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The ensemble of artworks appear dormant—that is, until given life through sight. The objects Whitfield chooses to reference and render by way of casting and papermaking invite closer inspection, seducing the mind into a series of projected phantasms.…
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For Shalabi, the exhibition considers a post-oil future of the Arab world, a time at which we have yet to arrive. This anticipation is only heightened by his placement of each piece at an expanse from each other, creating a cohesive installation that hinges on distance, literally and figuratively. …
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Words fail, and then the fun begins. In his solo show at Hamiltonian Artists, Kyrae Dawaun tightly weaves concept, narrative, craft, and form into a river-of-consciousness whole, the effect of which is at once exhilarating and deeply moving.…
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On a recent visit to ceramicist Ara Koh’s studio, I observed a brief exchange between a deaf visitor, her translator, and the artist. The visitor wanted to know how a series of ceramic objects had been made. […] Koh explained her process of using a clay extruder, likening it to a sausage making machine; the ASL translation included several signs that looked like what they described (the iconicity of sign language that is often mistaken as pantomime).…
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Absence serves as the doorway that molds grief into the very foundation of home; it is a gateway for processing emotions. We are called to walk through it by entering the doors of Hamiltonian Artists and invited to a four-way conversation between video artist Cecilia Kim’s friends in her solo exhibition when the body becomes dust and settles around you (2023).…
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Do we need to practice playing? Are we still too often stressed with work? Even in our free time, it seems we chase outcomes, simulate, or code for play instead of just playing. A brief instructional wall text at Hamiltonian Artists in Washington, DC, welcomes viewers to Practiced Play, the first interactive exhibition created by Matthew Russo, who graduated with an MFA from American University in 2020.…
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Good artists are always foreigners. I don’t mean in regards to the soil they come from; rather in the ways in which they relate to reality. This is especially evident in the case of Mexico-born artist María Luz Bravo, whose debut solo exhibition in Washington, DC, titled Glimpse, Gathered, at Hamiltonian Artists, focuses on the uncanny nature of everyday objects through her alien gaze.…
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Stephanie Garon is uniquely prepared to mine the residue and history of a spurious “gold rush,” in northern Maine, of all places. I’ve been to Maine every summer of my octogenarian life and until two years ago I had no idea that mining was a factor in the state’s environmental history.…
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Jason Bulluck’s exhibition and all the work included under its title Let’s Believe Brief Utopias proceed from the foundational premise that the privileged site of art—art’s placement in the gallery, art’s here-and-now—is dispersed. The show’s manifestations in many forms are distributed through time, space, motion, and exchange—here, there, everywhere, and nowhere—all at once.…
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Why do we buy certain things? Why do we save certain things? Amber Eve Anderson asked me these questions during our first conversation, leading us to further inquiries about commodity logistics and how we ascribe value to objects once we acquire them.…
