November-December 2009
This exhibit will feature a variety of Tom Wolff’s iconic portrait work from his years on assignment for various magazines and commissioned portraiture. From political figures to cultural producers, Wolff’s eye focuses on the essential and considers the subjects within the frame of his large-format works to be collaborators.
Visit Wolff’s website at www.tomwolffphoto.com.
November–December 2009
Ass Against the Wall is an installation by Martha Jackson-Jarvis that explores points of resistance, endurance, and markings that pattern our lives. It is a compelling place of power where forces change, heaviness, strain, anxiety, burdens and the weight of difficulty into something else.
In a chance encounter in the mountains of Tajikistan, Jackson-Jarvis discovered an incredible being in a moment of clarity that bridges the void between animate and inanimate form. A moment when plants, animals, and minerals are one, even the rocks conspire to a fluid and connected greatness.
Visit Jackson-Jarvis’ website at www.jacksonjarvisstudio.com.
September-October 2009
The “Feeder” project is comprised of a series of sculpture that explore the idea of supply, demand, consumption, and distribution. The work presented explores the construct of consumer and supplier and it’s implication of domesticity, subservience, reliance and the perceived (if not actual) imbalance in power. This series explores systems of distribution that rely on repetition and duplication. The fiction or reality created, presents the idea of mass production and technology as a solution. There is a sense of utilitarian optimism in that the objects presented could provide a remedy to a problem or problems that are not clearly defined for the viewer. The pieces display a somewhat clumsy or awkward (maybe even failed) attempt at industrial production and thus the maker, time period, origin, and method of construction of these devices becomes unclear. The series references the residue of past actions, equipment for events either historical or prospective, and allusion to dependence, rationing, and scarcity. The “Feeder” series attempts to imagine the intersections between technology, invention, and process of using objects that a utopian or dystopian purpose. The sculpture presented are intended to be the starting place for dialogue, and thus offers no answers, but rather attempts to raise questions for the viewer.
Visit O’Dario’s website at www.daviddorio.com.
September–October 2009
Colossus
Colossus is a full scale installation by Nekisha Durrett inspired by a poem of the same name by David C. Ward. The poem and the installation visualize a land deforested by Colossus, a metaphoric representation of industry and civilization.
July-August 2009
Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of DC and Baltimore’s emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space’s summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Dwight, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent. Stout has set out to create a mixed bag of local talent not based in the obligatory conceptual framework predominantly exhibited in group shows. Instead of the varying inspiration and ideas behind the individual bodies of work, it is the “natural dialogue that may occur between these works” which Stout would like the audience to experience.
Visit Stout’s website at www.reneestout.com.
