Through Oct. 1 at the Popcorn and Stone Tower galleries, Glen Echo Park, 7300 MacArthur Blvd., Glen Echo.He’s anything but a narrative painter, yet John Charles Koebert associates some of the pictures in his Foundry Gallery show with stories from his life. His “Selected Works” are hard-edged and usually brightly colored geometric abstractions. Most use shading to simulate depth, so that the flat shapes appear to be either floating or stacked and interlocking, and all but one center on a circle.
Produced mostly by members of cooperatives, the artworks draw heavily on indigenous plant and animal motifs. Although the members of Guatemala’s Multicolores Collective often employ geometric designs, animal forms nestle between the bars, diamonds and zigzags. The Emberá and Wounaan weavers — from Panama and Colombia, respectively — weave jar-shaped baskets as well as ritual bird masks with elaborate plumage and protruding beaks.