KLAGSBRUN STUDIOS
After being an artistic nomad for thirty-plus years, I finally found a permanent studio home in 2016, in the Book Hill neighborhood of Georgetown.
At 1662 33rd Street NW, our working studios are open by appointment and for neighborhood events, salons and workshops.
Micheline Klagsbrun
Mixed media paintings, works on paper and sculpture evoking flux and transformation, dislocation and memory.
Tuesday Night Group
This is a group of people from all walks of life who gather every week to draw and paint the human figure. The group has met every Tuesday night for 38 years.
We are delighted to announce
UnFoldingS
Enise Carr / Judy Greenberg / Sharapat Kessler / Julie Wolfe
May 3–May 23, 2025
Fridays and Saturdays / 12–6pm, and by appointment
Curated by Vesela Sretenović
Opening reception: May 3, 5–7pm
Artists Talks: May 10, 11 am – 1pm (Sharapat Kessler and Julie Wolfe)
Artists Talks: May 17, 11 am – 1pm (Enise Carr and Judy Greenberg)
Closing Reception: May 23, 6 – 8pm
The exhibition title, UnFoldingS, plays on dual meanings. Un-folding functions as an active verb, pointing to the physical and conceptual acts of bending, twisting, curving, collapsing, disassembling, constructing, and combining—practices that characterizes the creative process behind the works. In contrast, UnfoldingS as a noun refers to the visual presence of the works: richly layered, visually compelling forms that are either two-dimensional and painterly, or three-dimensional and sculptural. Conceptually and metaphorically, "unfoldings" evoke double signification—acts of revelation and concealment, opening and obscuring, disclosure and disguise.
As both verb and noun, the title UnFoldingS suggests a playful ambiguity at the heart of the exhibition. Whether through pulling loose pages from books (Julie Wolf), cutting, pasting, and layering (Sharapat Sarsenova Kessler); superimposing bits and pieces (Enise Caar); or collapsing and mixing found boxes (Judy A. Greenberg), each artist engages in a collage-based technique. They blend a wide range of materials—often disparate and unexpected—to create compositions that embrace intuition and unpredictability while blending poignancy with poetry.
Sharapat Sarsenova Kessler, Untitled (2025), Mix-media wall installation, dimension variable
For Kessler, collage—cutting and pasting disparate materials—offers a direct pathway to self-reflection and a means of reconnecting with her heritage, especially the quilt-making traditions of her childhood. Her work blurs the lines between the real and the surreal, the dreamy and the mundane, the conscious and the subconscious. Though deeply rooted in personal narrative, Kessler’s practice radiates a poetic, playful, and lighthearted sensibility that transcends autobiography. Her compositions draw from the realms of imagination, literature, history, and the rhythmic pulse of folklore—creating visual stories that feel both intimate and expansive.
Kessler is a multimedia artist who was born in Kazakhstan and grew up in its Central Asian nomadic culture. She currently resides and works in Washington, DC. Her work has been featured at Brookside Gardens, the Carl M. Freeman Foundation, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The DC Arts Center, The Women's Club of Chevy Chase, Washington Studio School, and Yellow Barn Studio and Gallery. Kessler work is in numerous private collections across the U.S., Europe, and Kazakhstan.
www.sharapatkessler.com @sharapat_sk
Judy Greenberg, Untitled Boxes and Collages (2024-25), Canson Art Board, dimensions variable
Greenberg works from intuition. She approaches her collages and box-constructions with no preconceptions. By cutting and pasting images and texts from newspapers and magazines mostly Art in America—she creates layered, whimsical compositions and sculptural constructions that recall early 20th-century Constructivism. Her early paintings, made in the late 1960 and 1970s, were grounded in the exploration of color and abstraction, influenced by both the Washington Color School and Philip Guston. After retiring in 2018, Greenberg returned to artmaking full-time, focusing entirely on collage, which offered her space to play with form and free association. Tearing pages apart only to reassemble them into new visual configurations—and letting the material guide her—proved liberating, both aesthetically and conceptually. Some of her collages incorporate elements of surrealism and cubism; others depict abstracted cityscapes or landscapes. Several carry a tone of political revolt in response to recent events, while others reflect themes of solitude and confusion. Her box-constructions—assemblages made from various cardboard boxes she’s collected—are similarly intuitive. By collapsing, folding, and unfolding them, she reimagines their forms as obscure, tower-like structures in a range of sizes.
A native New Yorker, Greenberg studied Studio Art and Education at New York University. She moved to Washington, DC in 1975 and went on to become the Founding Director of The Kreeger Museum. From 1994 to 2017, she broadened the public’s understanding and appreciation of the arts, drawing directly on her background as a studio artist and educator. Her leadership shaped the museum’s exhibitions and programming, including the creation of The Kreeger Museum Sculpture Garden. Prior to her time at Kreeger, Greenberg was also the Founder and President of the Board of Directors of Rockville Arts Place (now VisArts). Throughout these years, she continued to make art—quietly. This exhibition marks the first public presentation of her work in Washington, DC.
Enise Carr, Tarp, detail (2023), Acrylic, felt, colored tape, tarp, 86.5 x 68”
Enise Carr’s Tarp is a large-scale painting, mixing acrylic, colored tape, felt, tarp. Here, through an elaborate gestural and abstract mark-making, the artist delves into his personal, political and spiritual values and beliefs. In his words, “Tarp is about revelation and how an artist acknowledges and follows the patterns in nature and life in practice. The result is a projection of the artist's higher self that imparts possibilities to the spectator.” Indeed, by fragmenting personal memory into a bold and expressive composition, Carr managed to create a multi-layered, collaged narrative that surpasses an individual history to create a universal connection through the language of abstraction.
Carr is best known for his abstract paintings that fully embrace the investigation of from and materiality. He has exhibited and lectured throughout the United States, and most recently had a solo exhibition at the University of the District of Columbia.
Carr earned his BFA in painting from the University of Oklahoma, and his MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art, the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). He has residencies at Brandywine Workshop and Archives and at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture. This summer, he will attend the Ballinglen Arts Foundation Visiting Artist Residency in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland. Carr lives and works in Washington, DC, where he moved in 2022 from Oklahoma to work with his former professor and mentor Sam Gilliam.
Julie Wolfe: The Beholder, 2024
Apophenia Press, PAN & The Dream
Wolfe’s Beholder is both an artist book and an installation. The work features loose pages taken from the book, installed in a seemingly random arrangement across a single wall, blurring the line between printed matter and spatial experience. In Beholder, Wolfe and PAN collaborated with a group of visual artists and writers to reimagine the Rococo era through a contemporary lens—exploring themes of excess, carelessness, political unrest, and growing economic inequality. The book’s contributors inhabit a choreographed interplay of voices—fictional, reflective, and surreal. These are figures who live and move within a constructed world, expressing the strange passion for self-escape that lies at the heart of the Rococo sensibility.
Wolfe is a DC-based, multimedia artist who moves freely across a wide arrange of materials and techniques. She is best known for her large abstract paintings, drawings on book pages and conceptual installations that uses color and light, exploring the external world around us and our interior lives. Her work is exhibited and collected internationally, including The American University Museum, The Allen Memorial Museum, The American University Museum and the libraries of The National Gallery of Art, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and The Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art as well as the collections of Microsoft, Meta / Facebook and Capitol One.
www.juliewolfe.net @juliewolfeartist
GEORGETOWN SPRING ART WALK 2025
Saturday March 22nd, 12-5pm
Georgetown Main Street’s annual Spring Art Walk includes Book Hill galleries and a dozen participating shops, live music and special events.
At Klagsbrun Studios all three floors will be open, with wine and refreshments served in our back patio sculpture garden. Visit studios, meet the artists, discover and purchase.
Robin Bell: Embracing Imperfection
Robin Bell continues the creation of an immersive room at Klagsbrun Studios by expanding his series of 3D projected structures. The artwork challenges perfection by emphasizing imperfections in the printing process and magnifying nuances. Mistakes are transformed into essential elements that blend together to form a cohesive whole that represents the complexity of our shared lives.
Micheline Klagsbrun: Aspects of Memory
New mixed media work, sculpture, works on paper. Klagsbrun’s studio will also be open.
The Tuesday Night Group
TNG is a fluctuating group of 10-20 members who have met every Tuesday Night for 40 years to draw and paint from life. We represent a diverse range of styles and media.
And Save the Date for our upcoming new group show
Turn the Page
opening May 3rd 2025
Stay tuned on Instagram @mklagsbrun and @klagsbrunstudios for news.
DO THE LOOP 2024!
Please join us on Saturday April 27th, 11:00 – 4:00 pm
Klagsbrun Studios is one of the stops on DO THE LOOP, a free afternoon of art
including the Kreeger Museum, Dumbarton Oaks, the Jackson Art Center,
Addison/Ripley Fine Arts and the A.U. Museum at the Katzen Art Center.
All admission fees are suspended and no tickets required.
For map and details: dotheloopdc.org
We are thrilled to feature
ROBIN BELL : Embrace Imperfection
Robin Bell is creating an immersive room at Klagsbrun Studios by expanding his series of 3D projected structures. The artwork challenges perfection by emphasizing imperfections in the printing process and magnifying nuances. Mistakes are transformed into essential elements that blend together to form a cohesive whole that represents the complexity of our shared lives.
Micheline Klagsbrun: Aspects of Memory. Mixed media work, sculpture, works on paper.
Klagsbrun’s studio will also be open.
In addition, the Tuesday Night Group will be welcoming visitors with an exhibition of recent drawings and paintings and two authors will be on hand to discuss and sign their new books.

Jaya Viswanathan: Baby Senses
Dr. Jaya Viswanathan, neuroscientist, engineer and artist, will be signing copies of her book "Baby Senses", a unique window into the marvels of sensory perception that appeals to children and curious adults alike, beautifully illustrated with her paintings.
Ken Grossinger: Art Works, How Organizers and Artists are Creating a Better World Together
With "Art Works", Ken Grossinger provides an inside look at the organizers and artists on the front lines of political mobilization and social change. The book will be available and Ken will be on hand to discuss and sign.
We are thrilled to celebrate February 2024 by hosting a new exhibition
HOMAGE TO GUILLEN and HUGHES
February 17th – March 3rd, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 17th , 2024 from 1 – 4 PM.
This juried student photography exhibition is a visual exploration inspired by the work of poets Langston Hughes and Nicolas Guillen. Both authors were born in 1902 and their writings express the racial, class, and social injustice of the 1930s and 40s in the US and Cuba.
The haunting, mysterious, stark, yet melodious photographs resonate with the juxtaposition of the Blues and Son Cubano rhythm. All images in this exhibition were produced by the intermediate & advanced photography students from the University of the District of Columbia and the American University studying under Prof. Iwan Bagus.
Special thanks to David Ramirez Alvarez, Director of cultural Affairs to the Embassy of Cuba.
Photo: Tracy Connor: Sweat and Lash, black and white photograph
2023
We are excited to be participating in
ART ALL NIGHT
Friday September 29th, 6-10pm
featuring
Micheline Klagsbrun: Recent work including Anchors of The Heart
Small mixed media works on paper and sculpture, evoking the memories and belongings we hold on to in times of transition.
https://www.studiogallerydc.com/browse-exhibitions/#/anchors-of-the-heart-catalogue
The Tuesday Night Group: Recent work
TNG is a fluctuating group of 10-20 members who meet every Tuesday Night to draw and paint from life. We represent a diverse range of styles and media. Selected work is always on view.
Jaya Viswanathan: Baby Senses
The book ‘Baby Senses: A Sensory Neuroscience Primer for All Ages’, will be on display and available for purchase, alongside the author’s original artwork. This art book for children introduces them and their adults to the wonder and beauty of sensory systems through illustration of baby animals’ “superpowers”. An original holiday gift!
https://babysensesbook.com/
Georgetown’s free annual arts festival brings together local artists and businesses as part of a city-wide Art All Night event. Make your way up Wisconsin Avenue, from N St to R St, for live music, art demonstrations, pop-up galleries, comedic film screenings, karaoke, family friendly activities, DIY crafts, and more.
A second special pop-up show organized and curated by Vesela Sretenovic‘, senior curator and Director of Contemporary Art Initiatives at the Phillips Collection.
CAST IN SHADOW
APRIL 22 - MAY 15
With Beverly Ress + Andy Yoder + Micheline Klagsbrun
Opening Reception: April 22, 5-8pm
Opening Hours: Friday-Sunday, 11-4pm and by appointment ([email protected])


We are also excited to be participants in
DO THE LOOP
Saturday, April 22nd, 2023, 11:00am-4:00pm
American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, The Kreeger Museum, Dumbarton Oaks, Jackson Art Center, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, and Klagsbrun Studios collaborate for Do The Loop, a free day of indoor and outdoor art programming complete with shuttle service provided between locations.
Stay up to date on the day’s events by visiting dotheloopdc.org and following @dotheloopdc.
