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At that moment / Beyond the Pedestal

As Baltimore's six-week Tour de Clay festival is showing, clay has been undergoing startling transformations over the past few decades, from a material associated mainly with vessels and other decorative objects to a supple artistic medium expressive of a variety of styles and approaches.

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At that moment / Beyond the Pedestal

Sometimes, Maryland Art Place’s tendency to view its Power Plant Live! digs as two, sometimes three adjoined galleries works wonders, creating intimate areas that draw viewers closer to the artworks on hand, and generating contrasts between otherwise unrelated exhibits.

19th Annual Critics' Residency Program: Just Looking

It’s been 19 years since Maryland Art Place began its Critics’ Residency—an annual program that brings a prominent critic to Baltimore to meet selected local artists and art writers, guide and critique their collective work, and curate a show of it at the gallery.

19th Annual Critics' Residency Program: Just Looking

Michele Kong fashions intricate, gossamer sculptures out of transparent fishing line and glue that look like enormous, floor-to-ceiling spider webs. She also makes amazing, freehand ink drawings of incredible complexity, in which every stroke of pen or brush is a virtuoso performance.

Human Conditions

Maryland Art Place’s Human Conditions strives to examine the ubiquity and artistry of contemporary photography.

Human Conditions

With new streetside cameras staring down at passing traffic and pedestrians, and digital cameras snapping instant pictures of the kids at Christmas, the role of the
ens and the person looking through it is changing.

Human Conditions

The 12 photographers showcased in the Maryland Art Place exhibit "Human Conditions" respond to that broad topic in ways that range from black-and-white documentary images to color shots whose manipulated imagery is more theatrical than realistic.

Curators' Incubator

There is something almost visionary about the idea of a "curator's incubator."

Curators' Incubator

Christina Hung’s works at Maryland Art place are pretty effing creepy. In fact, you half expect her 15 digital prints to sprout legs and walk away—or at least form a pseudopod and slime away.

(Un)Konventional Kitsch!

Things are looking a little kitschy at Baltimore's Maryland Art Place. And that's just the way they like it. The gallery, tucked away in the back of the entertainment enclave of shops and restaurants in Power Plant Live!, is currently exhibiting "(Un)Konventional Kitsch!" through the end of December.