Sondheim Semi-finalist Show @ MICA

Shaun Flynn

The Sondheim Semi-finalist show was...weird. Really, really inconsistent, and not particularly interesting. Sure, its just a survey of the artists who were selected without any curatorial thread, but: work was separated, not grouped by artist, there was too much work for the space, nothing could really breathe, and some of it was just not good.... Our favorites were Kim Manfredi, Melissa Webb, Shaun Flynn, Dawn Gavin, Sebastian Martorana, and Evan LaLonde.

There is lots of drawing in this drawing

Melissa Webb

Alzaruba's piece was kind of scary

Kim Manfredi

Adam Rush

Dawn Gavin

Sebastian Martorana

Ledelle Moe

Evan LaLonde

Hadieh Shafie

Brent Crothers

Ok, what happened here? Bob Nickas...why didn't you put your foot down?

Maggie Michael working in graphite and some antiquated something, who does she think she is? Molly Springfield? I want paintings! They're good!

Travis Childers

Christopher Saah

A subtle Cory Oberndorfer painting

Did the dude in the shirt make that thing?

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/