BmoreArt’s Picks: September 9-15
This Week: Opera Baltimore at Peabody Library, Cara Ober lecture for Art Seminar Group, Lynn Silverman + Liam Davis opening receptions at Goya, How to Become a Body opening at Red Giant, Bromo Art Walk + After Party, Solace & Sisterhood artist panel +opening reception at Driskell Center, opening reception for VILLAGER at Eubie Blake, Jackie Milad opening reception at Silber Gallery, Sweaty Eyeballs Animation Festival + After Party at MICA and Area 405, 2025 Baltimore Book Festival, 9th Annual Love Groove Festival, Jeffrey Kent + Monique Crabb closing receptions at Current Space, and a curator talk for Modernisms at The Jewish Musuem — PLUS apply to be a resident at MOCA Arlington 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!
In the Stacks: Opera Baltimore
Tuesday, September 9 :: 6:30-7:30pm
@ George Peabody Library
In the Stacks welcomes Opera Baltimore back to the George Peabody Library for an evening of thrilling music inspired by Puccini’s Tosca, featuring arias and songs exploring themes of power and passion. For the first time, for one night only, rare letters by Puccini to Baltimore art patron and collector Alice Warder Garrett will be on display.
Come enjoy an evening of music and history in one of the most beautiful libraries in the world!
This performance is co-sponsored by the Winston Tabb Special Collections Research Center.
Collecting the Art of Your Place and Time in Baltimore: Strong, Bright, Useful & True
Tuesday, September 9 :: 1:30-3pm
@ Woman’s Club of Roland Park
HYBRID IN-PERSON AND ONLINE PROGRAM
Collecting the Art of Your Place and Time in Baltimore: Strong, Bright, Useful & True
Cara Ober, Artist, Arts Writer, Curator, and the Executive Director and Publisher at BmoreArt
Reception 1:00 – 1:30 pm
Showcasing a broad spectrum of media—including painting, sculpture, time-based media, and photography — Strong, Bright, Useful & True includes works by globally recognized and emergent artists such as Derrick Adams, Jerrell Gibbs, and Joyce J. Scott, as well as Nakeya Brown, Se Jong Cho, Brandon Donahue-Shipp, Oletha DeVane, Erin Fostel, Phaan Howng, Kei Ito, Linling Lu, Edgar Reyes, Soledad Salamé, Bria Sterling-Wilson, and René Treviño. The exhibition’s title is inspired by the inaugural address of the first Johns Hopkins University president Daniel Gilman, who in 1876 proclaimed Hopkins’ simple aim “… to make scholars strong, bright, useful, and true.”
ASG welcomes Ober to discuss the exhibition at JHU’s Frary Gallery, which features artists recently acquired by Johns Hopkins through a partnership with Cara Ober and BmoreArt’s Gallery Director Ines Sanchez de Lozada, who have designed and implemented a collecting initiative for a committee of JHU students, faculty, and staff. Over the course of several months, Ober and her team presented Baltimore-based artists on the cusp of global professional acclaim to the group, who select artists for studio visits, and ultimately for acquisition. This program is a deep investment on the part of JHU into Baltimore’s creative communities, unique in the region and reflective of the institutions desire to support and collect “the art of their place and time.”
$15 fee for guests and subscribers (no fee for members)
Lynn Silverman: In A Matter of Time | Reception
Wednesday, September 10 :: 6-8pm
@ Goya Contemporary
Goya Contemporary Gallery is pleased to present In A Matter of Time, the third solo exhibition by internationally acclaimed photographer Lynn Silverman. This compelling body of work invites viewers to contemplate the intersection of memory, time, and photographic materiality through Silverman’s evocative engagement with vintage panoramic photographs.
Silverman’s recent work draws upon scroll-like photographs discovered while sorting through decades of materials within various archives. These images—group portraits of early 20th-century schoolchildren, summer campers, banquet attendees, and military recruits—were originally captured with large-format panoramic cameras. Recovered from obsolescence, they serve both as subject and object in Silverman’s conceptual, transformative investigations.
“Given the relationship a photograph inevitably has with the past, my desire is to focus on the act of remembering. The contortions of the scrolls—the twisting, curling, and blurring during exposure—mirror the fragility of memory,” explains Silverman. “My manipulation of the scrolls attempts to evoke how the gap between the photograph and memory continues to widen as the time when the picture was taken recedes further into the past. This is also true for the near-obsolete technology used to make these panoramas.”
In the studio, Silverman unfurls, rotates, and re-illuminates the photographic scrolls, sometimes exposing both recto and verso, thereby revealing handwritten inscriptions or signatures otherwise hidden from view. In select works, she introduces motion during exposure, allowing gesture and time to permeate the photographic process.
“These strategies simultaneously collapse and expand sequential registers, blurring the line between image, object, and remembrance” notes Amy Raehse, Director and Curator of Goya Contemporary. “Through Silverman’s deliberate and nuanced handling, the curled edges, folds, and shadows of the photographic scrolls assume sculptural and temporal qualities, which she then re-interprets through the lens of her own camera and darkroom-based studio photography” she continued. “The resulting images are at once meditative and disorienting—echoing the ephemeral nature of both memory and analog photography.”
In A Matter of Time continues Lynn Silverman’s decades-long exploration of perception, impermanence, and the phenomenology of seeing, reinforcing her position as a significant voice in contemporary photographic practice.
Silverman’s work has been exhibited internationally and is included in major museum and private collections. In 2025, Silverman was awarded a New York Public Library Picture Collection Fellowship through the Wallach Division of Art, Prints, and Photographs. This prestigious fellowship supports artists and scholars in the research, development, and/or execution of new creative or scholarly work based on the Collection’s holdings.
In conjunction with Silverman’s exhibition, the artist and Goya Contemporary Gallery have partnered with Liz Faust at The Silber Art Gallery, Goucher College, to present a special screening of Silverman’s collaborative single-channel video, Between Death and. A separate press release will provide additional details about this unique cooperative screening.
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