a special glow-in-the-dark exhibition that is focused on the relationship between art and light. The lights will be turned off in the gallery, turning the viewer’s attention to the illuminated artwork whether it be through the lighting of video, light installation/sculpture, or use of black light mediums. The juror for this exhibition was Emily Smith,…

Reception: Friday, November 9, 2018 | 7-9 pm Target Gallery presents Art of Armistice, a group exhibition that explores the after effects of war. This exhibition will focus on the physical, mental, and cultural effects war has on the world through the perspective of both civilians and veterans alike. This exhibition will be paired with different public programs in honor of the 100th year anniversary of the ground breaking of the former munitions plant that the Torpedo Factory Art Center now…