Senior Exit Exhibition at CADVC (5/21-6/7)

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is pleased to present the 2013 Senior Exit Exhibition opening in the CADVC, Tuesday, May 21. A free opening reception will take place on the 21st from 5 to 7 pm.

This exhibition reflects the interdisciplinary orientation and the technological focus of the Department of Visual Arts, and provides the opportunity for undergraduate seniors to exhibit within a professional setting prior to exiting the university.

The Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm and is located in the Fine Arts Building. Admission is free and open to the public.

The Senior Exit Exhibition continues through Friday, June 7.

Image by Lauren DeMarsh.

Lynn Cazabon and Neal McDonald, Visual Arts, Exhibit in Poland Art Festival

Junkspace, 2012, a collaborative installation piece by Department of Visual Arts faculty, Lynn Cazabon and Neal McDonald, was selected for exhibition at the WRO 15th Media Arts Biennale, in Wrocław, Poland. The event features work by artists around the world, and this year, celebrates 50 years of electronic art.

Part of WRO’s Rings of Saturn exhibition, Junkspace “is a time and location sensitive video installation and corresponding iOS App that superimposes two forms of waste, one earth—bound (electronic waste) and the other celestial (orbital debris).” Learn more, or download the app at the installation’s website.

Carlyn Thomas ’13, Visual Arts, Speaks at Gallery 788

Out of Mind, an exhibition curated by 2013 Visual Arts senior, Carlyn Thomas, opened last week in Baltimore’s Gallery 788. Coverage of the exhibition and video of a curatorial talk by Thomas, appeared Sunday in the Baltimore Post-Examiner.

The curatorial project is part of Thomas’ senior thesis as an art history & museum studies student, and continues through the 11th.

Learn more about the project here.

MAP Exhibition Features Nicole King, American Studies, and Stephen Bradley, Visual Arts

Beginning next month, the Maryland Art Place will host the exhibition Oasis Places, featuring the work of five artists, including collaborative work by Nicole King, American Studies, and Stephen Bradley, Visual Arts.

Bradley states that the collaborative, inter-media art piece consists of multiple parts including Place Immersion which, ”reframes an industrialized community in Baltimore City called Greater Baybrook by homaging the lost neighborhood and it’s remnants of material culture, including photographic travel archives and field recordings of voices, stories and sounds of the existing place.” The writings of Nicole King are meant to “punctuate the transitional spirit of the [Baybrook] community so similar to other industrialized places in the world.” The result is a hybrid and comprehensive website, MappingBaybrook.org, that makes its debut on the evening of the opening.

Oasis Places opens Thursday, May 9 from 6-9 pm, with a panel discussion from 6-7 pm. The exhibition continues through Saturday, June 22

This work is the culmination of a project which began with the help of a 2010 summer fellowship granted by the Imaging Resource Center. Since then, King and Bradley have continued to work in Baltimore’s Brooklyn-Curtis Bay neighborhoods.

Carlyn Thomas ’13, Visual Arts, First UMBC Art History Student to Curate Exhibition for Thesis

Carlyn Thomas installing exhibition

Carlyn Thomas ’13, visual arts, is curating an art exhibition as part of her senior thesis project, and will install the show, Out of Mind, in Gallery 788. She is the first art history & museum studies student to independently curate an exhibition. Out of Mind, features artwork by eight contemporary artists who explore various states of mental distress including depression, self-harm, phobias and bi-polar disorder. Out of Mind will be on display at Gallery 788, located in downtown Baltimore, from May 2-11.

Thomas states that, “the artists featured in Out of Mind share a deep-seated desire to bring public awareness to the subject of human neuroses. Examining ways of coping with these ever-present difficulties these artists aim to strike chords of recognition in viewers about what it is to be human. The artists are rebelling against the fact that for too long these neuroses have been repressed and feared because of the archaic stigmas assigned to them. The works in the show make the point that these neuroses and personal instabilities are everyday realities that are within us all.”

An opening reception at 788, in which Thomas will give a curatorial talk about her thesis, will take place Thursday, May 2 from 7 pm until 11 pm. Gallery 788 is open Thursday and Friday, 3 pm to 7 pm, and on Saturday, Noon to 6 pm.

Chamber Players and New Music Ensemble (4/28)

The UMBC Chamber Players and the New Music Ensemble perform a concert Sunday, April 28 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Recital Hall. The groups will play under the direction of Department of Music faculty, Airi Yoshioka and Tom Goldstein.

Admission to this event is free.

Group Exhibition at Goucher College Features Visual Arts Faculty

Untitled (Iceberg 2), photography and digital montage, 2009, Calla Thompson

A group exhibition at Goucher College’s Silber Gallery, Hydroflow, is displaying the work of ten artists including UMBC visual arts faculty, Eric Dyer, Lisa Moren and Calla Thompson.

Hydroflow, centered upon works “that explore the multifaceted aspects of water,” opened April 9 and continues through May 19. A free artists’ reception will take place in the Silber, Friday, May 10 from 6 to 9 pm.

Learn more about Dyer, Moren and Thompsons’ works in the exhibition, at Goucher College’s community news publication In The Loop.

A New Context Featured on WAMU Art Beat

This month, the WAMU segment Art Beat with Lauren Landau, a daily update of arts and culture events in the D.C. area, highlighted the exhibition currently running in the Library Gallery, A New Context: Photographs from the Baltimore Sun Revisited.

Listen at WAMU’s website.

A New Context is on display through Friday, May 31.

A New Context Reviewed by City Paper

The exhibition currently in the Library Gallery, A New Context: Photographs from the Baltimore Sun Revisited, was featured in a City Paper article today. The favorable review of show, curated from UMBC’s Baltimore Sun Archives, was written by Joe MacLeod.

In the piece, MacLeod explores the exhibition’s ability to highlight a transformation in the responsibility of photography in the news, and comments on how biases of the time, revealed in the edited photographs, influenced reporting. He says of the blatantly prejudiced cropping and its effect on the picture as a whole, ”[c]ontext is all, and history changes context and what we decide an image means.”

Read “Fit to Print” at City Paper‘s website.

A New Context continues through Friday, May 31.

Symposium on Print Media, Photography and Art (4/23)

The Symposium on Print Media, Photography and Art takes place this Tuesday, April 23 at 6:00 p.m. in the Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery.

In connection with the exhibition, A New Context: Photographs from the Baltimore Sun Revisited, this panel discussion focuses on the intersection of print media, journalistic photography and art, and features UMBC faculty and former Baltimore Sun staff.

Panelists include:

Tom Beck, moderator, Chief Curator of the Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery and an Affiliate Associate Professor of Photography for the Department of Visual Arts; Christopher Corbett, Professor of English for the Department of English; retired Baltimore Sun Photographer, Jed Kirschbaum; and William F. Zorzi, retired Baltimore Sun Reporter and actor in HBO’s The Wire.