Sept. 6–Oct. 8: Exhibit

Sept. 12, 5–7 p.m.: Reception

Visit AACC’s Visual Arts Faculty Exhibit 2024 in the Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery at our Arnold campus from Sept. 6 to Oct. 8. The works on display encompass the range of visual disciplines taught by the faculty of AACC, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, graphic and digital design, printmaking, video and mixed media pieces. 

Join us for a reception celebrating the Visual Arts faculty and the creative community at the Cade Gallery on Thursday, Sept. 12, from 5 to 7 p.m.

Image Identifications:

Edward Pease, "Embrace The Sky," photograph, 12 x 18.”
Sara Prigodich, “Crank,” porcelain, concrete, 18 x 13.5 x 2.”
Chris Mona, “Ur Barrow,” lithograph on Rives BFK, 24 x 18.”

Richard Niewerth: Places and Spaces

Oct. 17-Dec. 10: Exhibit
Oct. 23, 5-7 p.m.: Reception

APRIL 24-MAY 22, 2024
Reception and Juror's talk:  May 1, 5-7 pm in the gallery

View works by 25 artists in “Art of Accumulation,” a national juried show, April 24 through May 22 at AACC's Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery. The show is juried by Tara Gladden, cultural affairs and engagement specialist for Salisbury University.

Join us for a reception and juror’s talk on May 1 from 5 to 7 pm.
 
Gladden chose works that engage with the concept of accumulation through the combination and exploration of nontraditional materials, repetitive processes, and/or relationships among material, time, memory and experience.  
 
Briana Babani of Red Hook, N.Y., created “Cukoo,” a found chair obsessively wrapped in spaghetti, where the chair’s utilitarian function for sitting has been humorously usurped into nonutilitarian “art-for-art’s sake.” Jamie Speck of College Station, Texas, transforms used fabric softener sheets into tactile fiber modules that reference elegant home furnishings and, on a more intimate scale, the process art of Eva Hesse. In Erik Jon Olson of Plymouth, Minnesota’s, aptly-titled “You Can Never Have Enough of What You Don’t Really Want,” the artist threads plastic waste into a commanding and scintillating quilt grid. In Artemis Herber of Owings Mills Maryland’s assemblage, “Phlegeton,” references to the infernal river of Hell are played out in cautionary nuclear waste graphics and the faint echo of human presence. Chris Combs of Washington, D.C., uses outmoded digital displays of countdowns that never quite reach their completion, and references to Fritz Lang’s 1927 film “Metropolis” to comment on contemporary fears of AI takeover.
 
Juror Tara Gladden is a cultural producer, curator, interdisciplinary artist, and educator.  From 2019-2023 she served as Gallery Director and Curator for the Kohl Gallery at Washington College and is currently serving as cultural affairs and engagement specialist for Salisbury University. She holds an MFA in performance and interactive media arts from Brooklyn College. 

Dates: March 27-April 17, 2024

Exhibit Reception: March 28, 5-7 p.m.

View 90 student artworks juried by Steven Pearson of McDaniel College and selected from 300 artworks submitted by students. The works on display encompass the range of visual disciplines at AACC, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, graphic and digital design, video and mixed media pieces. 
 
Pearson, the Joan Develin Coley chair in Creative Expressions and the Arts at McDaniel College, also chose nine pieces to enter AACC’s Student Art Collection.  Pearson chose two photographs by Reed Talada; one is a cyanotype and the other a digital print entitled “Wash Away,” a close-up of a sudsy cleaning sponge with a miniature plastic figure perched aboard. Joshua Able-Curter’s documentary style photograph “Street Dreams,” shot in downtown Baltimore, was also chosen. Christopher J. Pipkin’s cyanotype entering the Student Art Collection “Beware the Gibbon” contrasts beautifully with Talada’s cyanotype in its atmospheric effects. Other works entering the Student Collection include Mark Lindley’s pen and ink piece “Clowns and Geese;” Louise Wallendorf’s large-scale lithograph based on a sculpted Hellenic horse head in the Walters Museum collection; John Doran’s striking figural/abstract lithograph; and Sarah Evans’ pastoral color linocut “Summer II.” Pearson also chose Elaine Storm’s iridescently-glazed green ceramic piece “Raku Box."

For information contact Chris Mona at cpmona@aacc.edu or 410-777-7028.

DATES: Feb. 2-March 1, 2024   

PECHA KUCHA ARTISTS' TALK: Feb. 8, 4:30-5 p.m. 

EXHIBIT RECEPTION: Feb. 8, 5-7 p.m.

In “Street View,” painters Matt Klos and Nora Sturges investigate the visual contours and terrain of cityscapes both near and far from home. Klos’ series "A Community Portrait" investigates his historically working-class community of Sparrows Point by tracing the alleyways and painting on site. Generally, each painting spans a few hours of working time to capture a particular light, time of day and season. In the series "The View from the Road," Sturges paints from screenshots she takes in Google Street View following the route Charles Darwin took on his voyage with the Beagle (1832-'36). These meticulously crafted paintings reveal idiosyncratic contemporary moments. Both artists value discovery by looking closely. Their ideas are couched in the time required to paint in an empirical and investigative manner.

ARTISTS’ STATEMENTS:

MATT KLOS
"A Community Portrait" is a series of small format paintings of my community made during my sabbatical in spring 2023. Subjects include the outbuildings as seen from the back alleys near my home and front views of houses along a historically black and landlocked street in Sparrows Point. Over the last 20 years I’ve spent time observing these often-overlooked areas, which I have seen on walks at various times of day. I’m often surprised by the endless variations and beauty found here. As we increasingly choreograph our identities via social media, slavishly attending to every detail of how we may be perceived, it's refreshing to see a dimension of our public facing selves that is not as self-conscious and as premeditated. Our homes reveal volumes. I see each painting in this project as a type of portrait and, as such, communicates both specific and general truths about our communities and ourselves.

Matt Klos received his M.F.A. in painting from University of Maryland, College Park and his B.F.A. from Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD). He is a recipient of four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council (2019, 2016, 2012 and 2008). His work has been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions including the Prince Street Gallery in Chelsea, N.Y., in 2011. He was awarded first place in the Bethesda Painting Awards in 2007 and received an Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in 2001. Klos teaches drawing and painting full time at Anne Arundel Community College in Arnold, and has served as a guest lecturer/critic at various institutions including the New York Academy of Art, Boston University, College of William and Mary, Towson University, University of Missouri and Mount Gretna School of Art. He is a member of the collective Perceptual Painters and Zeuxis.

NORA STURGES
Since 2008, I have worked intermittently on a series of tiny paintings collectively called "The View from the Road." My original inspiration was the early color photographs of Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, who set out in 1905 to document the Russian empire, and my paintings offered me an opportunity to document the interesting things I saw on my own travels, out in the world near home and farther afield. During the pandemic, deprived of actual travel, I found myself devoting considerable time to exploring foreign places in Google Street View, and wanting to paint the wonderful things I was discovering. Instead of using chance or previous knowledge to choose places to explore, I decided to follow the route Charles Darwin took on his voyage with the Beagle (1832-'36). Like Darwin, I am convinced of the value of observation, especially the intense observation painting entails, even when the subject is, on the surface, boring. Darwin’s observations led, years later, to the theories of natural selection and evolution he set forth in "On the Origin of Species;" already my voyage and observations are leading me to ideas about the human species.

Nora Sturges has exhibited her work widely in solo shows at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Va., Spaces in Cleveland, David Lusk Gallery in Nashville, C. Grimaldis Gallery and School 33 in Baltimore, the 1708 Gallery in Richmond, and the Lancaster (Pa.) Museum of Art, among others. Her group exhibitions have included Lonsdale Gallery in Toronto, Galerie Youn in Montreal, Civilian Art Projects in Washington, D.C., Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin, Germany, the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Asya Geisberg Gallery and The Painting Center in New York City, Seraphin Gallery in Philadelphia, and Goucher College and Maryland Art Place in Baltimore. She is the recipient of four Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council. Sturges received a B.A. in studio art from Bowdoin College, and an M.F.A. in painting from Ohio University. She lives in Baltimore where she is professor of art at Towson University.

VISIT THE GALLERY: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30pm

ABOUT THE GALLERY: The Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery is on the western side of AACC’s Arnold campus, 101 College Parkway. Located on the main floor of the Cade building on West Campus, The Cade Art Gallery at Anne Arundel Community College features five exhibits a year. The span of exhibiting artists is broad, yet each exhibit is focused by theme or medium. You can encounter an installation project juried by a museum curator or the latest painting by an AACC student. Since March 2020 the Cade Gallery Instagram account, @cadegalleryaacc, has supported the gallery's mission with content throughout the year.

For information contact Chris Mona, interim director, Cade Art Gallery, at cpmona@aacc.edu. 

Reflections on the Asian American experience of straddling two cultures 

DATES: Nov. 1, 2023–Jan. 26, 2024    

EXHIBIT RECEPTION: Nov. 1, 5-7 p.m. 

CURATOR STATEMENT: It was an honor to juror 'Disconnect/Connect,' a group show open to the members of Han-Mee Artists Association of Greater Washington (HMAA). HMAA is a collective of Korean American artists who have immigrated to the Washington area. Like other immigrants and their descendants, they struggle to maintain ties with a land and culture that is physically distant, struggle to make connections with American life and culture, and struggle to maintain a sense of community with the past and present.   

When I began selecting work, I was looking for pieces that showed a link between two cultures, either visually with subject matter or through materials and processes. I was particularly drawn to work that hinted at nostalgia whilst being of the present and to work that incorporated tradition through a contemporary lens. Each of the selected artists spoke to me through their individual and unique interpretation of the theme. Through sculpture, relief and painting, these artists express the sensation of being simultaneously connected and disconnected to the past and present and to their native country and their adopted land.  

ABOUT THE CURATOR: Sculptor Jin Lee, b. 1975, studied sculpture at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. Lee returned to Maryland in 2012 and teaches at Anne Arundel Community College. Lee received the Wharton Award in 2003 and has exhibited her work in Germany, San Francisco, Maryland, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Virginia. She currently has works on view at The Maryland Hall Center for the Arts in Annapolis.  

Lee creates abstract work in a range of scales using steel, wood and mixed media. Her sculptures address concepts of tension, pressure and the struggle to be free. Her explosive sculptures are comprised mostly of wedge-shaped elements tightly bound between heavy steel plates or trapped in cement and exhibit evidence of the performative aspect behind her concept. Her most recent works of crocheted copper and aluminum wire address the paradox of isolation from the public and the forced proximity of a household, the conflicting emotions for the safety of containment, and the desire to roam freely. 

VISIT THE GALLERY: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.  

ABOUT THE GALLERY: The Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery is located at AACC, 101 College Parkway in Arnold. Located on the main floor of the Cade Building on West Campus, The Cade Art Gallery features five exhibits a year. The span of exhibiting artists is broad, yet each exhibit is focused by theme or medium. You can encounter an installation project juried by a museum curator, or the latest painting by an AACC student. Since March 2020, the Cade Gallery Instagram account, @cadegalleryaacc, has supported the gallery's mission with content throughout the year.     

INFORMATION: Email Teddy Johnson, Cade Art Gallery director, at tjjohnson9@aacc.edu.   

DATES: The exhibit is open Sept. 20 through Oct. 16., 2023  

EXHIBIT RECEPTION: Sept. 20, 5-7 p.m.  

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: This exhibit highlights recent works by Anne Arundel Community College’s visual arts faculty. The exhibit will include works in photography, sculpture, painting, ceramics, printmaking, drawing, design, video and more. 

VISIT THE GALLERY: Monday-Thursday, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.   

ABOUT THE GALLERY: The Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery is on the western side of AACC’s campus at 101 College Parkway in Arnold. Located on the main floor of the Cade Building on West Campus, The Cade Art Gallery features five exhibits a year. The span of exhibiting artists is broad, yet each exhibit is focused by theme or medium. You can encounter an installation project juried by a museum curator, or the latest painting by an AACC student. Since March 2020, the Cade Gallery Instagram account, @cadegalleryaacc, has supported the gallery's mission with content throughout the year.
      

INFORMATION: Email Teddy Johnson, Cade Art Gallery director, at tjjohnson9@aacc.edu. 

DATES: June 12-July 24, 2023

EXHIBIT RECEPTION: Wednesday, June 14, 5-7 p.m.     

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT:  

This June exhibit is an exciting opportunity to view a significant selection from Dan Welden’s series “Aesop’s Fables.” Impressive in scale, the hybrid etchings are each 39-by-35.5 inches. Vivid, textural and unique, these works approach the storied fables with an eye of abstraction and innovation that Dan Welden is revered for. The artist will be on-site June 14 for a day of activities sponsored by AACC’s Printmaking Club.   

VISITING ARTIST IN PRINTMAKING PROGRAMING  

11 a.m., CADE 310: Welcome tea and conversation  

Noon, CADE 219: Preview screening of the documentary “Lasting Impressions”  

1:15 p.m., Cade Art Gallery: Artist’s talk and discussion of Dan Welden’s “Aesop’s Fables” on view in gallery  

2 p.m., CADE 310: Multicolor printmaking demonstration by Dan Welden in AACC print studio Aqua Regia Press  

3 p.m., CADE 310: Review of student painting and print portfolios  

x5-7 p.m., Cade Art Gallery: Reception for Dan Welden  

ABOUT THE ARTIST

As the original pioneer of alternative printmaking since 1970, Dan Welden has been in the forefront of "health and safety" in the arts.  As co-author of "Printmaking in the Sun" and director of Hampton Editions Ltd., his 50-plus years of collaboration include artists such as Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith and Dan Flavin. He has received international recognition through his residencies in China, Belgium, Cuba, Peru New Zealand, Australia and other countries.

With 99 solo exhibitions to date, including the paramount exhibitor at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and travels to 54 countries and the seven continents, he was awarded a lifetime achievement award from A/E Foundation in New York; a title of professor emeritus from Escuela de Bellas Artes in Cusco, Peru, and most recently, a Pollock/Krasner Foundation Grant.

ABOUT THE GALLERY

The Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery is on the western side of AACC’s Arnold campus, 101 College Parkway. Located on the main floor of the Cade Building on West Campus, The Cade Art Gallery at Anne Arundel Community College features six exhibits a year. The span of exhibiting artists is broad, yet each exhibit is focused by theme or medium. You can encounter an installation project juried by a museum curator, or the latest painting by an AACC student. Since March 2020 the Cade Gallery Instagram account, @cadegalleryaacc, has supported the gallery's mission with content throughout the year.

INFORMATION: Email Teddy Johnson, director, Cade Art Gallery, at tjjohnson9@aacc.edu 

IMAGE: 

“Goat Plateau” from the series Aesop's Fables, Size: 39-by-36 inches on Hahnemühle 450 gram paper. 

Las fábulas de Esopo 

Una selección de obras sobre papel de Dan Welden   

FECHAS: 12 de junio – 24 de julio  

RECEPCIÓN PARA LA EXPOSICIÓN: Wed Jun 14 5-7 p.m.

SOBRE LA EXPOSICIÓN:  

La exposición de este mes de junio representa una excitante oportunidad de ver una significativa selección de la serie “Las fábulas de Esopo”, de Dan Welden. Impresionantes en escala, los Hybrid Etchings miden 39X35.5" cada uno. Vivas, texturales y únicas, las obras abordan las fábulas con la abstracción y la innovación que han hecho famoso a Dan Welden. El artista estará presente el 14 de junio en una jornada de actividades patrocinadas por el Club de Grabado de AACC.

PROGRAMA DEL ARTISTA INVITADO

11 a.m., Cade 310:  Té de bienvenida y conversación  

Mediodía, Cade 219: Proyección previa del documental “Impresiones duraderas” (“Lasting Impressions”)

1:15 p.m., Galería Cade Art: Charla del artista y debate sobre las "Fábulas de Esopo" de Dan Welden expuestas en la galería  

2 p.m., Cade 310: Demostración de grabado multicolor por Dan Welden en el estudio de grabado de AACC Aqua Regia Press  

3 p.m., Cade 310: Revisión de las carpetas de pintura e impresión de los alumnos

5 - 7 p.m., Galería Cade Art: Recepción en honor de Dan Welden.  

SOBRE EL ARTISTA
Como pionero original del grabado alternativo desde 1970, Dan Welden ha estado a la vanguardia de la "salud y seguridad" en las artes. Como coautor de "PRINTMAKING IN THE SUN" y director de Hampton Editions, Ltd., sus más de 50 años de colaboración incluyen a artistas como Willem de Kooning, Eric Fischl, Kiki Smith y Dan Flavin. Ha disfrutado de reconocimiento internacional gracias a sus residencias en China, Bélgica, Cuba, Perú Nueva Zelanda, Australia y otros países.

Con 99 exposiciones individuales hasta la fecha, incluida la más importante en el Museo de Arte de Cape Cod, y viajes a 54 países de los siete continentes, ha sido galardonado con el "Premio a toda una vida de éxitos" de la Fundación A/E de Nueva York, el título de Profesor Emérito de la Escuela de Bellas Artes de Cuzco (Perú) y, más recientemente, una beca de la Fundación Pollock/Krasner.

SOBRE LA GALERÍA: La galería del Cade Center for Fine Arts está en el ala oeste del campus Arnold de AACC, 101 College Parkway. Ubicada en el piso principal del edificio Cade en el West Campus, la Cade Gallery en la universidad comunitaria Anne Arundel ofrece seis exposiciones al año. El abanico de artistas expositores es amplio, aunque cada exposición se enfoca en un tema o medio artístico específico. Usted puede encontrar un proyecto de instalación con jurado de un conservador de museo, o la última pintura de un estudiante de la AACC. Desde marzo de 2020, la cuenta de Instagram de la Cade Gallery, @cadegalleryaacc, ha apoyado la misión de la galería con contenidos a lo largo del año.      

PARA MÁS INFORMACIÓN: Contacte con Teddy Johnson, Director, Cade Art Gallery, en tjjohnson9@aacc.edu     

IMAGEN: 

“Goat Plateau” de la colección Fábulas de Esopo. Talla: 39x36 pulgadas en papel Hahnemühle de 450 gramos.  

DATES: The exhibit is open Feb. 14 to March 31, 2023. (Closed March 20-26 for spring break.)

EXHIBIT RECEPTION: Feb. 15, 5-8 p.m., curator talk at 6 p.m.
Curated By Andrew Liang

ARTISTS: John Bohl, Eamon Espey, Lesser Gonzalez, Andrew Shenker, Anne Clare Rogers, Jeremy Roundtree, Iris Hughey

ABOUT THE EXHIBIT: “The object is not to make art but to be in the wonderful state which makes art inevitable. I am not interested in art as a means of making a living, but I am interested in art as a means of living a life." – Robert Henri, "The Art Spirit." The artists selected for this show have integrated art-making as part of their lifestyle with passion, necessity and joy. They have a variety of day jobs: art preparator, landscaper, lawyer, event planner and graphic designer. They have continued to make art despite everyday life and work demands, and have found a way to incorporate their practice into the everyday. The practice of art-making as a way to live is to self-reflect in celebration of life. The artwork and the artist are one. The artwork results from such practice – an appreciation for a good life.

ABOUT THE CURATOR: Andrew Liang immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan in 1993. He received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2002. He was a founding member of Splotch Visual Pulse, a web-based, artist-run collective showcasing and reviewing artworks submitted from around the world from 2003 to 2006. Liang co-directed Current Space, an artist-run collective, from 2010 to 2018, curating exhibitions and events. He has co-directed collaborative art projects that invite viewer participation such as Human Foosball (2009), Mole Balls (2010), Human Pinball (2011), Cart (2011) and BINGO (2012). Liang worked as an exhibition preparator and installation manager for the Maryland Institute College of Art from 2005 to 2020. He is now pursuing an M.F.A. from UMBC.

ABOUT THE GALLERY: The Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery is on the western side of AACC’s Arnold campus, 101 College Parkway. Located on the main floor of the Cade Building on West Campus, the gallery features six exhibits a year. The span of exhibiting artists is broad, yet each exhibit is focused by theme or medium. You can encounter an installation project juried by a museum curator, or the latest painting by an AACC student. Since March 2020 the Cade Gallery Instagram account, @cadegalleryaacc, has supported the gallery's mission with content throughout the year.


FOR INFORMATION: Email Teddy Johnson, director, Cade Art Gallery, at tjjohnson9@aacc.edu. 

DATES: 

Exhibition: Nov. 30, 2022, through Jan. 26, 2023

Note: Gallery is closed Dec. 20 to Jan. 8 for AACC's winter break.

Dec. 7, 5 to 7 p.m., public reception and juror talk

JUROR: Sarah Jesse, director, Academy Art Museum, Easton

ARTISTS: Tyler Brumfield, Alex Clark, Jo Cosme, Rose DeSloover, Lucy Julia Hale, Jason Lee, Andrew Liang, Danielle Schwesinger, Jackson Wrede    

PUBLIC RECEPTION AND JUROR TALK: Dec. 7, 5-7 p.m.

VISIT THE GALLERY: Monday through Thursday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  

About the Exhibit: Artists have long used comedy as a tool to critique society and an art establishment that takes itself too seriously. From the playful irreverence of Marcel Duchamp, Maurizio Cattelan and Sarah Lucas to the dark satire of Francisco Goya, Honoré Daumier and Martine Syms, artists have employed diverse forms of humor to elicit laughter while revealing cutting truths. Through a national open call, "Tell it Slant: Art with Wit" brings together work that responds to contemporary issues using one of the most potent yet disrespected weapons in the artist’s arsenal.

About the Juror: Sarah Jesse is the director of the Academy Art Museum in Easton. Before arriving on the Eastern Shore in 2021, she was interim director and CEO of the Orange County Museum of Art, associate vice president of education at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, director of education at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Okla., and worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. She is a graduate of the Museum Leadership Institute, received her Master of Arts in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and her Bachelor of Arts from Oberlin College.

ABOUT THE GALLERY: The Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery is on the western side of AACC’s Arnold campus, 101 College Parkway. Located on the main floor of the Cade Building on West Campus, the Cade Art Gallery at Anne Arundel Community College features six exhibits a year. The span of exhibiting artists is broad, yet each exhibit is focused by theme or medium. You can encounter an installation project juried by a museum curator, or the latest painting by an AACC student. Since March 2020 the Cade Gallery Instagram account, @cadegalleryaacc, has supported the gallery's mission with content throughout the year.     

INFORMATION: Email Teddy Johnson, director, Cade Art Gallery, at tjjohnson9@aacc.edu