20 Nov 2010
ohheyitsdk: today a gorgeous new show opens at the museum: Washington Color and Light. culled entirely from the Corcoran’s own expansive collection, the exhibition features artists of the Washington Color School and their contemporaries and is bright enough to shake away your doldrums this winter and filled with enormous works in which you can lose yourself. a few pieces in the show have literally never been exhibited before—never been STRETCHED before—and the result is pretty spectacular. DC often gets a bad rap for lacking art and culture, both in the past and today, but as the Express said: the Corcoran’s new “Washington Color and Light” is part history lesson and part celebration of the role that our city — and the Corcoran itself — played in a movement that has had a major influence on design and fine art today. you should probably go check it out. [pictured: Light Depth, Sam Gilliam, 1969]

ohheyitsdk:

today a gorgeous new show opens at the museum: Washington Color and Light. culled entirely from the Corcoran’s own expansive collection, the exhibition features artists of the Washington Color School and their contemporaries and is bright enough to shake away your doldrums this winter and filled with enormous works in which you can lose yourself. a few pieces in the show have literally never been exhibited before—never been STRETCHED before—and the result is pretty spectacular.

DC often gets a bad rap for lacking art and culture, both in the past and today, but as the Express said:

the Corcoran’s new “Washington Color and Light” is part history lesson and part celebration of the role that our city — and the Corcoran itself — played in a movement that has had a major influence on design and fine art today.

you should probably go check it out.

[pictured: Light Depth, Sam Gilliam, 1969]

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