Name: Keeping Pace, Opening Reception
Start: 2021-08-13T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2021-08-13T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Honfleur Gallery

Keeping Pace, Opening Reception

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Anacostia Arts Center

Keeping Pace runs from August 13 2021 – October 2,
2021 in the Honfleur Gallery at 1241 Good Hope Road
SE, Washington DC 20020.

Honfleur Gallery

Keeping Pace encompasses a collection of recent works
by multimedia artist Sara Dittrich that meditate on the
interconnectivity of the body and the land it inhabits.
Through sound sculpture, photography and paper collage
Dittrich enables the viewer to look internally and
externally simultaneously. Her newest series of works in
the exhibition were created through a cyanotype
photographic printing process where tree leaves and
other foliage are exposed to the sun on chemically coated
paper to create cyan-blue prints. Playing with multiple
exposures as well as collaged laser cut paper, Dittrich
builds imagery resembling nervous and respiratory
systems. By observing the cyclical nature of politics,
land and body, Keeping Pace uses time as a through line
for how we continually relate and adapt to the land and
vice versa.

Sara Dittrich is an interdisciplinary sculpture artist who builds introspective experiences that shift
perspective from passive seeing to active looking, from passive hearing to active listening. Dittrich uses
musical thinking to illuminate the dynamic and unconscious rhythms of the body and environments with
diverse mediums that often include sculptural objects, musical performance, video, and interactive
electronic technologies. From placing a cellist in a 9ft. tall chair, sculpting hundreds of tiny ears from
clay, or performing with bio sensors that match breath to tidal movement, the work can be described as
both absurd and meditative.
Dittrich’s studio practice is located in Baltimore, Maryland where she has lived and worked since
receiving her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Dittrich’s work has been exhibited and
performed in numerous venues including the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Washington Project for the
Arts, DC; and Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI.

Honfleur Gallery is a contemporary art space located in the Historic Anacostia neighborhood of Washington DC, between Martin Luther King Jr. Ave., SE (11th Street Bridge) and 13th Street SE. Honfleur maintains a rigorous schedule of exhibitions and programming that focuses on cutting edge contemporary exhibitions by artists from the USA and abroad.

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