Upcoming Exhibits & Events
Washington, DC: November 18, 2011
I will have one work at the Benefit Auction for Transformer Gallery. This is always a fun event! Come if you can! Please see transformergallery.org for ticket details. The Corcoran is located at 17th and New York Avenues, NW, Washington, DC.
Washington, DC: Tuesday November 15
The Studio Visit Art Critique Series at the Pleasant Plains Workshop
I will be the guest moderator. The first three artists to respond will be accepted. Present your work at this critique! Email thestudiovisit[at]thestudiovisit.com and write 'presenter' in the subject. This critique is focusing on work by artists who use photography in their process. The physical work should be brought in and digital images only used as a back up. 4-5 works per artist. Each participating artist receives a gift card from Utrecht Art supply at 13th and I streets courtesy TSV. Please RSVP if you would like to attend. Space is limited! The critique is from 7-9PM, the Pleasant Plains Workshop is located at 2608 Georgia Avenue NW Washington, DC 20001.
Washington, DC: October 19, 2011
American University Mary Graydon Center, Room 5
The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at American University will screen "From the Back of the Room" —a film about how hardcore punk took shape in Washington, D.C. In the 80s. American hardcore punk blossomed in Washington, D.C. Women, however, did not gain much visibility until Bikini Kill and Riot Grrrl appeared in the 90s. From the Back of the Room features interviews with women from Naked Aggression, Submission Hold, Look Back and Laugh, Sick Fix, and Detestation, who address issues faced by women in under-ground music, including motherhood, beauty ideals, race and sexual violence. A panel discussion with the film's director Amy Oden will follow with Cynthia Connolly, photographer, curator and author of Banned in DC, and Katy Otto, a consultant, a drummer and presently the Communications Director of Service Women's Action Network. Tickets are FREE with AU I.D. or $5.00 for non-AU students/staff/faculty.
Washington, DC: October 12, 2011
I will be in a panel talking about the club/art venue I booked in from 1986- 1992 called d.c. space. d.c. space was the place for punk, new wave, performance art, free jazz, poetry, independent films and all things avant-garde from '77 to '91 at 7th & E Streets, NW. The bar/restaurant was a center for innovative art and artists; twenty years later, numerous musicians and fans still say its closing has left an unfilled hole. space's owner/founder artist Bill Warrell and the club's booker Cynthia Connolly, manager Jean Homza, and 930 Club's booker, Lisa White, as well as other key players will be on hand to tell us what was really happening from the inside. Great music, live footage, still photos, old calendars, and other first hand accounts will remind those who were there and educate those who weren't: space was the place. Wednesday, October 12th at 7pm at the Shaw Community Library at 7th and R Streets, NW Washington, DC
Washington, DC: August 31st - October 2nd
Corcoran Gallery 31, "Transformers" Group Show
Opening Reception September 1st, 6-9pm, 500 17th NW Washington, DC 20005
Los Angeles, California: July 1, 2011
Nomad Art Gallery, Group Show featuring:
Cynthia Connolly, Damon Robinson, Karoline Robinson, Chris Duncan, Billy Sprague, Calef Brown, Sean Greene, Sandy Yang, Jeff Coad, Tim Kerr, Ben Clark, Jordin Isip, Mike Sutfin, Matt Leines, Rich Jacobs, Chris Shary, Caleb, Bert Queiroz, Melinda Beck, Ryan Patterson, Sam James Velde, James Gallagher, Stephen O'Malley, Chris Johanson, Clint Woodside, Chrissy Piper, Josh Turner, Ross Farrar, Pat Graham, James Ross, David Pajo, Otis Bee, Jim Brown, Sonny Kay, Cali Dewitt, James Wall, Malia James, Lee Spellman, Makr McCoy, Jason Farrell, Nina Hartman, Atiba Jefferson, Magdelena Wosinka and more.
Opening Reception is from 6:30-10pm, 1993 Blake Avenue, LA, CA 90039
Washington, DC: February 19 - March 11 2011
Washington Project for the Arts, "Select" 2011 Art Auction
700 6th Street NW. Open hours: Wednesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm, Auction is Saturday March 12th. To buy auction tickets: auction.wpadc.org
New York, NY: Sept 10 - December 31, 2010
MIX 'n' MATCH by Cynthia Connolly at The Quality Mending Co (formerly Eleven)
See Cynthia's free standing photographs of Alabama re-arranged with the objects in the store fortnightly by the following , Homemaker, Virginia (October 9 - ??), Michael Azerrad, author and journalist, Carter, Artist, New York, Paul Roth, Executive Director Richard Avedon Foundation, former curator of photography at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC/New York, Carole Greenwood, Musician, Artist, Washington, DC / New York, Angela Jerardi , FLUX space, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Artwork, which includes handmade letter-pressed promotional posters of the exhibit, bags and framed photographs by Cynthia Connolly, will be for sale. Artwork by subsequent artists and how they display and sell it is completely up to their discretion.
Opening Reception: Friday September 10, 6-8pm, 15 Prince Street, 10012. Brooklyn based luthier, Nathaniel Rowan, will be playing a fiddle and/or banjo that he created. Exhibition goes through to the end of December. The hours of The Quality Mending Co are Sunday-Thursday 12-7 and Friday & Saturday 12-8
View photos from the Mix 'n' Match installation here
See reviews and features of the space and the show here:
NY Press
Moodboard Blog
Metropolis Magazine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Friday June 4
MOVE curated by Rich Jacobs at Space 1026. I am not in the show, technically, but Tim Kerr said I should hang some of my work prints around his work... so I"m going in to INVADE THE SHOW...and I'll be at the opening!
Here are the other artists who are REALLY in the show: Eric White, Calef Brown, Jim Houser, Garry Davis, Karoline Collins, Tim Kerr, Chrissy Piper, Mofo, Jordan Isip, Rich Jacobs, Stephen Powers, Alberto Kroeger, James Gallagher, Jeff Canham, Louie Cordero, Bert Queiroz, Melinda Beck, Dan Murphy, Tod Swank, Rodger Bridges, Caroline Hwang, Jason Polan, Matt Leines, Jocko Weyland, Billy Sprague, Kate Hurowitz, Clint Woodside, Carl Dunn, Rob Ben, Martin Sorrondeguy, Jenna Robinson, Kelly Nicholson, Adam Wallacavage, Chris Duncan, Erika Borboa, Alex Lukas, Michael Bartalos, Ben Woodward, Isaac Lin, Max Lawrence, Chris Shary, Damian Abraham, Chris Stain, Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Chris Kline, Derek Weisberg, John Freeborn, & maybe a few others?
Special music guests, Zomes (asa from Lungfish) Koen Holtcamp (from Mountians) Tim Kerr (from Big Boys, and all the bands that I dont have room to list.)
Space 1026 is located at 1026 Arch Street in Philadelphia. The opening is Friday the 4th from 7-10PM.
Washington, DC: Saturday June 12
HOME GROWN at Transformer Gallery, 1404 P STREET, NW, from 1-6pm.
Join artist Cynthia Connolly and cultural worker Jeff Hnilicka for an afternoon of conversation, local foods, music, and art. While sharing photographic documentation of personal art projects that explore themes of community and sustainability, Cynthia and Jeff will simultaneously be preparing and sharing with audiences a variety of food purchased fresh that morning from Potomac Vegetable Farms (Purcelville, VA) and Eco Friendly Foods (Moneta, VA) at the Court House Arlington, VA Farmers market. Among the projects Cynthia will be sharing is a work-in-progress documenting the work of farmers from the Court House market, exposing their entire food network from source to plate. She will also show photographs documenting her Rural Studio project in Perry County Alabama, where she designed and built an organic vegetable stand. Music from celebrated DC-based bands will play throughout the day.
This program is free and open to the public. "Our goal is to farm this land well, leaving the land improved, while feeding people real food and being excellent neighbors." - Ellen Polishuk, Potomac Vegetable Farms
Washington, DC: May 24-26, 2010
PROJECT CREATE BENEFIT AUCTION at Reyes + Davis Gallery, 923 F Street, NW, #302, Washington, DC. I will have one of my "Refrigerator Magnets A-Z from the San Francisco Alphabet" in the auction. This is a box with contact prints of about 100 letters from the San Francisco sidewalks made into magnets. The box lid and bottom are covered also in original photographs and the lid is letter pressed. 6 1/2" L X 4 3/4" H H 1 5/8" W. Signed and numbered 1 through 25. Other artists in the auction are: Gert Barkovic, Steven Cushner, Chanan Delivuk, Jeff Hensley, Atara Kelman, Suzanne Lago Arthur, Pepa Leon, Patrick McDonough, William Newman, Judy Southerland, Jason Zimmerman, Frank Day, Kenneth George, Judy Jashinsky, Gediyon Kifle, Toni Lane, Barbara Liotta, Johanna Mueller, Dennis O'Neil and Terri Weiffenbach. The gallery will be open Monday and Tuesday, May 24-25. The auction will be Wednesday evening, May 26. Tickets are $30 in advance and $35 at the door. All proceeds to directly to art programs for DC's homeless youth. Call 202-255-5050 for details
Washington, DC: Sunday February 28, 2010
SONOMA RESTAURANT, 223 Pennsylvania Ave SE, Washington, DC. Sonoma presents a family style dinner featuring the local farm, Eco Friendly Foods. I have been documenting the Eco Friendly Foods distribution network and there will be a short slide-show of my work in progress. There are 40 seats available to this event, hosted by Eco Friendly Foods' Bev Eggleston and chef Nick Sharpe. Dinner begins at 6pm and costs $96 with wine and $80 without.
New York, NY: December 1 - February 13 2010
LATIFA ECHAKHCHATE at The Swiss Institute/Contemporary Art 495 Broadway, 3rd Floor. The Banned In DC book appears in the Reading Room as curated by Ooga Booga from Los Angeles. Opening reception Sunday November 29, 2009. Also in this exhibit is Ingo Giezendanner, who is a Swiss artist whose work has been published by my friends in Zurich. A delightful coincidence indeed.
Washington, DC: December 4 - December 21st
ICEBOX HOLIDAY SHOP at the Washington Project for the Arts, 2023 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington DC. A juried exhibition of artist’s work for sale as holiday gifts. My "Box of Ice Boxes" will be for sale in this exhibit ($20 each). Opening night: Friday December 4th, 6-8PM. Closing night: Monday December 21st, 6-8PM, with open hours during the day: Mon – Fri 11-5pm.
Washington, DC: November 7th, 7-10 PM
TRANSFORMER GALLERY BENEFIT AUCTION at the Mexican Cultural Institute, 2829 16th Street, NW Washington, DC. Auction tickets can be bought through Transformer at www.transformergallery.org
San Francisco, CA: September 11 - October 10, 2009
HOT & COLD GROUP SHOW at Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions 172 Minna Street, 94105. Opening Reception: Friday September 11, 5-8pm. Gallery Hours: Tue - Sat 11-6pm. 415-777-1366
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