Artscape 2006 in Baltimore!

Please come out for the Artscape visual arts openings. This is the first time for the Sondheim Prize and will be a big event.
www.artscape.com

Openings Friday, July 14 - 6-9pm
Award Presentation, 7pm

Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize
Meyerhoff and Decker Galleries, Fox Building, Maryland Institute College of Art

+es+ pa++erns; an exhibition of alternate surface treatments on ubiquitous surfaces
Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art

Outdoor Sculpture Annual
Mt. Royal Ave. between Cathedral & Lafayette

Independent Gallery Pavilions
Current Gallery / Sub-Basement Artists Studios / Lump Project Spaces
Lyric Park at Mt. Royal Ave. & Oliver St.

The Inflatables
Lawn at Brown Center

Fiber Arts Exhibition
Theatre Project, John Fonda Gallery

Dangerous Books; Pushing the Pop-Up
Area 405
Reception/After Party, 8-11pm

Opening Thursday, July 13
Code: no code - Villa Julie College Gallery
Reception: 6-8pm

Openings Saturday, July 15 – Reception Times Below
1-3pm - Pulse - Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
2-4pm - Material Matters - Maryland Art Place
3-5pm - Idiomatic - The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville
3-5pm - Only Human - School 33 Art Center
4-6pm - Sign Language - Eubie Blake Cultural Center
6-9pm - Composite - Current Gallery and Artist Cooperative
6-8pm - Self Taught - Creative Alliance, Amalie Rothschild Gallery
6-9pm - Dwell, Bond, Connect - Gallery Imperato
7-9pm - Naked Abstraction - Sub-Basement Artist Studios

Expanded Listings
Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize
July 14-30
Decker and Meyerhoff galleries, Fox Building, Maryland Institute College of Art
1301 Mount Royal Avenue

For its landmark 25th anniversary year, Artscape awards a $25,000 prize to an artist working in the Baltimore region on Friday, July 14 at 7 pm. The prize is in conjunction with the annual Artscape juried exhibition where the eight finalists will be shown.

Finalists:
Laure Drogoul ~ Eric Dyer ~ Jason Hughes ~ Gabriel Martinez ~ David Page ~ René Treviño ~ P. Daniel Witmer ~ Jason Zimmerman

Selection panel:
Katherine Carl, curator, The Drawing Center; Kathy Grayon, gallery director, Deitch Projects, New York, NY; Matthew Higgs, director and chief curator, White Columns, New York, NY; Scott Hug, artist, founder, K48; and William Pope.L, artist, Lewiston, ME.

+es+ pa++erns; an exhibition of alternate surface treatments on ubiquitous surfaces
July 14 – 30
City-Wide installations & Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1401 Mt. Royal Avenue

This exhibition addresses multiple site installations and test projects. Sites include MTA buses, bus shelter ads, and street signs along with proposals for billboards and city vehicles.

Artists:
aghost ~ Mike Apichella ~ Dawn Bendick ~ Michael Benevento ~ Richard Chartier ~ Heidi Cody ~ Laura Cooperman ~ Ryan Corey ~ Joe Cosgrove ~ Monique Crabb ~ Jeremy Crawford & Barbara Johnson ~ Michael DeFeo ~ Adeye Deresse ~ Jeff Donaldson ~ Maya Drozdz ~ Alex Dunbar ~ John Ellsberry ~ Beth Ferreter ~ Jennie Fleming ~ Shaun Flynn ~ Dawn Gavin ~ Jill Greenberg ~ Talia Greene ~ Don Griffin ~ Michael Haleta ~ Kristopher Harzinski ~ Linda Hesh ~ Scott Hug/Michael Magnan ~ Mikhail Iliatov ~ Eric Karnes ~ Lisa Kirk ~ Andrew Liang ~ Mike Lohr ~ Patrick Meagher ~ Eric McDade ~ Liz McTernan ~ Sam Miller ~ Jason Monburg ~ Timothy Nohe ~ Cara Ober ~ Asa Osbourne ~ Matt Papich ~ Paula Phillips ~ Luke Ramsey ~ W. C. Richardson ~ Sarah Ross ~ Tommy Rouse ~ Michael Salter ~ Jennifer Schmidt ~ Chuck Sehman ~ Krista Steinke ~ Daniel Sullivan ~ Christine Tarkowski ~ Roxanne Taylor ~ You Are Beautiful ~ Western Cell Division ~ Bruce Willen ~ Laura Sharp Wilson~ Jina Valentine ~ Rebecca Volinsky.

Graphic Design: Nolen Strals & Exhibition Design: Ed Istwan

Outdoor Sculpture Annual
Mount Royal Avenue between Cathedral & Lanvale streets and Pearlstone Park
July 14, 2006-April 15, 2007

Artscape and the Maryland Institute College of Art have joined forces this year to create an expanded outdoor sculpture exhibition. Works will be located on the site for up to 10 months.

Artists:
Laura Amussen ~ David Boyajian ~ William Cannings ~ Audrey Lea Collins ~ Paul Daniel ~ Steven Davy ~ Vincent Donarski ~ John Ferguson ~ David Friedheim ~ Rob Lorenson ~ Richard Roussell ~ Cory Wagner ~ White Rabbit Consortium

Selection Committee:
Robert Alholm, George Ciscle, Maren Hassinger, Kenneth Martin, Jann Rosen-Queralt, Gerald Ross, and Tim Scofield

Independent Gallery Pavilions
July 14-23
Lyric Opera House Park, Mount Royal Avenue and Oliver Street

This year, Artscape has selected three galleries that will curate new installations in tents on the festival site.

Pavilion I
The Dilapidated Reanimated Expo
Current Gallery and Artist Cooperative, Baltimore, MD
410-244-7003 / www.currentspace.com
An Exposition of proposals to reuse vacant spaces in Baltimore.
Access Art ~ Taylor Burton & Tyler Newbold ~ Camp Baltimore ~ Can Collective ~ Charles Miller ~ Barry Febos ~ Eric Johnston ~ Ashley Milburn ~ Adam Montegut & Liz Quick ~ Neighborhood Design Center ~ Omega III / Girl Island ~ RTKL ~ Tactical Works

Pavilion II
Up Periscope
Sub-Basement Artists Studios. Baltimore, MD
410-659-6950/www.sbastudios.com

Artists will change each day; with Joy Owens Interiors, furniture courtesy of Artefacto-Georgetown

Pavilion III
Team Lump
Lump Project Spaces, Raleigh NC
919-889-2927 / www.lumpgallery.com

Team Lump:
Jerstin Crosby ~ Lump Lipshitz ~ Allyson Mellberg ~ Josh Rickards ~ Michael Salter ~ Stewart Sineath ~ Gary Smith ~ Beth Tacular ~ Jeremy Taylor ~ Tory Wright

The Inflatables
July 14-23
Pearlstone Park

This year, two artists will each use multiple fans to make two inflatable installations.

Artists:
Bayard ~ Jennifer Strunge

Fiber Arts Exhibition
July 14-23
Theatre Project, John Fonda Gallery
45 West Preston Street
410-752-8558/www.theatreproject.org

Artists:
Shirah Rachel Apple ~ Penny Bamford ~ Annette Wilson Jones ~ Tricia Lane ~ Martha Simons ~ Kathy Strauss


Clayworks Conducts
July 14-23
Lyric Opera House Lobby
Mount Royal Avenue at Oliver Street

Organized by: Baltimore Clayworks

Off-Site Exhibitions
Dangerous Books; Pushing the Pop-Up
Area 405
405 E. Oliver St.
July 14 – August 27
410-528-2101/www.area405.com

Curated by J. W. Mahoney

Dangerous Books is an exhibition of three-dimensional artwork that investigates the physicality, novelty and three dimensionality of the pop-up book as an interactive object, and a childhood introduction to wonder, motion, story, and dimensionality.

Artists:
Barb Bondy ~ Dawn Gavin ~ Jens Westerberg ~ James Vose ~ Julianna Dail ~ Jonathan Maxwell ~ Lauren Schott ~ Ruth Bowler ~ Laura Shults


Pulse
Gormley Gallery, College of Notre Dame of Maryland
4701 N. Charles Street, Baltimore
July 15 – August 5
410-532-5582/www.ndm.edu/gormleygallery

Curated by Geoff Delanoy

Artists:
Robert Jones ~ Zachary Thornton ~ John Moran ~ Edmond Praybe

Idiomatic
The Gallery at CCBC Catonsville
800 S. Rolling Road
July 15 – August 4
410-455-4429/www.ccbcmd.edu

Curated by Archie Veale

Artists:
Betsy Damos ~ Kristofer Harzinski ~ Michael Janis ~ Tiffany Jordan ~ Nancy Linden ~ Heide Lippman ~ Allegra Marquart ~ Janet Mathias ~ Leslie Schwing ~ Mary Kunaniec Skeen ~ Tim Tate ~ Virginia Warwick

Sign Language
Eubie Blake Cultural Center
847 N. Howard Street
July 15 - August 13
410-225-3130/ www.eubieblake.org

Artists:
Zoë Charlton ~ Claes Gabriel ~ Benari Stewart

Self Taught
Creative Alliance, Amalie Rothschild Gallery
3134 Eastern Avenue
July 12-22
410-276-1651/www.creativealliance.org

Curated by Daniel Van Allen

Self Taught is an exhibition of artists who have gained their knowledge or skills by their own efforts without formal instruction.

Artists:
Eryka Andrex ~ Don Blumberg ~ Autumn Breaud ~ Rebecca Cohn ~ Joanne Drummond ~ Jenny Drummey ~ Richard Eisenmann ~ Rachael Epstien ~ Egbert ‘Clem’ Evans ~ Sandra Getlein ~ Raul Ghormley ~ Neal Golden ~ Joanne Goshen ~ Jenny Heidewald ~ Diana Hilgert ~ Chad Jones ~ Kristen Kalihan ~ Julie Kaufmann ~ Margot King ~ Holly Klink ~ Paul Lewis ~ Raymond Lewis ~ Corinna Lockenhoff ~ Joy Logan ~ Jim MacPherson ~ Alice Jean McGurrin ~ Fred Merrill ~ Olivia Mitchell ~ Vanessa Monroe ~ Melissa Moore ~ Adam Newby ~ Tommy O’Dea ~ Everina Payne ~ James Powers ~ Connie Reinwald ~ Michael Schaff ~ Jill Scheibler ~ Douglas Schider ~ Joe Simms ~ Julie Simon ~ John Simpson ~ Nikki Smith ~ Renee Tontillo ~ Kelly Walker ~ Robin Wheeler ~ Athena Wrightson ~ Lulu Zeltzman

Only Human
School 33 Art Center
1427 Light Street
June 22 – July 22
410-396-4641 / www.school33.org

Artists:
Sasha Blanton ~ Christine Bailey ~ Benjamin Duke ~ Cathy Lees
Gallery 2
Sonya Lawyer
Installation Space
Tai Hwa Goh

Composite
Current Gallery and Artist Cooperative
30 S. Calvert St.
July 15-August 4
410-244-7003/www.currentspace.com

Artists:
Michael Chiarello ~ Steven Davy

Dwell, Bond, Connect
Gallery Imperato
Foundry on Fort
921 E. Fort Ave., Suite 120
July 15-August 19
443-257-4166/www.galleryimperato.com

Curated by Jordan Faye Block and Andrea Ng

Artists:
Elizabeth Brady ~ Nancy Breslin ~ Don Cook ~ Jennie Fleming ~ Dawn Gavin ~ J.M. Giordano ~ Alex Kondner ~ Katie Miller ~ David Page ~ Ben Piwowar ~ James Rieck ~ Yuta Sakane ~ Laura Shults

Naked Abstraction
Sub-Basement Artist Studios
The Atrium at Market Center
118 N. Howard St.
July 15-August 5
410-659-6950/www.sbastudios.com

Artists:
Bill Schmidt ~ Steven R. Pearson ~ Debra Diamond ~ Seth Goodman

Material Matters
Maryland Art Place
8 Market Place, Suite 100, Baltimore
July 5-September 9
410-962-8565/www.mdartplace.org

Curated by Jason Hughes

Material Matters is an exhibition focusing on “sociopathic tendencies within our society by appropriating various examples found in consumer culture and social indifference.”

Artists:
Laura Burns ~ Liz Ensz ~ Cliff Evans ~ Walterio Iraheta ~ James Johnson ~ Joel Kyack ~ Adrian Lohmüller ~ Daniel Rich ~ Simón Vega ~ Jason Zimmerman

A part of Maryland Art Place’s 25th anniversary

Code: no code
Villa Julie College Gallery
1525 Greenspring Valley Road, Stevenson
July 13 - August 12
410-486-7000/www.vjc.edu

Curated by Diane DiSalvo

Artists:
Annet Cowenberg ~ Julianna Dail ~ Ken Huston ~ Annette Wilson Jones ~ Tiffany Jordan