Join us for Third Thursday
on Thursday, November 16th from 5-8 pm!
Studio Gallery will be open to the public from 5-6 pm;
more information on our current exhibits can be found here.
See below for information on Third Thursdays
at our neighboring institutions,
the IA&A at Hillyer, The Phillips Collection, and ADA Gallery.
We hope to see you there!
IA&A at Hillyer
Image credit: Akili Ron Anderson, Eye on the Prize, 2014, acrylic on canvas
Curator, Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet, talks Raimi Gobadamosi and Akil Ron Anderson
Thursday, October 19, 6:30 p.m.
During our monthly Third Thursday program in November, curator, Raul Moarquech Ferrera-Balanquet will be joined by featured artists Raimi Gobadamosi and Akil Ron Anderson, a member of the AfriCOBRA collective. The focus of this topic is the exhibition Sensorial Africana Superrealities which interconnects African ancestral paths and realities that historically have emerged in transnational Black Atlantic and Caribbean territories.
Visit the exhibitions page to learn more about the curator and the featured artists.
Phillips Collection
That Evening Sun by Clarke
The Rothko Room by Carl Nard
Stop by The Phillips Collection from 5-8 pm to explore the new special exhibition African Modernism in America, 1947-67, featuring 50 African and African American artists—including David Driskell, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Ben Enwonwu, Jacob Lawrence, Demas Nwoko, and Uche Okeke. Join the exhibition’s co-curator Perrin Lathrop, for a tour at 6:30 pm.
ADA Art Gallery
𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘰𝘸 by Dale Appleman
𝘋𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘥𝘪𝘭𝘴 by Michal Hunter
𝘉𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘥 by Jack Rasmussen
“Washington Center of ADA University, ADA Art Gallery is an extension of ADA University’s Art Program, welcomes our Fall 2023 exhibition: The Three-Body Problem: Dale Appleman, Michal Hunter, Jack Rasmussen. The Artists combine representational works, abstractions, and collages made by artists whose attractions are aesthetic rather than gravitational. Must the exhibition spiral into chaos, or can the artworks somehow hang together in a dynamic and fruitful balance? One must visit the exhibition to see.
The Three-Body Problem is a science fiction novel by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Cixin observes that when two celestial objects get close to each other, their gravitational attraction influences the paths they take in a way that a simple mathematical formula can describe. But, when a third object is added, things are no longer so simple: the interactions between the three objects become unpredictable.
As different as the three artists are, each begins with representational imagery and allows wildly different aesthetics and processes to transform images into objects of nuance and emotion. The path each artist takes is unpredictable, and the ramifications of their interactions in space and time in the Art Gallery of the Washington Center at ADA University are equally unpredictable. To paraphrase the title of a Jimmy Buffett live concert album, you have to be there.
Washington Center of ADA University, ADA Art Gallery aims to promote cultural awareness and advance cultural ties between the United States and Azerbaijan. Find us at 1627 21st Street NW on the corner of R Street NW, Gallery Row. @washingtoncenterADAU”
Exhibition: September 1 - December 21, 2023
Hours: Tuesday – Friday 1.00pm - 5.00pm
Extended hours on the 1st Friday and 3rd Thursdays til 8.00pm