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Christian Benefiel, Katherine Mann and Michael Enn Sirvet - Hamiltonian Gallery | March 27 - May 1, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 7 - 9 p.m.

Hamiltonian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Hamiltonian Fellows Katherine Mann, Michael Enn Sirvet and Christian Benefiel. In moments both subtle and cacophonous, each artist reflects on often-overlooked nuances in their environments in which they live and environments created through their work.

Katherine Mann’s paintings take the viewer into wildly vivid landscapes that teeter between recognizable matter and abstraction. Mann initiates her paintings with pours of ink and paint and creates a colorful base of blobby stains bleeding into one another. On top sit carefully rendered shapes, outlined drips and structures that form interlocking systems. Mann elegantly overflows her paintings with ambiguous forms, which recall elements found in the sea, in the sky, and under the microscope, yet remain unidentifiable. Katherine Mann relates this poetic smash-up of incongruous pieces to her own life of heterogeneity.

Shingled cherry-wood plates umbrella out into an imposing conical shape, which gracefully hangs from the gallery ceiling. Nature is the source of wonderment and inspiration for Michael Enn Sirvet’s abstracted, archetypal sculptures. In his newest work, Sirvet creates structures on a scale relatable to one’s own body through forms that suggest a human-sized cocoon, a gigantic seedpod, or represent the feeling of wind enveloping the body. Sirvet observes and restructures nature in his work to relay to the viewer his sense of reverence for nature.

Christian Benefiel literally draws from his environment by implementing reclaimed and recycled materials and parts made from disassembled, mass-produced, low quality construction debris. By recontextualizing machine-made products, Benefiel imbues them with the essence of specialized labor and craft of building. Benefiel’s assemblages physically engage the viewer to be more hands-on, which reflects his sincere nostalgia for a more authentic, handcrafted, production industry.

Please join us on Wednesday, April 14th, at 7:30pm, for an artist talk with exhibiting Hamiltonian Fellows Katherine Mann, Michael Enn Sirvet and Christian Benefiel.

speaker series

Legal Smorgasbord - Hamiltonian Gallery | April 28, 2010, 7 p.m.

John D. Mason will be discussing an array of of important legal issues for artists. Topics include contracts, licensing, negotiations, online/internet legal issues, business formation and maintenance, intellectual property and copyright/trademark. Please come prepared with questions because he likes an interactive discussion and is happy to explore the questions artists always want to ask an art lawyer.

John D. Mason, of The Intellectual Property Group, PLLC, is a Washington DC/Maryland-based art and entertainment and intellectual property attorney. His practice focuses on copyright and trademark matters, litigation, contracts, and commercial matters. He works with writers, artists, and creative people and companies to protect, promote and exploit their work and is also a literary agent. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Washington Lawyers for the Arts and the Advisory Board of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington.

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special events

SOFAlab2 - Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Conference Room and Great Room, George Mason University | Friday, April 23, 2010
Reception: 2:00 - 2:45 p.m | Discussion: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

The program supported by the Center for Consciousness and Transformation explores similarities and differences in how scientists and artists use experimentation and visualization in their search for larger truths and making sense of the universe, and how the way in which these tools are used affects consciousness, understanding and outcome. This dialog is also designed to prepare us for a series of "laboratory/studio" exchanges in which artists will be invited to observe and participate in laboratory sessions and scientists will be invited into artist's studios for collaborative projects.

For more information and directions, please click here.

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Leah Frankel

"DCCA Annual Juried Member Show" at Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts - Wilmington, DE | April 9 - July 25 | Opening April 9, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Linda Hesh

"Why Do Art About Social Issues? Activist Artists Panel Discussion"at Montgomery College Cafritz Arts Center Auditorium #101 - Silver Spring, MD | Saturday, April 24 11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

"TRUST and DOUBT Benches" on display at West Mt. Royal near Oliver - Baltimore, MD | On view until May 2010

Michael Dax Iacovone

"Art Obsessional" at Herman Maril Gallery - Baltimore, MD | March 22 - April 9

Jonathan Monaghan

"MIDPOINT: 2nd-Year MFA Work" at Stamp Student Union, University of Maryland - College Park, MD | April 15th - May 14th 2010 | Opening Thursday, April 22 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Mentor Related Events

James Rieck

"Mead Hall" at Lyons Wier Gallery - New York City, NY | April 23 - May 21

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Hamiltonian Artists is funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.