BmoreArt’s Picks: September 8-14
This Week: Baltimore Transfiguration International Film Festival at 2640 Space, Concentric Circles exhibition lecture at Silber Gallery, opening reception for Myungsook Ryu Kim at TU Center for Asian Art + Culture, Join Ashley Minner Jones’ BMA Lexington Market residency begins, MICA celebrates 20 Years of The McMillan-Stewart Endowed Chair in Painting with exhibition opening, Crow’s Nest 2nd Anniversary exhibition Holding Each Other While Pushing Back opening reception, Bromo Art Walk, Minor Monuments opening reception at Red Giant, A Year of Photography: Together We Rise opening reception at the Galleries at CCBC, Threshold of Stone + Natural Herstories opening receptions at Maryland Art Place, D. Watkins Lecture at The Lewis Museum, Jubilee opening reception at The Driskell Center, opening reception for Jessica Damen at The Peale, exhibition honoring Miles Davis opening at Eubie Blake, Jesmyn Ward speaks at Baltimore County Public Library, and an artist talk + book signing with Janet Echelman at UMBC — PLUS apply for a teaching artist residency at American University 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!
Baltimore Transfiguration International Film Festival
Tuesday, September 8 – Thursday, September 10
@ 2640 Space
A traveling experimental film and animation festival that highlights non-commercial filmmaking and celebrates misfit artists.
Animation Love Affair is excited to host the second edition of the Baltimore Transfiguration International Film Festival! Created by Jonni Pepper-GoLions, this year’s festival will have more experimental film and animation to show, highlight local filmmakers in our Baltimore Block, and get the community involved by hosting an animation workshop!
The workshop will take place on Tuesday, September 8th beginning at 6pm. Workshop participants are encouraged to stay for the screening after and do not have to purchase an additonal ticket.
Food will be provided for all nights, and there will be vegitarian and vegan options available!
Concentric Circles | Lecture: Painting Process: Gesture, Surface, and Meaning
Wednesday, September 9 :: 5-6pm
@ Silber Gallery
Concentric Circles is a group painting exhibition that places William S. Dutterer (1943–2007) at the center of an intergenerational story of painting, mentorship, and artistic influence. Bringing together works by Dutterer, his mentor Grace Hartigan, and artists Julia Stoops and Tom Kenyon, the exhibition examines how ideas, methods, and values move between artists and across generations.
A painter, draftsman, and influential educator, Dutterer developed a distinctive visual language that moved between abstraction and figuration. His work is characterized by bold forms, rigorous drawing, psychologically charged imagery, and an ongoing investigation of gesture, surface, symbol, and repetition. Resisting easy categorization, Dutterer absorbed the lessons of postwar abstraction while developing an increasingly personal and idiosyncratic approach to image-making.
Dutterer studied under Grace Hartigan, a major figure in postwar American painting and longtime director of the Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He later became an influential educator himself at the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C., where his teaching emphasized discipline, experimentation, observation, and fearlessness in the studio.
Rather than presenting influence as a straight line from teacher to student, Concentric Circles considers Dutterer as the center of an expanding network. The exhibition asks what artists truly inherit from one another: a style, a gesture, a way of seeing, a commitment to the work—or simply the permission to take risks.
Through these relationships, Concentric Circles offers an opportunity to reconsider Dutterer’s legacy as extending beyond the remarkable objects he created. Like circles expanding outward from a single point, an artist’s influence can travel through teachers, peers, students, and communities—and continue long after the artist is gone.
Curated by Caitlin Tucker-Melvin (Guest Curator) and Liz Faust. In partnership with the William S Dutterer Trust and Catalyst Contemporary.
Encounter 해후(邂逅) by Myungsook Ryu Kim 류명수 (柳明秀) | Opening Reception
Wednesday, September 9 :: 7pm
@ Towson University Asian Arts + Culture Center
Myungsook Ryu Kim reveals a world of harmonious connections across cultures, art, and life. She brilliantly merges classical East Asian art and philosophy with media techniques of the West. Through a profusion of colors, textures, and dimensions, the works explore change and impermanence, illuminate the interdependence of heaven and earth and humans and nature, interpret experience and spirituality, embrace the juxtaposition of poetry and painting, and celebrate Korean history.
Opening Reception & Artist Talk
Join artist, Myungsook Ryu Kim, to explore the Encounter exhibition together and gain insights into how she creates art that pulsates with energy and harmoniously juxtaposes Eastern philosophies with Western media techniques.
Read more of this week’s picks at BmoreArt.
