July 1992

My Dearest Collage Cronies:

A few meetings to worry about:

July 30 (Thursday) 6:30-8:30

August 26 (Wednesday) 6:30-8:30
September 24 (Thursday) 6-8:30
October 29 (Thursday) 6-8:30
November 23 (Monday) 6-8:30

(In December, in lieu of the usual meeting, we organize a debauched holiday gathering of some
sort.)

Hope everyone got the news about the June Meeting getting canceled. At the July meeting, the
exact dates for our planned exhibition at GWU's Colonnade will be revealed to a breathless public
starving for the news (approximate date: circa October), so be there or be elsewhere. (It will also
be announced in the subsequent issue of this here newsletter.)

RECOMMENDATIONS: There's a fascinating collage show by Howard County artist Lee Wayne
Mills at the Ruby Blakeney Gallery in the New Weave Room at Historic Savage Mill in Savage.
Mills took inspiration from abstract expressionists like Robert Motherwell to expand on that
movement’s vocabulary and achievements, and he is now expanding in a 3-dimensional direction.
The show runs until Aug. 2, and they're having a gallery talk there at 3PM on July 25, with the artist
and the exhibition's curator, David Tannous; for more information on the gallery call 301-317-4028
... If you get a chance see the "Crosscurrents" show at the Hirschhorn--I'd be curious to see what
effect Joaquin Torres-Garcia's flat pictorial abstractions have on local DC collagists ... The
Washington Project for the Arts’ "Open Show" hangs there until June 19, on the upper floor. I
have certain problems with the way the show is hung--the WPA, in these recessionary times,
seems to be trying calculated outrage to get people to come through the door--and, like most open
shows I've seen, it's a mixed bag. Still, it's definitely very much worth seeing for its overview of
local DC artists... I just got done attending Barbara Hardaway's informal exhibit/party at her
apartment with an artist colleague, Susan Jarvis, this past Sunday--definitely keep an eye out for
these two in the future. See you at the movies!

POSTSCRIPT: We were very saddened to hear of the death of DC artist Carroll Sockwell, who
died after falling from the Rock Creek Park Bridge on July 9. After a lengthy period of obscurity,
Sockwell was just beginning to come back to much-deserved public attention with a show at the
WPA. The show was scheduled to close on July 19, but according to a story in the July 11 Post,
the WPA's director is considering extending the show.