Openings and activities in and around Baltimore: August 2014.

Gallery CA

GUTSY: Taking the Fear Factor Out of Feminism
July 18th to August 8th
Exhibition Reception: Friday, August 8th, 6 – 9 pm

GUTSY: Taking the Fear Factor Out of Feminism is the inaugural exhibition of The Feminist Art Project – Baltimore and the exhibition, like the group, aims to create a safe and inclusive space to talk about current issues within the context of feminism. Highlighting the work of female artists and artists dealing with feminist issues, themes, and aesthetics the exhibition strives to contextualize itself within the parameters of the art world and society at large. This intention manifests itself in a number of ways throughout the exhibition with artists and artworks that represent a broad spectrum of ages, races, backgrounds which results in differing approaches, mediums, and subject matter.

Maryland Art Place

Young Blood 2014
July 17th to August 16th

Young Blood is an annual exhibition showcasing outstanding works by recent Baltimore-area Masters of Fine Art graduates. Celebrating its 7th year, Young Blood will continue its tradition of exhibiting a diverse range of innovative, emerging artists.

Exhibiting artists include: Claire Girodie, Justin Hoekstra, Caleb Kortokrax, Jim Leach, Nick Primo, and Dominique Zeltzman.

C Grimaldis Gallery

Summer ’14
July 16th to August 23rd

C. Grimaldis Gallery presents its annual summer group exhibition, Summer ’14, featuring contemporary sculpture, painting, and photography from exhibiting and represented gallery artists.

Summer ‘14 concisely summarizes the gallery’s program and serves as an update on the talent cultivated by C. Grimaldis Gallery. Artists included in this exhibition are: Chul Hyun Ahn, Markus Baldegger, Henry Coe, Cheryl Goldsleger, Lee Hall, Grace Hartigan, Eugene Leake, Dimitra Lazaridou, Ben Marcin, Raoul Middleman, Caroline Ramersdorfer, Cordy Ryman, Alexey Titarenko, René Treviño, John Van Alstine, John Waters, and Zhao Jing.

Goya Contemporary

Material Matters
June 25th to August 15th

Louise Bourgeois, Günther Uecker, George Rickey, Jo Smail, Salvatore Scarpitta, Sam Gilliam, Luis Flores, Christine Neill, Sally Egbert, Sanford Biggers, Pia Fries, Sergio Sister, Yayoi Kusama, & Imi Knoebel.

Act Up collaboration box including: Nancy Spero, Ross Bleckner, Mike Kelley, Lorna Simpson,Louise Bourgeois, Simon Leung, & Kiki Smith

Creative Alliance

Marquee Lounge Exhibition
July 30th to August 30th

For the past year, Studio 2 resident artist Christopher Kojzar has been toiling away, creating new bodies of mixed media artwork, a selection of which will be on view in the Marquee Lounge from July 30 – August 30. Restaurant hours only or by appointment.  Enjoy drinks, farm-to-table fresh food and a relaxing atmosphere while appreciating the work of one of Baltimore’s rising visual art stars.

HumaNature
August 1st  to August 16th
Reception: Aug 1, 6–8pm
Amalie Rothschild Gallery

Artist Shaul Tsemach establishes his own visual language in painting by exploring his fascination with the primal, symbiotic relationship between humanity and the natural world. Relying on a spontaneous and intuitive process, he juxtaposes organic elements and natural patterns with more abstract and imaginative landscapes – using color and design, layers of rich texture, collages of manipulated digital photographs, textual material, and found objects to reflect the infinite beauty of a sentient natural world.   The resulting paintings are at once abstract and figurative, balancing ambiguity with the familiar in a style that allows elemental forms to evoke a transcendent reality.

HumaNature will be Shaul Tsemach’s first solo exhibition of original artwork.  For more information on the artist and his work, please visit www.shaultsemach.com.

Looking At Us
August 22nd to September 6th
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 11am-7pm

Looking At Us explores artist Sheldon “Shelley” Amsel’s colorful take on daily life in Baltimore, including swimming, bicycling, eating, drinking, shoes, closets, and the Orioles. Using acrylic paint and oil sticks on canvas and paper, and a small degree of cynicism, Amsel attempts to show the viewer – themselves. His paintings reflect on the ordinary world in which we are immersed.  As color affects the artist’s mood profoundly, he attempts to affect the viewer’s mood through his choice of vibrant, explosive colors.  Composition and humor also play a large role in his paintings, drawings, and pastel pieces.

School 33

On the Brink
Joyce Yu-Jean Lee
June 13th to August 21st
Members’ Gallery

School 33 Art Center is pleased to present On the Brink, a solo exhibition of new work by, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee.  In On the Brink, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee takes a look at various states of precariousness: environmental, economic, and mortal. Her projected video in this exhibition teeters at the edge of opposing forces and cyclical phenomena. A circular screen suspended from the ceiling serves as a projection surface for an animated storm tossing around the residue of everyday urban life. Cell phones, laptops, pets, jewelry, cars, and water bottles float and swirl around and above viewers. On the Brink illustrates precarious fragility, establishing loose narratives and vignettes abstracted from familiar banal environments that warn about falling out of balance.

Baltimore Museum of Art

Black Box: Lorna Simpson
June 27th to August 31st

The power of Lorna Simpson’s video installation lies in its choir of 15 voices gently humming the melody “Easy to Remember,” a haunting song about love and loss. Within the tranquil, flowing meditation, individual interpretations of the song emerge as we hear unique intonations. One of the highlights of the BMA’s contemporary collection, Easy to Remember appeals to viewers “to recognize the common humanity that unites us all,” said Curator of Contemporary Art Kristen Hileman.

Nudashank

Screencaps: Dina Kelberman
July 13 to August 17th

Nudashank is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Dina Kelberman. Dina Kelberman is an artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. She works in a wide variety of media including comics, painting, web media, animation, playwriting, photography, and screencaps. She is a founding member of the Wham City collective and a weekly comics contributor to the Baltimore City Paper. Kelberman was recently invited to create an original web-based piece, “Smoke and Fire,” for the New Museum.

Goucher College Galleries

Shifting Ground, Selected Paintings 2008-2014
June 5th to  August 31st
Reception: August 28th 6 to 9 p.m. in the Rosenberg Art Gallery.
Gallery Hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Monday – Sunday

In Shifting Ground, Selected Paintings 2008-2014, Greg Minah traces the trajectory of his work, an evolving creative process and distinct style characterized by physical manipulation of paint on canvas. His work emerges from a fascinating working process–bordering on performance–and from his active exploitation of the possibilities of his materials.  He plans carefully, but remains responsive to chance.

MICA Exhibitions

Foundation Exhibition
Meyerhoff Gallery and Pinkard Gallery in Fox Building
Friday, August 29th to September 21st
Reception: Thursday, September 11, 5-7 pm