Wall Mountables!

See some of my left handed new works at

1460 WALLMOUNTABLES 2010!

DCAC's Annual Open Exhibit!

July 23 - August 29

William Kentridge

William Kentridge:
MOMA has an exhibition up of William Kentridge right now. It has a really cool interactive web presence. For someone surfing in bed that can't make it to the exhibition they only make me drool more. You can watch videos, interviews, explore the themes, and get a very good sense of his work. However, if you can make it in person, don't delay.

I really love his work for its innovation and process. Please check out the link above and find out for yourself!

Re-assessment

Just 32 days ago I had major surgery. I've been recovering at home after 5 days in the hospital. Recovering is a full time job. Managing all the people that are supposed to be helping you and making sure that you get your needs met is hard.

I have tried to do some drawing while I'm laying around recovering. I have to say that it's tough. Frida my hat is off to you. It's very tough, though I'll admit to zoning in front of the tv and Netflix, with some guilt. I'm still on the mend and I'm still trying.

Happy New Year! and upcoming show

Happy New Year!

I hope the new year is treating you well. I'm looking at getting back into the studio and concentrating on new work. In the meantime, I'd like to invite you to my next show, which based on the flash presentation on UMUC's site (View show information), the curators did an excellent job selecting some AMAZING artists. I feel privileged to hang among them.

I hope to see you at the opening, or if you can't make it, the gallery has extended hours (see below).

A culturally diverse exhibition of works on paper to celebrate, examine, and exemplify the role and impact that regional women artists have had on the arts

Exhibit Co-Curators: Harriet McNamee and Robert Donovan

Opening/Meet-the-Artists Reception

Sunday, January 31, 2010
3 p.m.–5 p.m.

Exhibit Dates

January 18–March 14, 2010

Gallery Hours

9 a.m.–9 p.m. daily

Location

Arts Program Gallery
UMUC Inn and Conference Center, Lower Level
3501 University Blvd East
Adelphi, MD 20783

Click Here to RSVP

All the best,

Jenny

Ink-N-Print 09 Small Works Show On View Now!

All,

I'll be in the following show with some amazing artists. Please stop by and join us for the celebration.

Jenny

1632 U Street, NW - Washington, DC 20009
p: 202.483.8600
www.smithfarm.com/gallery

Erwin Thamm's Tacking Left, 2009 (Silkscreen)

Ink-N-Print 09 Small Works Show
Curated by Helen Frederick
December 2 - 24

Opening Reception: Friday, December 4, 6:00PM-8:00PM

Internationally recognized print artist and founder of Pyramid Atlantic, Helen Frederick, has hand-selected more than thirty of the area's most accomplished print artists to present their unique works at affordable prices- just in time for the holiday season!

Prints are available both framed and unframed. In addition, various other printed cards will be available for sale.

This stunning collection will feature artworks by Caroline Battle, Graham Boyle, Meaghan Busch, Kannan Cangro, Rosemary Covey, Georgia Deal, Donald Depuydt, Helen Frederick, Jenny Freestone, Tai Hwa Goh, Amelia Hankin, Marty Ittner, Fleming Jeffries, Rebecca Katz, Ann Klopfenstein, Bridget Sue Lambert, Elaine Langerman, Moira McCauley, Lindsay McCulloch, Jake Muirhead, Johanna Mueller, Martha Oatway, Beverly Ress, Patrick Sargent, Gretchen Schermerhorn, Elzbieta Sikorska, Lynn Sures, Terry Svat, Erwin Thamm and Jenny Walton.

Gallery Hours: Wednesday through Friday 11:00AM-5:00PM, Saturday 11:00AM-3:00PM and by appointment

Declaration - Cyanotypye -7.5" x 11.5" -
copyright 2009 - Jenny Walton

Tension - Linoblock - 4" x 6" -
copyright 2007 - Jenny Walton

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About the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Farm Center:

The Gallery is a mission of Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts, a Washington, DC nonprofit organization grounded in the profound belief that each person has tremendous innate abilities to heal in the face of life's challenges, Smith Farm's mission is to develop and promote proven healing practices that explore physical, emotional, and mental resources that lead to life-affirming changes. Programs and exhibitions in the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery celebrate and stimulate the dynamic creative resources that contribute to health and wellness in each of us.

Artist Talks & Auction this weekend!

Hi!
As we go into the end of the year and count all the stuff we're supposed to, I just wanted to say....thankfully this has been a very busy year in the studio. Below are 3 opportunities to check out the some of the results of all the hard work.

Sparkplug, the artist collective I belong to has a show up right now at DC Arts Center; our incredibly awesome sponsoring non-profit gallery and theatre, who I am eternally thankful to for such a great idea of sponsoring a collective in the first place! We will be discussing our new work and how working with a group of artists and curators influences our studio practices this coming Sunday.

District of Columbia Arts Center

Sparkplug presents: Findings
October 16th - November 15, 2009
Artist's Talk
Sunday, November 8 @ 3pm
2438 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

Point of Contention 42" x 30" Monotype ©2009









My work has also been included in the Transformer Art Gallery benefit auction this year. Transformer is a really great non-profit gallery here in DC that fosters the careers of emerging artists and curators. Tickets are going fast!

Breakoff I 5" x 7" Monoprint ©2007
6th Annual Silent Auction & Benefit Party
Transformer Gallery
November 7, 2009
7:00 – 10:00 pm
@The Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street NW Washington, DC

Contact info@transformergallery.org or 202.483.1102.

Tickets are close to selling out, so please contact Transformer staff ASAP to secure your participation in what has become one of the biggest Washington, DC art events of the year! Tickets will not be sold at the door. For a downloadable pdf of the artworks to be included in this year's Auction click here.

Check out the December Ink-n-Print show at the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery. There is a great laundry list of local artists participating with small affordable works on paper. This show will definitely be worth checking out.

The Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery
Helen Frederick's Ink‐N‐Print 09: Small Works Show
December 2nd-24th, 2009
Artist's reception: Friday, December 4, 6‐8pm

1632 U Street, NW
Washington DC 20009

untitled 6" x 9" linoblock ©2009

I hope as we get ready to close 2009 you are able to count all the good things that happened and end the year with a smile, as I am.

Sincerely,
Jenny

Museums on Us®

Museums on Us® - GO TO A MUSEUM THIS WEEKEND FOR FREE!

This weekend is another Museums on Us weekend from Bank of America! link provided above.

Hickok Cole Art Night

I have to say that Hickok Cole and the Washington Project for the Arts crew (Lisa, Kristina, Adam and all) and Brooke (awesome curator extraordinaire) threw a great party last night with serious impact. It was a great event for the WPA and DC artists. As one of the featured artists, I truly thank you for the opportunity! Another great artist featured last night, Christian Tribastone agrees!

Fluidity

My solo show came down this evening. I want to thank all those that took the trek and went and saw it. I especially want to thank my friends Cory, Megan, and Brad for helping me pack it all up this evening and getting it back to the studio.

So what's next:

Sparkplug presents: Findings opened on Friday to a great crowd. It will be up at DCAC for the next month.

I will have a piece in the Transformer Art Auction on November 7th. Get your tickets now!

Sparkplug Presents: Findings at DCAC

Opening this FRIDAY! Hope to see you there!

OPENING NEXT WEEK!

Sparkplug
presents
FINDINGS

October 16 - November 15
Opening Reception: October 16, 7-9pm
Featuring work by Deborah Carroll Anzinger, Peter Gordon, Michael Matason, Lisa McCarty, Kathryn McDonnell, Karen Joan Topping and Jenny Walton

Curated by Lea-Ann Bigelow and Blair Murphy

DCAC's resident collective considers the artistic process as a mode of inquiry, a domain characterized by sustained research and vigorous experimentation, yet focused less on the production of definitive answers than on the discovery and negotiation of contradictory truths. While the exhibition demonstrates the diverse concerns and creative tactics of the nine Sparkplug members, it also reflects the purposeful development of Sparkplug as a collective over the group's first two years of working together.

Positing art as an ideal vehicle for navigating seemingly irreconcilable ideas and inspirations, and raising questions about the nature of new knowledge and the Artist's Work, FINDINGS brings themes cultivated during collective meetings and studio visits into the gallery space. In this way, the audience is invited to engage in active conversation with individual artists, and with Sparkplug as an organic and multifarious whole.

About Sparkplug
Currently composed of nine DC area artists and curators, the Sparkplug collective meets regularly to discuss their work, explore common concerns, grow their community and dream up creative engagements both in DC and around the world. Through its support of Sparkplug, DC Arts Center provides meeting space, legal and technical resources and exhibition opportunities to emerging artists, curators and arts writers without current gallery representation or institutional employ. Via a continuing dialogue encompassing the theoretical and the practical, the group's members share experiences, perspectives, preoccupations, challenges, and topics informing their ongoing artistic practice.

Lately, ink has been on my mind. This is a small example of that. The following drawings have been done in my studio in the last week.

ink on Yupo

Ink on paper

ink and watercolor on Yupo

Shows, shows, and great luck!

Hello!
I hope you are doing well!

Just a quick update on life from the studio, as it's still going pretty strong. I recently received great press for my solo show, Fluidity. You can check it out here -> No pain, no gain: Artist was inspired by illness. The show ends October 19th, catch it before its gone!

I will have several group shows coming up in October/November in the DC area as well. See in info below.

Jenny
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www.jennywaltonart.com
www.jennywalton.blogspot.com
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The Public Arts Trust of the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County presents
Fluidity
New works created at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center
July 23 | October 19, 2009

Visions Exhibition Space
5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda
The Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center
(located on the 1st floor outside the Cabin John Boardroom)

METRO ACCESSIBLE-2 blocks from White Flint station-Red Line.
DRIVING DIRECTIONS:

Installation view of Black Creep

District of Columbia Arts Center

Findings
by Sparkplug
October 16th - November 15, 2009
Opening Reception October 16th 7-9pm

2438 18th Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

Transformer Gallery

6th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party
November 7, 2009
7:00 – 10:00 pm
@The Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street NW
Washington, DC

As Transformer's primary fundraising event, the Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party provides essential support for our dynamic, year-round, programming, exhibitions and services – and it's a great party! Tickets will be available for purchase beginning October 1, 2009. For more information about the 6th Annual Transformer Silent Auction & Benefit Party, please contact us at info@transformergallery.org or call 202.483.1102.

Call to Artists - Punch Gallery - Seattle, Washington

Punch Gallery - Seattle, Washington



PUNCH Gallery
International Juried Exhibition
December 4 - January 2, 2009

Deadline: October 19, 2009

PUNCH Gallery presents an international juried exhibition taking place December 2009. Located in the Pioneer Square area of downtown Seattle, PUNCH provides an excellent opportunity to gain exposure within the Northwest regional art scene.

Artists from any country may submit work in any medium. There is no limit to the number of entries. In addition to traditional 2-D and 3-D works, artists are encouraged to submit work in new media, video, sound, or installation. Complicated installation procedures may require the artist to assist with installation. Members of PUNCH are not eligible to enter.

The juror, Marisa C. Sánchez, will create an exhibition which presents a diverse range of media and concepts from around the world.

For more info, please see their website

installation views of Fluidity

JWalton-Fluidity-07
Originally uploaded by rennyren76

I've taken a few installation views of Fluidity. Please take a look and let me know what you think!

Ascension

JWalton-2009-44
Originally uploaded by rennyren76

This is one of the first large monotypes I completed. dimensions 42" x 30".

Press on Fluidity

Article on Fluidity from the Gazette can be found below
No pain, no gain: Artist was inspired by illness

Solo show announcement!

Hello! It's been an incredibly busy summer so far. Lots of work in the studio thankfully means lots of shows! I want to let you know about my upcoming SOLO show (I'm incredibly excited about it!!!) and some really great places to see other new work. I also want to thank all those who assisted me in the studio, getting ready for shows, and your encouragement. It truly means the world to me! Jenny
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www.jennywaltonart.com

The Public Arts Trust
of the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County presents

Fluidity
Monotypes by
Jenny Walton
New works created at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center

July 23 | October 19, 2009
Opening Artist's Reception August 8, 2009 4-6pm
Light refreshments will be served

Visions Exhibition Space
5701 Marinelli Road, North Bethesda

The Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center (located on the 1st floor outside the Cabin John Boardroom)
DIRECTIONS: Traveling north on 355 from Bethesda, turn left onto Marinelli Road (across from White Flint Metro station). Take the next right onto Executive Blvd. and another right into the parking lot to the Conference Center. Approximately 2 blocks from White Flint Metro station on the Red Line. Paid parking is available at Conference Center.

District of Columbia Arts Center

1460 Wall Mountables 2009!
July 17 - August 30

2438 18th St. NW Washington, DC 20009
Gallery Hours at DCAC: Wed - Sun 2-7pm

Arlington Arts Center

Sparkplug: New Work
June 19 - August 22

3550 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22201
open to the general public Tuesday - Saturday from 11 am - 5 pm

USArts recently published a small tidbit on my work that was up at Artomatic. You can read it here

Hillyer Art Space Exhibitions: Call for artists for 2010 season

C a l l f o r A r t i s t s :
International Arts and Artists' Hillyer Art Space is currently accepting submittals until July 31st, 2009 for its regional artists series of exhibitions beginning January through December 2010.

Requirements:
*Artists must be currently living or working from the Mid Atlantic Region (MD, DE, WV, VA, & DC).
*Artists seeking a solo show at Hillyer must not have been featured in a solo show in DC area within the last 10 years.
*All work to be included in Hillyer Art Spaces shows must have been made in the last 5 years.

Submissions must include the following materials:
*A CD or DVD with up to 10 images, no larger than 5mb each, submitted on a disc as a high resolution 300 dpi JPEGs (do not use GIFs, TIFFs or other formats). Any additional images (over the limit of 10), or any images that do not conform to the guidelines outlined will not be accepted. You may also submit less than 10 images. Image Size - Images can be up to 1920 pixels on the longest side. Do not embed images into PowerPoint. If submitting video limit to 1 minute clips in file formats compatible with Quicktime.

*Label the CD-R with the artist's name, contact information and number of images. Images will be viewed on PCs, not Macs, so CD-Rs must be PC-readable, otherwise they are ineligible.

*File Labeling - Files must be titled with a number indicating the viewingorder, followed by the artist's last name. The numbers must correspond to the accompanying Image List. Use "0" (zero) in front of single digit numbers. Do not use more than 30 characters, and use only letters, numbers, and underscores. Example: 01_Jones; 02_Jones. If using Mac OS 8 or 9, include a ".jpg" extension at the end of each image title. Example: 01_Jones.jpg.

*A complete checklist of works containing the title, year, medium, and dimension of each work.

*Complete artist resume or CV.

*If submitting a group exhibitions proposal - Curatorial statement and artist roster with individual artists' resumes and slide lists for proposed group exhibitions must be submitted.

*Images should clearly depict the work shown.

*Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) with sufficient postage and large enough to accommodate your images and any protection for your images if you would like them returned. If SASE is not included in application, images will be discarded after review.

Please note that July 31st is the delivery date and not the postmark deadline. E-mail submissions will not be accepted. Submissions can be delivered in person or mailed to:

International Arts & Artist (IA&A and it's Hillyer Art Space are located
ATTN: Hillyer Art Space immediately behind the Phillips Collection,
9 Hillyer Ct. NW one block from the Q St. exit of the Dupont Washington, D.C. Circle Redline Metro station.)


Following submission, we are not able to answer phone inquiries about the status of your application. We will notify all artist applicants of their status by September 15th. Thank you for your interest in & support of IA&A.

9 Hillyer Court NW | Washington, DC | 20008 | MAP
T. 202.338.0680 | Gallery Hours: 10am - 5pm Monday,
10am - 7pm Tuesday - Friday, 11am - 4pm Saturday, Otherwise by appointment
www.artsandartists.org/artspace.html

SOLO SHOW COMING SOON!!!

I just found out that I'm going to have a solo show in a couple weeks. Yes a couple weeks! More info soon!

Corcoran Gallery of Art July eNews

Corcoran Gallery of Art July eNews

"Cool down at the Corcoran this July! We are pleased to offer free admission on Saturdays, along with a vast array of Free Summer Saturday programming for adults and families. Be sure to visit our newest exhibition, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Videos, 1961-2008, which opened to rave reviews in June. With Maya Lin: Systematic Landscapes open for only a short time longer, don't miss the opportunity to view both of these groundbreaking exhibitions! "