Body Map Body
Artists:
Rives Wiley
Renée Regan
Alanna Reeves
Kristina King
Eames Armstrong
Opening day exhibition hours in coordination with DC Art Studios Open Studios, December 9, 12-5pm
Body Map Body considers ways that bodies travel and cross terrains, and how landscapes can take on human form. When we are oriented, we're certain about our self, our direction, our past. But what do we find when we're disoriented? This exhibition shows some things that might happen when the map is abstract, when locations meld, when the body smears out of place, when our placement is just a memory.
Four of the artists in Body Map Body work out of DC Art Studios around the corner from Rhizome at 6925 Willow St NW: Rives Wiley, Renée Regan, Alanna Reeves, and Kristina King. The fifth artist is Eames Armstrong, who organized this exhibition.
About DC Art Studios: DC Arts Studios is a member-run arts organization providing studio spaces for our member artists of all disciplines, creatives agencies, and arts organizations so that they can have sustainable careers in the DC Metro Area. They also provide exhibition opportunities and professional support, and foster connections between member artists so that they can collaborate and grow in their craft, in the true spirit of an artist co-op. DC Arts Studios was established in 1979 as an artist co-op under the name A. Salon, Ltd. by George Koch (who later went on to found Artomatic). The organization hosted affordable arts studios in three locations in DC: Downtown, Georgetown, and Takoma. The Takoma building was acquired in 1985 and has been a flashpoint for artists of all disciplines ever since.
About Rhizome DC: RhizomeDC is a nonprofit community arts space located at 6950 Maple St NW, in the Takoma neighborhood of Washington DC. We are dedicated to promoting creativity as a force for personal empowerment and community engagement. We also strive to provide a home for non-mainstream programming in the DC area.We host programs that promote creativity in all its forms. These include concerts, workshops, performances, talks, exhibitions, and demonstration projects in areas such as art, music, technology, theater, local food, poetry, as well as in more esoteric fields of knowledge. We believe it's more interesting to make your own culture than to consume culture made by others. We are exploring new approaches to grassroots community education which seek to blur the lines between amateur and professional, teacher and student, and which free learning from rigid models of instruction and explication. We also strongly support non-commercial artistic experiences and seek to provide a space for artists to create experimental works and share the results with the broader community.