Joseph Hu: Wonder and the Everyday
March 14 - April 10, 2011
Artist Talk & Reception: Thursday, March 24, 5-7 pm
Julio Fine Arts Gallery
Monday, February 28, 2011
CARTOONIST JAMES STURM TO SPEAK AT JOHNS HOPKINS MARCH 7
Cartoonist and graphic novelist James Sturm will present a slide talk on his work on Monday, March 7, at The Johns Hopkins University. “Cartooning, Internet Addiction, Religion, and Starting a College” will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the F. Ross Jones Building, Mattin Center, on the Homewood campus at 3400 N. Charles St. in Baltimore. A book-signing will follow.
In addition to his ground-breaking books Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow, James Sturm’s America: God, Gold, and Golems, Market Day, and the Eisner Award-winning The Fantastic Four: Unstable Molecules, Sturm’s comics, writing, and illustrations have appeared in scores of national and regional publications including The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Onion, The New York Times, and on the cover of The New Yorker.
As the director and co-founder of The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS), a two-year MFA program in cartooning in White River Junction, Vermont, Sturm is also a noted educator. CCS brings together top-tier faculty and the country’s most talented cartoonists to work with the field’s up-and-coming artists and is the only higher educational institution of its kind in North America.
To download images of Sturm’s work, go to:
To learn more about the Center for Cartoon Studies, go to:
Sunday, February 27, 2011
phainomena: James DuSel at Minas Gallery on March 12
phainomena: James DuSel
photographs
March 12 – May 29, 2011
Reception: Saturday, March 12, 6 – 9 pm
Gallery hours 11 – 6. Closed Tuesdays
Art does not reproduce the visible, it makes it visible. - Paul Klee
For most of us, nothing is so easy as seeing, and yet we do it so infrequently. We tend to go about our daily business blindered like draft horses by our thoughts, concerns, hopes and fears, rarely seeing the world around us. Photography can remove those blinders, helping us to see with fresh eyes, like children seeing the world for the first time.
In today’s digital world, George Eastman’s slogan, “You push the button, we do the rest”, is more true than ever. The very ease of it all lulls us into a complacency that hinders true seeing. That high-technology engendered complacency imposes yet another set of blinders.
I find that making photography more difficult makes seeing easier. Using a Leica, Rolleiflex, and a Linhof from the early 1930s, along with darkroom procedures of the same vintage, makes me more alive to hidden geometries, the curve of a shadow, the intensity of light. Even my BEWI exposure meter, manufactured in 1931, demands that I fully engage myself in the process; it uses my eye to measure the light, not a photocell. Thus I become part of my equipment, and my equipment becomes part of me.
As the film maker Dziga Vertov said, “I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it”.
I become perhaps more part of my pictures than I would wish to be. My successes are more mine, but my failures are more mine, also.
About the Gallery: Minás Gallery opened in 1992. It is one of just a few Baltimore galleries specializing in solo exhibitions. In addition to fine art, the gallery also presents readings and performances. It hosts the longest ongoing series of poetry readings in Baltimore. The New York Times called the gallery & boutique the go-to place for “vintage wear, poetry readings and Baltimore based artists.”
MINÁS GALLERY & BOUTIQUE
815 W. 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
410-732-4258
www.minasgalleryandboutique.com
TRANSCENDING INTEGRATION at Baltimore Clayworks March 5
MARCH 5-APRIL 16, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 6-8PM
Baltimore Clayworks 30th Anniversary's culminating event!
Free and open to the public.
Clayworks presents Transcending Integration - an exhibition curated by Lydia Thompson, sculptor and head of visual art at Mississippi State University. She has included the work of 11 African American sculptors, challenging them to create work based on her curatorial premise: For many years racial integration was a highly sought commodity; more than acceptance or inclusion, integration implied recognition. Interpreting the idea of what it means to have one's sense of self be "integrated" is the internal basis of the theme of the work in the exhibition.
This is a major exhibition with three public components:
March 6, 2PM - Transcending Integration and Social Equity: a panel discussion with the curator. Location: Central Enoch Pratt Library.
March 12, 2-5PM - Blue Collar , a workshop and slide talk with AFL-CIO trade unionists featuring Ohio artists Kyle and Kelly Phelps. Location: The Steelworkers Hall.
April 8, 6:30PM - Slide talk with sculptor Keith Wallace Smith. Location: Baltimore Clayworks.
Please visit the Clayworks' web site for a full description of the exhibition and the related programs.
ALSO IN THE GALLERY... EAST MEETS WEST MEETS EAST
MARCH 5-APRIL 16, 2011
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 6-8PM
Solo Gallery: Yoshi Fujii & Chiao Feng Shen
East Meets West Meets East showcasing the work made by the artists during their residency exchange between Baltimore Clayworks and Tainan National University of the Arts in Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Friday, February 25, 2011
SEMIFINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR JANET & WALTER SONDHEIM ARTSCAPE PRIZE
The Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts announce the semifinalists for the 2011 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize. The sixth annual competition awards a $25,000 fellowship to a visual artist or visual artist collaborators living and working in the Greater Baltimore region. The Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize is held in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried exhibition and is produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts. The finalists and semifinalists exhibitions are presented in partnership with The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) and Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). The award announcement and reception takes place Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 7pm at the BMA, located at 10 Art Museum Drive. Artscape, America’s largest, free arts festival, celebrates its 30th anniversary on July 15, 16 and 17, 2011 on Mount Royal Avenue and North Charles Street.
Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize Semifinalists:
Ken Ashton, Washington, DC
Michael Benevento + Andrew Liang, Baltimore, MD
Baltimore Annex Theater, Baltimore, MD
Brian Patrick Miller, Baltimore, MD
Stephanie Barber, Baltimore, MD
A. Moon, Baltimore, MD
Kathryn Bell, Baltimore, MD
Louie Palu, Washington, DC
Milana Braslavsky, Reisterstown, MD
Mark Parascandola, Washington, DC
Abby Donovan, Newark, DE
Christian Parks, Cockeysville, MD
Eric Dyer, Baltimore, MD
Matthew Porterfield, Baltimore, MD
David East, Baltimore, MD
Robby Rackleff, Baltimore, MD
Linda Hesh, Alexandria, VA
Rachel Rotenberg, Baltimore, MD
Mindy Hirt, Westminster, MD
Adam T. Rush, Baltimore, MD
Brian Kain, Emmitsburg, MD
Jo Smail, Baltimore, MD
JK Keller, Baltimore, MD
Dan Steinhilber, Washington, DC
Dean Kessmann, Washington, DC
Diane Szczepaniak, Potomac, MD
J.T. Kirkland, Sterling, VA
Alessandro Valente, Lutherville, MD
Andrew Laumann, Baltimore, MD
Elena Volkova, Baltimore, MD
Magnolia Laurie, Baltimore, MD
Richard Vosseller, Vienna, VA
Christopher LaVoie, Baltimore, MD
Melissa Webb, Baltimore, MD
Joseph Letourneau, Baltimore, MD
Adam Weir, Baltimore, MD
Michael Mansfield, Washington, DC
Marty Weishaar, Baltimore, MD
Ben Marcin, Baltimore, MD
Wendy Wu, Baltimore, MD
Sebastian Martorana, Baltimore, MD
Jenny Yang, Washington, DC
Allyn Massey, Parkton, MD
Approximately six finalists are selected for the final review for the prize. Their work is exhibited in the Alvin and Fanny Blaustein Thalheimer Galleries of the BMA from Saturday, June 25 through Sunday, August 7. The fellowship winner is selected from the BMA exhibition after review of the installed art and an interview with each finalist by the jurors. The remaining finalists not selected for the fellowship will each receive a $1,000 honorarium. Artist collaborators, if chosen as the winner, receive a single $25,000 prize or $1,000 honorarium that will be equally divided among the members of the group.
Additionally, an exhibition of the semifinalists’ work will be shown in the Decker and Meyerhoff galleries of the MICA, located at 1303 West Mount Royal Avenue, during the Artscape weekend on July 15-17, 2011.
JANET & WALTER SONDHEIM ARTSCAPE PRIZE TIMELINE
Announcement of finalists Tuesday, April 19, 2011
BMA exhibition installation Monday, June 13 – Wednesday, June 22, 2011
BMA exhibition Press Preview Friday, June 24, 2011
BMA exhibition duration Saturday, June 25 – Sunday, August 7, 2011
Finalist interviews Saturday, July 9, 2011
Award announcement Saturday, July 9, 2011 at 7pm
MICA exhibition duration Friday, July 15 – Sunday, July 31, 2011
Artscape July 15-17, 2011
Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize
The Artscape prize is named in honor of Janet and Walter Sondheim who have been instrumental in creating the Baltimore City that exists today. Walter Sondheim, Jr. had been one of Baltimore’s most important civic leaders for over 50 years. His accomplishments included oversight of the desegregation of the Baltimore City Public Schools in 1954 when he was president of the Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City. Later, he was deeply involved in the development of Charles Center and the Inner Harbor. He continued to be active in civic and educational activities in the city and state and served as the senior advisor to the Greater Baltimore Committee until his death in February 2007.
Janet Sondheim danced with the pioneering Denishawn Dancers, a legendary dance troupe founded by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Later, she turned to teaching where she spent 15 years at the Children’s Guild working with severely emotionally disturbed children. After retirement, she was a volunteer tutor at Highlandtown Elementary School. She married Walter in 1934, and they were together until her death in 1992.
The 2011 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize is supported by The Abell Foundation, Alex. Brown Charitable Foundation, The Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Foundation, Charlesmead Foundation, Ellen Dankert, France-Merrick Foundation, Willard Hackerman, Legg Mason and anonymous.
For more information on the 2011 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize, visit www.artscape.org or call 410-752-8632.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
She'll Hurt You if You're Lucky
The show features twelve large drawings in red pencil on white paper, portraits of women—friends, acquaintances, strangers—displaying emotions that are not considered stereotypically feminine: anger, disgust, snobbery.
“Women in our culture are socialized and socialize themselves to hide ‘ugly’ or ‘uncomfortable’ emotions. We all want to be pleasant people, of course. But it means that what we consider attractive is only one side of ourselves,” Morreale says. “In our current culture, and even more so in our past, we have taken pains to hide more powerful emotions. In my explorations about what I think is attractive in women, I realized that unique, strong women are infinitely more interesting to me, and they are the ones I want to draw.
“I want to tap in to what it is that is so exciting and so scary at the same time about these women,” Morreale continues, “and maybe touch on how fear and joy can be inter-related.”
The show opens February 25, 6 p.m.—9 p.m. and can be viewed afterward by appointment only. To schedule a visit, contact Lucinda at luci@ladderbackdesign.com or 410-258-6201.
www.lucindamorreale.com
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
COLLECTIVE ARCHIVE EXHIBIT OPENS AT SCHOOL 33 FRIDAY, MARCH 4
COLLECTIVE ARCHIVE EXHIBIT OPENS AT SCHOOL 33 ART CENTER
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2011, 6-9PM
School 33 Art Center hosts Collective Archive on Friday, March 4 through Saturday, April 30, 2011. The exhibition of five artists juried into and curated by Jayme McLellan of Civilian Art Projects in Washington, D.C., considers artwork that shares a deliberate and carefully articulated personal vocabulary. Creating a collective archive of meaning from the five artists’ work, the show considers the role of the individual and that of the group. An opening reception takes place Friday, March 4 from 6-9pm. School 33 Art Center, a facility of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, is located at 1427 Light Street. The gallery is open Wednesdays through Saturdays from 12-6pm.
Collective Archive features artists Anthony Cervino, Amy Chan, Adam Griffiths, Ajay Leister and Chloe Watson. Artists were selected based on their ability to imagine their objects within the spaces they seek for them to inhabit. Placement, tension, color, height, depth and space are critical elements integral to an experiment in placing artists together that do not know each other, in a room they have not yet worked in, by a curator that they have not worked with before. The artists are united and juxtaposed by strong visual relationships that create a dynamic tension in the shared space. Whether it is painting, animation, sculpture or site-specific object based work, the five artists consider form, organic and rigid shapes, shadow, hue, gesticulation, memory and meaning. The exhibition itself is both a nest of shapes, images and objects, unique to one voice as well as an interdependent environment gaining strength from relationship.
School 33 Art Center is dedicated to providing opportunities for artists through exhibitions, art classes, workshops, a Studio Artist Program, and special events. School 33 Art Center is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Inc., and is supported in part by grants from the Mayor and the City Council of Baltimore, M&T Bank, Corrigan Sports / The Under Armour Baltimore Marathon, the Maryland State Arts Council, and through private contributions to School 33 Art Center.
For more information on Collective Archive, visit www.school33.org or call 443-263-4350.
MICA MFA Thesis 1 opens Friday, March 25
A public reception with the artists takes place Friday, March 25, 5-7 p.m.
Gallery Talks: Tuesday, March 29, 3-5 p.m. and Wednesday, March 30, 1-3 p.m.
Fox Building: Decker, Meyerhoff, and Fox 3 galleries (1303 W. Mount Royal Ave.)
Featuring: Lauren Adams (Graphic Design), Evan Boggess (Hoffberger School of Painting), Christopher Clark (Graphic Design), Seok Han (Photographic & Electronic Media), Wilson Hill (Photographic & Electronic Media), Hector Leiva (Photographic & Electronic Media), Ann Liu (Graphic Design), John McNeil (Photographic & Electronic Media), Sarah McNeil (Mount Royal School of Art), Wendy Tai (Rinehart School of Sculpture), Eli Walker (Hoffberger), Supisa Wattanasansanee (Graphic Design) and Erin Zerbe (Photographic & Electronic Media)
For an online slide show of artwork in this exhibition, click here.
Bound #14 by Erin Zerbe (M.F.A. in Photographic & Electronic Media)
Creative Alliance Residents Open House w/ Future Islands FREE SHOW! on Sat Feb 26
Residents Open House w/ Future Islands FREE SHOW!
Sat Feb 26, 7-9pm open studios and receptions, 9pm show. FREE. Chili dinner sold sep.
In one of our favorite nights of the year, we celebrate the incredible, hand-picked artists who live and work at The Patterson with a building-wide FREE house party! The studios are open upstairs, plus a group exhibit by Residents and friends, and Marty Weishaar’s amazing installation with Serena Perrone comes to a close downstairs.
Wrapping it up, local electro-pop stars Future
Islands (signed to Chicago’s Thrill Jockey Records; cohorts of the Wham City scene) play a rare free show! First set is acoustic in the gallery; second set is electric in the theater.
“CONSTRUCTS” at SUBBASEMENT ARTIST STUDIOS opens March 5
Jarrett Min Davis
Katherine Mann
Opening reception date: Saturday March 5th, 5-7pm,
Exhibition closing date: April 2nd, 2011.
Gallery visiting hours: M-F by appointment, 11am-5pm Saturdays. For more information contact Jeffrey Kent at 410-659-6950 or jeffrey@sbastudios.com, or contact Tim Horjus at horjus@gmail.com. Learn more about Subbasement Artist Studios at http://www.subbasementartiststudios.com
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Women of the Book opens at Park School Thursday, Feb 24
Women of the Book Jewish Artists Jewish Themes
47 Artists Books from national and international artists
Opening Reception Thursday February 24th 5.30 - 7.00
Artists around the world began making books as an art form in the second half of the 20th century, experimenting with innovative combinations of images, text, and format, sometimes creating single works and at other times publishing multiple copies. The aim of artists' books is not to merely see words on the page, but to think about how the words, pictures, and physical form of the object all contribute to the meaning. Artists' books assume many forms and have made use of every artistic medium and method of bookmaking. A wide variety of structures and formats are employed, such as traditional codex, unfolding accordion books, pop-ups, fans, and scrolls. The materials used in these works range from handmade and commercially produced papers to nontraditional materials such as found objects, fabric, ceramic, wood, and metal.
One of the most compelling exhibitions of artists books is this collection, Women of the Book: Jewish Artists, Jewish Themes. I first saw it at the Missouri State University Art and Design Gallery in 2000 where I was fortunate to meet Judith Hoffberg while she was installing the exhibition. Judith's knowledge and understanding of the artists and their books allowed me to gain insight into their stories of family, religion and history, and to bring them to life. Her energy focusing on the exhibit was unique and inspiring.
Judith and I had been in contact several times about recreating the exhibition here at Park School, but sadly, she died in 2009 before we could get the project off the ground. A number of the participants, beginning with Elena Mary Siff, encouraged me to follow through with a new, slightly altered, version of Women of the Book. It was because of Judith Hoffberg's enthusiasm that this interdisciplinary art form was brought to Park School, and we present this exhibition in her memory.
Rick Delaney
Exhibitions Director
February, 2011
Below are links to an image and catalogue of the exhibit:
http://www.rickdelaney.com/EviteWOTB.tif
http://www.rickdelaney.com/WOTBcatalogueSM.pdf
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Solo Show by Valerie Piraino ’04 in MICA's Meyerhoff Gallery Feb 18
The solo show accompanies the exhibition The Narcissism of Minor Differences, which showcases 18 acclaimed artists who explore the dark side of intolerance using art, historical artifact and documentation, on view through Sunday, March 13.
Fox Building’s Meyerhoff Gallery, 1303 W. Mount Royal Ave.
Friday, Feb. 18–Sunday, March 13; gallery talk with George Ciscle, curator-in-residence: Friday, Feb.18, noon; reception: Friday, Feb. 18, 5–7 p.m.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Photos from Material Girls at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum
Martha Jackson Jarvis
Maya Freelon Asante
Material Girls: The newest exhibit at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum features eight contemporary African-American female artists by Cara Ober
Crumbling bricks, slashed tires, plastic barbershop combs, old newspapers. They sound like items you'd expect to find in a landfill. But despite their lowly status, they can communicate cultural values, personal remembrances, and political statements when wielded by a skilled and purposeful hand. Ordinary materials transformed into extraordinary pieces of art is the emphasis of Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists, the newest exhibit at the Reginald F. Lewis Museum, which features work by Maya Freelon Asante, Chakaia Booker, Sonya Clark, Torkwase Dyson, Maren Hassinger, Martha Jackson Jarvis, Joyce J. Scott and Renee Stout.
The sculptural works in Material Girls speaks directly to the ingenious output of black women throughout history, as well as the narratives, traditions, and techniques passed down from generation to generation. “The exhibition is really a testament to the kinds of lessons black girls learned from their mothers and grandmothers about strategic improvisation, making do, making it work, and doing all of this with great elegance and style,” explains the curator of the exhibit, Michelle Joan Wilkinson. The exhibit features contemporary artists in different stages of their careers, and offers a broad array of materials and expressions, but also a cohesion and collective expression of solidarity.
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Martha Jackson Jarvis
Chakaia Booker
Maren Hassinger
Maya Freelon Asante
Maya Freelon Asante, Maren Hassinger
Martha Jackson Jarvis
Joyce J. Scott
Sonya Clark, Torkwase Dyson
Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark
Sonya Clark
Renee Stout
Torkwase Dyson
Renee Stout
Joyce J. Scott
Joyce J. Scott
Chakaia Booker
Chakaia Booker
Maya Freelon Asante
Maya Freelon Asante
Maren Hassinger
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Neil Meyerhoff Artist Talk Feb 19
Man Sitting In Boat At Ghat, Archival Inkjet Print, 30.75 x 43 inches
SATURDAY SALON
Saturday, February 19, 3:00 PM
Join the artist in a discussion of his latest photographs.
C. Grimaldis Gallery
523 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Insectology at Goucher College on Thursday, February 10
Insectology featuring Renee Rendine, Heather Boaz, Rebecca Clark, Jennifer Coster, Craig Dennis, Susan Elder, Marian April Glebes, Talia Greene, Mike Libby, Lola Robinsky
Goucher College's Silber Gallery
Reception: Thursday, February 10, 2010 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
With a performance by Renee Rendine
In Response at the Stamp Gallery, UMCP Thursday, Feb. 10
In Response: An Installation
by Nicole Herbert, Julie Benoit, Leah Cooper, Elena Volkova
Stamp Gallery at the University of MD College Park
January 24 - February 25, 2011
Opening Reception and Gallery Talk Thursday, February 10, 6-9 pm
On Monday, Feb. 21 from 6:30 - 9:30, John Penny will discuss 'allographic drawing' as a conceptual tool to aid in understanding a broad range of contemporary art production and the attitude underpinning it.
Prince George's Room (First Floor of Stamp Union)
Adele H. Stamp Student Union
The University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
For more information: stampgallery@umd.edu
http://thestamp.umd.edu/gallery/index.shtml
What is your Tar Baby? Reception and Artist Talk at Galerie Myrtis Feb 12 & 13
Urbanite Ezine Feature:
What is your Tar Baby? Galerie Myrtis presents Charly Palmer's sticky, metaphoric paintings
by Cara Ober
In the story of Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby, the plucky folk hero falls prey to his own hot temper. "Are you deaf or just rude?" he demands of the figure seated beside the road, who refuses to respond to his greetings. "I can't stand folks that are stuck up! You take off that hat and say 'Howdy-do' or I'm going to give you such a lickin'!" Shortly, he lays into the “baby,” but quickly discovers that it is a dummy created by his archenemy, Brer Fox. Too late: He’s become ensnared in the black goo.
The tale, which has roots in African American slave-era storytelling and was popularized in the late 19th century by Joel Chandler Harris (the quotes above come from a version by S.E. Schlosser), is being told in fresh forms this month at Gallerie Myrtis in the Old Goucher neighborhood. The gallery's current exhibition, “What is your Tar Baby?” is a solo show of mixed media paintings by Atlanta-based Charly Palmer. Using the story as a cultural metaphor, Palmer analyzes the “sticky situations” that often entangle public figures. Using painted portraits, layers of text, and scraps of pattern, Palmer depicts President Barack Obama, singer and actor Paul Robeson, comedian and film producer Dave Chappelle, Marilyn Monroe, and many others, in order to question the bigotry, racism, and the stereotypes that confine them.
“Your convictions, your weaknesses, or your environment can be your tar baby,” explains gallery owner Myrtis Bedolla. “According to the artist, ‘sometimes the tar is simply being black,’ but these figures were chosen for their cultural resonance. Paul Robeson's tar baby was his belief in communism. Richard Pryor's was his drug use. The artist got started on this idea after hearing Cornell West speak about the political snares that surround and entangle President Obama. After that, he began looking at a number of famous civil rights leaders, athletes, scholars, and celebrities and realized that each one had their own kind of tar baby.”
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