Zoe Friedman opens Friday, Sept. 30 at MICA's Gateway Building

Zoe Friedman - New Work

Opening Reception 5 to 7pm

Gateway Building and Gallery, MICA

1601 W Mt Royal Ave

September 30 - October 7, 2011

This large-scale paper installation is made up of images that were found on the internet, printed out, then cut and reassembled to form an overwhelming geometric landscape. Standing back and viewing the piece all at once, baroque and psychedelic patterns emerge that appear beautiful yet also destabilizing. Up close, the images pixelate and the materials of computer paper and staples reveal themselves for what they are: this is a configured idea of an environment made up of stockpile images that could easily be desktop backgrounds. When placed all together, however, they form an eerie, sublime, and attractive nature that captures the peaceful moment of time that preludes disaster.

For more info: www.zoefriedman.org

Travelin' Shoes opens October 5 at Fleckenstein Gallery

Travelin' Shoes: Rams Brisueño, Schroeder Cherry and Kylis Winborne

An exhibition in affiliation with the Black Male Identity Project

Exhibition: Wednesday, October 5th - Saturday, November 5th, 2011

Artist Reception: Saturday, October 15th, 5-9pm, with an Artist Talk 6:30-7pm

Fleckenstein Gallery & Archival Framing

3316 Keswick Road, Baltimore, MD 21211

410-366-3669 / www.fleckensteingallery.com

Kylis P Winborne “Pears” 2011

Digital Painting, 13” x 19”

BMA Late Night Celebrates Baker Artist Awards 2011 Winners on October 1

Life-size artwork you can step into, a dazzling aerial spectacle, musical improvisations, alternative theater, and Baltimore's best authors, poets, and singer/songwriters—don’t miss an electrifying evening of performances and art at the BMA Late Night on Saturday, October 1 from 7 to 11 p.m. Featuring the 2011 Baker Artist Award winners, this FREE Late Night event includes access to the Baker Artist Awards 2011 exhibition during extended evening hours, performances, DJ, light fare, and cash bar. This is the culminating event for the exhibition, which closes October 2, 2011.

Audrey Chen

Late Night highlights the winners of the $25,000 Mary Sawyers Baker prize with performances by experimental musician Audrey Chen and beatboxer/vocal percussionist Shodekeh, and a room-size installation of detailed drawings by visual artist Gary Kachadourian. Chen uses her cello, voice, and electronics to create unique sound compositions. Shodekeh emulates various instruments and soundscapes, such as drum sets, turntables, ocean waves, and sleigh bells. Kachadourian’s photocopied and enlarged drawings cover every wall in the gallery—as well as the floor and parts of the ceiling—with life-sized bricks, trees, lamp posts, and other everyday objects. Special Late Night performances by the $1,000 b-grant prize winners Copycat Theatre, Mara Neimanis, Fernando Quijano III, Nelly’s Echo, Justin Sirois, ellen cherry, and Michelle Antoinette Nelson continue the celebration of Baltimore’s talented artistic community. The schedule of performances is listed below.

7-8 p.m. Meet the Baker Artists

8-8:20 p.m. Audrey Chen

8:30-9 p.m. Mara Neimanis, Shodekeh

9:15-10 p.m. Copycat Theatre, Audrey Chen

10:15-11 p.m. Michelle Antoinette Nelson, Fernando Quijano, Justin Sirois, Nelly's Echo, ellen cherry, Shodekeh

The Baker Artist Awards are directed by the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund with the assistance of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance. The exhibition is supported by the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund.

VISITOR INFORMATION: General admission to the BMA is free; special exhibitions may be ticketed. The BMA is open Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m. (except major holidays). The Museum is closed Monday, Tuesday, New Year’s Day, July 4, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. The BMA is located on Art Museum Drive at North Charles and 31st Streets, three miles north of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. For general Museum information, call 443-573-1700 or visit artbma.org.


Shodekeh

Photos from School 33 - Johnathan Latiano, BHBITB, and Microcosm/ Macrocosm

Jonathan Latiano: Points of Contention - Urbanite Arts and Culture Ezine Feature Story to follow on Tuesday, October 4

As the plastics, resins and polymers that we stockpile on a daily basis increase exponentially, how are we changing the long-term geological landscapes of the world around us? Driven by the exploration of time, motion and the physics of the natural world, Jonathan Latiano presents Points of Contention, a site-specific installation sculpture that investigates the increasingly blurred line between the organic and inorganic as well as the spatial boundaries of where the spectacle begins and ends. Convergent forms of crystalline growth and explosive impact reinforce the hundreds of shards of custom cut and painted elements used to create the centerpiece of the exhibition. Through the use of reclaimed and altered wood, plastic, Styrofoam and site-grown salt crystals Latiano explores the question: At what point do the controversies of the present become the "new norms" of the future?

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BHBITB: the End of an Era

The End of an Era, presented by BHBITB at School 33 Art Center is an exhibit of newly acquired reconnaissance from the expected future. This material will be communicated through video and educational displays explaining these exciting potentialities. The Re:Place Habitations Complex will be the focus of these examinations.

BHBITB is a spiritual movement based upon the scientific foundations of Dr. Gifford Stranton and his research team at the New Moon Facility. Utilizing space-age fissile technologies Dr. Stranton has redirected time and space to effectively validate humanity’s origins and future potentialities. Since 1979 BHBITB has given hope to a world increasingly apprehensive of the future*, utilizing a proprietary method of Value Evaluation™, transforming the past to build a brighter tomorrow.

BHBITB is a self-sustaining organization focused on integrating the Four Pillars of Society (business, science, government, religion) into an efficient network of systematized units. The ultimate goal of these units is to design and fabricate the Perfect World™, manifesting in new municipalities, replacing the old with the new. Our ministry’s current focus is education, spreading the accumulated wisdom of Dr. Stranton through videos, exhibitions, and seminars.

BHBITB has seen the future and the future is glorious.

Please visit www.BHBITB.com for more information.

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Microcosm/Macrocosm: Two Communities in East Baltimore

School 33 Art Center is pleased to present Microcosm/Macrocosm: Two Communities in East Baltimore. Featuring photographs by Michela Caudill and Ken Royster, this installation highlights two East Baltimore Communities: the Middle East community who are being displaced as Johns Hopkins Hospital expands its boundaries and an extended family from the Dominican Republic who have settled in East Baltimore. Both groups face serious challenges as they attempt to adapt to changes in their material and emotional lives in this city. Baltimore City has witnessed huge demographic changes during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Large numbers of Latino immigrants have moved to East Baltimore and the African American population continues to expand. The photographs on display offer entry into intimate moments that we most likely would never witness. The subjects of these photographs are our neighbors and our city itself, growing, changing.

A Studio Visit with Tim Scofield by Matthew Kern

The Amalgam of Intuition, Invention and Mediums: A studio visit with Tim Scofield by Matthew Kern.


Tim Scofield told me once he had an idea for going out on Halloween as "Clean Guy". Essentially he would shower and put on clean clothes. Seemingly simple but I am sure people would recognize the drastic difference and he probably would look like as he was in costume. Sco is knowledgeable and works in a mess of mediums, metal being his number one, so he is pretty much always a bit scuffed up. Check the hands. But let me back up.

Tim was born in 1970 in Freeport Illinois.  As a teenager, with his size and strength, was not interested in standard athletics choosing to be a punk skater, BMX kid. Ranked in the latter at one point, this was before these activities were even considered sports.  Working on and fixing the bikes and having an artistic inclination, started at a junior college studying theater.  Soon after, moving into school at Dekalb for 3 years as an undergrad, he studied sculpture, mostly wood, and started taking welding classes.  The combination of these studies and skills, including doing stage work, "building shit", wound him up in Syracuse at the School of Visual Performing Arts, where he earned his MFA.  Studying in school with Roger Mack, and outside of school with dancer Lawson Smith, and having the omnipresent influence of Gene Kelly and Buster Keaton, Scofield began creating, building, and continued to create after moving to Baltimore 11 years ago, pieces with freedom of physical movement.  Basically, big toys.

Don't be misled. The Swivel Bike, the Teeter Totter, the Flying Machines, TheTower, and one recently performed at the 3rd Annual Aerial Festival called The Weeble Wobble, are weighty, metaphorically and literally.  Performing on these works takes balance, prowess and physique. Initial inspiration and schematics, adroitness, physical strength and the avidity to have fun are all realized in these works.  The amusement and mirth, but also the seriousness, of a clown.

Since being in Baltimore, Tim Scofield was a tech. and taught sculpture at MICA for 8 years.  Has shown his work and performed 3 times at Artscape.  Performed with his art pieces at Virgin Fest  3 years in a row.  Built bicycles.  Built a motorcycle. Has designed and made jewelry and cutlery knives.  Makes props for Flying Dog commercials. Has made, customized and installed more metal railings, security windows, and bike racks for the residents of this city, public and private, than is even countable.  Refers to his hands as "Meat Paws".  Is one of the founders and rolled for 3 years in mens roller derby with Harm City Homicide as "Sex Ed". Fabricated and worked with John Waters.  Collaborated and worked with Sculptor Rodney Carrol.  Is soon to be married.........

...........And oh.  He also raises bonsai trees and bakes bread.

* All text and images by Matthew Kern

Maryland Traditions and Folklore reception at the James Backas Gallery September 27

MD State Arts Council James Backas Gallery presents: 

Maryland Masters: Edwin Remsberg's Portraits of Maryland Traditions and
Folklorist Elaine Eff's Contributions to Maryland Folklife.

September 27, 2011 5:00-8:00 p.m.

Gallery Talk by Edwin Remsberg 6:30 p.m.

Presentation to Elaine 6:50 p.m.

Exhibition runs through Nov. 11, 2011

175 West Ostend Street | Baltimore, Maryland 21104

msac@msac.org | 410-767-6555 | TTY 1-800-735-2258

Please call or Email MSAC for special accommodations.

Maryland State Arts Council

www.msac.org/gallery

Image: Louis Campbell, of Baltimore American Indian Center's Soaring Eagles, Maryland Traditions Folklife Festival, Photo: Edwin Remsberg

Text Me: The Art of Words at The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville - Reception Sept. 30

Matthew Kern

Text Me: The Art of Words at The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville

August 29- October 1, 2011

Reception: Friday, September 30, from 6 to 8 pm

Artists:

John James Anderson

Mark Cameron Boyd

Phylicia Ghee

Matthew Kern

Allissa Marsaelek

Etienne Nadeau

Adam Stab

Sarah Walko

Curator: Julia Orbino

Gallery Hours: Monday through Thursday, 10 am to 8 pm, Friday and Saturday, 10 am to 5 pm. The Gallery is closed on Sunday.

For further information, please call 443.840.4246, or visit the website at http://ccbcmd.edu/adim/galleries.html

Directions: CCBC Catonsville is located off Baltimore Beltway (695) Exit 12, Wilkens Avenue West. Follow Wilkens Avenue West to Valley Road. Make a right on Valley Road to the college entrance. CCBC Catonsville is served by MTA bus route 77. The Gallery is in Building Q.


The College address is 800 South Rolling Road, Baltimore MD 21228.

Photos from Paul Emmanuel: Transitions Multiples and Lynn Silverman at Goya Contemporary

With an Urbanite Arts and Culture E-zine Feature Story / Review to follow 

on Tuesday, Septemember 27.

( First 7 photos and detail images by Joe Hyde / other photos by Cara Ober )