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4th Annual Curators' Incubator Program

For Immediate Release: September 15, 2006

For more information contact:
Julie Ann Cavnor 410-962-8565 / jcavnor@mdartplace.org

Maryland Art Place introduces this year’s curators as part of its Fourth Annual CURATORS’ INCUBATOR PROGRAM

The Photograph as Representation and Reflection of Cultural Objects / Fabian Goncalves Borrega, curator

Conversations Most Intimate: The Lens of Myra Greene / Jeffreen M. Hayes + Bennie F. Johnson, curators

Exhibition Dates: September 19-October 21, 2006
Friday, October 6, 2006Gallery Talk 6 pm / Reception 7 pm

Baltimore, Maryland—Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to present the Fourth Annual Curators’ Incubator program, featuring independent curator Fabian Goncalves Borrega and the curatorial team of Myra B. Greene and Bennie F. Johnson.

About the Curators’ Incubator Program:

This juried annual program was designed to encourage diversity while mentoring emerging curators and fresh new talent by offering a flash-point look at contemporary art our community and beyond.

Curators are selected by MAP’s Program Advisory Committee after completing a competitive two-phase application process designed to hone curators’ intentions and clarify their plans for specific exhibitions. It is anticipated that their curatorial proposals and resulting exhibitions will have been strengthened as a result of the experiences gained during this program. In addition, participants’ curatorial writings are published in a catalogue and distributed to visitors to the gallery during the exhibition.
 
This year’s program culminates with a Gallery Talk on Friday, October 6th from 6-7 pm followed by a Reception from 7-9 pm and is part of MAP’s 25th Anniversary programming schedule.

This Year’s Exhibitions:

The Photograph as Representation and Reflection of Cultural Objects

Fabian Goncalves Borrega, curator

Fabian Borrega’s exhibition, The Photograph as Representation and Reflection of Cultural Objects demonstrates how artists use objects as representations of culture—understanding and associating culture as an accumulation of facts, emotions, and stories. The exhibition seeks to explore both subjectivities--that of the artist and the medium combined.

Artists in the exhibition include: Luis Delgado Qualtrough, Kathryn Dunlevie, Katia Fuentes, Lucy Gray, Susannah Hays, Germán Herrera, Mary Daniel Hobson, Javier Manrique, Deborah L. O’Grady and Sharon Wickham.

Conversations Most Intimate: The Lens of Myra Greene

Jeffreen M. Hayes + Bennie F. Johnson, curators

Hayes and Johnson's exhibition Conversations Most Intimate: The Lens of Myra Greene addresses notions of beauty and the human body in today’s visually stimulated society, where the ideals of perfection are often unrealistic and unattainable.

Greene’s self-portrait series, a body of work manipulated in order to produce abstract, murky images that are at times undecipherable, forces the viewer to examine the works closely as to identify the body’s presence. By photographing specific body parts such as the stomach, back or collar bone, the body becomes dissected, stimulating the viewer’s response to their own thoughts and issues surrounding body image.

The Alex. Brown & Sons Charitable Foundation, Inc. is proud to partner with  Maryland Art Place in support of the Fourth Annual Curators’ Incubator Program.

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Maryland Art Place (MAP) is a non-profit center for contemporary art established in 1981 to: develop and maintain a dynamic environment for regional artists to exhibit their work, nurture and promote new ideas and new forms, and facilitate rewarding exchanges between artists and the public through educational leadership.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 5pm. There is never an admission charge. For more details, please contact MAP’s Executive Director,Julie Ann Cavnor at 410.962.8565 or jcavnor@mdartplace.org.