Forum of 40 Champions Closing Reception Saturday

There is a closing reception this Saturday April 10 from 5 - 7pm for the Forum of 40 Champions show at the Minstallation Gallery.

Creative Alliance at The Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave. Baltimore, MD

Forum of 40 Champions @ Minstallation Gallery

Forum of 40 Champions
Minstallation Gallery
Creative Alliance at The Patterson, 3134 Eastern Ave. Baltimore, MD
Opening Reception: Friday, February 26, 5-9pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, April 10, 5-7pm
February 27 – April 10, 2010

Forty champions, each possessing a special power, have been invited to create a warrior to enter the Minstallation Gallery and face the special powers of their peers.

Seth Adelsberger - Christine Bailey - Kelley Bell - John Bohl - Dustin Carlson – Dearraindrop - T. W. Dixon - Lara Emerling - Michael Farley - Taylor Fischer - Dennis Garcia - Zak Greene - Sam Christian Holmes - Dina Kelberman - Lisa Krause - Stefani Levin - April Danielle Lewis - Andrew Liang - Sebastian Martorana - Mayplez - D. Neal McDonald - Jason Q. Monberg - Michael Moore – motorbus - Lexie Mountain - Katrina Novarra - Hermonie Only - Audrey Lea Collins Petrich - David Purcell - Ric Royer - Chuck Sehman - Emily Slaughter - Nolen Strals - Antoinette Suiter - Virginia Warwick - Erin Womack - Karen Yasinsky - Andrew Yff - Ming-Yi Sung Zaleski

Curated by Gary Kachadourian
Installation and Logo Design by Eamon Espey
Sound by Witch Hat
http://minstallation.blogspot.com/

Photos From the Opening of The Rumors Are True @ The Creative Alliance

Christine Sajecki

Christine Sajecki and Megan Hildebrandt opened their two person show of individual and collaborative works at the Creative Alliance this past weekend. With two distinctly different styles, (Sajecki showed super-slick, encaustic paintings while Hildebrandt exhibited drawings, collages and costumes) the two artists managed to impressively tie their work together in their collaborative installation (and title) piece, The Rumors Are True.

Megan Hildebrandt

Megan Hildebrandt

Collaborative Installation, The Rumors Are True

Megan Hildebrandt (pretty awesome)

And while you're at the Creative Alliance, don't miss the Minstallation Gallery's new, awesome exhibition, Soft Animal by Pamela Phatismo Sunstrum. It is my favorite minstallation so far!

Destructive Behavior Opens @ The Creative Alliance

Destructive Behavior, an exhibition of new work by Magnolia Laurie and Rene Trevino at the Creative Alliance, presents two very different bodies of work. Laurie's paintings and sculpture, in muted, stark colors, are a somewhat odd mix with Trevino's bold, colorful pieces on mylar. Laurie's sculpture (above), her strongest piece, best captures the apocalyptic/architectural themes in her work. Laurie's paintings fall a little short of expressing the impact of the partial, seemingly destroyed building forms. Many of the flatter, graphic ones are successful on their own, while others read as sketches to the larger work.

Rene Trevino's Aztec calendar symbols seem slick, and smart, but mostly remind me of Legend of the Hidden Temple - not a bad thing, I was an "orange iguana" for Halloween a few years ago.

The repeatitive, historic imagery loses its substance on mylar flags and wall pieces. Trevino turns the image into a decorative symbol, its meaning almost irrelavent (similar to mass-produced Indian tapestries in college dorms), recognizing the fall and recontextulization of an ancienct, grand civilization. A somewhat inevitable destruction/preservation of our own history.

Zoe Charlton and Cara Ober

Emily Slaughter admires the eyepiece

In the Minstallation gallery, Jennifer Strunge's eyepiece peers/pours out at viewers.

Destructive Behavior will be up through December 20, 2008 in the main gallery of the Creative Alliance. For more information on either of these exhibitions, visit the Creative Alliance's website.

Jennifer Strunge @ The Minstallation Gallery

"Eyepiece," a new miniature installation by Jennifer Strunge, opens this week.

OPENING RECEPTION THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6
6PM - 8PM!

MINSTALLATION GALLERY
CREATIVE ALLIANCE AT THE PATTERSON
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore, MD

"Eyepiece" will be on view November 6—December 20.


An indisputable phenomeon the DIY art/craft scene, Jennifer Strunge's
goofy, stuffed Cotton Monsters are instantly recognizable and have
been shipped throughout the world. With Eyepiece, her creatures
inhabit the space like a dark corner of your imagination, peering back
out at you. A Baltimore native and practicing artist and puppeteer
since preschool, Strunge's work begs to be touched and doesn't take
itself too seriously. She works almost exclusively with recycled
cloth, giving old clothes, blankets, and linens an entirely new life
as they are reconstructed into comforting (if bizarre) quilts,
monsters and soft sculptures.

Geoff Grace's Minstallation Opens this Saturday, September 13th

OPENING RECEPTION THIS WEEKEND
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 13, 5 - 7 PM

Geoff Grace inaugurates the fall season at the Minstallation Gallery with an opening this Saturday, September 13, from 5 - 7 PM.

let it out and let it in is the artist's first project since winning the 2008 Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. In this quiet celebration of the wide open spaces of pop songs and the American highway, billboards pass by with the gentle rhythm of a road trip, slowly unfolding the lyrics to "Hey Jude."

Images and details are available at the Minstallation Gallery blog:

http://minstallation.blogspot.com/

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MINSTALLATION GALLERY

Creative Alliance at the Patterson

3134 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore

Laura Amussen's Lady Chapel Minstallation

MINSTALLATION GALLERY OPENING TOMORROW, SATURDAY JUNE 21

Lady Chapel, a new minstallation by Laura Amussen, opens Saturday June 21 with a reception from 4 - 7 PM. The piece will remain on view through August 16.

Images and details about the show at the Minstallation Gallery blog:

minstallation.blogspot.com