BmoreArt’s Picks: October 21-27
This Week: Pitted closing reception at Area 405, Iconically Yours opening reception at Connect+Collect, opening reception for Anna Divinagracia at Creative Alliance, Art & Spirituality opening reception at Julio Fine Arts, Towson MFA Thesis exhibition openings for Alexis Irby + Zachary Diaz and open studios, Queer Artists + Archives Symposium at UMBC, John K. Gutierrez Memorial Walk, Doors Open Baltimore, The Great Baltimore Lantern Parade and Festival in Patterson Park, An Evening at the Walters, The Soul Soirée at Center Stage, and Time Out Productions at Submersive Headquarters — PLUS Station North Holiday Market call for vendors and more featured opportunities!
BmoreArt’s Picks presents the best weekly art openings, events, and performances happening in Baltimore and surrounding areas. For a more comprehensive perspective, check the BmoreArt Calendar page, which includes ongoing exhibits and performances, and is updated on a daily basis.
To submit your calendar event, email us at events@bmoreart.com!
Pitted: Home at the Heart of an Empire | Closing Reception
Tuesday, October 21 :: 5-9pm
@ Area 405
AREA 405 is thrilled to present Pitted: Home at the Heart of an Empire, reflecting the feeling of impermanence that grasps the Gen Z generation raised online. The show, created by PULP Collective, will be on view from October 10 to November 21, 2025.
A ship of technological innovation has been foaming through the ocean of information. Sailing into the 2000s, its accelerating speed leaves waves peaking higher and shorter in intervals: in “A Long-Term Timeline of Technology,” published by Max Roser on the World Economic Forum, a spiral chart shows centuries between early innovations collapsing into mere decades of transformation in our times. Born aboard this rocking ship, Gen Z is the first to come of age entirely online, where reality refreshes every second. As the vast ocean of information floods into vessels of glowing screens, this generation is swept by tides of unbearable velocity that would easily wash them away, were they not striving to stay grounded on land; a land everchanging amidst the current climate crisis.
BmoreArt Presents: Iconically Yours | Opening Reception
Tuesday, October 21 :: 6-8pm
@ Connect+Collect Gallery
Join us on Tuesday, October 21, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the BmoreArt Connect+Collect Gallery for the opening of Iconically Yours, featuring works by: Amy Boone-McCreesh, Ainsley Burrows, Cindy Cheng, Se Jong Cho, Schroeder Cherry, Richard Cleaver, Hoesy Corona, Brandon Donahue-Shipp, J.M Giordano, Gaia, LaToya Hobbs, Kei Ito, Jeffrey Kent, Jackie Milad, E. Brady Robinson, Ernest Shaw, Jordan Tierney, René Treviño, Jessie & Katey.
When given the opportunity, the art of our place and time brings a thoughtful beauty into our homes and captures our shared experience in diverse and surprising ways. It’s not decoration: it sparks conversations, it brightens our minds, it elevates our memories, it reminds us who we are.
In celebration of 10 years of BmoreArt’s print publications, our fall exhibition and benefit auction, Iconically Yours, offers a rare opportunity to purchase works by 20 of our city’s leading artists, a cross-section across stylistic and conceptual barriers. By bidding, you are supporting these artists in addition to BmoreArt as an independent, regional platform for creative communities to share brilliant ideas with new audiences.
Pandarayuhan: Home is a Memory | Opening Reception
Thursday, October 23 :: 6-8pm
@ Creative Alliance
Pandarayuhan: Home is a Memory is a solo exhibition by Anna Divinagracia that reflects on the complexities of home, identity, and longing through the lens of the Filipino immigrant experience. Rooted in personal history, the exhibition deconstructs familiar symbols and spaces of a house to reconstruct what it means to create a home, especially when shaped by two vastly different places: the Philippines and Baltimore.
The show weaves together lens-based work, sculptural installations, and alternative photographic processes that contrast the two places. Divinagracia builds a visual language shaped by fragmented memory, bureaucracy, and dislocation by using photographs, family archives, and immigration documents as recurring materials embedded and collaged into the surfaces of the work. These documents act as both personal record and visual anchor, representing the quiet, ongoing tension between belonging and uncertainty.
Pandarayuhan, meaning migration or the act of moving away, is not just about departure. It’s about the emotional labor of building something from fragments, and the quiet resistance in claiming space while also tethered elsewhere. The exhibition invites viewers to consider the quiet and often unseen details of immigrant life, the paperwork, the waiting, the adaptation.
Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt.
