CURRENT AND FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
Rebecca Key: Archetype
September 10 - October 15, 2010
(click here for full press release PDF)
Transformer is proud to present Liverpool, UK based artist Rebecca Key in her first US solo exhibition. Rebecca creates installations that question the creative process and explore the background narrative of artists, artworks and galleries. In her work she references buildings where galleries are housed, their social contexts and their associated preconceptions.
With Archetype, Rebecca investigates the design of Transformer's gallery space, and the worldwide use of white walls and grey floors to create gallery spaces. An accomplished Art Director for British film and television, Rebecca will apply set dressing techniques used in her professional career to look at how Transformer may have once appeared in its previous form. Taking reference from the exterior walls of the buildings surrounding Transformer, one of Transformer's gallery walls will be layered with specialized paint techniques, textures and props, to appear like the alleyway it once was.
SALON CONTRA / FRAMEWORK PANEL in collaboration with The Pink Line Project:
Wednesday, September 8, 2010; 7-9 pm at The Pink Line Project
Attendance is free. RSVP to salontransformer@pinklineproject.com is required.
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, September 10, 2010; 6-9pm
ARTIST TALK: Saturday, September 11, 2010; 2pm
Image: detail of alley near Transformer's 1404 P Street NW project space
Additional Upcoming Exhibitions
TANG
October 30 – November 4, 2010
Continuing our commitment to highlight the work of exceptional DC-based emerging artists in a solo exhibition format, Transformer's 8th Annual DC Artist Solo Exhibition presents the work of Señor Tangcito (aka Tang) in his first solo exhibition. Inspired by the people and places he encounters on his international travels, Tang will be taking over Transformer's project space with a bold, highly-stylized and meticulously-rendered site-specific installation. The colorful, geometric, landscape-evoking shapes Tangicito will paint on the walls of Transformer's project space will provide the backdrop for more intricately rendered drawings and installation details: small architectural elements, various drawn characters, and minimal text, all of which communicate a celebratory, diaristic interpretation of the wonder he has experienced in his travels.
Updated FlatFile Program
Transformer's FlatFile Program – a collection of works on paper (including photography, painting, drawing, collage, and prints) approximately 16" x 20" in size and smaller by emerging artists based locally, nationally, and internationally – is currently being updated. We are pleased to be adding a broad range of new work by both existing and new-to-the-program emerging artists this August & fall 2010.
ALPTRAUM! (translated as "nightmare"), a comprehensive exhibition of works co-curated by Marissa Long & Victoria Reis of Transformer, LA based artist Jay Stuckey, and Berlin based curator Marcus Sendlinger, featuring works from Transformer's FlatFile as well as from galleries in Los Angeles, London, and Berlin – will take place at Transformer this December and then travel internationally to the other participating galleries. Additionally, Transformer's new website will feature an online database of all FlatFile works for ongoing perusal.
If you wish to submit you work for consideration for the FlatFiles, please direct your submission to submissions@transformergallery.org or marissa@transformergallery.org.
Looking toward 2011: Hawaiian Punch – Transformer and the NMAI
Transformer is thrilled to be partnering with the National Museum of the American Indian this May 2011 on the two-site exhibition presentation: This IS Hawai'i. See this City Paper article covering Transformer and this exciting collaboration.
"That Transformer is one of D.C.'s most daring art institutions makes it an odd match for the city's most conservative: the Smithsonian. But in May 2011, Transformer is pairing with that unlikely ally—specifically, the National Museum of the American Indian—for an atypical goal: to introduce D.C. to contemporary, emerging, indigenous artists from Hawaii."
- Kriston Capps for the WashingtonCityPaper.com:
"Hawaiian Punch: Transformer Forges a Rare Smithsonian Collaboration" – WashingtonCityPaper.com
TRANSFORMER’S 2009/2010 Exhibition Series is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The CrossCurrents Foundation,The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities/NEA, and the Visionary Friends of Transformer.
