WE’RE SO EXCITED TO CELEBRATE 10 YEARS!!!!!!
Come celebrate with us.
Featuring Jacob Henry, Fanni Somogyi and Elena Volkova. A perminant courtyard installation by Boof Saloon. There will be live music, drinks, bits and gifts!
Jacob Henry
As a life long artist born and raised in the suburbs of Baltimore, I have had local exhibitions since my early teenage years. I continue to leverage my life experiences to fuel the creative process through acrylics. Scratching and clawing, this collection of work is a reflection of my battles to overcome anxiety.
Fanni Somogyi is a multi-disciplinary artist and writer, living and working between Baltimore, MD and Budapest, Hungary. She completed her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and Creative Writing, and a Master in Curation from the Node Center for Curatorial Studies in Berlin, Germany.
Somogyi has shown work both nationally and internationally including at the Maryland Art Place in Baltimore, MD, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, PA, Transformer in DC, New Collectors Gallery in New York City, NY, and the Target Gallery in Alexandria, VA among others. She has had temporary public sculptures at the Franconia Sculpture Park in Minnesota, the Olala Street Festival in Lienz, Austria, and at Art Market Budapest in Hungary. When she is not metal fabricating she can be found researching or avidly composing short stories and reviews.
As an interdisciplinary sculptor, themes that I explore in my work are cross pollinations, hybrid creatures and speculative scenarios. Through biomorphic metal and plant assemblages, primarily I investigate interspecies connections to understand how I affect non-human beings and the ecosystem, and my embedded connection within the lived environment. I’m fascinated by entities such as slime mold or cyborgs and how these collaged bodies act as speculative thought exercises. Ideas of aliens and otherness also stem from my experience as a first-generation immigrant. On
government documents I used to be a non-immigrant legal alien and today I’m a resident alien. A feeling of foreignness haunts me both here and in Hungary. I’m interested in deconstructing these labels and categorizations and probing personal narratives in relation to speculative ecologies.
Sculpture has been the format of my choice because I enjoy building in three dimensions and incorporating multiple materials and textures. I have increasingly become obsessed with a high level of finish that is possible through patience,
technique and care. To build these objects I predominantly use steel and aluminum, and I combine these vessels with cast polyurethane elements and cacti, mosses, and micro greens. I enjoy the contrasting interaction of these materials, and after the work is finished it becomes an object that I continue to care for. I’m drawn to metals due to
their relation to industry, and their oxymoronic ability to be simultaneously durable and malleable. Be it singular objects like “euphoric glitch” or installations like “Day-dreaming for Another World”, my uncanny assemblages are vessels for stories and metaphors of connections. I imagine a world where the connection of bodies to land becomes more tangible. My eerie and unearthly sculptures provide paths for the viewer to travel beyond the work into hypothetical and imagined landscapes.
www.fannisomogyi.com
Instagram: @fanni_somogyi
Elena Volkova. Meanwhile
Several concepts come to mind when thinking about liminality: uncertainty, as well as openness, potential, and the state of becoming, between-ness, transition, neutrality. The Liminal surrounds us; it is the periphery of every moment of our existence, the behind-the-scenes of our reality; it makes no judgments and no assertions; it constitutes our everyday mundane poetry. It is simply there. In the liminal state, the boundaries and factors dissolve, bringing to the attention the low-key overlooked moments.
Meanwhile is a series of photographs that explores the concept of becoming. Created in the immediate everyday environments, the images are observations of moments in constant flux,
which poetically document what it means to be living in this time, and to be compelled to get to know one’s place in a deep introspective way. Experienced through the lens of subjectivity, glimpses of domestic environments are juxtaposed with natural forms, leading into an escapist journey.
Elena Volkova is a Ukrainian-born interdisciplinary artist, educator, and curator, whose creative practice uses historic and contemporary photographic techniques to explore complex themes of domesticity, liminality, and subjective experience. Volkova has been a fellow at Hamiltonian Artists, and exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Elena received several recognitions and awards in support of her creative practice, including Janis Meyer Traveling Fellowship, Corcoran Women’s Committee Grant, MD State Arts Council Creativity Grant, Baltimore Municipal Art Society Travel Prize, and Rubys Grant. Volkova has been a social practice resident artist at Maryland Center for History and Culture, Anacostia Arts Center, and Maker General among others. Volkova resides in Baltimore, MD and teaches Photography at Stevenson University.