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Singular Space by Shannon Collis & Liz Donadio

Image:  Singular Space | Digital video projection | 2018 |All images copyright 2018 Shannon Collis & Liz Donadio

ICA Baltimore | 16 West North Ave | Baltimore, MD 21218
Exhibition Dates: January 5 – 26, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 5, 7-10pm
Artist Talk: Saturday, January 19, 4pm

An artist talk with special guests Eli Pousson and C. Ryan Patterson. Pousson is the Director of Preservation & Outreach at Baltimore Heritage and Patterson is a Public Art Administrator at the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts. icabaltimore@gmail.com

By challenging perceptions of the built environment, Singular Space captures the essence and physicality of municipal art, viewed through an abstract lens and connected to the urban landscape. Collis and Donadio have created a multi-faceted portrait of Forum Fountain, a Brutalist-inspired public sculpture located behind Paul Laurence Dunbar High School in East Baltimore. The culminating installation expands the life of Forum Fountain and features immersive video projection and sound. Architecture can be an extension of the physical self: Buildings tell us about our bodies, both personal and social, and structure our experiences and behaviors. Singular Space serves as a multi-sensory palimpsest, reminding us that public space is mutable and cannot be erased- even in the face of continual destruction or neglect.

Shannon Collis – shannoncollis.ca
Shannon Collis is an interdisciplinary artist whose studio practice focuses on creating installations and interactive environments that explore various ways in which digital technologies can transform one’s perception of audio and visual stimuli. Her work has been exhibited widely across North America as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Brazil. Collis is a 2005 graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, and has completed postgraduate research at Concordia University in Montreal in the area of digital media and computation arts. She is also a 2015/18 recipient of a Visual Artist Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Collis is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland, where she teaches digital media and sound.

Liz Donadio – lizdonadio.com
Liz Donadio is a multimedia artist whose work is centered on the nexus of art, ecology, and architecture. Donadio received her MFA from Towson University in 2012 and has been exhibited and screened nationally. She was the summer 2018 Bresler Artist in Residence at VisArts in Rockville, MD where she worked on a site-specific environmental project. Donadio is a Lecturer of photography and art history at Towson University and runs Color Wheel Digital, a fine-art print studio in Baltimore.

As collaborators, we combine our backgrounds in photography, digital video, and sound installation to create works that explore public spaces in transition, uncovering details of their past and possible futures. Our installations conjure meditations on the essence of urban landmarks and monuments.

ICA Baltimore – icabaltimore.org
ICA Baltimore is a collaboration of volunteers working to stage contemporary art exhibitions in available spaces in Baltimore. Singular Space is the twenty-ninth exhibition by the ICA since 2011.

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Zoe Friedman | A Place in Time

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PRESS RELEASE
Zoe Friedman A Place in Time | November 29 – January 5, 2019
Opening reception: Thursday, November 29, 6-8 pm
Modella Art Gallery is pleased to present A Place in Time, an exhibition of recent and new work by Zoe Friedman, curated by Cassidy Petrazzi.

Through the mediums of collage, hand-drawn stop-motion animation, prints, sound, and sculpture, Friedman directly engages the viewer’s holistic body through immersive installation. Friedman’s work explores the wild and domestic, the strange and familiar, uniting faraway places with the objects that surround us in our daily life. Through collage and domestic, the strange and familiar, and ornamental design, Friedman’s lighthearted and intricate work evoke moments that center the mind on the beauty of nature and our connection to it. Animals and fauna are a prominent theme in her work, inhabiting imagined landscapes and kaleidoscopic environments.

A Place in Time showcases several recent works including a new two-channel video work titled, Idle Hour(2018). The piece is a collaged narrative of layered time and place made by combining photographs with paper cut-outs and hand-drawn imagery, enlivened through rhythmic sequence and repetition. At times the two-channels create a single panorama, at other points they mirror one another or show different perspectives entirely. The shifting viewpoints, as well as the movement between cut-outs and realistic photographic imagery, blurs the boundaries between flat and three-dimensional space and real or illusory landscapes.

Also exhibited is a suite of five works by the artist titled, Primavera I-V(2013). The works are large scale hand-cut panels based off the canonical work of the same name painted by Sandro Botticelli in 1482. Botticelli’s work is broken down by Friedman into five sections, each corresponding to their own panel, which depict the allegory of spring. The panels, which can be hung in front of a window or along a wall, cast shadows of the garden and graceful dancing figures. Shadows and light are an integral part of Friedman’s work, as the light changes throughout the day, Primavera, along with a selection of hanging mobiles seen throughout the space, cast shadows and meander across the walls and floor—they are dynamic works that engage time, light, and space.

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Zoe Friedman earned her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at MICA in 2012. She is a recipient of the Henry Walters Traveling Fellowship (2012), and a Fulbright ETA Fellowship to Malaysia (2007). She has exhibited her work in solo shows across the country in Baltimore, Maryland, Washington DC, Oakland, California, Arlington Virginia, and Brooklyn, New York. In 2019 she will complete a large permanent installation in the Enoch Pratt Public Library in Baltimore, and she has an upcoming solo exhibition in Copenhagen Denmark. Friedman teaches art at Towson University in Maryland.

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