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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.

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For some time the Crystal Moll Gallery has been showcasing work in the Art Hall at the Royal Sonesta.

On Election Night….because we all need a glass of wine before the results are in, we are hosting our first reception in the newly renovated/cool space of the Royal Sonesta Art Hall. Works by, Andre Lucero, Beth Bathe, Crystal Moll, Janice Kirsh, Jill Basham, Kathey Daywalt, Murray Taylor and Tim Bell are on display. The Royal Sonesta will be providing wine and appetizers…Politics will not be discussed…one can only hope!

The Crystal Moll Gallery is located in Federal Hill @ 1030 South Charles Street. The current exhibition at the gallery is “Cityscapes”.

<><><><><><><><><><>Guerrilla Girls Inspired Election Night Party
Tuesday, November 8th : 8-10pm

Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive : 21218

Gather at the BMA for a special election night event inspired by the new Front Room: Guerrilla Girls exhibition. Make political posters and masks; join in-gallery conversations on the intersection of art and politics with BMA curators and educators; and stay up-to-date on election results. Enjoy music by DJ Isabejja, cash bar and concessions provided by Alma Cocina Latina, and more.

Co-sponsored by Center Stage and the League of Women Voters of Baltimore City, a nonpartisan organization which encourages informed and active participation in civic life through education and advocacy.

<><><><><><><><><><>Jerrell Gibbs “Franklin Perspective Series”
Wednesday, November 9th : 7-9pm

Nu Beginnings Barbershop
1047 Hollins Street : 21223

Nu Beginnings Barbershop is pleased to announce the public showing of Jerrell Gibbs “Franklin Perspective Series”. In a time of great turmoil, Gibbs uses Franklin from the Peanuts Gang, as a tool to paint the picture of the American black male experience of 2015-2016. The showcase is free and open to the public at 1047 Hollins Street, in the heart of Baltimore’s historic Sowebo neighborhood.

This will be the last showing of the “Franklins Perspective Series” in Baltimore before touring in other major cities. First stop, Chicago’s Life Creative!

“Franklins Perspective Series”, is a two week exhibit showcasing over 20 pieces by Jerrell Gibbs, in addition to four of his latest never before seen creations. The series is composed of works highlighting various topics such as male identity, masculinity, public education and social issues; curated by Troy Staton.

Nu Beginnings Barbershop will host the showcase on Saturday, November 19th from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. at 1047 Hollins street. Owner Troy Staton and artist Jerrell Gibbs will welcome guests with light refreshments and music.

<><><><><><><><><><>After the Baltimore Uprising: Still Waiting for Change – Community Forum
Wednesday, November 9th : 7-9pm

MICA Lazarus Center Auditorium
131 West North Avenue : 21201

Baltimore Rising is an exhibition bringing together a broad survey of works by 15 artists — with significant ties to Baltimore — who address the social, economic, political and racial issues that propelled the city to the national spotlight in 2015.

Artists: Derrick Adams, Lauren Adams, Devin Allen, Sonya Clark, J.M. Giordano, Logan Hicks, Jeffrey Kent, Nate Larson, Nether, Olivia Robinson, Paul Rucker, Joyce J. Scott, Tony Shore, Shinique Smith and Susan Waters-Eller.

Are we any better off today than we were in April 2015? What has changed? What still needs to change? Baltimore Bloc coordinator Ralikh Hayes, #WestWednesday organizer Tawanda Jones, Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson, author D. Watkins and JHU professor Lester Spence (moderator) will talk about where we are now, selective policing and the DOJ report.

Space is limited, please RSVP for the Community Forum.

<><><><><><><><><><>Back in a Moment – Exhibition + Gallery Opening Reception
Thursday, November 10th : 7-9pm

Grimaldis Projects
523 North Charles Street : 21201

C. Grimaldis Projects is pleased to announce its inaugural exhibition, Back In A Moment, featuring paintings by Ylva Ceder and Gretchen Scherer which depict a series of empty rooms. These parlors, halls and living rooms are united by the sense of presence which pervades them– as if their inhabitants had just stepped away or were soon due to return. Both painters interrogate the emotional life of domestic space, in which the domains we witness are marked deeply by the memories and events they have absorbed.

In place of the traditional Biblical imagery which would adorn conventional Swedish furnishings, Ceder’s wall-paintings, rugs and cabinets are interwoven with hybrid elements from global Islamic iconography. In this subversion the artist seeks to reimagine culture, faith and conquest with a new sentimental symbology, re-staging a different version of what could possibly have been. Scherer’s parlors inhabit such a fluid moment; figures in the paintings’ paintings seem almost to step out of their frames. Past exists with present; imagination with reality; the living with the dead. Are we alone in the room, or was there someone with us all along? These uncanny spaces are charged with simultaneity, haunted by the desire to cling fast to memory and make it one’s own.

<><><><><><><><><><>New Sounds for Silent Films
Thursday, November 10th : 7pm

The Walters Art Museum
600 North Charles Street : 21201

A trip to the cinema in the early days of film meant listening to a live music performance, which might change from venue to venue. In conjunction with the special exhibition A Feast for the Senses, the Walters and the Maryland Film Festival have invited musicians Jamal Moore, Ami Dang, and WUME to create and perform new scores for three silent films. Films include: Moon 1969, Asparagus, and Time Piece.

Maryland Film Festival members can register for free. Email [email protected] or call 410-752-8083 for the member code.

About the films:

Moon 1969
1969
Directed by Scott Bartlett

Blurred television tapes of the Apollo 11 moon trip, alternating explosions of blank and color film, music, the voice of an astrologer discussing “all-ness,” love, and the stars, and abstract film patterns combine to create what the director describes as a “cosmic mind flight.”

Asparagus
1979
Directed by Suzan Pitt

This candy coloured nightmare rocked audiences upon its release and catapulted maker Suzan Pitt to the front ranks of indie animation.

Time Piece
1969
Directed by Jim Henson

Time Piece is a 1965 experimental short film directed, written, produced by and starring Jim Henson. The film depicts an ordinary man moving in constant motion, in a desperate attempt to escape the passage of time.

Presented in partnership with the Maryland Film Festival.

<><><><><><><><><><>Andrés Neuman: How to Travel Without Seeing
Thursday, November 10th : 7:30pm

Bird in Hand
11 East 33rd Street : 21218

Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of “not seeing.” But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his trip provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin America in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move, generating a kinetic work that is at once puckish and poetic, aphoristic and brimming with curiosity. Even so-called non-places—airports, hotels, taxis—are turned into powerful symbols full of meaning.

A dual Argentine-Spanish citizen, he incisively explores cultural identity and nationality, immigration and globalization, history and language and turbulent current events. Above all, Neuman investigates the artistic lifeblood of Latin America, tackling with gusto not only literary heavyweights such as Bolaño, Vargas Llosa, Lorca and Galeano, but also an emerging generation of authors and filmmakers whose impact is now making ripples worldwide.

Eye-opening and charmingly offbeat, How to Travel without Seeing: Dispatches from the New Latin America is essential reading for anyone interested in the past, present and future of the Americas.

<><><><><><><><><><>Rent Party with Moms as Entrepreneurs, Invested Impact, & Impact Hub
Thursday, November 10th : 6pm

Impact Hub
10 East North Avenue : 21201

Join Moms as Entrepreneurs, Invested Impact, and Impact Hub Baltimore for a party to support early-stage scholarships and residencies at The Cube and Impact Hub Baltimore.

Moms as Entrepreneurs, Invested Impact and Impact Hub Baltimore have a shared mission of making entrepreneurship in Baltimore more accessible. Access to low-cost, flexible work space, tailored amenities and resources, and a supportive peer network greatly improves an early-stage entrepreneurs’ chances for success.

Your contribution helps the Cube and Impact Hub Baltimore maximize the number of scholarships and discounts that we can give out!

Donate directly to the Cube’s scholarship fund!

Become a recurring donor to the Impact Hub Scholarship Fund and receive member benefits by signing up for a Community Membership today! Or make a one off donation to Impact Hub’s Scholarship Fund!

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Joyride // The Re-Education // Biological Controls – Opening Receptions
Friday, November 11th : 6-9pm

School 33
1427 Light Street : 21230

Joyride

Joe Crawford Pile, Steven Jones, John Ralston V, and Kevin Michael Runyon

In this exuberant mixed-media group exhibition, four Baltimore artists plumb the depths of their childhood obsessions, give in to the effects of commoditization and runaway indulgence, and attempt to redefine the familiar through the invention of their own material languages.

Using a mixture of joint compound, latex paint, and resin, John Ralston performs a veritable archeological dig into his sculptural relief surfaces, exploring the mark-making capacity of various construction tools. With his paintings, both hard-edged and gestural, Kevin Runyon scrutinizes an intemperate consumer culture saturated in excess and instant gratification. Sculptor Steven R. Jones invites viewers to physically explore the complexities of our relationship with food while interacting with his fully functioning coin-operated ‘kiddie’ rides in the shape of cuts of meat. Joe Crawford Pile’sprocess-oriented paintings explore his rural Kentucky childhood fascination with the sights and sounds of muscle car burnouts, low-flying military aircraft, and the diesel groans of approaching combine harvesters.

The Re-Education

C. Harvey

The Re-Education is an exhibition featuring mixed media and sculptural works, photography, and text in an introspective analysis of the internal and external forces that have helped condition the gifted black mind. Exploring the emotional and psychological factors that cause and enforce the poverty mindset, the collection presents a new perspective on the narrative of institutional, social, societal, economic, and generational pathology that lend a hand in perpetuating the misunderstanding and exploitation of the 21st century black in America.

Harvey (aka The Creator C) is a self-taught visual artist from Baltimore City. She is the founder ofBaltimore’s Gifted, an art and e-commerce initiative for African American youth in Baltimore City, is both a Baltimore Social Innovation fellow and a Baltimore Corps fellow, as well as Mobile Maker Coordinator for Open Works.

Biological Controls: If It Bleeds We Can Kill It

Phaan Howng

Through cinema-sized landscape paintings, sculptures, and installations, Phaan Howng stages the sublime and formidable beauty of an Earth post-human life, discussing what she terms as an “optimistic post-apocalypse.” Influenced by her sympathy for nature (and disappointment in humanity), Howng’s work deals with the current crises of world ecology and the Anthropocene era.  Biological Controls: If It Bleeds We Can Kill It is an immersive environment based on her concept of a nature-built defense system—an organic war chest in which flora and fauna unify to overwhelm, confuse, and to make itself inhospitable should humans reappear. Howng draws influence from the John McTiernan movie Predator, where the roles between humans and the environment are reversed and the environment becomes the Predator and humans are the hunted.

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Your Funeral – Opening Reception
Friday, November 11th : 7-10pm

Terrault
218 West Saratoga Street : 21201

Join us on Friday, November 11th for the Opening Reception for YOUR FUNERAL

Featuring the work of:
Jacy Catlin
Binny Debbie
Lesser Gonzalez
Michael Anthony Farley
Janea Kelly
Maya Martinez
Lexie Mountain

This is a group show, this is slab culture, the end, the reiteration of the word. This is fun: sad fun, difficult fun, a branded sense of refusal, obscuration, compulsion. We cannot stop, yet we so desperately wish to be able to, and at the same time we are happy? The text rearranges itself on the page, some of this is out of our control, some of us are just rowing a boat trying to avoid the day-to-day, a text dies and is reborn to us. A cold hand on a warm tablet and the joke which keeps us most alive is the one about persistence in the LCD luminous face of futility and obsolescence. Or was it the one about perspiration? Inspiration or aspiration? What constitutes a lasting percentage, a gift from the beyond the grave?

<><><><><><><><><><>XXChange Symposium : Flipping the Narrative
Saturday, November 12th : 10am-5pm

Area 405
405 East Oliver Street : 21202

A series of panel discussions and artist talks exploring the many facets of identity in art, craft, and design.

XXChange jurors Myrtis Bedolla, Zoe Charlton, Breon Gilleran, and Megan Van Wagoner will talk about their perspectives and experiences collecting, curating, and jurying artwork.
More participants to be announced

10a-11:30am Curator’s panel and gallery tour
11a-12:30pm Art & Craft
1p-2pm A conversation: Women in Craft
2p-3pm Transforming Materials
3:30p-4:30pm Exploring Gender through Practice

<><><><><><><><><><>David Page: Security Theatre Performance
Saturday, November 12th : 7pm *sharp*

The Creative Alliance
3134 Eastern Avenue : 21224

Security Theatre is a full-gallery summation of Page’s multiple bodies of work, including “Care & Punishment,” which combines handmade, full-body restraining harnesses attached to bellows-driven breathing devices.  During the opening reception, and on Saturday, November 12th, live performers will inhabit the suits while visitors will pump the bellows that enable the performers to breathe inside  handmade restraining suits.  The reciprocal behavior between performer and viewer echoes the lack of culpability the public has with its governing bodies concerning the care and treatment of prisoners that they would never interact with directly. Other bodies of work, such as “Protective Services,” deal with the United States’ pervasive climate of caution, including the padding that’s been created for common infrastructure, such as building corners or railings. These installations speak to a nation that worries, pads, and buffers itself against the tiniest potential threat while ignoring actual danger, which is evident in the proliferation of oversized SUVs, airbags, side-impact air curtains, car seats for nine-year-olds, and warning tags and labels on everything. Through its installations and performances, Security Theatre boldly addresses the atmosphere of fear and false security in economically developed nations.

<><><><><><><><><><>Between the Screens: An Inside Look at New Ways to Make Movies
Saturday, November 12th : 7pm 

MICA Brown Center
1301 West Mount Royal Avenue : 21217

Conversation Only – 7pm in the MICA Brown Center, Falvey Hall Auditorium
All Access Patrons – Cocktails at 6pm, Conversation at 7pm, and Dinner at 8:30pm (Cocktails and Dinner in the MICA Main Building)

Join the Maryland Film Festival for a unique fundraiser to support our year-round programming and to celebrate the upcoming opening of the newly restored Stavros Niarchos Foundation Parkway Film Center in Spring 2017.

This open conversation is an opportunity to engage with independent filmmakers and their work, gaining insight into how the explosion of high-quality original shows from services like HBO, Amazon, Netflix, Showtime, AMC, and Starz is opening new avenues of storytelling.

FEATURED PANELISTS

Lodge Kerrigan – The Girlfriend Experience (writer/director), Keane (writer/director), Homeland (writer)
Marielle Heller – Diary of a Teenage Girl (writer/director), Transparent (director)
And other special guests

TICKETS

Conversation Only $40 (Friends of the Festival special discount price of $30)
All Access Patrons $200 – Cocktails, Conversation & Dinner
Table Patrons $5000 – 10 All Access tickets to Cocktails, Conversation and Dinner plus sponsorship of 10 Conversation Only student tickets

<><><><><><><><><><>Elizabeth Burin: Near and Far – Opening Reception
Sunday, November 13th : 1-4pm 

Bismark/Wilson Gallery
1760 Bank Street : 21231

<><><><><><><><><><>Charm City Fringe Festival Closing Party + Awards
Sunday, November 13th : 7pm 

The Mercury Theater
1823 North Charles Street : 21201

Close out the 2016 Charm City Fringe Festival in *style*!

Come out for the final installment of Fringe After Dark and find out this year’s Best of Fringe and Audience Choice Award winners!

It’s FREE! Your admission gets you complimentary snacks and pizza by Joe Squared, special musical performances, and a photo booth by Pixilated! We’ll be pouring all night, so bring your Fringe button and celebrate the close of our 5th anniversary festival!

Featuring musical guests Voodoo Pharmacology and Fractal Cat

In association with OKAY Recordings

<><><><><><><><><><>The Fragility of Black Bodies and Why It Matters with Kaye Whitehead, Matthew Mulcahy, Cheryl Derricotte and Nate Lewis
Monday, November 14th : 7-8pm 

Julio Fine Arts
Loyola University Maryland : 21210

The Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola University Maryland presents Fragile Vessels, an exhibit of work by Cheryl Derricotte and Nate Lewis. Derricotte’s work on glass and paper is shaped by home (or homelessness); natural beauty (or disasters), memories of happiness (or loss).  Both glass and paper are translucent and seemingly fragile, yet they are hearty enough to survive the passage of time between civilizations. Originally from Washington, DC, Derricotte lives and makes art in the San Francisco Bay Area. She holds the Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), the Master of Regional Planning from Cornell University and a B.A. from Barnard College, Columbia University.  Awards include Emerging Artist at the Museum of the African Diaspora; Gardarev Center Fellow; Art Alliance for Contemporary Glass’ Visionary Scholarship and a D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities/ National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship Grant.

Join us for a panel discussion on Monday, Nov. 14 at 7 p.m. in the gallery. In the exhibition, Nate Lewis uses the fragile materiality of paper to interrogate the fragility of the human body– especially, the African American body—while Cheryl Derricotte uses the fragile and seemingly transparent material of glass to explore the simultaneous effacement and insistent presence of the African American experience in American history. In this discussion, Lewis and Derricotte will join Loyola professors Mulcahy, Dept. of History, and Whitehead, Dept. of Communications, to discuss representations of the black body in art, history, and contemporary media.

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BmoreArt Magazine Launch Party Thursday, November 17, 6-8 at The Walters

At this point, we just want to cry, but we do know it feels important to be together and celebrate the community that we have built together in Baltimore. We’re still living in a blue state and we will fight for that which is important to us.

We hope you will join us next Thursday at the Walters to raise a glass, share a hug, and refocus our efforts on building a future that is inclusive and diverse.

Tickets support our next publication and there are limited numbers available of young artist ($15), culture producer ($25), and benefactor with the T-shirt to prove it ($50). We appreciate your continued support and we hope that this night will begin to heal and strengthen us as a community in Baltimore.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bmoreart-magazine-launch-3-tickets-28405004132