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Nmwa Exhibitions

View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Loïs Mailou Jones & the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center

Posted: November 9, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Several of the photographs included in Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color and many of the photographs in the exhibition catalog were selected from the personal papers of...
Semi-abstract composition in shades of blue, orange, yellow, green, grey, white and burgundy. In the center, an orange oval with a black and white eye in the center, supported by symmetrical strips of semi-circles and diamonds. Vertical blocks of color reach upwards on both sides.

Loïs Mailou Jones & Howard University

Posted: November 2, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
On display at NMWA until January 9, 2011, Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color is the first major retrospective spanning the artist’s career of more than 75 years.
Beneath a soft blue sky, a picturesque village nestles in a valley between a river in the extreme foreground and verdant mountains. Combining loose and discrete brushstrokes with a palette of greens and golds, the painting recalls Paul Cézanne’s late 19th-century landscapes.

Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color

Posted: October 6, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color, a dynamic exhibition of more than 70 paintings, drawings, and textile designs, spans the artist’s career from the late Harlem Renaissance to...
Beneath a soft blue sky, a picturesque village nestles in a valley between a river in the extreme foreground and verdant mountains. Combining loose and discrete brushstrokes with a palette of greens and golds, the painting recalls Paul Cézanne’s late 19th-century landscapes.

Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut

Posted: September 8, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Books Without Words: The Visual Poetry of Elisabetta Gut features twenty-two works by the artist carefully crafted from her dreams, memories, and love for music and poetry.
A brown, tropical fruit with a large segment of skin removed to reveal small, round pages of sheet music inside instead of fruit flesh. The book rests on a square woodblock with “libra—seme” printed in the bottom-right corner.

SOLO Spotlight: Jean Shin

Posted: August 30, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Jean Shin is a master of rendering small objects on a monumental scale. The everyday becomes epic. Her works in The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression, on view through...
A view of a gallery space with several colorful works hanging on the walls.

SOLO Spotlight: Dotty Attie

Posted: August 12, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Dotty Attie’s work, mannered, realist, delicate, is all about violence. Masterpieces copied, cut, contextualized anew. Images of women manipulated to accentuate their vulnerability to the powerful male and his gaze....
A view of a gallery space with several colorful works hanging on the walls.

Woman to Watch: Jennifer Levonian

Posted: July 29, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Third in our summer series of Women to Watch artist spotlights, Jennifer Levonian talks about how she made her work Take Your Picture with a Puma. Levonian's work was recently...
View of the museum from outside showing the Neoclassical building from one corner. The building is a tan-colored stone with an arched doorway, long vertical windows, and detailed molding around the roof.

Woman to Watch: Kate Longmaid

Posted: July 16, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In conjunction with Body of Work: New Perspectives on Figurative Painting, Broad Strokes is proud to spotlight the artists featured in Women to Watch. Select portraitists will be commenting on...
Two large paintings hang on a lavender wall. In the first, a dark-skinned woman stands in a white landscape, and in the other, a fence, house, and large birds float on a solid turquoise background. On the other white wall is an abstract multimedia work with houses, cakes, and patterns.

SOLO Spotlight: Joyce Kozloff

Posted: July 9, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
If I could be an artist, I would want to be Joyce Kozloff. Her work draws on maps, illuminations, historical manuscripts, and website imagery, always delighting the eye with decorative...
A view of a gallery space with several colorful works hanging on the walls.

SOLO Spotlight: Ida Applebroog

Posted: June 30, 2010
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Ida Applebroog’s simplified figures in comic-like settings wrapped in social criticism make her artwork easily identifiable. The Collaborative Print: Works from SOLO Impression features two of Applebroog’s prints, on view...