Klagsbrun Studios

Klagsbrun Studios at 1662 33rd Street NW is an artist’s studio and gallery in Georgetown’s residential 33rd Street, in the block between M Street and the residential neighborhood above. The studio-gallery format at this residential address provides the Georgetown art community with access to the work produced in the studio in the intimate setting that the artist’s working space provides, which is a different context from the commercial gallery’s white walls and polished presentation.

The studio-gallery, in which the artist’s working and living space also functions as the presentation space for the work, is among the oldest formats in the artist’s relationship with the public: the Open Studio tradition, in which the artist opens the working space to visitors on specific days or by appointment, allows the collector and the art enthusiast to encounter the work in the environment of its creation rather than in the institutionalized context of the commercial gallery. The Georgetown residential neighborhood’s concentration of professional and culturally engaged residents provides the audience for the studio-gallery format.

The 33rd Street address, which is in the Georgetown residential neighborhood between the M Street commercial district and the Volta Park area, gives Klagsbrun Studios the neighborhood character that the studio-gallery format requires: the collector who makes the appointment to visit the studio on 33rd Street is making a deliberate journey to the artist’s workspace, which creates a different relationship with the work than the gallery visit produces.

The studio-gallery format allows the collector to see the work in the context of other works in progress, the materials of the studio, and the physical environment that the artist inhabits while making the work. This context is information that the commercial gallery cannot provide. Hours run by appointment. The artist who maintains a studio in a Georgetown residential building, which is what the 33rd Street address at 1662 suggests, has made a specific choice about the relationship between the working environment and the community in which the art is produced. The Georgetown residential studio maintains the artist’s connection to the neighborhood’s daily life, to the canal and the park and the restaurants and the social fabric of the neighborhood, which influences the work that the studio produces in ways that the isolated industrial studio does not.

The studio-gallery visit that the Klagsbrun Studios appointment provides offers the Georgetown art buyer the experience of the art in the context of its creation: the other works in progress visible around the room, the materials and tools of the studio, and the conversation with the artist about the work are all part of the visit that the commercial gallery does not include. Hours are by appointment; contact the studio to schedule. The Klagsbrun Studios appointment at 1662 33rd Street NW provides the Georgetown art buyer with the studio visit experience that the commercial gallery cannot offer: the encounter with the work in its creation environment, the conversation with the artist about the current work, and the access to the full body of work in the studio rather than the edited selection that the gallery exhibition presents. Contact the studio directly to arrange a visit.