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BmoreArt’s Picks: Baltimore Art Galleries, Openings, and Events September 17 – 21

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BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.

To submit your calendar event, email us at [email protected]! Our fall calendar is currently jam packed!

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Looking Black at Me: A Solo Exhibition by Larry Cook

September 8 – October 18, 2014
Reception Thursday September 18, 5-8 pm
The Stamp Gallery, University of MD College Park

Looking Black At Me consists of videos and photographs that address questions of Black identity, representation, and self-awareness. Inspired by W.E.B Du Bois’ double consciousness theory, the exhibit evokes dialogue around the Black American experience with a multi-faceted conception of self. This duality is looking through oneself through the lens of the Western world.

This combination of direct observation and self-reflection creates a space in which the viewer can engage with the artwork pushing against their own social construct. The use of appropriation, documentation, and the directorial mode of photography, create an experience that provides insight into the representation of contemporary Black culture.

**Also happening the same night at The Stamp (Adele H. Stamp Student Union) is The 2014 Bahá’í Chair for World Peace Annual Lecture with speaker, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva at 7PM in the Colony Ballroom. 

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Essentially Qualified: A Solo Exhibition by Paul Shortt at Pleasant Plains Workshop

Opening Reception: Thursday, September 18 at 6 pm
Exhibition Dates: Sept 12 – Oct 18, 2014
Gallery Hours: Thurs & Fri 2-7pm, Sat 1-6pm
Closing Day Talk on October 18

In ‘Essentially Qualified’ Baltimore-based artist Paul Shortt explores the contradictions inherent in being qualified for employment without the hands-on experience necessary to land a job. Through video, enlarged sculptures, and create your own diploma and resume stations, the artist attempts to play, antagonize and reflect on what it means to enter the labor force.

The exhibition also features a performance component entitled ‘Intern as Artwork’ which is brought to life by a hired intern that will be in the gallery on Saturdays from Sept 20-October 11th.

Pleasant Plains Workshop / 2608 Georgia Avenue NW / Washington, DC 20001

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OTHER at Silber Gallery, Goucher College

Reception Friday, September 19 from 6-9 pm

Exhibit September 2, 2014 through October 12, 2014

“Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.” ~William Ellery Channing

In the art exhibition, OTHER, five artists Carrie Beall, Lania D’Agostino, Kris Grey, Jason Horowitz, and Jaimes Mayhew explore various aspects of gender. The diverse works in this exhibition portray more than gender normative stereotypes, they delve into the psyche, the personal, and the political. They explore gender through notions of ambiguity, fluidity, and change. The videos, paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs these artists present give the viewer a glimpse, from their perspective, of what it means to be “other” within our current social climate.

OTHER will be presented at Goucher College’s Silber Art Gallery in the Athenaeum from September 2, 2014 through October 12, 2014. This exhibit, which is free and open to the public, can be viewed Tuesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. An artist’s reception will be held Friday, September 19th, from 6 to 9 p.m., with an artist talk at 7:30 p.m. in the Silber Art Gallery. Please visit www.goucher.edu/silber or call 410-337-6477 for more information.

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Joyce Anitagrace: Curvature of the Earth at Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College

Artist Reception Friday September 19 from 6-9 pm

Exhibit September 2, 2014 through November 3, 2014

Joyce Anitagrace’s body of work in the exhibition Curvature of the Earth concerns several interrelated ideas: the intersection of philosophy and mathematics, the act of mark-making and marking of time, and the concept of the horizon line as optical illusion, painting convention and an edge that divides as well as connects.

Curvature of the Earth, a solo exhibition featuring Joyce Anitagrace’s mixed media works will be presented at Goucher College’s Rosenberg Gallery in the Kraushaar Auditorium from September 8th through November 3rd, 2014. This exhibit, which is free and open to the public, can be viewed Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. An artist’s reception will be held on Friday, September 19th, 6-9 P.M. 2014. Please visit www.goucher.edu/rosenberg for more information.

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Homewood Art Workshops Plein Air Paint-Out

Saturday, September 20 from 9-4 pm
Johns Hopkins University

Come celebrate 40 years of art-making at Johns Hopkins University! Watch as over 40 terrific artists paint the landscape across the Homewood campus, The Baltimore Museum of Art Levi Sculpture Garden and Wyman Park Dell! Opening demo by honorary Paint-Out Artist-in-Res, Raoul Middleman! Cartoon map of artist locations by Tom Chalkley! Free and open to the public! More info here.

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Old Town Wandering Revival – A SiteLines walking tour & video shoot

Saturday at 1:00pm – 2:30pm
414 Old Town Mall, Baltimore, MD 21202

OLD TOWN: Explore its 19th century past embedded in a 70s modernist mall, surrounded by speculative voids of a long-promised future. Honor the glory of Gay Street while humbly acknowledging its challenges with pedestrian gestures of hope and cheer. More info here.

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Autumn Leaves: The Poplar Group Event at Area 405

Saturday, September 20 – Doors Open: 4:00 pm / Presentation Begins: 4:45 pm

FEATURING: 7 “Leaves” from the project will take 7 minutes to share, from the stage, reflections on the meaning of life…. Poplar Leaves are: Bill Clark, Anna Davis, Jeff Johnson, Gilda Johnson, Walter Lomax, Dean Lynes, and Selwyn Ray

Performances by the Youth Resiliency Institute & An art exhibition featuring portraits by Eric Briscoe, Zoë Charlton, Ian MacLean Davis, Paris Johnson, Tiffany Jones, Nicole Buckingham Kern, and Ernest Shaw, and 49 symbolic drawings by Peter Bruun.

(Portraits of the Poplar Leaves created by Tiffany Jones)
Creative writings about each “Leaf” written by Laura Shovan
The event is FREE and open to the public!

Attendees are encouraged to arrive soon after the doors open to have time to view the art, see slideshows created by the “leaves,” enjoy light fare and refreshments, and mingle with one another before the presentation begins.

Hosted by Damien Davis and Dani Johnson
405 E Oliver St, Baltimore, Maryland 21202

More info at Area 405

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READ THE RECAP, SKIP THE SHOW

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 20th, 7-10 pm
September 20th – October 25th

Works by: Paul Gagner, Jeremy August Haik, Margo Benson Malter, Heather McKenna, Björn Meyer-Ebrecht, and Joe Nanashe

Hours: Saturdays 1-4pm & Wednesday 5-7pm or by appointment

Guest Spot @ THE REINSTITUTE
1715 N. Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
www.guestspot.org/

Guest Spot @ THE REINSTITUTE is proud to present a group exhibition curated by Tom Marquet, Read the Recap, Skip the Show. The exhibit opens Saturday September 20, 2014 the work will be on view through October 25, 2014. The opening reception will be held Saturday September 20, 2014 from 7pm-10pm.

Read the Recap, Skip the Show explores the idea of treating secondary sources as primary texts, simultaneously aggrandizing and displacing the initial objects of admiration or critique. In a sense, this is the double agenda of any artwork which directly speaks of and to another artwork, to both point at something and make the pointing finger the subject of its own gesture. This gesture is accompanied by a sense of historical belatedness, a sense that a golden age of sorts has passed. The show is over. This is just the recap.

There is too much art, too much to read, but mostly there is too much TV. The Conversation to keep up with and not enough time for it, because while we were watching the object of conversation, we were busy talking. We were outraged or bored and sharing as it happened with peers or with strangers, but in any case, in no condition to recall what we were responding to. So in the morning, we turn to the box score of entertainment, the recap, to remind ourselves what we reacted to last night.

The recap is not exactly a review, not so much the work of a critical “I” offering advance warning as the work of a collective first person, enacted by one voice, but reflective of many. This is what we saw, right? And this is what it meant, maybe?

Similarly, the works of art in this show look back, as if to process what it is to exist and make art in the wake of what they identify as transformative cultural moments. It is this sense of belatedness, combined with a kind of distillation, that defines the recap as a genre and underlies the works in this show.

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THE BLUE HOUR Twilight Parade – Transmodern Performance Festival

Sunday September 21 at 7 pm

COME BE PART OF A TWILIGHT PARADE as part of the Transmodern Performance Festival on SUNDAY, September 21, 2014. Parade kicks off from Current Gallery’s Backlot at 7pm and moves to EMP Collective. Featuring the Barrage Band Orchestra, illuminated floats by Dan Van Allen, lanterns, hoopers, stilters … … ..and YOU.

Come Early and join us for a day of MAKING in preparation for the parade starting at 3pm! FREE! All ages welcome! We supply the materials or bring your own.. Lantern making with Laure Drogoul, mask and headdress building with Valeska Populoh, float-building, bring a musical instrument or sound maker or make music with Gamalamadingdong(Justin Miller and Ryan Smith), audio walking tours with Anna R-g and Ruby Fulton, Movement workshops with Alexander D’Agostino and Noelle Tolbert, Glitterization and Glamorizing with Fluid Movement, yoga with Brian Daniloski, popcorn by Queerstories and a Compliment Fairy to greet you!

You are all invited to join our shimmering procession to celebrate the Equinox! Revel in the blue hour between day and night, summer and autumn! All are welcome! Dress in whatever makes you feel ready to stroll into Fall!
HERE IS TO COLLECTIVE ECSTASY!!

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