By recontextualizing personal and universal experiences and focusing on artists who are Black, Indigenous, and people of color, the show presents an opportunity for other BIPOC artists to continue breaking the mold of what abstraction can look like: a fundamentally multifaceted form of expression.
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New Works, Baltimore’s own showcase of experimental, adventurous short filmmaking returns this week to bring together filmmakers and cineastes alike.
This Week: a reception for Baltimore Community Foundation Gallery's inaugural exhibition, Lavett Ballard, Monica Ikegwu, and Megan Lewis give an artist talk for Galerie Myrtis, Open Works 6th anniversary, 2022 Doors Open Baltimore kick-off celebration, William Cordova at the BMA, and more!
Aesthetic intimacy shifts us from positions of consumer-consumable into the relational reciprocity that can shift the way we perceive art and artists.
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Walker hitchhiked to Baltimore at age 18 and fell in love with the architecture and culture of the city immediately.
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The book's title, River’s Dream, comes from Hatleberg's desire for his child to be able to enter the same dream state of heightened perception he himself works in.
Although this will be his first in-person performance with High Zero, Chacon performed in High Zero’s virtual festival in 2020 with Tatsuya Nakatani and Carlos Santistevan.
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Curated by Kader Attia and titled Still Here!, this year’s edition mulls the lasting impacts of colonialism, modernity, globalization, and ecological exploitation and collapse—as well as dozens of tangentially related ills.
There are no speakers to amplify the sounds; everything reverberates through the materials and the architecture of the gallery.
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Issue 13 considers the act of collecting as a source of inspiration for artists, a community supporting economic practice, and a method for meaningful engagement in the world. Featured artists include Brandon Donahue, Linda Franklin, Deyane Moses, Jordan Tierney, the Baltimore Jewelry Center, and the DoMa Gallery.
Stories from Issue 13: Collect
No longer an athlete, or even a die-hard sports fan, Donahue is more concerned with the storytelling aspects of sports.
To arrive at their resting place, items found at the bottom of a privy had to fall often ten or more feet, often out of someone’s back pocket, the same way many of us have dropped a cellphone in the modern toilet.
The objects Tierney employs trigger memories and personal associations, but they also represent systems, histories, industries and labor, and the environmental impact of it all.
To list the items that Riddleberger has saved from landfills would take a building as large as the 1885 gas company “valve house” in South Baltimore where he keeps his collection of curios: an architectural salvage business called Housewerks.