Arlington Arts Center's IMAGE PROJECT

According to the Arlington Arts Center's website, the exhibition IMAGE PROJECT's main goal was to "reflect the ways in which contemporary artists tend to approach photography and video". Three main uses of photography were outlined--photography as a means of documenting, photography used to present cross disciplinary projects, and photography used as a tool for inquiry into how the world is perceived.

Living Fossil: Thoroughly Cramped

by Danity Child

If there is one thing that can be said about Taylor Baldwin’s newest exhibition, it is that the artist has definitely been thorough. Living Fossil, opened January 16th at Connor Contemporary Gallery in Washington, DC, is both a literal and symbolic documentation of human history. At the least. It also documents the earth’s geological history, consumerist history, environmental developmental history, cultural evolutionary history and Baldwin’s own personal history.

Happy People – Paintings by Claire Feng

March 5 – April 3, 2010

School33 Art Center, 1427 Light Street, Baltimore, MD 21230

Claire Feng questions what is beyond the obvious in an image. Taking inspiration from ordinary images of leisure and contentment, she makes paintings in which she puts her personal readings. Through expression and gesture rooted in realism, her paintings give breath and energy to these fleeting instants, and bring ambiguity and wonder to these presumed happy people and moments.

Next Floor: Phoebe Greenberg's Moveable Feast

by Rita Bites
The lighting is low. The set is the interior of a large, ambiguous structure that may or may not be an abandoned warehouse. The costuming is dramatic, opulent. And the music is befittingly unnerving as eleven privileged guests feed on heaps of oily meats served by unusually accommodating waitstaff. And every few seconds, to the increased tempo of percussion, the walls rumble and patrons and feast fall through the floor of the "dining room" and land in the one beneath. The question begs to be asked: How many warehouse floors gave their lives in order for this film to be shot?

John Gerrard at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

by Michael Dotson.


John Gerrard has three pieces on view at the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC that present many interesting intersections between the real/virtual and the effects of human consumption on our environment. The three works depict an oil rig, a pig processing plant and a dust storm. Although the works are made using video game technology, they uphold a high level of realism.