2010 Shows
THREE, The Honfleur Gallery 3rd Year Anniversary
3/12 - 4/23
 Honfleur Gallery celebrates its third anniversary with the opening of the aptly named painting exhibition, Three, featuring paintings by artists Wesley Clark, Lance Wiggs & Jonathan Royce in Honfleur gallery's main exhibition space, highlights works by a younger cadre of local abstract painters inclusive of intense color, experimental techniques and an overarching predilection for the art of layering. Stop-action video and works on canvas, panel and found objects will be included.
Concurrently, a second level exhibition of new works by John K. Lawson, entitled NOW AND THEN will be showcased at Honfleur, which will highlight a new body of portraiture. John K. Lawson returns to Anacostia with his signature collaged encaustic works using salvaged materials. Building on his past works that emerged from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina, NOW AND THEN instead draws material from the digital world, amalgamating text, image and pixels in an arrangement that both outlines and obfuscates the portrait’s subject. A metaphor for the contemporary experience, Lawson explores “the relationship between the interior psychic self and the modern exterior” though he warns that “they are rendered with a sense of futuristic urgency... and not of a sentimental longing for a simpler past life.”
STORIES: 1/22 - 2/26
 Friday January 22nd at 7pm marks the opening at Honfleur Gallery of Stories, an exhibit of photographic stories created by three artists to help raise awareness and funds for relief efforts in African nations. Stories features documentary photography created by Antoine Sanfuentes in a 2008 visit to East Goma with NBC’s Ann Curry covering topics such as children soldiers of Africa, education and rape. Works by Ann Curry will be presented from the same trip, alongside Deborah Terry’s images of Sudanese and Ugandan refugees and conflict victims as well as multimedia presentations of the grassroots work done by International Lifeline Fund. Proceeds from this exhibition and the opening night fundraiser will go to support International Lifeline Fund.
About the Artists:
Antoine Sanfuentes is an Emmy award wining producer and the Deputy Bureau Chief for NBC news in Washington, DC. He has traveled extensively with Today show's Ann Curry in Africa, several times to Darfur. In February 2008, Sanfuentes and Curry traveled to war-torn Eastern Congo to report on the situation there. Over the course of a week in and around Goma, Congo the team covered the atrocities and the perpetrators of a conflict that has claimed more lives than in World War II. Sanfuentes’ pictures document that journey including a visit to a so called "rape hospital" where entire wards are dedicated to survivors of brutal rapes. An interview with Rebel commander General Nkunda who now sits in a jail cell in Rwanda for crimes his forces committed against the Congolese and finally, the youngest casualties of this conflict, the children. The team visited UNICEF's secluded child soldier rehabilitation center.
Deborah Terry is the Vice President and Creative Director of International Lifeline Fund, based in Washington DC. In 2005, she helped found ILF with her partner Daniel Wolf in memory of his father, the late Professor George Wolf. Rising from humble beginnings in Washington DC, Terry started shooting photography in the late 1980’s. She moved to New York to pursue a career in fashion photography. From fashion, she expanded her creative ability to music photography, working for various records labels in NYC.
More recently she has turned to a more personally fulfilling undertaking, focusing on the challenge of uncovering the desperate plight of refugees and other impoverished peoples while capturing the simplicity and grace of their everyday life. Her development work
dovetails with her photography as she sheds light on some of the least known issues and
challenges of these conflict zones.
International Lifeline Fund is a not for profit international relief and development organization dedicated to water & sanitation issues, microenterprise and fuel efficient technologies. The International Lifeline Fund seeks to reduce human misery and environmental destruction in the lesser developed world through programs and activities that generate the greatest possible impact at the lowest possible cost.
Photo Credit: Antoine Sanfuentes, NBC
(photo credits: Robert Longyear and Jeanne Jo)
Objectified
curated by Islay Taylor
Opening Reception: June 4 through July 23, 2010
ARTISTS
Colleen Heineman
Jeanne Jo
Robert Longyear
Andrea Miller
Andrea Miller
Andrea Miller grew up in Gas City, Indiana. In 2005 she received her BFA in Metals and BS in Art Education from Ball State University in Muncie, IN. She taught high school Intro to Art and Jewelry classes in Nappnaee, IN before beginning her graduate education. Her work references industrially made parts of our modern environment with the body. Currently she is a 2nd year graduate student at the University of Wisconsin Madison.
Jeanne Jo
Jeanne Jo is a NYC based artist. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2008, where she was a President's Scholar and recipient of many awards, including a Graduate Award of Excellence. Her BFA, in Digital Media, is from the University of Nevada, Reno, where she was an Art History minor and the screamer for a hardcore band. She has taught at RISD, Emerson College, Rhode Island College, and at Brown University in the Modern Culture and Media department. She often works collaboratively with Rachelle Beaudoin under the pseudonym, Scarlet Electric.
Robert Longyear
Robert Longyear is an artist whose practice alters the integrity of built structures as a way to compromise and transform. He's drawn to buildings as metaphor for system breakdowns and as opportunities to learn more about how humans interface with the world through architecture. Using neglected structures as raw material, he is able to reveal their hidden construction, provide new ways of perceiving space, and create metaphors for the human condition. Longyear received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and his BFA from the University of Kansas. He is the Community Outreach Manager and Metals Studio Chair at Craft Alliance in St. Louis, MO.
Colleen Heineman
Colleen Heineman is an artist living and working in Philadelphia. Her work is based on observations and investigations into the objects that one interacts with day to day, and their relation to scientific systems and order. She received her BFA with an emphasis in Metals and Printmaking from Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. She received her MFA in Metals and Jewelry from State University of New York, New Paltz in New Paltz, New York.
Islay Taylor
Islay Taylor was born in Wakefield, Rhode Island. She is a contemporary art jeweler, who uses the body as a pedestal to showcase wearable sculptures. She recently received her MFA in Jewelry and Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design. She received her BFA from Alfred University, where she studied Sculpture and Printmaking, with a minor in Art History. Currently, she works as the Gallery Director at Hera Gallery, teaches Continuing Education at RISD, and maintains an active studio practice.
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