Come on Baltimore, Let’s Suz-ercise!

Susan Lee-Chun invites Baltimore fitness fans to join her new faux-real fitness program:

“EVERYBODY SUZ-ERCISE!”

Maryland Art Place, Baltimore 2010

Join Susan Lee-Chun and her three selves—Sue, Sioux and Su (The Suz)
  on a quest for ultimate happiness and fulfillment through contemporary fitness.

March 18
6pm Conversation with The Suz
7pm Everybody Suz-ercise! A presentation by The Suz
See Susan Lee-Chun’s vision and learn about how you can participate in the June 23rd event!


March 19
10am Suz-ercise Participant Orientation: Get measured for your Suz-authentic workout gear and begin your training for “Come On Baltimore, Let’s Suz-ercise!”
RSVP to map.submissions@gmail.com by March 15

June 23
6pm at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor: Come on Baltimore, Let’s Suz-ercise! “Together, we’ll help you meet our immeasurable goals.”

“Come on Baltimore, Let’s Suz-ercise!” is the inagural event in the metaMAP series, an on-going Maryland Art Place public art project.

Maryland Art Place
8 Market Place
Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21202

First annual H&HScape in Baltimore

July 11th, 8 - 11pm

Protocol: Syntax Semantics at GALLERY FOUR
Where The Sun Don't Shine at Nudashank
RADIX at The Whole Gallery


Where The Sun Don't Shine Nudashank Gallery
405 W. Franklin St. 3rd floor

July 11 - August 1

http://nudashank.com



Ghost by Nick Van Woert

Through video, cut paper, drawing, painting, photography and sculpture, each artist employs a subtle humor that addresses the darker facets of contemporary existentialism. The work in this show (completely devoid of color), investigates this darkness with a cold, removed conceptual distance.

Artists: Annie Farrar, Bart O’Reilly, Brendan Sullivan, J.M. Giordano, Jimmy Joe Roche, Nick Van Woert, Henry Winfiele and Waltr Carpenter

2009 Artscape Visual Arts Exhibitions

Announcing the openings for the 2009 Artscape Visual Arts Exhibitions in Baltimore, MD
SEE www.artscape.org

OPENINGS WEDNESDAY, JULY 8
6-8pm - See You Again Last Year at CCBC Catonsville Gallery

OPENINGS THURSDAY, JULY 9
6-8pm - origins and interrelationships at Stevenson University
6-8pm – Local Color at Center for the Arts Gallery, Towson University
6-8pm - Genesis of Form at Holtzman Gallery, Towson University




OPENINGS FRIDAY, JULY 10
5:30-7:30pm – Me We at the Creative Alliance
5-8pm - Studio Artists Exhibition at School 33 Art Center
6-8pm - Convergence 09: Graduate Thesis Exhibition at Maryland Art Place
7-10pm - Imperato Film Fest at Gallery Imperato
7-10pm – Abandon Ship at Current Gallery
8-11pm - Martin Atkins Collection at Metro Gallery

OPENINGS SATURDAY, JULY 11
4-6pm – In Place at College of Notre Dame
4-6pm - Art in the Hands of Men at Gallery Spectra
6-9pm - Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize at The BMA - Finalists Exhibition
(The 2009 winner will announced at 7pm) RSVP Margo Wright, mwright@promotionandarts.com, 410-752-8632
8:30-11pm – H&HScape After Sondheim Openings at the H&H Building
Protocol: \ Syntax \ Semantics at GALLERY FOUR
Where The Sun Don't Shine at Nudashank Gallery
RADIX at The Whole

OPENINGS THURSDAY, JULY 16 (Artscape On-Site Openings plus Area 405)
6-8pm - Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalists in the Decker & Meyerhoff galleries
6-8pm - Unexplained Forces at Theatre Project
6-8pm – Baltimore Sculpture Project on Mt. Royal Ave
8-11pm –SINK/FLOAT at Area 405
7pm - Screening of Harrod Blank's new film "Automorphosis" at the American Visionary Art Museum (800 Key Highway) in the Permanent Collection Gallery followed by reception 9:00 - 10:30 at the cafe balcony on the 3rd floor of the main building. (www.automorphosis.com for more info.)
If you are already out, stop by 1600-1700 N. Charles Street between the garage and the station a lot of artists will be out installing.

EVENTS ON THE WEEKEND, July 17-19
Midway II on the Charles Street bridge (Lot’s of performances at this one)
Photo Booth on Charles Street Bridge/Penn Station
16th Annual Art Car and Other Wheeled Vehicle Show at Charles Street by Penn Station
Do Something: Examples of the Everyday in the Parking Garage Across from the Charles Theater
A Public Space: Hopkins Plaza on Charles Street Bridge
Exotic-Hypnotic at University of Baltimore Student Center Performing Arts Theater, 21 W. Mt. Royal Avenue, 5th floor (Mt. Royal & Maryland avenues– enter at corner) (a marathon music experiment)

www.PROMOTIONandARTS.com

New Art Dialogue Series with PROSPECT 1 director and curator Dan Cameron

**LECTURE CANCELLED **

PROSPECT 1 curator Dan Cameron has had to cancel his lecture for Thursday, February 5 at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Mr. Cameron was to be the inaugural speaker of the Contemporary Museum's New Art Dialogue Series.

The Contemporary is working with Mr. Cameron to reschedule this lecture and will inform of the new date and time, and of future lectures hosted by the Contemporary Museum.

photograph by Claudio Papapietro

Thursday, February 5, 2009 **CANCELLED **

Falvey Hall
Maryland Institute College of Art
1300 Mt. Royal Avenue
Bolton Hill, Baltimore

The Contemporary Museum will introduce a new forum for discussion of contemporary art in Baltimore - New Art Dialogue Series - with a conversation with Dan Cameron, director and curator of the landmark PROSPECT 1 exhibition in New Orleans, on Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 7 p.m. The program will be held at Maryland Institute College of Art’s Falvey Hall.

Mr. Cameron will share his experience curating PROSPECT 1 and the impact that it had on post-Katrina New Orleans. PROSPECT 1 was the largest international exhibition of contemporary art presented in the United States. The critically-acclaimed exhibition included works by 81 artists from 38 countries, presented in more than two dozen galleries and public spaces throughout the city. The 10 week exhibit closes in late January. Mr. Cameron is Visual Arts Director at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center; he previously served as Senior Curator at the New Museum in New York.

Admission to the lecture is $10 for the general public, $5 for students, and free for members of the Contemporary Museum and MICA students.

The Contemporary’s New Art Dialogue Series will present lectures and conversations by distinguished artists, critics, art historians, and curators whose work is defining the field of contemporary art. The series will cultivate critical discourse responsive to the cultural, social, and political issues of our time.

The New Art Dialogue Series is sponsored by the Louise D. and Morton J. Macks Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Bodil Ottesen.

For additional information, visit www.contemporary.org.

387 Feet Above

Opening reception, Saturday, April 12, 6-9:30pm
FREE ADMISSION THIS NIGHT

Top of the World Observation Level - World Trade Center-Baltimore
March 29 – June 8, 2008

PERFORMANCE
8:00pm (a five sided improvisational musical piece organized by Geoff Grace and performed by Nick Barna, Jay DiLisio, Eric Franklin, Geoff Grace, Twig Harper, Yutaka Houlette, Marc Miller, Jared Paolini, Carly Ptak, and Jason Willet

ARTISTS
Kini Collins
Chas. Foster
Brian Garner
Geoff Grace
Sam Christian Holmes
Julie Jankowski
Lisa Lewenz
Val Lucas
C. Ryan Patterson
Craig & David Purcell
Lynn Silverman
Rachel Valsing

Curated by Gary Kachadourian

387 Feet Above is exhibition of new works that involve mapping Baltimore using views from the Top of the World observation deck. The artists have made works that are installed on panels on the perimeter rails of the space.

Baltimore's Festival of Maps is a citywide event from March to June 2008 featuring unique exhibitions and public programs that celebrate maps throughout history - from the artistic to the scientific, from the ancient to the contemporary.
www.baltimorefestivalofmaps.com

The visitor to the Top of the World Observation Level will see breathtaking 360-degree panoramic views of Charm City, 387 feet above the Inner Harbor. Located in the world’s tallest pentagonal building, the World Trade Center-Baltimore, visitors will be impressed, inspired and engaged by a bird’s eye view of one of America’s greatest cities. Learn about Local Landmarks that have created the dramatic skyline, Famous Firsts that have helped build the city, historic events that have shaped a nation and the vibrant people, cultures and communities that have contributed richly to the arts, science and rich historic lore.
www.viewbaltimore.org

Kini Collins
StopNeedWhereLookCanLightTime
Kini Collins’ painting uses words and phrases she overheard when she would walk her dog in the area of President and Lombard streets.

Chas. Foster
Resource Distribution
Chas. Foster’s work places two electric toy bulldozers and objects collected on and around East Baltimore Street in a display case. Visitors can push around these signs of life, very much like the current construction and redevelopment going on outside the window.

Brian Garner
Don’t Ask
Brian Garner’s piece presents recordings of strangers describing how they travel from the entrance of the World Trade Center to their homes.

Geoff Grace
may we all make it home safely
Geoff Grace places a drawing of two bare feet on his panel floating 387 feet above the ground below.

Sam Christian Holmes
Bag, Bird, Can
Sam Christian Holmes has collected objects from the west Baltimore landscape and animated or re-envisioned them so that the viewer can define each object and where it came from.

Julie Jankowski
Baltimore’s Cleaner Greener Inner Harbor Adventure Park
Based on an infrared satellite image of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, this plan-view piece is intended to heighten awareness of our urban green spaces, and envisions an ecological theme park for the harbor.

Lisa Lewenz
After Sun Tzu (On the Art of War)
Lisa Lewenz presents the third stanza of the U.S. National Anthem, conceived and written by Francis Scott Key in several nearby locations. By highlighting these related sites, essential questions are raised about patriotism, the fragility of memory and the persistence of war.

Val Lucas
Baltimore Memory Map
Val Lucas’ acrylic on carved wood piece reconstructs a personal view of the city through memories of journeys and time spent living in Baltimore. The overall map reflects the areas that are part of her experience, leaving blank the areas where she never goes.

C. Ryan Patterson
Flight Plan: the urban environments effect on wind patterns in the City
C. Ryan Patterson presents a review of urban kite flying possibilities directly below the site.

Craig Purcell & David Purcell
Harbor Edge Regeneration - Mapping the Future
This map is a dialogue between father and son passing on the on the craft of retail mixed use urban design on the water at a scale more vigorous and more sensitive than their hometown of Annapolis. Baltimore is a place of possibility and first of the US cities to regenerate from a decaying industrial edge to the next generation development form in process of being determined. The interface between solidity of the land and the fluidity of the water is the magic zone and place to be.

Lynn Silverman
180˚
Lynn Silverman’s pair of photographs document the opposition of the sun and shadows with the building being the center point.

Rachel Valsing
Drawing Aids
Rachel Valsing builds a station for seeing and recording, the viewer can use tools such as glasses with narrow vision along with pads and paper to help them accurately record the view.


Gary Kachadourian
Visual Arts and Arts & Humanities Grants Coordinator
Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts
7 East Redwood Street, Suite 500
Baltimore, MD 21202
410-752-8632 (office)
gkachadourian@promotionandarts.com
www.promotionandarts.com

Landscapes of Freya Grand opens tonight in Baltimore

Join Washington, DC artist Freya Grand at Gallery 211 tonight.
Opening reception November 17th, 6-9 p.m.

Gallery 211 presents a solo exhibition featuring the landscape oil paintings of artist Freya Grand.
November 17th 2007 through January 5th 2008


Gallery 211
211 E. Fort Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21230
Phone: (410) 244-1340
Fax: (410) 244-1341
email: info@gallery211.net

Introducing the Artwork of Freya Grand

Landscapes
November 17, 2007 through January 5, 2008

Opening Reception: Saturday, November 17th
6:00 to 9:00 p.m.

Gallery 211 presents the exhibit Landscapes featuring the oil paintings of Washington, DC painter Freya Grand. Ms. Grand's large scale landscapes are evocative in their otherworldly theme, and yet they are simultaneously contemporary. These works illuminate the mutability of the passage of time within a particular space. The images are drawn from places as diverse as the Andes and coastal Ireland, and they reflect Grand's love of the mysterious beauty of the natural world.

As a counterpoint to the large works, Ms. Grand will also be showing a series of miniatures: very tiny oil paintings on mylar. These intimate studies of landscape painting invite close inspection, as if one is peering through a keyhole at a world on the other side.

A catalogue of the show will be available at Gallery 211, with an introductory essay by Jack Rasmussen, Director of the Katzen Art Museum at American University in Washington, DC.

For further information, please contact Jason Goscha at 410-244-1340 or at info@gallery211.net

Gallery 211
211 East Fort Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21230
p: 410-244-1340
www.freyagrand.com