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Falling Apart, Carl Gunhouse Solo Exhibition + Book Release
Project Space: Small Studies in Orientation, Max Guy

Guest Spot at the Reinstitute
February 9, 2013 through March 23, 2013

Opening Reception + Book Signing: Saturday February 9, 2013 7-10pm
Artist Talk: Saturday March 23, 2013 2-4pm
Hours: Saturdays 1-5pm & Wednesdays 5-7pm or by appointment

Guest Spot is proud to present a solo exhibition of photography by Carl Gunhouse and the release of his new book, Falling Apart published by Waal-Boght Press, Brooklyn NY. Guest Spot Project Space will feature Small Studies in Orientation by Baltimore Artist Max Guy. Opening Saturday February 9, 2013, the works will be on view through March 23, 2013. A book signing will be held in conjunction with the opening.

The exhibition Falling Apart is a survey of Americana, documenting economic and social regression in a time needed for great progressive change in American history. Living in a culture that is obsessed with access to excess, blind trust in technology and its lure for the infallible has poisoned our ability to decipher between choices. Carl Gunhouse’s work draws on his academic background as a graduate student in American History to investigate relationships between current events and their historic significance. For the past six years Gunhouse has been traveling across America by car, bearing witness (with his large format camera in trunk) to the unraveling of America prosperity.

Carl Gunhouse was born in 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts, but he spent his formative years in suburban New Jersey. Growing up, he developed a love/hate relationship with suburbia that led to the angst familiar to most suburban youth. With this unrest came the discovery of the anger and DIY ethics of hardcore punk rock. Yearning to be part of the hardcore scene, he started photographing bands, which began his love of photography.

To escape suburban New Jersey, Carl enrolled at Fordham University in New York City. While completing a BA in European History at Fordham, he discovered that photography could be something to pursue a career so he decided to simultaneously complete a BFA in Photography. After going on to earn his MA in American History from Fordham, Carl concentrated on street photography. In hopes of developing and refining his photography work, Carl completed his MFA in Photography at Yale University.

Since graduating, he has found a great deal of personal satisfaction teaching as an Adjunct at Montclair State University, Cooper Union, Marymount Manhattan College, and Nassau Community College. He has also gained some renown for his straightforward writing on photography for such web sites as Searching For the Light, Lay Flat, and American Suburb X. His photography has been shown nationally and internationally. As an artist, he has produced a body of landscape and portrait photographs by driving around the United States to expose the little visual bits of America that give voice to our shared history and experience. Carl currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

MAX GUY – Small Studies in Orientation
Max Guy’s Small Studies in Orientation is a body of studies that explore the relationship between frame shifts and historic intervention. Traditional perceptions of the portrait and landscape have shaped how the world is contextualized. Our association to orientation is directly influenced by our cultural and historic expectations. Guy examines the view that mental and physical phenomena occur in parallel, that these simultaneities never involve causal interactions, creating a phenomenological critique of representationalism.

Max Guy (b. 1989, McAllan, Texas), is an artist and curator living in Baltimore, Maryland. He has exhibited locally at the Penthouse Gallery, Current Space, Open Space Gallery and Nudashank. In 2011 Max co-founded the curatorial project, Szechuan Best with artist Peggy Chiang, exhibiting work of local and international artists from out of their living spaces. Max co-founded Spiral Cinema, a collaboration in the form of film screenings, publications and discourse.

GUEST SPOT AT THE REINSTITUTE
1715 N. CALVERT STREET BALTIMORE MD 21202
WWW.GUESTSPOT.ORG

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Jeffrey Kent: Preach!

Opening Reception February 14, 2013 6-9pm Open to the public February 7-March 31

The Frederick Douglass–Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum Herbert Bearman Gallery
1417 Thames Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21231

Tuesday – Friday 10-4pm / Saturday – Sunday 12–4pm

Preach! New Works by Jeffrey Kent is a solo exhibition curated by Maryland Institute College of Art’s current Exhibition Development Seminar, and held at the Frederick Douglass–Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum. Baltimore-based artist Jeffrey Kent presents a new body of work that draws parallels between the Civil Rights Movement and the ongoing debate over marriage equality in the United States.

Proudly brought to you by MICA’s Exhibition Development Seminar program, made possible by Friends of EDS.

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CURRENTS: Erika Diehl, Alex Ebstein, Katherine Sable, René Treviño

CURRENTS at Carroll Square Gallery
Curated by Hemphill Gallery

February 8 – April 26, 2013

Opening Reception: Friday, February 8, 2012
6-8 pm

Carroll Square Gallery
975 F Street NW, Washington DC 20004
202.347.7978
www.carrollsquare.com

Gallery Open During Business Hours
Monday through Friday, 8:00am – 6:00pm

Image: Katherine Sable, “Secure the Ground”

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Fun-A-Day takes part in cities nationwide, this is Baltimore’s second year show!
@ the D center 16 West North Ave, Baltimore 21201

Exhibit hosted at:

The D center
16 West North Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21201

February 9, 3pm-11pm Opening Reception
February 23rd – 5-10pm Closing Reception

http://www.funadaybaltimore.org/

Over 60 Artists, painters, illustrators, photographers, crafters, writers, videographers, sculptors, performance artists, poets mixed-media + music, and MORE!

Exhibits around the country originated by: artclash.com

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Mason Saltarrelli: Golden Cacti
Randall Scott Projects – Opening of Our New Exhibition Space

February 9th—March 9th
Reception for the Artist February 9th 5pm-8pm
http://www.randallscottprojects.com

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art bazaar

Pinebox Art Center Art Bazaar Show and Market
Saturday, February 9 at Noon
This is a non-curated event. The goal is to have a wide variety of work to completely fill the gallery in true bazaar markets style! We want to create accessibility for both the artist and the patron. All works are for sale and most under $500. We will be open every Saturday and Sunday this month from 12-4PM. Come meet the artists and buy some unique, original works of local artists starting this Saturday 2/9/13!

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Encountering Nature
Exhibition:
Center for the Arts Gallery
On view: February 8–April 6, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.–4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m.

The Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education is pleased to present an
exhibition and related programming that examines artists’ responses to nature. Many
artists today look at nature through the eyes of climate change, toxic pollution, or overdevelopment.
Still others engage art historically, operating out of a landscape painting
tradition. This exhibition brings together installation, video, photography, painting, and
sculpture to examine the myriad ways that artists interact with nature. Artists whose
works will be on display in this exhibition include: Anne Appleby, Vaughn Bell,
Susan Benarcik, Randy Bolton, Ann Chahbandour, Caitlin Cunningham, Annette Davidek,
Adam Davies, Elizabeth Demaray, Madeleine Dietz, Laurie Hogin, Dan Jackson, Guy Loraine,
Rachel Rotenberg, Bill Scott, Kate Stewart, Ted Walsh and Ben Whitehouse.

Lecture by artist Ben Whitehouse:
Towards a New Landscape
Center for the Arts, Art Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, February 7, 2013, 6:30 p.m.

Lecture by artist Elizabeth Demaray:
Art and Science Collaboration
Center for the Arts, Art Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, February 21, 6:30 p.m.

Lecture by art historian Dr. Nancy Siegel:
Encountering Nature: Environmental Awareness in American Art
Center for the Arts, Art Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, April 4, 6:30 p.m.

Symposium
Center for the Arts, Art Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Friday, April 5, 2013 10 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Artists Ann Chahbandour and Adam Davies, whose works are included in the exhibition
Encountering Nature in the Center for the Arts Gallery, along with Towson University
scientists Steven M. Lev, Professor of Geosciences Department of Physics, Astronomy
and Geosciences and Graduate Director of the Environmental Science Program and
Joel W. Snodgrass, Professor of Conservation Biology and Chairperson of the Department
of Biological Sciences will present illustrated lectures and then answer questions presented
by a moderator and the audience. Moderator: J. Susan Isaacs, Professor of Art History
and Director of the M.A. in Professional Studies/Art History focus and curator of the
Encountering Nature exhibition. A performance by artist Vaughn Bell will take place in
the gallery immediately following the symposium. Professor Isaacs will offer a tour of the
exhibition following the performance.

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