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Time Bandits

Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Avenue, Baltimore MD 

On view May 5 – June 2
Opens Sat May 5, 6-8pm
Gallery talk w/ Mina Cheon & David “Zeb” Cook Thu May 31, 7pm

Peering through a seemingly ancient golden mask, you glimpse video of the moon rising over city lights. A painting depicts Greek amphora and brightly colored polyhedrons against a landscape that’s equal part Magritte and early Star Trek. MacKenzie Peck and Ryan Browning separately tackle the big questions in life – mortality, the sublime, meaning, perception. Together they are “Time Bandits” borrowing from each of these mysteries in ways that are poignant and occasionally funny as they reach for the sublime. 

Ryan Browning’s paintings are strange, delicious, haunted things. He builds them like games, setting recognizable and abstract elements one at a time into a typically shallow pictorial space, until the outlines of a story begin to emerge. Indeed, he cites role playing and video games as influences alongside the history of painting, and thinks of the canvas as an interactive surface much like a computer screen. In new work, he pushes his explorations further in the direction of mapping, from the distinctive perspective of a J.R.R. Tolkien map, to the virtual worlds of video games.

MacKenzie Peck uses a range of media – including photography, video and sculpture – to convey the beauty and futility of mankind’s attempts to capture ephemeral experiences in permanent form. Lines and clumps of knotted string dyed a deep ultramarine blue suggest Eva Hesse’s immersive sculptures, Yves Klein’s signature sublime hue, and the Quipus, or “talking knots” of ancient Andean civilizations. A full roll of snapshots prove to be poor documentation of small exploding firecrackers in a floor sculpture that encourages reflection on the nature of memory. Repeated depictions of the night sky connect the viewer to countless generations who’ve looked to the stars for meaning, and at least been rewarded with beauty.

Browning and Peck are joined on May 31 by Mina Cheon, artist and author of Shamanism and Cyberspace, and David “Zeb” Cook, legendary game designer best known as the architect of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons’ 2nd Edition to discuss the exhibition and reflect on the differences between real, imagined, remembered, invented and virtual landscapes.

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B A L T I M O R E  P R I N T  M I X
Opening Reception  >  Saturday  >  April 28th  >  7-10pm

Current Space presents a selected group of Baltimore artists working with an array of printing techniques and styles.  Join us for the grand opening of our flat file with limited edition prints and our online store. 

John Bohl > James Bouche > Lauren Brick > Emily Burtner > Nate Cubeta > Sal Farina > Lesser Gonzalez >
Julianne Hamilton & Katie Smith >  Beth Hoeckel > Lou Joseph > Gary Kachadourian > Andrew Liang >
Justin Lucas > Chloe Maratta > Becca Morrin > Hermonie Only > Nikholis Planck >Jeremy Rountree > Flannery Silva

Also Open Sunday, April 29, 12-4pm

Current Space
421 North Howard Street
Baltimore Md 21201

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Open Space is pleased to announce its Third Annual Publications and Multiples Fair on April 28th and 29th, 2012, from 12-6 pm. This annual event is a celebration and survey of artist publications, prints, objects in multiple and much more. Co-curated with Nicholas Gottlund of Gottlund Verlag in conjunction with his show, Baker’s Dozen, currently on view at Open Space, this year’s fair promises a wide variety of artist publications and multiples from Baltimore and abroad. Exhibiting artists and publishers include: 

Chloe Maratta
Chris Day
Closed Caption Comics
Dylan Thadani
Friends Records
FUKT Magazine
Gary Kachadourian
Gottlund Verlag
Guest Spot
Half Letter Press
Important Comics
Jason Kachadourian
The Kingsboro Press
Noel Freibert
Nowork
OSO Press
Public Collectors
Real Guts
Schematic Quarterly
Spaces Corners
Suzanna Zak
Swill Children
Temporary Services
Video On Paper
Wtr Clr Records


This year’s fair also includes lectures by David Senior and Ed Panar. 

David Senior is a Bibliographer for the Museum of Modern Art Library, where he manages the development of the library’s collection with a particular focus on artists’ publications and other experimental publications in the fields of modern and contemporary art and design. Senior will discuss contemporary artist books as well as some of the shows he has organized and curated, including Access to Tools: Publications from the Whole Earth Catalog, 1968-1974 and Millennium Magazines. 

Ed Panar is a artist and photographer who often works with other artist publishers. Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania during the funk era in 1976, he graduated from high school during the grunge era in 1994. He went on to receive his MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2005 during the middle of the Bush administration. His recent publications include Golden Palms (J&L, 2007), Same Difference (Gottlund Verlag, 2010), and Animals That Saw Me (The Ice Plant, 2011). His most recent book series Salad Days is being published by Gottlund Verlag. Ed currently lives and works among the forested hills and hollows of Pittsburgh.

Lectures will take place from 5-7pm on Saturday the 28th.

After the lectures, join us at the Floristree for the premier screening of Real Guts’ Exquisite Corpse Video Project. Print fair after party to follow.

Open Space Baltimore is an artist run gallery space located in Remington in Baltimore City. Beginning as a collectively run art space in the fall of 2009, it has since hosted a wide variety of exhibitions and programming. 

Open Space is located at 2720 Sisson Street, Baltimore, MD 21211.
Please email openspacebaltimore@gmail.com with any questions

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PULLED: Evidence of a Print Community

OPENING RECEPTION sponsored by Urbanite @ Case[Werks] APRIL 5th, 5:30-8pm.

Exhibition Dates: 5 April 2012 - 25 May 2012

PULLED curates the curators of Baltimore’s top print studios, presses, and galleries. Participants were asked to not only include instances of their own endeavours, but also to invite printmakers and artists who inspire their studio, are represented by their gallery, or who have helped forge or expand their understanding of community.

Participating Sub-Curators:

Goya Contemporary/Goya-Girl Press
Typecast Press
Gilah Press and Design
Litho Shop
Baltimore Open Studios
Open Space

Artists* :

William Pope.L
Juan Logan
Bill Fick
Sanford Biggers
Joyce J. Scott
Christian Marclay
David Shapiro
Soledad Salamé
Jo Smail &
William Kentridge Collaboration
Noel Freibert
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez
Molly Colleen O’Connell
Globe Poster / Globe Press at MICA
Gilah Press + Design
Ice Cream Social
Baltimore Print Studios
Brad Vetter
Keegan Onefoot-Wenkman
Kyle Durrie
Andy Snair

PULLED is curated by Marian April Glebes.

Urbanite at Case[werks] Showroom & Gallery
1501 Saint Paul Street #116 Baltimore, MD 21202

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REAL TIME

Jerome Acks
Aaron Noah Graham
Justin Kelly
Margo Benson Malter
Nick Peelor
Alan Resnick
Kate Steciw

This group exhibition brings together seven strangers from New York, Chicago, and Baltimore that make work about reconciling the digital with the physical. See what happens when things stop being polite and start getting real. 

Show Runs:
March 31st - April 22nd, 2012
7 PM - 10 PM 

@ Nudashank