Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - Friday, October 23, 2015, 6-9pm
Exhibit Juror: Mary Savig, Curator of Manuscripts, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
For many artists, the words of writer Wendell Berry ring true - “if you don’t know where you are, you don’t know who you are.” A sense of place can be an essential element in artists’ creative life, and frequently informs their subject matter, materials, style, approach, studio location, and more. Whether it be ones childhood “primal landscape,” full of memories of home and family, or the pull of a dramatic landscape, or a connection to a particular place based on historical and cultural events, geography calls to the imagination. As the world shifts to a focus on the virtual, how has this impacted artists’ work? Has it resulted in a weakening of a sense of place, or has the meaning of place simply adjusted to this new reality? This exhibit invites artists to explore this issue from either or both sides, and to celebrate what place means to them. What informs your work? A physical location or a virtual world? Do you know “where you are?”
The 8th Annual Ornament Show & Sale
November 14, 2015 - January 2, 2016
Open Most Days & Open late on Garden In Lights evenings
Admission to the show area is free until 5:00pm; after 5:00pm, Garden In Lights admission fee applies
Presented by the Annmarie Gift Shop, the Ornament Show & Sale is a juried show that features hand-crafted ornaments by regional artists. This is the perfect place to find unique and affordable gifts for friends and family. The ornaments are beautifully hung on trees displayed in the Main Gallery of the Arts Building. Visitors shop off the trees and take their purchases to the Gift Shop. The show kicks off before Thanksgiving and runs through early January. During Garden In Lights, the show is open late!
Information for Artists
The Gift Shop at Annmarie Garden invites artists and craftspeople to apply to the Annual Ornament Show & Sale to take place during the holiday season. Artists and craftspeople working in any medium are invited to apply - fine arts, folk art, and craft media, toys, etc. Individuals as well as groups may apply to share a tree and sell their creations. The beautiful Main Gallery of the Arts Building at Annmarie Sculpture Garden will be the setting for the show. All sales will run through the Gift Shop, so artists need not be on site every day. Applications are reviewed on a first come, first served basis. Artists will be notified of acceptance into the show within one week of application submission. Modest booth fees apply.
Annual deadline to apply is October 1.
Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - Friday, August 7, 6-9pm (adults only)
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
An artist texturing paintings with earth, and an artist creating sculptures with clay. These processes are being employed both to create connections with nature and to express universal conditions common in life’s journey. A painter and sculptor playing dirty – it’s an obvious synergy.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Rob Brownlee-Tomasso, Painter
Bio
Taking inspiration from architecture, history, and nature, as well as depicting highly stylized conceptual characters, Rob Brownlee-Tomasso creates texture studies done in mixed media. Often on irregularly shaped canvases and sometimes as multiple canvas installations, the acrylic medium or gesso is applied with a mixture of sand, earth, or other materials to achieve a coarse surface. It is common for earth to be taken from a specific location that is the subject matter of that particular work. Rob Brownlee-Tomasso has pursued art since childhood. At age ten he attended The Barn Studio of Art in Millville, NJ, majored in fine art in high school, and earned a BA in design from Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Maryland and Virginia, and his work resides in several private collections
Alice Yutzy, Sculptor
Artist Statement:
CLAY… I love its smell, its sensuous plasticity. The creative process is governed by an intuitive form-based focus using the tactile manipulative quality of clay to express symbolic meaning within each piece. The sculptures are described as nonobjective biomorphic forms. The variety of themes expressed are based upon an acknowledgement and expression of many universal human conditions common in life’s journey. My hope is that these pieces will convey a sense of peace and tranquility to the viewer, resulting in a uniquely personal experience for each person.
Bio
Alice M. Yutzy, born on October 7, 1948 in Baltimore, MD spent her formative years living in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia. From an early age Alice had an avid interest in art with drawing as one of her favorite pastimes. Graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in art education Alice taught art in the public school system for 39 years. The last 24 of those years Alice was very fortunate to teach what she loved: ceramics and sculpture at the high school level. Alice earned her MFA in studio art with a concentration in ceramics at Towson University in 2007. Alice lives with her husband Dee on 6 ½ wooded acres in rural southern Maryland. Their grown children, Brianna and Woody, have both chosen careers in education. An avid nature and animal lover, Alice enjoys her two cats and riding her lovely new horse Chippy. Although her primary chosen media is clay, she has also worked in plaster, wood, stone, mixed-media, cast cement and lightweight concrete. Currently Alice works as a part time professor at the College of Southern Maryland teaching introductory ceramics and ceramic sculpture. Alice continues to evolve, allowing her artwork to be an expression of her inner self.
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In conjunction with the Cardboard Day of Play, held Sunday, October 4, 2015.
This exhibit was open to all ages and abilities. Each work of art had to be at least 75% cardboard.
To learn more, click here.
Award winners:
Adult:
6th Annual Fairies in the Garden
A magical fairy house and gnome home exhibit
Annmarie After Hours Reception - FAMILY FRIENDLY - Friday, April 10, 2015, 6-9pm
Enjoy a magicalious exhibit of more than 50 handmade fairy and gnome homes scattered through the sculpture garden. Visit the Arts Building to borrow a costume (or purchase one in the Gift Shop), grab a guide, and start your journey!
Modern Petroglyphs
A new sculpture installation being created by 2015 Summer Artist-In-Residence, Kevin Sudeith
ABOUT MODERN PETROGLYPHS
This summer, our Artist-In-Residence, Kevin Sudeith, is carving three large boulders that have been placed in the garden. Each boulder was carefully selected by the artist, and quarried from the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The boulders each mark the start of a new trail. Kevin chose carving themes for each boulder based on Southern Maryland culture and traditions - sport fishing, commercial fishery, and the Patuxent Naval Air Station. Crabs, boats, astronauts, and more are slowly emerging over the course of the summer. Guests are invited to drop-in any day to learn more about his creative process, and observe Kevin as he creates his modern petroglyphs, or rock carvings.
ABOUT THE PRINT MAKING PROCESS
As part of his creative process, Kevin makes prints of each carving, called an impression. Wet paper, or in some cases paper pulp, is pressed over a freshly painted petroglyph, creating a colorful, embossed, negative - a sculpture in paper.
The prints are an important documentation of the carvings and will serve as a tool to convey the carvings to remote audiences. "The prints are an integral part of the conceptual form of my work," explains Sudeith. "The spatial relationship between the stone and a sheet of paper is part of the form of the piece. Though the prints are made from archival materials, compared to the rock, they are ephemeral. Similarly my own physical presence is ephemeral compared to the life of the carved rock."
Once the printmaking has been competed, Kevin will paint and varnish the petroglyphs on the rocks. The colors are lighfast and archival as possible, but compared to the rock, they are ephemeral, lasting only a short time.
The three boulders will remain in the garden permanently as trailhead markers.
Kevin Sudeith is a Minnesota-raised and New York-based artist with a master's degree in painting and a longtime fascination with rock art. Since 2007, he has carved his way across North America, living out of his van, depicting in stone the lives and stories of the people and places he visit.
To learn more about Kevin and his work, visit http://petroglyphist.com/
Summer Public Art Project - Picto-Pebbles
- paint a rock with an image representing your home town!
2015 Summer Public Art Project inspired by the work of Artist-In-Residence, Kevin Sudeith
June 1 - August 30, 2015; 10am-4pm daily
Included with the price of admission
Do you know the difference between a hieroglyph, a petroglyph, a pictograph, and logogram? Visit our Summer Public Art Project table, just off the Hungerford Patio, and learn the difference. Once you have mastered the differences, paint your own Picto-Pebble with an image that represents your hometown. Come back later this summer, or during Artsfest, to find your rock in the park!
As you walk the trail, keep an eye out for our summer Artist-In-Residence Kevin Sudeith, He is carving petroglyphs onto three large boulders located along our trail. When you find him, take a look at the images he has carved. Why do you think he chose them?
A celebration of heroes and villains, their personalities and stories, through the eyes of artists.
Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - Friday, June 19, 2015, 6-9pm
Gallery Talk with artist Julie Dzikiewicz - Sunday, July 19, 2015, 1:00-2:30pm
Gallery Talk with Terry Quinn - Sunday, August 16, 1:00-2:30pm
This exhibit celebrate the heroes and villains that populate history, literature, popular culture, folklore, mythology, psychology, and other realms of human experience and expression. Where do artists find inspiration? In the protagonist or the antagonist, or in the many shades of gray in between? In historical figures or fictional characters? Whether they look to history books or comic books, or their own fantastical imagination, this exhibit explores the complexities and nuances of heroes and villains.
Andrew Wodzianski Jeffery Boston Weatherford Mary Nash
Congratulations to our juror's award winners!
Isaac Brynjegard-Bialik Jacob and Esau
Michael Koemer The Shape of Heroes and Villains
Terry Quinn Korean War Memorial
Andrew Wodzianski Portrait of the Artist's Monthly Dreadball League as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Ken is Splinter...
Annmarie After Hours - Opening Reception - Friday, February 13, 2015, 6-9pm (adults only)
Cosmos GALLERY TALK SCHEDULE:
Sunday, March 29, 1-2:30pm - Gallery Talk with Cosmos artist Gabrielle Aydnwylde, "Threading Culture Into Silk and Sky: Fiber Arts, Space Exploration, and Their Common Gifts to Humanity."
Sunday, April 19, 1-2:30pm - Gallery Talk with NAVAIR Test Flight Engineer Laura Slovey, "Life on the Space Shuttle."
Sunday, May 24, 1-2:30pm - Gallery Talk with Cosmos artist Regina Benson, "Nature's Metaphorical Marks."
Sunday, June 7, 1-2:00pm - Gallery talk with Cosmos artist Kathryn Kosto, "Poetry, Collage & the Cosmos: approaches to mixed media." Take the artist-led workshop after the talk! Learn more...
March 27 - May 2, 2015 - as part of the Cosmos exhibit, a 15' model of the Space Shuttle Endeavor will be on exhibit courtesy of the new Spaceflight America Museum and Science Center.
ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
This exhibit explores the mysteries of the universe, both scientific and fantastical, theoretical and fictional, real and imagined. How do artists render the work of scientists, authors, explorers, astronomers, cartoonists, Trekkies, LARPers, astrologers, and philosophers? This exhibit embraces not only what science has revealed about space, but what humans have imagined about the cosmos. From the results of scientific inquiry to the creative minds of science fiction authors and fans, this exhibit celebrates how space has stimulated human understanding and creativity. From the big bang theory to worm holes and warp speed, artists have created works that bring to life what we know of space and what we imagine. Assembled here is a vibrant and diverse selection of works that speak to our fascination with the cosmos.
Simon Kregar Michael Shewmaker Atanaska Tassart
Juror's Statement
Cosmos: Imaging the Universe consists of more than 50 works inspired by views of space, the universe, planets, and other worlds beyond. The exhibition explores the rich connections between science and the arts. Artists have long been inspired by views from space, and artistry is always present in visualizations used by scientists. The artworks in this exhibition include many that evoke the formation of planets and evolution of stars. Spherical worlds often appear in these works, reminiscent of views of planets, stars, and other celestial objects. Many other works are inspired by images acquired by telescopes or spacecraft. Astronauts float in space, moons of Jupiter and Saturn pass by in orbit, and enormous nebulae and great swirling clouds of gas and dust encompass expanses of space. Some of the most visually striking artworks are even more contemplative, consisting of color and patterns that can remind us of the vast scale of the universe. Several sculptural works bring to mind more cosmological structures, otherworldly rock samples, and space probes. Viewing the works in this exhibition is a reminder of how we view the universe and our place in the cosmos.
-Dr. Andrew K. Johnston, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Art Blooms is a weekend exhibit featuring the work of more than 30 floral designers from across the region. Each floral designer is assigned a work of art in the Main Gallery or the Mezzanine Gallery and asked to create an arrangement inspired by that work of art. The results are surprising, beautiful, and provocative - and not to be missed. 2015 will mark the sixth year for Art Blooms, an exhibit co-hosted by the Calvert Garden Club and Ann's Circle of Annmarie Garden. Admission is FREE!
Floral Design Demonstration, Saturday, July 18, 10:30am - Noon
As part of the Art Blooms Exhibit, guests are invited to drop in on Saturday, July 18 from 10:30am to Noon, and learn about the creative process of floral interpretation. Designers from the Calvert Garden Club will share their design secrets during this causal drop-in demonstration. After the demo, guests are invited to tour Art Blooms Exhibit and take a walk in the garden. Reservations not required; FREE!
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