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Material Matters

For Immediate Release: June 23, 2006
Jason Hughes, curator

Exhibition Dates: July 5 to September 9, 2006
Artscape Preview: Saturday July 15, 2006, 2-5pm
Gallery Talk: Friday, July 28, 2006, 6-7pm; Reception, 7pm

Baltimore, MD - Throughout 2006, MAP will continue to celebrate its twenty fifth anniversary, presenting a series of special exhibitions celebrating area artists and members of the regional community while bringing artists and work that otherwise may not be seen in the region.

The curator of MAP's summer exhibition, Material Matters, is artist and independent curator Jason Hughes, co-founder of the dynamic Gallery Four, honored in 2002 by the Baltimore City Paper as "The Best Proof of Contemporary Art Life in Baltimore." Hughes selected a diverse group of artists living throughout the United States, Europe, and Central America, practicing a wide variety of media while often creating simultaneously humorous, didactic and politically-oriented works. In the accompanying catalogue essay, Hughes commented that although the works in the exhibition "may be labeled as populist, political, or socially slanted, my overall goal is not to add to the contemporary discourse between artists and institution, liberal and conservative, or activist and conformist. Instead, I seek to shed light on how our individual and collective experiences provide us with powers to transform who we are"