Inside the Artist's Studio:
HELEN FREDERICK

Saturday, October 30
12 noon

Tickets: $10 / Members: Free
For reservations, call 202-338-3552.

Please note: This event will take place at the artist's Silver Spring, MD studio. Directions will be sent upon registration.

Helen Frederick is a respected artist who supports the Washington, DC community as a scholar and collaborator with institutions and links to international cultural projects. Through her art, she  conveys impassioned perceptions about human history, natural ecology, the implications of loss, memory and convergences.  Her free associations move through juxtaposed layers of photo images, writing and printed text drawn from widely varied sources, such as news media, philosophical icons and linguistic word play.  

Image: Helen Frederick, Carpe Danger, 2009, artist book, cover image, 8'5" x 11", etching and digital print

Lecture Series:
POST IMPRESSIONISM

Individual Tickets: $10
Students and Seniors (65+): $7
Members: Free

Lecture Series: $25
Students and Seniors (65+): $18. 

For reservations, call 202-338-3552.

The Self-Portraits of Paul Gauguin
Irina Stotland, Ph.D. Candidate, Bryn Mawr College
Thursday, October 21
6:30 pm -7:30 pm

Irina Stotland will explore the variety of methods that painter Paul Gauguin employed in developing his image of self in his works.  Stotland will offer a theory that links his visual vocabulary of self-imagery with his words, by exploring his letters and articles.

Vincent van Gogh's Art School
Laura Coyle, Founder, Curator-at-Large
Thursday, November 4
6:30 pm -7:30 pm

While still a novice, Vincent van Gogh, a largely self-taught artist, founded a small art school in Neunen, Holland in 1884.  Unlike traditional late 19th century art schools, van Gogh's school allowed students to create their own compositions and begin painting immediately.  Laura Coyle will describe this school using the students' recollections of Van Gogh's unusual methods and chaotic studio, as well as the artist’s letters to his brother Theo, to explore why his teaching should be considered so innovative.  The lecture will demonstrate that knowing about van Gogh's school and methods helps us to understand the painter's ideas about art and his work in an intriguing new way.  

The Landscapes of Pierre Bonnard
Laura Coyle, Founder, Curator-at-Large
Thursday, November 4
6:30 pm -7:30 pm

Reviewing the 2006 Pierre Bonnard retrospective in Paris, the Financial Times referred to a painter “who has leapfrogged most of the the 20th century to become muse to 21st century conceptualism, voyeurism, self-doubt, ambiguity.”  In his talk, Erich Keel will explore Bonnard’s very personal approach to landscape, his uncanny way of painting the fragile relationship between luxuriant nature and the private sphere of home.