SEEN: 20 Years of Baltimore Music Photography

SEEN: 20 Years of Baltimore Music Photography   |     |   09/24/2020

On View | Thursday, September 24 - Saturday, November 14

Opening Reception | Thursday, September 24 | 5 pm - 8:30 pm

Film Screening | TBA

WTMD Radio | Tuesday, September 15 @ 9pm & Sunday September 20 @ 4pm

Maryland Art Place (MAP) is pleased to open its first exhibition to the public since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Long in the making, SEEN, curated by Josh Sisk, Joe Giordano with support from Audrey Gatewood, represents a comprehensive and inclusive overview of music with a heavy emphasis on Baltimore Indie, Rap and Hip-Hop genres and the photographers that captured this important time.
 
Baltimore’s music scene has been on the rise during the last 20 years. SEEN includes images of artists such as KSwift whose untimely death led to the 92Q KSwift Memorial Scholarship Contest and Internship Program in 2009, to indie all stars such as Beach House who have achieved international fame since releasing their first album making Pitchfork’s Best Album list in 2008.

The exhibition’s inception came to MAP from local photographer and former Board Trustee, Joe Giordano and was produced in partnership with WTMD radio who is creating a documentary segment on the last 20 years of Baltimore music. The documentary will be screened at MAP in November (details to come.) In the interim, hear more by tuning into WTMD Towson Radio Tuesday, September 15 at 9pm and Sunday, September 20 at 4pm. Collectively MAP & WTMD Radio thank the PNC Foundation for their support of this important exhibition.

SEEN includes the following photographers (in no order): Mike Jon, Valerie Paulsgrove, Jefferson Jackson Steele, Andrew Mangum, Frank Hamilton, Josh Sisk, Brendan Fieldhouse, Perri Fae, Natasha Tylea, Kate Frese, Ted Henn, Kelley Connelly, Farrah Skeiky, Shane Gardner, Megan Elyse Lloyd, M. Holden Warren, Jennifer Mizgata,  Stewart Mostofsky, J.M. Giordano, Dubscience, Shanteel Breen, Pink Lloyd Wright, Micah E. Wood and Theresa Keil. Stage Design Support by Chris Attenborough and Jenna Dutton.

The many talented musicians highlighted in SEEN include:

Dope Body, Abdu Ali, Future Islands, Black Rose, Lower Dens, Birth Defects, Big Mouth, End it, Mindset, Trapped Under Ice, Joy Postel, Jpeg Mafia, Joey Bricks, Dan Deacon, Scottie B, K-Swift, Lor Scoota, TT the Artist, Organ Donors, Stars of Dogon, Double Dagger, Ultra Naté & King Tutt, Eze Jackson, Jahiti of Brownfish, Shawn Smallwood, Buffa7o, Paul Huston, Dirt Platoon, Romantic States, Bonnie Jones, Elizabeth Barrat, Jake Freeman, Jason Urich, Lexie Mountain (Lexie Mountain Boys), Snails, Thank You, Oxes, Katrina Ford from Celebration, Rye Rye, The Death Set, Height, Dustin Wong, Brendan from Turnstile, Butch Dawson, Dyyo, Corpse Light, Lazlo Lee, Santa Librada, Blaqstarr, Cappadonna, Lake Trout, Slow Jets, Sun Zulu, Tyree Colion, Young Hustlas, DDM fka Midas, Darkroom Productions, Wye Oak, Vincent Black Shadow, Beach House, Jana Hunter of Lower Dens, Baby Kahlo, Toyomansi, Post Pink, BMore Hip Hop Karaoke,  Jonathan Gilmore, Kasean Reeves, Cierra Lione, MC Bravado, Roman Keubler of Oranges Band, Snail Mail, Arbouretum, Matmos,  Layfaette Gilchrest, Wume, Chiffon, James Nasty, Landis Expandis, Fluct, Kevin O’Meara from Videohippos, and Jeremy Hyman.