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A gallery of (e)merging artists Art comes in many shapes and sizes at the the 2012 (e)merge art fair.
Clinton Bowman
The facade of the Capitol Skyline Hotel is reflected in Clinton Bowman's mirrrored sculpture, which greets visitors arriving at the (e)merge art fair.
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Ira Tattelman
Blocking the entrance to the hotel's garage, Ira Tattelman's screen installation (which is most beautiful after dark) echoes both the temporary construction barriers seen around the city and the honeycomb screens favored by architect Morris Lapidus in his design for the hotel. Called "Under His Shadow," Tattelman's piece is made from hundreds of plastic end caps from the cardboard tubes used by architects to transport blueprints.
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Alex Podesta
Don't forget your cameraphone. Alex Podesta's wryly eye-catching "Self-Portrait as Bunnies" is set up just inside the lobby entrance. There are two similar installations by this artist, one in the hotel gym and the other in the vending-machine room.
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Yerin Kim
Is it art or is it furniture? Yerin Kim's fiberglass-resin benches, in the shape of reclining human figures, are meant to be sat on.
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Mandy Cano Villalobos
Villalobos's poolside installation and performance features hundreds of garments hand-embrofered with the names of women murdered in Juarez, Mexico.
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Aime Mpane/Nomad Gallery
Though focused on emerging artists, the art fair includes some prominent names. Congolese artist Aime Mpane, seen here with one of his small figurative sculptures, has exhibited at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art.
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Aime Mpane,Nomad Gallery
Mpane is known for portraits painted on roughly scraped wood panels.
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Barbara Liotta
The fair has a strong, though not exclusively, local focus. Along with work by national and international artists, you can see art by such Washington-area artists as sculptor Barbara Liotta.
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Mathias Bengtsson/Industry Gallery
D.C.'s Industry Gallery is known for spotlighting high-end sculptural furniture, such as Danish designer Mathias Bengtsson's "Spun Benches."
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Edie Nadelhaft/Asymmetrik, Inc.
Giant pills from the artist's "Better Living Through Chemistry" series, offer snarky commentary on our quick-fix culture.
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R. Luke DuBois/Bitforms Gallery
Works from the series "Hindsight Is Always 20/20" rank words taken from various State of the Union addresses in descending order of frequency.
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Yael Kanarek
Israeli-American artist Yael Kanarek incorporates text, in the form of a jumble of rubber letters, in her art.
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Conor Backman/Mixed Greens
Because (e)merge takes place in a hotel, exhibitors have to make creative use of space. The Mixed Greens Gallery showcases paintings by Conor Backman in a chest of drawers.
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Jimmy Miracle/Washington Project for the Arts
Made by stringing light-catching filament inside various found objects (such as pots, pans and bowls), Jimmy Miracle's work is among the prettiest on view.
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Victoria Fu/Flashpoint Gallery
Fu's video, projected onto a screen in the window of a darkened hotel room, is among the most creative uses of space..
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Becky Slemmons
Photos, drawings and video document artist Becky Slemmons's "Gatherings." During the months-long performance project, the artist visited 100 houses of worship in Pittsburgh. Slemmons is shown wearing the elaborate dress that she built, almost sculpturally, during the project.
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Nara Park
Park's "Exit," a stairway to nowhere, sits in the corner of a hotel banquet room.
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Chajana denHarder
On opening night, denHarder performed "Singularity" in the hotel pool. Other performances will take place in the pool over the course of the weekend.
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Adrian Loving
Loving's light-and-sound installation "#1 and #2" is set up in a darkened corner of the hotel's underground parking garage.
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Michel Modell
"Candida Albicans" (the name of the organism that causes yeast infections) is part of a mini-exhibition showcasing the work of graduates of Baltimore's Maryland Institute College of Art.
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Katie Macyshyn
On opening night, Macyshyn, of the Corcoran College of Art and Design, performed the writhing, dance-like "Summer of Blood" in a billowing yellow and pink tent.
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Transformer Gallery
Affordable, small works are showcased in Transformer Gallery's salon-style installation.
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Scott Eunson/Flying Rooster Contemporary Projects
Eunson's lightweight, machine-made fiberboard sculptures are meant to be unprecious and interactive (meaning that you can pick them up, gently).
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Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
"Made in China" is a performance and installation by Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, who's giving away her hand-packaged trinkets (which are, paradoxically, made entirely in the U.S.) for a $5 donation.
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