Three Openings to Check Out Today:

HELL YES.  This is what Baltimore needs more of, diy venues and good artists taking the initiative to showcase one another's work!  Inaugural show at Szechuan Best!

With work by:

John Bohl, Laila Caron, Michael Carpenter, Jessica Hans, Ben Horns, Erin Nelson, Ken Seeno, and Seiichi Takezawa

Open House is one day only
Come hang out and see the show whenever you can. We’ll be here from 12 PM to 6 PM

12-6PM Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011
Szechuan Besthttp://szechuanbest.tumblr.com/
1301 St. Paul St (St. Paul and Preston)
Call either 646-322-9344 or 443-474-2061 to be let in

Brian Michael Dunn (left)  Joshua Abelow (right)

Color Me Bad

Joshua Abelow
Brian Michael Dunn
Ted Gahl
Hugh Scott-Douglas

Opening Reception:
Saturday February 19th
7-10pm

Exhibition runs from February 19th through March 13th

Nudashank is pleased to present Color Me Bad, an exhibition that brings together the work of four artists who approach painting with a raw, brash directness. Whether through crude simplicity, slack application, or “dumb” subject matter, the work on display pushes the viewer outside of their comfort zone, challenging their expectations of beauty, refinement, and finish. Revisiting the conversation instigated by the New Museum in 1978 (with their exhibition “Bad Painting”) in a contemporary, post-photoshop and post-internet context, Color Me Bad reminds us that clarity and resolution are not co-dependent. In the midst of a slick, polished digital era, these artists fumble and goof with cool self-awareness, stressing the importance of the imperfect and human.

Of House & Home

The Whole Gallery 

H&H Building 3rd Floor

With work by:

Angelo Arnold

Corliss Cavalieri

Kerry Flaherty

Ginny Huo

Adam Junior

Ben Lock

Rod Northcut

Jason Swift

Tim Thomson

Kathryn Zazenski

February 19th - March 19th

Opening Reception 7pm - 11pm

Photos from Sign Language

Sign Language, curated by Hannah Brancato and Jessie Unterhalter

on view at the Whole Gallery through July 19th

Both students in MICA's MACA program, Brancato and Unterhalter put together a community embracing exhibition of signs, banners, flags, and slogans. Check it out:

Jessie in front of Victoria Long's piece

Hannah

Christine Tillman's flags

Alexis Iammarino is back in town!!!!

Missy Webb

Graham and Tony in front of some signs

John Bohl in front of some signs

Jessie and Annie (Annie gets best dressed award)

Remember Surge?

Corn curse

Bethany Dinsick's video piece

The Whole Gallery

405 W. Franklin St

FL 3

Baltimore MD 21201

Sign Language @ Whole Gallery

Sign Language
June 17 - July 19 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 17
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Whole Gallery
H&H

Curated by Hannah Brancato and Jessie Unterhalter, Sign Language includes works by 40 artists and groups from Baltimore and beyond.

Signs are a way to communicate and organize the ideas of individual people into collective movements. They remind us of campaigns and protests, patriotism and dissent, and are most often meant to create solidarity among like-minded people. From Sarah McCann’s poetic sandwich boards, to remnants from the recent Our Harbor Day action by the United Workers, the show brings together artists reflecting on the current political/social climate, with activists reshaping culture through the production art. Some artists in Sign Language use play to communicate important information, and still others use flags to give weight to seemingly frivolous ideas. Each work takes a particular stand and reminds us that the very gesture of art making is radical.

The 7th Annual Transmodern Festival

The 7th Annual Transmodern Festival
Four Days of Avant Performance, Installation, Sound, Film, Mayhem, Ecstasy, and Radical Culture
April 15th thru April 18th, 2010
Baltimore Museum of Art, H&H Galleries, Baltimore waterfront
www.transmodernfestival.org


The 7th Annual Transmodern Festival (Live.Art.Action) will be held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the H&H Building galleries and Baltimore waterfront from April 15th to Sunday, April 18th. Following last year’s record attendance and crowds, the festival expands programming to the Baltimore Museum of Art, continues programming on all four floors of the H&H Building and moves outdoor site-specific work to selected areas of Baltimore waterfront. The festival’s visionary approach to presenting new multi-disciplinary work continues to attract regional art lovers, local cultural mavens, occasional passers-by, critical acclaim, and on-going academic interest. The festival kicks off on Thursday, April 15th at the Baltimore Museum of Art with an hour-long experimental film program including three recent Guggenheim fellows. The evening continues with cutting-edge performance art and experimental pop music from Dynasty Handbag (NYC), Lexie Mountain Boys (Balto.), Melissa Dyne (Portland), and Khaela Maricich (Portland) presenting her nationally acclaimed band “The Blow.”


On Friday, April 16th Nudashank Gallery, Gallery Four, The 5th Dimension, and the Whole Gallery will open for three floors of sensory delight, interactive art, roaming performances, and other major installations. A sample of featured local artists include: April Lewis, Sarah Jablecki, Jen Kirby, and the Annex Theater presenting a full immersion theatrical production with a live band based on the 1973 film “Fantastic Planet.” National artists include: Harrison Haynes (NC), Dan Gluibizzi, Benjamin Phalen (NYC), Laura Brothers, Suzi Poling (Chicago), Robert Lowe (Chicago), Stephanie Rothenberg (NYC), Ben Russell (NYC), and Marcia Bassett from the critically-acclaimed NYC underground band Double Leopards.


Saturday evening, April 17th brings the opening of all four floors of the H&H. Major installations from previous nights will be available for viewing and a stage oriented show will take place at Floristree on the 6th Floor at 8:30pm. Artists presenting at Floristree: People Like Us (UK) comprised of Vicki Bennett a major voice in European multidisciplinary A/V work. Ms. Bennett’s work has been featured at the Tate Modern, Pompidou Centre, Sydney Opera House, and she also presents a regular radio program on WFMU in NYC – also featured – Carly Ptak (Balto.), Joseph Keckler (NYC), Robby Rackleff (Balto.), and Blues Control (Philadelphia).


Sunday, April 18th brings Pedestrian Services Exquisite a site-specific free afternoon program featuring over 30 artists presenting work in and around the Baltimore waterfront. The event will feature exuberant community arts group Fluid Movement, as well as a mobile art center for urban youth – the Urban Engine.


The Transmodern Festival continues to be a one-of-a-kind Baltimore phenomenon presenting experimental, expectation-defying work from local and national artists. We continue to hold fast and proud to our mission of highly representing women, minority, and GLBTQ artists.

Call for Proposals

Call for Proposals
Submit now: entry deadline March 20, 2010

Calling all artists and activists! We want your signs, banners, emblems, pennants, flags, sandwich boards, or protest posters. You can even picket or perform! Amplify your voice. This salon style exhibition will be on display at the Whole Gallery in May 2010.

Submit your work to unklewalter@gmail.com

Three openings @ the H & H tonight

Friday, February 12, 7 -11 PM

Gallery 4
Terms of Use
February 12 - March 27
Colin Benjamin
Benjamin Kelley
David More
Mats Silversten

Gallery Four, an independent exhibition space in Downtown Baltimore will feature sculpture, installation, and works on paper by four artists from Norway, Chicago, and Baltimore. Terms of Use surveys our relationships to materiality and technology through naturalist meddling, sci fi curiosity, and salty humor.


Nudashank
New Paintings: Ted Ghal/Tatiana Berg
February 12 - March 12

Ted Gahl is a painter based in Providence, RI, on the verge of finishing his MFA at RISD. His work was recently featured in Postcards from the Edge @ Zieher Smith, NYC, Not Abstract1 @ Parker's Box, Brooklyn, and the publication MFA Now: The Next Generation of Painting.

Tatiana Berg is an artist based in NYC and recently received her BFA from RISD. She recently was an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center.


The Whole Gallery
Animal Attraction
Lizzy Brooks, Eo Ryoung Choi, Jennifer Coster, Karla Cott, Ian Gibson, Ginny Huo, Shai Ivgi, Sarah Jacobs, Joshua Lefchick, John McNeil, Katie Miller, Michel Modell, Kendall Siedlecki, Ryan Smith, Ye Jin Song, Ryan Soper, Chaney Trotter, Virginia Wagner, Eli Walker, Micah Walter

Animals have been pervasive in art-making since the dawn of time and continue to be so. The exhibition focuses on the ways in which contemporary artists deal with the subject of animals in the metaphorical and spiritual ways. As the 'lolcat' became the official mascot for the Internet over the past decade, new fetished of role-play have emerged in the form of consumed Furries. Playful horses and deer remind us of our fondness for kitsch. But, what does the animal represent as a totemic icon and a force of nature? In the wake of Modernism, artists have been open to explore the animal as a figurative and narrative device. Our fascination with animals transcends, fantasy and mysticism, enforces our nostalgia for the Trapper-Keeper generation and provides an opportunity to think abstractly about current trends.

Relative Terrain @ The Whole Gallery

Relative Terrain Opens Saturday, 9/26 8 - 10 pm

In this exhibition, Geddes installs pedestrian commodities through structures that have been simplified into wood and vinyl; Pham presents drawings in horsehair, silk, and wax that communicate displacement and meditation; and Weishaar explores different modes of location, destruction, and play in his dollhouse installations. Geddes and Weishaar both teach art in the Baltimore City school system, and Pham works as a book conservator. All three artists reside in Baltimore.

The Whole Gallery
405 W. Franklin Street 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21201

First Annual H&HScape! July 11 @ H&H Arts Building

H&HScape?! YES, the first ever! H&HScape takes place Saturday, July 11 from 8 - 11 PM. The building's three galleries, Nudashank, Gallery Four and The Whole Gallery will each unveil their satellite Artscape exhibition after the 2009 Sondheim prize is announced at the BMA.
EXHIBITIONS:
Where The Sun Don't Shine
Nudashank
7.11 - 8.05
Opening Reception 7. 11. 2009
8 - 11 pm

Nick Van Woert
Jimmy Joe Roche
Annie Farrar
J M Giordano
Bart O'Reilly
Waltr Carpenter
Brendan Sullivan
Henry Winfiele

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.

Protocol: \ Syntax \ Semantics

GALLERY FOUR
July 11 - August 29
www.galleryfour.net
Gallery Four goes coast to coast with its new exhibition featuring artists from Los Angeles, Baltimore, and the District of Columbia. The artists in this show compile objects from material culture to invent a stunning new vernacular, which compliments and sometimes contradicts their original meaning
Artists: Shaun Flynn, Brian Randolph, Hadieh Shafie and Dan Steinhilber

RADIX

The Whole
July 11 - August 9
http://wholegallery.blogspot.com
A radix is the basis of a system of numeration, and implies the point from which everything else stems. This exhibit will showcase art that builds on itself and celebrates repetition.

Curators: Emily C-D and Jessica Unterhalter of the TwoCan Collective
Artists: Jennifer Becker, Michael Benevento, Brent Crothers, Gina Denton, Jennie Fleming, Ellen Ann Gallup, Dawn Gavin, Doug Hansen, Ben Piwowar and Renee Rendine

H&HScape
405 W Franklin Street 3rd and 4th Floors
Baltimore, MD 21201

Off the Wall Opens @ The Whole Gallery

Spider and web by Freda Mohr, Pink tentacle by Christina Martinelli

Off the Wall, a group show of installation work rooted to the floor or suspended from the ceiling, opened at the Whole Gallery this weekend. Curated by Emily C-D, the show features 19 artists working with plastics, fabrics, fibers, bones, feathers and roller skates, filling the entire gallery and overflowing out the windows to the sub-roof below. Decidedly interactive, the opening included performance, crafting, and lounging in Alzaruba's cave-like plastic installation, complete with couches and chairs. While the opening was the main event, the exhibition will be on view through May 17. For more information, visit the new Whole Gallery blog!

Sarah Matson

Dino by Annie Gray, geodesic domes by Liz Zacharia

Jill Greenberg

Jen Kirby, above and below

Ellen Nielsen's points, Liz Ensz's roller skate parachutes

Caitlin Murphy

John Bohl and Sarah Matson

Alzaruba's plastic in the background

Elisa Urtiaga performing

Edward Knapp's tree with skull, Gina Denton's felt blob

Alzaruba's installation

Me with plastic in my face

Seth with plastic in his face

Someone trying to escape the plastic

Joe Giordano!

Melissa Webb's outdoor installation

Dixie and Rusty

Edie