[Exhibition]
Honfleur Anniversary Party, three & NOW AND THEN

About This Event

Three Years : Three is the Magic Number

Exhibitions Open 3/12/10 @ 7pm in Anacostia

Arts patrons will have lots to discover in Anacostia this month. Opening on Friday, March 12th, Honfleur Gallery celebrates its third anniversary with the opening of the aptly named painting exhibition, Three, and an exhibition of the works of John K. Lawson, entitled NOW AND THEN.

Three features paintings by artists Wesley Clark, Lance Wiggs & Jonathan Royce. The work by this younger cadre of local abstract painters features intense color, experimental techniques and an overarching prediliction for the art of layering. Stop-action video and works on canvas, panel and found objects will be included.

Honfleur’s upstairs exhibition space will highlight a new body of portraiture in the solo show NOW AND THEN. John K. Lawson returns to Anacostia with his signature collaged encaustic works using salvaged materials. Building on his past works that emerged from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, NOW AND THEN instead draws material from the digital world, amalgamating text, image and pixels in an arrangement that both outlines and obfuscates the portrait’s subject. A metaphor for the contemporary experience, Lawson explores “the relationship between the interior psychic self and the modern exterior world.” though he warns that “they are rendered with a sense of futuristic urgency... and not of a sentimental longing for a simpler past life.”

Honfleur Gallery - 1241 Good Hope Road SE, Washington DC 20020- is a contemporary art space located in the Historic Anacostia. Opened in 2007, it maintains a rigorous schedule of exhibitions and programming that focuses on cutting edge contemporary exhibitions by living artists from the USA and abroad. www.honfleurgallery.com

For further inquiries, please contact Briony Evans Hynson, Creative Director at 202-536-8994 or arts@archdc.org.