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Painting by Jeremy Crawford. Photo by Brooke Hall.
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Under One Roof
Some people can’t help but be memorable. It’s these uncommon individuals that lend their personality to a particular place and time and give it soul.
Jeremy Crawford and Jim Lucio are two such people filling that role in Baltimore.
Upon first meeting Jim and Jeremy I would never have guessed that they were transplants from New York City. They seemed to exemplify the kind of idiosyncratic individuality that defines the Baltimore art scene as we know it. It’s not that I have trouble seeing them thrive in New York, it just seemed to me that they were locals in the best sense of the word. The way I see it, New York’s loss is Baltimore’s win and I’m guessing that most people reading this would agree. Everyone else is probably still waiting for an introduction so allow me, if you will, the pleasure of presenting the first collaborative exhibition by Jim and Jeremy ‘Under One Roof’ at The G-Spot, a venue some people have a hard time locating but we seemed to find right away.
The Big Picture
Egzon & Rufad, Jeremy Crawford, 2009- from the private collection of Elizabeth Bardelli.
This isn’t the VH1 Behind The Music for poor lil’ Wilma Martinez, people. This is What Weekly.
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Under One Roof
Jim Lucio’s contribution to ‘Under One Roof’ was a wall to wall installation of oversized newsprint depicting covers of the fictional publication ‘Gordo,’ a fetish magazine focused on chubby men. I personally never imagined that I could be so moved to laugh by an overweight man in whitey tighties but there’s a first for everything.
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Jeremy Crawford and Jim Lucio
Jeremy’s recent paintings are a satisfying slap in the face of convention. His style of portraiture is loud, vibrant, beautiful and speaks with a voice entirely his own.
Jim chooses various mediums to express himself including, most recently, newsprint. With a penchant for mischief and the absurd he often makes us smile and ask ourselves “what the….?” simultaneously. Jim’s work is provocative, playful and is sure to cause an emotional response in its audience.
Their work, while distinct, shares complimentary themes which, is the by-product of two artists who’ve spent years living together.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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“Under One Roof is a collaborative show between Jeremy Crawford and Jim Lucio, who for six years, shared an East Village apartment which also served as a painting studio for Crawford and a graphic design studio for Lucio. In 2002, their NYC-based home studio moved to Baltimore, where they continue… to produce their individual works under the same roof. The G-Spot show, Under One Roof marks the first time the two artists have shown their work together publicly.”
The gallery at The G-Spot was standing room only nearly the entire time we were at the opening reception.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Bargain Hunters, 2009. Acrylic, spray paint, wallpaper and vintage supermarket ephemera on wood panels, 48″ x 72″.
Retro-revisionism is the term I’m going to coin for one of the common threads running through Jim and Jeremy’s work. Both artists use elements of the past to re-imagine how things might have been, had they been filtered through their own personal sensibilities.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Elizabeth Bardelli is proof that owning an Jeremy Crawford painting is one path to happiness as she poses with her painting, Egzon and Rufad, 2009.
Photo by Brooke Hall, story by Justin Allen.
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Since 1995, The Creative Alliance has promoted Baltimore as a dynamic center of art in all genres. With members ranging from artists and educators to neighbors and supports, the Creative Alliance cultivates community through collaboration.
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Waldorf Hysteria
I can find all kinds of important things to do when I should be editing my film or writing. And what better project on a cold December day than going out into the woods and bringing back a tree or two? I don’t mean Christmas trees, we’re doing that next weekend. I mean Trees. My wife got the idea from the Waldorf School of Baltimore. We went to their winter fair last Saturday and I checked it out: instead of a conventional “jungle gym” they’ve got a couple of huge old trees piled up for kids to climb on (one of the many cool things about Waldorf). Our three-year-old is crazy about climbing. She is sitting on my shoulders right now as I type this.
I built a homemade playhouse, so I’m not about to go out and buy a jungle gym. But I have to get this kid off my back. The solution: find some trees. The first tree is some kind of maple, I think. And I didn’t cut it down, beavers did. The teeth marks are on the trunk to prove it. The second tree is really just a huge log. It was knocked off a gi-normous oak in a lightning storm. The beaver-felled maple has to be pulled out of a thicket and trimmed down to make it climber-friendly. Luckily, I am able to barter some services from Backhoe Bob. Otherwise, this project is going nowhere…… keep going.
-david warfield
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David Warfield, Confessions of a Mad Filmmaker
A What Weekly Column
“And so here we have a unique opportunity to track the production of a truly independent film from the moment of conception (the script is not yet completed) to the first public screening, and beyond. ”
Were not talking about EPK filler here, were talking about life, and its bound to get messy.”
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Tommy Tucker, Victoria Vox and Miss Tess
On December 2nd sheltered from the first real bone chilling cold spell of the season, the Metro Gallery played host to Tommy Tucker, Victoria Vox
and Miss Tess. No one knew quite what to expect from the mélange of a ukulele player, a Baltimore front man riding solo, and a Brooklyn based Americana-esque blues band. The only thing that was certain is that they came to play and we were glad to be there.
Tommy Tucker had to start break-dancing to alleviate some surplus pre-performance energy. This was made easy, if not unavoidable by Miss Tess, whose sound check would have been good enough to settle for a great set. While no one ever thought to combine break dance with blues and jazz is still a mystery as they seem to complement each other quite nicely.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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Victoria Vox found her niche one day when she started using her ukulele in her coffee shop gigs back in Wisconsin. Over time the guitar was used less and less and the uke became the mainstay of her set. Now she can be found playing at ukulele festivals all over the world but she calls Baltimore home, which further strengthens our fair city’s claim of Ukulele Capital of the Known and Universe and Beyond.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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Books, Live Music, Art Gallery and more!
Same block as Windup Space, across from Joe Squared. Plenty of room inside for your bike; FREE street parking for your car (well plug your meter before 6, after that its free anyway) come on over…
30 West North Ave.
Baltimore, MD, 21201
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When Tommy Tucker stepped on stage, toting no back up band and a set list that had been scribbled on a scrap piece of paper just minutes before he went on, not even Tommy knew what to expect. “That’s the idea” he said “I just want to keep it loose” then as everyone began to devote their attention to him he demanded, “Everybody in the room sit down, wherever you are. This is going to be a slow show… Okay now stand up. No seriously everyone stand the F#@% back up.” The ups and downs continued throughout with a seasonal set consisting of a rendition of “summer time” by sublime and a conceptual song fantasizing about what it would be like to be the cool illegitimate father of Jesus.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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No, Victoria is not cringing at someone in the audience, and no, Tommy tucker is not chewing gum and about to blow a bubble that will ultimately explode onto the microphone and anyone close enough to the stage. They are taking turns riffing on their high-end mouth trumpets. When performing solo it’s always important to be able to play more than one instrument and the mouth trumpet has to be hands down the most cost effective method.
Photo by Philip Laubner, story by Matt Kelley.
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Reptilian Records Retrospective
Recently the Windup space hosted a 20th anniversary retrospective for a long running and trail-blazing establishment in Baltimore. For those of you who don’t know, Reptilian Records was one of the most successful record stores and labels in the Baltimore counter culture. Specializing in punk, metal, hardcore, and anything obscure or unique, Reptilian Records has undeniably established itself as a home for the sea of inquisitive and unsatisfied youths of the 90’s and 2000’s that lived in and around Charm City.
Unfortunately, DYI record stores like RR have fallen victim to the complete deconstruction of the record industry’s business model. As a result Reptilian Records has been forced to close its physical doors in exchange for a more globally reaching and significantly cheaper to operate online store.
Photo and story by Matt Kelley.
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“The problem with everyone finding music so easily online is that it depreciates the value of the music. If you didn’t have to work to find it, it isn’t as rewarding when you finally get it.” Chris X, Founder of Reptilian Records.
Looking at the faces of everyone in attendance there was a noticeable lack of anyone under the age of 25, putting the unrepresented generations right on par for being the first set of those who had regular access to the internet. The overwhelming availability of free music on the internet has led people to believe that they’re getting a better deal by finding all of their music online for free when in reality, they’re forfeiting the experience that you get from searching through countless bins of bands you otherwise would have never discovered. I can’t remember the first album I ever downloaded online. That’s because the band probably wasn’t that profound in my life, but to this day I have yet to forget my first 7” Reptilian released Blank, or that the first CD I ever bought from a record store with my own money was Punk-o-Rama 2 from Reptilian Records when I was 13.
Photo and story by Matt Kelley.
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Tony Pence graciously posed for a photo to showcase some of the tangible and physical music that was on sale that night. More notably a Daybreak 7” with his more youthful face front and center printed on the record itself. Tony Pence has been connected with RR since the 90’s and now can still be found, along with Noel Conrad and others, debating music with customers or playing recently released independent EPs at one of the last bastions for record store patrons Celebrated Summer located at Atomic Books in Hampden.
Photo and story by Matt Kelley.
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Ink Well by Future Islands
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Well Intentioned World by The Jennifers
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Harwood at The Metro Gallery.
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Thursday, Dec 9
Acoustic Thursdays at Peace and a Cup of Joe 7 pm
The Sound of Baltimore. Come every Thursday and hear the best unsigned artists and then jam with our WIDE open mic. Acoustic Thursdays is an indie artist series that celebrates music without boundaries. Hosted by Marc Evans.
Evolver Film Screening- 2012: Time for Change at Windup Space 7 pm
Directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic wisdom of tribal cultures with the scientific method. As conscious agents of evolution, we can redesign post-industrial society on ecological principles to make a world that works for all. Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 heralds the birth of a regenerative planetary culture where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink.
REPO MAN Presented by Dan Deacon + Jimmy Joe Roche — 35mm at The Charles Theatre 9 pm
Get ready for the second film in GUNKY’S BASEMENT, the MD Film Fest series curated and hosted by Dan Deacon and Jimmy Joe Roche: Alex Cox’s REPO MAN!
“REPO MAN” is the kind of movie that baffles Hollywood, because it isn’t made from any known formula and doesn’t follow the rules.” – Roger Ebert, 1/1/84
This cult classic dark comedy is set in the punk wasteland of mid-80s LA, stars Emilio Estevez and Harry Dean Stanton, and boasts a soundtrack that includes Iggy Pop, Circle Jerks, and Black Flag.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Friday, Dec 10
Laddie Waters Opening at Minas 7 pm
Laddie Waters is primarily a painter of landscapes and figures. His most frequent inspiration is his own Baltimore neighborhood of Sowebo. However, a few of his landscapes depict scenes that exist only in the artist’s mind. Waters is a devotee of the Schuler movement, which places emphasis on the methods and techniques of the European Old Masters. His work has been exhibited in at the Katzenstein Galley in Baltimore, Bartholet Gallery in New York, and Veerhoff Gallery in Washington, DC. This is his second solo exhibition at Minás gallery.
Glass Mind Theatre Presents: W.–An Adaptation at Load of Fun 8 pm
A soldier enlisted in an experimental project begins to lose track of his reality as he slips in and out of memories. Between moments with his increasingly distant wife, his best friend Georg, a General and a Doctor he can’t seem to keep track of, he also realizes he’s forgetting one important bit of information – his name. An avant-garde adaptation of a classic tale, “W——” asks the question – where does the truth really begin? On Dec, 11, in coalition with Project PLASE, tickets will be reduced to $5 for those who bring three or more canned goods.
We Used to Be Family / The Water / Orbit to Leslie at Metro Gallery 8 pm
We Used to Be Family The Water Orbit to Leslie (Philly)
@ The Metro Gallery December 10th, 2010 $8, 21+
Shattered Wig Review #28 Publication Party 9 pm
R.M. O’Brien – poet, emcee/curator of the fantastic WORMS reading series Emily Peterson Crespo – – poet, traveler, alchemist. Ryan Walker – DC poet Ryan is wondering how Friday got here so fast. Semi-recently he self-published the hell out of his book, You Will Own Permanently. Additionally he writes web apps and rehabs an old house in Washington, DC.
The Baltimore String Felons. Fantastic timelessly weird old American folk music with a punk edge.
Nests Revealed. Excursions in sound led by Tony, formerly of the dearly missed Baltimore group Madagascar.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Saturday, Dec 11
Baltimore Green Space Mapping Project 9 am
On December 11th, Baltimore Green Space is sending twenty 2-person teams to explore Baltimore and use their smart phones to create a map of vacant lots that have been turned into community green spaces: gardens, pocket parks, horseshoe pits, and the like.
We need to do this because Baltimore City is working hard to streamline its sales process for land and buildings. This is great news, but it presents an urgent challenge to preserve green spaces. With 13,000 vacant lots, the City faces an information problem – it simply cannot know which of these “vacant” lots are actually community assets that improve the livability of neighborhoods and thus property values. For questions about volunteering please email office@baltimoregreenspace.org.
Unsilent Night 7 pm
Phil Kline’s Unsilent Night Mobtown Modern will ring in the holiday season by leading a mob of Baltimoreans in an outdoor caroling precession during the fifth annual performance of Phil Kline’s Christmas masterpiece Unsilent Night. Boombox-toting urbanites will become the musicians in an interactive ambient concert experience as they perform Kline’s composition, parading through the city streets. Everyone is invited to perform! All you need to do is bring a boombox, we’ll provide the tapes and CDs. If you’re high-tech and want to download an mp3 of the piece to play in the parade, click on the link below and enter the code found at the website.
O Little Town of Baltimore: A Holiday Live Radio Show at Centerstage 7 pm
The Stoop rings in the ha-ha-holidays with its biggest live radio show extravaganza ever, featuring old time comedy sketches and true personal tales of holiday highs and lows from 40 different Baltimoreans. Musical guests for the first weekend’s shows include singer/songwriter ellen cherry, Nepalese folk singer Prem Raja Mahat and barbershop quartet BSQ from Dundalk’s Chorus of the Chesapeake. For the second weekend, onstage will be ellen cherry, Persian classical musician Ahmad Borhani, and Baltimore R & B a capella trio West Ave.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Sunday, Dec 12
Essential Sundays at Minas 4 pm
Adam Robinson lives in Baltimore where he operates Publishing Genius Press. He is the author of two books of poetry, including Adam Robinson and other poems (Narrow House 2010). His work has been published recently in Lit, Small Doggies and elsewhere. He plays guitar in Sweatpants, a rock band.
Bruce A. Jacobs is a poet, author, and musician. His newest poetry performances treat poetry and music as one. He founded the long-running First Tuesdays Poetry Reading Series at Irina’s Cafe in Baltimore in the 1990s. He has won poetry slams in Baltimore and at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City. His books of poems are SPEAKING THROUGH MY SKIN, which won the Naomi Long Madgett Prize from Michigan State University, and CATHODE RAY BLUES from Tropos Press. His latest nonfiction book is RACE MANNERS FOR THE 21st Century. Bruce has appeared on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” C-SPAN, Sirius Satellite Radio, and other networks. He plays drums, poems, and saxophone. He does not know how to do long division.
Bow Legged Gorilla, Uncle Woody Sullender & Seamus Cater, Gregory Rago at Windup Space 8:30 pm
Bow Legged Gorilla, Uncle Woody Sullender and Seamus Cater, Gregory Rago Doors at 830, Music at 9pm, $7
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Tuesday, Dec 14
B-MORE SOUNDBOX at Windup Space 7 pm
Showcase of experimental electro-acoustic performances, sound installations and video pieces from my Sound I class at MICA. Leading into the Out Of Your Head improvised music series (on which I’m also playing, at 9:30), I will be collaborating in performance with one of my students, Chang Park. Other info on sound installations, videos and performances TBA.
DIG Dance Party at Joe Squared 10 pm
Funk dance party featuring: Landis Expandis and DJ Napspace.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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Ongoing
Under One Roof at the G-Spot
Under One Roof is a collaborative show between Jeremy Crawford and Jim Lucio, who for six years, shared an East Village apartment which also served as a painting studio for Crawford and a graphic design studio for Lucio. In 2002, their NYC-based home studio moved to Baltimore, where they continue to produce their individual works under the same roof.
The G-Spot show, Under One Roof marks the first time the two artists have shown their work together publicly.
Waltr Carpenter Aghost at Nudashank
A celebration of the life and creative work of Waltr Carpenter (1982-2009) including drawing, video, light sculpture, sound, and digital prints.
Eschatology II at Positron Gallery
Often in reference to the end of the world, the Oxford English Dictionary defines Eschatology as “concerned with the four last things: death, judgment, heaven, and hell”. In Eschatology II, guest curator Cherí Landry invites you to explore this branch of theology through a selection of works by Emil Alzamora, Sasha Blanton, Jen Blazina, Jordan Eagles, Gwyneth Scally and Carlos Tarrats.
Hope Against Hope At The Pheonix Shot Tower
From the theft of fire [by Prometheus], to contamination through water [Leviticus]; echoing the home of invention and the cornerstone laying by Charles Carroll of Carrollton; a commercial enterprise dissolves the myth of bullets and opens onto hope as poison at the bottom of Pandora’s box.
Scattering the fragments of history to the sound of falling water, this once tallest building in the US becomes a site of modest explorations and play.
Featuring site specific performances, video, drawing, installation, food, and lectures. Ends December 4.
Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos And Toys In The Attic at The Walters Art Museum
The Walters Art Museum will host the playful and interactive world of best-selling author and photographic illustrator Walter Wick in the exhibition Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic on view Sept. 19, 2010–Jan. 2, 2011. Wick is the creator of the Can You See What I See? series and co-creator, with writer Jean Marzollo, of the I Spy books for children. Wick’s books challenge readers to solve visual riddles or puzzles created from the thousands of props he has collected in his renovated firehouse studio. His photographic style, one of precision and detail, will alter the viewer’s sense of visual perception. September 19, 2010 – January 02, 2011
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at The BMA
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first Museum
exhibition in the country to explore the Pop icon’s late
works. Featuring more than 50 paintings created between
1976 and 1986—the most prolific era in Warhol’s 40-
year career, the exhibition illustrates the artist’s energetic
return to painting (after his foray into filmmaking and
screenprinting) and the physical act of art-making through
hand painting, folding, and staining. Paintings of epic proportions—
stretching up to 35 feet wide—envelop viewers
in dramatic fields of color, painterly gestures, and symbols
of American culture.
What Makes Us Smile? at AVAM
In celebration of its 15th Anniversary, AVAM will mount its most delight-filled exhibition to date, exploring just “What Makes Us Smile?” It will be curated by master humorist and creator of The Simpsons Matt Groening, artist Gary Panter, and AVAM Founder Rebecca Hoffberger. This mega exhibition on the timeless and global phenomena of smiling, laughter and humor will include contributions by dozens of artists, including comedian Michael Baldwin’s spectacular vintage toy assemblages created from toys collected from five decades of his dedicated dumpster diving, and a seven-thousand toothbrush welcome mat that uses bristles and color to invite a “SMILE” from all who enter. The triumvirate of curators will take a look at both historic and modern employ of humor to speak truth to power – think court jester/fool’s ability to say things to the king that no one else could get away with to today’s Tina Fey, Jon Stewart, and Stephen Colbert and their sardonic take on today’s news and leadership.
For more details, directions and events click here.
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What is What Weekly?
What Weekly is a multimedia magazine chronicling the real Baltimore movers and shakers not the corporations, not the politics, What Weekly spotlights the people. Were paying attention to the good things happening in Baltimore and sharing it all with you.
Why online? Disposable print media is wasteful and, with the advent and proliferation of the Internet, it is more difficult to justify. Technology is a gift and a tool use it to evolve and build things together.
If you want to be a part of the movement, you can send us your photos to publish, your events to promote and your ideas to talk about. Forward the email, share a link, start a movement. Your audience is the world, pass it on.
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