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Natural Selection
For more information contact:
Julie Ann Cavnor, Executive Director, MAP
(410) 962-8565 or email: jcavnor@mdartplace.org
Amie Postic, Director, Career Development Program, CFEVA
(215) 546-7775 x 12 or email: amie@cfeva.org
Maryland Art Place presents: Natural Selection
An Exhibition Produced in Partnership with The Center For Emerging Visual Artists™
Exhibition Dates: February 19-March 29, 2008
Artist Talk: Friday, February 29, 6 pm / Reception, 7 pm
February 1, 2008—Baltimore, MD, Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to present Natural Selection, an exhibition presented in partnership with Philadelphia’s The Center for Emerging Visual Artists (CFEVA). Natural Selection features the work of nineteen artists, each of whom is a Career Development Program Fellow at CFEVA. The work contained in this exhibition addresses the notion of natural selection by grappling with issues of existence and evolution, as seen in the natural world, the human experience, and the convergence of the two.
The human experience and its implications question the basis for reality and relationship through genetics, psychology, memory, and the body. The natural world exists independently and in tandem with humanity—our complex relationship to nature having been interpreted through science, mythology, and personal experience. These conflicted worlds exist in a vulnerable symbiosis.
Each artist in this exhibition expresses their individual relationships to evolution and metamorphosis through a diversity of mediums and engaging conceptual frameworks. For instance, Andrea Cote and Tara O’Brien examine life through experiences of the body, creating works involving their own hair, the human form and organic materials. Julia Blaukopf photographs people’s day-to-day contact with nature in African villages. Caleb Nussear and Brian Zegeer create their own visual language, synthesizing elements in nature to create new worlds of encoded color and form. Mark Khaisman, Jeffrey Stockbridge and Joelle Jensen produce works that question human identity by revealing relationships to ancestors, home and gender. Jedediah Morfit sculpts humans in the process of evolving, while Binod Shrestha creates works that speak to the imprints we leave on the natural world, both temporarily and permanently. The other artists participating in this exhibition include: Anne Canfield, Jarrett Min Davis, Lillian Bayley Hoover, Darla Jackson, John Karpinski, Rafaelo Kazakov, Matthew Neff, Serena Perrone and Amy Stevens.
Natural Selection is an important exhibition that provides an opportunity to bring Baltimore and Philadelphia’s art communities together, in an effort to increase the level of contact, interest, creativity, and participation that exists between these two culturally diverse cities.
Please plan to join us at 6 pm, on Friday, February 29th for an Artist Talk followed by a Reception at 7 pm.
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Maryland Art Place (MAP) is a not-for-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. Having served over 6,000 artists throughout its twenty-seven year history, MAP remains dedicated to promoting the talents of new and emerging artists and making contemporary art accessible and a means for regular enrichment. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 5 pm. There is no admission charge to enter the gallery or to participate in any of MAP’s regularly scheduled programs and events. To learn more, visit: www.mdartplace.org
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists™ (CFEVA)’s mission is to coordinate a stronger regional support system for visual artists, to advance the careers of the many deserving artists in the region, to promote relationships between artists and the communities in which they live, and to increase access to visual art for everyone. Serving artists based within 100 miles of Philadelphia, participants are selected for CFEVA’s two-year Career Development Fellowship by our renowned Board of Artistic Advisors. While active in the program, the artists have opportunities to experience a full exhibition schedule, receive career counseling and mentorship, earn money from the sale of their work, teach in the community and participate in numerous professional development opportunities. To learn more, visit: www.cfeva.org
