22nd National Drawing and Print Competition Exhibit Reception at Notre Dame Saturday, April 2

Gormley Gallery presents the 22nd National Drawing and Print Competitive Exhibition, juried by Jose Dominguez, executive director of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center. The exhibition features the work of 22 artists from the local, regional and national art community, selected from more than 400 entries. An opening reception and juror's talk will be held Saturday, April 2, from 4 to 6 p.m.

Photos from Andy Holtin: HYPOTHESES at Gallery 4

Urbanite E-zine Feature - "Suspension of Disbelief: In Hypotheses, Andy Holtin tests out a number of theories centered around the balance of artificiality and authenticity" by Cara Ober

Glance, new documentation from Andy Holtin on Vimeo.

She minds her own business. Her eyes blink and stare straight ahead. Then, quickly, she glances over at him, catches the edge of his expression, then looks away. His face remains unchanged, but something pulls him towards her. He steals a glance at the side of her face, then looks away. Seconds pass and both continue to breathe, blink, and look forward. Then, her face darts towards him again. Then his toward hers. For a fraction of a second, the corners of their eyes meet, and then they both pivot and look away.

This familiar dance goes on indefinitely in Glance, a kinetic sculpture by Andy Holtin, part of Hypotheses: Recent Work and Collaborations at Gallery Four. The faces appear on separate video monitors, hung at eye level, that move in synch with the faces on their screens, powered by an electromechanical system designed by the artist. The piece is captivating, seamlessly uniting technology, a simple gesture, and a romantic narrative into a work of art anyone can relate to.

In Hypotheses, Holtin, a sculpture professor at American University in Washington, D.C., explores this line between the mechanical and the emotional, the artificial and the authentic. The show includes seven works created from a number of different materials, including cardboard, wood, paper, computer screens, and hand-built machines. Rather than obscuring the mechanisms and processes behind his constructions, Holtin prefers to incorporate them, adding an aspect of performance and theater, and enticing his viewers to construct their own narratives and impose meaning. To read the entire article on the Urbanite Website, click here.

Creative Alliance Annual Marquee Ball - Gala and Auction Saturday, April 2

MARQUEE BALL 2011: Back to the Future!
Sat Apr 2, 6pm Preview Dinner, 9pm Dance
Dance Party $45, $40 mbrs in adv. $50 at door.
Preview Dinner $200, table of 10 $2500. For tables of 10 call 410-276-1651

Fire up the flux capacitor, jump in the DeLorean and head back in time to… 1985!?! 1955? 1885? Whatever the heck they thought 2015 would look like in 1989!?! Pick an era, look fabulous, and get your tix early for the latest iteration of Baltimore’s legendary movie-themed gala: the Marquee Ball! Jump on the dance floor to the futuristic shenanigans of the All Mighty Senators, and take home a prize from the Outatime Auction! Join the high rollers (and our biggest supporters) at the Dinner beforehand to honor Kevin Clash (creator of Elmo) and beloved arts patron Beatrice “Beatty” L. Levi.

MAP's Out of Order Friday, April 1

MAP's annual self-hung benefit exhibition and silent auction returns! This year’s party will provide a fantastic opportunity to view the work of hundreds of emerging artists. Proceeds from artwork sales will be split 50/50 between MAP and the artist and will directly support MAP’s exhibitions and programs throughout the year. Food, wine and beer sponsored by TATU.

Friday, April 1 at 8 p.m.
MAP at Power Plant Live
Purchase Tickets Online: www.brownpapertickets.com

All artists are invited to participate. You do not need to apply or sign up in advance to hang your work in Out of Order. Simply arrive at MAP anytime between 7am - midnight, Tuesday March 29 with your work in hand. For more information and participation requirements, please read Out of Order FAQ's.

Artists will have the chance to donate their unsold work to the Art Connection in the Capital Region (ACCR), an organization that places artwork in the facilities of not-for-profit social service organizations. To learn more about ACCR’s role in promoting contemporary art while improving the lives of individuals, visit: www.artconnection-cr.org.

Paper Fish Closing Reception at Metro Gallery Friday, April 22

It took Artist Kathy Fahey a full week of long days and sleep-deprived nights to install her art show, Paper Fish, which gives an insider’s view into the fascinating process, and hard work, of creating a music video from scratch. The show, at Metro Gallery through April 23, displays Fahey’s shadow puppets and paper cuts used in a unique new video for Baltimore band, Wye Oak.

When indie rock favorites, Wye Oak, needed a new video for their upcoming CD, Civilian, they turned to the Baltimore paper cutter extraordinaire Kathy Fahey, film maker Michael O’Leary, and Editor Owen Lang. Fahey and O'Leary in turn recruited a crew of shadow puppeteers and film assistants to create the video.

Paper Fish opened on March 25th with the installation of Fahey’s work as well as a display of O’Leary’s ingenious lighting skills, the premier screening of the video, and photos of the video-making by Neal Golden. A Closing event will occur Friday, April 22, at the Metro Gallery. This event will include a live performance of the shadow puppet show from the video accompanied by very special musical guests.

Musicians Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth Laprelle, from the heartland of Virginia, will also perform with their amazing scrolling shadow puppets known as Crankies.

Paper Fish Closing Reception

Friday, April 22, 2011, 7-10 pm

Metro Gallery

1700 North Charles Street

Baltimore, MD

Bridging Contemporary Art & Architecture opens March 31

Bridging Contemporary Art & Architecture

Please join ACCR in its new Baltimore-based home at Read & Company Architects for an exhibition and reception on Thursday, March 31st from 5:30 to 8 pm.

Participating artists include: Laurel Lukaszewski, Elena Volkova, Alyssa Dennis, James von Minor and Novie Trump.

For more information: contact Julie Ann Cavnor, ACCR Executive Director, jcavnor@artconnection-cr.org or 443-604-5057

Read & Company is located across the street from Penn Station. Street parking is available, as well as parking in the Penn Station lot.

April Fools Group Exhibit Reception April 5

Artist Reception for Rachel Rotenberg at Gallery die Botschaft April 10

College Art Association Workshop at MICA Saturday, March 26

The Crunch: Jon Duff and Jonathan Latiano at City Arts March 26

The Crunch, a site specific, collaborative installation by Jon Duff and Jonathan Latiano

Location: City Arts, 440 East Oliver St. Baltimore

Date: Exhibition runs from March 26- April 22

Opening Reception: Saturday March 26 7-9pm

Contact: Cathleen Sachse, catsachse@gmail.com

Links: www.jonduff.com

City Arts Gallery is proud to present The Crunch, a collaborative, site specific installation by emerging artists Jon Duff and Jonathan Latiano. The Crunch is a collision between the artificial and the natural, extinction and evolution, and a collaboration between two artists that approach the natural through two different, yet overlapping ways.

Loring Cornish at the Maryland Jewish Museum

Urbanite E-zine Feature- Both Sides Now: Loring Cornish explores shared histories of African Americans and Jews in In Each Other's Shoes by Cara Ober

From a distance, it looks like a billboard. “Montgomery Bus Boycott” is spelled out in large block letters on a swirling, earthy-colored background. Upon closer inspection, the billboard is actually a huge mosaic of shoes. White shoes, brown shoes, red shoes, and black shoes all come together to spell out the eponymous title, and, more importantly, to suggest a shared history of standing up for one's rights.

In Each Other's Shoes, Loring Cornish's exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, offers a number of connections between the African American experience and Jewish history, creating parallels between the struggles of both peoples in more than twenty works of art. Joining a shared legacy of abuse and resistance, triumph and tragedy, Cornish's exhibit examines specific events and figures from both Jewish and African American history in freestanding sculpture and large wall pieces in his characteristic mosaic style.

Cornish has built a notable reputation for his glass mosaics, so his use of shoes in several new works is a significant change. Within a Jewish context, the shoes allude to holocaust memorials that feature vast displays of victim's shoes, each pair symbolizing a life lost, and taken together, the incomprehensible scale of destruction. In the case of “Montgomery Bus Boycott,” the shoes also hearken to the many African Americans who walked to work and school, rather than ride segregated buses, in that 1955 to ’56 civil rights protest. To bind the shoes together, he used the red earth from the site of the protest: Montgomery, Alabama. The mosaic is mounted on a freestanding wall called a stelae so that viewers can walk around the mosaic and view the artist's work on both sides. To read the whole article, click here.

The exhibit, In Each Other's Shoes, will be on exhibit at the Jewish Museum of Maryland until July 17, 2011.