Miami Art Fairs - Baltimore Galleries and Artists Participating

Goya Contemporary and C. Grimaldis Gallery - both at Art Miami

Meninas by Timothy App

Goya Contemporary at Art Miami

BOOTH B-4
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Goya Contemporary Gallery is pleased to participate in Art Miami 2009, exhibiting works by: Timothy App , Donald Baechler, Sanford Biggers, Louise Bourgeois, Louisa Chase, Peter Doig, Sally Egbert, Dennis Hollingsworth, Aino Kannisto, Madeleine Keesing, Yayoi Kusama, Christian Marclay, Beatriz Milhazes, Christine Neill , Liliana Porter, Soledad Salame, Joyce J. Scott , Sean Scully, Carrie Seid, David Shapiro, Jo Smail, Mark Strand , Lenore Tawney


Grimaldis Gallery at Art Miami 2009
December 2 - 6, 2009
C. Grimaldis Gallery Booth #A34

Location The Art Miami Pavilion Booth B-4 / The Miami Midtown Arts District / Midtown Blvd ( NE 1st Avenue ) between NE 32nd & NE 31st Street / Miami , FL 33137

DC's Hamiltonian Gallery will be at SCOPE Miami. Booth 232. Please contact jackie@hamiltoniangallery.com for additional information or passes to the fair.

Baltimore Artists included: Christian Benefiel, Anne Chan, Katherine Mann, Ian MacLean Davis, Magnolia Laurie, James Rieck, and others.

Lucien Perkins

DC's Civilian Art Projects will be at SCOPE Miami. Booth 439.
Featured artists: Lucian Perkins, Terri Weifenbach, Erick Jackson, Ryan Hill, Cara Ober, Nikki Painter, Trevor Young, Trish Tillman

DC's Project 4 will exhibit works at AQUA Miami by Margaret Boozer, Christine Gray, Laurel Lukaszewski, Ivanny Pagan, and others

Brooklyn's Randall Scott Gallery will exhibit at Aqua Miami - Booth #36
Artists Exhibited: Robert Kingston, Cara Ober, David DiMichele, Chris Anthony, Marco Delogu, Thekla Ehling and Etsuko Ichikawa

The Fraser Gallery will be exhibiting new work by John Aquilino, David FeBland, Mike Fitts, Tim O'Kane and Andrew Wodzianski at "Red Dot Miami," December 2 - December 6. For more information visit here.


And DON'T MISS -- the roving Camper Contemporary Exhibit!
Come join Camper Contemporary in Miami during Art Basel, December 3-6. Check back with this website for location information or look for the Camper Contemporary team in their distinctive blue travel jumpsuits at the various art fairs for information and VIP passes. Camper Contemporary will feature artworks by MICA's Rhinehart School of Sculpture.

Staan Nader, Staan Terug! David Page opens December 3 at Stevenson University

Staan Nader, Staan Terug! (Come Closer, Get Away)
Some Fairly Large Drawings and Rather Small Sculptures by David Page

November 30, 2009 - January 29, 2010
Reception: December 3, 6 - 8 p.m., Gallery
Art Talk and Closing Party: January 29, 5 p.m.

David Page is an artist well-known for making common objects monumental in both size and meaning. By using steel, aluminum, leather and other materials, and manipulating scale Page skillfully offers the semblance of utility and the viewer's perception of power, strength and meaning is altered. Once again Page skews reality, this time with large dramatic drawings and meticulously elegant sculptures. Staan nader, staan terug! Come Closer, Get Away!

A discussion with the artist and a closing party to be held at 5 p.m. January 29.

Instant Messages Exhibit & Family Day at MAP

Family Day at Maryland Art Place on Saturday, December 1 from 1-4 p.m. Bring your family to make books, magnet art, alphabet blocks, buttons and more!

This special event is part of Instant Messages, an interactive exhibition created by students in the Maryland Institute College of Art's Graphic Design MFA program.


Instant Messages
December 1, 2009 – January 9, 2010
Reception Thursday December 10, 5-8pm

Maryland Art Place presents Instant Messages and Reinvent an exhibition and installation created by students in MICA’s Graphic Design MFA program, directed by Ellen Lupton. These two special projects explore the empire of signs and messages in which we live.

Participating artists: Lauren Adams, Christina Beard, Chris Clark, Elizabeth Herrmann, Ann Liu, Chris McCampbell, Ryan Shelley, Wesley Stuckey, Beth Taylor, Isabel Uria, Supisa Wattanasansanee, Krissi Xenakis

Rush Hour: Art Beats Traffic / Thurs, Dec 10 / 5-8pm
Celebrate the exhibition Instant Messages and the unveiling of MAP’s first public art installation in our entrance hallway. Interact with original works of art and design in the galleries.

Warren Seelig: Textile per se at MICA opens December 4

MICA presents Warren Seelig: Textile per se, a retrospective of work by Rockland, Maine-based fiber artist Warren Seelig. The exhibition will be featured Friday, Dec. 4, 2009-Sunday, March 14, 2010 in the Meyerhoff and Decker galleries of Fox Building, 1303 W. Mount Royal Ave., and Leidy Atrium of Brown Center, 1301 W. Mount Royal Ave.

A reception takes place Friday, Dec. 4, 5-7 p.m.

Seelig, who is teaching an interdisciplinary drawing course at the College during the fall semester, has insisted on continuously defining and redefining the qualities that are unique to textile and especially to a kind of abstraction rooted in repetitive processes.

The retrospective features selections from the fiber artist’s three main bodies of work. These include handwoven and manipulated wall mounted works of the 1970s and early ’80s and the skeletal/skin “spoke and wheel” sculptures from the ’80s and ’90s. MICA will also reveal Seelig’s most recent series of works that examine matter and light, Shadowfields.


“The idea of a textile is for me a phenomenon [that] has its source in the magic I experienced when weaving my first length of cloth,” Seelig said. “Through the accumulation of thousands of intersecting threads, I observed the growth of an energy field, which for me was organic and alive, where its true life was not represented on the surface of the cloth, but hidden within. That early experience of constructing a textile has informed my work in many ways, including the more recent Shadowfields.”

In addition to transforming MICA's galleries with Seelig's idiosyncratic hybrid forms, the exhibition includes the artist's preparatory works - models, samples and sketches - to provide a glimpse into his working process. It also features works produced by ceramics, fiber, interdisciplinary sculpture and general fine arts majors in Seelig's class.

"This is the first opportunity to acknowledge and examine Seelig's major contributions in defining the field of fiber in one space," says Susie Brandt, chair of MICA's fiber department and curator of the exhibition. "As well, it is equally satisfying to finally see such a large part of his oeuvre." For more information, call 410-225-2300.

You're invited to participate in Lee Mingwei's Pantheon Project at The Contemporary Museum

Lee Mingwei's Pantheon Project is coming to Baltimore in January! Come take part in this community-based work.

Conceptual artist Lee Mingwei's true medium is people, for he creates installations that often depend on shared experiences and collaborations between the artist and the public. The Pantheon Project will offer members of the Contemporary Museum's audience an opportunity to represent themselves to one another through a carefully structured, public ritual exercise orchestrated by Lee.

Inspired by traditional devotional practices, Lee will select twenty participants with whom he will transform generic wooden boxes into secular shrines honoring individuals and institutions. Visitors to the museum will be able to engage the participants in dialogue by leaving their own devotional materials at the site of these displays during the run of the exhibition. Taken together, these shrines are intended to paint an unusual and telling portrait of community values.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE
If you are interested in participating in The Pantheon Project by creating a shrine in honor of some person or institution that is deeply important to you, please send a letter by December 4th describing your proposed shrine in detail. Be sure to include all of your contact information including phone and e-mail. This project is open to all ages; no artistic experience required.

By Mail:
Lee Mingwei
c/o Contemporary Museum
100 W Centre Street
Baltimore, MD 21201

By E-Mail: jriverarodriguez@contemporary.org
Subject Line: Pantheon Project

If the artist chooses your proposal, you will be contacted by mid December. Selected participants will be installing their shrines during a group workshop at the Contemporary Museum over the weekend of January 9th and 10th.

Photos from Functionless Form/ Functional Decor at School 33

At School 33, a wallpaper-and-decor-lover's dream! This show was juried by DC's Philippa Hughes and is a terrifically crafted, fun and sassy show. It features the work of Chiara Keeling, Angelo Arnold, Allison Reimus, and Shannon Donovan. This show is definitely worth seeing!

"The works in this exhibit reconsider the questions of art as décor, and décor as art. These four artists consider their creative output and its relevance to space, aesthetic, and taste. They perceive and appreciate the prospective place in which their artwork will reside. Like the pop artists, they remove familiar from its context and isloate the objects to provide contemporary interpretations and definitions of fine art."

Wallpaper and Ceramic Installation by Shannon Donovan

Upholstered scupture by Angelo Arnold

Sewn and applique paintings on wall fabric by Chiara Keeling

Painting by Allison Reimus

Shannon Donovan and School 33 Curator Rene Trevino

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Chiara Keeling and Philippa Hughes in front of Keeling's work

Rachel Sitkin Marks and Allison Reimus

Artist Angelo Arnold surrounded by Rose Courville and hubby

48 Hour Film Project at BMA Fridays December 4 & 11

The Baltimore Museum of Art has collaborated with The 48 Hour Film Project to present FREE screenings of short movies by a group of filmmakers inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s chilling tales and the BMA’s exhibition, Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon. Different screenings will be held Friday, December 4 and Friday, December 11 in the BMA’s Meyerhoff Auditorium at 8 p.m.; the exhibition gallery opens at 6 p.m.

Among the participating filmmakers is Karen Yasinsky, a finalist for the Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize in 2007 and 2009. Yasinsky teaches Film and Media Studies at Johns Hopkins University. She is a founding board member of the Gunk Foundation, a private foundation for public art. Her films and drawings have been shown at MoMA, NY; Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo; and UCLA Hammer Museum, L.A.; as well as at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and the New York Underground Film Festival.