August 29 - September 26, 2020

Three of the areas most exciting artists hold a joint show. Absurdly Well, Erik White and Divorce Culture represent a new face of art in the District. Absurdly Well has been featured on CNN, NBC and in the Washington Post. White owns a thriving atelier in Ocean City, Maryland. Divorce Culture has been creating iconic, politically charged artwork on the streets and in galleries in Washington DC since 2008.

Watergate equals politics equals art --

‘Reclamation’ features street and primitive styles

Washington, D.C.—Reparations, resistance, reprisal — these are the nouns of upheaval. Do you not feel the change afoot? A new generation of activists and artists march in droves, with phalanxes not seen since the civil rights movement, deposing false idols; myriad of declarative expressions exhort an awakening, both socially and politically. Much like the fate of their fore-fathers and fore-mothers, time will bare their commitment to radical progress.

Reclamation, Watergate Gallery's upcoming group exhibition opening on August 29th, posits three District artists at the present civil discourse. Absurdly Well and Divorce Culture are tenured street artists, celebrating print, graffiti, and wheatpaste styles with a regiment of public works -- messages from the misrepresented margins of our nation's capital --encroaching the superstructure of Congress. Erik White, the cool itinerant of the trio, assembles primitive paintings, like X-rays, offering insight into the debasement of the black body, requiems for the legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat. 

Space is a hot commodity in DC. Barricaded streets, and wooden sheaths placed on shuttered storefronts create more canvas for guerrilla artists but cause other works to be lost in translation. "I'm stoked to be able to show art in a space during a time when there's so much going on," said White. This triad of creators does not take the gallery setting for granted.