Arty girls go to Baltimore

Fabulous DC arty girls Kelly and Veronica took a road trip with me to Baltimore yesterday to check out Charm City's art scene and we were absolutely charmed by it! First stop, Gallery 4 to see a group show that included some works by Maggie Michael (a great DC-based artist who just opened a show over the weekend at G Fine Art). Super impressive art space! Sure wish we had more like that in DC.


I particularly liked this series of photographs by an artist named Nyktas who shoots the insides of bottles of things like mustard and hair conditioner. I think this one is the inside of a bottle of industrial hand cleaner.


We popped in on the Contemporary Museum of Baltimore to see these works by Kianga Ford who creates site-specific pieces that explore the narrative spaces between people. Nifty little museum space that does great work.



Coffee break at Donna's.


Standing in front of a Franz West piece outside the Baltimore Museum of Art where we saw a great retrospective of his work. Loved the way his art engaged his audience. Side note: I didn't know Franz West liked using pink so much. What a genius. On one of the gallery walls was written this in large letters: Every time you think of me, we die, a little. I thought that was kinda cool though I am still pondering its meaning.

At Bernhard Hildebrandt's uber cool studio. I think Bernhard needs to make me some wallpaper. (Are you reading this Bernhard!?) He's working on a series of diptychs in which he paints an abstract shape on a glossy surface and then photographs those shapes/surfaces and places them side by side. Really cool expression of how a human eye views something as compared to how a machine like a camera views it.

Sparkling wine break with Bernhard.

Last stop: The Library, an artist studio, living space, and gallery run by Jason Hughes. At the invitation of the awesome Curators Office, we went to see Cliff Evans monumental five channel video called Empyrean. It's a six and a half minute video loop that I must have watched 10 times and I still kept seeing new things in it. This guy is intense.