Rebound: Valeska Populoh and Rudy Shepherd
Masked Opens @ School 33, Reception from 6 - 9 pm:
MAP's 23rd Annual Critics' Residency
The Contemporary's 20th Anniversary Party:
Charm City Cakes Bday Cake!
Erin, Cara and Zoe
It was a windy night!
School 33 Art Center’s New and Improved
Annual Fundraiser & Exhibition
Fundraiser: April 25, 2009
Exhibition Preview: April 18 – April 25, 2009
Submission Deadline: March 20, 2009
School 33 Art Center, a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, invites artists to submit artwork for consideration for our annual fundraiser exhibition, LOTTA ART. This annual lottery-style event raises funds for the support and growth of School 33, the renowned Baltimore arts institution that has championed the arts for nearly 30 years through exhibitions, studio space, and arts education.
School 33 is proud to announce several significant changes that have been made to this much anticipated event. These include a juried selection process, the ability to preview the selected artwork on School 33’s NEW website, and an all new venue at the award winning Silo Point complex.
To show our appreciation for your generous tax-deductible contribution of artwork, our selection committee will nominate three artists as “Best in Show”. Each of these three artists will be awarded a solo exhibition at School 33 Art Center during the 2009-10 exhibition season.
Additionally, ALL selected artists for LOTTA ART will receive:
If you have donated to Lotta Art in the past, we ask that you continue your support by doing so once again. If you are donating for the first time, please know that your donation will support our mission and our exhibition space—a space that also supports you. For more information about LOTTA ART please visit www.school33.org.
APPLICATION GUIDELINES (please read carefully):
Applications can be emailed to jhughes@promotionandarts.com. Please type LOTTA ART in the subject line for all application materials.
School 33 will also accept images following the same guidelines on a CD and sent to School 33 Art Center before March 20, 2009.
Bridget Sullivan: WATERSHED
Members’ Gallery March 12 – April 11, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 14th | 2-4pm
Artist Statement
My art making process attempts to escape the everyday chatter of my temporal mind and find a way back to my ancestral mind. Overall, the direction of my work is an exploration of the human relationship to the Earth ecosphere.
Increasingly, we as a culture have become separated from our natural environment. Our experience of nature has been reduced to watching film footage of the wilderness on TV, and looking at roadside views as we drive to our next indoor activity. We are entranced by the weather channel, and rely on quasi meteorologists to interpret radar and satellite images of the earth so that we will know if we should take an umbrella with us in the morning. Our relationship with our natural environment is changing, radically changing; skewing our understanding of our place in the natural Order of the Earth and jeopardizing the survival of our fellow Earth inhabitants and ourselves.
My digital art pieces describe issues of fertility, the struggle for continued survival of the Earth and its inhabitants, and the preciousness of resources such as Water for health and survival for all living things.
Fortunately for us Nature is the Great Healer often providing immediate cleansing and cure when the offensive or violent action stops. The cycles of life are given to us so we can know our relationship to creation and as a guide.
It is my hope that we will not forget to notice the cycles of the earth and its inhabitants. Through involvement, personal awareness and sensitivity to the environments in which we live, we will empower ourselves to make more sustainable choices.
Involving ViolenceOpening Reception: Friday, February 20, 2009 | 6 – 9 pm | 7pm gallery talk
School 33 Art Center
1427 Light Street | Baltimore, MD 21230 | 410-396-4641
School 33's juried, two person exhibition, which received hundreds of submissions, features two female, installation artists; in the infinitely wise words of the Spice Girls, "GIRL POWER!" Eun Woo Cho and Liz Ensz divide School 33's main gallery down the middle, into two separate, yet overlapping, socially motivated installation pieces. 
Eun Woo Cho's symbol-laden video pieces address tensions that still exist between Korea and Japan over the treatment of Korean women during World War II. She explained that she captures and displays all steps of her process, the past in still photos, the present in video, and future in abstracted sketches.
Liz Ensz works with ornate, decorative patterns inspired by the Spanish Moors, to present subversive, political and social messages. In her new pieces, Ensz creates a dark, meditative space with repetitive patterns of ominous war and religious symbols, and a contrastingly hopeful, white fountain. Perhaps a tad heavy-handed in its color choices, Ensz's labor-intensive pieces carefully conceal their vocabulary in a decorative aesthetic, drawing the viewer into their beauty and then their message.
Liz Ensz in front of her fountain
Walker washing his hands in the fountain
Guest curator, Andrea Pollan leads the artist talk with Liz Ensz
Eun Woo Cho speaks about her work
Friday, January 9, 2009 6-9pm | Opening Reception at School 33 Art CenterTwo Person Juried Exhibition
Featuring the work of Liz Ensz (Baltimore) and Eun Woo Cho (NYC)
Juried by Andrea Pollan; Director of Curator’s Office in Washington DC
Part of School 33 Art Center’s Open Call to Artists
Exhibition Dates | January 9 – February 7, 2009
Gallery Hours | Tues, Wed, Fri 10-5pm | Thurs 10-7pm | Sat 12-4pm
School 33 Art Center | 1427 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230
Dead Soldier; the old American Brewery
Jayoung Yoon, a second year MFA student at Cranbrook, presents a solo show of her delicate work in the upstairs, Members Gallery at School 33. I suggest clicking the images to see them larger and better appreciate the detail.
Jayoung works with her own hair, but rather than the ever-[un?]popular hair-drawings of Baltimore artist, Youngmi Song, she works dynamically with her material, in sculpture, photography, installation and video. 
Yoon's craftsmanship is outstanding. Displaying her sculptural creations along with the photographic prints provides viewers with an additional appreciation for the staging of each image. The precision and care that go into making each piece shows an incredible love for the art, more so than the product - which maybe only suffered in certain photographs. 
Yoon states that her work and choice of material is meant to represent memory, in a larger, abstract sense, and identification with the body. Pictured bald, alongside the hair sculptures, Yoon creates a sense of melancholy and loss, which both allude to memory, as well as death and a sense of spirituality. 
There is an incredible intimacy in Jayoung's work, the images seem simultaneously cathartic and detached, restrained in order to appeal to an audience, but not without truth and feeling. Her pieces invoke an infinite well of emotions and intangible thoughts, one can get lost between imagining the thoughts of the artist and placing ones own. 
Jayoung's work is on view through November 29th at School 33, I highly recommend seeing this exhibition in person.
Into The Light/Into The Dark, the current exhibition downstairs (and in the stairwell and small/dark room upstairs) at School 33, is an extensive look at media art, in an old-fashioned way. Having a reminiscent feel of "technology" as the term was used in the seventies and eighties, the gallery is dimly lit with the constant blue and green glow of projected imagery.
Video shorts from the mid-70s to early 90s are paired appropriately with nearly-obsolete artifacts: wall sculptures made from vhs tapes, and collages made from old photos and film stills, presented in a photo-copy format. The overall aesthetic is very UMBC (0ld/new media presented in a clean, professional way), which makes sense, as the artists are all affiliated-although, oddly enough, I discovered this after having made the declaration.
School 33 did an amazingly professional job at meeting the needs of the unique show, building a wall to separate video projections and adhering to the precarious light situations for each piece.
Don't miss Into the Light/Into the Dark, featuring the work of Christian Valiente, John Sturgeon, Phil Davis and Bonnie Crawford Kutola, on view at School 33 through December 13, 2008.
Into the Light / Into the Dark
October 30 – December 13, 2008
Curated by Timothy Nohe as part of School 33 Art Center’s Annual Open Call for Curators.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1, 2008 6 – 9pm
Featured Artists include: Phil Davis, Bonnie Crawford Kotula, John Sturgeon, and Christian Valiente
Sound Concert Performance: Saturday, November 1, 2008 8 – 9pm in conjunction with opening reception.
Scenes from Long Roads, the newest work by photographer extraordinaire Andy Cook, went out with a bang, Friday night with a closing reception and musical performances at School 33.
Andy's (stunning) photos have a somewhat lonesome feel, offering an outsider's perspective into a series of images from travels. Most had a feeling of separation from the subject, with the exception of this one:
which was my favorite.
The Art Department playing their awesome set
AK Slaughter getting the party started
