the International Glass and Clay show.  This is the 3rd year that Sunderland, England and Washington, DC artists have come together to put on a joint Glass and Clay show.  The show is opening at the Pepco Edison Place Gallery tonite at 5:30 with jazz and all that.  thirteen artists from Sunderland arrived the othyesterday to install their art.  Their van was hit by a fleeing criminal while driving through DC.  Nobody got hurt but the van got scratched up.  Erwin Timmers was driving the van full of artists.  He did a great job of slowing down the crooks for a few microseconds!  :)  This is a picture of Edwina Chen as she is painting pedestals white for the art to sit on.  The pedestals and art were shipped from England and sat in customs for a while.  But the pedstals needed to be painted when they got to the gallery. It takes a lot of work to put on an art show!

The show is sponsored by Artomatic and several otehr art organizations.  more info can be found at http://glassandclay.org/

The 2013 International Glass + Clay show opens March 1st and will run through Friday, March 23, The exhibit is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Saturday, Sunday and Tuesday, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. The Gallery Place Metro station is within walking distance of the Gallery..

The opening for F. Lennox Campello Selects Artomatic Artists is Wednesday 13-Feb-13.  I  have 3 abstracts in this show.  It i is a great show with 35 artists and some really interesting art!  Below Deborah Lash works on installing her 3 dress sculptures, Blinds Dress, Monkey Dress and Sports Jersey Dress.  To the left Erwin Timmers works on installing his glass sculpture "Rebound".  My 3 abstracts are  on the wall behind him arranged vertically.  The show runs to 22-Feb-13 Tuesday to Friday noon to $:PM.  It is in the Pepco Edison place Gallery at 702 8th Street NW.  The gallery is close to the Chinatown metro stop and the National portrait gallery.  Come by and get some wine and cheese and see some art! :)

I started a new series of abstracts called Fire and Ice.  This is Fire and Ice 1.  It is  2 ft by 2 ft on plywood.  I made it using it oil paint sticks and wax.  The camera didn't get the colors just right, the green center stripe is brighter in reality.  I have one more in the works now.  Not sure how many I will make in this series, kind of depends on how things go.  I suppose that's true in all of life tho. :-)

Based on an image from inside my head.  Sometimes it is good to get these things out of the head and onto canvas.  Or plywood in this case.

ArtDC has Gravity, a metal sculpture show running in Sep-2012.  A dinosaur guards the backroom where a space dweller rests near a floating mobile.  In the front room a stainless steel stella waits near the entrance while a web of twisted, woven metal guards the corner.  Large iron rods are gently turned into flowing, firey shapes and planted in a stone base.  Colorful mobiles float overhead in the mechanical HVAC breeze.  Giant jaws of steel teeth await the unwary passersby.  A few pictures here and more the Flickr pool.  My cheap camera wasn't the best for this show.

Glass!  Here are  few pics from the glass show in Hyattsvile, MD recently.  The ArtDC gallery hosted work from Washington Glass School artists.  Some really beautiful work was shown, and a wide variety of styles and form.  A few sculptures and paintings rounded out the show.  The Gallery is in the EYA club house and on the main drag through Hyattsvilile.  Open Saturday afternoons 12 to 5 and other hours by appointment.  There is s Flicikr photo pool with more images from the glass show here.  Click the slideshow link on the top right of the Flickr page for easy viewing.  Here are just a few more.

Artomatic is closing 23-Jun-12 in Crystal City.  This is the last week to see over 1100 artists work all in one building.  Plus musical performances, workshops, dance and food and drink.  Don't miss the last week!  You don't find shows like this very often anywhere in the world!  11 floors of art, and free to enter.