November-December 2011

"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.

September-October 2011

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.

July-August 2011

May-June 2011

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.

March-April 2011

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.

January-February 2011

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. …

November-December 2010

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.

September-October 2010

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

May-June 2010

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.

March-April 2010

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.

February 2010

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.