ART and CINEMA
The Washington Film Institute,
Studio Russo Gallery, and Artvocate
cordially invite you to
ART and CINEMA
Thursday June 11, 2026
5:30 PM
Social at Studio Russo Gallery
6:00PM head for Drinks or Dinner at Busboys
7:00 PM screening
Busboys and Poets
450 K St NW
Washington, DC 20001
Afterwards
Post-screening after hours gathering at
Studio Russo Gallery
THE GREAT BEAUTY
Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | 2013
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and elite social circles. But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the lavish nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome itself, in all its monumental glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. Featuring sensuous cinematography, a lush score, and an award-winning central performance by the great Toni Servillo, this transporting experience by the brilliant Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is a breathtaking Felliniesque tale of decadence and lost love.
THE EXHIBITION
Studio Russo Gallery, in collaboration with Artvocate, is proud to present Disintegration Regeneration, a solo exhibition by Anastasia Travieso-Diaz.
This compelling body of work explores the tension between rupture and renewal where fragmentation is not an end, but a necessary passage toward transformation. Through layered compositions, material experimentation, and an intuitive visual language, Anastasia invites viewers into a space where breakdown gives way to reassembly, and where identity, memory, and form are continuously reshaped.
Rooted in a personal narrative, Disintegration Regeneration reflects on cycles of loss, resilience, and becoming. Each piece carries traces of what once was, while gesturing toward what is still possible, holding contradiction, vulnerability, and strength in dynamic balance.
This exhibition emphasizes the power of artistic practice as a site of inquiry and healing. It offers a moment to pause, reflect, and reconnect with ourselves, with each other, and with the processes that shape us.
THE ARTIST AND CURATORS
Anastasia Travieso-Diaz
ArtistAnastasia Travieso-Diaz
Anastasia Travieso-Diaz is a self-taught painter, she discovered the palette knife as a painting tool and loved it instantly. Painting by means of a palette knife changed everything, opening a world of unlimited, unexpected, and unpredictable results—a creative freedom she had never experienced. She is drawn to the excitement of not knowing what will happen as she uses it, and to the surprise of what emerges on the canvas. The thrill of the unknown, and the spontaneity and beauty that emerge from her creative process, keep her returning to the canvas again and again, always finding new images to express.
Syahidah Osman
ArtvocateSyahidah Osman
In 2022, Syahidah founded Artvocate, an NGO that amplifies artists and their stories through advocacy-based exhibitions and storytelling. She has led cross-sector collaborations, curated exhibitions, and managed programs from ideation through execution—always centering community and impact. She is a program manager and event producer with over a decade of experience leading mission-driven initiatives across the nonprofit, arts, and social impact sectors. Her specialty is in producing purpose-led events, building strategic partnerships, and designing inclusive programs that engage diverse communities.
Jon-Joseph Russo
Studio Russo, LLCJon-Joseph Russo
Studio Russo, LLC was formed 1996, by Jon-Joseph Russo, artist, combining his education, Bachelor Fine Arts, Sculpture, 1983, Alfred U., Master Landscape Architecture, 1991, Cornell U., (Rome Architecture Program, 1990). His studies are encapsulated in his thesis topic “Italian Garden, Synthesis of Architecture and Art” and reinforced by numerous trips to study gardens and art in Italy and throughout the world. His art has been in numerous exhibitions, and his work privately collected, commissioned from New York to Washington, DC and Mexico. His art embodies Classical as well as Contemporary themes, from Realism to Expressionistic styles, using clay, plaster, bonded bronze resin, wood, and stone media.
The Washington Film Institute,
Studio Russo Gallery, and Artvocate
cordially invite you to
ART and CINEMA
THU JUNE 11, 2026
Busboys and Poets
450 K St NW
Washington, DC 20001
5:30 PM
Social at Studio Russo Gallery
6:00 PM
Head to Busboys for Drinks or Dinner
7:00 PM SCREENING
Busboys and Poets K Street
AFTERWARDS
Post-screening after hours gathering at
Studio Russo Gallery
THE GREAT BEAUTY
Paolo Sorrentino | Italy | 2013
For decades, journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the glittering nightlife of Rome. Since the legendary success of his only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city’s literary and elite social circles.
But on his sixty-fifth birthday, Jep unexpectedly finds himself taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the lavish nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome itself, in all its monumental glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Featuring sensuous cinematography, a lush score, and an award-winning central performance by the great Toni Servillo, this transporting experience by the brilliant Italian director Paolo Sorrentino is a breathtaking Felliniesque tale of decadence and lost love.
THE EXHIBITION
Studio Russo Gallery, in collaboration with Artvocate, is proud to present Disintegration Regeneration, a solo exhibition by Anastasia Travieso-Diaz.
This compelling body of work explores the tension between rupture and renewal where fragmentation is not an end, but a necessary passage toward transformation. Through layered compositions, material experimentation, and an intuitive visual language, Anastasia invites viewers into a space where breakdown gives way to reassembly, and where identity, memory, and form are continuously reshaped.
Rooted in a personal narrative, Disintegration Regeneration reflects on cycles of loss, resilience, and becoming. Each piece carries traces of what once was, while gesturing toward what is still possible, holding contradiction, vulnerability, and strength in dynamic balance.
This exhibition emphasizes the power of artistic practice as a site of inquiry and healing. It offers a moment to pause, reflect, and reconnect with ourselves, with each other, and with the processes that shape us.
THE ARTIST AND CURATORS
