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5th Annual Curators' Incubator

For Immediate Release: September 1, 2007

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

Maryland Art Place Features Fifth Annual
CURATORS’ INCUBATOR PROGRAM

Exhibition Dates: September 11-October 13, 2007

Gallery Talk: Friday, September 28: 6 pm / Reception 7 pm

Baltimore, Maryland—Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to present the Fifth Annual Curators’ Incubator program, featuring this year’s curators Rachel Bradley, Dylan Hay, and the curatorial team of Bryan Leister and Susan K. Serafin.

This annual program remains dedicated to promoting the talent of new and emerging curators within our community—recognizing the obstacles that face curators as they work to gain experience, while providing encouragement and guidance through the complete curatorial process. After being selected through a competitive two-phase application process, curators are mentored by MAP staff and members of its Program Advisory Committee (PAC) as they work to strengthen and clarify their original proposals in preparation for an exhibition at MAP and publication in a program catalogue.

Please plan to join us at 6 pm, Friday, September 28th for a Gallery Talk led by this year’s curators, followed by a Reception at 7 pm.

About This Year’s Exhibitions:

Objects of Adoration, curated by Rachel Bradley, explores the modes and techniques of exaltation from medieval and renaissance era religious art as they influence and inform art today. Inspired by the relics of the churches in Italy and Northern Europe, Objects of Adoration brings together five artists from across the US to contemplate the need to destroy reality in order to worship its image, transforming a bone into an artifact or a celebrity into a saint. The artists in the exhibition include: Marc Burckhardt, Luca Dipierro, John Grider, Chehalis Hegner, and Nicholas Kashian.

Memory Works, curated by Dylan Hay, is an investigation into the process of recollection and how narratives distort over time. As the instability of memory reveals itself to be a basic fact of the human condition, we are forced to re-examine our relationship to the past, constantly recalling, reassessing, and remaking our world on the basis of what we find there. Employing a range of tactics in a variety of forms and contexts, the artists featured in this exhibition expose technologies, confront personal traumas, and rewrite histories in an attempt to undermine the notion that there is ever one story, one meaning, one certain truth. In doing so, they lay bare the possibilities and range of experience essential to the continued unfolding of an always uncertain future. The artists in the exhibition include: Miranda Bushey, Julia Dzwonkoski, Harrell Fletcher, Chiara Giovando, Dietrich-Oliver Delrieu Schulze, Michael Scoggins and Brian Willmont.

The six artists included in anti-matter: recontextualizing the material, curated by Bryan Leister and Susan K. Serafin, all use materials in an individualistic way that emphasizes process, instability and familiarity. The incorporation of high and low materials by artists represents a shift in attitudes towards the conventional that is culturally significant and personal at the same time. The work of Suzanna Fields, Helen Frederick, Alberto Gaitán, Morgan Kennedy, Susan Noyes and Jennie Thwing are representative of how artists are searching for new interpretations and meanings from common materials. Through recombinant technology, whether digitally based or not, these artists reflect a yearning for familiar ground in a changing landscape.

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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.

MAP is located at 8 Market Place in Baltimore’s Power Plant Live!  Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 5 pm.  There is no admission charge. To learn more about this exhibition and MAP’s future programming, please access our website: www.mdartplace.org or call: (410) 962-8565.