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“Bearing Witness” presented by 2009-2010’s Exhibition Development Seminar
During my sophomore year, I was in the Exhibition Development Seminar for two semesters at MICA. I was part of the curatorial team in a class full of many talented, smart and dedicated students. As a team, we developed a 7 venue city wide exhibition in Baltimore showcasing the most important works by artist couple Bradley Mccallum and Jacqueline Tarry. To learn more about their work, please visit http://www.mccallumtarry.com/. Check out our class site for more info here.
Press:
Washington Post Review on “Bearing Witness”
More pictures of the exhibition
Review by the City Paper Baltimore 9/22/10
Best Big Show Bearing Witness ”For his contribution to the Contemporary Museum’s Project 20 series, the museum’s founding director George Ciscle, now the curator-in-residence at MICA, suggested the undergraduate Exhibition Development Seminar that has been responsible for some of the more enervating local exhibitions in recent years. And with MICA art history, theory, and criticism faculty member Jennie Hirsh as the EDS instructor, a group of 18 undergraduates and seven professional mentors coordinated a sprawling, head-spinning exhibition of the mixed-media/installation work of husband and wife duo Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry involving five local institutions. McCallum and Tarry’s work dives straight into the heart of race, identity, and economic disparity with a deeply personal component, and spreading the work around Baltimore—no stranger to those issues—made for an acutely resonant poignancy.”
Myself and artist Jacqueline Tarry at the opening of Bearing Witness, Contemporary Museum May 7th, 2010.
Opening night, May 7th, 2010 at the Contemporary Museum
April 26th, 2010- I helped my good friend/artist Jonathan Wille by performing for him. I held baby Edward in my arms, my son was made out of meat. He was taken away from me. As I cried, viewers ate fruits and vegetables off my naked body while my son cooked in the GeorgeForeman grill… marinated with sauce, sizzling. Thats how Jonathan felt when he came out to his parents.
Very cool experience, I am very much interested in performance art and would love to help more artists with this.
Caribou Coffee-April 23rd, 2010 opening. Second show I organized there. “Second Nature” Works by Heather Day and Minku Kim.
April 17th, 2010- I had the ultimate pleasure of seeing one of my most influential artists-Marina Abramovic. A Digital Photography class field trip to see her Retrospective at the MOMA in NY. Something I will never forget.
In March, I was honored to exhibit for the first time in Baltimore outside of MICA at the Light Gallery with other local artists at the “Works on Paper” exhibition. They chose an experimental collage I did last summer 2009 during my NY studio program. Here are some photos, enjoy! I also bought a print at the show to add to my print collection. Thanks to everyone who came to the opening!
