Flux 2007
An Art Sensory Overload
In the metaphorical sea of urban America, artists have been drifting away with the tide, as sterile office buildings and chain franchises sail in and the rents skyrocket. In the latest area to fall victim to such conformity, Arlington’s Clarendon neighborhood, the Art Outlet partnered with Walnut Street Development, artdc.org, Radio Clarendon, Arlington Independent Media (AIM) and DC Conspiracy to cast the large anchor with its “Flux: An Art Sensory Overload” at the Danville Body Shop, 1415 N. Danville Street in Arlington.
Exhibiting Artists:
Dorothy Guy, Jay Krasnow, Ricardo Peñuela-Pava, Ashley Sullivan, Heather Self, Cavan N Fleming, Elizabeth Halpin, Pasha, Charles Westerman, Page Carr, Dan Glucksman, Stefanie Sylvester, Brad Steiner, Nancy Bowman, Kenneth Gwira, Shannon McCarty, Marina Reiter, Adam Ishaeik, Angela Kleis, Michele Delamenardiere, Jack Whitsitt, Rebecca C. Adams, Kimberly Stark, Joe Morey, Jennifer Foley, Katurah Thomas , Jerome Spinner, Carrie Lipscomb, Michelle Valenton, Michael Auger, Ellyce Morgan, John N. Grunwell, D. Black, Rania Hassan, Sean Hennessey, Bradley Taylor, Darren Smith, Salvatore Ferro, Peter V Riper, James Greenwalt, Ellyce Morgan, Candace Keegan, Michelle Miller, Emily Greene Liddle, Bono Mitchell, Marina Starkova, Alison Christ, Joel E Traylor III, Jesse Cohen and Justin Wood.
Performing Artists:
Mud Pie, Tickle Fight, Moira Lee, Capital Fire Arts, Andy Hush's Improv Theatre Group, Jay Rees, Parlor Scouts, Aligning Minds
Art Raffle Donors:
Page Carr, Jenny Freestone, Becca Henry, Nancy McIntyre, Bono Mitchell, Margaret Adams Parker, Heather Schmaedeke, Henrik Sundqvist, Charles Westerman, and Dale from Java Shack
The Examiner
ARTSCAPE Jan 27/28, 2007
By Robin Tierney
These folks know how to throw an art salon.
Clarendon-based nonprofit Art Outlet stages events that connect regional artists with the community.boredom won’t be option — sensory bombardment is guaranteed. Sharing the menu with fresh and vintage produce from 50 artists will be alternative entertainment to rock all the senses. There’s local music — blues, avant-garde jazz, indie pop and electronica. Aerial dance, which adds vertical motion to the traditional horizontal paths via apparatus such as trapezes, bungees and trampolines. Fire dancing, an eye-dazzler drawing inspiration from native rituals to circus sideshows.
When it unleashes FLUX this evening,
Want more? Art Outlet organizer Henrik Sundqvist promises interactive video, sound and theater performances.
Back to the art: The diverse collection of sculpture, paintings, prints and photography spans figurative to abstract, accessible to over-theedge. Fresh concepts include Emily Greene Liddle’s oil-on-canvas renderings of intriguing 17th -19th century New England tombstones; look closely at “Crossbones I.”
Candace Keegan conjoins innocence and knowing with a trio of oils. Alternative “Objects of Desire” assume the forms of a pancaked frog
and chubby wind-up skeleton. In her sly, wry “Blue Lolly-POP,” observer and observed become one.
Nancy McIntyre turns back the clock with “Ray’s Cafe,” a silkscreen preserving a former Little Tavern in Clarendon. Sundqvist’s graphic chops empower an etching/intaglio
of the skull of a steer whose eyes lock with the species that sealed his fate.
Supporting FLUX players include Walnut Street Development, artdc.org, Arlington Independent Media and DC Conspiracy, which is hosting the free DC Counter Culture Festival from 4 p.m. to midnight today at Dr. Dremos (details at dcconspiracy.com).
The $5 suggested donation for FLUX will help fund future events. Be assured, you’ll get your money’s worth of sensory overload. Get lucky in the art raffle and you’ll even take home a little Flux-ery.