Arts Writer
Laurence Ross is a Baltimore-based writer and educator. He received his MFA from the University of Alabama where he served as the Creative Nonfiction Editor for Black Warrior Review. His essays have been published in magazines and literary journals such as Pelican Bomb, The Georgia Review, Brevity, and The Huffington Post. In 2014, Ross served as the Director of P.3Writes, an educational program in conjunction with U.S. Art Triennial Prospect New Orleans. In 2020, he curated his first visual art exhibition at Woodland Pattern in Milwaukee, WI. Contact: [email protected]
In "Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again" a Young Painter Pays Homage to an Iconic Influence
MICA alumnus Louis Fratino makes a triumphant homecoming to the museum that shaped his practice.
Originally from Baltimore and now based in LA, Smith is an abstract painter and sculptor who manipulates mountains of fabric.
“All my creativity, spirituality, and skills that I utilize today—and wherever I go—came from Baltimore,” Smith says.
A Neurosurgeon’s Dedication to the Metaphor-Making Machine
Through all the years he wrote and lectured about the relationship between art and science, Salcman never used art in his role as a doctor with his patients. Within the walls of the Salcmans’ home, however, is another story.
Queering Locker Rooms and Bathrooms into Sites of Transformation (or Confrontation)
Baltimore sculptor Elliot Doughtie has thought a lot about locker rooms and other liminal spaces in which one’s identity is in flux.
A Review of Walk a Mile in My Dreams, Joyce Scott's 50-year retrospective now on view at the BMA
Surveying Scott’s oeuvre, one can see she isn’t preoccupied by death; Scott is preoccupied by the ways in which we choose to live—and treat each other in life.
The Me Before The War No Longer Exists, A Photographic Series
There is an interesting juxtaposition between the medium of tintype and the subject of refugees. Volkova’s project aims to fix, however momentarily, a population defined by movement—people dislocated by war.
The Acme Corporation Finds Salvation Among Community in their Newest Opera
"The Lights Went Out Because of a Problem," an opera created in Baltimore, is at the Voxel through December 17, 2023
This painting technique is also one of deliberate migration, called a “nomad” mark by the artist
Heydari's visual algorithms calculate a daily experience of chaotic disorientation
Each numbered case contains all the necessary components for a person to install one of these works in a place of their choosing
CPM’s newest edition project is a collectible, collaboration between gallery director Vlad Smolkin and artist Luba Drozd
Glenstone is a place that seamlessly integrates art, architecture, and nature into a serene and contemplative environment.
Located in Potomac, Maryland, a museum that tends to its outdoor environments as much as the indoor ones that house much of the art.
The Multidisciplinary Darrel Ellis (1958–1992) Receives His First, Overdue Major Museum Retrospective Posthumously
In working with a fixed set of decades-old family portraits, Ellis constantly conjured the past. His sculpted surfaces acted as a sort of Ouija board, though instead of a planchet, Ellis was guided by his father's original negatives to commune with his spirit.
The contemporary painter's work holds sorrow and joy, pain and comfort, tears and laughter together in the same space
Toor's paintings are autobiographical yet steeped in references to classical paintings, executed with the casual air of an illustrator in his sketchbook.
