If you were to walk by MICA’s Stu­dio Cen­ter on North Avenue (close to what I am told is the slow­est McDonald’s in the world) dur­ing the month of Jan­u­ary, then you most likely saw the work of Jowita Wys­zomirska through the win­dow of MICA’s Cura­to­r­ial Stud­ies gallery, The Tem­po­rary. Three site-specific instal­la­tions were fea­tured ...

I first spoke of the work of Gina Daw­son when I saw it as part of a group show, Boundry Proof, at the Guest Spot Art Space in Bal­ti­more. She cre­ated these amaz­ing minia­ture funeral wreathes made out of paper. The text on the ban­ners were extracted from rejec­tion let­ters, which Gina had embroidered: Check­ing ...

The bright and col­or­ful works of Mis­aki Kawai intrigued and excited me. I wanted to know more about her instal­la­tion, sculp­tures and draw­ings. Via Rove TV, I learned that: Like many other ado­les­cent Japan­ese girls, she [Mis­aki] was influ­enced by west­ern pop cul­ture to a fanat­i­cal degree. She was greatly fas­ci­nated with 60’s fash­ion and ...

Yes, I know I tweeted about Pip and Pop yes­ter­day, and that their show might be old news to some of you now, but it isn’t to me! Thanks to Amy for Face­book­ing this. I love the idea of entire piece on the floor — this minia­ture world that the viewer must crouch down to take ...

Ana Ser­rano is an artist most recently cre­at­ing site-specific works. Her newest series, Salon of Beauty (installed at the Rice Gallery), cre­ates a whole city com­plete with store fronts. Ana is a first-generation Mexican-American, which brings inspi­ra­tion into her work. From her artist statement: Inspired by both of the cul­tural con­texts in her life, she ...

Judy Rushin cre­ates large-scale instal­la­tion works. They com­bine ele­ments of the detached, industrial-use mate­r­ial yet are infused with a warmth in their han­dling. The unfin­ished wooden infra­struc­tures are paired with paint­ings and the hand-crafted, giv­ing it the unique feel­ing of a sort of intimacy. I always enjoy read­ing artist state­ments (if pro­vided), and I really ...

Nathalie Chikhi (pre­vi­ously fea­tured here) cre­ates sculp­tures and wall hang­ings out of things that are in our every­day life. She com­bines and trans­forms col­ored paper, bam­boo sticks, poly­styrene balls, among other things into large scale work. Who knew poly­styrene balls could look ele­gant with a lit­tle trans­for­ma­tion? Con­text and con­sid­er­a­tion for the han­dling of mate­ri­als goes ...

Last week I ven­tured to John Bohl’s home/studio, nes­tled on a tree-lined street in Bal­ti­more. I’ve seen his work again and again around town, most note­ably at Bal­ti­more Liste ear­lier this sum­mer, put on by the Con­tem­po­rary Museum. It was there that I was able to view an instal­la­tion of John’s objects, a com­bi­na­tion of ...

It’s a dou­ble David day (say that five times fast), this time with the work of David Gilbert. Cre­at­ing instal­la­tions using objects that have been mani­u­plated sep­a­rately (so it seems) and later assem­bled, it seems like the empha­sis is on the process and not as much on the final product. I love see­ing his work ...

I came across these wall paintings/installations by Ludovic Boulard Le Fur. I love how he uses both the wall as well as putting part of his piece in our space. The bold col­ors and heavy lines are hard to take your eyes from. In an inter­view with Foggy Griz­zly, Ludovic says that he is inspired by ...