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22nd Annual Critics’ Residency

For Immediate Release: April 19, 2008
For more information contact:
Julie Ann Cavnor 410-962-8565 / jcavnor@mdartplace.org

Exhibition Dates: April 22-May 31, 2008
Public Forum: 2 pm, Saturday, May 3, 2008

Baltimore, Maryland—The Critics’ Residency program marks its twenty-second year, showcasing the work of nine artists chosen to participate in this year’s program and presenting an important catalogue featuring the writing of New York-based artist and critic, Robert Berlind and selected local writers. A forum, which will include program participants, is scheduled for Saturday, May 3, 2008 at 2 pm, and will be followed by a reception. Moderated by Mark Alice Durant, the forum will address issues relevant to contemporary art on both a regional and national level and will invite the public to participate. This event is free and attendees will receive a copy of this year’s catalogue.

Participants in the 22nd Annual Critics’ Residency program include artists: Vincent Carney, Timmerman Daugherty, Dennis Farber, Symmes Gardner, Catherine Kleeman, Isabel Manalo, Jacqueline Schlossman, Jacquelyn Singer and Diane Szczepaniak; and writers Darcelle Bleau and Robert Jason Fagan.

About this Year’s Critic in Residence:
Robert Berlind is a painter and writer who lives and works in both upstate New York and in New York City, where he is represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. He has exhibited extensively across the country and in Canada, France, and The Netherlands.

He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and has received the American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Painting. In 2007, he won the Benjamin Altman Award in Painting at the National Academy. Reviews of his work have appeared in the New York Times, The New York Sun, Art in America, Partisan Review, and other publications. His paintings reside in many public and corporate collections. Berlind also writes on art for Art in America, BorderCrossings, The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications.

Berlind received his BA from Columbia University, New York, NY and both his BFA and MFA from Yale University, New Haven, CT. He was a professor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and is an emeritus professor of the School of Art+Design, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY where he taught from 1979 until his retirement last year.

About this Year’s Public Forum Moderator:
Mark Alice Durant is an artist whose photographs, installations and performances have been presented both nationally and internationally, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Artist’s Space in New York. In 1991, he co-founded the performance duo ‘men of the world’  that for ten years performed on the streets of Chicago, Toronto, Seattle, New York, Houston, San Francisco and other cities.

He has written extensively on the nexus of photography, performance and cultural phenomena with essays appearing in such journals as Art in America, Art on Paper, ArtUS, Art Journal, Afterimage, Dear Dave, Exposure, New Art Examiner and PLUK. He has contributed to numerous catalogs, monographs and anthologies including The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire, The Gothic, Jimmie Durham and Marco Breuer: Early Recordings. He is author of McDermott and McGough: A History of Photography, Robert Heinecken: A Material History and co-author of Vik Muniz: Seeing is Believing and Dressed for Thrills: 100 Years of Halloween Costume and Masquerade. Durant received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA and his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. He is a Professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and is the curator of Notes on Monumentality, which is currently on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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