Laura Elkins: HOMEwRAP at ACLU-NCA Bill of Rights Luncheon 3/26/09


Laura Elkins on ART BEAT!



The Gallery talk and exhibition for Laura Elkins: The First Ladies & Me were announced this morning on WAMU's Art Beat, by Stephanie Kaye.

Please use the link below for audio -


The talk will be held at 7:00 pm this evening (4/23/09) at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue (at Sixth & I Streets in downtown Washington, DC; metro stop is Chinatown/Gallery Place).  See you there!


Laura Elkins, Hillary in the Shenandoah, 2008
oil on canvas, 36 x 24"

Gallery talk for Laura Elkins: The First Ladies & Me, 7 pm Thursday 4/23 @ Sixth & I Synagogue























Laura Elkins, Self As Lady Bird, 2000
acrylic on canvas, 34 x 28"


Laura Elkins will give a gallery talk at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue on Thursday, April 23 at 7 pm for The First Ladies & Me -- please join us!

Laura Elkins examines notions of power, femininity, sexuality, and aging in the traditional genre of portraiture, using iconic, age-indeterminate images of American First Ladies to inform her series of witty self-portraits.  The series began after the artist viewed official portraits in The White House; over time, she increasingly integrated personal, political, and catastrophic events into the images, such as her self-portraits made after Hurricane Katrina, where she appears as First Ladies Mamie Eisenhower and Lady Bird Johnson, submerged in flood waters.  Until 2007, Elkins confined her subjects to "mid-century modern" First Ladies, but was drawn into the recent presidential campaign, when she began painting self-portraits as Hillary Clinton.  On a 2008 residency at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Elkins was additionally inspired by the bucolic landscape to create self-portraits of Hillary en plein air, exposed to the vagaries of weather and the elements.  Recent work includes Self as Michelle O, in which the artist grapples for the first time with a portrait vehicle younger than she, and a series of studies of her own and Michelle Obama's eyes.  

For directions, please see Sixth & I's website; for more about Laura Elkins, please visit MCF-A.com, our temporary blog (during website construction), Elkins's website, or call (860) 450-6445.


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In ROLL CALL! Laura Elkins: The First Ladies & Me, at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, extended through May 4

Laura Elkins: The First Ladies & Me has been extended to May 4, 2009. Liisa Rajala's review of the exhibition appears in this week's issue of Roll Call, the official newspaper for the US Congress:

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Laura Elkins
Michelle Eye Study 4
2009
oil on canvas
6 x 8 inches

Press and video for Nicole Awai

Nicole Awai, Specimen from Local Ephemera: 
     Drab Hanger, 2008, graphite, ink, acrylic, 
     nail polish and glitter on paper, 54 x 36"


Two drawings from Nicole Awai's series "Specimens from Local Ephemera" were selected for The Borders, on view at at the Amelia A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY College Old Westbury until April 23. Curated by Hyewon Yi, the exhibition, in addition to Nicole's mixed media drawings Drab Hanger (2008, at left) and Go Go Green Compression (2008, see post below), includes work by Erika Harrsch, Jane Jin Kaisen, Katia Kameli, Camilo Ontiveros, Richard Ross, Patricia Ruiz-Navarro, Riiki Sakkinen, Dae Seung Seo, Stave Staso, Eric Van Hove, and O Zhang.

For press, see the links below; for more information about Nicole Awai's work and images, go to www.mcf-a.com.





...and to walk through the exhibition, use this link:


More soon!

Press and links for The First Ladies & Me




Laura Elkins: The First Ladies & Me opened March 26 at Sixth & I Historic Synagogue in Washington, DC.  The Washington Post picked up the story; see WaPo's and other links below, and look for notices for new work and for the traveling exhibition:

Nicole Awai selected for The Borders exhibition at Amelia Wallace Gallery




New work by Nicole Awai was selected for "The Borders," a group exhibition which opened at the Amelia A. Wallace Gallery at SUNY College Old Westbury on March 25, 2009.  The exhibition is curated by gallery director Hyewon Yi, and includes recent work by Erika Harrsch, Jane Jin Kaisen, Katia Kameli, Camilo Ontiveros, Richard Ross, Patricia Ruiz-Navarro, Riiko Sakkinen, Dae Seung Seo, Steve Staso, Eric Van Hove, and O Zhang.
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