Proximity: Regional Discoveries
Date:
Jul 25 2009 - Oct 4 2009 
EXHIBIT PROGRAM click here
Proximity Award Winners:
Christina Allen, Farmer's Cathedral
Scott Galczysnki, Color Field
Ed Rupard, Swims Through a Ring
This exhibit showcases artists working in the southern Maryland region—Calvert, Charles, St. Mary’s, Prince Georges, and Anne Arundel counties. Artists were asked to explore the theme, proximity, in an artwork created for the show. What does it mean to be an artist living and working in an area with changing tides, seasons, populations and rapid growth? Where do artists find sources of inspiration in this area?
Thirty artists have contributed their artwork to Proximity. Many of the pieces are inspired by the southern Maryland landscape—the land, the waterways, the architecture, and the sweeping changes the area has seen. Lexington Park artist, Christina Allen, uses the area’s rich agricultural history of tobacco farming to address the rapid deterioration and depletion of local tobacco barns. “They showcase the area and the juxtaposition of rural, suburban, and new urban residents and some of the consequences,” she writes.
For Ed Rupard of Chesapeake Beach, the natural habitat of the area provides him with both the media and the subject for his work. Rupard’s use of driftwood and found metal hardware results in graceful and poetic free-standing sculptures reminiscent of Chesapeake wildlife and shorelines.
Other artists look to their personal ties to area for their inspiration. Anne Arundel artist, Colleen Sabo uses her professional experience as a raptor specialist, working with permanently injured birds of prey, to inform her artwork. “I am responsible for the care of thirteen raptors, including owls, hawks, falcons, and vultures. I derive the greatest pleasure from painting these birds that I know so well. I paint them from memory, not photographs, and I always portray them as if they were free of their injuries and flying wild.”
Other artists represented in the show include Brenda Belfield, Denise Breitburg, Ann Crain, Candy Cummings, Scott Galczynski, Abbey Griffin, Sarah Houde, Lorrain Humphreys, Gary Jameson, Joan Koss-Chioino, Kennedi Milan, Rex Miller, Megan Richard, M. Jane Rowe, John A. Schaffner, J. Luray Schaffner, Clarence Schumaker, Suzanne Sheldon, Nancy S. Shippen, Sylvia Stone, Leitha Stone, Pat Barry Troiani, Karen Vaughn, Peggy Walters, Victoria Wenderlich, Carl Wood, and Gerry Wood.
Contributing Artist(s):
Christine Allen, Brenda Belfield, Denise Breitburg, Ann Crain, Candy Cummings, Scott Galczynski, Abbey Griffin, Sarah Houde, Lorrain Humphreys, Gary Jameson, Joan Koss-Chioino, Kennedi Milan, Rex Miller, Megan Richard, M. Jane Rowe, Ed Rupard, Colleen Sabo, John A. Schaffner, J. Luray Schaffner, Clarence Schumaker, Suzanne Sheldon, Nancy S. Shippen, Sylvia Stone, Leitha Stone, Pat Barry Troiani, Karen Vaughn, Peggy Walters, Victoria Wenderlich, Carl Wood, and Gerry Wood.
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