Since I will miss the recep­tion tomor­row, I took the lib­erty of view­ing Search Engine: Lou Joseph 1998–2012 at the North Ave. Mar­ket on my own. I was blown away by amount of work on the walls, also enjoyed nav­i­gat­ing through the space with the Search Engine Field Guide (avail­able as a pam­phlet upon enter­ing ...

Despite spend­ing upwards of 20 hours in my stu­dio this week­end (in a flurry of paper scraps to say the least), I was able to check out sev­eral shows this week­end. Rang­ing from minia­tures to yarn, paper to paint­ing, shows at Gallery 500, Nudashank, and School 33 demon­strated a var­ied aes­thetic through­out Baltimore. Mul­ti­plic­ity, at ...

If I weren’t going to be out of town this week­end, I would most def­i­nitely be attend­ing the open­ing of Paper Chasers at Nudashank this Sat­ur­day night (6PM-10PM). Works on paper! So many great artists! Nudashank 405 W. Franklin Street 3rd Floor Bal­ti­more, MD 21201 Image via Nudashank’s web­site. ...

(image via Guest Spot) Hey, Bal­ti­more! Nar­ra­tive Lim­i­nal is open­ing tonight from 7PM to 11PM at Guest Spot. The show will fea­ture work by two artists, John Bohl and Mike Peter Smith. Here is some vital information: Show runs Sep­tem­ber 2 – Octo­ber 15, 2011 Curated by Rod Malin, Direc­tor of Guest Spot Loca­tion: 1826 ...

Artist Anthony Iacono has his first solo show cur­rently up (and up until the 26th of June) at Sloan Fine Art in New York City. At times dis­ori­ent­ing, I was first drawn to his pho­tographs that are at times dis­ori­ent­ing, col­or­ful, and a bit phal­lic as well. It’s no secret my love of toys, and I ...

After see­ing the press related to the open­ing of his newest solo show at the New Image Art Gallery, I was both over­whelmed and intrigued by the work of Richard Col­man. With Richard’s work, I feel as though I am look­ing into an alter­nate uni­verse. It’s the inner work­ings of a prism — where color ...

I’ve been a huge fan of Mike Perry’s work for years. So, when he announced his new show at the Min­neapo­lis Col­lege of Art and Design, I was intrigued. He cre­ated a blog for the event that detailed his preparation. Now, Mike has cre­ated a web­site about the show so you can view it if ...

 Ryan Bub­nis is an artist liv­ing and work­ing in Port­land, Ore­gon.  His vibrant, abstracted works have both com­mer­cial and gallery appeal. Ryan’s work is a com­ment on the human con­di­tion. His view of human­ity is an opti­mistic one; the char­ac­ters in his works are often smil­ing and good nature. Even when a fig­ure is frown­ing, Ryan’s col­or­ing ...

Shane Hoff­man has installed a pretty incred­i­ble instal­la­tion. Accord­ing to his Flickr, it took him four months to install, with help from his mother. The scene Shane has set up is rather idyl­lic; there are green trees, col­or­ful tulips, and clouds in the blue sky. Within this set­ting, there is a large red bird in ...

Car­rie Mar­ill is a painter whose series Visual Aides has recently caught my attention. Visual Aides has an inter­est­ing con­cept: Dur­ing a trip to France, Car­rie came upon didac­tic draw­ings from the 1950’s describ­ing dif­fer­ent aspects of the world. She col­lected these, scanned them, and repro­duced the images, updat­ing them for the cur­rent day. Car­rie ...