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?

Photos from the opening of Melissa Webb's In A Material World...

Melissa Webb

Melissa Webb's solo show of costumes, characters and installations brought a crowd out to Imperato, many for the first (and maybe only) time. Enlisting dozens of friends to wear the artist's costumes and accessories, gnomes passed around platters of food, ballerinas bartended and the uppity ladies on stilts towered over the gallery-goers. While the opening was the main event, the costume installations and photographs of Melissa's costumes, taken by Uli Loskot, will be on display through September 12.










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In a Material World... opens tonight @ Gallery Imperato

In a Material World...
An exhibition of costumes by Melissa Webb
August 14 - September 12, 2009
Opening Reception: August 14, 7-10pm



For four weeks Gallery Imperato will be transformed into a mystical dreamland, a haunted forest, a magical storybook, a warehouse of the imagination. Elaborate hand-made costumes by fiber artist Melissa Webb will be on display from August 14 through September 12, 2009. A selection of related photographs by Uli Loskot, Lisa Dietrich, and aminibigcircus will accompany the wears.

Please join us at the opening reception this Friday, August 14th from 7-10pm. Guests can expect to be served by garden gnomes and mingle among hi-society stilt walkers!

(Gnomes and "Uppity Ladies" are a collaboration with M. Jane Taylor and company.)

Gallery Imperato
921 E. Fort Ave. Ste 120
Baltimore, MD 21230
www.galleryimperato.com
galleryimperato@mac.com
443.257.4166