BmoreArt Releases Issue 10: Power
BmoreArt's print journal examines power within the context of individual art practices, communities, and institutional structures
Issue 10: Power is BmoreArt's second print journal released since Covid-19 closures
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Art AND: Magnolia Laurie
Laurie plays with borders and fences, flat spaces and wide-open ones that look like anywhere and nowhere at once
"I try to stress that all the real work in art-making is in the practice and the learning from those little failures along the way."
Injury and Care: Visual Diary by Bonnie Crawford
Diptychs from February 2020, capturing moments just before the shutdown, and the months that have followed
"I think of them as meditations on how injury is unavoidable and what that means for how we care for one another."
Erasure Poetry: Clifford Owens at CPM Gallery
The exhibition title, Skully, comes from a popular game Owens played as a child in Druid Heights, just a mile away from Bolton Hill, the site of CPM, a new art gallery
Viewed as movements, these abstracts are maps that retrace Owens’ process, the steps he took to arrive at the finished series.
Structural Flaws: Kim Rice’s “Inheritance” Visualizes Legacies of White Supremacy
A White Artist Examines A Personal and Collective Legacy of White Privilege
This artwork skips the fraught emotionality of white people’s coming into consciousness about the constructs of race and the iterations of racism, and instead leads the viewer straight into an intellectual headspace.
Art AND: Kei Ito
Ito's work tells how people were affected by nuclear warfare, and how we could be affected again
Born in Tokyo and based in Baltimore, Ito understands himself as a collection of opposites and pursues both sides of those narratives through his open-ended and expansive photography practice.
There Are Black People in the Future
'Black Futures’ explores what it means to be Black and alive right now
While forward-thinking, Black Futures is simultaneously about Black pasts and Black presents.
I Wanna Hug You: Dave Eassa on Community, Connection, and Covid
The untraditional setting of The Shed allows for an intimacy we’re all lacking these days
What we miss the most, what we're leaving behind, and what we're bringing with us post-pandemic
Triumph in the Face of Terror: African-American Spirituals and Stephen Towns
"A Songbook Remembered" at De Buck Gallery
Each of Towns’ quilts in this series is named after a different African-American spiritual song, the roots of which run deep in the Black church and in the Black southern art tradition as well.
Art AND: Rosemary Liss
The natural wine enthusiast and co-owner of Le Comptoir du Vin talks food-industry camaraderie and COVID pivots
Prior to COVID, the restaurant was booked many weeks out. Now they’re making it work through a grab-and-go storefront selling sandwiches, hearty stews, and baked goods to go.
Good Design is Timeless
An Interview with Betty Cooke
Betty Cooke's jewelry, most of it composed of simple line work constructed in sterling silver, is elegant, timeless, and remarkably wearable.
Rights and Wrongs Exhibition Examines the Ongoing Struggle for Suffrage
On view at the Peale at Carroll Mansion
Installed in the mansion, the works are loosely grouped thematically by floors and rooms, tackling themes of segregation, women’s rights and suffrage, colorism, voter suppression, immigrant rights, and white supremacy.
State of Surveillance: Ajay Kurian’s Polyphemus at Goucher College
How do we break free? Giving our full attention seems a good place to begin.
Polyphemus, on view at Goucher College’s Silber Art Gallery, is an installation that takes its title from Homer’s Odyssey.
What to Do With All That Noise: Stephanie Barber’s 3 Peonies
A poetic consideration of a video piece that captures the dazzling mundanity of the everyday
Barber's 2017 video piece “3 Peonies,” featured in the BMA’s virtual Screening Room, is like watching a dream play out, feeling both familiar and surreal.
Art AND: McKinley Wallace III
On teaching, art-making, acting, and working with young artists on a recent mural in Upton
This summer he wrapped up his fourth mural with students in Baltimore, which prompts him to describe himself as a “painter who makes mixed-media work that often involves community.”
Concentricities of Color: Linling Lu’s One Hundred Melodies of Solitude at Hemphill
Lu’s highly disciplined art engenders a timeless rendering
The colorful abstract paintings of Linling Lu at Hemphill Fine Arts in Washington, DC seemed at first to be formal abstractions but expanded into spiritual, cultural, and personal visions.
Nature’s Constant Flux: Laura Amussen’s Art in the Garden
A conversation with Laura Amussen about her exhibition, Flourish, at Ladew Topiary Gardens
It’s a treat to be able to experience Amussen’s work in person during Covid restrictions, in a multifaceted exhibition at Ladew Topiary Gardens in Monkton.
Always Becoming, Never Being: An Interview with Sharayna Ashanti Christmas
A redesign for Necessary Tomorrows includes a new online exhibition featuring Kirby Griffin, Gyasi Mitchell, Glenford Nuñez, and Sharayna Christmas
Christmas is an immovable force in the Baltimore arts landscape, a textbook multihyphenate mother, dancer, producer, and the founder of the nonprofit arts organization Muse 360 Arts.