Idylls

Washington Project for the Arts and the World Bank Art Program were pleased to present a collaborative exhibition, Idylls. The show featured works selected by juror Andrea Pollan from submissions by WPA member artists. Andrea Pollan is an independent curator and director and founder of Curator’s Office, a contemporary art gallery in DC. In this unique collaboration with Washington Project for the Arts, the World Bank Art Program, for the first time, worked with a DC-based curator to show works by area professional artists.

The idyll is a special variant of utopia, an imagined paradise-like, timeless little piece of earth, but actually not of this world. Formally, the idyll is a literary category, a mode of narrating and writing. This literary mode was joined by a musical one, and later by a visual artistic one, a mode of the drawn picture and of painting. This mode is fully furnished…The premise of this exhibition, which was selected from a juried process across the greater Washington, DC metropolitan area, is to define how diverse that vision of an idyll can be. After all, most of the artists in this exhibition have urban lives… -Andrea Pollan

Visiting the Exhibition:

Opening Reception: Friday, May 29 6-8pm

The exhibition was open for public tours on Fridays:
June 19 & June 26th at 12pm and 4pm.

The works were also viewable around the clock from the glass exterior of the building on H Street between 18th and 19th Streets, NW