Saturday September 7 * 2-5pm * RSVP

Celebrate the opening of Aaron Maier’s solo exhibition “Suburbia” with a very suburban tradition: an afternoon BBQ.

Suburbia examines artist Aaron Maier's personal history and his family’s pursuit of privilege in middle class America. Paintings and drawings document the complexities of class, race, gender roles, and labor as experienced by a suburbanite Latin American family in the process of assimilating into US culture. The work is heavily influenced by self-taught and figurative artists who work from personal narratives. To further draw upon the narrative, the exhibition takes place in the same neighborhood where the artist grew up, in a residential home in Takoma Park, DC.

Saturday August 3 * 8pm * $10 * TICKETS

Celebrate queer sexuality, non-binary gender and the iconoclasm of Dada with DADA QUEER DADA! – a cabaret and art exhibit presented by DC Dada Art Collective. Committed to exploding the constricting boundaries of art and society in the spirit of Dada, DC Dada employs absurdity and now-classic Dada and Surreal art forms – like collage, experimental film, ready-mades, abstraction – to address and upend social issues and conventions and also - just to have a good ole weird time! DADA QUEER DADA‘s month-long exhibit opens on August 3rd with an evening cabaret featuring staged burlesque, drag, live music and nonsense poetry as well as durational performance art, roving performers, experimental films and live electronic music throughout the evening. We encourage Cabaret-goers to wear art/costumes and interact with the artists when appropriate so that our evening is a collective creation of all involved – artists and audience together. Everyone can DADA!! Exhibit runs through August 31. Proceeds will go towards supporting local LGBT+ artists.

Wednesday July 31 * 7pm * $donation * RSVP

Join an open COMMUNITY of humans at the Zzzome to create, talk, and be in the magical adobe together! Tatev will close her exhibition Say Less and celebrate the inspiring people she wants to some day plant in her GARDEN! Mel will sing traditional Armenian songs of Sayat Nova and Komitas with screening of clips from Color of POMEGRANATE! Joy will talk about issues of WOMEN's health and stories she encountered around the globe! Sam will use a vintage sine wave generator in combination with modern oscillators to create a raga like DRONE meditation piece! Nenet will perform her songs in the shape of FREE form storytelling! Andrew will be fishing for improvised melodic FEELINGS via a minimal collection of synths and effects! Angela will tell you out-worldly stories through graceful MOVEMENT! Ben will intro horizon images from distant planets, untouched in/by TIME and Tatev will show a short animation she made about this! Spencer will bring some FRUIT, Mel will bring some lavash, Tatev will bring home made apricot vodka, you will bring your beautiful multi-layered presences <3 There will be SPACE for EXPRESSION in many shapes and forms! Come one, come ALL to supercharge with rhizomatic thoughts!

Saturday June 29 * 4-7pm * RSVP * EXHIBITION RUNS JUNE 23-30

הִנֵּה מַה טוב ומַה נָעִים שֶבֶת אַחִים גַם יָחַד
Hineh Mah tov umah na’im shevet achim gam yachad.
Here! What good! What sweetness! Siblings, friends and comrades sitting together!

When we embrace ritual, we stand in the threshold between / community and isolation, / sacred and profane, / this moment and our history.

Ritual is not just a veneration of what we hold dear, but a daily choice to build the world we choose to live in. By practicing and holding on to that which roots us in our dreams, values, and history we relinquish our role in upholding normalcy. Join this rebellion against all we have been told is inevitable.

This multimedia installation was first created for the Senior Thesis Art Show at Clark University in Worcester, MA. The installation combines hand-drawn animations, found-audio, and ritual objects.

Saturday, May 25 * 7-10pm * Suggested donation $10-20 * RSVP

The opening reception kicks off a month-long exhibit of works by incarcerated artists, running May 25-June 22, 2019. The event will include works by multiple artists, and an evening of live music, readings of poetry written by people in prison, a short film screening, and refreshments. Proceeds directly benefit the artists and the launch of the Justice Arts Coalition as a 501c3 nonprofit. Art for sale!

“The ideas are starting to form into a tangible, living thing. At this point, I am no longer myself, no longer in prison, but an active participant in a conversation that has been going on for the length of human history. A conversation that can trace its roots back to the first markings on cave walls. I am filled with a desire to express my experience of life in a way that will transcend my own life. This is what art is about for me. And I love it. This love sustains me through all the ups and downs that come with making something that has never been made before.” From the essay “Becoming Whole,” by Tomás, one of the exhibiting artists

Opening for VAGUE LIMBS - Paintings by Brandon Geurts and Kate Alboreo / Featuring performances by Viv Corringham and Jeff Surak / Opening starts at 6. Performances at 8. RSVP

Brandon Geurts is an artist based in Washington DC whose art uses body horror as a way to empathize. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts at the University of Central Florida in 2013, and received his Masters of Fine Arts at the University of South Florida in 2017. He currently teaches drawing at Montgomery College, and he has worked with musicians such as Pig Destroyer, Marissa Nadler, and Melt-Banana.

Kate Alboreo is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice draws inspiration from natural forms to highlight adaptation in the face of survival. She holds an MFA from University of South Florida, Tampa, and taught at University of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Alboreo is currently an artist in residence at Trestle Art Projects (Brooklyn, NY), and was a resident at Benaco Arte (Sirmione, Italy) in 2017. Alboreo’s work has been shown in various galleries in Tampa, FL; Miami, FL; Brooklyn, NY; Akron, OH; Cleveland, OH; and Brescia, Italy.

Viv Corringham is a British vocalist, improviser and sound artist based in New York, who has worked internationally since the late 1970s. Her work includes performance, installations, radio and soundwalks. She is a 2012 and 2006 McKnight Composer Fellow through American Composers Forum, and is certified to teach Deep Listening by Pauline Oliveros. Her work has received international recognition and been presented in twenty five countries on five continents. She works in several established groups, in ad-hoc groupings and also as a soloist. She has performed with Pauline Oliveros, Andrea Parkins, John Russell, Mia Zabelka, Monique Buzzarte, Gino Robair, Elliott Sharp, Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward, Alex Ward, Al Margolis, Maggie Nicols, Eddie Prevost and Didier Petit, among many others. "the extraordinary Viv Corringham, a supernaturally-gifted voice artist." (JazzdaGama)

Jeff Surak - Improvised electro-acoustic musique concrète from Washington DC. "Like beautiful rats hugging a sinking ship." ~ Wire "We always enjoy his restrained yet unwavering approach, fearlessly exploring dark zones of implied violence and subdued terror." ~ The Sound Projector

Friday February 15 * 7-10pm * $5 suggested

Rhizome DC presents a month-long exhibition and performance series devoted to exploring the potentialities and limitations inherent in the theme “Sound Heals All Wounds”. Throughout the month we will present artworks, performances, and discussions dealing with topics like: performance as it is constrained by health challenges; the political power of sound as it relates to feminism, refugee experiences, and social hierarchies; sound as a means of coping with loss; listening as meditative practice; and more.

At the opening on Friday February 15, explore the installations, participate in a Sound Meditation, and enjoy improvised music and dance from DC’s Creative Music Workshop Players. 7-10pm

Sound Installations by:
Abby Wendle / Daniel O’Connor & Unthings / Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste / Rebecca Mahay

Curated by:
Layne Garrett / Twin Jude / Nate Scheible / Abby Wendle

Friday February 15, 7-10pm: Exhibition opening
*Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations
*CMW Players

Sunday, February 10, 1-4pm. $5 suggested donation *RSVP

Come celebrate creativity, productivity, and community in the new year with 2019's Fun-A-Day DC Showcase. 

Fun-A-Day was started 15 years ago by the Artclash Collective in Philly with the aim to create a fun, inclusive, and participatory art community.  DC's Fun-A-Day chapter was started in 2011 with the same aim and format:  Pick a project, do it every day in January, and show your work in the Fun-A-Day Showcase in February!

The FADDC Showcase is our chance to share participants' work, and we welcome the public to join us in our celebration.  We hope to inspire folks to embrace their creativity, to make fun a part of their routine, and to grow something beautiful in the dead of winter.  So please join us this year for the showcase, and join us in the project-making next year too!

Sunday December 9 * OPEN HOURS NOON - 5PM * RECEPTION 5-6PM

Body Map Body

Rives Wiley / Renée Regan / Alanna Reeves / Kristina King / Eames Armstrong

Opening day exhibition hours in coordination with DC Art Studios Open Studios, December 9, 12-5pm

Body Map Body considers ways that bodies travel and cross terrains, and how landscapes can take on human form. When we are oriented, we're certain about our self, our direction, our past. But what do we find when we're disoriented? This exhibition shows some things that might happen when the map is abstract, when locations meld, when the body smears out of place, when our placement is just a memory.

image credit: Renée Regan, VA.15'-TX.14'

Saturday November 3 * 7-10pm * $10 suggested donation

Celebrate the opening of two exhibitions with music from Son La Lucha and poetry readings from Rick Pieto and friends.

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Please join us Sunday evening November 6th as we welcome Ebtisam Abdulaziz for an artist talk and opening reception for her new exhibition at Rhizome. Ebtisam will also present a short video performance, Structures.

Ebtisam Abdulaziz is a multidisciplinary artist, curator and writer. Reflecting her degree in Science & Mathematics, Abdulaziz incorporates her unique perspective on mathematics and the structures of systems to explore issues of identity and culture through installations, performance pieces and works on paper. Her works are evidence of a fascinated with systemic ways to produce emotionally or intellectually meaningful forms of expression. Abdulaziz has exhibited as part of the Inaugural UAE and ADACH Pavilions at 53rd Venice Biennale, as well as at the 7th & 10th Sharjah Biennial; Languages of the Desert, the Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany; Dubai Next at the Vitra Design Museum, Basel 2008; Arab Express, a group exhibition at The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; 25 years of Arab Creativity, The Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Inventing The World: The Artists as a Citizen, Benin Biennial 2012, Kora Centre, Benin. 

A night of moving images in a variety of formats - 16mm, super 8mm, and digital video; with work by Rebecca Reynolds, A. Moon, Pat Doyen, Chris Lynn, Nate Scheible and Patrick Cain.

Inspired by early stereo imaging and the clash and collusion of socioeconomic forces, this suite of works seeks to dismantle cinematic codes while foregrounding projector and light as sculpture. Using colour gels, masking, lens interference and projector movement in tandem with an exploration of binocular disparity, perspective, patterning and the surface itself, APPARITIONS explores the transitional space between image and abstraction, nature and culture.

Rhizome DC has been temporarily transformed into a gallery space as Takoma Park artist & illustrator Adam Griffiths shows a selection of original drawings and prints. Please join us on Saturday March 12th for an opening reception, featuring a unique performance of Adam live drawing, with music improvisation by the Creative Music Workshop players. 

An evening of experimental film as Process Reversal presents the third installment of its unique traveling film series Frenkel Defects, which explores what it means to work in -- and exhibit on -- photochemical film today. The evening will feature a 70-minute program of rare and diverse works, nearly all of which originate outside North America, and presented in their intended 16mm format.