Nice evaluate of Artomatic tradition occasion within the Washington Publish. Artwork critic Mark Jenkins enjoys the all-sorts arts expertise and singles out the glass artwork for remark, together with utilizing WGS artist Michael Janis’ paintings titled “Ready for the Moments that By no means Come” because the illustrative work for the present. Writes Mark:
“…Among the many varied enterprise and governmental sponsors of this 12 months’s Artomatic is a small however internationally famend arts group, the Washington Glass College. The Mount Rainier, Md., studio has taken a big chunk of the constructing’s fifth ground to showcase the elegant creations of co-founders Tim Tate and Erwin Timmers and a number of other different glass virtuosos. Tate, who credit Artomatic with taking part in a big position in his profession, is exhibiting a sculpture that riffs on Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man.” The provocatively androgynous replace positions eight glass figures — male, feminine and mixed — in a circle surrounded by mirrors and lights that simulate a way of countless replication…”
Within the galleries: Artomatic: Unpretentious, approachable, convivial – Evaluate by Mark Jenkins, Washington Publish, April 5, 2024
https://www.washingtonpost.com/leisure/artwork/2024/04/05/art-gallery-shows-dc-area/
In contrast – have a examine how the Washington Publish artwork critic Blake Gopnik considered the 2004 Artomatic exhibit:
…”The result’s the second-worst show of artwork I’ve ever seen. The one one to beat it out, by the thinnest of cut up hairs, was the 2002 Artomatic, which was worse solely by advantage of being even larger and in an much more atrocious area, down by the waterfront in a vacant trendy workplace constructing. I gained’t dwell on the artwork. And I definitely gained’t title names…There could be a couple of first rate issues hidden within the combine — with so many 1000’s of objects on show, the legislation of averages says there have to be. However three hours’ price of wanting didn’t spot too many. A number of the glasswork appeared all proper. (Glass is such a stunning medium it’s arduous to screw it up, and also you want some fundamental coaching even to start to work in it.)
Artomatic 2004: Hanging Is Too Good for It by Blake Gopnik
November 10, 2004
Artomatic runs via April 28th. 2100 M Avenue, NW, Washington, DC.