BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Dupont Circle -- Washington Center of ADA University -- Exhibit: The Three-Body Problem: Dale Appleman, Michal Hunter, Jack Rasmussen

DC -- Dupont Circle -- Washington Center of ADA University -- Exhibit: The Three-Body Problem: Dale Appleman, Michal Hunter, Jack Rasmussen:

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Description of Pictures: The Three-Body Problem:
Dale Appleman, Michal Hunter, Jack Rasmussen
The Three-Body Problem is a science fiction novel by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Cixin observes that when two celestial objects get close to each other, their gravitational attraction influences the paths they take in a way that a simple mathematical formula can describe. But, when a third object is added, things are no longer so simple: the interactions between the three objects become unpredictable.
Cixin's observation has implications for bodies celestial as well as those of a more earthly disposition. For example, it can be applied to artists and to exhibitions like the one now hanging in the Art Gallery of the Washington Center at ADA University. The Three-Body Problem: Dale Appleman, Michal Hunter, Jack Rasmussen combines representational works, abstractions, and collages made by artists whose attractions are aesthetic rather than gravitational. Must the exhibition spiral into chaos, or can the artworks somehow hang together in a dynamic and fruitful balance? One must visit the exhibition to see.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ADAW3B_230901_014.JPG: Michal Hunter
2. ADAW3B_230901_021.JPG: Helen Zughaib arrives
3. ADAW3B_230901_030.JPG: Helen Zughaib, Jack Rasmussen, Michal Hunter
4. ADAW3B_230901_084.JPG: Jack Rasmussen, Helen Zughaib
5. ADAW3B_230901_113.JPG: Dale Appleman, Michal Hunter, Jack Rasmussen
6. ADAW3B_230901_189.JPG: Jack Rasmussen
7. ADAW3B_230901_239.JPG: Michal Hunter Pink Tulips
8. ADAW3B_230901_253.JPG: Michal Hunter Roses
9. ADAW3B_230901_258.JPG: Michael Hunter Daffodils
10. ADAW3B_230901_271.JPG: Michal Hunter Window View
11. ADAW3B_230901_275.JPG: Dale Appleman
12. ADAW3B_230901_290.JPG: ADA ART GALLERY The Three-Body Problem: Dale Appleman, Michal Hunter, Jack Rasmussen The Three-Body Problem is a science fiction novel by Chinese writer Liu Cixin. Cixin observes that when two celestial objects get close to each other, their gravitational attraction influences the paths they take in a way that a simple mathematical formula can describe. But, when a third object is added, things are no longer so simple: the interactions between the three objects become unpredictable. Cixin's observation has implications for bodies celestial as well as those of a more earthly disposition. For example, it can be applied to artists and to exhibitions like the one now hanging in the Art Gallery of the Washington Center at ADA University. The Three-Body Problem: Dale Appleman, Michal Hunter, Jack Rasmussen combines representational works, abstractions, and collages made by artists whose attractions are aesthetic rather than gravitational. Must the exhibition spiral into chaos, or can the artworks somehow hang together in a dynamic and fruitful balance? One must visit the exhibition to see. The art of Dale Appleman is centered on paint as a medium: its flexibility offers thin translucencies, impastos, and layerings that play with dimension and depth. Appleman's paintings translate images into abstractions. Her aesthetic attractions are phenomena like the biomorphic curves of overturned canoes or the formations left by volcanic eruptions... imagery that moves her to think in metaphor: boat forms that speak by their placement & proximity to mooring, pairing, launching, departure; volcanoes as frozen motion and outbursts of color. Appleman marries the objective and subjective, figuration and abstraction. Color is the painting's engine driving her creation of nuance and emotional intelligence in two dimensions. Early in her aesthetic trajectory, Michal Hunter veered off course into photography for a few years. When she returned to painting, her black and white photographic images became the predominant source material for her art. This worked well for paintings of people and portraits. Using a 6" grid allowed her to maintain proportions easily and accurately without overly restricting the play of her hand and sensibility. For her typically larger-than-life-scale, this continues to be her technique, giving her work its
13. ADAW3B_230901_291.JPG: photographic quality. Even so, Hunter has never considered herself a true photorealist painter, though the flower portraits in the present exhibition may suggest otherwise. Photographs capture that moment in space where one can observe all the minute details that, for the artist, are hard to ignore. Digital photography has perhaps compounded the tendency. Hunter must embrace or ignore automatically available colors and the ability to zoom in for closer inspection. With a subject as complex in both form and color as flowers, Hunter chooses to embrace it. Jack Rasmussen assembles collages of found objects from the illustration and design worlds. Then, he cuts them apart and rearranges them in such a way as to encourage the role of chance in their final configurations, further undermining the functionality of the originals. Finally, Rasmussen employs paint and brush to complete the transition of his objects from non-art to art, from the explication of facts to interpretable metaphors. A collage is complete when a balance is reached between the recognizable and the subjective, between information and allusion, recognizing the word allusion comes from the late Latin allusio meaning "a play on words" or "game" and is a derivative of the Latin word alludere, meaning "to play around." As different as the three artists are, each begins with representational imagery and then allows wildly different aesthetics and processes to transform images into objects of nuance and emotion. The path each artist takes is unpredictable, and the ramifications of their interactions in space and time in the Art Gallery of the Washington Center at ADA University are equally unpredictable. To paraphrase the title of a Jimmy Buffett live concert album, you have to be there. The Washington Center of ADA University aims to promote cultural awareness and advance cultural ties between the United States and Azerbaijan. Find us at 1627 21st Street NW, Washington DC, on the Gallery Row. @washington centerADAU
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  - 2022_DC_KatzenO_220611 DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2022B Opening Reception (Public)
  - 2021_DC_WGateG_HumanNatO_210605 DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Watergate Gallery -- Exhibit: Human/Nature -- Opening Reception
  - 2021_DC_WGateG_InLookR_20210424 DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Watergate Gallery -- Exhibit: Inside Looking Out -- Opening Event
  - 2020_DC_KatzenO_200124 DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2020A Winter Opening Reception (Member)
  - 2020_DC_Zughaib_200116 Politics & Prose -- Helen Zughaib ("Stories My Father Told Me")
  - 2017_DC_WGateG_ReclaimO_171007 DC -- Foggy Bottom -- Watergate Gallery -- Exhibit: Human Trafficking: Reclaiming Freedom -- Opening Event
  - 2017_DC_KatzenO_170908 DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2017D Early Fall Opening Reception (Member)
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