OPENING: The Three Graces (thurs)

Zenith Gallery

New artists to Zenith Gallery, featuring: Mitzi Bernard, Marija Djakovic, Barbara Baron Rubin!

Zenith Gallery Presents<h2>The Three Graces </h2><h3>Featuring: Mitzi Bernard, Marija Djakovic, Barbara Baron Rubin</h3><h3>Exhibit Dates: August 4 – September 2, 2023</h3><h3>Meet the Artist Reception: Thursday, August 10, 5-8 PM &amp; Saturday, August 12, 2-6 PM</h3>At 1429 Iris Street NW, Washington DC, 20012Mitzi Bernard

Mitzi Bernard’s art highlights the power, strength, and incredible beauty of women. Her work is not necessarily what one would normally think of when talking fine art, yet that&#x27;s exactly the point: to find beauty in what people may have &quot;judged&quot; differently, whether it be Mitzi’s style of art, or of others, particularly women. 

Mitzi works with hundreds of tiny pieces of controversial paper cutouts, each glued on individually. Every collage is unique with its own message of women’s badassery and takes her over 200 hours to complete. From afar each work looks like a painting; it&#x27;s only when you get up close and see the detail that you discover it&#x27;s not painting at all, but pictures of people, events and images that convey female triumph stories.

Marija Djakovic

The initial driving force in the works of Marija Djakovic is always feeling. The artist speaks directly, relying on signs. But beyond the signs speak strokes, meaningful accumulations of color and composition. The result is always vision, and not visible. The artist is not interested in the ambiance, the shape of the motif, or the position; she chooses the motif as a starting point, as a battlefield on which she can speak intimately. We can experience this series as a kind of diary. Sometimes gesturally, sometimes calmly, we read mood notes in sequence.

In her works, we always find the motif of a woman, a domestic or mystical animal, and the ambiance&#x27;s indications. The motifs are recorded in an exalted or relaxed but often astonishing movement. They act oneirically as if they are with themselves somewhere in the subconscious realm. These women can be muses, goddesses, witches, or girls. They have no interlocutor but have strange company, and we find them in unusual spaces. Their attributions range from mythological to bizarre; among them, we find cats, birds of paradise, cows, and chickens. The subjects are always naked, without shame, sometimes asleep, sometimes in meditation, and sometimes in the position of a woman eager for love. 

Barbara Baron Rubin

From my obsession with drawing from age six to the present, I have explored numerous mediums.including graphic art for publication, calligraphy, manuscript illumination, gilding on both paper &amp;wood, painting, watercolor, silkscreen, and woodblock in Paris, Brussels the Washington DC area.

Every art medium I have experienced has been built upon and subsequently influenced my art. My recent work with silkscreen combines my love for the richness and luminosity of 23k gold laid upon. lush, vibrant dark colors executed in random patterns created from the vagaries of free hand silk screen technique. I am currently exploring gilding on canvas which allows a larger space to play with raised mordant grounds which allows the gilding to really be a more tactile expression.

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