DOMESTIC TERRITORIES
OllyOlly
Fairfax, VA
March 2016
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Review in Northern Virginia Magazine
2015
STUDIO SACRILEGE
DCAC
September 2015
All three artists work boldly, as if unsure not of their own instincts but of the very enshrinement of art. “The work should never be immortalized,” Braden writes, a sentiment that some museum-goers might deem sacrilegious. It seems that these pieces, with their random gestures and ragged areas, are not unfinished, but unfinishable.
Review by Mark Jenkins in the Washington Post
Featured in The Studio Visit by Isobel Manolo
April 2015
"What remains however, is the freedom to play in her work. She continually engages with a visual language that is tactile and ephemeral teetering between sculptural and painterly abstraction as well as literal and illusionistic narrative."
EMULSION 2015
March 2015
"The artists in the 2015 Emulsion show are but a microcosm of all that is happening in the diverse and dynamic art world today. They share a deliberate and conscious purpose to make their work relevant and to express their inner voices and visions.
I looked at the submissions with an eye to create an exhibition that portrayed a true “Emulsion” with practice that included painting, photography, sculpture, video, performance and printmaking. The work is skilled, meditative, playful, sublime, exciting, and challenging.
The art is varied but with purpose; to engage, to relate narrative histories, to honor method, to express a reverence for nature and a collective culture. I witnessed common themes in the work including a reverence for art history and for the fundamentals of art including composition, line, shape, color, patterning and space..
To be a juror is always difficult, so much wonderful work was not included. I was challenged to look at work I had no familiarity with, work that I have seen before and to choose among so much talent. I was amazed and delighted to see so many submissions and to affirm what I have known, that the greater Washington, DC art world is thriving and striving to matter.
I am honored to have been chosen as the Juror. I want to thank Philip Hutinet and East City Art for asking me and more importantly for all they do to promote art in DC. I also want to thank all the artists who submitted work and for allowing me to learn more about the artistic process. Thank you to GalleryOonH for hosting the show and I look forward to meeting all of you. I am so lucky to get to do what I do!
Adah Rose Bitterbaum's Juror Statement from Emulsion 2015
Featured on PEEK by Lee Gainer
October 2014
“Scene Seen”
