GRAN PRIX opens Nov. 16th

GRAN PRIX

a collaboration between Nudashank and Gresham's Ghost
November 16th - December 16th 2012

• Alisa Baremboym
• Colin Benjamin
• Lucas Blalock
• John Bohl
• Ethan Breckenridge
• Dustin Carlson
• Alex da Corte
• Daniel Conrad
• Caitlin Cunningham
• Benjamin Degen
• Lisa Dillin
• Ara Dymond
• Shaun Flynn
• Skye Gilkerson
• Lesser Gonzalez
• Jesse Greenberg
• Max Guy
• Dina Kelberman
• Justin Kelly
• Christopher Lavoie
• Hermonie Only
• Erik Parker
• Nick Peelor
• Armacost/Planck
• Will Pierce
• D'metrius Rice
• Steven Riddle
• Nick Vyssotsky
• Colin van Winkle
Gresham's Ghost, in collaboration with Nudashank, is pleased to announce its eighth exhibition, Gran Prix. Gran Prix is the first Gresham's Ghost exhibit outside of New York, expanding the scope and geography of its curatorial discussion. The exhibition brings together twenty-eight artists from Baltimore and New York to highlight the growing conversation occurring between the two cities. As Baltimore's rapidly growing artistic community continues to develop, its impact and connections with artists working in more established enclaves has become both inevitable and vital.
Collectively, the artists in Gran Prix share the proclivity to seize the endless information surrounding them and process it without any pre-established hierarchies. More specifically, they frequently bypass the calcified barrier between nature and culture and navigate the dissolving membrane between real and virtual space. These artists fold these previously compartmental spaces into one another to create a landscape that might be a more accurate synthesis of contemporary reality.
Baltimore's contemporary art scene has always been active and in flux. The city's transient nature - New York being the goal for many- has kept it under the radar, where its progress has developed in small waves. The past few years have seen a sudden surge of artist-run galleries, and a more permanent structure for artists to engage with and cultivate their practice. The financial realities of the recession have brought artists to the equalizing conversational platform of the internet, creating work that relinquishes a fetish for the past and pushes forward, addressing the problems of contemporary life. These new rhythms are being heard not just in Baltimore but in several cities across the world, and so it is with pleasure that we now begin to extend these burgeoning virtual dialogues into parallel concrete interactions.

405 W. Franklin St. 

Nudashank (3rd Floor) 
& 
Gallery Four (4th Floor)

429 N. Eutaw St.

Charles Fish & Sons Bldg. Storefront

425 N. Eutaw St.

Storefront

Baltimore, MD

Opens November 16th 6pm - 10pm
Exhibition runs November 16th - December 16th, 2012

There will be open hours at all locations noon- 5pm every Saturday and Sunday for the duration of the exhibition.  Additional programming TBA.  

www.greshamsghost.com

www.nudashank.com

BLACK FOLIAGE opens this Saturday!!

BLACK FOLIAGE

Curated by Matthew Craven

This exhibition brings together over 60 artists using a wide range of techniques and imagery within the field of drawing, painting, collage and sculpture to create a singular artistic vision. BLACK FOLIAGE takes its name from the contemporary psych rock band Olivia Tremor Control’s 1999 album Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol. One. Like the album, this exhibition combines pop and experimental aesthetics into something eccentric and cohesive.

The combined efforts from these artists will create something akin to a psychedelic zen garden. 

*Black Foliage, originally took place on a much smaller scale at Chinatown Arcade, A DIY pop up art space and formerly a cell phone dispensary within the alley at 48 Bowery in New York City on July 22nd 2012.

Please join us on the evening of September 22nd 2012 for a opening reception from 7-10pm.   

ARTISTS

AKIRA HORIKAWA
ALEJANDRO GUZMAN
ALEX EBSTEIN
ALEX LUKAS
ALLISON REIMUS
ANNA HOBERMAN
BEN BLATT
BENJAMIN EDMISTON 
BJORN COPELAND
BRUCE WILHELM
CAITLIN CUNNINGHAM
CASEY GRAY
CASEY JEX SMITH
CHRISTIAN HERR
CHRISTOPHER DANIELS
CODY HOYT
DENISE KUPFERSCHMIDT
DOMINIC PAUL MOORE
EMMA BURGESS OLSON
EMILY ROZ
ETHAN COOK
GINA BEAVERS
HWAN JAHNG
JAMIE FELTON
JIMMY BAKER
JOSEPH HART
JULIAN DURON
KORAKRIT ARUNANONDCHAI
LANGDON GRAVES
LAUREN SEIDEN
LEAH DIXON
LEIF LOW-BEER
LESSER GONZALEZ
LETHA WILSON
MIYEON LEE
MARK SENGBUSCH
MARK WARREN JACQUES
MATTHEW PALLADINO
MATT STONE
MICHAEL DOTSON
MINKA SICKLINGER
MORGAN BLAIR
NATALIA YOVANE
PAUL KONEAZNY
PAUL WACKERS
POLLY SHINDLER
RYAN BROWNING
RYAN DE LA HOZ
RYAN TRAVIS CHRISTIAN
RYAN SCHNEIDER
RYAN WALLACE
SAM ADAMS
SETH ADELSBERGER
SHAI ZURIM
SHARA HUGHES
STEVEN RIDDLE
SUSY GOETERS
TED GAHL
TIM HULL
TIMOTHY BERSTROM
THOMAS DELANEY
TM DAVY
TRISH TILLMAN
VICTOR PAYARES
WESLEY STOKES

"Try to throw away the flags of consciousness
 Flow through the fields of time
 But When you pass the black foliage
 You can always change your mind"
 -Looking For Quiet Seeds, Olivia Tremor Control

NUDASHANK

405 W. Franklin Street
3rd Floor

BALTIMORE, MD

www.nudashank.com

Installation Views from "Primary"

Individual Works from "Primary"

Katie Bell 

Katie Bell

Katie Bell

Tatiana Berg

Susan Bricker

Susan Bricker

Stacy Fisher

Stacy Fisher

Amanda B. Friedman

Joanne Greenbaum

Clare Grill

Clare Grill

Clare Grill

Fabienne Lasserre (above and below)

Fabienne Laserre

Fabienne Lasserre

Lauren Luloff

Lauren Luloff

Elisa Soliven

Elisa Soliven

Susan Bricker

Amanda B. Friedman

Primary is on view through September 14th.  

email nudashank(at) gmail.com to schedule an appointment

Primary opens August 17th

Fabien Lasserre

Nudashank is pleased to present Primary, a guest curated survey of recent works in abstraction by ten, female New-York based artists. The exhibition includes works by Katie Bell, Tatiana Berg, Susan Bricker, Stacy Fisher, Amanda B. Friedman, Joanne Greenbaum, Clare Grill, Fabienne Lasserre, Lauren Luloff and Elisa Soliven.

Working against convention, these artists are putting into practice an "abject expressionism" in respect to materials, composition, color and form, sharing a rogue sense of what constitutes beauty. Among other things, the works in this exhibition reflect an instinctual acting upon surfaces or materials. The artists’ touches are visible, active, and at times assertive--each tear, scrape, twist and drip intentional and impactful. Comprised of paintings, sculpture and the in-between, Primary is not interested in complete resolution and finishing touches--just warm embraces of the imperfect, irregular and open-ended.

Primary opens on August 17, 2012, with a reception for the artists from 7-10pm. The exhibition runs through September 14, 2012. Nudashank is located at 405 West Franklin Street, 3rd floor, Baltimore, MD 21201. The gallery is open by appointment only; please contact nudashank@gmail.com for scheduling. For additional information, please visit http://www.nudashank.com/.

About the artists

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  Katie Bell (b. 1980, Rockford, IL) holds a MFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from Knox College in Galesburg, IL. Recent exhibitions include Masculinisms, Garden Party Arts, Brooklyn; Small Crowd, Mixed Greens, New York; Out of Practice, Art Blog Art Blog, New York; and Homework, BoxGallery, Galesburg, IL, among others.

  
  

  Tatiana Berg (b. 1985, Washington, DC) has participated in a number of group exhibitions, including Three Points Make a Triangle, Queens Museum, New York; Déjà vu, Regina Rex, Queens; Haymaker, Freight + Volume, New York. This is Berg’s third exhibition at Nudashank; her work was included in Chromatose (2009) and New PainTHINGS (2010). Berg received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2010. She is currently an MFA candidate at Columbia University.

  
  

  Susan Bricker (b. 1979, Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA) is a graduate of Cranbrook Academy of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute. Bricker’s work has been presented at Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn; Participant, New York; Bull and Ram, New York; the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Second Home Projects, Berlin, GER, among other venues.

  Stacy Fisher (b. 1974, Norwalk, OH) has exhibited extensively in New York at Jeff Bailey Gallery, Allegra LaViola, Thierry Goldberg, Cleopatra’s, Churner and Churner, and Horton, among others. Upcoming exhibitions include a two-person exhibition with Allison Miller at Weekend, Los Angeles. Fisher is a graduate of Cleveland Institute of Art and Ohio State University.

  
  

  Amanda B. Friedman (b. 1984, Washington, DC) has studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Scotland and the University of Vermont. Her work has been included in exhibitions at Vox Populi, Philadelphia; Clifton Benevento, New York; Recess, New York; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and Artists Space, New York. This summer she participated in a residency at the Shandanken Project in upstate New York. Her first solo show opens this October at Eli Ping Gallery, New York.

  
  

  Joanne Greenbaum (b. 1953, New York) is represented by D’Amelio Gallery, New York. Her work has been the subject of solo presentations at D’Amelio (formerly D’Amelio Terras), New York; Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago; greengrassi, London; and Nicolas Krupp, Brussels, among others. Recent group exhibitions include UP DO, Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York; A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, New York; Painting as Fact, Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich; and Stuff, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, among others. She is a graduate of Bard College.

  
  

  Clare Grill (b. 1979, Chicago, IL) holds an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn and the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011. Her work was included in exhibitions at Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York; the Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Edward Thorp Gallery, New York; and Roots and Culture, Chicago, among others.

  
  

  Fabienne Lasserre (b. 1973, Ottawa, CA) has attended Columbia University and Concordia University, Montreal. She is represented by Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York and Gallery Diet, Miami. Her work has been shown at Jolie Laide, Philadelphia; Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York; Larissa Goldston, New York; and the Mai Centre, Montreal, among other venues throughout the US, Mexico, Canada, South America and Europe. Currently, Lasserre is a professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in its painting department.

  
  

  Lauren Luloff (b. 1980, Dover, NH) has participated in a number of exhibitions in New York, including Dark Interiors and Bright Landscapes, Halsey McKay; Stretching Painting, Galerie Lelong; Painting Expanded, Tanya Bonakdar; Recent Small Works, Horton; Wind, Beach, amd Still Life, End of Century; Material Issues and Other Matters, CANADA; and Not the Way You Remembered, Queens Museum, among others. Luloff holds a BFA from Pennsylvania State University and a MFA from Bard College.

  
  

  Elisa Soliven (b.1975, New York, NY) is a graduate of Hunter College and Bryn Mawr College. Her work has been reviewed by Two Coats of Paint, the Village Voice, and Time Out New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Vaudeville Park, Brooklyn; Janet Kurnatowaki Gallery, New York; Pierogi, Brooklyn; Diamatina Gallery, Brooklyn; and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among others.

  
  

  

  Elisa Soliven

  
  

  

  Tatiana Berg