LOS SOLOS SERIES
presented by Bonnie Jones & Jackie Milad
Carriage House, 2225 Hargrove St., Lower Chas. Village
Friday, 11/7/08, 8:30pm, $6 sug.donation
HADIEH SHAFIE (Balto)
KARA FEELY (NYC)
baltimoreperformance.com/lossolos
KARA FEELY Kara Feely is a writer, director and designer for experimental theater and interdisciplinary performance. Her work draws inspiration from experimental writing and music composition strategies, and combines a variety of materials, from found text fragments and landscapes of objects, to recorded interviews and radio broadcasts.
HADIEH SHAFIE Hadieh M. Shafie was born in Iran and immigrated to the United States in 1983, leaving post revolutionary Iran at the height of war with Iraq and social/political unrest. The themes explored in Shafie's work are the temporary nature of memory, history and personal experiences related to otherness and loss.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
17th Annual Baltimore Writers' Conference @ Towson
17th Annual Baltimore Writers' Conference
Saturday, November 8
Towson University's University Union
Registration opens at 8:30am. Keynote address at 9:00am.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Larry Doyle
Larry Doyle is the author of the novel I Love You, Beth Cooper, soon to be released as a film directed by Chris Columbus and starring Hayden Panettiere as Beth. He was a writer and producer for "The Simpsons" for four years and now writes for The New Yorker magazine. He recently won the Thurber Prize for American Humor.
Session topics include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, magazine and journals, agents and publishers, and blogging. Sign up the day of the conference for quick critiques to improve your stories, essays, and poems.
For more information or to register, go to http://www.baltimorewritersconference.org.
Registration includes continental breakfast, lunch, and reception. (Student registration rate available with valid school ID!)
Don't miss the area's premier day-long opportunity for literary artists to improve their craft, learn about the business, and network with industry professionals and other writers!
For more information, contact Geoffrey Becker at gbecker@towson.edu or 410.704.5196.
Gregg Wilhelm, CityLit Project
David Everett, Johns Hopkins University
Geoffrey Beck, Towson University
Salvage @ Gallery Imperato
SALVAGE
hair drawings by Youngmi Song
mixed media assemblage by M. Jordan Tierney
Gallery Imperato
921 e. fort ave. suite 120
Baltimore, md 21230
October 24 - December 6, 2008
Using recycled items in art has been seen many times before. However, never has it been presented with such intrigue and sophistication. Artists Youngmi Song and M. Jordan Tierney act as scavengers, salvaging items that would otherwise be disposed of and turning them into something both meaningful and beautiful. Loose strands of hair, found objects, and remains of 19th century houses are rescued, re-purposed, and given new life.
With fallen hairs from her own head, Youngmi Song painstakingly creates simple images on Korean mulberry paper. Images of furniture, trees and barns are impeccably and tediously rendered with individual strands of hair, giving the false appearance of drawings done with a
No. 2 lead pencil. While her early training focused on traditional Korean art, Youngmi began using mulberry paper in a contemporary manner while studying at MICA. Combining this historically used paper with the innovative use of that which her own body produces creates a connection between the past and present.
M. Jordan Tierney collects reclaimed timbers from renovated 19th century houses to create woodcarvings and constructions, an integral part of her work. She combines them with found objects such as old light fixtures, porcelain, furniture parts, tin tiles and other items to form three-dimensional assemblages. With their time worn surfaces, they seem to be relics of an event and appear to have accumulated naturally over time. By combining actual salvaged items with wood carvings fabricated to look like salvaged items, Tierney makes reference to the world as "a constantly shifting sedimentary process of alternating layers of natural and man-made systems".
Mirta Kupferminc - Saúl Sosnowski BORGES AND THE KABBALAH: SEEKING ACCESS @ The Art Gallery at University of Maryland College Park
Mirta Kupferminc - Saúl Sosnowski BORGES AND THE KABBALAH: SEEKING ACCESS
The Art Gallery
Second floor atrium
Art/Sociology Building
College Park, MD
The Art Gallery
Second floor atrium
Art/Sociology Building
College Park, MD
Opening Reception
Wednesday November 12, 6-8 pm
The Art Gallery presents Borges and the Kabbalah: Seeking Access featuring prints and installations by Argentinean artist Mirta Kupferminc and text by Saúl Sosnowski. The exhibit is a dialogue between image and text and offers visitors a unique experience to enter a world of appearances, of truths, and of veiled secrets. The exhibition opens Wednesday, November 12, and continues through Saturday, December 20, 2008.
The exhibition is designed as a conceptual journey around a limited edition artist book, Borges and the Kabbalah: Paths to the Word. The book is an open conversation between texts by Sosnowski and images by Kupferminc in dialogue with writings by Argentinean Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) and Kabbalistic notions. Kupferminc met Sosnowski when a mutual friend brought him to visit her studio in 2002. Though she did not mention her interest in Jewish mysticism to Sosnowski at that time, upon returning to the U.S., he mailed her a book he had authored titled Borges y la Cábala : La Búsqueda del Verbo. From this exchange, she began to explore connections in the book and her interests in everyday visual inquiry, literature, and mysticism. Of their collaboration on Borges and the Kabbalah: Paths to the Word, Kupferminc stated, "It is very hard to explain what the book is. It has a world inside. It's a journey with so much energy and such a profound true connection..."
The book will be displayed in its entirety, along with several installations designed to surround the viewer in the texts and images from the book. In Seeking Access, the visitor is invited to step into a labyrinth installation formed in the shape of the Hebrew letter Aleph. Thirty two access possibilities guide to the center and the corridors showcase images and texts. In the Endless Universe, the viewer sees images repeat exponentially toward infinity.
Sosnowski writes about the collaboration: "In joining Borges and Kabbalah, it is imperative to recognize the distance that separates faith and theology from literature and art, as well as 'the Kabbalist' from those who promote it as spiritual self-help and indulge in exercises that plainly mark the passage of time. When cognizant of the difference, when suitably and spiritually trained to cut through material barriers, then, and only then, will the true seeker be empowered to discover and unveil alternate views of the world, and make inroads into the sobering chronicles of the Diaspora, where many of the Kabbalistic texts were written."
Talk:
Saúl Sosnowski in conversation with Mirta Kupferminc
Thursday, November 13, 5:00 pm
Room 2309 Art-Sociology Building
Talk:
Saúl Sosnowski in conversation with Mirta Kupferminc
Thursday, November 13, 5:00 pm
Room 2309 Art-Sociology Building
Euphoria @ Senator Theatre
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Amanda Burnham: Denominator @ Loyola
Amanda Burnham: Denominator
Julio Fine Arts Gallery at Loyola College
4501 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21210.
Gallery hours are Monday through
Friday 11am -5pm and Sunday 1-4pm.
(410) 617-2799.
Exhibition Dates: November 3 – December 10, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 6, 5 – 7 pm
An exhibition featuring the artist’s newest work on paper as well as an
installation drawing on site at the Gallery.
Burnham’s work offers a unique perspective on contemporary American
landscapes, reflecting ways individuals are affected by the
ever-increasing sense of shock and alarm in corporate culture. Her
complex, multi-layered compositions depict cities and suburbs in which
nature is present but dominated by corporate brands, logos and graffiti.
In her work, the physicality of the natural world is blurred and
unclear, leaving the viewer immersed in an abstract illustration of
natural surroundings – the viewpoint of one desperately attempting to
escape from the alienating voices of commercial America.
Her work plays with the striking incongruity between what is real and
what is advertised in America. Burnham explains, “I thought about the
false promise of advertising, as well as telling ironies exposed by
unplanned environmental juxtapositions such as glossy billboards
advertising luxury goods to speeding commuters planted in neglected
roadside urban spaces.”
Also on exhibit is a selection of Burnham’s constructed paintings, Front
Lines and Gulf, in which she constructs the pictorial landscape of
cities and suburbs haphazardly, utilizing saturated paint and cardboard
constructions to reflect on individual alienation in contemporary life.
Into the Light / Into the Dark
Into the Light / Into the Dark
School 33 Art Center
1401 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21230
school33@promotionandarts.com
410-396-4641
October 30 – December 13, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 1, 2008 6 – 9pm
Curated by Timothy Nohe as part of ’s Annual Open Call for Curators.
Featured Artists include: Phil Davis, Bonnie Crawford Kotula, John Sturgeon, and Christian Valiente Sound Concert Performance: Saturday, November 1, 2008 8 – 9pm in conjunction with opening reception.
The Everyday Instrument Workshop with Tim Nohe: Saturday, Nov. 8th and 15th 1 – 4pm ($10 pre-registration required)
Electronic Sewing with Bonnie Crawford Kotula: Saturday, November 22nd 1 -4pm ($20 pre-registration required)
For more information or to reserve your spot please contact School 33 Art Center
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