This September, the Busy MICA Alumn Closes One Exhibition at the BMA and Opens Another at David Zwirner London
It’s hard to imagine the artist ever being bored. Fratino not only bounces between various canvases—often of wildly different colors, scales, compositions, and subject matters. He's also a sculptor, ceramicist, printmaker, and prolific draftsman.
This September, the Busy MICA Alumn Closes One Exhibition at the BMA and Opens Another at David Zwirner London
It’s hard to imagine the artist ever being bored. Fratino not only bounces between various canvases—often of wildly different colors, scales, compositions, and subject matters. He's also a sculptor, ceramicist, printmaker, and prolific draftsman.
An Interview with the Exhibition's Featured Rubys Artist Grant Recipients
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 Rubys Artist Grants Program Manager Alex Ebstein.
This year's Ornamenta theme is "Ruby," so all things RED will be trending!
The annual Baltimore Jewelry Center Gala Event on Feb. 7 offers dinner, drinks, dancing - and a jewelry auction featuring incredible wearable art.
Squishy, Political, and Visceral Textile Works at Goucher College’s Silber Gallery
"Soft Flesh and Volatile Insides" upends expectations in Goucher College’s Silber Gallery. This group exhibition—including works by Monique Crabb, Charlotte Richardson-Deppe, Ash Garner, and Stephanie J. Williams—utilizes textile as a core material and its softness becomes a vehicle for tension.
The Painter Calls for Relooking at the African Diasporic Experience
"The Unembodied In-between of Blackness: that is where our humanity rests. That is where anyone from any ethnicity, any culture, that is where they connect with the work."
Performance by Rahne Alexander with DJ Ducky Dynamo: Sunday, October 19th from 3-6pm
Two two-person shows balance the individual and the collective, featuring solo and collaborative works by Rahne Alexander with Erin Stellmon as well as Emma Childs and Vinnie Hager.
Overlooked Liminal Spaces Host Some of Baltimore's Best Public Art
All the demolition and reconstruction in the decades preceding the 80s reated a plethora of liminal spaces in our cities—and Baltimore was lucky to attract artists who rose to the placemaking challenge they presented.
Works from a Materially-Aware MFA Show Get a Second Life at Sleepwalker Collective
These are the critters and objects brought to being by artists Annika Marthinuss, Melissa Sutherland Moss, Benji Stiles, Tamara Payne, Blair Simmons, Ariel Oakley, and Katie Murphy, respectively, for the Maryland Institute College of Art’s MFA in Studio Art Low-Residency program.
"The Return of American Pest" Confounds, Closes with a Reception on Saturday
American Pest feels intensely familiar and specific, yet it reflects nothing from my highly partisan social media feeds. It feels like entering into an America that exists... but I’m seeing it as if under water or on some other plane of reality that I have never visited before.
The Asia North Curator Wants More Art with a Sense of Humor, and Less about Sad Grandmas
"I get angry at the Identity-Industrial-Art-Market-Complex forcing artists who could be free of that to just fucking make art!"
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.
Featuring works by René Treviño, Jackie Milad, and Edgar Reyes
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 Baltimore Retreat
From the moment you step into this boutique hotel and the good neighbor design shop, you are immersed in an atmosphere of refined taste and creative brilliance. Owned and curated by Shawn Chopra and Anne Morgan, the guesthouse pays homage to their Indian and Egyptian heritages.
Featuring works by Adam Stab and Jordan Tierney
Featuring works by Alyssa Dennis and TLaloC
Featuring works by Kim Rice and Paul Rucker
Featuring works by Erin Fostel, JM Giordano, and Phaan Howng
