Potential Images
1708 Gallery
April 20th -June 2nd
Potential Images surveys current practices in contemporary painting, from the representational to abstract, narrative to conceptual. Curated by Emily Smith, Executive Director of 1708, Potential Images will examine how painting relates to larger trends in contemporary art—for example a pervasive DIY aesthetic, an interest in new media, a reuse of surrealism, an awareness of the neo-baroque and the sublime, and a prevalence of personal narrative.
In addition to surveying different modes of painting, Potential Images will introduce Richmond to a group of mostly up and coming (though some are fairly established) artists. The exhibition will include works by Ivin Ballen, Guy Ben-Ari, Michael DeLucia, Michael Dotson, Brendan Smith and Maria Walker.
April 20th -June 2nd
Potential Images surveys current practices in contemporary painting, from the representational to abstract, narrative to conceptual. Curated by Emily Smith, Executive Director of 1708, Potential Images will examine how painting relates to larger trends in contemporary art—for example a pervasive DIY aesthetic, an interest in new media, a reuse of surrealism, an awareness of the neo-baroque and the sublime, and a prevalence of personal narrative.
In addition to surveying different modes of painting, Potential Images will introduce Richmond to a group of mostly up and coming (though some are fairly established) artists. The exhibition will include works by Ivin Ballen, Guy Ben-Ari, Michael DeLucia, Michael Dotson, Brendan Smith and Maria Walker.
Dream Continuum
DREAM CONTINUUM, a group show featuring works by Michael Dotson, Kristen Schiele, Sofia Arnold, Linda Chalmers, Ky Anderson, Anthony Cudahy, and more, opening March 31st, 2012 at Circuit 12 Contemporary.
Surveying a range of images and subject matter derived from sources within and beyond the visible wold, the artists not only pose questions, but channel insight on psychological functions, tonality, and sensation; addressing space, time, technology, and their societal implications in waking life.
Within this body of work, typical forms are widely reduced to basic geometric designs and organic shapes. Figures present challenges in their placement and perception. Color fields rival linear structures and sound architecture. Inexplicable internal relationships are explored, unison in their composition is abandoned. Technology provides a point of departure for the development of sound structural, emotional, and psychological connections in space and time.
“There is an abstract thinking, just as there is abstract feeling, sensation and intuition. Abstract thinking singles out the rational, logical qualities … Abstract feeling does the same with … its feeling-values. … I put abstract feelings on the same level as abstract thoughts. … Abstract sensation would be aesthetic as opposed to sensuous sensation and abstract intuition would be symbolic as opposed to fantastic intuition. (Jung, [1921] (1971):par. 678)”
On view until May 2nd, 2012, DREAM CONTINUUM features artists from across the country and abroad. DREAM CONTINUUM is the grand opening exhibition for Circuit 12 Contemporary, located in the heart of the Dallas Design District. For more information, contact Dustin or Gina Orlando at info@circuit12.com. Gallery hours: Tuesday- Saturday, 11AM- 6PM. Private viewings upon request.
Surveying a range of images and subject matter derived from sources within and beyond the visible wold, the artists not only pose questions, but channel insight on psychological functions, tonality, and sensation; addressing space, time, technology, and their societal implications in waking life.
Within this body of work, typical forms are widely reduced to basic geometric designs and organic shapes. Figures present challenges in their placement and perception. Color fields rival linear structures and sound architecture. Inexplicable internal relationships are explored, unison in their composition is abandoned. Technology provides a point of departure for the development of sound structural, emotional, and psychological connections in space and time.
“There is an abstract thinking, just as there is abstract feeling, sensation and intuition. Abstract thinking singles out the rational, logical qualities … Abstract feeling does the same with … its feeling-values. … I put abstract feelings on the same level as abstract thoughts. … Abstract sensation would be aesthetic as opposed to sensuous sensation and abstract intuition would be symbolic as opposed to fantastic intuition. (Jung, [1921] (1971):par. 678)”
On view until May 2nd, 2012, DREAM CONTINUUM features artists from across the country and abroad. DREAM CONTINUUM is the grand opening exhibition for Circuit 12 Contemporary, located in the heart of the Dallas Design District. For more information, contact Dustin or Gina Orlando at info@circuit12.com. Gallery hours: Tuesday- Saturday, 11AM- 6PM. Private viewings upon request.
ACADEMY 2011
July 9 - August 22, 2011 >> opening reception: Saturday, July 9th: 6 to 8pm.
Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce ACADEMY 2011, our 11th annual invitational survey of outstanding work by MFA/BFA students in the Washington/Baltimore area.
Exhibition founder and curator, Jamie Smith, Ph.D. invited the following artists to participate:
> Artists: Sarah Allison, Forest Allread, Emily Biondo, Woojin Chang, Caroline Covington, Michael Dotson, Dan Gioia, Ginny Huo, Adam Junior, Libby Landauer, Linling Lu, Jon Malis, Jonathan Monaghan, Elle Perez, Melissa Prentki, Camilo Sanin, Samuel Scharf, Sierra Suris, Virginia Wagner.
Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce ACADEMY 2011, our 11th annual invitational survey of outstanding work by MFA/BFA students in the Washington/Baltimore area.
Exhibition founder and curator, Jamie Smith, Ph.D. invited the following artists to participate:
> Artists: Sarah Allison, Forest Allread, Emily Biondo, Woojin Chang, Caroline Covington, Michael Dotson, Dan Gioia, Ginny Huo, Adam Junior, Libby Landauer, Linling Lu, Jon Malis, Jonathan Monaghan, Elle Perez, Melissa Prentki, Camilo Sanin, Samuel Scharf, Sierra Suris, Virginia Wagner.
Developmental Skills
This year’s Towson University summer MFA exhibition is curated by Towson MFA student Steven Riddle. The artists in this exhibition draw inspiration from video games, skate boarding and exploration of the world around them. They utilize color, pattern, and movement to elegant delight, transforming their adolescent desires into statements about the nature of discovery, creativity and play.
Participating artists:
Jordan Bernier (Towson University)
Elizabeth Donadio (Towson University)
Michael Dotson (American University)
Ginny Huo (Maryland Institute College of Art)
Center for the Arts Gallery and Holtzman Gallery Hours
Tuesday—Saturday, 11 am to 4 pm Information: 410-704-2808 · www.towson.edu/artscalenda​r
2011 MFA Thesis Show
April 23 - May 15 2011
Opening Reception April 23
American University Museum at the Katzen
4400 Massachusetts Blvd. NW
Washington DC, 20016
Opening Reception April 23
American University Museum at the Katzen
4400 Massachusetts Blvd. NW
Washington DC, 20016
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Academy 2010
I have three paintings featured in Conner Contemporary Art's exhibition Academy 2010 in Washington DC.
Intention: 1st Year MFA Show.
Our show is up from April 29th to May 9th in American Universities Katzen Museum. Come by and check it out if you are in the DC area!
Youtube
Check out this VIDEO of my painting Side by Side being made.
New American Paintings
I am featured in the currant issue of New American Paintings #81 for the mid-Atlantic competition.
Picture Plane
Picture Plane:
May 15 - June 19
Opening Reception: May 15, 7-9 pm
Nudashank is pleased to present our second exhibition- “Picture Plane.” This show brings together paintings that combine hard-edged abstraction with a post-digital return to pictorial space and linear perspective. Equal parts modernism and classicism, the exhibiting painters are from a generation that has been influenced by screensavers, vector graphics, MS Paint, Google maps, and Photoshop. The paintings evince the pervading luminescence of the computer screen, the digital color spectrum, and the expanding universe of virtual spaces. Flat, planar shapes are used as devices to depict scenes void of inhabitants. These paintings reflect a new, synthesized (perhaps alienated) perception of the world and how visual information is coded, condensed, flattened, and transmitted.
Picture Plane features six artists: New York based Dan Bina and Morgan Blair, DC based Michael Dotson and Allison Reimus, and Baltimore based Tim Horjus and Dale Ihnken.
Hope to see you there!
May 15 - June 19
Opening Reception: May 15, 7-9 pm
Nudashank is pleased to present our second exhibition- “Picture Plane.” This show brings together paintings that combine hard-edged abstraction with a post-digital return to pictorial space and linear perspective. Equal parts modernism and classicism, the exhibiting painters are from a generation that has been influenced by screensavers, vector graphics, MS Paint, Google maps, and Photoshop. The paintings evince the pervading luminescence of the computer screen, the digital color spectrum, and the expanding universe of virtual spaces. Flat, planar shapes are used as devices to depict scenes void of inhabitants. These paintings reflect a new, synthesized (perhaps alienated) perception of the world and how visual information is coded, condensed, flattened, and transmitted.
Picture Plane features six artists: New York based Dan Bina and Morgan Blair, DC based Michael Dotson and Allison Reimus, and Baltimore based Tim Horjus and Dale Ihnken.
Hope to see you there!
