Childe Bride (Shana Palmer) & C Ryder Cooley at Los Solos Friday, December 4

LOS SOLOS SERIES
A night of sound, multimedia performance, & aerial movement
Friday, 12/4/09 - Doors 8pm, Show 8:30pm sharp, $6

SHANA PALMER / CHILDE BRIDE (Balto) Sound/Performance & C RYDER COOLEY (New York) Baltimore debut of hour long multimedia performance "Animalia: Stories of Collapse, Calamity and Departure," a lyrical fairytale by C. Ryder Cooley, performed with Natalie Agee.

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

SHANA PALMER (CHILDE BRIDE) (BALTIMORE) Shana Palmer arrived in Baltimore, MD last May from Boston, MA where she received her Bachelor's Degree in Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art. She is a multidisciplinary artist and self-taught musician. Her solo music project Childe Bride is going on its third year with releases in the US and UK. Her improvised music is described as mysterious tribal drone and sometimes noise folk. The consistency that exists is that the music is always narrative, taking the audience on a walk often through the world of shadows and forest at twilight. Since moving to Baltimore she has been involved in Baltimore's High Zero Festival doing collaborations with Jenny Graf and film installation work in the 2010 Transmodern Festival. She is currently the other half of the debut band Secret Secrets where she juxtaposes her electronic music with Melissa Moore's (a previous Los Solos performer) drumming styles. Secret Secrets is looking forward to an Ehse Records release in the future. http://www.myspace.com/thechildebride

C. RYDER COOLEY (NY) C. RYDER COOLEY is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together chimeric images with found props and forgotten objects, she creates cinematic performances and installation spaces. Ryder has participated in a wide range of public works, educational projects and international shows. Awarded Best Performance Artist of the NY Capital District in 2006 & 2007, selected works have been performed and installed at locations including: White Box and Exit Art galleries in NYC, Yerba Buena, Intersection for the Arts and Theater Artaud in San Francisco, Proctors Mainstage Theater in Schenectady NY, Pan American Art Projects in Miami FL, Watermill Center in Long Island NY, Gay Pride Festival in Bulgaria and public art projects in Indonesia, El Salvador, France and the Czech Republic. For Los Solos Cooley will be performing, Animalia, Stories of Collapse, Calamity and Departure, a lyrical fairytale by C. Ryder Cooley, performed with Natalie Agee. http://www.carolynrydercooley.com/performance.html

Staan Nader, Staan Terug! David Page opens December 3 at Stevenson University

Staan Nader, Staan Terug! (Come Closer, Get Away)
Some Fairly Large Drawings and Rather Small Sculptures by David Page

November 30, 2009 - January 29, 2010
Reception: December 3, 6 - 8 p.m., Gallery
Art Talk and Closing Party: January 29, 5 p.m.

David Page is an artist well-known for making common objects monumental in both size and meaning. By using steel, aluminum, leather and other materials, and manipulating scale Page skillfully offers the semblance of utility and the viewer's perception of power, strength and meaning is altered. Once again Page skews reality, this time with large dramatic drawings and meticulously elegant sculptures. Staan nader, staan terug! Come Closer, Get Away!

A discussion with the artist and a closing party to be held at 5 p.m. January 29.

Warren Seelig: Textile per se at MICA opens December 4

MICA presents Warren Seelig: Textile per se, a retrospective of work by Rockland, Maine-based fiber artist Warren Seelig. The exhibition will be featured Friday, Dec. 4, 2009-Sunday, March 14, 2010 in the Meyerhoff and Decker galleries of Fox Building, 1303 W. Mount Royal Ave., and Leidy Atrium of Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.

A reception takes place Friday, Dec. 4, 5-7 p.m.

Seelig, who is teaching an interdisciplinary drawing course at the College during the fall semester, has insisted on continuously defining and redefining the qualities that are unique to textile and especially to a kind of abstraction rooted in repetitive processes.

The retrospective features selections from the fiber artist’s three main bodies of work. These include handwoven and manipulated wall mounted works of the 1970s and early ’80s and the skeletal/skin “spoke and wheel” sculptures from the ’80s and ’90s. MICA will also reveal Seelig’s most recent series of works that examine matter and light, Shadowfields.


“The idea of a textile is for me a phenomenon [that] has its source in the magic I experienced when weaving my first length of cloth,” Seelig said. “Through the accumulation of thousands of intersecting threads, I observed the growth of an energy field, which for me was organic and alive, where its true life was not represented on the surface of the cloth, but hidden within. That early experience of constructing a textile has informed my work in many ways, including the more recent Shadowfields.”

In addition to transforming MICA's galleries with Seelig's idiosyncratic hybrid forms, the exhibition includes the artist's preparatory works - models, samples and sketches - to provide a glimpse into his working process. It also features works produced by ceramics, fiber, interdisciplinary sculpture and general fine arts majors in Seelig's class.

"This is the first opportunity to acknowledge and examine Seelig's major contributions in defining the field of fiber in one space," says Susie Brandt, chair of MICA's fiber department and curator of the exhibition. "As well, it is equally satisfying to finally see such a large part of his oeuvre." For more information, call 410-225-2300.

First Fridays in Hamden - MICA Fashion Graphics at Shine Dec. 4

First Friday - December 4 - with MICA.
We're pleased to welcome MICA's freshest crop of Fashion Graphics students and their products to Shine. Join us this Friday with the opening of 1209 MICA at SHINE where 15 designers from MICA will be showcasing their stuff. (Some really great holiday gift ideas!)
Friday, Dec 4, 6-9pm
The MICA installation will be up through December.

Torkwase Dyson & Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum in Here Be Dragons & A Small(ish) Opera Thursday, Dec 3 at 7:30

Performance Thu Dec 3, 7:30pm. $6, $3 mbrs & stus.

Humorous and dreamlike, poignant and political, Dyson & Sunstrum combine live performance, puppetry, video, sound and sculpture. These brief, solo pieces accompany their dizzying exhibition in the Main Gallery. Dragons considers politics, love and spectacle as two women sculpt a Chinese dragon out of elements from urban fashion. Opera charts the hero-quest of Sunstrum’s alter-ego Asme (pronounced “AZ-mee”) who embodies selves that are trans-cultural, trans-historical, and trans-geographical. Discussion with the artists follows.

For more information, www.creativealliance.org.

Untitled ( The Movie )

A fashionable contemporary art gallerist in Chelsea, New York falls for a brooding new music composer in this comic take on the state of contemporary art. Adam Goldberg (Two Days In Paris) plays the composer, whose work calls for paper crumpling, glass breaking and bucket kicking. Marley Shelton (Grindhouse) plays the gorgeous Chelsea gallerist, whose latest show features an artist, played by Vinnie Jones (Snatch), who employs taxidermy and household objects. Further complicating the affair is the composer's brother, played by Eion Bailey ("Band of Brothers"), whose highly commercial art work - the financial backbone of the gallery - is sold to corporate clients discreetly out of the gallery's back room.

Click here for a review by Mick LaSalle, from the San Francisco chronicle.

Miami Art Fairs - Baltimore Galleries and Artists Participating

Lyons Wier Gallery, NY will exhibit Baltimore's James Rieck and other gallery artists.
http://www.lyonswiergallery.com

DC's Connor Contemporary will also exhibit at Pulse and will feature Kenny Hunter, Nathaniel Rogers, Erik Thor Sandberg, Koen Vanmechelen, & Leo Villareal

Erik Sandberg

Danny Baskin, Cause & Effect, 2009 & Portrait of Andy, 2009

Courtesy of the Artist and Conner Contmeporary Art

Featured in PULSE PRESENTS at ACADEMY 2009 / Conner Contemporary Art

Baskin exploits the beauty of common objects through the process of repetition and reproduction. His sculptures examine the multiple and the manmade in an intimate and intricate manner. Baskin is a 2009 MICA BFA Graduate.

Goya Contemporary and C. Grimaldis Gallery - both at Art Miami

Meninas by Timothy App

Goya Contemporary at Art Miami

BOOTH B-4
Fair Information +1.520.529.1108 or info@art-miami.com

Goya Contemporary Gallery is pleased to participate in Art Miami 2009, exhibiting works by: Timothy App , Donald Baechler, Sanford Biggers, Louise Bourgeois, Louisa Chase, Peter Doig, Sally Egbert, Dennis Hollingsworth, Aino Kannisto, Madeleine Keesing, Yayoi Kusama, Christian Marclay, Beatriz Milhazes, Christine Neill , Liliana Porter, Soledad Salame, Joyce J. Scott , Sean Scully, Carrie Seid, David Shapiro, Jo Smail, Mark Strand , Lenore Tawney


Grimaldis Gallery at Art Miami 2009
December 2 - 6, 2009
C. Grimaldis Gallery Booth #A34

Location The Art Miami Pavilion / The Miami Midtown Arts District / Midtown Blvd ( NE 1st Avenue ) between NE 32nd & NE 31st Street / Miami , FL 33137

DC's Hamiltonian Gallery will be at SCOPE Miami. Booth 232. Please contact jackie@hamiltoniangallery.com for additional information or passes to the fair.

Baltimore Artists included: Christian Benefiel, Anne Chan, Katherine Mann, Ian MacLean Davis, Magnolia Laurie, James Rieck, and others.

Lucien Perkins

DC's Civilian Art Projects will be at SCOPE Miami. Booth 439.
Featured artists: Lucian Perkins, Terri Weifenbach, Erick Jackson, Ryan Hill, Cara Ober, Nikki Painter, Trevor Young, Trish Tillman

DC's Project 4 will exhibit works at AQUA Miami by Margaret Boozer, Christine Gray, Laurel Lukaszewski, Ivanny Pagan, and others

Brooklyn's Randall Scott Gallery will exhibit at Aqua Miami - Booth #36
Artists Exhibited: Robert Kingston, Cara Ober, David DiMichele, Chris Anthony, Marco Delogu, Thekla Ehling and Etsuko Ichikawa

The Fraser Gallery will be exhibiting new work by John Aquilino, David FeBland, Mike Fitts, Tim O'Kane and Andrew Wodzianski at "Red Dot Miami," December 2 - December 6. For more information visit here.


And DON'T MISS -- the roving Camper Contemporary Exhibit!
Come join Camper Contemporary in Miami during Art Basel, December 3-6. Check back with this website for location information or look for the Camper Contemporary team in their distinctive blue travel jumpsuits at the various art fairs for information and VIP passes. Camper Contemporary will feature artworks by MICA's Rhinehart School of Sculpture.

Instant Messages Exhibit & Family Day at MAP

Family Day at Maryland Art Place on Saturday, December 1 from 1-4 p.m. Bring your family to make books, magnet art, alphabet blocks, buttons and more!

This special event is part of Instant Messages, an interactive exhibition created by students in the Maryland Institute College of Art's Graphic Design MFA program.


Instant Messages
December 1, 2009 – January 9, 2010
Reception Thursday December 10, 5-8pm

Maryland Art Place presents Instant Messages and Reinvent an exhibition and installation created by students in MICA’s Graphic Design MFA program, directed by Ellen Lupton. These two special projects explore the empire of signs and messages in which we live.

Participating artists: Lauren Adams, Christina Beard, Chris Clark, Elizabeth Herrmann, Ann Liu, Chris McCampbell, Ryan Shelley, Wesley Stuckey, Beth Taylor, Isabel Uria, Supisa Wattanasansanee, Krissi Xenakis

Rush Hour: Art Beats Traffic / Thurs, Dec 10 / 5-8pm
Celebrate the exhibition Instant Messages and the unveiling of MAP’s first public art installation in our entrance hallway. Interact with original works of art and design in the galleries.

You're invited to participate in Lee Mingwei's Pantheon Project at The Contemporary Museum

Lee Mingwei's Pantheon Project is coming to Baltimore in January! Come take part in this community-based work.

Conceptual artist Lee Mingwei's true medium is people, for he creates installations that often depend on shared experiences and collaborations between the artist and the public. The Pantheon Project will offer members of the Contemporary Museum's audience an opportunity to represent themselves to one another through a carefully structured, public ritual exercise orchestrated by Lee.

Inspired by traditional devotional practices, Lee will select twenty participants with whom he will transform generic wooden boxes into secular shrines honoring individuals and institutions. Visitors to the museum will be able to engage the participants in dialogue by leaving their own devotional materials at the site of these displays during the run of the exhibition. Taken together, these shrines are intended to paint an unusual and telling portrait of community values.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
If you are interested in participating in The Pantheon Project by creating a shrine in honor of some person or institution that is deeply important to you, please send a letter by December 4th describing your proposed shrine in detail. Be sure to include all of your contact information including phone and e-mail. This project is open to all ages; no artistic experience required.

By Mail:
Lee Mingwei
c/o Contemporary Museum
100 W Centre Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

By E-Mail: jriverarodriguez@contemporary.org
Subject Line: Pantheon Project

If the artist chooses your proposal, you will be contacted by mid December. Selected participants will be installing their shrines during a group workshop at the Contemporary Museum over the weekend of January 9th and 10th.

Photos from Functionless Form/ Functional Decor at School 33

At School 33, a wallpaper-and-decor-lover's dream! This show was juried by DC's Philippa Hughes and is a terrifically crafted, fun and sassy show. It features the work of Chiara Keeling, Angelo Arnold, Allison Reimus, and Shannon Donovan. This show is definitely worth seeing!

"The works in this exhibit reconsider the questions of art as décor, and décor as art. These four artists consider their creative output and its relevance to space, aesthetic, and taste. They perceive and appreciate the prospective place in which their artwork will reside. Like the pop artists, they remove familiar from its context and isloate the objects to provide contemporary interpretations and definitions of fine art."

Wallpaper and Ceramic Installation by Shannon Donovan

Upholstered scupture by Angelo Arnold

Sewn and applique paintings on wall fabric by Chiara Keeling

Painting by Allison Reimus

Shannon Donovan and School 33 Curator Rene Trevino

Art Bloggers Rule!

Chiara Keeling and Philippa Hughes in front of Keeling's work

Rachel Sitkin Marks and Allison Reimus

Artist Angelo Arnold surrounded by Rose Courville and hubby