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The Artscape Deluge … all the places you need to be this week by Cara Ober

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ARTIST’S TALK AT CIVILIAN THIS SATURDAY

OPENING THURSDAY, JULY 12:
Variable Views: Identify at Villa Julie College Gallery, Reception 6-8 pm

OPENING FRIDAY, JULY 13:
Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize at The BMA – Finalists Exhibition, 5-8:30pm. (The 2007 winner will announced at 7pm)
RSVP Margo Wright, [email protected], 410-752-8632

Shapes & Sizes at Area 405 (The official Sondheim after party), 8-11pm

Clique at Metro Gallery – Group Exhibition
Opening Reception July 13, 7-8:30 pm, with music and a $5 cover from 9-1 a.m. Music by the Payola Reserve (CD Release), Jason Dove and the Magic Whip, The Expotentials, and The John Hardy Boys.

OPENINGS SATURDAY, JULY 14
Noon-2pm – Accumulation at Goucher College
1-3pm – A Confluence of Raconteurs at Towson University
1:30-3:30pm – Visions of Conflict: Rendering Dissent at College of Notre Dame
2-4pm – Period Pieces at Eubie Blake Cultural Center
2:30-4:30pm – Multiple Artists at School 33 Art Center
3-5pm – Transparent Dialogs at The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville
3:30-5:30pm – Artscape in Sowebo “Get Over It” at Sowebo Art Gallery
6-8pm – PLASTIC: Landscape, Cityscape, Lifescape at Creative Alliance

PLASTIC: Landscape, Cityscape, Lifescape
An Artscape Satellite Exhibition curated by Annie Ewaskio
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
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Photo: Bridget Sue Lambert
On view July 5 – July 21, 2007
From McMansions to McMuffins, prefab replicas of original commodities are part of the nation’s DNA. When imitation culture permeates our environment, familiarity redefines itself and alters our personalities, senses of identity, and originality. A collection of sugar-coated pop collages, light sculpture, photographs, designs and paintings details the effects – real or imagined – of the changing landscape in the United States.

7-9pm – Anonymous Rage at Sub-Basement Artists Studios

7-10pm – RUMORS; politics~celebrities~high school~myspace~urban myths~text messaging~blogging~fabrications~propaganda at Current Gallery

OPENINGS THURSDAY, JULY 19 (Artscape On-Site Openings)
6-8pm – Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalists in the Decker & Meyerhoff galleries

6-8pm – Maximum Approach in the Bunting Center (There’ll be some great performances at this)Maximum Approach, July 19 – 22. Maximum Approach is a two collective show featuring the works of PaperRad (Providence, RI and Pittsburgh, PA) and Crystal Coven (Baltimore, MD). Both collectives share in common the utilization of incredibly realized groupspeak-while maintaining clear voices of the individual- and often incredibly overwhelming aesthetic approaches. The two separate installations promise to draw the visitors wholly and entirely in to the two camps’ hyper realized worlds of damaged pop culture overload and creepy witchy mystery… the opening reception with artists in attendance is not to be missed. Curator: Brendan Fowler, co-editor, ANPQuarterly, music and text based artist under the name BARR.

6-8pm – Baltimore Sculpture Project on Mt. Royal Ave. & other places

6-9pm – Ceci n’est pas a Booth, Kiosk or Gazebo and Other Radical Shacks in the Food Court (Lot’s of performances at this one)

6-8pm – Through at Theatre Project

5-11pm – MakeBakeFakeCake – An Edible Art Event at Load of Fun Galerie (check details on the evening, 9pm party has a cover)

EXHIBITS YOU’VE ALREADY MISSED (but you can still see the show):

Strength and Grace: new 2D and 3D work by Kini Collins from July 7 – July 31 at Gallery G, The Rotunda, 711 W. 40th Street, 410.235.9060
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City Bird – 13″ x 12″ -2007 – joint compound and acrylic paint on wood

“Larry Scott: People I See” at Touchet Gallery. 536 S. Ann Street in Fells Point.
This is the artist’s first solo exhibition since his critically acclaimed ‘Evolution of Depression’ series, and his first solo ever at Touchet Gallery. Larry Scott has attracted an almost cult-like following by important collectors and art appreciators across the globe. Needing no introduction in Baltimore , where Scott currently resides, the artist continues to evolve his works with indescribable passion.

NU CLEAR EXPLOSION at Gallery 2D, 218 E Preston St, apt 2D
Opening Friday July 6, 2007 from 7-10pm
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