Exhibitions

4 09, 2024

Sculpture Now 2024 at Mclean Project for the Arts

2024-09-04T13:57:25+00:00

Sculpture NOW 2024
Washington Sculptors Group Juried Exhibition

September 12 – October 26, 2024

Reception | 7pm

Mclean Project for the Arts
1234 Ingleside Avenue
McLean, VA 22101

Please join MPA and the Washington Sculptors Group September 12 – October 26, 2024 for Sculpture NOW 2024, a non-thematic exhibition of new works, finished within the last two years. Juried by MPA Curator and Artistic Director Nancy Sausser, Sculpture NOW features the work of more than 60 artists.

Sculpture Now 2024 at Mclean Project for the Arts2024-09-04T13:57:25+00:00
4 09, 2024

Beyond Networks: Work by New Image Artists at Brentwood Arts Center

2024-09-04T13:57:40+00:00

Beyond Networks: Work by The New Image Artists

Curated by Mary Welch Higgins

November 4, 2024 – January 4, 2025

Brentwood Arts Center, Brentwood, MD

New Image Artists is a group of professional fiber and mix media artists who have been exhibiting together and individually for over 40 years. They are trailblazers and innovators working in a medium that has only recently gained solid support from the leading institutions in the art world. While each artist has her own studio process and conceptual aims, they are united by their dedication to their art and a creative camaraderie which has grown over years of meeting and exhibiting together.

This group exhibit, Beyond Networks, highlights work by New Images Artists that explores the meaning of networks and is intended to draw attention to how the processes inherent in the creation of textile art as well as the “encoding of meaning” have been mirrored in the invention and development of digital social networks.

Beyond Networks: Work by New Image Artists at Brentwood Arts Center2024-09-04T13:57:40+00:00
27 01, 2023

Solo Exhibition | Score: Mixed Media by Joan Dreyer

2023-02-15T17:30:59+00:00
Score: Mixed Media Art by Joan Dreyer
Solo Exhibition; Vulcan Gallery, W-16 1st Floor
On View: January 14 – April 30, 2023
Reception Date: April 8, 4 pm – 6 pm

Score explores 20 years of the work of Virginia-based mixed media artist, Joan Dreyer. While developing her MFA thesis at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, PA, Joan began taking tools, techniques and imagery that have been historically considered “women’s work” and transforming them into innovative, contemporary art that is responsive to the tone and tensions of our times. Created by combining fiber techniques with unexpected materials like X-rays, her work is a subtle art that asks questions about life, loss, symbolism, and the impact of war instead of providing one size fits all answers. The artist’s work provides a space for the contemplation of life stages that we all encounter. The result is a body of work that allows for meaningful but also multiple interpretations by the viewer.

Solo Exhibition | Score: Mixed Media by Joan Dreyer2023-02-15T17:30:59+00:00
21 09, 2022

Before, During, After: Art Shaping Resilience

2022-09-21T13:40:26+00:00
Before, During, After: Art Shaping Resilience
Angie Newman Johnson Gallery, Episcopal High School
February 14, 2022 – March 22, 2022

Joan Dreyer was one of nine artists in Before, During, After at the Angie Newman Gallery at Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia.

The exhibit addressed how artists build resilience through the act of creating art and how that process is relevant to the current times.

Before, During, After: Art Shaping Resilience2022-09-21T13:40:26+00:00
12 03, 2021

In the Galleries, Washington Post, January 29

2022-09-21T13:21:02+00:00
World 2020
2021 Mark Jenkins, “Review: In the Galleries”, The Washington Post, January 29, Arts & Style

Joan Dreyer’s “World Map,” from 2008, is a fabric chart flanked by tags from upscale clothing items made around the world, emblems of internationalization from a less contentious time. It’s next to a more urgent world vision: an egg-shaped papier-mache globe covered in newsy images, including photos of masked people.”

In the Galleries, Washington Post, January 292022-09-21T13:21:02+00:00
12 03, 2021

Rock Paper Scissors at Museum of Shenadoah Valley extended

2022-09-21T13:26:23+00:00
Rock, Paper, Scissors at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley has been extended through November 28th, 2021

This fascinating fiber art exhibition presents contemporary textiles and mixed-media works created by artists from New Image, an all-female group of active studio artists from Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, who work primarily with cloth, paper, and alternative materials. Inspired by the natural landscape of the Shenandoah Valley and the materials used by New Image artists, Rock, Paper, Scissors presents a wide range of art, from standard quilts to three-dimensional works.

Rock Paper Scissors at Museum of Shenadoah Valley extended2022-09-21T13:26:23+00:00
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