This Weekend

9.10.09

Robert Guevara: Three voices @ The Creative Alliance


At first glance, Robert Guevara’s sculptural installations resemble abandoned sites of construction. Then you notice the 2x4’s are planed by hand, the fasteners individually stamped, and the materials possess an internal logic, even vitality. Playing off of The Patterson’s girders, conduits, and gallery walls, Guevara suggests architecture’s nature as a living system.
In the Amelie Rothschild Gallery September 10-26, 2009
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 10, 2009 5:30-7:30pm
Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue
Baltimore Maryland 21224



High Zero @ Theater Project
High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast, being fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world.
Lasting two weeks in total, the festival brings together 28 core musicians each year, but also involves a much larger subculture of musicians in Baltimore and on the East Coast. Unlike many related festivals, High Zero is not narrow in terms of sensibility or subculture, but rather widely inclusive of all the different types of experimental music-making in the moment. The fact that half of the festival's core participants are from Baltimore speaks to the depth of Baltimore's experimental music subculture, which in recent years has grown to be one of the richest cities in the country for experimental art.
Concerts every night September 10-13, 2009 at Theater Project
For details: http://www.highzero.org


9.11.09

Love Letters & Debriscapes @ Civilian Arts Project
Civilian Art Projects is pleased to present two solo exhibitions: Love Letters by Cara Ober and Debriscapes by Nikki Painter.
Love Letters is Baltimore-based artist Cara Ober’s first solo exhibition with Civilian Art Projects.

Ober layers drawing, painting, and printmaking into mixed media works that examine and reinterpret sentimental imagery. Intricate and funny, Love Letters explores the relationship of the artist to image, word, and personal meaning found in the exploration of secret fantasy and expressive interlude.

With Debriscapes, her first solo exhibition in Washington DC, Richmond VA-based Nikki Painter exhibits new drawings and a site-specific installation that explore -- in bright neon colors, pencil lines, and various materials -- the relationship and continuum between the built and natural worlds.


September 11- October 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, September 11, 2009 7-9pm
www.civilianartprojects.com
Civilian Arts Project
406 7th Street NW, Second Floor
Washington DC 20004
(202) 347-0022



Visions From the End of the World @ Flashpoint
Bradley Chriss’ small, apocalyptic watercolors are situated at the unlikely interstice between the sentimental and the nightmarish. The intimate scale and seductive colors cajole and beguile the viewer into confronting the sinister reality that humanity is ultimately powerless within its own environment. Visions from the End of the World will open with a performance by Chriss’ performance art group, The Post-NeoAbsurdist Anti-Collective.
September 3- October 3, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, September 11, 2009 6-8 pm
Flashpoint
916 G St. NW
Washington, DC 20001


9.12.09

REbirth/Decay @ The Hexagon
The Hexagon presents: REbirth/DEcay, an exhibition of local artists who interpret concepts of rebirth and decay, curated by Anna Louise Jiongco. Featured artists include: Sarah El-Jellad, Jared T. Fischer, Brian Casey, Scotbot, and Anna Louise Jiongco.
September 12- October 2, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 2009 6pm
The Hexagon
1825 N. Charles St.
Baltimore, MD 21206


FAX @ The Contemporary Museum
FAX invites a multi-generational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing. FAX will include drawings by over 100 artists that have each been submitted via fax machine. Over the course of the exhibition, as new works arrive via the museum's working fax machine, the exhibition will evolve as new works are added to the walls of the museum.
September 12- December 20, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 2009 6-8pm
The Contemporary Museum
100 W. Centre Street
Baltimore, MD 21201



Barry Nemett: Paintings, Poems & Passages @ The Creative Alliance


Barry Nemett’s paintings reflect a busy mind, constantly feeling around for ideas, images, words and other voices, then piecing them back together like grand puzzles, bursting with information. The longtime professor and Chair of MICA’s Painting Department, Nemett is also a published writer and poet, and collaborated for years with Richard Kalter, MICA’s dearly missed philosopher/ poet/ theologian in residence. The spirit of that collaboration hovers over this exhibition, which celebrates the release of Nemett’s full-length retrospective catalog, and draws together work exploring the dynamic interplay between painting and poetry.
In the Main Gallery September 12- October 24, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 2009 5-7 pm
www.creativealliance.org



Jo Smail: Conjurations @ Goya Contemporary
September 1- October 14, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 12, 2009 5-8pm

Goya Contemporary
Mill Center, Studio 214
3000 Chestnut Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21211