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Matthew McConville: Minument on Thursday, Dec. 3 in the Minstallation Gallery

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Tomorrow, December 3 from 5:30 – 7:30, please join us to celebrate “Minument” by Matthew McConville.

“Minument” is the latest miniature installation in the Minstallation Gallery at the Creative Alliance. McConville has completely transformed the space and this minstallation is not to be missed! The show will be on view until December 19.

“Every day, hundreds if not thousands of Baltimoreans pass by the Mt. Vernon Square monument to Roger B. Taney, who penned the Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, denying the rights of African Americans to citizenship. Here, painter Matthew McConville reimagines the statue’s fabrication, with Taney’s head toppled on the ground and replaced with Scott’s. Minument: Reconstruction is a diminutive installment in the artist’s gently absurd series of works looking at the place of monuments and natural wonders in the American landscape. How and why do we construct our monuments? Where do we place them, and how does that speak to our culture’s priorities? Finally, what do a people choose to remember, and what happens as the memories – but not the object – change or fade over time?”

CREATIVE ALLIANCE WEBSITE:
http://www.creativealliance.org/events/eventItem2001.html

MINSTALLATION BLOG:
http://minstallation.blogspot.com/2009/11/matthew-mcconville-minument.html

MATTHEW MCCONVILLE WEBSITE:
http://matthewmcconville.com/index.html

Minstallation Gallery
Creative Alliance at the Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore

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