Exhibition Dates: September 16-October 25, 2008
Gallery Talk: Friday, September 26: 6 pm / Reception 7 pm
September 12, 2008—Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to present the Sixth Annual Curators’ Incubator program, featuring this year’s curators Rebecca Weber and the curatorial team Zoma Wallace and T. Shareen Dash.
This annual program remains dedicated to promoting the talent of emerging curators within our community, recognizing the obstacles that face curators as they work to gain experience, while providing encouragement and guidance throughout the curatorial process. After being selected through a competitive two-phase application process, curators are mentored by MAP staff and members of its Program Advisory Committee (PAC)—a voluntary committee comprised of respected local artists, writers and educators—helping them to strengthen and clarify their original proposals in preparation for an exhibition at MAP and publication of critical writing in a program catalogue. The Curators’ Incubator program recognizes the significant relationship that exists between a curator and an artist and illustrates the contributions each makes in realizing a curatorial vision.
About This Year’s Exhibitions:
Curator Rebecca Weber presents Invisible Omniscience: Seeing and the Seen, an exhibition that addresses the ubiquitous use of surveillance in contemporary society and the issues that are raised regarding security and a person's civil liberties. “Through humor, sarcasm, beauty, and a critique of power, the six artists included in Invisible Omniscience have taken on the challenge that art as a subversive practice must. To challenge the powers that aim to protect us with secret observation: this is the call to arms of this new generation of artists who seek to balance their own anxieties and fears with the promise of democratic freedoms from unreasonable intrusion into collective and individual privacy."
Participating artists include: William Betts, Christa Erickson, Leslie Furlong, Brendan Howell, Frank Klein and Eric Parnes.
Co-Curators, Zoma Wallace and T. Shareen Dash ask the question, “In the face of constant change, how do individuals contribute to the shape of society? As catalysts, what responsibilities do artists assume in shaping the future?” These questions have been addressed as part of AFRIKATALYST: A Collective Perspective, an exhibition featuring work from educators whose mission focuses on the transmission of cultural information to the generations that follow. “Based in the nation’s capital, AFRIKATALYST introduces the visual representation of a contemporary renaissance art movement forging positive connections between productive individuals and ideas. The visionary work of master painter, James Phillips, will join works by a cadre of emerging artists in an intensely futuristic conversation. Drawing from areas of personal interests as diverse as engineering, history, and sociology, the work of the collective stresses the spiritual interconnections of all people as fundamental to survival and transcendence.”
Participating artists include: Johnnie Bess, Christian Braneon, Jonathan Edwards, Jamille Shaka Jones, Akil E. Kennedy, Nate Mathews, James Phillips, William Nathaniel Thomas IV and Jeffrey Vinson.
Please plan to join us at 6 pm, Friday, September 26th for a Gallery Talk led by this year’s curators, followed by a Reception at 7 pm.
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Maryland Art Place (MAP) is a non-profit center for contemporary art established in 1981 to: develop and maintain a dynamic environment for regional artists to exhibit their work, nurture and promote new ideas and new forms, and facilitate rewarding exchanges between artists and the public through educational leadership.
MAP is located at 8 Market Place in Baltimore’s Power Plant Live! Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 5 pm. There is no admission charge. To learn more about this exhibition and MAP’s future programming, please access our website: www.mdartplace.org or call: (410) 962-8565.
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