Letters, Word. and Phrases at Goucher College's Rosenberg Gallery
Respond, a four-artist show, featuring Christine Tillman, John Shipman, Heidi Neff and Stuart Stein, opened Thursday, February 12 at Goucher's Rosenberg Gallery. Curated by Laura Amussen, each artist was asked to respond to the architecture of the gallery through various, site-specific paintings and installations. 
Heidi Neff's ceiling painting of helicopters was my personal favorite. 
John Shipman's wall painting
Rob and Christine Tillman
John Shipman
Stuart Stein's video and graphite-like digital photo-collages
Hans and Audrey consider the artwork
Christine Tillman's ink and woodgrain contact paper installation
Christine and Cara, being lady-like.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Local artist and Goucher professor, Laura Burns, has invited you to experience images of Juarez, Mexico in real time.
Looping in 15 minute segments, Burns' videos focus on mounds of earth with the city alive in the periphery. The subtlety of the sound and motion as the secondary experience of these videos helps to reinforce the still and the slow, the artist described her show as "the antithesis of pop culture."
Take a second to stop by and experience this show-or take at least 15 minutes- on display in the Corrin Art Gallery in the Meyerhoff building on the Goucher College campus.
Beastiarum Vocabulum, the new group show opening at Goucher College's Rosenberg Gallery, investigates the relationship between humans and animals, and the contemporary vocabulary created by artists who use them in their work.
Still from Jenny Mullins' animation piece
Detail from Lisa Dillin's sculpture
John Ruppert's sculpture in front of his "gourd"
Hadieh Marjan Shafie's scroll-filled wall pieces
John Ruppert's "crucible," front, "pumpkin" right, and Yongumi Song Organ's "Bubbles" to the back left
Renee Rendine's "Lure" made of crocheted fishing line
Paintings by Carol Miller Frost
Mary Earley's untitled sculpture
Tim Horjus' "!!SINCERE COMPENSATION!!"
Hadieh Marjan Shafie
Tim Horjus' "Congraduations!!!"
Hadieh Marjan Shafie
Youngumi Song Organ's "Bubbles" made of hair on paper
Tim Horjus' "Hi From Brandi"
Gallery goers admiring Kate McKinnon's paintings
The exhibition will be up and open to the public through July 31. Make sure to check it out.
Make sure you check out Ethnography of No Place, given an awesome review in the new City Paper, at Goucher College's Rosenberg Gallery. The exhibition opened (officially) April 11th:
Photos Courtesy of Isabel Manalo
"Found! Jewelry" Tim Gaudreau
From Goucher.edu:
Linda Weintraub, a contemporary art educator, will give a talk titled "Eco-Art and Artist: Are Microbes and Fungi Beautiful?" on Tuesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. in Goucher College's Kelley Lecture Hall.
The event is free and open to the public.
Weintraub is a writer, curator, educator, and artist. She is writing Avant-Guardians: Textlets in Art and Ecology, a series of mini-textbooks that are designed to demonstrate art's connection to the planet's wellbeing. Though thematically different, each book focuses on contemporary artists who are using ecology in their choices of theme, practice, medium, and display.
Weintraub was the director of the Edith C. Blum Art Institute at Bard College for 10 years and the Henry R. Luce Professor of Emerging Arts in Oberlin College from 2000 to 2003. She taught eco-art at Oberlin and has lectured at many colleges and universities, including New York University and the University of California, Los Angeles. Weintraub has also curated 55 art exhibitions, many of which have toured nationally and internationally.
Her belief in the importance of connecting to and understand ecosystems has influenced her lifestyle. Weitraub lives in an energy-efficient home made out of recycled cars on 11 acres in Rhinebeck, NY. She spends her time farming, gardening, and tending to her animals, which she says allows her to connect with the growth patterns and life cycles of her environment.
Weintraub's Goucher appearance is the 2008 Irwin C. Schroedl Jr. Lecture in the Decorative Arts and Material Culture. Former Goucher registrar and alumna Evelyn Schroedl established this lecture series in 1997 to honor the memory of her husband and bring prominent art personalities to the college's campus.
For more information on her projects, visit http://www.avant-guardians.com/index.html
Mylar Installation by Kazue Taguchi
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. 
String mountains by Ali Schmeltz
Imagined Architectural Drawings by Courtney Jordan
Isabel Manalo's abstracted landscape paintings
