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This Week:Levester Williams in conversation with Sheila Gaskins and Savannah Knoop at UMBC CADVC, Creatives in the Garden at Stem&Vine, Misty Copeland at UMBC, Bill Schmidt, Annette Sauermann, and Madeleine Dietz opening receptions at C. Grimaldis Gallery, Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company at the BMA, FS x Greedy Reads present HIDDEN PALACE, Merkin Dream II at MAP, Station North Art Walk, Social Contracts opening reception at Current, and Ornamenta at Baltimore Jewelry Center — PLUS The Art of Racing call for entry and more featured opportunities!

 

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Art Research Residency: Levester Williams
Tuesday, March 5 :: 6-7pm
@ UMBC CADVC

Join Levester Williams (artist in residence at the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture) for a conversation with collaborators Sheila Gaskins and Savannah Knoop on his current work in progress, “dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore” (2021–2024).

Levester Williams is a multimedia artist whose artistic production is rooted in explorations of the relationships between the material and social worlds. His sculptural work and multichannel video projects have been exhibited in museums and art spaces nationally and internationally. In the 2023–2024 academic year, Williams is making a series of visits to UMBC and Baltimore to complete a new filmic work under the project title “dreaming of a beyond: Baltimore.” Williams is researching the histories of Cockeysville (Maryland) marble, a material used in many salient objects in the local built environment, including the Washington Monument and iconic exterior steps of Baltimore rowhomes. The movement art documented in Williams’s film is an embodied consideration of the labor histories, and mythologies, surrounding this complex material. In Williams’s words, the project underscores the “intertwined history of African-Americans’ plight to self-determined agency and full citizenship, and a rather benign stone.”

The Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture hosts an exploratory research residency that allows artists and interdisciplinary collaborators to take advantage of scholarly resources and to build partnerships at UMBC and in the Baltimore region. Artists In Residence (AIRs) are invited to pursue open-ended outcomes, and their engagements may develop into workshops, artworks, or other future projects. Among the artists the CADVC welcomes this season is Tomashi Jackson.

For additional information, please visit the CADVC’s page on Artist Research Residencies.

Admission is free, but space is limited. Please rsvp here to reserve a space.

 

 

Creatives in the Garden: Biweekly Happy Hour
Wednesday, March 6 :: 5-7pm
@ Stem&Vine

A biweekly creatives Happy Hour for creatives in Baltimore’s newest plant & wine shop in Downtown Baltimore. Located at 326 N. Charles St, Baltimore, MD, our biweekly Happy Hour is free and open to all creatives in the DMV from 5–7 PM. Share your offers, sip some wine, and connect with photographers, designers, musicians, artists, and makers in a lush, plant-filled oasis. Bring a business card and get ready to connect with creatives in Baltimore and beyond! Hosted by Denae Creative and Stem&Vine.

 

 

Artful Conversations: An Evening with Misty Copeland
Wednesday, March 6 :: 6-7:30pm
@ UMBC

Join us for a special evening with Misty Copeland, the first African American female Principal Dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre and New York Times best selling author. In conversation with Kimberly R. Moffitt, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at UMBC, Copeland will explore a variety of topics related to dance and her career.

The evening will open with three works performed by UMBC dance students.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri and raised in San Pedro, California, Misty Copeland began her ballet studies at the late age of thirteen. At fifteen, she won first place in the Music Center Spotlight Awards. She studied at the San Francisco Ballet School and American Ballet Theatre’s Summer Intensive on full scholarship and was declared ABT’s National Coca-Cola Scholar in 2000. Misty joined ABT’s Studio Company in September 2000, joined American Ballet Theatre as a member of the corps de ballet in April 2001, and in August 2007 became the company’s second African American female Soloist and the first in two decades. In June 2015, Copeland was promoted to principal dancer, making her the first African American woman to ever be promoted to the position in the company’s 75-year history.

Copeland has been featured in numerous publications and television programs, including CBS Sunday Morning, 60 Minutes, The Today Show, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, MSNBC’s Melissa Harris Perry, Vogue, Essence, Ebony, and People Magazine. She was honored with an induction into the Boys & Girls Club National Hall of Fame in May 2012 and received the “Breakthrough Award” from the Council of Urban Professionals in April 2012. She was named National Youth of the Year Ambassador for the Boys & Girls Clubs of America in June 2013. She received the Young, Gifted & Black honor at the 2013 Black Girls Rock! Awards.

Copeland is the author of the New York Times Bestselling memoir, Life in Motion, co-written with award-winning journalist and author Charisse Jones, published March 2014. She has a picture book titled Firebird in collaboration with award-winning illustrator and author Christopher Myers, published September 2014. She received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hartford in November 2014 for her contributions to classical ballet and helping to diversify the art form.

 

 

Bill Schmidt, Course of Action, 2022, gouache on panel, 14 x 11 inches

Bill Schmidt: Made (Up) & Annette Sauermann + Madeleine Dietz: Earth, Light, Paper, Steel | Opening Receptions
Thursday, March 7 :: 6-8pm
@ C. Grimaldis Gallery

Made (Up) is a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Baltimore-based artist Bill Schmidt.

These finely crafted works explore line, color and shape to create playful and intriguing abstractions that explore the possibilities of the surface plane. Made (Up) is his second solo exhibition with C. Grimaldis Gallery.

Schmidt’s primary medium of gouache, a water-soluble paint, appears to be as much collaborator as material. He doesn’t begin his painting with a complete blueprint, but rather a form or structure in mind that is built upon during a process of action and reaction — as the painting takes shape, responding to the surface itself, textures and relationships come together. Finely constructed quality of line and light bring depth to abstracted planes, each peice imbued with playful conversations within their own composition as well as in the presence of each other. At times, similar forms are studied and re imagined in multiple paintings, altering its surroundings to explore how many characters it can take on. Schmidt embraces the limited structure of painting, finding and creating worlds within a flat rectangle. Equally, observations from the outside world are internalized and emerge in the work in the form of shapes, light, and color — bringing a sense of place and familiarity to the abstract.

Bill Schmidt (b. Trenton, NJ) received his BFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA) and his MFA from the Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA (Baltimore, MD). He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Semmes G. Walsh Award from Baker Artists Awards and was named Best in Show by the Bethesda Painting Awards in 2015. Schmidt has held various solo exhibitions including VisArts (Rockville, MD), C. Grimaldis Gallery (Baltimore, MD), and Peale House Gallery (Philadelphia, PA). Selected group exhibitions include Mono Practice (Baltimore, MD), Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), Newark Museum (Newark, NJ), and Chateau de Rochefort-en-Terre (Rochefort-en-Terre, FR). In 1996, he became a Resident Artist at MICA’s Post-Baccalureate Program in Fine Art, a position he held until he was appointed the Interim Director in 2001.He continued as the program’s Director from 2006 to 2019.

 

C. Grimaldis Gallery is pleased to present Earth, Light, Paper, Steel, a two-person exhibition of work by German sculptors Annette Sauermann and Madeleine Dietz. This survey display of drawings and wall structures reimagine architectural forms to build new perspectives on abstraction and functionality. The artists last showed together at the Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2011. Their work was brought together in a dialogue concerning materiality and labor. By employing basic raw materials – earth, light, paper, steel – the sculptors bring forward questions of man’s constant desire to construct space, while allowing the viewer to dictate how that space will be navigated.

Sauermann’s translucent acrylic wall sculptures respond to the ambient light in a room. Their rich color creates a luminosity that vibrates through the space in stark contrast to the stoic mixed media drawings of similar form. Dietz’s work responds with texture, disrupting clean geometry with organic, cracked earth. The materials in her sculptures are inherently dichotomous, yet their kindred hard surfaces communicate ideas of decay. Both Sauermann and Dietz consider space to be an integral part of the work; embracing formalism, building tension in materials, balancing the natural and the industrial.

Annette Sauermann (b. 1957, Essan, Germany) studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Aachen, Germany from 1979 to 1986. She has produced recent solo exhibitions at Galerie Linde Hollinger (Ladenburg), Galerie Lausberg (Düsseldorf), Galerie ARTFORUM (Antwerpen, Belgium), and Galerie Claude Samuel (Paris, France). Sauermann is included in many of Germany’s most prominent collections, including the Ludwig Foundation in Aachen, the Museum Ritter in Waldenbuch, the Museum Biedermann Art.Plus in Donaueschingen, the Agathe and Maximilian Weidhaupt Collection in Munich, the Schroth Collection in Soest, and the Foundation Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf.

Madeleine Dietz was (b. 1953, Mannheim, Germany) has exhibited widely throughout Europe and the United states including Galerie Georg Nothelfer (Berlin), Galerie Sonja Roesch (Houston, TX), Museum der Minoriten (Graz), Galerie Linde Holinger (Ladensburg), and Ernst Barlach Museum (Ratzeburg), among others. Her work is in many museums and private collections, including the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Wilhelm – Hack Museum (Ludwigshafen), Museum of Contemporary Art (Neubrandenburg), and the New Museum (Weserburg). She has concurrent exhibitions at Galerie Georg Nothelfer (Berlin) and Galerie Sonja Roesch (Houston, TX).

 

 

 

 

We Choose to Go to the Moon Dance Performance
Thursday, March 7 :: 6:30-7:30pm
@ The Baltimore Museum of Art

Join the Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company, Washington D.C.’s preeminent modern dance company, for a performance of We Choose to Go to the Moon. A reference to a line in President John F. Kennedy’s 1962 speech that launched the Space Race, We Choose to Go to the Moon is an ode to a generation that realized a dream, and that still inspires our ideas about outer space today.

The score features nostalgic music from the 1950s and 1960s and interviews that convey various perspectives of the universe, from scientists and astronauts to cultural beliefs. The score also includes the voices of Bruce McCandless II, a former Apollo Mission astronaut; Dr. Chryssa Kouveliotou, an astrophysicist who researches black holes, neutron stars, and gamma-ray bursts; Dr. Neil Gehrels, an experimental physicist working in astronomy; Dr. Jim Zimbelman, a National Air and Space Museum geologist who researches geo-logic mapping of Mars and Venus; and Mary Motah Weahkee, a Santa Fe-based medicine woman, anthropologist, and archeologist whose father was an electrician for the Apollo missions and whose childhood best friend Tamara Jernigan became an astronaut.

Enjoy a post-performance conversation with Dana Tai Soon Burgess, choreographer and the dance company’s founding artist director.

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” –President John F. Kennedy

 

 

FS x Greedy Reads present HIDDEN PALACE
Thursday, March 7 :: 7pm
@ Fadensonnen

FS x Greedy Reads present HIDDEN PALACE
A reading featuring:
Dora Malech
Kelsey Norris
Alexander Sammartino
Colin Winnette

Thursday March 7th at 7pm
FS Upstairs Tavern
3 W 23rd St Baltimore
supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council

 

 

Merkin Dream II
Thursday, March 7 :: 7pm
@ Maryland Art Place

MERKIN DREAM II
Featuring Baltimore Designer, KENN HALL
Thursday, March 7th @ 7pm

Maryland Art Place (MAP) in collaboration with Baltimore-based fashion designer Kenn Hall is proud to present Merkin Dream II, a runway show. The first Merkin Dream show was held during the 100th Anniversary of the women’s suffrage movement during the Covid pandemic. At that time MAP leaned heavily on themes of women’s rights, sex work as work, body image, digital euphoria and absurdity.

This March we aim to take a look at the merkin through the lens of haute couture. “Very recently John Galliano’s latest Maison Margiela Artisanal show went viral. In the light of the proliferation of perfectly plucked porn stars many are worryingly blasé about, the Edwardian-esque figures were rather quaintly refreshing. The show was also notable for its embrace of a swathe of body shapes,” says Victoria Moss for the Standard.

Merkin Dream II will be an exclusive event and limited to only 75 guests due to capacity limitations. MAP is located at 218 West Saratoga Street between Park and Howard Streets just within the Bromo Arts & Entertainment District.

 

 

Station North Second Friday Art Walk: March 2024
Friday, March 8 :: 5-9pm
@ Station North Arts + Entertainment District

Spanning the neighborhoods of Charles North, Greenmount West, and Barclay, Station North is a diverse collection of artist live-work spaces, galleries, rowhomes, and businesses, all just steps away from Penn Station, Mount Vernon, Charles Village, the Maryland Institute College of Art, the University of Baltimore, and Johns Hopkins University.

Join us every Second Friday of the month for MONTHLY Art Walks in the neighborhood.

Check out the map for a self-guided tour! Map will continue to be updated: https://shorturl.at/fuCV6

 

 

Social Contracts | Opening Reception
Saturday, March 9 :: 7pm
@ Current Space

Current Space and Invisible Architectures, a program of Co-Lab at Towson University is proud to present Social Contracts, an exhibition of works by:
Alyssa Dennis
Andrew Awanda
Elena Volkova
Eric Garner
Jaimes Mayhew
Johab Silva
Jose Trejo Maya
Jung Won Lee
Oliver Maddox
Sandy Williams IV
Please join us for the opening reception!

Opening Reception: March 9, 7-10pm
Exhibit Runs: March 9 – April 6, 2024
Gallery Hours: Saturdays 1-5pm or by appointment
Closing Reception & Artist Talk: April 6, 2-5pm. Artist talk 3pm
Location: Current Space, 421 North Howard Street, Baltimore, MD

This exhibition is a part of the Social Contracts Festival, an interdisciplinary art festival being held in and around Baltimore, MD in the Spring of 2024. It represents the final year of the Co-Lab sponsored project, Invisible Architectures . Festival locations include Current Space, Maryland Art Place, StartUp at the Armory Gallery in Towson, MD, and more.

The term social contract started when philosophers from France to England started to think about the nature of humanity and the tensions that exist between the people who enact power and the people who do not. What are the agreed upon boundaries that exist within our social, family and political structures? How do these boundaries create or negate cognitive distance with what actually happens in any social theater?

As we approach another election year in the United States, agreements about what is included in an American social contract continue to be up for debate. Artistic interventions have the potential to offer us much needed insights and possibilities for our collective future.

 

 

Ornamenta 2024
Saturday, March 9 :: 7pm
@ Baltimore Jewelry Center

Join the Baltimore Jewelry Center March 9th for Ornamenta —our annual fundraising event which provides the BJC with the opportunity to raise much-needed funds while sharing our love of metalsmithing and art jewelry with the broader Baltimore and DMV communities.

Ornamenta is a night of celebration that includes dining, dancing, a silent auction, and a raffle. This year we’re excited to continue our fundraising in person while continuing to provide engagement opportunities for the broader jewelry community. This year, we are inspired by Sapphires for our theme!

Ornamenta helps the BJC support our mission of building a vibrant creative community for the study and practice of metalsmithing and art jewelry. By attending Ornamenta, bidding in our auction, buying raffle tickets, or by contributing to our fund-a-need, you are directly supporting a range of programs including our residency, workforce development, scholarships, and kids and teens programs.

Ticket sales will end at 1:00pm EST on March 9th. A very small selection of tickets will be available at the door.

 

 

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4th Annual Baltimore Plant and Garden Supply Swap | Call for Volunteers

Let’s gather for a free, fun afternoon to swap plants, cuttings, seeds, & garden supplies! Bring something from your houseplants or garden, take something new home. It’s a fun way to spruce up your greenery and meet friends new and existing at the start of spring. Drop by any time 2pm-4pm. The event is free, with your RSVP requested on Facebook  or here.
Volunteers: This community event is thanks to help from volunteers like you. If interested in volunteering, please let us know here.

 

 

The Art of Racing | Call for Entry
deadline March 11
posted by Maryland Jockey Club and the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA)

The Art of Racing 2024 officially opens its submission portal to artists nationwide on Monday, January 8th, with the deadline for all submissions set for Monday, March 11th. Artists of all skill level are invited to submit their depictions of Pimlico Race Course, the Preakness, or thoroughbred racing in the portal below for a chance to win two (2) VIP invitations to Preakness 149 on Saturday, May 18, 2024, together with a $4,000 prize and the opportunity to have their winning artwork replicated on branded merchandise available for sale, with proceeds benefitting Park Heights Renaissance.

Submissions of work created by artificial intelligence (AI, Midjourney, etc.) will not be accepted for consideration.

 

 

 

Teaching Artist Cohort
deadline March 11
posted by Center for Craft

The Center for Craft invites applications for its Teaching Artist Cohort, through which it will award one-time, unrestricted grants of $10,000 each to a group of 20 mid-career craft artists. Proposals are welcome from mid-career craft artists over the age of 21 who teach. For the purpose of this grant, the center defines a teaching artist as a practicing craft artist and/or maker who utilizes their skill sets and sensibilities to integrate their work and perspectives into a wide range of settings.

 

 

BRIClab Residencies
deadline March 14

BRIClab offers emerging to mid-career artists essential support and opportunities to share their work. All residents receive a $2,500 stipend, mentorship, skills-based learning and professional development, and documentation of their work. Additional support, in the form of funding, space, access to equipment and media classes, and other resources vary according to tracks. BRIClab artists will also have the opportunity to share their work through public programming that will take place in Spring and Summer 2025.

The program’s three tracks are Contemporary Art, Film + TV, and Video Art. Each track offers unique resources and opportunities designed to meet the needs of varied artistic practices.

 

 

Pinkard-Bolton Internship at Homewood Museum
deadline March 15
posted by Johns Hopkins University

NAN PINKARD-AURELIA BOLTON INTERNSHIP

Homewood Museum / Deadline: March 15, 2024

Established in honor of Anne Merrick Pinkard by lead gifts from Aurelia Garland Bolton and Hershel L. Seder, and support from the France-Merrick Foundation. This internship celebrates the lifelong friendship of these two women, and their shared devotion to Homewood Museum.

SUMMER 2024 PROJECT
This internship will include a $1,500 stipend to be paid for approximately 100 hours of work over the course of 8 weeks during Summer 2024 at Homewood Museum ($15/hour). The selected candidate will work with the Curator of Collections to arrange a schedule that works best to complete these hours.

This summer, the Pinkard-Bolton intern will conduct original research on the history of Homewood Museum, with the goal of completing an online exhibition to present their research. Work will be supervised by the JHU Museums’ Curator of Collections and will potentially include research focused on enslaved and convict labor conducted when the property was under the ownership of Samuel Wyman during the mid-19th-century. Students will be expected to conduct research on site at Homewood and possibly at other archives in the Baltimore area. Over the course of the summer, the selected student will have opportunities to conduct archival research, practice writing for a general museum audience, and gain practical experience in day-to-day museum work.

ELIGIBILITY

All candidates must be enrolled as undergraduate students at the Johns Hopkins University and must have some relevant coursework in at least one of the following: American art, American architecture, American history, anthropology, material culture, education, or the Museums & Society Program. Information on Homewood Museum may be found online at https://museums.jhu.edu.

TO APPLY
Applicants should submit a resume or curriculum vitae, a reference letter from a professor or previous supervisor, as well as a letter of interest describing interests and relevant experience by Friday, March 15, 2024. All materials should be emailed to Curator of Collections Michelle Fitzgerald at [email protected].

QUESTIONS
Interested Johns Hopkins undergraduate students are welcome to contact Michelle Fitzgerald at [email protected].

 

 

Champaign County African American Heritage Trail Mural Series
deadline March 15

40 North and the Champaign County African American Heritage Trail invite muralists to submit an application to develop location-specific murals celebrating the lives and contributions of African Americans in the Champaign County area.  Murals have always been powerful tools to educate, connect, and inform community members about a wide variety of topics including honoring our unique local history. Funding for this mural series is made available through the Experience Champaign-Urbana Foundation and a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity. Submissions must be received by midnight, March 15, 2024.

The mission of the Champaign County African American Heritage Trail is to educate today’s residents and visitors about the rich cultural history of a people whose stories have been largely unrecognized, but who directly shaped the place we call home. The vision is to inspire conversation, expand understanding, and contribute to a better society. An important goal for the Trail is to provide an accessible experience for visitors and all community members.

 

 

New Work Development Artist Residency
deadline March 15
posted by Texas A&M

The School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts at Texas A&M University is excited to announce its inaugural New Work Development Artist Residency program. The school is committed to inspiring our campus and community by incubating new works of art in an environment of creative reciprocity between scholars and artists that crosses, blurs and erases disciplinary lines.

The school was founded by three intrinsically interdisciplinary units: Dance Science (combining dance and the biological and health sciences), Visualization (uniting the fine and visual arts with computer science) and Performance Studies (a conjunction of music and theatre drawing on anthropology and related humanities fields). The New Work Development Artist Residency is designed to take advantage of these existing areas of strength, and the school’s emerging areas of new research (including music performance, music technology, devised theatre, graphic design, photo and video, painting and illustration, sculpture, choreography, virtual production, games, animation, visual computing and materials-based research). Artists in residence are invited to take advantage of the varieties of expertise and resources available in the school as they develop a new work or body of works.

While this is a development residency, artists in residence will be expected to integrate their work into the life of the school, providing opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to take part in their creative process and engaging with faculty and the wider campus community throughout the residency period. This program is designed to be mutually beneficial to the artist in residence and our students, providing the latter a high-impact educational opportunity to be present at and contribute to the creative work of the former.

 

 

Emerging Artists Cohort
deadline March 15
posted by American Craft Council

American Craft Council’s Emerging Artists Cohort is a three-month program that cultivates the next steps for independent craft artists to advance their professional practices. The program will support 11 innovative artists early in their careers who expand craft boundaries and challenge us to new perspectives.

Through facilitated workshops, presentations, coaching, and conversations, participating artists will gain a deeper understanding of the professional skills and opportunities that will help them thrive in their chosen craft careers. Participating artists will connect with established industry leaders from various craft sectors including gallerists, curators, marketplace artists, exhibiting artists, social practice artists, designers, and more. After the three-month program is complete, all participating artists will receive an accelerator grant to help propel them to the next level of their profession, as well as receive ongoing support and peer connections through monthly meetings and an online communication platform via Slack.

 

 

District Dreamers Film Fest | Call for Submissions
deadline March 15

A call for submissions is the lifeblood of an independent film festival. It serves as the bridge between filmmakers and the festival, supporting creativity, diversity, and community-building while providing a platform for emerging talent to shine.

 

 

Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program
deadline March 15

Well known by visual artists as the “Gift of Time”, the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program was established in 1967 to provide gifted studio-based visual artists with the unique opportunity to concentrate on their work in a supportive, collegial environment for an entire year. This gift of time allows artists to work without distraction in an effort to break new ground and focus on individual goals. The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program’s interest is in strengthening the vitality of the visual art in New Mexico and has been a catalyst in broadening community understanding of contemporary art for over fifty years.

The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program offers six artists a place to live and work for a year, with a monthly stipend and no strings attached. Artists-in-residence have the opportunity to mount a solo exhibition of their work at the Roswell Museum, and to have an artwork purchased for the permanent collection of the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art. Over the past 50 years, the residency has welcomed more than 270 visual artists.

 

 

Residency at Mainframe Studios
deadline March 15
posted by Alex Brown Foundation

The aim of the residency is to provide emerging and established artists of exceptional merit with an experience of the working conditions that artist Alex Brown (1966-2019) found in Des Moines, IA—the ability to make the work you want to make, free from the daily influence of being immersed in a major metropolitan scene but without the isolation of a rural residency, in an exceptional studio environment and a relaxed and pleasant living environment.

Residency Term: There are two 8 week and two 12 week residency terms in 2025. Choose to be in residence for no less than 8 weeks, or as long as 12 weeks (3 months). Applications are accepted from artists working in any medium.

 

 

Header Image: Annette Sauermann, Light Transformer 5 Wall Relief, 4 Parts, 2022, neon orange, red and achromatic plexiglass, 32 x 30.4 x 1.5 inches

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