VisArts https://www.visartscenter.org Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:26:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.17 https://www.visartscenter.org/x/lc-content/uploads/2021/08/visarts-favicon-32x32-1.png VisArts https://www.visartscenter.org 32 32 Danni O’Brien: “Toning Systems” Reviewed in DisCerning Eye https://www.visartscenter.org/danni-obrien-toning-systems-reviewed-discerning-eye-2025/ Tue, 21 Oct 2025 18:57:55 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2591089 DisCerning Eye: Corridors of Power Much Mixed-Media Assemblage By Mark Jenkins October 21, 2025 JUGGLING MINIMALISM AND ABSURDISM, Danni O’Brien grafts abandoned consumer products into sculptural assemblages. As seen in VisArts’ "Toning Systems," the Baltimore artist’s fabrications can be ungainly. But O’Brien usually combines objects of a single color or in a close range of [...]

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]]> Danni O’Brien: “Toning Systems” Reviewed in 202 Arts Review https://www.visartscenter.org/danni-obrien-toning-systems-reviewed-202-arts-review-2025/ Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:23:55 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2591100 202 ARTS REVIEW AROUND TOWN: 5 SHOWS IN THE DISTRICT & BEYOND By Ian October 2o, 2025 “Danni O’Brien: Toning Systems” (through  ), VisArts, Rockville, Maryland. Many reading this will have already made the trek to Rockville any number of times to catch the bus to Glenstone and get in without a ticket. If you haven’t [...]

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]]> Jacqueline Arias: “A Lived Experience” Reviewed in DisCerning Eye https://www.visartscenter.org/jacqueline-arias-a-lived-experience-reviewed-discerning-eye-sep-2025/ Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:01:42 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2586458 DisCerning Eye: Women on the Verve A Study of Oppressed Workers By Mark Jenkins September 8, 2025 IF A SMALL GALLERY IN ROCKVILLE is an odd place to mount a memorial to the West Indies workers who constructed the Panama Canal, that doesn't make Jacqueline Arias's "A Lived Experience" any less compelling. The show's organizing [...]

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]]> “Vessels & Voids,” Curated by Rebecca Cross, Featured in Home & Design Magazine https://www.visartscenter.org/vessels-and-voids-featured-home-and-design-magazine-aug-2025/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:49:14 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2582388 Home & Design Magazine Vessels & Voids Architects and ceramic artists forge a dialogue exploring organic, biophilic shapes and spaces By Sharon Jaffe Dan Vessels & Voids, an experimental exhibit open through September 28 at VisArts in Rockville, examines the connection between fluidity in architecture and the ceramic arts. New technologies inspired curator Rebecca Cross to [...]

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]]> “Vessels & Voids,” Curated by Rebecca Cross, Reviewed in The Washington Post https://www.visartscenter.org/vessels-and-voids-reviewed-the-washington-post-aug-2025/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:36:39 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2581440 The Washington Post In an ambitious show, architects 3D print the world In “Vessels & Voids,” ceramicists and architects echo the forms of armadillos, arthropods and the microscopic world. By Mark Jenkins August 13, 2025 Handmade objects complement hand-drawn renderings in “ ,” an ambitious show at VisArts. But at the exhibition’s center is a [...]

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]]> Chris Combs and Ceci Cole McInturff: “Unforeseen” Reviewed in Washington City Paper https://www.visartscenter.org/chris-combs-ceci-cole-mcinturff-unforeseen-reviewed-washington-city-paper-jul-2025/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:13:01 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2577688 Washington City Paper Arresting Art: Unforeseen at VisArts By Stephanie Rudig July 9, 2025 The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico is a site designed to safely store radioactive waste in underground caverns. In 1993, researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories explored the idea of warning messages that could be understood by people living several [...]

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]]> Chris Combs and Ceci Cole McInturff: “Unforeseen” Reviewed in DisCerning Eye https://www.visartscenter.org/chriscombs-cecicolemcinturff-unforeseen-reviewed-discerning-eye-jul-2025/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:05:10 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2577419 DisCerning Eye: Earth Tones Combs and Cole McInturff’s Nuclear Alarm By Mark Jenkins July 9, 2025 IN THEIR COLLABORATIONS, CHRIS COMBS AND CECI COLE MCINTURFF juxtapose technology and nature. Tech dominates -- forebodingly -- in the local duo's VisArts collaboration, Unforeseen. The shadow-cloaked piece was inspired by the federal Waste Isolation Pilot Project, which stores [...]

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]]> Xiaosheng Bi: “Confrontation. Compromise.” Reviewed in DisCerning Eye https://www.visartscenter.org/xiaosheng-bi-confrontation-compromise-reviewed-discerning-eye-jun-2025/ Mon, 09 Jun 2025 17:34:45 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2575025 DisCerning Eye: More to Say Text-driven art by Xiaosheng Bi By Mark Jenkins June 9, 2025 HALF CALLIGRAPHY AND HALF CERAMICS, XIAOSHENG BI'S "Confrontation. Compromise." illustrates the sometimes uneasy balance between custom and improvisation. The China-born Maryland artist's show at VisArts (where he maintains a studio) includes a dozen examples of delicate but brightly painted [...]

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]]> Isabella Whitfield: “All My Children Are Good People” Reviewed in DisCerning Eye https://www.visartscenter.org/isabella-whitfield-all-my-children-are-good-people-reviewed-discerning-eye-apr-2025/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:06:49 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2570991 DisCerning Eye: Words's Worth A Solo by Isabella Whitfield By Mark Jenkins April 28, 2025 ENTERING VISARTS'S GIBBS STREET GALLERY, visitors encounter Isabella Whitfield's equivalent of Xi'an's Terra-cotta Army: dozens of tiny humanoids cast in off-white paper and arranged in a tight grid. The figurines in the local artist's “All My Children Are Good People” [...]

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]]> Eliza Clifford: “The Flowers We Keep” Reviewed in Washington City Paper https://www.visartscenter.org/eliza-clifford-the-flowers-we-keep-reviewed-washington-city-paper-apr-2025/ Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:21:08 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2571652 Washington City Paper Paintings by the Number: Local Gallery Exhibits We’re Loving This Spring By Stephanie Rudig April 25, 2025 Through June 15: Eliza Clifford:  at VisArts The natural and the artificial collide in Eliza Clifford’s bountiful screen printed textile works. Clifford pulls from her personal photo archive, showing snippets of her days that are both mundane [...]

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]]> VisArts Welcomes Chief Executive Officer Lisa Marie Ryder https://www.visartscenter.org/new-board-president-and-members-2024-2/ Tue, 15 Apr 2025 15:21:32 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2591020 ROCKVILLE, Md., April 15, 2025 – VisArts, a nonprofit arts hub and incubator in Rockville, Maryland, is pleased to announce Lisa Marie Ryder as CEO, succeeding retiring CEO Alice Nappy. Following an extensive national search led by Good Insight, Ryder begins her new role on May 27. In the interim, nonprofit leader Heller An Shapiro is guiding the [...]

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]]> Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi: “Tell Me How to Weave My World from These Dark Filaments” Reviewed in DisCerning Eye https://www.visartscenter.org/hedieh-javanshir-ilchi-tell-me-how-to-weave-my-world-from-these-dark-filaments-reviewed-discerning-eye-mar-2025/ Tue, 04 Mar 2025 18:46:27 +0000 https://www.visartscenter.org/?p=2564263 DisCerning Eye: Known But Unseen Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi's liquid landscapes By Mark Jenkins THE VIVID PAINTINGS IN HEDIEH JAVANSHIR ILCHI'S VISARTS SHOW contain her customary ingredients, but in different proportions than usual. The Tehran-born local artist has long punctuated fluid abstraction with fragments of traditional Persian motifs and snippets of Euro-American-style landscapes. That last ingredient [...]

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