Northernmost Southern Exposure opens October 2 at Metro Gallery

Northernmost Southern Exposure: an evening of interesting actions & modern day signs & wonders.
Artists: Spoon Popkin, Kelley Bell, Sarada Conaway, Jackie Milad, Ric Royer

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Friday October 2, 7pm- 1am
The Metro Gallery
1700 N. Charles St
Baltimore, MD

exhibition on view during events until November 1, 2009

LOS SOLOS Friday, October 2 at the LOF/t

Lauren Bender

2nd show of the LOS SOLOS SERIES
A night of live video performance works.

Next Friday, 10/2/09, Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm sharp, $6

LAUREN BENDER (Balto) Video & Performance
TRISHA BAGA (NYC) Video & Performance

LOF/t, 120 W North Ave, Baltimore, MD.
baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos

Lauren Bender lives and works in Baltimore, where she is co-Director for Narrow House, a publisher of experimental and avant-garde writing: http://narrow-house.blogspot.com/. Recent performances include the Stoop Storytelling Series at Center Stage in Baltimore (2009), Big Pink at the Baltimore Museum of Art, as part of the Franz West retrospective To Build a House You Start With the Roof (2009), not BLUNDER but and Will: A Retrospective at Load of Fun in Baltimore (2009), and CorpOreo at the Billy Fischer Memorial Building and the DC Arts Center (2008). Recent publications include I’AM BORED with Kevin Thurston (Produce Press, 2008) and Whale Box (Publishing Genius Press, 2008). Sporadic postings can be found at http://times-infinity.blogspot.com/.

Trisha Baga

Trisha Baga is an amateur scientist based in New York. She is currently investigating the effects of particles of consciousness on particles of matter. Her lectures and demonstrations loosely focus on her research into the changing nature of light over the past 25 years, specifically through Madonna’s (the pop phenomenon) mediated documents on the process of self-illumination.

COMING UP!

11/6 - MERRILL FEITELL / MARIA CHAVEZ
12/4 - CHILD BRIDE / C. RYDER COOLEY
2/5 - AYAKO KATAOKA / ASIMINA CHREMOS
3/5 - JENNY GRAF / SAMITA SINHA

Photos by Jess Kemp of 'House of Prayer' at The Light Gallery

On Friday night, The Light Gallery hosted the opening for House of Prayer, an exhibition of prayer bowls from artist MaryKate Newcomb and quilt squares from members in the community.

This is the artist, MaryKate Newcomb! The show was great & is on view until Novemeber 6.

The Boob Tube, an installation by Rachel Curtis at MICA

The Boob Tube, an installation by Rachel Curtis

September 14 to October 9

Pinkard Gallery, MICA

1401 Mount Royal Avenue. (1st floor of the Bunting Building)

This is one of the best galleries I've seen on campus. Rachel has taken her student exhibition space and transformed it- using the light on the walls to add to the awesome stack of TV's in the center of the room. The images inside the TV's are great, too, printed on some kind of vellum paper that glows with the lights coming from within.

**Posted by Jess Kemp for Bmore Art

Andy Warhol Quote of the Week

"Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

Also, a newly discovered favorite art blog: Leaves of Glass.

Curator's Incubator, 2009, at Maryland Art Place on Thursday, September 24

MAP Seventh Annual Curators' Incubator
September 15 - October 24, 2009

Rachel Sitkin In Our Nature: Artists Reflect on the Manmade Landscape
Art finds beauty in eco-systems.
Artists: Kim Beck, Laura Cooperman, Michelle Hagewood, Alex Lukas, and Igor Pasternak.

Inflatable ball o' trash by Igor Pasternak.

Work by Laura Cooperman and Michelle Hagewood

Paper Cut Outs by Laura Cooperman

Sculpture by Kim Beck

Baby Bowen, Julie Cavnor, and Curator Rachel Sitkin

MAP Director Cathy Byrd welcomes the crowd to the Curator's Incubator and introduces the 3 Curators: Rachel Sitkin, Shelley Blake-Plock, and Margaret Winslow

TJ Klement, Rachel Sitkin, and Kelly Zimmerman

Costas Grimaldis and pretty ladies

Margaret Winslow Soft Space: Architecture in Contemporary Art
Silhouettes and constructions enter domestic space.
Artists: Ronald Longsdorf, Janell Olah, and Stephen Ruszkowski.

Curator Margaret Winslow and artist Janell Olah

Ronald Longsdorf's sculpture, left, and Janelle Olah's sculpture, right
(Industrial Materials and the color Pink unites these two in the front gallery)

Artist Janell Olah with her sculpture.

Painting by Stephen Ruzkowski

Sculpture by Ronald Longsdorf

Shelly Blake-Plock Art of the Set Up: Sound Objects as Artifacts
Assemblages consider the archeology of sound.
Artists: Peter Blasser, Alessandro Bosetti, Andy Hayleck, Bonnie Jones, Melissa Moore, and Mike Muniak.

MICA Faculty Exhibition 2009 - Coverage by Jess Kemp

2009 Maryland Institute College of Art Faculty Exhibition

On view September 24 - October 11

Opening Reception Thursday, October 1, 5-7pm

Decker and Meyerhoff galleries in the Fox Building (1303 W. Mount Royal Ave.)

Pinkard Gallery in the Bunting Center (1401 W. Mount Royal Ave.)

Participating faculty members include: Jane Cottis, Dan Dudrow, Soheila Ghaussy, Nick Karvounis, Nate Larson, Ledelle Moe, Barry Nemett, John Penny, Paula Phillips, Hugh Pocock, Valeska Populoh, and Jason Sloan, to name a few.

MICA gallery hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; and Sunday, noon- 5 p.m.

** Posted by Jess Kemp for BmoreArt

Evidence: Laurel, MD - Photos by Hope Guzzo at the Wilgus Gallery, MICA

Evidence: Laurel, MD Photographs by Hope Guzzo

September 20- October 3

Opening Reception: September 25, 7-9pm

Wilgus Gallery 1300 Mount Royal Ave. (MICA's Main Building)

The artist writes, "What began as a photo documentary became a canvas of suggestion. As Roland Barthes wrote in Camera Lucida, there is a punctum, a part of the image that prick the viewer and makes a lasting impact. While creating this work my punctum was this underlying tension created by color, texture and underlying tension created by the division of space, the repetition of smooth broken by rough, or of wall meeting ground. Nothing is explicit, everything is implied. The time, the place the people. You can feel them hovering."

* Posted by Jess Kemp for Bmore Art

I heart the Baltimore Book Festival - September 25-27

Mark your calendar for the 14th annual Baltimore Book Festival on September 25-27, 2009. This year's authors include Buzz Aldrin, Gwen Ifill, Ralph Nader, Chris Gardner, Amiri Baraka, Ingrid Hoffmann, Farai Chideya, Maureen McCormick, Dale DeGroff, Lourdes Castro, Adam Ried, Mordicai Gerstein and James Warhola. (Please Note: KRS-One has cancelled his appearance at this year’s festival).

Ride your bike and park in our new bike parking zone - 600 block of Charles Street, east side of the street.

NEW FOR 09! If you live or work downtown - the festival is opening at noon on Friday. Spend your lunch hour with us: browsing for books, enjoying author presentations and sampling the menus of our tasty food vendors. JUST ANNOUNCED for lunchtime Friday - GMA's workplace guru Tory Johnson will be sharing invaluable career advice from her new book, Fired to Hired.

Attention Ravens Fans! Catch Sunday's game against the Browns at the Baltimore Book Festival. Viewing area will be at the Moveable Mixtures trailer in the North Park.

And on Saturday night ... don't miss the Baltimore Book Festival's Official After-Party! CLICK HERE for details.