WASHINGTON, DC.- For more than 30 years Guillermo Kuitca (Argentinean, b. Buenos Aires, 1961) has forged a distinctive path as an artist, creating visually compelling works that reflect his intense and often ambivalent relationship to his primary medium: painting. “Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980–2008,” on view Oct. 21–Jan. 16, 2011, presents over 45 canvases and 25 works on paper, spanning the artist’s career. The exhibition is the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work in the United States in more than 10 years and is co-organized by the Hirshhorn, Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, N.Y. and Miami Art Museum in Miami, Fla. Douglas Dreishpoon, chief curator at Albright-Knox, is the organizing curator, and the presentation at the Hirshhorn is coordinated by Evelyn Hankins, associate curator. With the opening of this retrospective, the museum is launchi