Studio Visit with Nick Van Woert

We got to visit New York-based artist Nick Van Woert (whose work will be featured in "Where The Sun Don't Shine" @ Nudashank) in his studio this week to pick up work for the show. Van Woert works with metal, glues, resins, foil tape, and plaster busts among other things; his studio resembles a good humored science lab mixed with an impractical, architectural model shop. Check out some of his awesome work:










Wrapping up busts to go to Baltimore.
See his work in person @ Nudashank starting Saturday, July 11 through August 5.

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

Abandon Ship @ Current Gallery July 10

Abandon Ship
Opening reception July 10, 7-10pm
Exhibition Dates: July 10 - Demolition, 2009, F-Su 11am - 3pm

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY... This is Current, Current, Current...Position 30 South Calvert Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Our vessel is going down! We require immediate assistance....All Hands on Deck!

Current Gallery, in conjunction with Off-Site Artscape, is proud to present Abandon Ship, an exhibition in preparation for the demolition of 30 South Calvert Street, curated by Michael Benevento, Monique Crabb, and Hans Petrich. For the past four years, Current has been a breeding ground for cultural production, opening onto countless collaborators, nourishing an ongoing conversation. Like a supernova before the collapse, we prepare for the building's demolition with an ongoing collaborative exhibition that embodies 30 South Calvert. Welcoming you moments before bulldozers consume the building, and we slither out the anus of the temporary shelter, like a colony of parasites discharged onto the city.

This is the last exhibition at 30 South Calvert, an ongoing collaborative installation, which will be demolished with the building (but not the last exhibition for Current).

Converge @ MAP Friday July 10

Zombies by Katherine Mann

July 7 - August 29

Gallery Talk Friday, July 10 @ 6pm, Reception at 7pm

From MAP's website:

Maryland Art Place presents Convergence 09, an exhibition of new work by recent Masters of Fine Art graduates from the Maryland Institute College of Art, The University of Maryland, College Park, Towson University, and The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The exhibiting artists are Alan Callander, Ellen Durkan, Michael Dax Iacovone, Susan Main, Katherine Mann, Robby Rackleff, Juan Rojo and Leslie Shellow.

Following extensive studio visits, the Program Advisory Committee of MAP selected artists who exemplify the most interesting and insightful work currently produced in Baltimore-area MFA programs. Convergence 09 features projects in experimental installation and video, corporeal sculpture, altered photographs, and wall-sized drawing and painting. MAP is pleased to bring the artists together for this important exhibition opportunity.

Swamp Sex Robots, Pocket of Lollipops, Megamartyr @ Nudashank

Swamp Sex Robots (Montreal)

Pocket of Lollipops (Miami)

Megamartyr (Bmo)

plus DJ's Mark Brown and Jonathan Coward

@ Nudashank

405 W. Franklin St. 

3rd Floor

Wednesday 7.1.2009

9pm     $5