Loft Party @ Lofts 11

The View!!

Lofts 11, a relatively new luxury loft complex in downtown D.C. has partnered up with regional artists to bring a crowd to their lavish model apartment. For one night, artists get to play host to a fabulous crowd, and have all their friends over to a dream apartment with a killer view, furnished with modern designs and contemporary artwork....all of which would normally be out of budget. The whole arrangement makes for a great evening, friends, semi-casual setting, art, food, dreams of a a job that might support this lifestyle...it doesn't get much better.

Bridget Sue Lambert

Bonner and Adam (who has a squirrel gymnasium in his home, courtesy of the previous owner)

Anita Walsh

Steven Frost

Nathan Manuel

Annie Peters' piece in the lobby

Nathan Manuel's photographs

Steven Frost

Steven Frost's piece in the lobby

Detail from one of Steven Frost's large embroidered piece

Ethnography of No Place @ the Rosenberg Gallery

Mylar Installation by Kazue Taguchi

Laura Amussen took on her role as Rosenberg's curator fearlessly, bringing contemporary, local and relavent artists into Goucher's college campus. Her curatorial presence and keen sensibilities have obviously enriched the environment for both the students and exhibiting artists. Ethnography of No Place, the current exhibition, deals with psychological landscapes and imagined places. Rosenberg is completely transformed, simultaneously united and disjointed with each artists' vision of "no place." The seven participating artists dealt with this theme in a variety of ways, creating imagined spaces out of everything from mylar to maps to doll house furniture. The lack of human presence within these pieces, each of which employ or reference familiar materials, is disarming and isolating. The viewer hopes to find themselves feeling comfortable within another's psychological landscape, creating a unique dichotomy of being invited to look, but not to stay, and definitely not to understand.

Lea Bailis's sculpture in front of Dawn Gavin's map installation and Courtney Jordan's drawings (above)

String mountains by Ali Schmeltz

Imagined Architectural Drawings by Courtney Jordan

Isabel Manalo's abstracted landscape paintings

Detail from Dawn Gavin's map installation


Bridget Sue Lambert's photographs of doll house interiors

For more information on the show and the artists:
http://meyerhoff.goucher.edu/rosenberg/