HEMPHILL is pleased to announce the group exhibition TWO X, opening on Saturday, November 9, 2024, from 4 – 7 p.m. The exhibition will remain on view through December 21, 2024.

A current approach in contemporary interior design mixes styles with selections of diverse types of art, highbrow and lowbrow, abstract and representational, old and new. There is something positive in the inclusiveness of omnivorous taste, but there can be a roughing over of the content and spirit of the artwork. At worst, there may be a failure to take the grand narrative of art, reaching across time and cultures, seriously. Art has been with us from the beginning, in the bad times and the good.

TWO X is a modest visual essay intent on encouraging a deeper look at the connectedness of all art by pairing the pieces of artists of different generations. The exhibition avoids the traditional monographic perspective of period, style, or an individual artist’s work – often too easily explained in words. Instead, we challenge the viewer to feel the personal commonality between two artists and, from there, the communal nature of all art experiences.

TWO X includes works by:

BENNY ANDREWS / MELVIN L. NESBITT JR.

LEON BERKOWITZ / WAYSON JONES

FRANCES CRISS / KEVIN MACDONALD

JOSEPH MILLS / SHAUNTE GATES

NORMAN LEWIS / ROBIN ROSE

ALMA THOMAS / JULIE WOLFE

OTHO BRANSON / RURI YI

HEMPHILL opened in September 1993 and has since presented over 300 solo and group exhibitions in gallery spaces throughout Washington, DC and, since 2019, in DC’s Mt Vernon Triangle location. The exhibition schedule features modern and contemporary art in all media by artists ranging from emerging to mid-career to modern masters.