Photos by Dorret Oosterfhof
If you’re guessing that the following paragraphs describing this exhibit come from a press release you’re probably right. We’re not entirely sure of their origin. These beautiful pictures depicting the current exhibit at Subbasement Studios showed up on our doorstop unaccompanied so we decided to take them in. The description of the exhibit soon followed. The best possible outcome for publishing said photos and text is that you might be inspired to venture from where you’re reading this to the gallery to experience the work. You then would immediately fall in love with one or several pieces and make a purchase. In turn that would make an artist very happy and they then would be inspired to create new work. One of those pieces would end up in a gallery where influential decision makers, who make big gears turn, go to hob nob and buy art that the rest of us can’t afford. It’s there, at the opening reception, that one particular decision maker happens upon a piece painted by the artist who sold you the piece at Subbasement. As a matter of fact, the piece was inspired or funded, in part, by your patronage. This particular important so and so is struck with a profound realization, he or she is immediately inspired to rethink his or her particular worldview. He or she spends the next day on the phone righting all the wrongs perpetrated on the world since he or she gained influence and the exercises results in a chain reaction that brings peace and happiness to the entire globe. Who would we have to thank for world peace? Besides the Dali Lama, Mother Theresa, Chic Dambach, and Bono? You. That’s who.
Mothership Connection is a satellite exhibition of the Baker Artist Awards at the Subbasement Artist Studios on Howard Street. The exhibit features individual pieces of Lauren Boilini and Bobby English. The Exhibition runs from Friday, Sept 23 – Saturday, Oct 29.
Lauren Boilini grew up in Bloomington, Indiana and graduated from the Mount Royal School of Art in Baltimore in 2008. She has exhibited throughout the East Coast and Midwest, and recently returned from the Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming; the two massive paintings she completed there will be shown for the first time in Mothership Connection. Boilini’s paintings often feature dualing opposite forces in fights, orgies, and races that are violent, chaotic, yet sublimely beautiful in their precarious states.
Bobby English is a Baltimore native and recently graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He works across many disciplines, from ink painting to bookbinding to metal sculpture. His work, which investigates ideas of ancestry, origins, and spirituality is shaped not only by his own hand, but also by larger forces, such as gravity, chance, and nature itself.”
Photos by Dorret Oosterfhof
