this heat @ Pentouse this Friday

this heat

Friday, July 22, 7-10pm

Seth Adelsberger
Max Guy
Ben Horns
Justin Kelly
Patrick Quinn
Keith J. Varadi

Penthouse
Copy Cat Bldg.
5th Floor
Baltimore, MD

Favorites from MICA's 2011 Commencement Exhibition

Max Guy and Ben Horns' Installation above and 4 below

Better late than never! There is some really impressive work coming out of this year's graduating class, smart pairings, group shows and collaborations as well as individual works.   Check out the highlights from this year's commencement exhibition:  

Rachel Borenstein (above and below)

I can't remember whose these were now, but I liked them!

Jimmy Costigan

Bettina Yung and Joanna Kopczyk 

 Joanna Kopczyk

 Margo Benson Malter

 Bettina Yung

 Maude Kasperzak

 Margo Benson Malter (above and below)

 Peggy Chiang and Margo Benson Malter

 Peggy Chiang above and below

Alan Lien (and maybe also Nick Peelor)

 Kaveri Raina

 Min Kim above and below

 Alan Lien above and below

 Peggy Chiang

 Lauren Brick

Miranda Pfeiffer

 Nick Peelor's amazing installation

Landscape drop ceiling

GOOD JOB GUYS & CONGRATS!

Tough Guy @ The Sub Basement Gallery

Tough Guy

A 20 Artist show curated by Eli Walker

Aug. 13- Aug. 25, 2010

Opening Reception Friday, Aug 13th 6 - 9 pm

Featuring: Jerome Acks, Josh Ammon, Colin Benjamin, Evan Bogess, Brendan Carroll, Sangho Choi, Matthew Fishel, Ethan Greene, Drew Griffith, Andrew Holmquist, Ben Horns, Matthew Jansen, Leo Kaplan, Jeffrey Kent, Chris LaVoie, Diego Leclery, Joshua Lefchick, Easton Miller, Patrick Rios, Anthony Romero, Camilo Sanin  & musical performance by MEAH!

In an effort to both perpetuate the discussion of gender roles in the arts and to disclose the artist-as-male stereotype, curator Eli Walker was asked to bring together a show that consisted entirely of male artists. Without falling for the hackneyed tropes of ironic, sensitive-male aesthetic nor the passive aggressive, faux-naiveté dude art; the work was chosen from artists’ studios made over the last year as a true representation of their practice. This approach lends itself to investigate what it means to be a male artist today. Are men levied upon their Modernist counterparts after the wake of Post-Modernism? Has the long, evolving Feminist Movement liberated them from patriarchal form like photography did for painting? Is gender as definable as it once was now that we have a progressive understanding of sexual identity and gender association? Tough Guy proposes these questions by exhibiting a cross examination of 20 contemporary male artists and their individual interests.

The Sub Basement Gallery is a for profit exhibition space run by resident artist Jeffery Kent.

Call for appointment at (410) 659-6950 or via email to jeffrey@sbstudios.com. It is located

in the sub-basement of the The Atrium condominium building in Market Center, 118 N

Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201.