39th Street Gallery and Project Space at The Gateway Arts Center  
THIRST - an installation by J.J. McCracken, curated by Claire Huschle
39th Street Gallery
(39th Street Entrance)
3901 Rhode Island Ave
Brentwood MD 20722


A Project of the
Gateway Community Development Corporation

THIRST
an installation by J.J. McCracken
curated by Claire Huschle

January 7 – February 18, 2012

—>   OPENING RECEPTION:   <—
Saturday,  January 7,  5:30-8:00 pm


The Gallery is open
7:00-9:00 pm Thurs & Fri
12:00-3:00 pm Saturday
and by appointment
[ For appointment contact Gateway CDC: 301-864-3860 ext. 3 ]
       
Current Show – 39th Street Gallery

THIRST

an installation by J.J. McCracken
curated by Claire Huschle


THIRST - an installation by J.J. McCracken, curated by Claire Huschle

"Thirst is a response to McCracken's two-person performance Thirst, and the Martyr.  Both works draw attention to access to resources, asking viewers to consider scarcity and abundance, both locally and globally.  Where the performance allowed for a passive reception, however, Thirst places performative responsibility on the audience.  Viewers are required to keep their attention fixed upon their senses, movement, and personal space.  In this light, the installation invokes experiences both familiar and foreign." – Claire Huschle, Curator


SHAPE SHIFTERS - artists Karl Connolly and Jan Razauskas, curated by Stewart Watson

On display in the 39th Street Corridor Space

POLYMORPHISM: Mutations in ART

Chuk Agubokwu, Sheila Bell, Teddy Denman-Brice, Malia Dyson, Kevin Gomes, Ian McDermott, and Jessica Murray

Students from The University of Maryland's Department of Arts Honors Program

"POLYMORPHISM: Mutations in ART" - Students from The University of Maryland's Department of Arts Honors Program

"POLYMORPHISM: Mutations in ART" - Students from The University of Maryland's Department of Arts Honors Program

"POLYMORPHISM: Mutations in ART" - Students from The University of Maryland's Department of Arts Honors Program

"POLYMORPHISM: Mutations in ART" - Students from The University of Maryland's Department of Arts Honors Program



Current Artist-in-Residence

Justin Fair


EVENTS

Saturday,  January 7  –  5:30-8:00 pm
Opening Reception

THIRST - J.J. McCracken
curated by Claire Huschle

   and   

POLYMORPHISM: Mutations in ART
Univ. of Maryland, Dept. of Arts
Honors Program Students


Saturday,  January 28  –  2:00-4:00 pm
Artist Talk

Creativity: Human Nature or Human Nurture - John Borstel


Thursday,  February 16  –  7:00-9:00 pm
Artist Talk

THIRST - J.J. McCracken & Claire Huschle


Saturday,  February 25  –  2:00-4:00 pm
AIR Artist Talk

Artist-in-Residence Justin Fair



Previously at the
39th Street Gallery

SHAPE SHIFTERS

featuring artists Karl Connolly and Jan Razauskas
curated by Stewart Watson

"Connolly and Razauskas morph between realistic and abstract images, photography and painting, drawing and installation, but the content of their sublime works remains constant in their scripting of how we view what they see" – Stewart Watson, Guest Curator

Along with creating her own work, Stewart Watson is a thinker, exhibition designer, community artist, volunteer, and parent.  Watson is a Founder of and currently Exhibitions Director for Area 405, a 6000+ square foot alternative exhibition space in Baltimore, Maryland, since February 2003.  Watson lives and works in Baltimore's Station North Arts and Entertainment District and is a proud Baltimorean since 1993.


Joan Belmar - "Stereo Types"


TRADE
An Art Exhibition Based on Exchange Portfolios

Joan Belmar, Serena Perrone-Hsu, Debra Ruzinsky, Justin Strom, Jon Swindler, Laura G. Thorne, Novie Trump, Tom Wolff

TRADE is exchange; it means "commerce" and "profession."  The exhibition TRADE at the 39th Street Gallery intends to be all of those things.  It's about working in the arts, placing the gallery and the Gateway CDC at the center of all the things galleries do: supporting artists, building relationships, creating discourse, and yes, funding the continuation of those efforts.

Based on the concept of an exchange portfolio and curated by Phil Davis, TRADE brings together eight artists who each created a new edition of 12 artworks.  Each artist will receive one work from each of the other artists, thus becoming one another's collectors and inevitably also one another's promoters.  The remaining four works in each edition are available for sale – all at the same price of $250.


Joan Belmar - "Stereo Types"     Novie Trump - "Bird"


TENANT ARTISTS EXHIBIT

Laurie Breen, Pete Duvall, Joe Hicks, Ani Kasten, Katie Dell Kaufman, David Korte, Liz Saint Rain, Charles Reiher, Charles Sessoms, Tina Silverman, Linda Uphoff, Michael Hunter Horlick


Tenant Artists Exhibit


BODY

Ashley Lyon, May Wilson, Lu Zhang, Jenny Cullinan
curated by Ledelle Moe

Jenny Cullinan, living and working in South Africa, embroiders small internal organs onto delicate surfaces,  Lu Zhang from China, living and working in the USA, works with the notion of body extensions through finely articulated pen drawings.  May Wilson, living and working in the United States, focuses on the discarded and precious qualities of life through the representation of animal forms.  Ashley Lyon, living and working in the United States, creates works that investigate the idea of the human body in relation to the idea of sculpted and psychological realism.

Through the manipulation of various materials, these artists speak to the fragility of the body and reveal the way in which we locate the interior and exterior and extensions of the body to ideas of the scared and the secular.



Ashley Lyon - "Amos" 2010, "Grandmother's Arm" 2011


QUILT: Art to Mend the World

by collaborating artists Kate Ransohoff & Karen Rowe
www.krquilt.com

Quilt: Art to Mend the World  is an interactive installation that invites participation and conversations to create a more peaceful and equitable world, a world that ends violence against women and the imbalances between the rich and the poor.  The viewer is invited to explore the 8 differently themed panels by unbuttoning pockets, untying ribbons, and moving aside pieces of ribbon and fabric to uncover hidden conversations embedded in the work.


"QUILT: Art to Mend the World" show - 39th Street Gallery


Alternative Life

Jeremy Chase Sanders

Artist Statement

Synesthesia is a neurological phenomenon that causes sense pairing in the brain.  The type of synesthesia that I experience causes me to see a particular color associated with every number and letter of the alphabet (for example "2" is red, "E" is green).  I dye threads to match the colors I see in language and weave cloth with coded text.  I use this process to elucidate the subtle dialogues at work just beneath the surface of the fabrics we use to clothe our bodies and the spaces we inhabit. …


"Compressed Narratives" show - 39th Street Gallery


Compressed Narratives:
Peter Gordon, Aniko Makranczy and Juan Rojo

Curated by Aneta Georgievska-Shine, the three artists presented in this show make for an unlikely company, given their different backgrounds, life stories, and career paths.  Peter Gordon creates exuberant abstractions that seem to stretch time and process through webs of lines and energetic brushstrokes.  Aniko Makranczy's richly textured "books" and "boxes" speak of the containment of human experience that leads, as if by an inner necessity, towards little more than a crucial trace of itself.  Juan Rojo discovers stories in displaced images, and recasts them in lush mixed-media compositions.  What this project highlights is one of the most important qualities they share :ndash: their ability to address large themes with economy of means: whether in terms of media, technique, or physical space.


"Compressed Narratives" show - 39th Street Gallery


CENSUS: A Photographic Survey

Tom Wolff — Photography

Portraits of Business Owners, Staff and Artists of the Gateway Arts District by local photographer Tom Wolff.


Tom Wolff


Space / Place

Matt Klos — Oil Paintings
Matt Woodward — Graphite Drawings
Andrew Zimmermann — Photography

This show presents the work of three artists, each of whom works in a traditional medium but uses that medium atypically in order to present a particular concept of spatiality and of place.  While they are linked to one another by their desire to show something deeper and more complex than the straightforward visual appearance of their subjects, each of the three has a distinct and nuanced vision that enriches and complements the others.


Matt Klos


Resident Artists

Alison Duvall
Ani Kasten
Charles Reiher
Charles Sessoms
David Korte
Joe Hicks
Katie Dell Kaufman
Laurie Breen
Linda Lee Uphoff
Liz Saint Rain
Pete Duvall
Ron Riley
Tom Cardarella

The 39th Street Gallery and Project Space welcomes the Resident Artists of the Gateway Arts Center in this exhibition juried by Claire Huschle, Executive Director of the Arlington Arts Center.  The show offers an impressive glimpse into the art and artists who call the Gateway Arts Center home.


Resident Artists Exhibit


winter wurst/worst weiss

Patrick McDonough

winter wurst/worst weiss – an exhibition which reveals the literal and metaphorical art sausage making process; featuring an in situ investigation of chronologically ritualized activities, from national medal counts to food preservation, yacht racing to fake snow.


Patrick McDonough



Gateway Arts Center @ Brentwood
a project of the Gateway Community Development Corporation
39th Street Studios 39th Street Gallery and Project Space
Gallery 110
Prince George's African American Museum and Cultural Center
Brentwood Arts Exchange
Prince George's County Department of Parks and Recreation