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SUMMARY:March150: 10th Annual Special Exhibition & Art Sale
DESCRIPTION:*The Torpedo Factory Art Center and Target Gallery is closed to the public through May 17 in response to COVID-19. Therefore we are extending March150 to stay open through May 31.\nArtwork may be viewed online on Target Gallery’s Facebook album. To purchase or to make inquiries\, please fill out our March150 Purchase Request Form or call the gallery at 703.746.4590 or email us targetgallery@alexandriava.gov . Please keep in mind that since we are closed to the public\, staff will only be working Monday – Friday. \n\nTorpedo Factory Art Center’s popular annual exhibition and art sale\, March150\, returns to Target Gallery for the 10th year. Proceeds benefit future exhibitions and programs at Target Gallery and the Art Center. The show is on view Saturday\, March 14\, through Saturday\, May 31*\, 2020. \nAll work in the exhibition is created on gallery-supplied 10” x 10” panels and is priced at $150. About 200 original works are created by artists of every ability from the greater metropolitan area. Professional\, emerging and amateur artists participate with artworks featuring a diversity of topics and media\, including painting\, photography\, etching\, mixed-media\, fiber and more. \n“March150 has become a staple at the Art Center and people look forward to it all year\,” said Leslie Mounaime\, director of exhibitions at Torpedo Factory Art Center. “This exhibition is a low-pressure environment for both artists and patrons. It encourages new collectors to buy original art\, exposes seasoned collectors to new local artists and sets the stage for artists to test new techniques and ideas. It is accessible and affordable.” \nStarting on the last weekend of the exhibition from Saturday\, May 30 – Sunday\, May 31\, all unsold artwork is priced at $100. \nIn 2019\, Target Gallery grossed more than $17\,000 from March150. Proceeds benefit exhibitions and programs at the Art Center\, such as the annual Solo Exhibition\, The Late Shift\, and others. \nFor more information about the exhibition and ticket sales\, visit torpedofactory.org/march150. Follow #march150 to join the conversation online.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/march150-10th-annual-special-exhibition-art-sale/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Fundraising,Special Event
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SUMMARY:My Queer Valentine
DESCRIPTION:The newest group exhibition in Target Gallery\, the contemporary exhibitions space of Torpedo Factory Art Center\, offers a poignant look at love and relationships for LGBTQ+-identifying people. \nMy Queer Valentine explores love through non-heteronormative and non-binary relationships. The exhibition features 16 artists\, 8 who are from Virginia or the D.C. greater metropolitan area. \nParticipating Artists\nNicholas Aiden\, St. John’s\, NL\, Canada\nVeronica Barker-Barzel (Studio 320)\, Alexandria\, VA\nBrandin Barón\, San Francisco\, CA\nAdam David Bencomo\, Baltimore\, MD\nMiki Beyer\, Herndon\, VA\nLouis Chavez\, Rochester\, NY\nMandy Chesney\, Baltimore\, MD\nEvin Dubois\, Paducah\, KY\nAurele Gould\, Richmond\, VA\nCat Gunn\, Baltimore\, MD\nLinda Hesh\, Alexandria\, VA\nRachael McArthur\, Brooklyn\, NY\nAnnika Papke\, Alexandria\, VA\nLucas J. Rougeux\, North Bethesda\, MD\nTodd Stonnell\, Richmond\, VA\nMatt Storm\, Washington\, DC \n\nExhibition juror Andy Johnson\, a D.C.-based independent curator and gallery director of Gallery 102 at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at The George Washington University\, has dedicated much of his curatorial career to unpacking queer intimacy. \n“While My Queer Valentine has everything to do with the relationship to those around us\, it’s also equally invested in the relationship we have with our queer realities\, and the ways in which queerness shapes and informs our lived experience\,” he said. “My Queer Valentine is as much a love letter to ourselves as it is a disclosing of longing to our community.” \nQueerness or identifying as LGBTQ+ encapsulates many identities that are not necessary set within a spectrum. This diversity in perspective is represented in a various styles\, mediums\, and tones in this exhibition. \nFor instance\, Aurele Gould has three works on view that explore concepts of intimacy for queer women through different narrative portraits of her girlfriend. Alex captures the act of undressing\, creating a flirtatious dialogue between the subject and the viewer. \nMatt Storm has two works from his Act of Looking series\, which articulates and recognizes inclusive ways to see his trans body. The piece Act of Looking II\, 17\, Crossing My Fingers\, Getting Away with Something is a playful love letter to the artist’s sexuality as a transmasculine person. \nArtist Miki Beyer’s mixed-media work You’re Already There. You Already Have Me. is also a love-letter\, but this time between the artist and their partner. They use dialogue from past conversations between the two of them that addresses the panic of identity-erasure as a non-binary person while in cisgender/heterosexual-presenting relationship. It also speaks to the love for each other that promises for a better tomorrow. \nDon’t miss the special Valentine’s themed reception on Friday\, February 14\, 7 – 10 pm\, with juror talk at 8 pm. The evening features interactive performance art\, a photo op at our kissing booth\, and DIY art-making activities. Learn more about and support local LGBTQ+ organizations\, too. \nAbout the Juror \nAndy Johnson is a DC-based art historian\, curator\, and arts writer. He is Director of Gallery 102 at the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design; contributing editor at DIRT; and serves as Assistant Curator and Artist Liaison for Art on the Vine\, hosted by the Agora Culture. He was the 2018 Apprentice Curator for the DC Arts Center\, and a 2019 Visiting Arts Writer and Critic for The Chart. He has curated and juried exhibitions with Gallery 102\, DC Arts Center\, Duke Ellington School of the Arts\, Dupont Underground\, the Smithsonian Institution\, among others. He has presented research and spoken on panels at universities\, galleries\, and museums including Rutgers University\, UC Santa Barbara\, University of Georgia\, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts\, GW Museum\, Washington Project for the Arts\, and others. He has published articles\, exhibition reviews\, and catalogue essays with DIRT\, The Chart\, Common Field’s Field Perspectives\, The Rib\, Pelican Bomb\, BmoreArt and more. He holds a M.A. in Art History from The George Washington University. \n  \nImage: Aurele Gould\, Acrylic\, 2017\, Photograph.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/my-queer-valentine/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Late Shift
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191213
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200120
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SUMMARY:2019 Post-Grad Residents
DESCRIPTION:2019 Post-Grad Residents Exhibition\nDecember 13\, 2019 – January 19\, 2020\nHomecoming Opening Reception: Friday December 13\, 7 – 10 pm • Talk at 8 pm\nThe Gallery will be closed on Wednesday\, December 25 and Wednesday\, January 1 in observance of Christmas Day and New Year’s Day.* \n\n\n  \n\n\nTarget Gallery\, the contemporary exhibition space at Torpedo Factory Art Center\, celebrates the work of the four artists who participated in the 2019 Post-Grad Residency Program. The group exhibition will feature the work of Michaela Japec\, Nava Levenson\, Katana Lippart\, and Kim Sandara and will be on view Friday\, December 13\, 2019\, through Sunday\, January 19\, 2020. Torpedo Factory Art Center is located at 105 N. Union St.\, Alexandria\, VA. \nThis competitive juried residency provides meaningful support to emerging artists who have recently earned an accredited degree in the visual arts. Residents had three months of exclusive access to Studio 319 in the Art Center\, wherein they create and sell work\, interact with the public\, and connect with other arts professionals. It’s an opportunity for professional development\, networking\, and a chance to define a practice outside of an academic context. \nThe jurors for this opportunity were Nicole Dowd\, Program Director at Halcyon Arts Lab\, and Leslie Holt\, DC- based artist and co-founder of Red Dirt Studios. \nThe 2019 Post-Grad Residents exhibition will be on view in Target Gallery\, located in Studio 2 of the Art Center\, through Sunday\, January 19. Target Gallery and Torpedo Factory Art Center is open daily from 10 am – 6 pm\, Thursdays from 10 am – 9 pm. Hours are modified for the holidays. Visit https://torpedofactory.org/hours to confirm availability. \n  \nHomecoming Opening Celebration\nFriday\, December 13 ● 7 – 10 pm \nFor the exhibition opening\, the Art Center looks back at the first five years of the Post-Grad Residency Program with a lively Homecoming art party. Meet the 2019 artists and hear them talk about their work. Reconnect with returning alumni and meet the new 2020 cohort. The Gallery Talk begins at 8 pm. \n  \nAbout the Artists \nMichaela Japec (BFA George Mason University) Michaela is an artist currently based in Alexandria\, Virginia. She recently completed her bachelor’s of fine arts in 2018 from George Mason University. Through her art\, she works through conflicting thoughts she has about her sexuality\, body insecurities\, and feelings of oppression. During her residency\, Michaela pushed her themes and visual style of photo realism vs exaggerated abstraction to reflect this inner dialogue. She has three figural works in the exhibition that show the evolution of her concepts. \nNava Levenson (BFA James Madison University) Nava is a multidisciplinary artist\, instigator\, and collaborator based in Richmond\, Virginia. She completed her bachelor’s of fine arts in 2017 from James Madison University. Her work combines installation surrounding concepts of gender and queer identity as well as anthropological and archival documentation. During her residency\, Nava was focused on her project\, Practice Preserves: Studio Dirt. In the same way thrift stores reveal things about American culture\, she seeks to archive artists’ practices. She invites artists to add studio scraps and discarded material in quart-sized canning jars\, which she then opens\, catalogs\, and photographs for an anthology she hopes to publish. For this exhibition\, Nava creates an installation of the jars reminiscent of an archival collection and invites viewers to investigate and engage with the materials. \nKatana Lippart (BFA George Mason University) Katana is a collage artist and printmaker based in Brunswick\, MD. She graduated from George Mason University with her bachelor’s in fine arts in 2018. During her residency\, she has concentrated on a collage series that will help resolve the broken ties between self and home. This has held a significant amount of weight in her life and has manifested into her work. Through her residency and this culminating exhibition\, Katana’s goal has been to share printmaking\, book arts\, and collage with the surrounding community. platform to reflect on both personal and collective narratives relating to home. \nKim Sandara (BFA Maryland Institute College of Art) Kim is a queer\, Lao/Viet\, artist based in Falls Church\, Virginia. In 2016\, she graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art with a bachelor’s of fine arts. Accessibility to art is a key part of her creative process. Her overall focus is to encourage empathy\, wonder\, self-reflection\, and connection. During the residency\, she continued her animation series documenting her coming out story. She created a stop-motion animation\, The Origins of Kin and Kang\, which is aimed at helping parents of color\, particularly first-generation immigrants\, to understand and accept their queer children. The animation will be on view during the exhibition as well as installation featuring the sketches and puppets featured in the stop-motion film. \n  \n\n  \nImage credit: Michaela Japec\, Like\, 2019. Acrylic.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/2019-post-grad-residents/
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SUMMARY:45: An Anniversary Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Anniversary Ball: Saturday\, November 16\, 7 – 10pm\, with gallery talk at 8pm | Get your tickets here!\nHonorary Curator: Marian Van Landingham\, artist and founder of Torpedo Factory Art Center \nTarget Gallery honors the legacy of the founding artists of the Torpedo Factory Art Center in this special 45th Anniversary exhibition. See work from many of the original artists\, featuring both current and past work to capture their expansive artistic careers over the past 45 years. \nParticipating Artists* include: \nMirella Belshe\, currently in studio #27\nAnn DiPlacido\nSusan Finsen\, currently in studio #334\nJoyce Inderbitzin\nCindy Lowther\, currently in studio #301\nSue Lynch\nAngelina Musto\nChristine Parson\, currently in studio #340\nNiki Pickett\, currently in studio #338\nGretchen Raber\, currently in studio #201\nHolly Rosenfeld\nSusan Sanders\, currently in studio #206\nConnie Slack\nDiane Tesler\nLea Topping \nMarian Van Landingham\, currently in studio #321\nJoyce Zipperer \n* check back for updates \n  \nImage of Mirella Belshe at work in her studio\, courtesy of Torpedo Factory Art Center.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/45-an-anniversary-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:Memento Mori
DESCRIPTION:Memento Mori\nSeptember 28 – November 3\nOpening Reception: Friday\, October 11\, 7 – 10pm\, with juror talk at 8pm\nThe Gallery will be closed on Monday\, October 14 in observance of Indigenous People’s Day.* \n\n\n  \nThe newest exhibition in Target Gallery\, the contemporary exhibitions space of Torpedo Factory Art Center\, explores death and the way it shapes life. Memento Mori\, Latin for “remember that you will die\,” confronts this single most inevitable fact of all human existence. \n“The intention is to create a dialogue about death in a way that every viewer can relate\,” said Curator of Exhibitions Leslie Mounaime. “The goal being to facilitate personal connections between the artists in the show and the audience experiencing it.” \nLaura Roulet\, a D.C.-based independent curator and writer\, juried the exhibition. She selected 28 works by artists from across the world\, ten of whom are local to the region. \n“These artists express fear and sadness\, as well as comfort and spiritual faith. Many of these artworks are deeply personal\, referring to the artist’s own brush with death or loss of a loved one\,” said Roulet. “Whether through figurative\, abstract or conceptual language\, I believe this exhibition includes artworks that will speak to all.” \nThe participating artists are:  \nDeidre Argyle\,  Springfield\, MO\nBrandin Barón\,  San Francisco\, CA\nIrene Clouthier\,  Oakton\, VA \nCeci Cole McInturff\, Alexandria\, VA \nScott Eagle\, Greenville\, NC\nMadaline Gardner\,  Greencastle\, PA\nPatrick Giblin\, Springfield\, VA \nTom Greaves\, Washington\, DC \nKerry Hentges\, Fairfax\, VA \nKym Hepworth\, Springfield\, GA\nM.A. Kleen\, Lorton\, VA \nAngela Kleis\, Fairfax\, VA \nScott Ludwig\, Boone\, NC\nRobyn Moore\, Wellington\, KY\nJulie Ann Nagle\, Jersey City\, NJ\nJulianne Nash\, Brooklyn\, NY\nSebastian Perinotti\, New York\, NY\nAziz Raad\, Montgomery Village\, MD\nJon-Joseph Russo\, Washington\, DC \nClaire Schmalzried\, Dallas\, TX\nRobert Schultz\, Salem\, VA \nHenrik Sundqvist\, Arlington\, VA\nAdam Swart\, Montclair\, NJ\nCaterina Tedeschini\, Rome\, Italy\nDavid Terrar\, Gaithersburg\, MD\nKristine Thompson\, Baton Rouge\, LA\nMJ Tyson\, Hoboken\, NJ\nPatrick Vincent\, Nashville\, TN \nMadaline Gardner’s Diamond Wave II serves as the center piece for this exhibition\, this large diamond shaped work has a monochromatic palette and hypnotic silver-lined formations that create a void\, making the viewer question the concept of permanence in life. \nClaire Schmalzried’s Game of Whispers\, depict Tarot symbols to signify obstacles of the subconscious. Death as transformation and change\, temperance as harmony\, and the Devil as self-destructive desire. \nM.J. Tyson’s 35 Norman Avenue explores the reincarnation of personal objects. Tyson took objects of deceased residents from 35 Norman Avenue in an estate sale and brought them together\, by literally melding them into one sculpture\, giving new life to them\, considering the cycle of life and death. \nMemento Mori runs Saturday\, September 28\, through Sunday\, November 3\, 2019. The opening reception will be Friday\, October 11\, 7 – 10 pm\, with a Gallery Talk featuring artist comments at 8 pm. Target Gallery is open daily from 10 – 6 pm and until 9 pm on Thursdays. \n\n\n  \nAbout the Juror \nLaura Roulet is an independent curator and writer\, specializing in contemporary and Latin American art. She was one of five international curators chosen for the citywide public art project\, 5 x 5\, a major initiative sponsored by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities in 2012. She has organized exhibitions in Mexico\, Puerto Rico\, and the U.S. including at the OAS Art Museum of the Americas\, American University Museum\, Mexican Cultural Institute\, Hillyer Art Space\, WPA\, Arlington Arts Center\, VisArts\, and the DC Art Center. She was a mentoring curator for DCAC and the first mentoring curator for VisArts in Rockville\, MD in 2015. Roulet has written for Sculpture magazine\, American Art\, Art Journal\, and Art Nexus\, as well as many catalogue essays\, encyclopedia entries\, and the book Contemporary Puerto Rican Installation Art\, the Guagua Aerea\, the Trojan Horse and the Termite. She worked on the Ana Mendieta retrospective\, organized by the Hirshhorn Museum in 2004\, and contributed to that catalogue. \n  \n\n\n\n\nTarget Gallery\n Target Gallery is the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center. We host eight exhibitions annually featuring a variety of themes\, artists\, and media focused on the latest trends in contemporary art.\n\n\n\n*  Target Gallery is closed on all City holidays\n\n\nVisit Target Gallery on Pinterest\nExplore past exhibitions\, staff favorites\, exhibition inspiration and more! \n Visit Target Gallery’s profile on Pinterest.\n \n 
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/memento-mori/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Habitats
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, August 9\nExhibition Juror: Ellyn Weiss\, DC-based artist and curator\nThe newest group exhibition Habitats in Target Gallery\, the contemporary exhibitions space of Torpedo Factory Art Center\, poses the question\, “What makes a habitat a home?” \nThe artists’ response to this founding question explores the relationship between humanity and our surrounding environments. How are we impacting the world around us? Is this relationship symbiotic or destructive? The selected artists address these questions and raise new ones. Work is presented in a diversity of media\, from sculpture and photography to video and virtual reality. \nThe juror for this exhibition was Ellyn Weiss\, a D.C.-based independent artist and curator\, who formerly practiced environmental law. She selected 22 works by artists from across the United States\, six of whom are local to the region. \n“Each of the 22 works of art here is a truly individual response to the challenge to respond to the meaning of habitat\,” she said. “From the threatening to the violent to the charming and poignant\, the work spans a wide range of emotions and invites reflection on our human place in the universe of living things.” \nParticipating Artists:\nLaura Ahola-Young\, Pocatello\, ID\nCorinne Beardsley\, Brooklyn\, NY\nBetsy Byers\, St. Peter\, MN\nCeci Cole McInturff\, Alexandria\, VA\nMatt Coombs\, Philadelphia\, PA\nAdam Crosson\, New Orleans\, LA\nDelna Dastur\, McLean\, VA\nEmily Dzieweczynski\, Minneapolis\, MN\nPam Eichner\, Silver Spring\, MD\nAlice Fornari\, Washington\, DC\nSarbani Ghosh\, Brooklyn\, NY\nChristina Hunt Wood\, Delhi\, NY\nKamille Jackson\, Woodbridge\, VA\nYasemin Kackar-Demirel\, Westchester\, NY\nPamela A. MacGregor\, McClure\, OH\nJames Maria\, Reading\, PA\nMichael Marks\, Minneapolis\, MN\nPJ Mills\, Miami\, FL\nDaniele Piasecki\, Martinsburg\, WV\nNancy Ramsey\, Alexandria\, VA\nLisa Sanders\, Newark\, NJ\nJ.D. Scott\, Santa Fe\, NM\nBethany Springer\, Fayetteville\, AR \nCorinne Beardsley’s Torso plays on this relationship between humanity and nature by carving out an abstracted human torso from gypsum. The sculpture looks like an excavated form. It recalls the natural cycle of life and how our bodies will one day be reconstituted back into the earth. \nAdam Crosson’s video If At All is a meditative examination of relationship between humans and the Mississippi River\, where the dichotomy of natural resources and industry come to a head as public and private interests collide. \nThe exhibition also features an interactive VR video/painting collaboration Melting the Grotto by artists Betsy Byers and Emily Dzieweczynski. It puts the viewer headlong into a swiftly melting glacier as a commentary on the destruction of natural resources. \nAbout the Juror\nEllyn Weiss is a Washington\, DC-based visual artist in two and three dimensions\, as well as an independent curator\, with studios in Mt. Rainier\, MD and Truro\, MA. She has had more than 25 solo or featured shows and has participated in numerous juried and curated exhibitions. Ellyn works in a wide variety of media; the materials used in recent shows include wax\, oilbar\, dry pigment\, wire\, plastic dip and tar. Ellyn’s work has for many years been inspired by the imagery of biological and natural structures. Much of her work love the past decade deals with the effects of global climate change. \nEllyn is committed to engagement with the world around her. Prior to becoming a full-time artist in 1997\, she practiced environmental law. Her work included serving as General Counsel to the Union of Concerned Scientists\, which she still serves as a member of the Board of Directors. She is also on the Boards of the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill and was a founding Board member of the Touchstone Foundation for the Arts. \nAbout Target Gallery \nTarget Gallery is the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center. The gallery promotes high standards of art by continuously exploring new ideas through a variety of visual media in a rotating schedule of exhibitions. The gallery is open daily from 10 – 6 pm and until 9 pm on Thursdays. More information is available via torpedofactory.org/target. \nImage Credit: Corinne Beardsley\, Torso (detail)\, 2018. Gypsum cement and acrylic paint.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/habitats/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Julia Kwon: More Than A Body
DESCRIPTION:Julia Kwon: More Than a Body\nJune 14 – August 4\nOpening Reception: Friday\, June 14\, 7 – 10pm with gallery talk at 8pm\n\n\nTarget Gallery presents our competitive annual solo exhibition featuring Northern Virginia-based artist Julia Kwon. Julia Kwon: More Than A Body will be on view June 14 through August 4\, 2019. \nBased in Woodbridge\, Virginia\, Kwon uses traditional Korean inspired textiles to create a dialogue on othering and objectification she experiences as a Korean-American woman. Her work touches on her minority identity and delves deeper into a broader commentary on the dehumanizing and reductive process of being categorized. \n“I aim to capture the tension that arises from the divide between different social groups and the mindset of us versus them\,” she said. \nKwon draws her main aesthetic inspiration from bojagi\, a Korean practice of wrapping objects in cloth to protect good luck. Historically\, it was a creative outlet for women in the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) who had limited contact with the outside world. \n“I am directly drawing inspiration from bojagi and consider ideas such as tradition\, craft\, and ‘feminine’ work\,” she said. \nBy utilizing this textile method\, Kwon both honors her heritage while using it as a tool for disruption. Traditionally\, common bojagi were made with patchwork cloths leftover from other projects. Kwon uses stereotypically “ethnic” textiles instead. This creates a subtle yet poignant commentary on orientalism and the perceived exoticness of Asian imagery. She calls attention to the viewers’ assumptions based on Kwon’s gender and identity. \nKwon uses these textiles as part of a larger sculptural work. She manipulates the fabric to suggest a female form trapped underneath. “Gender” is consumed and hidden by an artificially ethnic textile of “identity.” \nKwon was selected from more than 130 North American applicants as part of Target Gallery’s annual Open Call for a Solo Exhibition. The jury panel for this opportunity was: Sandy Guttman\, a curatorial assistant at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture; Michael Matason\, Gallery Manager of DC Arts Center; and Terence Nicholson; a DC-based artist. \nAccording to Guttman\, “Kwon stages interventions in textile and sculpture\, creating cross-cultural forms that implore the viewer to metaphorically look beneath the surface and question the very limitations of identity. She leaves us to ponder our own place within society and history. In Kwon’s patterns\, we find form; in Kwon’s figures\, perhaps we find ourselves.” \n“This hybrid approach to her works breaks the boundary on viewers preconceived notions the artists identity and background\,” said Matason. “Each piece and each piece of fabric should be carefully looked at\, as Julia’s works speak to race\, femininity and her experiences on what it means to be Korean.” \n“The beauty of the pieces almost camouflages the poignancy of the message behind them. Her experience of being looked at as ‘other’ is a theme that I think will resonate with most viewers in some way\,” said Nicholson. \nJulia Kwon: More Than A Body runs Friday\, June 14\, through Sunday\, August 4\, 2019. The opening reception will be Friday\, June 14\, 7 – 9 pm\, with Kwon’s comments at 8 pm. This reception is part of the Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Late Shift Event: Summer Party. Target Gallery is open daily from 10 – 6 pm and until 9 pm on Thursdays. \n\nAbout the Artist\n\nA native of Virginia\, Julia Kwon creates traditional and hybrid Korean textiles through quilting and painting. Her work aims to challenge preexisting notions of what it means to be Korean and feminine as well as examine the complexities of constructing identity within the contemporary context of globalism and cultural hybridity. Kwon also explores community and personal relationship-building through collaborative projects such as communal quilting\, one-on-one portrait drawing\, and building a community that shares local artist talks. \nShe is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in New York City and the D.C. metropolitan area. She earned her Master of Fine Art at Tufts University’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and her Bachelor of Arts at Georgetown University. She has had numerous solo exhibitions and won various awards such as the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University’s Traveling Fellowship as well as the artist residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, Vermont Studio Center\, Montgomery College\, Gallery 263\, and Textile Arts Center. ​Kwon is currently an Artist in Residence at NARS Foundation in Brooklyn. \n\n\n\n\nTarget Gallery\n Target Gallery is the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center. We host eight exhibitions annually featuring a variety of themes\, artists\, and media focused on the latest trends in contemporary art.\n\n\n\nVisit Target Gallery on Pinterest\nExplore past exhibitions\, staff favorites\, exhibition inspiration and more! \n Visit Target Gallery’s profile on Pinterest.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/2019-solo-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:2019 Emerging Artists
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception:  Friday April 12\, 7 – 10pm\, during the Late Shift: Art on the Horizon \nPanel Discussion: Thursday\, May 2\, 6:30 – 9:00pm (see event details here) \nTarget Gallery presents a new group exhibition spotlighting the work of 4 emerging artists to highlight new talent and the up-and-coming artistic innovators of the D.C. metropolitan area. The selected artists this year include: Kate Gorman\, Kim Sandara\, Madeline A. Stratton\, and Sean Sweeney. \nThe jury panel for this opportunity was: Adah Rose Bitterbaum\, founder and director of Adah Rose Gallery; Philippa Hughes\, founder of The Pinkline Project; and Dawne Langford\, founder of Quota  \nImage Credit: Kim Sandara\, 1\, 2017. Acrylic on canvas.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/2019-emerging-artists/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190401
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20181107T221834Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190228T165232Z
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SUMMARY:March150: 9th Annual Special Exhibition & Art Sale
DESCRIPTION:Save The Date: March150 Art Party\nFriday\, March 29\, 7 – 10 pm | Awards @ 9 pm\nTarget Gallery’s popular annual exhibition and art sale\, March150\, returns to the Torpedo Factory Art Center for the 9th year. Proceeds benefit future exhibitions and programs at Target Gallery and the Torpedo Factory. \nTarget Gallery\, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center\, collected more than $15\,000 in 2018 through March150. This yearly all-media exhibition features over 200 works created and donated by artists local to Alexandria and the greater D.C. region. The only requirement to be on view in the exhibition is that artists use the gallery-supplied 10” x 10” panel. All work in the show is priced at $150\, except for the night of the Art Party where all sales are discounted to $100. \nTimeline for 2019:  \n\nMarch150 Panels On Sale: January 4 – February 4 (or until we sell out!)\nFinished Artwork Due to Gallery: Friday\, March 1 – Tuesday\, March 5\nSneak Peak: Friday\, March 8 (during The Late Shift: Strength in Unity)\nExhibition Opens: Saturday\, March 9\nArt Party: Friday\, March 29\nExhibition Closes: Sunday\, March 31\n\nGuidelines\nTickets to the Art Party are $25 in advance/$30 at the door. Ticket’s will go on sale now! You may purchase tickets online or at the door. (pre-sale tickets end on Thursday\, March 28th at 11:59pm) \nGet Your Tickets Now!
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/march150-9th-annual-special-exhibition-art-sale/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Fundraising,Late Shift,Special Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190304
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20181007T213443Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T205728Z
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SUMMARY:RITUALISMS
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, February 8\, 2018 | 7-10 pm\nTarget Gallery presents RITUALISMS\, a group exhibition that explores how rituals are an intrinsic part of the human experience. Whether it be through personal rituals\, such as daily habits or quirks\, or through a larger cultural context\, such as religious or cultural ceremonies\, the work in this exhibition will address the universality of rituals and how they foster connection or isolation. \n\nParticipating Artists \nGail Borowski\, Shelby Township\, MI\nPaula Brett\, Roswell\, GA\nElizabeth M. Claffey\, Bloomington\, IN\nMark Harrington\, Brooklyn\, NY\nMegan Hildebrandt\, Interlochen\, MI\nSarah Hull\, Washington\, D.C.\nAli Hval\, Iowa City\, IA\nTunni Kraus\, Melbourne\, Australia\nSavannah Loebig\, Silver Spring\, MD\nClare Nicholls\, Baltimore\, MD\nre:mark\, Philadelphia\, PA\nKate Testa\, Philadelphia\, PA \n\nAbout the Juror \nKaty Scarlett is an Adjunct Professor of Art History and an independent curator based in Philadelphia\, PA. She is interested in how contemporary artists dissect the construction of history and create awareness around historical omission. Katy has worked in accessibility\, education\, and public programming at several non-profit institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Delaware Contemporary. She earned her MA in Art History from Hunter College\, City University of New York. \n  \nImage Credit: Paula Brett\, “Full/Fill in Red\,” 2016. Limited Edition Photograph\, Lambda Print between Aluminum Di-bond and Acrylic. \n 
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/ritualisms/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181208
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190114
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20181025T222636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181130T214206Z
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SUMMARY:2018 Post-Grad Residents
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, December 14\, 2018 | 7-9 pm\nTarget Gallery presents the Torpedo Factory Art Center’s 2018 Post-Graduation Residents: Alexis Gomez\, Kelly Johnston\, Lyric Prince\, and Sara Roberts. These four artists have each had three months in our Residency studio\, developing new work and interacting with the public. For this culminating exhibition\, each artist displays some of their best work they made during their time here. \n 
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/2018-post-grad-residents/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181027
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181203
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20180922T200151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181129T191045Z
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SUMMARY:Art of Armistice
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, November 9\, 2018 | 7-9 pm\nTarget 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 calls home. \n\nParticipating Artists \nKatherine Akey\nJason Bly\nMikhail Bolkhovitinov\nMartin Cervantez\nIrene Clouthier\nRoy Comiskey\nMichael Fischerkeller\nRachel Garcia-Palmer\nKay Gordon\nTom Greaves\nLucy Julia Hale\nLee Halvorsen\nAmy Helminiak\nEverett Kane\nJeff Lassahn\nColin McMullan\nChris Revelle\nJustin Sadegh\nElin Slavick\nOnnie Strother\nHenrik Sundqvist\nRon Testa\nPatricia Anderson Turner \n\nAbout the Juror \nSpencer Dormitzer attended the school of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1986 and has been a working artist for over twenty-five years. Dormitzer has also worked as Studio Manager for New York abstractionist David Reed and as an Executive Producer for the New York Cosmos. \nDormitzer has had over 50 solo and group shows in his career\, from such places as Chicago\, Illinois; Antwerp\, Belgium; Santa Fe\, New Mexico; and New York City. His work also belongs in over 100 private and museum collections. Spencer’s work has been featured in the new art examiner\, Chicago Tribune\, Philadelphia Enquirer\, Chicago Reader and New City Chicago Magazine. \nDormitzer currently resides in Washington D.C\, with his wife and two sons. \n  \nImage Credit: Roy Comiskey\, Reconstruction\, Mixed-Media Collage on Wood Panel\, 2018
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/art-of-armistice/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180908T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181021T180000
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20180709T215321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180912T201900Z
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SUMMARY:Juxtaposed
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, October 12\, 2018 | 7-10 pm\nTarget Gallery is happy to announce selected artists for Juxtaposed\, a group exhibition focusing on the contradictory or conflicting. Whether it be through the use of mixed media or the themes represented\, the works in the exhibition are at odds with two or more juxtaposing concepts. \n\nParticipating Artists \nMiranda Brandon\nNora Burghardt\nTheresa Devine\nTravis Donovan\nNadia Estela\nRyan Lewis\nBrian McClear\nChristina Reed\nPam Rogers\nLyle Rushing\nCaroline Wayne\nMegan White \n\nAbout the Juror \nMegan Rook-Koepsel is an independent curator working in the greater Washington\, DC area.  She has served as a curatorial intern at the Rose Art Museum and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art\, Graduate Coordinator for the Stamp Gallery and mentor to the Contemporary Art Purchasing Program at the University of Maryland\, and as Exhibitions Manager for Arlington Arts Center.  Rook-Koepsel has curated and organized numerous exhibitions in the area including Disidentifications (2009) at the Stamp Gallery; Constructed Place (2010) at Annemarie Garden Sculpture Park and Art Center; WPA SELECT (2014); Homeward Bound (2015) and King of the Forest: Adventures in Bioperversity (2016) at Arlington Arts Center; and Performing the Border (2017) for the Alper Initiative for Washington Art at the American University Museum. Recently\, Rook-Koepsel was asked to identify women artists in the DC/Baltimore region for consideration in the upcoming exhibition Women to Watch 2018 at the National Museum for Women in the Arts. Rook-Koepsel holds a BA in Art History from Brandeis University and an MA in Art History with a focus on Contemporary Art and Theory from the University of Maryland\, College Park. \n\nNotes from the Juror \njux.ta.pose \n:to place (different things) side by side (as to compare or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)[1] \nIn the language of art and art history ‘juxtaposed’ is a significant word. Any student of art history learns very early on that placing two artworks next to each other can open up incredible ways of thinking and allow us to notice things that we might not have before. Juxtaposing helps to define certain elements\, ideas\, and styles. Juxtaposed works can reveal otherwise subtle or hidden meanings. Yet the definition of the word juxtapose is a surprisingly simple one. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines juxtapose as “to place (different things) side by side (as to compare or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).” That’s it. To place things side by side. What can we learn when we place one thing next to another? \nThe works in this exhibition encompass the subtlety and complexity that can unfold from the simple act of “placing side by side.” Whether it be a literal placement of two disparate visual elements side by side as in the case of Megan White and Nora Burghardt’s Topos series\, or Pam Rogers’s Rescue and Contiguous; or the juxtaposition of tone between the visual and the content as in Caroline Wayne’s Pretty Real series\, Miranda Brandon’s Erasure\, or Theresa Divine’s ‘Til Disability Do Us Part & In Sickness And In Health\, these works present a juxtaposition that gives us pause\, allows us to access difficult content\, and dig into the more complicated meanings at hand. \nMany of the works in this exhibition use juxtaposition to present hard truths with which we must grapple. In Ryan Lewis’s and Travis Donovan’s works\, for example\, juxtaposed elements call attention to identity\, and how easily (or not easily) one fits within the structures of our society. Society\, and a reminder of the structures of power that continue to plague it\, are also on display in Nadia Estela’s Vis Insita and Lex Insita. Lyle Rushing\, Christina Reed\, and Brian McClear remind us that sometimes what is juxtaposed is our highest ideals as a society—justice\, equality\, freedom of expression—and the actual lived reality for many of us. \nIt is my hope that these works\, ‘placed side by side’ not only “creates an interesting effect\,” as in the dictionary definition of ‘to juxtapose\,’ but also provides an entry into the complex\, challenging\, thoughtful (and thought provoking) narratives that each work brings out through its own juxtaposition\, as well as through being placed in context with each other. The dictionary definition of ‘to juxtapose’ belies the incredible depth of knowledge and understanding that can arise from two things placed side by side. The works in this exhibition redefine this simple action into one far more significant. \n—Megan Rook-Koepsel \n[1] From the Merriam-Webster online dictionary (www.merriam-webster.com) \nImage Credit: Travis Donovan\, Skeletor\, ceramic\, 2017
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/juxtaposed/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180720
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180903
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
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SUMMARY:Illuminate
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: July 20 – September 2\, 2018\nOpening Reception: Friday\, July 20 7 – 9 pm | Gallery Talk 8 pm\nTarget 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. \nThe juror for this exhibition was Emily Smith\, Executive Director of 1708 Gallery in Richmond\, VA. \nFeatured Artists: \nSarah Clough\, Baltimore\, MD\nDavid Gladden\, Salisburg\, MD\nNora Hartlaub\, Manteo\, NC\nKaren Lemmert\, Baltimore\, MD\nLucas Martinez\, Valencia\, Spain\nAndreas Schenkel\, Alexandria\, VA\nEmma Shapiro\, Glasgow\, VA\nJoana Stillwell\, Washington\, DC\nSteve Wanna\, Mount Rainier\, MD\nMichael West\, Potomac\, MD\nArt Vidrine\, Alexandria\,VA \nImage Credit: Karen Lemmert\, “Dual Translational Progression”\, 2017\, acrylic and aluminum sheet\, diochroic film\, stainless steel fasteners\, lighting assembly
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/illuminate/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180525
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180716
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20171017T205025Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180520T153918Z
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SUMMARY:Caroline Hatfield: Unearthing
DESCRIPTION:Exhibition Dates: May 25 – July 15\, 2018\nOpening Reception: Friday\, May 25th 7 – 9 pm | Gallery Talk 7:30 pm\nTarget Gallery is happy to announce Caroline Hatfield as 2018’s solo exhibition recipient. Hatfield’s work explores concepts of utopia and science fiction through the experience of sites\, landscape\, and materiality in their interdisciplinary practice. Growing up in a Southern Appalachian coal mining community\, Hatfield’s artwork features subjects of environmentalism and land use. They have a lot of personal significance to Hatfield\, who recalls the region’s ironic juxtaposition of protected wilderness and mined land as a major influence on their work. \nSculptural landscapes composed of industrial relics\, geological formations\, and mutable material obscure boundaries and accumulate into form. The combined objects and materials emanate an energy of transformation and process\, often with a cyclical quality. Depicting elemental landscapes and geological force\, their work references the sublime experiences of our world while shifting outwards towards a science fictional sublime. Foreign but familiar\, the models\, miniatures\, depictions\, and descriptions of alternative worlds offer a glimpse of potential found in the balance of presence and absence. \nCaroline Hatfield received their BFA in Sculpture at University of Tennessee\, Knoxville\, TN\, and is a candidate for MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art at Towson University\, Towson\, MD. \nThe jury panel for this opportunity was: Jarvis DuBois\, Independent Curator; Carolina Mayorga\, D.C.-based Artist; and Victoria Reis\, Director of Transformer.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/open-exhibition/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Late Shift
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180521
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20171017T202846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180517T151657Z
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SUMMARY:2018 Emerging Artists
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, April 13\, 7 – 9 pm | Artist Talk 7:30 pm\nJury Panel Talk: Thursday\, May 10\, 8 – 9 pm\nTarget 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. \nThe public reception will be part of the Torpedo Factory’s Late Shift: What is Art event. \nThere will also be a talk with the jury panel on May 10\, at 8 pm as a part of the Torpedo Factory’s Torpedo Talk lecture series. \n\n“These artists are the future\,” said Leslie Mounaime\, director of Target Gallery. “It is our responsibility as a leading regional arts institution to foster exhibition opportunities\, advance budding artistic endeavors and compensate emerging artists.” \nThe selected artists for 2018 Emerging Artists are: \nKatie Barrie\nRonald Jackson\nHollis McCracken\nHolly Trout \nThey were selected by a jury panel: Ksenia Grishkova\, Director of Touchstone Gallery; Blair Murphy\, Independent Curator; and Jack Rasmussen\, Director and Curator at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center. \nKatie Barrie (Richmond\, VA)\nBarrie’s paintings are rooted in abstraction. Her work is a nod to minimalism\, breaking landscapes down to their simplest forms. Each painting contains specific references to colors\, patterns\, and structures—both organic and manmade—found in America’s National Parks. “I strive to create a balance between formalistically abstract paintings\, while also addressing the impact humans have brought upon their land\,” she said. \nRonald Jackson (Spotsylvania\, VA)\nAs a figurative artist\, Jackson captures intimate settings and uses them as a gateway to ponder the complexities of the human experience\, as well as the society that influences them. “My goal is to create work that is visually poetic\,” he said\, “aiming to create an interactive experience in which the viewer is compelled to ponder possibilities that are likely reflections of their own experiences. I hope my work triggers self-discovery of value\, beauty\, and significance among people who in some way feel marginalized.” \nHollis McCracken (Richmond\, VA)\nMcCracken’s uses reclaimed materials from vacant and derelict buildings to create sculptural works that communicate universal human emotions\, such as abandonment\, isolation\, absence\, and loneliness. “I’ve been particularly drawn to rundown and abandoned buildings\,” she said. “I empathize with these sad-looking structures\, that were once majestic\, as former versions of myself\, rough around the edges and neglected until someone sees through to their potential.” \nHolly Trout (Washington\, D.C.)\nTrout’s work explores the ways in which cast-off objects and materials can be transformed from their normal order into anomalous objects and systems. She creates drawings and small sculptures from a broad range of sources and materials such as children’s toys\, plants\, anatomy texts\, crafting materials\, and home repair supplies. “I attempt to understand the absurdity\, alienation\, and disorder within the world I experience\,” she said. “Through hybridization of the real and artificial\, and craft and trash\, my work is playful\, often with darker underpinnings.” \n\nAbout the Artists\n Katie Barrie is an abstract painter based in Richmond\, Virginia\, where she is a master’s of fine arts candidate at Virginia Commonwealth University. She received her bachelor’s of fine arts from the University of Michigan\, School of Art and Design in 2011. Barrie has shown her work professionally throughout the United States as well as internationally in France\, Iceland\, and Spain. \nRonald Jackson is a figurative painter originally from rural Arkansas who currently resides in Spotsylvania\, Virginia. He studied Architectural Design at Mission Viejo College in California before pursuing a career in the U.S. Army in 1992. In May 2014\, Jackson retired from the Army after 21 years of service and has since worked as a professional artist. His art has been on exhibition throughout the D.C. metropolitan region\, and as well as internationally in a group exhibition in Seoul\, South Korea. He is currently represented by Galerie Myrtis in Baltimore. \nHollis McCracken is sculpture artist originally from the West Coast. She has shown work primarily in San Francisco and Tucson\, Arizona. McCracken currently lives in Richmond\, Virginia\, where she is a master’s of fine arts candidate and an adjunct faculty member at Virginia Commonwealth University\, School of the Arts in the Craft & Material Studies department. She received her bachelor’s of fine arts at Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2011. \nHolly Trout is an interdisplinary artist working primarily in drawing\, sculpture\, and installation. Trout is currently based in Washington\, where she is an master’s of fine arts candidate at American University. She received her bachelor’s in art history from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley\, Massachusetts. This will be her first exhibition in a professional gallery space.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/2018-emerging-artists/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180326
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20171017T201937Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180309T152439Z
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SUMMARY:March150: 8th Annual Special Exhibition & Art Sale
DESCRIPTION:Art Party: Friday\, March 23 7 – 10 pm | Awards @ 9 pm\nTarget Gallery’s popular annual exhibition and art sale\, March150\, returns to the Torpedo Factory Art Center for the 8th year. Proceeds benefit future exhibitions and programs at Target Gallery and the Torpedo Factory. \nTarget Gallery\, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory\, collected more than $13\,000 in 2017 through March150. This yearly all-media exhibition features over 200 works created by artists local to Alexandria and the greater D.C. region. The only requirement to be on view in the exhibition is that artists needed to use the gallery-supplied 10” x 10” panel. All work in the show is priced at $150. \n“March150 is a perpetual favorite with patrons and local artists alike\,” said Leslie Mounaime\, director of Target Gallery. “This exhibition is a low-pressure environment. It encourages new collectors to buy original art\, exposes seasoned collectors to new local artists\, and sets the stage for artists to test new techniques and ideas.” \nMarch150 Art Party\nTarget Gallery is partnering with the Factory Society\, an independent young-patrons group that supports the Torpedo Factory\, for the March150 Art Party on Friday\, March 23; 7 – 10 p.m. Guests have an opportunity to mingle with other art enthusiasts and meet many of the artists who have artwork on view in the show. All art is priced at $100 exclusively during the Party. \nThe evening also features music by DJ Vico Vibez\, hands-on artmaking with Alexandria Office of the Arts’ Mobile Art Lab\, and a green-screen photo booth provided by the American Geosciences Institute. Hors d’oeuvres provided by Catering by Seasons and the wine was hand-selected by Sonoma Cellar. Tickets are $25 in advance; $30 at the door. \nArtist awards will be given by The Art League\, the Torpedo Factory Artists’ Association\, Factory Society\, and Friends of the Torpedo Factory. Party attendees can vote for the People’s Choice Award\, with a prize presented by Target Gallery. \nGet Your Tickets\nSneak Peek at Late Shift\n  \nSneak a peek and build your wishlist at a special preview of the 2018 March150 Special Exhibition & Art Sale. Proceeds benefit future exhibitions and programs in Target Gallery and the Torpedo Factory Art Center. \nHear Post-Grad artist Lyric Prince share about her experiences at the Torpedo Factory. In the New Project Studio\, welcome Shadé Reneé\, the emerging artist selected for Experimentation/Exploration\, a partnership with Olly Olly celebrating emerging artists in the region. Join us in the main hall for a special reception honoring GMU students with with zines curated by Christopher Kardambikis and available for sale at the Torpedo Factory Gift Shop. \nAbout The Late Shift: Sneak Peek\n 
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/march150-8th-annual-special-exhibition-art-sale/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Factory Society,Fundraising,Special Event
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180305
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20171017T200123Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180126T190746Z
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SUMMARY:Passages
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, February 8th 6 – 9 pm | Gallery Talk 7:00 pm\nTarget Gallery\, contemporary exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center\, presents Passages\, a group exhibition that explores the lasting effects migration has on cultural identity from the perspective of immigrants and immigrant families from across the global diaspora. This exhibition gives an intimate look in to their individual experiences and how these experiences have shaped who they are today. The juror for this exhibition is Adriana Ospina\, Curator of the Permanent Collection and Education at the Art Museum of Americas. \nParticipating Artist Include:  \nWonJung Choi\, Richmond\, VA\nIsabella Cruz-Chong\, Brooklyn\, NY\nAnne Dushanko Dobek\, New Providence\, NJ\nAbiodun Eniyandunni\, Washington\, DC\nNadia Estela\, Montclair\, NJ\nSamar Hussaini\, West Orange\, NJ\nBahar Jalehmahmoudi\, Adelphi\, MD\nGail Morrison-Hall\, Wyncote\, PA\nSherwin Rio\, San Francisco\, CA\nRafael Rodriguez\, Hyattesville\, MD\nKanika Sircar\, Washington\, DC \nMarite Vidales\, Washington DC\nAaron Wax\, Brooklyn\, NY\nJenny Wu\, Alexandria\, VA \nJu Yun\, Chantilly\, VA \nHelen Zughaib\, Washington\, DC \nImage Credit: Helen Zughaib\, Syrian Migration Series #1\, 2016.  \nRSVP
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/passages/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Second Thursday
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171215T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171215T210000
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20171117T172522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171117T204604Z
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: "Interlude: Unfinished Works"
DESCRIPTION:Interlude: Unfinished Works\nReception: Friday\, December 15 • 7 – 9 pm | Gallery Talk • 7:30 pm\nExhibition Dates: December 9\, 2017 – January 21\, 2018\nTarget 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 meanings of the works created. The juror for this exhibition was curator Betsy Johnson. \nRSVP\nRead More\n  \nImage Credit: Melissa Forkner Lesher\, “Gray Matter”\, 2017. Heavy Duty Packing Tape\, Marble Dust\, Charcoal Powder
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/opening-reception-interlude-unfinished-works/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180122
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20171017T193343Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200331T191436Z
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SUMMARY:Interlude: Unfinished Works
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Friday\, December 15\, 7 – 9 pm | Gallery Talk 7:30 pm\nThe 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. \nUnfinished artwork gives insight into the artist’s hand and methodology. The unresolved and open ended nature of the art gives the viewer new context of the themes and meanings of the works created. Juried by Curator Betsy Johnson\, the exhibition creates a dialogue on what it means for art to be “resolved”. \n“Arguably as daunting as facing a blank canvas\, identifying the finished state of an artwork can prove difficult; at times even impossible\,” said Johnson. “There are countless stories of artists who have rounded completion only to change their mind\, radically alter the work\, and start anew. Even after a work is completed\, there is nothing forcing it to stay that way. In many ways\, due to the very open-endedness of the creative endeavor\, artworks are—by their nature—in a perpetual state of unresolved.” \nBritt Thomas\, Duet: Faithless\, 2013. Video still. \nThese concepts in Interlude: Unfinished Works are represented through a wide diversity of media. Diane Charnov’s Unfinished SAT: Pencils Down is a silkscreen transfer of an incomplete SAT scantron onto unglazed raw clay\, encapsulating that feeling of dread at handing in an incomplete test. Gray Matter by Melissa Forkner Lesher is an installation of two piles of packing tape rolled into cylinders covered with remnants of marble dust and charcoal powder. It displays the individual components of a larger project created without assemblage. \nHarleen Moon’s Happy Dust is an installation and ‘zine that categorizes evidence of a crime\, left intentionally open-ended for the viewer to piece together the clues. Britt Thomas’s video Duets: Faithless captures an intimate moment between a young couple\, moving in a slow-motion loop\, creating suspended tension that is never resolved. \n“I am interested in the concept of art as process\,” said Target Gallery Director\, Leslie Mounaime. “So much of what sets contemporary artwork apart is due to the process or method in which it’s made. This exhibition allows us to hit pause and capture this state of impermanence.” \nParticipating artists are:\n\nFabiola Alvarez Yurcisin\, Bethesda\, MD\nTommy Bobo\, Washington\, D.C.\nMalina Busch\, London\, U.K.\nDiane Charnov\, McLean\, VA \nChloe Feldman Emison\, Cambridge\, MA\nElaine Florimonte\, South Riding\, VA \nMelissa Forkner Lesher\, Centre Hall\, PA\nNicole Fossi\, Washington\, D.C. \nKay Gordon\, Brooklyn\, NY\nKathleen Greco\, Southampton\, PA\nScott Groeniger\, Honolulu\, Hawaii\nSarah Hardesty\, Falls Church\, VA \nHaeley Kyong\, Franklin Lakes\, NJ\nMarisa LaGuardia\, Youngstown\, OH\nKaty Mixon\, Brooklyn\, NY\nHarleen Moon\, Fulton\, MA\nBarbara Morrison Januskiewicz\, Arlington\, VA \nJulie Nagle\, Jersey City\, NJ\nAmy Schissel\, Morgantown\, WV\nBushra Shamma\, Falls Church\, VA \nBritt Thomas\, Houston\, TX\n\nThe public reception for Interlude will be during Torpedo Factory’s Late Shift event\, Friday\, December 15\, 7 – 9 pm\, with Johnson’s comments at 7:30 pm. Target Gallery is open daily from 10 – 6 pm and until 9 pm on Thursdays. \nAbout the Juror\nBetsy Johnson is a specialist in modern and contemporary art history and theory with expertise in curatorial practice\, community engagement\, museum education\, and public programming. She is currently a curatorial assistant at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington\, D.C. where she has worked on Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change\, Ragnar Kjartansson\, and Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History. She earned a Master of Arts in Art History from The Pennsylvania State University in 2004 and is ABD in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland. She has curated exhibitions for the Arlington Arts Center and The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland\, College Park and serves on the Arlington County Arts Commission and Public Art Committee. \nImage Credit: Melissa Forkner Lesher\, “Gray Matter”\, 2017. Heavy Duty Packing Tape\, Marble Dust\, Charcoal Powder. 
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/interlude-unfinished-works/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T200000
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: 2017 Post-Graduate Residents
DESCRIPTION:Target Gallery presents the 2017 Torpedo Factory Post-Graduate Residents: Jay Hendrick\, Samantha Sethi\, Lindsay Hall\, and Fumi Amano. This group of artists has spent three months over the past year each developing new work in our residency Studio 12. At the reception\, each artist will give a short talk about their work on display\, which they created during their residency. We will also be introducing the selected 2018 Post-Graduate Residents\, who will be in attendance that night! \nRSVP\nRead More
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/opening-reception-2017-post-grad-residents-exhibition/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Post-Graduate Residency,Second Thursday,Special Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171204
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SUMMARY:2017 Post-Graduate Residents
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, November 9th 6 – 8 pm | Artist Talk 7 pm\nTarget 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. \nJay Hendrick   ●   George Mason University\nJanuary – March\nJay Hendrick\, Falling Down the Stairs\, 2016. \nJay Hendrick questions the value of value in his work. He creates paintings\, then analyzes their importance\, worth\, and merit by exposing his work to different methods\, such as digitization\, duplication\, and performance. His visual vocabulary is based on grids\, a stable and reliable form\, and color to assess the form’s value. His sundry palette draws from high and low culture\, bringing together pop-music pink with cave-born ochers. \nBased in Fairfax\, Virginia\, Jay Hendrick has shown work in the U.S.\, England\, and Japan and his work was featured in New American Painting. In 2015\, Hendrick received his master’s of fine art from George Mason University. He completed his undergraduate degree with Abilene Christian University in Texas with degrees in applied studies and a bachelor’s of fine art. He teaches at Northern Virginia Community College in Woodbridge\, Virginia\, and is a contributing writer for East City Art. \nSamantha Sethi   ●   American University\nApril – June\nSamantha Sethi\, Cause and Effect\, 2017. \nSamantha Sethi‘s work embraces a blend of physical and digital objects exploring the way the world we see and move through can be modeled both visually and experientially. Through natural materials and processes\, such as ice\, tar\, and sediment\, Sethi creates works which are simultaneously actions and images\, both the event at hand and the drawing or trace used to represent it through time. These works find their source in the artist’s view of our world as a landscape both inhabited and studied by humankind\, altered even as it is observed — understanding the world as both the location and the material of our pursuit of meaning. \nSethi is currently based in Washington\, D.C. She completed her master’s of fine art at American University in May 2016. She is currently teaching art as an adjunct at AU and will teach at George Washington University in Spring 2017. Sethi completed her bachelor’s of fine art at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Her work has shown in New York\, Washington\, and Berlin and has appeared in publications including The Washington Post\, Time Out New York\, and Studio Visit magazine. Sethi was awarded a Mellon grant in 2015 as well as the Elizabeth Van Swinderen Award in 2016. \nLindsay Hall  ●  Indiana University-Bloomington\nJuly – September\nLindsay Hall\, Pink and Gold Sack\, 2015. \nLindsay Hall’s interdisciplinary practice sources an eclectic range of materials including silicone\, textiles\, clay\, spray paint\, and glitter to create colorfully titillating pieces that engage the notions of pleasure\, beauty\, and the perverse as they relate to the body\, sexuality\, and the intimacies and vulnerabilities of human interaction. Desire and temptation become valuable components for interaction and interpretation. She combines contrasting textures\, forms\, and materials to present preexisting dualities: attraction/repulsion\, hard/soft\, feminine/masculine\, interior/exterior\, made/found. Her resulting pieces and installations fantasize these shared human experiences\, often sugarcoating shame and disgust with humor and playfulness. Recent Target Gallery visitors will remember her piece Blinged Out in the Material as Medium group exhibition last year. \nA West Coast native\, Lindsay Hall is currently based in Arlington\, Virginia. She received a MFA in Painting from Indiana University in 2016\, as well as a BFA in Painting and Drawing (2012) and a BA in Journalism and Media Studies (2010) from the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas. Her work has been exhibited nationally at venues such as the Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in New York\, the New Hampshire Institute of Arts\, and Kent State University in Ohio and will be featured in a summer 2017 issue of Studio Visit magazine. Lindsay Hall has co-curated group exhibitions in Indiana and New York. She received the Ilknur P. Ralston Memorial Award in Visual Arts in 2016. \nFumi Amano  ●   Virginia Commonwealth University\nOctober – December\nFumi Amano\, Worries of a 30 year old single woman–Hysteria (video still)\, 2016. \nA native of Aichi\, Japan\, Fumi Amano seeks to do new and creative things with glass and demonstrate new possibilities within the medium. Amano entered graduate school to expand her expertise with glass as a medium\, but her work shifted more into the conceptual space as she began using her art as a primary means to express her emotions\, given English is her second language. Her work is inspired by her strong desire for intimacy as well as a deep sense of loneliness. She is obsessed with communicating with others and creates work that elicits visceral\, gut emotions in her audience. Amano’s work Look at Me was featured in the Target Gallery group exhibition Please Touch in June 2016. Viewers were invited to lick the frosted glass pane to reveal themselves to a person on the opposite side. \nAmano completed her undergraduate studies in art education at the University of Education in Aichi before refining studies of her medium at Toyama Institute of Glass Art in Toyama\, Japan\, and at Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood\, Washington. Amano has won several awards including best student work at Niijima Glass Art Festival in Tokyo and also at Pilchuck Glass School. Her work was selected at the International Exhibition of Glass in Kanazawa\, Japan; the Contemporary Glass Triennial in Toyama\, Japan; and the Itami Craft Triennial in Osaka\, Japan. She has shown her work in group and solo exhibitions in both the U.S. and Japan. She is presently enrolled in the master’s of fine arts program at Virginia Commonwealth University to study glass art and will be graduating in spring 2017.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/2017-post-graduate-residents/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T200000
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SUMMARY:Culture Shock Artist Demo with Michael Fischerkeller
DESCRIPTION:Culture Shock (and Torpedo Factory artist) Michael Fischerkeller illustrates spray paint and stenciling techniques during this special demonstration sponsored by Target Gallery\, contemporary exhibition space of the Torpedo Factory Art Center\, as a part of October’s Second Thursday Art Night. \nHe will be working on pieces for his ‘Children of War’ series (the piece Grace is featured in the Culture Shock exhibition) on the incredible resiliency we witness in children who live on war zones. In spite of facing death\, famine\, drought and other horrible conditions that are a consequence of war\, the light in children persists in radiating. This series seeks to highlight that light in a series of portraits of children that showcase the grace\, determination\, and defiance that these children are able to carry.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/culture-shock-artist-demo-with-michael-fischerkeller/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Second Thursday
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171023
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20170728T165348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170829T163648Z
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SUMMARY:Culture Shock
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, September 14th 6 – 8 pm | Gallery Talk 7 pm\nTarget 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. \nThe juror for this exhibition is Mojdeh Rezaeipour\, a storyteller\, artist\, The Moth‘s Washington DC StorySlam Producer\, and Co-Founder of Epicure Cafe – a community cafe\, gallery\, and music venue\, home to hundreds of creatives in the Washington DC area. \nParticipating Artists Include: \nRaul Barquet\, NY\nTavin Davis\, MT\nCarolyn Faulkner\, NC\nMichael Fischerkeller\, MD\nMichael Holt\, VA\nSarah Jamison\, DC\nKhanh Le\, DC\nFloydetta McAfee\, VA\nBrandon McDonald\, PA\nSandi Parker\, VA\nGabriel Pons\, VA\nRon Testa\, IL\nJames Walker\, VA\nJen Watson\, UT\nBabelon Williams\, IN\nMuhammad Zaman\, NY \n  \nImage:  Sandi Parker\, Art Is Not A Crime\, acrylic\, 2015.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/culture-shock/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170810T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170810T210000
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CREATED:20170720T205649Z
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SUMMARY:Your Side of History: Collage Making
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by the current exhibition\, Sarah Nesbitt: Making Sense of What We Have\, Target Gallery will be hosting a collage making session in which any individual can create and show their version of history during the Second Thursday Art Night. Whether it be highlighting what you find most important\, or pointing out things that you have come to question\, we encourage you to add your perspective on the community’s shared history to show what stands out to you! \n(Note: Supplies will be provided) \n  \nImage Credit: \nSarah Nesbitt\, The Breakdown of Language (detail)\, 2011. Cut Pigmented inkjet Print\, Cut Newspaper Tableau.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/your-side-of-history-collage-making/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Second Thursday,Special Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170713
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170904
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
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SUMMARY:Sarah Nesbitt: Making Sense of What We Have
DESCRIPTION:Opening Reception: Thursday\, July 13th 6 – 8 pm | Artist Talk 7 pm\nTarget 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. \nNesbitt’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 re-writing of history\, and positions art as essential to contextualizing and interpreting both our present and our past. \n“A photograph is often perceived to be an objective arbiter of truth\, but realistically\, it’s just as open to manipulation as the process of recording history\,” said Nesbitt. “Photography can alter our entire perception of reality via editing\, interpretation\, and desensitization. It can also construct hyper-reality and depict pseudo-events.” \nTo Nesbitt\, history is a living\, breathing investigation into who and what came before us. Using a variety of modern and antiquated printed and digital media—videos\, installations\, sculpture\, augmented reality\, and even wet-plate photography—Nesbitt disrupts her own work with stitching\, dissecting\, writing\, and pinning. She lays it bare so that it can be seen for what it is. Photographs aren’t precious and complete\, they’re vulnerable to disruptions from outside forces. \nFor her large-scale print\, The Survival of Art\, she lays out slides and notates them with art historical comments. For example\, the slide labeled “Edward Curtis” reads\, “Destroyed all of his glass negatives in 1919. Others claimed he misrepresented Native American people.” \nIn Our History of the Telephone\, the audience sees a spread in an old book on the history of telephony. Using a custom application on a smart phone\, the viewer holds the screen over the picture of the book and sees it changed and modified in real time. \n“My aim is to create awareness to these shortcomings so we could continue to look at history not as static stories of previous lives\, but our efforts to get closer to an accurate portrayal of our past\,” she said. \nNesbitt was selected from more than 100 international applicants as part of the annual Open Exhibition solo show opportunity. The jurors for this exhibition were: Jeremy Flick\, Sheldon Scott\, and Marta Staudinger. \n“Sarah explores the critical methods we use to record world history and understand our present\,” said Flick. “She aims to reveal the shortcomings of how we read photographic images\, what constitutes as accurate\, and how we construct narratives of history. She offers a new focal point in which we should critically examine the role of photography in our understanding of history and the formation of our present stories.” \n“As our understanding of truth\, its consequences\, and our acceptance thereof are challenged in new ways\, we must become open to nuanced frameworks for future thinking and increased scrutiny of the historical record\,” said Scott. “Sarah’s use of different media suggests a diversity of delivery systems that truth could be experienced through. Her disruption of surfaces brings a greater focus to our personal experiences in the process of truth.” \n“Sarah’s interest in creating awareness of history shortcomings is a refreshing narrative that seems particularly appropriate in a time where we are so digitally connected to news\, and yet somewhat removed from truth\,” said Staudinger. “The amount of information input we receive is overwhelming and this exhibition brings to light not only that process\, but the historiography of our interpretation of history over time.” \nSarah Nesbitt: Making Sense of What We Have runs Thursday\, July 13\, through Sunday\, September 3\, 2017. The public reception will be Second Thursday\, July 13\, 6 – 8 pm\, with Nesbitt’s comments at 7 pm. The Target Gallery is open daily from 10 – 6 pm and until 9 pm on Thursdays. \nImage Credit:\nSarah Nesbitt\, Losing the Collection\, 2011. Pigmented Inkjet Print\, Inventory Tags\, String. \nSarah Nesbitt\, Evidence of Existence\, 2017. Pigmented Inject Print.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/sarah-nesbitt-making-sense-of-what-we-have/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170527
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170710
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
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SUMMARY:Glitch: An Exploration of Digital Media
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Thursday\, June 8 | 6 – 8 pm | Juror Talk 7 pm\nThe 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. \n“Ever since the invention of fire\, humans have approached technology with intrigue\, bewilderment and audacity – sometimes all at the same time\,” said Luis. “The work submitted for this exhibit presented a treasure trove of ways that artists attempt to tame this flame. I learned that technology and media-based art is not merely a genre or medium\, but rather a layer of reality that will inevitably become present in all forms of creative expression.” \nThe work on view in Glitch shows the complex—and sometimes messy—relationship between emerging technologies and basic human communication. Technology can be an obstacle\, a distraction\, or a placeholder for storytelling. For example\, in Sasha de Koninck’s Zeroes and Ones\, each jacquard weaving has musical compositions embedded into them. Viewers can play preprogramed compositions or create their own arrangements based on where they move and direct the camera on the accompanying tablet device. \n“I chose works that insisted on telling their tales in spite of these challenges\,” said Luis. “The works presented here may demonstrate new ways of looking at media\, but more importantly\, they are new ways of looking at ourselves.” \nGlitch is the first exhibition of its kind in Target Gallery and the Torpedo Factory Art Center. \n“This exhibition reflects contemporary culture\,” said Leslie Mounaime\, Target Gallery director. “Artists are embracing technology\, utilizing new media and digital elements to enhance their artistic storytelling. The media itself is consistently revolutionizing\, too. We’ve risen to the challenge to illustrate the evolving nature of art using digital technology.” \nThe participating artists:\nJill Burks\, Cambridge\, NY\nEric Corriel\, Brooklyn\, NY\nSasha de Koninck\, Santa Monica\, CA\nAlexis Gomez\, Dumfries\, VA\nEd Grant\, Brooklyn\, NY\nMaxim Leyzerovich\, Washington\, D.C.\nTracy Miller-Robbins\, Westerville\, OH\nJohn Mosher\, Salisbury\, MD\nZach Nagle\, Minneapolis\, MN\nLyric Prince\, Arlington\, VA \nKaylah Waite\, Hyattsville\, MD  \nAbout the Juror\nAdriel Luis is a musician\, poet\, visual artist\, curator and coder from the California Bay Area. Adriel is currently based in Washington\, D.C.\, as the curator of digital and emerging media at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\, where his team has been developing a series of “culture labs” as community-created alternatives to traditional museum exhibitions. He is also a founding member of the psychedelic spoken word collective iLL-Literacy\, and moonlights on design projects with artists and non-profits. Adriel frequently travels\, with particular interest in how digital space shapes global communities. Adriel can be found across online platforms as @DRZZL. \n\nImage: Zach Nagle\, Glamour #2\, 2015\, Mixed Media/Print\nVideo: Sasha de Koninck\, Zeroes and Ones: Exercises in Translation\, 2015\, Interactive Jacquard Weaving  \n\n		\n	\n	\n	\n	\n		Sasha de Koninck\, Zeroes and Ones: Exercises in Translation
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/glitch/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T203000
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SUMMARY:Ephemera: Artist Panel
DESCRIPTION:  \nJoin Target Gallery\, the contemporary exhibition space for the Torpedo Factory Art Center\, for an artist panel featuring seven participating artists from our current exhibition Ephemera. During the panel\, we will be discussing the artist’s inspiration\, process\, and how their work relates to the ‘ephemeral’ by contemplating themes of nature\, time\, memory\, and brevity. \nParticipating Artists Include: \nMadison Bolls\nAnne Cherubim\nKelly Johnston\nBryanna Millis\nCaroline Minchew\nGretchen Schermerhorn\nLilach Schrag \n  \nImage Credit: Bryanna Millis\, Your Prisons\, Your Mountains\, 2015\, photo\, ink\, and metallic thread on muslin
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/ephemera-artist-panel/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Special Event
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170401
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170522
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
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SUMMARY:Ephemera
DESCRIPTION:Public Reception: Thursday\, April 13\, 6 – 8 pm; Juror’s Talk at 7 pm\nThe 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. Painter/sculptor Pam Rogers juried the exhibition. \n“There are multitudes of ways an individual can perceive this transitory existence\, making the concept of ephemerality a relative one\,” said Rogers. “I was drawn to work that seemed to have risen from the artists’ true feelings of something being precious because it would soon no longer exist; art that embodied materials that spoke to a temporary life.” \nOf the 108 submissions\, only 22 artists were invited to participate. Work by local artists will be in conversation with pieces that will be traveling from as far as Alaska and France for a truly transnational exploration of ephemerality. \n“I am interested in how artists capture impermanence\,” said Leslie Mounaime\, director of Target Gallery. “This body of work explores the idea of art as a natural and evanescent object\, meant to represent a memory or reflect a specific moment in time. In this show\, we strive not only to show work that introduces new trends and themes in contemporary art\, but also reflects the broader conversation in our community around these diverse and relevant issues.” \nEphmera represents a wide diversity of media. Maxime Girardin plays with the photosensitive nature of chlorophyll to imprint intricate\, yet delicate images on leaves in Origin 1 and Origin 2. In Lilach Schrag’s video loop Brown Golem\, she documents her process and laborious ritual as she deconstructs and reconstructs a man from the earth. Holly Anne Brooks’ watercolor painting My Grandmother’s Knitting Pattern from 1948 preserves a family heirloom\, the degrading paper her grandmother referenced to make Christmas stocking for every member of her family. Brent Dedas’ cyanotype X No. 29 captures the ghostly and fragile silhouettes of bees as they feed on honey and salt. \n  \nThe participating artists are:\nScott Andresen New Orleans\, LA\nSusan Benarcik Wilmington\, DE\nMadison Bolls Washington\, DC\nHolly Anne Brooks Nyack\, NY\nRae Broyles Roswell\, GA\nAnne Cherubim Gaithersburg\, MD\nKatie Ione Craney Haines\, AK\nBrent Dedas Louisville\, KY\nMaxime Girardin Paris\, France\nIan Gwinn Catharpin\, VA\nSoomin Ham Alexandria\, VA\nKelly Johnston Chapel Hill\, NC\nDawn Lee Sayville\, NY\nDave Magyar Middletown\, DE\nBryanna Millis Washington\, DC\nCaroline Minchew Washington\, DC\nLauren Rago Old Greenwich\, CT\nGretchen Schermerhorn Silver Spring\, MD\nLilach Schrag Highland Park\, IL\nQin Tan Tacoma\, WA\nHannah Vogel New Bedford\, MA\nAngela White Bethesda\, MD \nAbout the Juror\nPam Rogers is a painter/sculptor whose work explores the territory between the nature and the role of the artist as they engage with nature. She received her MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design and her BA in Art History from Wellesley College. Her work has been exhibited nationally including recent solo shows include the Greater Reston Arts Center in Reston VA\, and Hillyer Art Space in Washington DC\, and upcoming solo show at the Arlington Arts Center in VA. Pam has worked on numerous curatorial projects and was selected to receive a fellowship with the DCAC Curator/Mentor Program\, as well as Strathmore Mentor in the Fine AIRS program and is completing her six-year fellowship at the Arlington Arts Center. She has received fellowships at multiple artist residency programs including the Ucross Foundation\, Hambidge\, I-Park\, Ragdale Art Center and Virginia Center for Creative Arts and Mass MoCA. Pam currently works as an independent illustrator on various projects for the Anthropology Department of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC.
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/ephemera-2/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170324T220000
DTSTAMP:20260915T065957
CREATED:20170130T175249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170324T150636Z
UID:10509-1490382000-1490392800@torpedofactory.org
SUMMARY:7th Annual March150 Art Party
DESCRIPTION:#March150 \nTarget Gallery’s popular annual exhibition and art sale\, March150\, returns. Proceeds benefit future special exhibitions and programs. During the March150 Art Party on Friday\, March 24\, all of the work is discounted for $100. Join us for a lively evening featuring live performances by darlingdance\, music\, a photo booth\, artist awards\, and more. \nTickets are $20 in advance/$25 at the door. For an extra $15\, you can enjoy the freshest local fare from EatsPlace\, too. See special menu below! \nPurchase tickets at the gift shop\, online\, or at the door. (pre-sale tickets end on Thursday\, March 23rd) \nNote: Tickets are transferable\, but not refundable. \nEatsPlace March150 Menu\n \n 
URL:https://torpedofactory.org/event/7th-annual-march150-art-sale-exhibition/
LOCATION:Studio 2 – Target Gallery
CATEGORIES:After-hours,Community Outreach,Exhibition,Fundraising,Special Event
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