Academy 2009 at Conner Contemporary Art

Two of my paintings, 'Yellow Marrakech' and 'Back Portrait (Light Grey)' are going to be featured in Academy 2009 at Conner Contemporary Art. The show opens this Saturday, please stop by if you're around!




ACADEMY 2009 : August 1 – September 4, 2009

Conner Contemporary Art is very pleased to announce ACADEMY 2009. Exhibition founder, Jamie Smith, Ph. D., is the curator of our 9th annual invitational survey of outstanding work by recent fine art graduates of regional college art programs.

Participating artists: Celina Amaya, Danny Baskin, Alan Callander, Charles Clary, Margot Ellis, Kyle Ford, Jeremy Flick, Corey Grimsley, Steve Ioli, Casey Reed Johnson, Jin Young Kang, Patrick McDonough, Aziza Murray, Igor Pasternak, Ding Ren, Alex Roulette, Andrew Schrock, Ryan Schroeder and Rafael Soldi.

Represented institutions: American University, Catholic University of America, Corcoran College or Art and Design, Georgetown University, George Washington University, Maryland Institute College of Art, Savannah College of Art and Design, University of Maryland.

Nearly 150 grads have participated since ACADEMY's 2001 debut. Some have achieved international recognition, exhibiting at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Nassauischen Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany and The British Museum, London, England.

http://www.connercontemporary.com/current/


Also, 'Yellow Marrakech' was featured in the Washington Post's Express on Thursday, July 30th print.





You can download a copy here.
[Click July 30 on the calendar, and then go to pages 29-31]