Reinvent
December 2009 - December 2010
Instant Messages
December 1, 2009 - January 9, 2010
‹ work by Elizabeth Herrmann
Reinvent
Artists: Lauren Adams, Christina Beard and Christopher McCampbell
Maryland Art Place is pleased to announce the creation of a public art project at 8 Market Place, Power Plant Live! in Baltimore’s Inner Harbor. Reinvent, a dynamic 70-foot-long wall installation, heralds one of MAP’s newest initiatives: a series of urban art projects to be presented outside the nonprofit contemporary art center’s galleries. Reinvent will be on view through December 2010.
MAP offered this creative opportunity to graduate students working with Ellen Lupton, director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art. Artist collaborators Lauren Adams, Christina Beard and Christopher McCampbell responded to MAP’s vision for broader community engagement in their site-specific design. Conceived for the hallway that leads to MAP’s galleries, Reinvent represents innovation and change in a series of shifting motifs. The linear cut-vinyl display begins with a city stoplight, and continues through evolving emblems of nature and culture to end in a wall-sized 3-D digital network.
Instant Messages
Artists: Chris Clark, Elizabeth Herrmann, Ann Liu, Chris McCampbell, Ryan Shelley, Wesley Stuckey, Beth Taylor, Isabel Uria, Supisa Wattanasansanee, Krissi Xenakis
Maryland Art Place presents Instant Messages and Reinvent an exhibition and installation created by students in MICA’s Graphic Design MFA program, directed by Ellen Lupton. The works in Instant Messages explore signs and messages in our contemporary culture. On view are posters, screen prints, graffiti, projected animations, and interactive exhibits that invite visitors to create their own messages.
Events:
Family Day / Sat, Dec 5 / 1–4pm
MAP invites children and their families to make books, magnet art,
alphabet blocks, buttons, and more in the MAP galleries.
Rush Hour: Art Beats Traffic / Thurs, Dec 10 / 5-8pm
Celebrate the exhibition Instant Messages and the unveiling
of MAP’s first public art installation in our entrance hallway.
Interact with original works of art and design in the galleries.
