I am delighted and honored to be apart of this summer’s show at Towson University. From their website:
Eye Spy
June 12 – July 27, from 11AM – 4PM | Holtzman MFA Gallery
In the Age of Immediacy, information flashes at warp speed, demanding our attention but providing little in return. Absorbing our world is often a thoughtless endeavor. What is attention without intention? How can we, instead, be present in ourselves? How can we not just look, but see? The classic child’s game of I Spy demands we stop, look closely, and find. Likewise, the exhibition invites us to linger, to look again, to notice what seemed invisible only moments before. The artists create immersive worlds full of color, sound, texture, and repetition. They build worlds full of whimsy and mystery. The work in Eye Spy observes itself as much as it is observed. What emerges is joyous clarity and peaceful interiority. FREE. Family friendly reception, July 24, 6 – 8 p.m., open to the public, with a cookie reception, gallery games, and related art projects!
Blister Freak Circus once more emerged into public to enter into the tube and it was really fun. I played djembe on 2 songs and guitar on the others. Really happy to be included again.
From the One Mile Gallery site: 40 Artist group show opening August 16 with opening reception 5-8pm
Phantasma is a multidisciplinary group exhibition showcasing the work of over 40 artists, primarily from New York’s Hudson Valley, with select contributors from across the United States. United under the theme of “phantasma”—a term evoking the spectral, illusory, and dreamlike. The exhibition explores the unstable boundaries between perception and reality, presence and absence, the material and the imagined.
Featuring a dynamic range of media including painting, sculpture, and multi media works, Phantasma foregrounds artistic practices that engage with the uncanny, the subconscious, and the ephemeral.
In Phantasma, ephemerality is not solely embedded in the materials or lifespan of the artworks, but more crucially, in the temporality of the viewer’s encounter. Even the most materially permanent works become ephemeral through the lens of perception. The time one spends with a piece, the subjective attention one brings to it, and the emotional or psychological states it evokes are all transient, unrepeatable phenomena.
This viewer-centered ephemerality aligns closely with the exhibition’s thematic core. The concept of phantasma implies not just illusion or apparition, but a kind of fleeting mental image that is something glimpsed and then gone. In this light, the exhibition invites reflection on how art exists not just as an object in space, but as an event in time—a momentary convergence between work and witness.
Such moments are inherently unstable. No two viewings are the same; no two viewers see the same thing. Light shifts, sound overlaps, distractions arise, memories intervene. Even in a static work, meaning is never fixed—it shimmers, disappears, reemerges elsewhere. Phantasma engages this instability as a mode of presence, encouraging the viewer to lean into the impermanence of attention, the fragility of focus, and the shifting textures of perception.
Here, ephemerality becomes less about what the work is, and more about what it does in time, how it lives briefly in the field of experience before dissolving into memory.
It was a fantastic opening – One Mile Gallery is charming, and this show is packed with great work. Mark Hogancamp was on hand, and I got to spend time asking him questions and talking. He told me that he’s going to put the diorama I made for him on the second floor of the hotel above the mantle in Marwencol. I was so happy to meet him. It was a lovely evening!
I’m part of a group show with fellow Towson University MFA folks. The call for entry stated:
We are looking for work that meditates on the present moment, and reflects on the theme Here & Now. This prompt is open for interpretation. Artwork submitted could pertain to the theme conceptually or be based on process.
I submitted some of my insomnia haiku, reasoning that those little poems were made in an effort to ground myself in the present moment (in the middle of the night).
I just received the marketing materials for this how, and see the title is now What’s left Behind. If I were to apply again, I might suggest that the things left behind (hopefully) would be that evening’s sleepless concerns.
410 N. Eutaw Street Baltimore, MD 21201 The show runs from April 18 – June 2.
The opening of the Baker Artist in person show took place this evening at the Peale Museum, and it is a very impressive show. There are so many working artists in the area, and I think this show is impactful. It’s open through January 2025.
My animation Brains is playing in the Rowhouse Room on the 2nd floor.
We had dinner at La Calle in Fell’s Point, which makes our third visit there.
Here are the details:
Baker Artist Portfolios: Off The Web At The Peale Musuem November 7, 2024 – January 19, 2025 Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 4pm – 8pm
Over 200 Baltimore-area artists bring some of the region’s newest art to America’s oldest museum building.
