Fortress of Solitude (installation view), Luke Painter
Still Water Frosted Pond (detail), Alex Mcleod
The gallery will be open Saturday, November 20 for normal gallery hours and from 5-7 pm for cocktails. This will be another opportunity to see the Landscape Techne exhibition before you are swallowed by a familial void Thanksgiving weekend.
Landscape Techne aims to provide some insight as to why landscape has survived as a theme in fine art and how technology and social change have influenced the way artists consider it as content. The artists on view include the Eteam’s Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, Maria Dumlao, Carl Diehl, Alex Mcleod, Rafael Rozendaal, Xarene Eskandar, and Luke Painter. Most use land as a significant element in their work and utilize various formats of expression from the i-phone to the virtual world program Second Life.
If you who will be in town for the holiday, we will be open for gallery hours November 27, the last scheduled day of the show and by appointment.
Other Earth Artifact/Tree Pod, Xarene Eskandar
Landscape Techne intends to maintain the legacy of the relationship of the artist and technology while exploring the role of landscape in art. Landscape as a genre was originally influenced by a physical panoramic view, limited at times to a specific region. It has remained a long time object of affection for the artist, as it has been translated since the frescoes of Minoan Greece. The objective of Landscape Techne is to initiate dialogue about the manner in which artists are challenging the way landscape art is conveyed and experienced based on the insistent mutation of the artist’s toolbox. The artists chosen for this exhibition use land as a significant element in their work and utilize various formats of expression from the i-phone to the virtual world program Second Life. Landscape Techne aims to provide some insight as to why landscape has survived as a theme in fine art and how technology and social change have influenced the way artists consider it as content.
The techne element of the title was inspired by an explanation of the Greek root word provided by Tom Boellstorff in his book Coming of Age in Second Life:
“Techne refers to art of craft, to human action that engages with the world and thereby results in a different world. Techne is not just knowledge about the world, what Greek thought termed episteme; it is intentional action that constitutes a gap between the world as it was before the action, and the new world it calls in to being.”
Zodiac Down Opens this First Friday, September 3rd, 6-8 pm and runs through September 25th.
Zodiac Down is a show of current work from Tyler School of Art’s second year crafts graduate students. The Crafts Department at Tyler practices a non-traditional and research based approach to making, resulting in a definitively progressive and informed exhibition. The content of the featured work ranges from issues of self-perspective to socio-economic and environmental concerns, as well as, process based sculpture and social satire. The featured artists are Loo Bain, Amber Cowan, David King, David Bruce, Theo Uliano, and Matthew Ziemke.
Later on Blackhawks, Party Photographers and Creepoid will perform at 8 pm. We are requesting a $5 donation at the door after 7:30 pm.
Join us Sunday, September 5th at 7 pm for the Baltimore Annex Theater’s new play. A Fistful of Flowers, takes the western genre and bends, reshapes and queers the old format into a genre all its own. This play follows two contemporary cowboys, who are ex lovers, as they chase each other around the desert trying to kill each other. The play is populated by the traditional western characters and non-traditional absurdist characters while the future mixes with the past. TNT is… detonated via an iPhone app. A man takes violent revenge for a bad Darth Vader tattoo. Desert cacti are animate characters. The landscape comes alive with invented and real imagery that is as psychedelic as it is everyday. Intermittently, gender roles are reversed to lend broader depth to the main characters’ search for what it means to be a man… a real man (a woman).
$5-$10 Suggested Donation
*no one turned away for lack of funds
