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Artomatic returns to Crystal City In an empty Cystal City office building, hundreds of area artists showcase their wares in the no-holds-barred art festival known as Artomatic .
An entire wall is covered by Eric Gordon's drawings. Gordon is a founder of D.C. Creepers, a group of artists who surreptitiously sketch strangers at coffee shops and on public transportation.
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Artomatic's corridors are lined with street art like this mural sponsored by Baltimore's Grafitti Warehouse, an art space founded by Luis Rosenfeld.
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Justin Cameron's interactive installation spits out surreal fragments of text on a ticker-tape-like scroll. It references the passivity and helplessness of the typical cubicle drone.
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In the market for a wacky door-knocker? Artist Mark Schumaker is your man.
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Lowbrow art, characterized by the bold, cartoonish style of Chris Bishop, is one of Artomatic's dominant aesthetics.
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Artist Joseph Corcoran puts the finshing touches on his glass and neon sculpture.
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Sweets are a favorite theme of painter Cory Oberndorfer, whose art includes oversize popsicles and these tiny donut portraits, made on hardware-store paint chips.
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Elizabeth Brown's "Fragility of the Guarded Thought" incorporates multiple light bulbs.
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Sean Hennessey's bas-relief sculptures of glass and concrete are mounted on lightboxes.
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Unorthodox materials and found objects are a perennial hallmark of Artomatic, as in Veronica Szalus's installation made from discarded aluminum beverage cans.
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Dale R. Hunt's whimsical monsters are a highlight.
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Not everything in Artomatic is art, or at least not the kind you're used to. This "photo sculpture" by members of the Gangplank Marina Slipholders Association features photographs of objects found floating in the water.
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One of artist Steve Wanna's "gravity works," featuring balloons covered in plaster. As the balloons shrink, the plaster will fall off and break, creating a random artwork on the floor.
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Painter John Grunwell's groovy abstractions evoke the 1970s.
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Sculptor David D'Orio contributes a fantastic bicycle, outfitted with dozens of glass horns.
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Christian Tribastone at Artomatic 2012
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Like Dorothy's Kansas farmhouse caught inside a wooden tornado, Kelly Guerrero's sculpture mixes innocence and terror.
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If you're going to make it through Artomatic, a sense of humor is a must. Here, illustrator Rob Sprouse imagines "Star Trek's" Worf as Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch."
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Artomatic is full off surprises like M. Helene Baribeau's giant gloves.
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Baribeau knits her oversize gloves using shredded maps instead of yarn.
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Surrealism lives, in the strange and wonderful work of painter Stephanie Williams.
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Michelle Chin, a devotee of cellphone photography, mounts her pictures on replica iPhones made from plexiglass, spray paint and foil tape
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Jessica Murray's paintings masterfully balance order and chaos.
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A sweetly surreal, found-object construction by Marcia Fry.
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Drew Storm Graham's eye-catching 3D constructions are a cross between tattoo art and pop-up books.
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Half funny, half creepy, "metagrapher" Steve Calamia's fake deer has a camera in its head, linked to a live video stream from the venue.
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Gregory Ferrand is one of many artists who incorporate humor in their work.
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Artomatic is filled with surprises, and a few mysteries, such as this pile of twee drawings, made on bags filled with water, by an unidentified artist.
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Photographer Joanna Knox Yoder's wet-plate collodion tintypes from the series "Heirloom" were made using an antique process popular during the Civil War.
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Edmond van der Bijl's biomorphic sculpture is made from hundreds of plastic cable ties
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Giant portraits by Rose Jaffe
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In the foreground, Keith Stanley's whimsical floor sculpture frames Emily Hoxworth's paintings, on the far wall.
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Michael Janis "paints" with powdered glass.
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