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2017_DC_WCC_Art: DC -- Washington Convention Center -- Art (185 photos from 2017)
2017_DC_WCC_Art_Tour_170929: DC -- Washington Convention Center -- Tour: Art of the DC Convention Center (11 photos from 2017)
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WCCART_170929_006.JPG: JIM SANBORN
Lingua,
2003, Street Level
Walk through the Grand Lobby, and two 16-foot columns will flank you. These columns are etched through with foreign language text recalling historic gatherings -- or conventions -- of people from 1400 BC until the 19th century. The text is inscribed onto the bronze in eight different languages -- French, Ethiopian, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Chinese, Russian and Ononandaga. Appropriately, Sanborn calls his piece Lingua, which in Latin, means "spoken word." A native of Washington, DC, Sanborn influences include the physical sciences, archeology, mythology and unseen forces of nature.
WCCART_170929_020.JPG: Wyoming Territory, 1833 AD
WCCART_170929_023.JPG: Athens, 425 BC
WCCART_170929_027.JPG: Abyssinian 928 BC
WCCART_170929_030.JPG: Rome 25 AD
WCCART_170929_059.JPG: Kuanji Prefecture 353 AD
WCCART_170929_062.JPG: Barcelona 1493 AD
WCCART_170929_065.JPG: Moscow 1812 AD
WCCART_170929_068.JPG: Iroquois Nation 1450 AD
WCCART_170929_072.JPG: DONALD LIPSKI
Five Easy Pieces,
2003, Concourse Level, Street Level, Level Two
You're sure not to miss Lipski's hanging sculpture in the Center. Five Easy Pieces is a collection of giant, geometric shapes made from everyday objects like tennis rackets, kayaks, guitars, bar stools and bicycles -- a nod to Lipski's fond childhood memories with his father who was in the bicycle business. As you approach the suspended sculpture from a distance, the individual objects reveal themselves. You can also find Lipski's world-renowned sculptures in national and international museums. His work has been written about extensively and celebrates the common object. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
WCCART_170929_118.JPG: Larry Kirkland
Capital Stars, 2003
WCCART_170929_126.JPG: James Lesesne Wells
Orpheus and Eurydice amongst the animals, 1982
Orpheus Falls in Love, 1982
WCCART_170929_179.JPG: James Lesesne Wells
The Vamp, 1983
WCCART_170929_184.JPG: James Lesesne Wells
Eurydice Ascends, 1983
WCCART_170929_192.JPG: Sam Gilliam
Chevrons, 1984
WCCART_170929_225.JPG: Willem de Looper
Untitled, (Santa Fe), 1992
WCCART_170929_238.JPG: Juan Bernal
Far Away, 2001
WCCART_170929_259.JPG: Robert Azank
Still Life #144, 2002
WCCART_170929_277.JPG: Dinh Q Le
Untitled (1), 1998
WCCART_170929_282.JPG: SOL LEWITT
Wall Drawing #1103,
2003, Street Level, Level Two
Located on the L Street Bridge, this multi-hued, two-level drawing embraces the geometric abstract that defined much of LeWitt's impressive career. Famous for architectural scale works, LeWitt created this piece with a respect for the Center's environment. LeWitt's New York artists led a team of 10 Washington painters who brought this dynamic painting to life: Stevens Jay Carter, Larry V. Colbert, Megan Dyer, Elizabeth Flyntz, John Hogan, Thomas Jennings, Melissa Levin, Luis Peralta, Tomas Ramberg, Jon Routson, Jason Rulnick, Michelle Talibah, Chris Dale Taylor and Joanne Wasser
WCCART_170929_284.JPG: KENDALL BUSTER
Parabiosis II,
2003, Street Level
Buster received her MFA at Yale University after completing the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program. Currently, this native Washingtonian is a Professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University. When she's not teaching, she's creating. Her award-winning works have been exhibited throughout the country as well as Spain, South Africa, Germany and Peru.
Her commissioned piece for the Center is a suspended sculpture that hangs from the underside of the main escalator. It is constructed of a lightweight powder-coated, enameled steel frame and covered with a shadecloth "skin." The piece resembles a floating city created out of interlocking buildings with visible interiors.
WCCART_170929_297.JPG: Kendall Buster
Parabiosis II, 2003
WCCART_170929_310.JPG: Darren Lago
Loafer Round, 1999
WCCART_170929_326.JPG: LARRY KIRKLAND
Capital Stars,
2003, Concourse Level, Street Level, Level Two
Worldly describes Kirkland. Currently residing in Washington, DC, he has lived in California, Japan, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Oregon. His sculptures have generated worldwide acclaim and carved out a special niche for him in large site-specific installations. Capital Stars will no doubt continue to enhance that reputation. This magnificent suspended sculpture combines history, geography and politics. By placing Washington, DC in the center of the piece, Kirkland reinforces the dichotomy that while the nation's Capital is our political epicenter, it stands alone, without a stat
WCCART_170929_339.JPG: Sol LeWitt
Wall Drawing #1103, 2003
WCCART_170929_364.JPG: Pat Steir
Red on Blue Waterfall, 2003
WCCART_170929_416.JPG: Frank Smith / Arnetta Lee
Shaw, The Root and Fabric of a Community, 2003
WCCART_170929_428.JPG: The Shaw Wall
WCCART_170929_444.JPG: Deirdre Saunder
Moments in Time and Place, 2003
WCCART_170929_451.JPG: Billy Colbert
The Spirit of Sunday in Shaw, 2003
WCCART_170929_558.JPG: Carrie Mae Weems
The Armstrong Triptych with Bugle Boys, 2000
WCCART_170929_560.JPG: Carrie Mae Weems
The Armstrong Triptych with Bugle Boys, 2000
WCCART_171009_13.JPG: COSTAS VAROTSOS
Galaxy, 2003, Concourse Level
A trained architect and sculptor, Varotsos spent many years in Italy working in the Lamorgia mountains on a V-shaped crater left from a WWII shelling. He stacked the crater with plate glass, so it would resemble a pond. A native of Greece, who currently lives in Athens, Varotsos often uses glass to represent water. However, in Galaxy, the work he created for the Center, the stones and glass symbolize a loose interpretation of the Big Bang theory.
WCCART_171009_27.JPG: Sam Gilliam
Chevrons, 1984
WCCART_171009_33.JPG: James Lesesne Wells
The Vamp, 1983
WCCART_171009_38.JPG: James Lesesne Wells
Eurydice Ascends, 1983
WCCART_171009_46.JPG: James Lesesne Wells
Orpheus and Eurydice amongst the animals, 1982
WCCART_171009_50.JPG: James Lesesne Wells
Orpheus Falls in Love, 1982
WCCART_171009_59.JPG: Sam Gilliam
Many Things, 2003
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2017 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences in Pensacola, FL, Chattanooga, TN (via sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee) and Fredericksburg, VA,
a family reunion in The Dells, Wisconsin (via sites in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin),
New York City, and
my 12th consecutive San Diego Comic Con trip (including sites in Arizona).
For some reason, several of my photos have been published in physical books this year which is pretty cool. Ones that I know about:
"Tarzan, Jungle King of Popular Culture" (David Lemmo),
"The Great Crusade: A Guide to World War I American Expeditionary Forces Battlefields and Sites" (Stephen T. Powers and Kevin Dennehy),
"The American Spirit" (David McCullough),
"Civil War Battlefields: Walking the Trails of History" (David T. Gilbert),
"The Year I Was Peter the Great: 1956 — Khrushchev, Stalin's Ghost, and a Young American in Russia" (Marvin Kalb), and
"The Judge: 26 Machiavellian Lessons" (Ron Collins and David Skover).
Number of photos taken this year: just below 560,000.
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