Tonight's Top Stop: Local Artists React to 9/11

ROCKVILLE NATIVE DEBORAH ADDISON COBURN's collection, "The Bluest Day: Visual Mediations on 9/11," is on display at the Foundry Gallery. Coburn, who got her bachelor's degree in painting from Cornell University, spent the succeeding 27 years of her life engaged in other creative pursuits, working as an advertising art director and raising a family. After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, however, Coburn picked up a brush again and worked through her emotions and the images that have haunted her since that day, using bold colors and abstract forms. In the resulting exhibition, Coburn's pieces are constructed using acrylic paint and collage and bear powerful titles such as "Fallen," and "Jacob's Ladder." Although the collection will be on display through Oct. 1, in honor of the five-year anniversary of the attacks, the gallery will hold a special viewing today from noon to 3 p.m., with Coburn on hand to talk about her work.

» Foundry Gallery, 1314 18th St. NW; noon-3 p.m., free; 202-463-0203. (Dupont Circle)

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This post was written by Express contributor Karmah Elmusa.