Part of an initiative to bring art to new sites within and around the building, this installation by Barbara Kruger will fill the Lower Level lobby and extend into the newly relocated Museum bookstore. Famous for her incisive photomontages, Kruger has focused increasingly over the past two decades on creating environments that surround the viewer with language. The entire space—walls, floor, escalator sides—will be wrapped in text-printed vinyl, immersing visitors in a spectacular hall of voices, where words either crafted by the artist or borrowed from the popular lexicon address conflicting perceptions of democracy, power, and belief.
Jim Condron and Dean Kessmann Scavenge the Mundane for Lyrical Moments
The poet William Carlos Williams proposes that an artist show, not tell, the meaning of things, and between Jim Condron’s gathering and Dean Kessmann’s documentation of the everyday object or scene we must assume they follow this call.
Baltimore art news updates from independent & regional media
Local coverage of the BMA's Flashback exhibition, Deutsch Foundation names George A. Hopkins as Jane Brown's successor, Ben Shockey joins Baltimore Jewelry Center as Interim Director, Hamiltonian Artists announces new fellowship cohort, Alanah Nichole Davis recommends 4 small gallery shows, and more
How the Gallery's Business Model is Working for Local Artists and Buyers Alike
The numbers prove that co-owners Kristin Wiebe and Sonny Lacey are doing something right. Since opening, they have shown 41 artists, and in six and a half years, they have paid out $414,000—an average of over $7000 per painter.