Exhibition runs:
Friday, November 13, 2009 - December 19, 2009

Opening reception:
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 7pm to 9pm

Artist, chef, musician, Carole Wagner Greenwood presents her second exhibition of sculptural based work at Civilian Art Projects. Greenwood will also release a debut EP, A Little Give and Take in conjunction with the show on November 13, 2009.

The new sculptural work includes text, plaster, linen and other found objects installed using familiar altar making techniques. Using gold leaf and other adornment, Greenwood pushes her plaster medium into gemlike forms and human like figures.

The record of the same name is recorded by Greenwood’s new band, The Beatings featuring Stewart Lupton, former Jonathan Fire*Eater’s vocalist, & current leader of the Child Ballads. The project was conceived as a compliment to the gallery show, with a limited signed and numbered vinyl pressing fashioned into a unique package of art, photography and a limited edition chapbook of poetry all conceived and executed by Lupton and Greenwood.

The EP is made up of songs inspired by life in the American Wild West with unique acoustic and electric instrumentation. It features narrative poetry with complexly layered beats and sounds and call and answer techniques. Musical collaborators include Jesse Rivkin of The Child Ballads, Paul Thornley of the band US Royalty, photographer Cynthia Connolly, and Asa Canty, eldest child of Fugazi drummer and filmmaker Brendan Canty. The cover photograph on the record was taken by prominent photographer Colby Caldwell.

Greenwood is best known as a chef, living and working in Washington, DC. Having trained in Paris as the first winner of the Anne Crutcher Fellowship from Les Dames d'Escoffier; she continued working in London, Paris, New York, San Francisco, Santa Fe and Key West before returning to her native Washington, DC. She has owned and cooked at her restaurants, Greenwood, Buck's Fishing & Camping, and Comet Ping Pong since 1996 and is well-known as one of the first DC chefs cooking in the currently fashionable style using seasonal and local ingredients. Her recipes and ideas, including coverage of both food and the food sculptures she has created in her restaurants, have been written about in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Gourmet, Food & Wine, as well as many other national & regional publications. During the Bush administration she became infamous for refusing to serve then Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Greenwood was nominated for a James Beard Award in 2008. Greenwood graduated form The University of Richmond and studied at the Corcoran College of Art & Design. She has had solo exhibitions at Civilian Art Projects and Strand on Volta. Her work has been shown at the Corcoran Museum of Art as well as other galleries and venues in and around DC, and is held in many private collections.

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November 13 - December 19, 2009

Opening reception: Friday, November 13, 7-9pm

Artist, chef, musician, Carole Wagner Greenwood presents her second exhibition of sculptural based work at Civilian Art Projects. Greenwood will also release a debut EP, A Little Give and Take in conjunction with the show on November 13, 2009. The new sculptural work includes text, plaster, linen and other found objects installed using familiar altar making techniques. Using gold leaf and other adornment, Greenwood pushes her plaster medium into gemlike forms and human like figures.