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This week: See how line and form can build imagined worlds that shift and breathe, watch ancestral memory move between handmade and algorithmic space, and more.
This Week
Lionel Daniels: Everyday People [Exhibition Opening] January 23, 6-8 PM | The Art Island | FREE
Lionel Daniels centers his work on the dignity of everyday life. Drawing from personal memory and family, Daniels focuses on moments that often quietly pass without notice, like resting, waiting, and being present. Daniels’s figures are not meant to perform or stand in for anything larger than simply existing as they are. Each painting displays the importance found in just being seen. Info
linn meyers & Kendall Buster: speculative morphologies [Exhibition Opening] January 23 | Georgetown University Art Galleries | FREE
Two artists who build imagined worlds through systems of line, shape, and form. Kendall Buster describes her work as a “marriage of architecture and biology,” while linn meyers uses her work to explore where object and place blur. Their works challenge conventional ideas of scale and spatial perception. One single mark can expand into a monumental structure, while large forms draw the eye inward toward the minute. Every curve and line is a buzzing piece of a pulsing ecosystem animated by movement or stillness. Visit
Opening Reception: Offline: Tracing the Source [Gallery Opening] January 23, 7-9 PM | Pyramid Atlantic Art Center | FREE
Hadiya Williams creates her works through a methodical cycle: handmade works become digital images in MidJourney, then return to physical form through clay, print, and surface design. This movement between ancestral memory and technology echoes how African diasporic cultures have always adapted across time and space. The result is work that records the past, offers commentary on the present, and considers future possibilities. RSVP
Looking Ahead
Artist Talk: Rozeal [Artist Talk] February 1, 12-1 PM | National Gallery of Art | FREE
Contemporary artist Rozeal and curator Molly Donovan discuss the exhibition Back and Forth: Rozeal, Titian, Cezanne, which explores how artists engage with art history across six centuries and different cultures. When Rozeal began painting afro.died, T. in 2011 in her studio outside DC, she didn’t consciously have Titian’s Venus with a Mirror in mind. Yet these works share striking visual similarities. Art history isn’t linear. Artists mix and remix references, finding inspiration across time. Note: NGA overenrolls events, so arrive early to avoid being turned away. Register
Gallery Talk: The Stars We Do Not See: Australian Indigenous Art [Curator Talk] February 28, 1-2 PM | National Gallery of Art | FREE
Exhibition curator Myles Russell-Cook, currently artistic director and CEO of the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, discusses this exploration of the varied and distinct visual iconographies of Indigenous Australia. Over 200 works by more than 130 artists represent some of the most significant examples of modern and contemporary Australian Indigenous art. Note: NGA overenrolls events, so arrive early to avoid being turned away. Register
