michelle@michelleigomez.com
Artist and independent curator originally from Miami, based in Baltimore. News, exhibitions, events and more!Posts tagged Press
Roman’s painting featured on the Disorder Exhibition invite card!
Opening Reception Thursday, February 24, 2011 5-7PM
Rosenburg Gallery at MICA (Brown Center, 2nd floor)
On view February 23- March 13
Eatonthis.com blog review on my latest work!
Wow, I’m so honored to be featured on a blog about art and fashion in Baltimore- EatOnthis.com written by Abdu Ali. He reviewed the Installations final show and asked me to talk about my piece. CHECK IT OUT YO! www.Eatonthis.com Photos by Elle Perez of course.
Please join us to see new work from my Installations class taught by Sarah Doherty. I’m working very hard right now to make the best installation ever! You do not want to miss this!
Opening reception:
Area 405 Gallery
405 East Baltimore St 21218
7-9PM
Free Food and beverages
Come see this beautiful photography exhibition curated by Baltimore artist and curator, Elle Perez. This is my first time participating in an all photography show. This photo is part of a series I did during Spring Break (March 2010) dealing with portraits of home, absence vs. presence, and my neighborhood in West Miami, Fl.
“Delicate”
Wilgus Gallery, MICA
1300 West Mount Royal Avenue
Come check out what the Junior GFA and Drawing majors have accomplished this semester in their studios. Free food and great art located on the third floor of the Studio Center.
Featured artists from Phyllis Platner and Renee Rendine’s classes:
Andy Vible
Annastasia Myers
Becca Pad
Caitlin Selzer
Chelsea Kelley
Grace Yodie
Hannah Hill
Jaclyn Leo
Jackie Meyer
Jeremy Hunter Sims
Jesse Sullivan
Julia Johnson
Lucas King
Marci Caballero-Reynolds
Marissa Ames
Michelle Gomez
Michelle Land
Mickey Hoover
Mickey McGarrity
Sam Grossman
Taylor Reno
Valentina Elise Mikulich
William Everett George
Yerin Kim
Hope to see you all there!
I have the honor of participating in this huge group show during Art Basel! Check it out!
NWSA alumni and participants of Young Blood exhibitions will present work in “Natural Selection”
“Natural Selection” is a must-see event at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival Gallery (CGAF) during Art Basel week in Miami! It is a showcase of extraordinary and visionary work by young emerging and established artists working and living around the world. Featuring work by New World School of the Arts (NWSA) high school and college alumni, we are proud to say that a great number of artists who have exhibited in previous Young Blood exhibitions are taking part in “Natural Selection”. The exhibit is curated by artist and former New World School of the Arts teacher Jim Hunter and assistant Nick Varsalona (NWSA 04’). Lilia Garcia, the chairperson of the CGAF gallery and member of the Board of Directors for the Coconut Grove Arts Festival, also took part in co-curating this large group exhibition. Come and enjoy this wonderful Art Basel Grand Opening Event!
Kick-Off Reception: Monday, November 29th, 2010 7pm to 9pm. After Party on the Atrium 9pm to 11pm
Coconut Grove Art Walk Opening: Saturday, December 4th, 2010 7pm to 9pm
Exhibition on view from Monday, November 29th through Friday, January 7th, 2010.
CGAF Gallery
3390 Mary Street, Suite 128 (Entrance on Grand Ave.)
Coconut Grove, Florida
RSVP on the Facebook event here!
Check out “Natural Selection” featured on the site for the famous annual Coconut Grove Arts Festival
Thanks to SoulofMiami.org for featuring this show on their Art Basel 2010 list of events!
Check out the invite on the site for the Coconut Grove Chamber of Commerce
-Written by Michelle Gomez. For more information on Young Blood; the annual NWSA Alumni exhibition directed by Michelle Gomez, please visit www.youngbloodnwsa.wordpress.com
MICArotica is a student run erotic art and literature magazine at MICA that I am involved with. Some students who have published their work in this magazine participated in Gallery 788’s First Erotic Art Show in Baltimore! My piece was also featured here.
“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
Caribou Coffee-April 23rd, 2010 opening. Second show I organized there. “Second Nature” Works by Heather Day and Minku Kim.
So if you are wondering what Young Blood is…it is an annual exhibition I started in Miami in 2008 to showcase alumni from my high school New World School of the Arts (NWSA). Our mission is to showcase emerging talent with established artists to fundraise money for our high school. Every summer the exhibition will be located at NWSA’s ArtSeen gallery in Wynwood, the famous art neighborhood (sort of like Chelsea but with palm trees everywhere). I finally launched the site and Facebook page, check it out! Hopefully this will turn into my future gallery and we will continue to do this every summer. I love this stuff. Frederic Snitzer told me himself “You are 19 years old and cookin good”…hell yeah!
Curator for Caribou Coffee
Good news! I recently got a job curating monthly exhibitions at Caribou Coffee in Downtown, Baltimore. This is a wonderful addition to my curatorial projects. I love doing this so much. My favorite part of curating is finally getting to see the work in person, I get a rush of excitement for other artists. I love to represent them and help them get promotion because I totally understand how important this is. Ever since I was 8 years old, I started promoting myself and becoming an entrepreneur.
Look out for postings of invites to the openings!
Here are some pictures from the first show I hung “Systems of Classification” a solo show by Eleni Giorgos for the month of March. Coming soon, Minku Kim and Heather Day for April.
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!
I found awesome pics from the NY Summer Intensive program I participated in last summer 2009. I lived in NY for 4 weeks, had a studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn and walked around NY by myself a lot…it was cool!
