Hae Won Sohn Wins 2021 Sondheim Artscape Prize
The Baltimore-based and process-oriented sculptor receives the $25,000 award
The Sondheim Finalist Exhibition is on view at the Walters through July 18.
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Rupture and Regeneration: Sophia Belkin and Sasha Fishman in Resort’s Final Shows
Downtown gallery Resort ends its three-year run with solo shows featuring Sophia Belkin and Sasha Fishman
There is much to consider about depletion and extraction in a low- or no-budget art space within a gentrifying city.
Art AND: Kris Fulton
Kris Fulton of Sophomore Coffee on hospitality, inspiration from 'Cheers,' caramel macchiatos, and more
Fulton wants Sophomore to be a place for people to have experiences—some of them hopefully a little more profound than my remembrance of being sweaty and late—a place where friends can gather and conversations can be sparked.
Conflate, Inflate, Translate: The Orbis Tertius “Hlaer To Jangr” Project at ICA Baltimore
The Orbis Tertius "Hlaer To Jangr" Project is ICA's last in their current space
Overwhelming in every sense and incredible in scale, scope, and color, the Orbis Tertius -Hlaer-to-Jangr exhibition at ICA Baltimore is a feast for the senses.
An Art Exhibit Considering Our Collective Future
Spark IV at Maryland Art Place is a group exhibition featuring faculty and students from Towson U and UMBC
Altered time, imagined places, future focus, climate horizon, and equitable future are the themes explored in this multimedia group exhibition.
Let’s Get It On: A Brood X Cicada Photo Essay
Photos by Jill Fannon capture these beautiful, tragic, and weirdly punctual insects
Brood X is the largest of all the cohorts of 17-year periodical cicadas, and they are here for just one reason.
Beloved Artist-owned Space Area 405 Listed for Sale
New development in Station North making longtime residents and artists concerned about displacement and instability
Is there a way to bring much-needed investment to Greenmount West without displacing the artists?
Jonathan Monaghan, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
Monaghan’s themes of power, technology, and rampant consumerism speak to the unique challenges of today’s attention economy
The wolves feel like stand-ins for Americans, full of desire for the traditional trappings of empire while simultaneously feeling empty and repulsed by the barren world that surrounds us.
Lavar Munroe, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
In this collection of work, Munroe focuses on his relationship to Black single fatherhood, a multidimensional and intimate subject
The scenes are distorted and dreamlike, and Munroe knows just when to stop and let the material do the work.
Hoesy Corona, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
Through performance and wearable sculpture, Corona examines themes such as othering, fear of death, white supremacy, and the climate crisis
Each piece selected and displayed within the walls of the Walters—an institution with its own admitted history of othering and white supremacy—reveals the evolution of an artistic practice by a multidimensional creator making multidimensional work.
Tsedaye Makonnen, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
An artist who combines sculpture, fiber art, and performance into rituals designed to venerate and heal
Tsedaye Makonnen focuses her work in particular on people migrating from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, historically and in the present day, drawing parallels between the two.
Hae Won Sohn, 2021 Sondheim Finalist
An artist forcing us to ask not only “What is this?” but the much more unnervingly delicious, “When is this?”
Sohn uses commercial ceramics techniques overwhelmingly used to create uniform multiple objects, and experiments with the process at various stages to create unique objects that can’t be mass reproduced
The 2021 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalists Exhibition
A week of reviews of each of the five Sondheim finalists and their exhibits at the Walters
This week we will publish individual reviews of Hae Won Sohn, Tsedaye Makonnen, Hoesy Corona, Lavar Munroe, and Jonathan Monaghan
Art AND: Abigail Lucien
The sculptor talks about moving to Baltimore during the pandemic, thinking with your hands, and singing to your plants
Lucien’s work is an investigation of how everyday materials can function as metaphors recalling an absence or intimacy of the human body
Sonya Clark on Collaboration, Labor, and the False Hierarchy of Art and Craft
An interview with Sonya Clark about her survey show at NMWA
Taking over an entire floor of the museum, the show is a massive undertaking that showcases 100 works in a survey spanning Clark’s career.
David-Jeremiah’s Paradoxes of Power: American Flags, Cop Car Bumper Stickers, and Lamborghini Hoods
A conversation with the Dallas-based artist after his first series of shows on the East Coast in the Spring of 2021
A rebellious artist exploring his location and position through his necessary work, David-Jeremiah invites viewers to name their relationship to his America and their America as well.
Art AND: Pooneh Maghazehe
How the sculptor selects materials, why Baltimore is her 'Bermuda Triangle,' and what goes into the hour-long pandemic salad
Adapting and problem solving excite Maghazehe and motivate her materially centered sculpture practice.
The Lungdeep Breath of Loving: Katherine Bradford’s Mother Paintings at Canada
Bradford’s Mother Paintings feel like deep breaths exhaled into a changed world
The figures populating the Mother Paintings live among slabs of heavy, humid air, hypersensitized in their responses to claustrophobic and caustic atmospheres.