February 13–March 21, 2021
María Luz Bravo, Jason Bulluck, Joey Enríquez, Stephanie Garon, Lionel Frazier White III.
Viewing entries in
Exhibitions
October 31–November 28, 2020
Madeline A. Stratton
Hamiltonian Artists presents This is Who I Am Now, Amber Eve Anderson’s first solo exhibition with Hamiltonian Artists. It will be on view by appointment only from October 31 – November 28 at H Space, 1932 9th Street NW, #C102 (Enter from 9 1/2 Street), Washington, DC 20001. All public programs will take place online.
Hamiltonian Artists presents “The Other Side,” Brian Michael Dunn’s second solo exhibition of paintings at the gallery. It will be on view by appointment only from October 8 - October 26. All public programs will take place online.
This exhibition includes a new group of paintings in Dunn’s ongoing series of landscapes and still lives rendered in graphic forms and bold color.
Hamiltonian Artists is pleased to announce Hamiltonian Artists Fellow (2019–2021) Yacine Tilala Fall’s first solo exhibition at the gallery, “Les Racines du Baobab: Dans Un Famille D’eau (The Roots of the Baobab: Inside a Family of Water)” and “Performing Incantations: Deconstructing Racialized and Gendered Media Erasure”, featuring Britt Sankofa, curated by Dawne Langford. The exhibitions will be on view from August 22 to September 14, 2020. Hamiltonian will be open by scheduled appointment times Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 4pm.
Washington, DC: Hamiltonian Artists presents a series of online exhibitions inspired by social-distancing, Hypothetical Show (HS), live online April 13–May 30, 2020. The series has two objectives: to represent current Hamiltonian Fellows in curatorial formats and dialogue without the use of physical space and to play with what an online exhibition can mean. The first exhibition, “HS1 | public, private, urgent, intimate, sparse,” features the work of current Hamiltonian Fellows Amber Eve Anderson, Sera Boeno, Tommy Bobo, Luke Ikard, Kaitlin Jencso, and Madeline A. Stratton in a miscellaneous white cube space found on the internet.
Akea Brionne Brown | A Brown Millennial
Hamiltonian is pleased to announce the solo exhibitions by Akea Brionne Brown. The opening reception will be hosted at the gallery on Saturday, February 22nd, from 7 - 9 pm.
In her most autobiographical installation yet, Akea Brionne Brown builds A Brown Millennial with powerful photographic portraits infused with aesthetics of Americana, vast swaths of color rooted in history and culture, and interactive texts that challenge what is personal and political.
In her own words, this work is a reflection of Brown’s world and what it means to exist as a young, black, American woman in a time where everything feels uncertain. In response to both personal events and political systems, ìA Brown Millennial exists to invite viewers into the contemplations and worries that consume the artist. Breaking away from the flatness of the photographic plane, Brown creates an immersive environment using pop culture phenomena like Buzzfeed Privilege Quizzes and paper takeaways and invites the viewer to engage with what may be uncomfortable.
Images from the past are a window into the present. Brown uses found textiles and personal history to examine contemporary politics in her own eyes: ìI open up an honest dialogue about the topics that have been consuming my consciousness, specifically the contemporary state of African Americans and blacks throughout the continental United States. The installation is built with urgent simultaneousness that can only be described as the reality of any millennial grappling with these intersectional issues. Representation and beauty within an American context are taken on powerfully through her portraits transforming textiles and the body; the overwhelming effects of mass incarceration on the black community are explored vulnerably; the diminishing awareness of ancestral practices that were erased through slavery and the great migration are alluded to through cultural signifiers from her homes of New Orleans and New Mexico. The reality of privilege is unpacked elegantly, and real questions are asked of the viewer.
Curtis Miller | A new series of paintings
Hamiltonian is pleased to announce the solo exhibitions by Curtis Miller.
Images that exemplify marks made over time. Inconspicuous marks. Marks made in different moods. And marks that are discernible and hold their own.
In his latest work, Miller draws inspiration through images from everyday life. At times these recognizable images create an illustrative and narrative aspect that Miller resists. Glances and snippets of gestural marks peek through the grounds and the painting, and morphs in and out of abstraction. Curtis Miller is practicing an appreciation of the underlying aesthetic value of basic image components. These new paintings are an exploration of mood, as Miller departs from a contained practice into something darker yet playful, unknown, but occasionally recognizable.
BIOGRAPHIES:
Akea Brionne Brown is a lens-based artist whose work investigates the implications of historical racial and social structures in relation to contemporary black life in America. With a particular focus on the ways in which history influences the contemporary cultural milieu of the American black middle class, she explores current political and social themes, as they relate to historical forms of oppression, discrimination, and segregation in American history.
Akea Brionne has received the Visual Task Force Award from the National Association of Black Journalists. Her work is also featured in the Smithsonianís Ralph Rinzler Collection and Archives, and was recently acquired by the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art Collection. She was announced the 2018 Winner for Duke Universityís Center for Documentary Arts Collection Award, as the 2018 Documentarian of Color. Her series, Black Picket Fences, was acquired for their permanent collection, and is on preserve at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She was nominated for PDNs 30 (Photo District News) 2018: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch. Brown was also named a 2019 Sondheim finalist.
Additionally, Akea Brionne co-founded the Shades Collective, an interdisciplinary collective aimed at creating discussions around the realities of people of color within the arts and academia. Akea received her BFA (2018) from the Maryland Institute College of Art, in the dual degree program of Photography and Humanities. She is originally from New Orleans, Louisiana and is currently based in Baltimore, Maryland.
Curtis Miller was born in Corsicana, Texas in 1979. Having spent his entire life in Texas, Curtis Miller relocated from Austin to Baltimore in 2011 to attend Maryland Institute College of Artís Hoffberger School of Painting and graduated in 2013. He has exhibited his paintings at K Space Contemporary (Corpus Christi, TX), Gaddis Geeslin Gallery (Huntsville, TX), Joan Grona Gallery (San Antonio, TX), The South Texas Art Museum (Corpus Christi, TX), and the Art Center of Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi, TX) . Curtis has also been exhibiting his paintings at Terrault Contemporary (Baltimore, MD), City Arts (Baltimore, MD), Maryland Art Place (Baltimore, MD), John Fonda Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Jordan Faye Contemporary (Baltimore, MD), and Platform Gallery (Baltimore, MD), Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York, NY) and Hamiltonian Gallery (Washington, DC). He is a previous Sondheim Prize semi-finalist and currently lives and works in Baltimore, MD with his wife, his daughter, and dog Twig.
February 22 - March 21, 2020
Opening Reception: February 22, 7-9 pm
Artist Talk:
Thursday, March 5, 7pm
Show 96: Tommy Bobo
new.now. 2019
Hamiltonian Gallery is pleased to announce “Harvester’s Dilemma,” its second solo exhibition by Patrick Harkin. A reception will be held for the artist on Saturday, 10 August from 6 - 9pm.
Hamiltonian Gallery presents two new exhibitions by artists Ellen Xu and Brian Michael Dunn. “棒渣 | Bang Zha”and “Parallel Botany” will be on view from June 29 - August 3, 2019, with an opening reception on Saturday, June 29 from 7 - 9 pm and an artist talk on Tuesday, July 16 at 7 pm.
Hamiltonian Gallery is pleased to present two new bodies of work by artists Kaitlin Jencso and Sera Boeno. “Looking Glass” and “Kelimeler Kıyafetsiz (:Words Naked/Are Not Enough)” will open on Saturday, April 6 from 7 - 9 pm with a short performance; both artists will be in attendance.
Hamiltonian Gallery is pleased to present “IRL”, an exhibition of artwork by artists Curtis Miller and Luke Ikard.
“Cairn Sounds” by Rachel Schmidt
Fellows Converge 2018
new.now. 2018
Helina Metaferia & Paolo Morales
Ellen Xu and Rives Wiley.
Magali Hébert-Huot
Heather Theresa Clark
Kyle Bauer & Patrick Harkin
Antonio McAfee & Rachel Guardiola
Lisa Brotman
Thomas Block
Michael Enn Sirvet
Hamiltonian Gallery and Hamiltonian Artists are proud to announce the opening of their fifth exhibition featuring the lush and emotional work of Lisa Brotman, the tumultuous second installment of Tom Block’s series exploring mysticism in our post-religious age, and Michael Enn Sirvet’s sculptural work exploring the complex dualities of the natural and fabricated world. Disparate as the work may appear on the surface, each of these three artists endeavor to embolden the viewer to reevaluate the relationships of three overlapping realms through the filter of our modern-day sensibilities; namely, the world around us, the world within us and the world we cannot see.
Lisa Brotman’s paintings of women are part of an outgoing series that she began in the late 1970’s. Brotman creates an environment full of slightly curious women and colorful, repetitive flora that teeters between familiar reality and phantasmagoria. This interplay of iconographic elements begets metaphors and emotions, which in turn provoke visual and psychological investigation.
Twenty-five large, chaotic, mixed media panels wrap around the back of the gallery and together as a whole compose “Conference of the Birds,” an installation by Tom Block. The artistic process of this installation, as well as the symbols and imagery it contains, is modeled after a historic allegory of the spiritual quest of a mystic, also called, “Conference of the Birds.” Block’s technique of reworking, stripping and overworking the vibrant paintings echoes his own spiritual quest – realizing the mistaken ideals of classical mysticism, he then replaces them with a contemporary understanding of spirituality.
Michael Enn Sirvet’s prolific sculptural works ask more from the viewer than solely a formalist response. Sirvet dismantles, alters and reassembles manmade objects, or natural objects reshaped by man, to retell the stories of archetypal forms. His sculptures bridge the natural world with the industrial, and evoke questions of existence and man’s dominion.
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March 21– May 2, 2009
Opening Reception:
Saturday, March 21
7–9 pm
Hamiltonian Artists:
Michael Enn Sirvet
Guest Artist:
Thomas Block
Lisa Brotman
Jonathan B. French + Michael Dax Iacovone + Anne Chan
Hamiltonian Gallery and Hamiltonian Artists proudly present the works of photographers Jona- than B. French, Michael Dax Iacovone and Anne Chan. Through process and subject matter, each artist uniquely investigates relationships between themselves and their environment via the thread of disloca- tion and reconnection.
In his latest photographic installation, Jonathan B. French brings into focus the relationships be- tween dislocated Africans in the Americas and their brothers and sisters throughout the rest of the world. French oods the viewer with faces from his travels around the world, and through his documentary-style photography, the viewer gets glimpses into each one of their stories. French wants to bring these “Family Pictures” of Africans in the Americas to their extended family in the United States so that they may be reconnected culturally after so many years of displacement. This body of works points out that we all do share the same struggles, priorities and needs. In turn, he hopes that we choose to further explore the cultural diversity of these communities and embrace our commonalities.
Anne Chan creates a pristinely constructed world of her own, full of long, sleek boardroom tables and skyscrapers devoid of its usual inhabitants, but is actually far too familiar for many. By implementing corporate culture’s most common product – the staple - Chan creates tiny dioramas. Through the use of scale and lighting, Chan shifts the attention away from the hidden labor involved in their production, and to the critique of cubicle farm-life and its monotonous, in exible, contrived hierarchy full of disen- gaged drones.
Overlapping image upon image in his panoramic photographs, Michael Dax Iacovone creates ethereal, episodic landscapes of Washington, DC. In using a simple process and mathematics, Ia- covone developed a unique method based on spatial dislocation that casts off traditional documenta- ry photography techniques that are generally focused on composition. Instead, through his calculated shooting sequence, which utilizes a simple plastic Holga camera and a chest-level shooting style, Ia- covone allows the images to compose themselves and the single roll of lm reconnect back into a visu- al diary of his journey and becomes a singular representation of the spaces that he traveled through.
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November 8 – December 6, 2008
Opening Reception:
Saturday, November 8
7–10 pm
Artist Talk:
Tuesday, November 18
7pm
Hamiltonian Artists:
Michael Dax Iacovone
Anne Chan
Guest Artist:
Jonathan B. French