BmoreArt

Matthew Barney’s Cremaster 4 and Drawing Restraint 10 will be screened at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 29, in Homewood’s Shriver Hall Auditorium at John Hopkins University.

The screenings—presented by the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in partnership with Johns Hopkins’ Film and Media Studies Program and the JHU Film Society—accompany Mixed Signals: Artists Consider Masculinity in Sports, a traveling exhibition on display through Dec. 12 at UMBC.

The exhibition was organized and is circulated by iCI (Independent Curators International). The exhibition and tour are made possible, in part, by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, iCI Advocates, iCI Partners, Agnes Gund, Gerrit and Sydie Lansing, and Barbara and John Robinson.

* Posted by Jess Kemp for BmoreArt

The Pendulum, The Pit, and Hope opens at Metro Gallery November 7th and will be showing until November 29th.

This work strives to find the most overlooked or ordinarily mundane subjects and locate the corner where it all gets weird. To witness the irk in life. Little explorations in the moment between a grim reality and a possibly great reality, the space between despair and enlightenment. There is a comfort there, as these sensations are the sustenance of life, but there is also the spook of fate in our bones.

The photographs conjure this sensation while giving new light to the spook. There is always a sense of hope in all these mixed emotions, if one resists the whitewashing methods of this America and the dumbing, numbing, narrowing down of letting fear live here. The photographs are carefully conceived in seconds. The work is often composed entirely of painterly moods from hues, stark instances, quaint folks or insect perspectives. The camera for Natasha, lives in this hope and that spook, and channels it by hand.

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