from the studio of Washington, DC artist, Anne Marchand
Hello Friends and Happy Fall!
After a hot summer it’s time to walk in the cool autumn air and explore the world of fall color. I have some upcoming art events and news I’d like to share with you. I hope you will make it to see
Windows Into DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. If you would like to schedule a private tour to see new work at my studio, please call me and we can share some thoughts on art. If you are driving or riding metro, be sure to stop and see my colorful new Art Walls in Crystal City, VA.
-Anne Marchand
Invitation
WINDOWS INTO DC at Washington Convention Center
“Windows Into DC” – The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Walter E. Washington Convention Center unveiled a public art project in September which highlights 14 area artists. The windows and display cases are located around the outside of the convention center along 7
th, M and N Streets NW.
“Windows Into DC” and will be on exhibit through March 2010. The public art project includes the mural work of the New Community for Children. My window features paintings from the
“Playground Series.” The art installations bring brightness to the city streets. Come see them! You can pick up a brochure in the lobby of the convention center which features the names of the artists and locations of their work.
COURAGE UNMASKED / WASHINGTON, DC
Love Light, Anne Marchand 2009, silver chinese paper, digital printing, cloth mask, wood
Cookie Kerxton organized the Courage Unmasked fundraiser which was held on 9/9/09 at
American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center and sponsored by the National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship. 100 artists created fine art by transforming radiation masks worn by patients during treatment. I created “Love Light” with silver chinese paper, digital printing, cloth mask and wood which sold at the auction.
Pyramid Atlantic’s ArtSpring is hosting a
Silent Auction of 40 masks from
Oct. 10-24 with a
closing reception on Oct 24, 2009 from 12 – 4 p.m. in Silver Spring, MD. Come take a look and come pick out the mask that you would like to take home or donate to your local doctors office.
www.courageunmasked.org.
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NEWS FLASH
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INTERVIEWS
Anne Marchand, Whirl 2009 acrylic and mixed media, 36" x 36"
Kim Hall interviewed me for the December/ January Issue of Art Calendar Magazine. Kim is Editor of the magazine and introduces images of my new work, ideas and marketing tips in the interview. Art Calendar’s print & online versions will be available this winter at newsstands and at
www.artcalendar.com. You will be able to read the interview, “Anne Marchand, Connecting with
Her Community” in mid-November in Art Calendar, the business magazine for visual artists. I hope you enjoy the interview and the resource tips which I put together for the article.
Dr. Vibeke Schou Tjalve,
Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Advanced Security Studies at Copenhagen University interviewed me at the Westminster Playground “Community” Mural in Shaw for a
documentary film on issues of American national memory and identity. The documentary will be shown at the national
Danish station DR2 in early 2010. Stay tuned for more details.
The Crystal City BID commissioned two large-scale Public Art Projects projects, “Prism” Mural and the Hyatt Art Wall - “Ellipsis.” I completed the projects in October of 2008. The Gateway Metro Mural,
Prism is at 18th and S. Bell Street in Arlington, VA.
Anne Marchand, Prism Mural, 2008, 9' 4" x 160', acrylic on concrete
Anne Marchand, Hyatt Art Wall - Ellipsis, 2008, 22' x 70' printing on 10' x 10' dibond panels
The Hyatt Art Wall
- Ellipsis displays twelve of my abstract paintings as 10' x 10' digital prints on the back of the Hyatt Regency at Reagan National Airport.
EXHIBITIONS
Anne Marchand, LifeBird 2009, acrylic and mixed media, 40" x 30"
Selected for "Mid Atlantic New Painting" Ridderhof Martin Gallery, University of Mary Washington
I’m in the studio scaling up the work and getting a new series ready
for exhibition. A new collector can preview canvases in a variety of sizes up to 48” x 60” and larger. I hope you had a chance to see
"Small Works” at Upstairs on 7th this summer.
“A Running Commentary” opened
10.11.2009 - 10.31.2009 at the Friendship Heights Center to raise money for the
Girls Gotta Run Foundation and features three of my 5" x 5" paintings from the Stellar Series.
Two of my small works will be featured in
Raandesk Gallery's exhibition
Art2Gift which opens
11.06.2009—01.08.2010 in New York City
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A surprise work of mine will surface at the “
6th Annual Transformer Auction” at the
Mexican Cultural Institute on
Nov. 7. You have to come see my new circular painting,
"You Better Start Kissing Me Or Else." You can purchase tickets for the silent auction and benefit party at
www.transformergallery.org. Hurry the tickets go fast!
Rawls Museum Arts presents my work in the exhibition
“Horseplay” on
December 12-19, 2009. They will also have a small painting for their art auction fundraiser which will be held in December. Rawls Museum is located in pastoral Courtland, VA. Contact the director to purchase tickets for the event.
You'll catch me shipping art in December to the
Mid-Atlantic New Painting Exhibition at the
Ridderhof Martin Gallery of the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, VA. The exhibition will open on
January 22,
2010. Artist, Arts Commentator and Educator
William Dunlap was the juror for the exhibition.
Artist, activist, philosopher, author and scholar,
Tom Block invited me to participate in the
Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival. The festival will be held in Silver Spring, MD on April 23-25, 2010. Be sure to save the date in your calendar because it's going to be an event not to be missed!
The Amnesty International Human Rights Arts Festival already has participants from Austria, Bolivia, England, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Greece, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Washington D.C. Tom Block has a new book coming out at the same time.
It's called "Shalom/Salaam: A Story of a Mystical Fraternity." Mr. Block has gathered cultural, business and political members from Silver Spring, Washington D.C. metro area and beyond to help promote this Arts for social transformation weekend.
I’m back in the studio creating new paintings and looking forward to more of the colors and cool air that is fall in Washington, DC. It's yet another visual feast for all of us to enjoy.
Happy Creating!
Anne Marchand
Colorful Abstract Paintings with Poetic Connections to Life
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WALTER E. WASHINGTON CONVENTION CENTER
WINDOWS INTO DC / "Playground Series" by Anne Marchand
This series of paintings was inspired by the creation of the Westminster Playground "Community" Mural in the Shaw neighborhood at 913 Westminster Street, NW (between 9th & 10th Streets) See Web Gallery