Tangential Realities

Saturday, June 6
Ongoing through September 30

2519 N. Charles Street, Suite 100 (BmoreArt HQ)

When entering BmoreArt: Connect + Collect Gallery, the sound of bell rattles entrances you into alternate realities, from the reenactment of a family story of astral travel, to a fantasy land of fiery dreamscapes, to the remains of a disappearing island community in the Chesapeake Bay, to poetic meditations of earth-body monumental forms. These immersive environments ask us to pause, confront our steps, transform; allowing us to reimagine through magic realism, a historical moment, or memory.

Tangential Realities features Rashida Bumbray, Red Rae, Marnie Ellen Hertzler, and Ada Pinkston, four artists who root their practices in recognizable reality before venturing into the speculative, the utopian, and the unknown. Organized with Alex Ebstein, the exhibition highlights recipients of the Rubys Artist Grant—a program dedicated to nurturing innovative new work in the Baltimore region—whose practices take the everyday as a point of departure and transform it into the unexpected, mapping the terrain between what is and what could be.