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

Disorderly Construct

Open Space proudly announces ‘Disorderly Construct’, a project by David J. Armacost and Nikholis R. Planck.

For their first collaborative exhibition, the artists will present a broad sample of works firmly grounded in drawing. Sourcing their fervent correspondence, Armacost and Planck’s project examines artistic practice through the documentation and parody of each other’s work. The pieces selected betray an ongoing process in which each element informs the next while riffing on a predecessor. This type of decentered approach encourages a view of studio practice not as a solitary search for authoritative voice, but as an opportunity to produce relationships, both between mediums and amongst artists themselves.

Armacost (b. 1979) and Planck (b. 1987) live and work in Baltimore. 

Saturday, September 3
7 PM - 10 PM

Open Space
2720 Sisson Street
Baltimore, MD 

Reconfigured Explorations

Works by Clay McGlamory

“Clay McGlamory is an artist who lives and works in Norfolk, Virginia. His work creates optically charged images on layered sheets of acrylic, exploring the formal qualities of color, light, shape, and pattern through experimentation with the properties of kaleidoscopes, tessellations and repetition of patterned imagery. His works are often gargantuan in scale and lit from behind, which along with his generous use of color and overlapping imagery creates an assault on the viewers’ optic nerves.

He has taught printmaking and design for the better part of the last two decades at Old Dominion University and The Governors School for the Arts in Norfolk, as well as running Half Ass Press, showing work nationally and internationally, and participating in the Southern Graphics Council, American Print Alliance, and the Peninsula Glass Guild.”

Saturday, May 21
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Open Space
2720 Sisson St.
Baltimore, MD

Is This Real Life?

Closing reception for the exhibition of work by Dru Donova, Pete Deevakul, Carlos Jimenez Cahua and Eric Ruby.

Friday, May 6
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Open Space
2720 Sisson Street
Baltimore, MD

Baltimore Liste

To produce Baltimore Liste, The Contemporary museum has joined forces with seven local galleries (Area 405, Open Space, Current Gallery, Gallery Four, Nudashank, Subbasement Gallery and Jordan Faye Contemporary Art) each gallery nominated three artists. After visiting 21 studios, Sue Spaid has selected twelve artists to have solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Museum during the month of May.

Friday, May 13
6:30 - 9:30 PM
John Bohl (Current) 
Shaun Flynn (Gallery Four) 
Stewart Watson (Area 405)
Jordan Bernier (Nudashank)

Friday, May 20th
6:30 - 9:30 PM
David Page (Jordan Faye Contemporary)
Caitlin Cunningham (Nudashank)
Josh Wade Smith (Gallery Four)

Friday, May 27th
6:30 - 9:30 PM
Michelle Model (Sub Basement)
Gary Kachadourian (Current)
Kate Mackinnon (Jordan Faye Contemporary)
DUOX (Open Space)

Sculpture by Ann Kelly (Baltimore, MD)

On view at Open Space (Baltimore) as part of the Falling Off the Edge exhibit.