Exhibitions On View
Creative Alliance houses two gallery spaces inside the historic Patterson Theater.
Currently On View:
Walk On By
Baltimore-Rotterdam Exhibition & Artist Exchange
Presented By Creative Alliance, TENT Rotterdam, and Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee
Main Gallery
Exhibition Opening: THU SEP 26 | 6-9PM
On View: THU SEP 26 – SAT NOV 30
Featuring Artists: Schaun Champion (Baltimore), Charles Mason III (Baltimore), Naomi King (Rotterdam), kolpeace (Baltimore), Djon Seedorf (Rotterdam), and Tarona (Rotterdam).
HAVE FAITH
FAITH McCorkle Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: NOV 1 – DEC 7, 2024
Opening Reception: Friday, November 1, 2024, 6-9 PM
PAGES OF POWER Workshop: Friday, November 15, 2024, 6-8:30 PM
Artist Talk and Tour: Friday, November 22, 2024, 6-8 PM
Performance + Open Mic Closing Celebration: Sunday, December 1, 2024, 6-9 PM
We live many lives in one lifetime. Spirit and faith keep us breathing and moving: they tell us to rebuild after breaking down. HAVE FAITH is an innovative solo exhibition inviting viewers on a journey into the depths of faith by exploring its intricate, layered connections to life, death, and personal power. Through a network of immersive soundscapes, interactive installations, reflective poetry, and symbolic visuals, this exhibition experience and its public programming evoke a sense of rebirth and spiritual awakening while reflecting on the past lives we carry within us.
Past Exhibitions:
Unidos En El Arte
Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Exhibition Opening: FRI SEP 6 | 6-9PM
On View: FRI SEP 6 – SAT OCT 12
Celebrate Caribbean and Latine/x talent with this exhibition where the vibrant pulse of Baltimore’s creative spirit meets the rich tapestry of Hispanic culture. Each artwork not only reflects the unique perspectives and experiences of Baltimore’s diverse communities but also celebrates the broader cultural influences that shape our city. Join us in honoring the burgeoning talent of the artists, whose work enriches our understanding of heritage, identity, and artistic determination. This is an initiative to uplift the deep-rooted traditions and the contemporary voices that contribute to the ever-evolving cultural landscape of Baltimore.
Featuring Artists: Natalia Celine Arias, Lázaro Miguel García, Pilar Lagos, Isabel Pardo, Abel Reyes, Melissa Sutherland Moss, and Catherine Mapp.
The 2024 Big Show Exhibition
Main Gallery
Opening Reception: SAT JUL 13 | 6-9PM | Free!
On View: SAT JUL 13 – SAT AUG 31
Our 29th annual members’ extravaganza is back! Don’t miss this opportunity to have your artwork on our gallery walls or perform on our stage! Did you know that The BIG Show was the very first Creative Alliance program? That first event led to twenty-nine years of artistic expression, community, cultivation of young minds, and so much joy.
Exhibition | Dancing With My Shadows: a Journey to Self Discovery
Hope McCorkle Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Exhibition Opening: FRI JUN 28 | 6-9PM
On View: FRI JUN 28 – SAT AUG 17
Artist Talk: FRI JUL 12 | 6:30PM | Marquee Lounge
Workshop: THU AUG 1 | 6PM | Creativity Center
Performance: FRI AUG 9 | 7PM | The Theater
“dancing with my shadows: a journey to self-discovery” is an immersive solo exhibition exploring the evolution of HOPE, reflecting on her inner journey towards self-discovery. The artwork is a testament to HOPE’s exploration of her inner world, delving into the realms of spirituality, self-love, shadow work, and healing. These self-portraits capture moments of vulnerability and transformation, reflecting her personal quests to understand and accept her shadows and mental health, seeking inner peace.
Song of Life: Shelley Amsel Exhibition
Main Gallery
Exhibition Opening: Friday May 10, 2024
On View: May 10 - June 15, 2024
Welcome to a captivating journey through the vibrant world of Shelley Amsel, a figurative painter with over 40 years of artistic exploration. In the exhibition Scenes, Friends, Family, and Dancing, Amsel invites you to immerse yourself in a kaleidoscope of color and movement that has fueled his creative passion.
The exhibition is a celebration of life’s moments—scenes that resonate with personal connections, the warmth of friendship, the embrace of family, and the joy of dancing. As you explore the exhibition, be prepared to be transported into Amsel’s unique perspective. Join us in celebrating Shelley Amsel’s extraordinary talent and his ability to transform everyday experiences into a visual symphony of color and movement.
Fashion Prose 1: Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Exhibition Opening: Friday May 10, 2024
On View: May 10 - June 15, 2024
Step into a world where fashion transcends mere fabric and thread, where every stitch tells a story, and every garment is a canvas of expression. The exhibition Fashion Prose 1 is a celebration of the artistry and language of style, exploring the intricate relationship between fashion, identity, and adornment.
Over a decade ago, a renowned fashion journalist observed the evolving landscape of fashion, noting its transformation from a niche passion to a global fascination and form of entertainment. Today, we invite you to witness this evolution firsthand as we showcase the work of artists who share a profound connection to the world of fashion and textiles.
A Fine Pairing: Rosa Leff and Kelly Walker Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Exhibition Opening: Friday March 22, 2024
On View: March 22 - April 20, 2024
The exhibition “A Fine Pairing” provides insight into the works of Rosa Leff and Kelly Walker. The analogy of their work being like a fine wine pairing with cheese or chocolate suggests a harmonious and complementary relationship on the gallery walls. The unifying theme in both of their artworks is the celebration of the city. The details the artists explore in their work encourage you to look closely! The exhibition description ends with a hopeful note, encouraging viewers to appreciate the tiny cut details in Leff’s work and recognize that these details contribute to making city living an enriching experience.
Main Gallery
Exhibition Opening: Friday March 1, 2024
On View: March 1 - April 13, 2024
Step into the vibrant and lively world of everyday people and places in Baltimore through the eyes of our former resident artist, Jason Austin. Baltimore In Repose invites you to explore the dynamic and diverse narratives of our city. Each piece serves as a window into the lives of friends, places, and loved ones, on a color spectrum that articulates the joy and vibrancy of Baltimore.
Jason Austin: Baltimore in Repose Exhibition
Come Through: Resident Artist Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Exhibition Opening: Friday February 3, 2024
On View: February 2 - March 2, 2024
Join our wonderful resident artists as they showcase the journey of their art practice since they started at Creative Alliance. Sound, photography, and collage will fill our second-floor gallery! For over 10 years, the resident artist program at The Patterson has supported artists from Baltimore and the nation. We continue the tradition with the opening of applications for the 2024 cohort. Featuring Resident Artists: Hoesy Corona, Anna Divinagracia, Melissa Hyatt Foss, Ajee Hassan, KOLPEACE, Eleisha Faith & Tonisha Hope McCorkle, and Bria Sterling-Wilson.
Blooming Scapes! Exhibition
Main Gallery
Exhibition Opening: Friday January 4, 2024
On View: January 4, 2024 - February 17, 2024
Blooming Scapes! is a group exhibition focusing on the variation of use of the landscape within art. Vibrant hills, topographic scenes, and more will be on view! Featured artists include Kini Collins, Lyndie Vantine, Hyunsuk Erickson, Fanni Somogyi, Paula Zaremba, and Deb Jansen.
Get on My Level: a Greenmount West Community Center Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Exhibition Opening: December 14, 2023
On View: December 14, 2023 - January 19, 2024
Get On My Level is a collaboration among Creative Alliance, artist kolpeace, Greenmount West Community Center (GWCC), and R.I.S.E. To showcase this very special collaboration, on opening night, R.I.S.E students with perform The Wiz Jr. in the Patterson theater!
Exhibition
R.I.S.E Emerging Artists is a program for students ages 14-24 who are neurodiverse and looking to learn more about entrepreneurship by developing their own arts-based businesses. Get On My Level features works of art by youth in Baltimore. This is a youth-led celebration that highlights the hard work and skills displayed during their 6-week summer program at GWCC, from workshops and training to the hybrid program Ladies & Gentlemen’s Graffiti. The exhibition includes art by teen youth from Greenmount and Highlandtown to ensure togetherness, long lasting relationships, and resources between the neighborhoods in the city of Baltimore.
Susan Lowe: Curtains Exhibition
Main Gallery
Exhibition Opening: Friday, October 13, 2023
On View: October 13 - December 2, 2023
The exhibition Curtains is about family and masks in figurative and literal. This collection of work is dedicated to Susan Lowe’s grandson Devin who passed away from leukemia in 2017.
Lowe felt compelled to construct a series of paintings that depict images of objects she saw every day when she visited Devin in the hospital: curtains, hallways, windows, stairs, and doors. Curtains were disturbing to the artist because the sound of the swish of the curtain was heard and seen—ominous. Many other images depict ideas of passage, water, bridges, rafts, and idyllic landscapes.
“I was determined to make the faces of the figures non-morbid. This was a demand I put on myself. In remembering the event, I realized that the whole family paused before entering the hospital room. Thus the mask, a powerful concept, not crying, and not laughing. The image of crows symbolizes the connection to the other world. In the end, I noticed that much of the content was really about motherhood and family.” –Susan Lowe
Light Perspectives: Joe Gerlak and Neville Barbour Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: November 3 - December 2, 2023
The use of light has been a creative power wielded by artists for centuries. Through a contemporary lens artists Neville Barbour and Joe Gerlak utilize their skills in various mediums to delight the audience with their artistic vision. Barbour draws on ambient light within his charcoal and graphite drawings on a painted surface. His work explores hyperrealities that often leave audiences viewing the work as photographic. Gerlak explores plexiglass as a medium and a muted color palette to manipulate visible and perceived light. Together Barbour and Gerlak are a pair with diverse perspectives and a bold vision.
Taking Space Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: September 1 - October 21, 2023
Your voice is valid, and we need it in this world. Taking Space is an exhibition that celebrates Latino artists based in Baltimore expressing their love of their cultures and elevating the conversation of their cultures. Each artist has a unique perspective of the Latino community, or Latinidad, and their individual stories of hope, happiness, and history. The artists come from different backgrounds and experiences. Each artist will showcase painting, sculpture, and other mediums to dig deeper into the cultural diversity of Hispanic Heritage Month.
God Couldn’t Be Everywhere …that’s Why He Made Momma:
Lendl Tellington & Salome Sykes
Main Gallery
On View: August 25 - September 30 , 2023
As they realize they could lose their matriarch’s home, Salome Sykes and Lendl Tellington turn the camera on their great-grandmother and her nine descendants in order to preserve their family’s legacy. As the brother and sister interview kinfolk, sift through albums, and wade through a century of family furniture, they reimagine these elements as a collection of sensory-driven installations, photography, and cinematic vignettes inspired by generational memories and revelations.
Ecologies: Jan Eveland & Sarah Magida Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: July 7 - August 12, 2023
Ecologies showcases the intimate entanglements of flora and fauna that are on display between the work of Baltimore-based artists Jan Eveland and Sarah Magida. Eveland’s works explore the world of the micro in the macro, while Sarah’s works observe the macro and our cropped perspectives of nature. Both artists approach their mediums with different goals of exploring nature. Sometimes the work is delightful and engrossing, in other ways it is consuming and scary.
Ecologies is a new approach to member artists exhibitions in the Amalie Rothschild Gallery, building intergenerational dialogue through familiar mediums and themes, like organisms, life, intimate entanglements, bright color, and meandering lines.
The Big Show 2023
Main Gallery
On View: July 15 - August 12, 2023
Opening Reception: July 15, 6-8pm
Our 28th annual members’ extravaganza is back! Creative Alliance Members show off their talents. With over 120 works of art on view, this exhibition is a great place to start (or expand) your art collection!
The BIG Show Exhibition Opening & Variety Show takes place on Saturday, July 15, 2023. The exhibition is on view in the main gallery and online from July 15 – August 12, 2023.
The Protection of Lowly Gods: Mj Neuberger Exhibition
Main Gallery
On View: May 12 - June 17, 2023
A body cast aside in cultures of abuse returns to its ground and remembers its spirit.
Bodies challenged to find safe spaces need access to ground. Restoration from the ravages inflicted requires connection with an ever resourceful earth mother. A practice of returning to itself.
Earth is always beneath our feet. The sky is always above us. If we can find our way to our ground, there is only belonging. With practice, we sense the wisdom of indigenous ways and honor the spirits deemed lowly by those unable to imagine ways of being beyond their own.
Cyber Strays:
Seung Jun Lee Exhibition
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: May 12 - June 17, 2023
Concerning our digitally polluted lifestyle in contemporary society, Seung Jun Lee’s Cyber Strays features hovering large-scale graphite drawings and scattered ceramic sculptures that portray a series of metamorphic life forms. The urge for convenience has filled every nook and cranny of human history. From barter to shells, gold to paper bills, and credit cards to bitcoins, this collective pursuit slowly comes to fruition. In 2020, driven by a storm named COVID-19, the ship of NFT rammed high on the shore of the metaverse. Massive capital flowed into virtual platforms, and people began to claim ownership of this undiscovered land. Henceforward, we become residents of the intersecting area between the virtual and the real. We no longer look at the sun for time or at stars for direction because they exist as numbers and Google Maps on our cell phones. Wandering between two worlds, individuals turn into stray forms that lose “a clear place to inhabit” and a “clear objective in evolving.” Driven by a fascination with mystical animals in Korean tradition, Lee crafts supernatural creatures as the symbol of “cyber strays.” Representing the digitalization of capitalism in his works, golden toads are common gifts in Korea’s traditional bribery culture. This mystical creature appears only during the full moon, near businesses and houses that will soon receive the good news that is wealth-related. Lee also utilizes industrialized silkworm moths as an analogy to ponder the future evolvement of humans—as they were bred to lose the ability to fly.
Raktism and Metachaos: Ainsley Burrows
Main Gallery
On View: February 10 - April 1, 2023
Raktism is a new method for investigating the fourth dimension, developed by contemporary artist Ainsley Burrows.
Burrows’ Raktist paintings are characterized by bright colors and soft shadows that often include abstract figures whose movements and features are choppy, creating the perception that we’re seeing them at different moments in time, from various perspectives. Sharp lines box in figures (be they spiritual or mortal) while parts of their bodies escape the framing devices. The escaped parts appear refracted or create a visual echo from the shape that was intersected. The lines cut the image and the space, splitting time and space simultaneously. Cubism, which also pursued the fourth dimension, splits the image itself to see the image in the round in a 2D medium; Raktism, however, taps the fourth dimension by splitting the image into different time signatures and revealing multiple planes.
Reaching Out: A Resident Artist Exhibition
Main Gallery
On View: February 10 - March 31, 2023
See what the resident artists have been working on over the last year in a celebration of artistic practice. Reaching Out is a salon-style presentation of work from Anna Divinagracia, Melissa Foss, kolpeace, Hope and Faith McCorkle, Hoesy Corona, Jason Austin, and Lendl Tellington.
Creative Alliance’s Resident Artist Program provides a highly visible, intense, and creative environment for the production of artwork in all media. Attracting artists from around Baltimore and the nation, the program is located in The Patterson, a historic former movie theater converted into a vibrant, community-based art center.
New Generations: The Photography of Three Cities and Two Eras
Main Gallery
On View: December 16, 2022 - January 21, 2023
Over the last two years, Paula Gately Tillman has photographed Baltimore visual artists in their studios and alongside their art. Presented alongside Fringe, Gately Tillman’s Baltimore project, New Generations, takes a different tone. In the recent portraits, introspection and a stripped down verité have replaced pageantry and extreme attitude. Befitting the pandemic period, the photographs were largely shot in studios—solitary sanctuaries—rather than the bustling night clubs and urban backstreets that set the stage for the Fringe images. And still, there is a kinship between studios and dance clubs. They are both out-of-the-ordinary spaces in which one can aspire to uninhibited exploration and expression.
Scene Seen: A Vignette of Baltimore Music (2016-2022)
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: December 16, 2022 - January 21, 2023
Christopher J. Chester and Micah E. Wood are longtime collaborators in design and photography in Baltimore, MD. Upon meeting in 2014, they bonded over their studies of design and photography at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and their love for music. Music is the connecting force of their friendship. Scene Seen explores the Station North music scene between 2016 and 2022 from their perspective through photography and poster design. Baltimore has been known as a music poster city dating back to the 1960s with Globe Posters and continues that legacy.
Murjoni Merriweather: The Walk
Main Gallery
On View: October 28 - December 3, 2022
The Walk is a figurative experience for fans and newcomers to Murjoni Merriweather’s work as a sculptor and her artistic practice. The former Creative Alliance resident artist pulls from work created during and after her Creative Alliance Residency and her Alma Lewis Artist Residency, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 2022. Through this multipart exhibition, the viewer has a literal walk through the creative and production process of Murjoni Merriweather.
Beacon of Light
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: October 14 - December 3, 2022
Beacon of Light is an exhibition highlighting the quilting circle, Angel Quilters—comprising both seasoned and novice quilters— who are shining a light on the color and splendor of life.
They hail from diverse backgrounds and experiences, and they eagerly offer their creative artistry in mixed media. These artists and quilters evoke expressions of cultural pride, humanity, resilience, faith, kindred ties, encouragement, inspiration, and a united voice echoing hope in challenging times.
Jani Hileman: Live Sculpting in Baltimore
Main Gallery
On View: FRI SEP 2 - SUN OCT 2, 2022
Jani Hileman returns to Creative Alliance with the exhibition "Jani Hileman: Live Sculpting In Baltimore" co-curated by Visual Arts Director Joy Davis. Hileman was engaged in a three-year project during her residency at Creative Alliance (2018-2021) to document the Baltimore music scene by sculpting ceramic portraits of musicians during live performances. The project will be shown at Creative Alliance in 2022. The exhibition runs from September 2nd to October 2nd.
Adiante Franszoon:
Simple and Good
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: FRI SEP 2 - SUN OCT 2, 2022
The phrase “simple and good” is the two-word artist statement of the encouraging and gladdening sculptor Adiante Franszoon. He mixes function and design with traditional materials and colorways through inlay. The multipurpose nature of some of the works in the exhibition is a nod to self-sufficiency and practicality. The exhibition showcases handheld mirrors, wood carved wall hangings and tabletops, and furniture to expand your opportunity to see the breadth of Franszoon's work.
The Big Show
Main Gallery
On View: JUL 16 - AUG 21, 2022
Our 27th annual members' extravaganza is back!
This exhibition is all about our incredibly talented members, those that have just joined Creative Alliance and those that have been with us since the beginning and are at the heart of our organization. Nothing can stop our members from creating and sharing their art with the world. This exhibition and show are designed to celebrate your artistic voice, creativity, and imagination!
We Are Present
Main Gallery
On View: MAY 21- JUL, 2022
A new exhibition presented by Joy Davis, Creative Alliance’s new Visual Arts Director entitled We Are Present. This exhibition explores the multitudes of art production and craft in what is currently considered the Maryland, Delaware, and DC metro areas. This exhibition is a launchpad to acknowledge and celebrate the varying experiences and stories of Indigenous individuals.
Why do we not inquire about our interactions with Indigenous people in art spaces? Why are indigenous individuals, tribes, and communities presented as lost civilizations instead of present on this land? The salon-style exhibition will showcase Craft, Photography, Illustration, Performance, and other mediums that are beyond the preconceived notions of our production in Indigenous and native contexts.
Featuring work by Denise Bright Dove Dunkley, Roberto Dyea (Tsi Yoo Nah), Jennifer Folayan, Ashley Minner, Dare Turner, Raine Valentine, and Penny Gamble Williams
Liliana Guzmán | Next To Myself
Solo Exhibition | The Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: MAY 21 - JUL 3, 2022
Extending from within the body and outward, Next to Myself combines painting and photography to reflect upon the formation of the self as an individual with social and ethnic components. Photographic elements ground the body in a concrete physical space while paint emphasizes what the mind perceives. Stemming from artist, Liliana Guzmán’s, background as a bicultural Colombian-American woman, this series addresses the sociocultural dualities of my exposure to different conceptions of the Latinx female body. In private family spaces as well as in religious social environments such as church or school, the body is either celebrated or restricted. The manifestation of cultural and personal dualities is one of the main threads expressed throughout this artwork.
Each piece is a culmination of layers; the photographic print, gouache paint, charcoal, and other mark-making objects. The meaning and influence of touch and emotional performance (masks) are both prominent in my artwork. The use of the mask obscures the face and acts as a mechanism to compel the viewer to identify with the woman. The yellow circles are derived from the religious iconography of the halo, which is meant to signify light, divinity, and a distinct separation between the holy and the laymen and women. Next to Myself emphasizes how ethnicity, gender, and memory continuously build upon the many layers that make up who you are.
Claudia Capelle: Breath of Fresh Air
Resident Artist Solo Exhibition | Main Gallery
On View: FEB 26, 2022 - APR 9, 2022
Claudia Cappelle was born in Chicago. She studied at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor of Science in Medical Illustration. She is currently in the MFA program at Towson University and is an artist in residence at the Creative Alliance in Baltimore.
Her work has been exhibited at various galleries and art venues in the Washington DC metro area and Virginia and at the PNC Headquarters Art Collection in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her abstract expressions endeavor to express the lyrical power of nature.
Sam Husseni: Snow, Flora, & Fauna
Temporal and Timeless | Solo Exhibition | Amalie Rothschild Gallery
ON VIEW: FEB 26, 2022 - APR 9, 2022
Sam Husseini is a visual artist and writer living in Riverdale, Maryland. This is his second one-person show. While his interest in visual art is long-standing, he has focused on his journalistic work which focuses on weapons of mass destruction, media, and over the last two years, pandemic origins. His art largely addresses humanity's relationship with Nature. He is of Palestinian heritage and was born in Amman, Jordan. He has a double major from the Mathematics and Philosophy Departments at Carnegie Mellon University.
Check Please. The Final Foodscape
Featuring the delectable 37-year history of participating artists | Main Gallery
On View: DEC 18 2021 - JAN 29, 2022
Creative Alliance’s first virtual exhibit of small works created by emerging and established artists. The exhibition features over 75 small scale works in a variety of mediums by 40+ artists. Proceeds from art sales support the astounding variety of multidisciplinary and multicultural arts and educational events Creative Alliance presents annually.
Ariston Jacks: PRONOIA
Amalie Rothschild Gallery
On View: JAN 7, 2022 - FEB 4, 2022
A native of Pine Bluff, AR now based in Baltimore, MD, Ariston Jacks is a celebrated painter, printmaker, and photographer, whose work is included in many museums, corporate and private collections nationally.
Small Works | Big Cause
A Virtual Exhibition & Fundraiser for Creative Alliance
On View: OCT 16, 2021 - JAN 17, 2022
Creative Alliance’s first virtual exhibit of small works created by emerging and established artists. The exhibition features over 75 small scale works in a variety of mediums by 40+ artists. Proceeds from art sales support the astounding variety of multidisciplinary and multicultural arts and educational events Creative Alliance presents annually.
we're not meant
to do this alone.
PLACE.
On View: OCT 9 - DEC 4 | Main Gallery
Opening Reception: SAT OCT 16 | 6-8PM
Visit in person: Creative Alliance will be open on Saturdays NOON-5PM
(Masks are required in the building)
An exhibition both inspired by the poem “In These Dissenting Times” by Alice Walker,” and contemplating Place and the role that it plays within Charles Mason III’s life, as well as the lives of the artists featured.
Featuring: Jessica Elena Aquino, Samantha Dominik, Ayana Evans, rod jones ii, Baseera Khan, Jotham Malavé Maldonado, Nadia Rea Morales, and Erin M. Riley
Curator: Charles Mason III
Altan Erginkoc
Solo Mosaic Exhibition
On View: OCT 16 - DEC 4 | Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Opening Reception: SAT OCT 16 | 6-8PM
Visit in person: Creative Alliance will be open on Saturdays NOON-5PM
(Masks are required in the building)
A solo exhibition of Altan Erginkoc’s free-hanging and wall-mounted, light-emitting wooden gourd works, and ceramic sculpture.
Originally from Turkey, Erginkoc has exhibited his artwork internationally, at numerous art fairs and festivals, most recently at the American Craft Council’s American Craft Show in Baltimore, and at the National Folk Festival in Salisbury, Maryland
Kei Ito
Our Looming Ground Zero Exhibition
On View: AUG 6 - SEP 18, 2021 | Main Gallery
Our Looming Ground Zero is a multimedia solo exhibition featuring the work of Kei Ito, a visual artist who examines global traumas through a multitude of times and experiences originating in his grandfather’s survival of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during WWII. Ito’s large scale installation examines the reality of nuclear annihilation that could occur at any moment, as well as Ito's inherited trauma of the bombing and radiation of the past. Featuring new artworks, Our Looming Ground Zero creates a space to experience and contemplate on the ideas of invisible threats and global traumas made more poignant by the massive global crisis the world is still experiencing together.
Maxine Taylor
Bramble and Brush
On View: AUG 6 - SEP 18, 2021 | Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Painting allows subconscious feelings to move out of the body, travel down the arm and to emerge via the brush creating color, shape and content. Collage presents an opportunity to re-engage the heart of unfinished paintings, to breathe new life into them and to more fully develop their composition.
"There aren’t always words to explain feelings, but the feelings need to be expressed to develop a thorough understanding and to communicate. My intent is to show the value of using unconscious feelings as a guide for self-expression. I paint because I don’t always have the right words to express what’s inside."
The BIG Show
Creative Alliance Members’ Exhibition
On View: JUN 26 - JUL 24, 2021 | Main Gallery
This event is all about our incredibly talented members, those that have just joined Creative Alliance and those that have been with us since the beginning and are at the heart of our organization. Nothing can stop our members from creating and sharing their art with the world. This exhibition and show is designed to celebrate your artistic voice, creativity, and imagination!
Victoria Walton: Acceptance, A Journey Through Chaos
On View: JUN 26 - JUL 24, 2021 | Amalie Rothschild Gallery
Walton takes viewers on an emotional journey exploring moments of unraveling. Through the lens of black portraiture, Walton examines the stages of unrest to acceptance and asks the questions: How do we navigate personal and global chaos? Can we learn to accept something that cannot be controlled?
About the artist: Victoria Walton is an emerging visual artist based in Baltimore City. She has a BFA in Ceramics from Towson University and is a 2023 MFA Candidate at Alfred University. She engages in a multidisciplinary ceramic practice, utilizing textiles, concrete, and wood to bring her ideas to fruition. Her focus revolves around black culture and addressing sources of trauma, creating around themes such as brokenness, illness, inner struggle, resiliency, gender non-conformance, and healing of wounds over time.
Organic Destruction
On View: APR 17 - MAY 29, 2021 | Main Gallery
From climate change to racial climate, Organic Destruction consists of artworks that provide direct commentary on how human intervention effects the environments in which we live. By tracing the values, philosophies, and actions of humans, we find direct correlations to these issues and begin to ask the right questions as a means to enact change. This exhibition investigates the many facets of our ecosystem that play a part in the human condition and the world around us.
EXHIBITION ARTISTS:
Kyle J Bauer | Christian Benefiel | Yam Chew Oh | Brandon Donahue | Nicole Fall | Stephanie Garmey | Stephanie Garon | David Gleeson | Grayson Gross | Artemis Herber (Cover Artwork) | Andrew Hladky | Jason Hughes | Sam Husseini | Jeanne Keck | Shelley Picot | Michael Thron | Omolara Williams McCallister | Marcia Wolfson Ray
BRIGHT
On View: FEB 6 - MAR 20, 2021 | Main Gallery
Within the very fabric of the Black portraiture genre, a rebellious spirit thrives. Beautiful images exude bright colors, ideas, and histories that can only be fully realized when told through the consciousness of Black artists themselves. Stories are accurately extrapolated when presented by those with an understanding of the nuances at play. Black narratives must be told using the first-hand experience as the cicerone. The artworks in BRIGHT provide new contexts to Black life and serve as a brave choice by these artists to push back against mainstream portrayals of Black bodies.
BRIGHT brings together ten Black American artists to Creative Alliance’s main gallery. Their dazzling works showcase an authentic depiction of Black life, forcing viewers to see Blackness in a new light.
EXHIBITION ARTISTS:
Ambrose | Marie Charlotte Amegah | Destiny Belgrave | Michael A. Booker | Schroeder Cherry | Andrew Gray | David Ibata | Jabari C. Jefferson | Megan Lewis (photo) | Arin Mitchell
QRCKY: Umi Says
On View: FEB 6 - MAR 20, 2021 | Amalie Rothschild Gallery
“Empathy is in the eyes of the beholder. My art explores the loss of empathy on something you're not familiar with and that disconnect. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Qrcky is a DMV artist whose work tends to focus on social commentary, daily routine, human nature, street art, cubism, abstract, and ethical issues.
"My work explores the relationship between Black diaspora sensibilities and urban spaces. With influences as diverse as Kara Walker and Jean-Michel Basquiat, new synergies are crafted from both constructed and discovered layers. Currently living in Baltimore, I am interested in the sensation of moving, the deconstruction and reassembly of surfaces, and of forgetting and remembering what has come before."
It’s Pandemonium!
A Fundraiser Exhibition for Creative Alliance
NOV 7, 2020 - JAN 9 2021
This exhibition celebrated Creative Alliance's 25th anniversary and brought affordable art to the community! Artists included Joyce Scott, Timothy App, Jo Smail, Schroeder Cherry, Jerry Prettyman, Norman Galinsky, and many others.
All proceeds from the exhibition support the essential work that Creative Alliance continues to do behind the scenes during the pandemic.
Viki Keating:
Scavenged
Storytelling in glass, wood, metal and found objects
DEC 5, 2020 - JAN 9, 2021
In this modern world, we all have too much “stuff”. I have taken some of the many objects in my studio and world, including pieces of art that did not work out the first time, and given them a new story.