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Stranger Self, curated by Haley Palmore and Joseph Shaikewitz, presents the work of four artists who approach the stranger through a variety of lenses:

Nancy Daly, Jackie Milad, Benoit Paillé, and Laura Payne.

Stranger Self runs from February 22 to March 29, 2013

Reception March 1 from 5PM-8PM.

For some of these artists, the relationship with their subject is brief. Jackie Milad relies on short encounters to create an encyclopedic range of human expressions, creating a ‘type’ figure which results from numerous documentations of faces from calculated interactions. Benoit Paillé too meets briefly with the subject of his photographs. Allowing them to take their own self-portraits, Paillé puts his subjects in his own role as the artist while exploring how strangers desire to present themselves — of all of his series, he finds these works to be the most spontaneous and likewise contemporary. Then come the artists who draw upon their unknown subject as strangers themselves. Laura Payne pulls her imagery of before and after plastic surgery patients from the internet, never contacting those who become the subject of her works. The paintings, which present two selves at once, provide a look at these strangers’ sense of public identity. Through a non-figural exploration, Nancy Daly gathers her subjects from the “missed connections” section of Craigslist. Channeling the obscure encounters with serendipitous hopes, she reveals, from a distance, the process of private thoughts becoming public acts both in the pieces’ creation and its manipulation.

The shifting temporality of today’s relationships can reveal just as much about how we communicate and coexist as it can about one particular subject. As the four artists in Stranger Self reveal, these encounters can range in terms of length, proximity, intimacy, and a number of other factors. At the same time, each artist exercises a unique way of both presenting and representing their ‘stranger’ subject, consequently giving the viewers a look into these artists’ assumptions and manifestations of these strangers. While day-by-day and decade-by-decade, relationships continue to change, Stranger Self provides a snapshot into contemporary encounters and the variety of means through which they evolve into works of art.
located in the City Arts Building

440 E OLIVER STREET
BALTIMORE, MD 21202
[email protected] 410.528.9239

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22Ann Rentschler: From Known to Unknown

February 22 – April 4 with an Artist Talk and Reception Thursday, February 28 from 5-7 pm

Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University

www.loyola.edu/gallery

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In The Wake: A solo exhibition by Jessica Childress

February 4 – March 1, 2013

MICA’s Gateway Gallery 1

1601 w. Mt Royal Ave

for more info: www.jessicachildress.com

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Unnatural Nature features the work of seven local artists; Zoe Friedman, Stephanie Garmey, Clarissa Gregory, Christine Neill, Lynne Parks, Olivia Rodriguez, and Marcia Wolfson Ray. Each artist is inspired by nature in one way or another yet their work is far from natural.

Unnatural Nature will be presented at Goucher College’s Silber Art Gallery in the Athenaeum from February 5th through March 24th, 2013.

This exhibit, which is free and open to the public, can be viewed Tuesday through Sunday from 11a.m. to 4 p.m.

An artist’s reception will be held Friday, March 1st, 2013 6-9 p.m. in the Silber Gallery.

Visit www.goucher.edu/silber or Call 410-337-6477 for more information.

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Paul Jeanes: The Clearing, will be presented at Goucher College’s Rosenberg Art Gallery in the Kraushaar Auditorium from January 9th through March 24th, 2013. In his paintings, Jeanes explores alchemical processes of corrosion, ablation, liquefaction, and stratification with a romantically incidental approach to creation. Each of his works are developed improvisationally, without a finalized compositional plan, while upwards of 25 layers of paint are individually applied and removed from each painting. Every layer is subsequently scraped across and into the canvas, which equalizes the surface so that a unified flattening occurs. Through this labor-intensive process of application and removal, he attempts to depict a kind of turbulent, chromatic atmosphere where shifting fragments and gestures are at once illuminated and obscured. Jeanes’s newest cycle of works entitled, “The Clearing” is based on images and memories from a recent drive across the country of Iceland, from the city of Reykjavík to the majestic glacial lagoon, Jökulsárlón.

Recently, Jeanes has come to abide by the notion that the visualization of complex thought and a kind of psychosomatic energy can be conveyed by the simplest means of visual expression possible, in this case, through the layering of colored pigment onto canvas. With this philosophy in mind, his approach to art-making remains quixotically primitive, and at times naïve, and it continues to create a space for ultimate potential in his work.

This exhibit, which is free and open to the public, can be viewed Monday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. An artist’s reception will be held Friday, March 1st, 2013 from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Rosenberg Art Gallery. Please visit www.goucher.edu/rosenberg or call 410-337-6477 for more information.

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sophiajacob lecture series presents
Noel Freibert and WEIRD Magazine Release
Sunday, March 3, 8-10pm at Floristree

Noel Freibert (b.1985) lives and works in Baltimore, and is the editor of WEIRD magazine. Noel’s work can be found in the book collections of the Museum of Modern Art (NY) and The Baltimore Museum of Art. He has participated in panel discussions about printmaking and violence in comics at the Small Press Expo (Bethesda, MD), and the CAKE expo (Chicago, IL). Exhibitions include Visible Matter (Above Ground), at Open Space, and The Comic Art of Mr. Freibert at Mirkwood Estates. Interviews with Noel have been featured in The Comics Journal and Vice Magazine.WEIRD Magazine, the elusive anti-magazine, is now in it’s third issue.The sophiajacob lecture series invites select members of the artistic community to present on a topic of their choice.

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In Time for St. Patrick’s

Photos of Early Irish Catholics

Janet Maher: From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley

Creative Alliance at the Patterson Amalie Rothschild Gallery

Opens Fri Mar 1, 5:30-7:30pm
On View Mar 1 – Mar 23, 2013 

Janet Maher: From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley   

  

On view Mar 1- Mar 23, 2013 

Local artist Janet Maher displays photographic imagery from her published book project, From the Old Sod to the Naugatuck Valley: Early Irish Catholics in New Haven County, Connecticut. Maher’s work explains the history of Ireland through the perspective of religion. She discusses the reasons for centuries of discord in Ireland that led to an exodus by millions of Irish Catholics from their native land, and the challenges that the early settlers weathered in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century New England. Her six years of work serve as a model for genealogical research and provides an important foundation for those interested in tracing their Irish family history.

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Baltimore Museum of Art Members Opening Party Saturday, March 2 from 8–10 p.m.

Join in the festivities as the BMA celebrates the opening of four exciting new exhibitions, including Max Weber: Bringing Paris to New York and a remarkable group of contemporary exhibitions. This wonderful, Members-only evening features music, light fare, art-making, and a cash bar.

This incredible lineup is not to be missed! Join today to attend!
Already a Member? RSVP Now! Please include your name, Member number, and the number in your party.

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Max Weber: Bringing Paris to New York
March 3 – June 23, 2013
Free exhibition

The BMA presents the first exhibition to extensively explore American artist Max Weber’s formative years in Paris from fall 1905 to December 1908, when he transformed his painting style from classical representations of figures to bold interpretations of cubism and futurism. More than 30 paintings, prints, and drawings-many of them loaned by the Estate of Max Weber and other public and private collections-showcase the artist as one of the most important American modernist painters. The exhibition features several Weber paintings from 1909 to 1915 from the BMA’s collection, as works from Weber’s personal collection by his teacher Henri Matisse and his friends Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau.

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Front Room: Surreal Selves
February 16 – June 9, 2013
Free exhibition

The Front Room’s innovative, exciting, and diverse contemporary art exhibitions and projects offer visitors opportunities to experience an ever-changing variety of new perspectives from emerging and mid-career artists.

Front Room: Surreal Selves presents 16 figurative paintings by three international artists influenced by old master techniques and pop culture. Their work suggests a resurgence of Surrealism with images that convey personal fantasies, nightmares, and new permutations for the human body in a technology-driven world. Sascha Braunig (Canadian, born 1983; currently based in Maine), Aya Uekawa (Japanese, born 1979; currently based in Beacon, NY), and Erik Thor Sandberg (American, born 1975; based in Washington, DC) are the featured artists.

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On Paper: Works from the Cohen Collection
February 13 – August 25, 2013
Free exhibition

Carl Andre, Mel Bochner, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, Olafur Eliasson, Tony Smith, and other important Minimalist and Conceptual artists are highlighted in this exhibition of 20 exquisite drawings from the collection of former BMA Board Chair Suzanne F. Cohen. The exhibition includes pieces both generously gifted and promised to the BMA, as well as works given to the BMA in her honor.

Olafur Eliasson. Five green to blue negative movie. 2010. Courtesy the artist and Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York

Typography from Calligraphy to Graffiti Saturday, March 2 from 2-4 pm

Hear Calligrapher Sammy Little and graffiti artist Samuel Tefcon engage in a lively conversation, then watch them create hand-lettered works for visitors to take away.

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Jennifer Gustavson
One Day This Will All Be Yours

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Reception: Saturday, March 2, 6:00pm – 9:00pm

March 2 – 31, 2013
Hours by appointment

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3718 Ellerslie Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21218

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QUEER VISCERA ON DISPLAY FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION AND PUBLIC DISGUST.

WE TAKE THE LEGACY OF QUEER ART, THE EROSION OF QUEER RAGE AND REPULSION TO THE BATHROOM.

JOIN US IN THIS BATHROOM OF LOVE AND HATE.

HOESY CORONA is a multidisciplinary artist, a painter, a performer, a fiber and installation artist working in the borders of identities, of geographical myths and realities. (pictures and videos at link below)
http://www.bakerartistawards.org/nominations/view/Hoesy%20Corona/

ALEXANDER D’AGOSTINO is a dancer/mover with background in painting, sculpture, fabric arts, and installation. His performances often collide with the world of ritual and witchcraft, sometimes taking the form of spells to change the grotesque into the magical, to alter the outcast status of queer subjectivities, or to bring the audience into that same status.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ye_IjmID0-E
http://alexanderdagostino.com/home.html

PERSON ABLACH
http://personablach.com/

LEE CATA AS ALEX VIZZI is a performer with movement backgrounds in butoh, modern, circus, and improvisation. His bare performances center around the body, sound, and story to evoke connections between body and the outside world, the inside world, and beyond worlds.
http://www.bakerartistawards.org/nominations/view/alexviz/

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