Bridget Z. Sullivan: For Our Sake – Gallery II
Exhibition runs November 1 – November 28, 2021
A recording of NE Baltimore garages in their state of decay, life and hope.
Holiday Art Exhibition – Gallery I
Exhibition runs November 1, 2021 – January 2, 2022
8th Annual Holiday Exhibition – Unique gifts priced $15 – $275
Hamilton Gallery is brimming with over 300 pieces of beautiful artwork and fine craft. Locally created work is priced at or below $275 for the gift giving season. Purchases may be taken at time of purchase or picked at a later date.
OPENING RECEPTION Friday, November 5, 4-7pm
ARTIST RECEPTION Sunday, November 21, 1-3pm
HAMILTON GALLERY HOURS: Friday 3-7pm, Saturday 11am-7pm, Sunday 11am-3pm
Bridget Z. Sullivan: For Our Sake
At the start of the pandemic we walked our neighborhood in NorthEast Baltimore for exercise and sanity. The walks evoked my own memories from different times in my life. The COVID pandemic began to turn the local, very local, environment into my subject. Our walks continued to reveal gems – natural and human made. Through the fall and winter we continued our daily walks. Really only heavy rain or high winds kept us from walking. I had been photographically foraging in my neighborhood. The varied and unique garages caught my eye. The garages became symbolic of memories and of the people from my past. Many of the garages are original to the homes and still have the materials used 50-80 years ago to build them. Their age and varying states of decay remind me of the garages from various times in my life. I began producing portraits of the garages, collecting them like mushrooms or insects.
My work is a crossing of mediums, digital photography, drawing and painting, that explores nature and environment with a combination of reverence and intimate expression. The images survey natural and human elements from many angles and distances. These depictions are enhanced and abstracted by painterly additions of color and text. The rich images converge with gestural strokes and emotive language that allows the viewer to engage with the greater implications of the subjects. Sometimes these embellishments are delicate; sometimes they obliterate the subject into a space of wonder.
A garage is often a forgotten structure but steadfast and essential in their service to a home. Each of the garages tell a unique story. Through my work I spend time reflecting on the visual and symbolic significance of the subjects as they relate to my personal investigation of life and death and the human experience as realized in health and illness.
Artist Biography
A NE Baltimore resident for over 30 years, Bridget Z. Sullivan received her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and her MFA from Towson University. Sullivan serves as the president and curatorial director of Hamilton Arts Collective | Hamilton Gallery and has participated in group and solo art exhibitions since 1986 including exhibits at: MaxGallery, School 33 Art Center, MAP, Load of Fun Gallery, Make Studio, and Jordan Faye Contemporary all in Baltimore, Maryland; Greenbelt Art Center, Greenbelt, Maryland; Adkins Arboreteum, Ridgely, Maryland; Delaplaine Art Center, Frederick, Maryland; Ruby Art Collective, York Pennsylvania, and WomanKraft Gallery, Tucson, Arizona. On two occasions she has been selected to participate in the National Park Service Artist in Residency (AIR) Program– in Acadia National Park, Schoodic Peninsula, Maine and in Catoctin Mountain Park, Thurmont, Maryland. Sullivan has been awarded 2 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist’s Grants, and her work has been featured in AfterImage: Inklight, and URHere Journal of Creative Geography.
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