19 Ways of Looking at a Painting: Closing Reception

To celebrate the conclusion of Porch Projects' biggest exhibition yet, 19 Ways of Looking at a Painting, there will be a closing reception next Saturday, October 20, from 4 to 6 pm.  If you did not get a chance to view the exhibition over the past two months, or just want to congratulate the artists one last time, please join us.  

Closing Reception

19 Ways of Looking at a Painting

Porch Projects

October 20, 4-6 pm

Email porchprojectsdc [at] gmail [dot] com for directions.

There are many other art events happening around the city next Saturday, so please add Porch Projects to your list of stops!  

Among the other events are:

-Howard University Homecoming Parade watch party with DC Cheer, Pleasant Plains Workshop

-Artist talk with Laura Elkins, The Fridge

-Opening reception, Arlington Arts Center, Fall Solos 2012 and Rulemaker

-Kitchen of Innovation 3, arts micro-crowd sourced-fundraising dinner

-Opening reception, Doris-Mae

Porch Projects Presents: Eat Our Words

Porch Projects’ second exhibition brings together the work of three area artists to explore issues of food politics and food culture. Chanan Delivuk (DC), along with collaborating team Shannon Young and Jaimes Mayhew (Baltimore), will showcase new works of sound, installation, performance, and social practice art. These works will consume the main Porch Projects space and spill into other areas of the house and backyard, reinforcing the social and peripatetic nature of eating. Taken together, these artists’ works will help viewers examine their own complex relationships with food, and how the acts of preparing and consuming a meal link us all to each other and the larger world.

Eat Our Words
A group exhibition organized by and showcasing the works of Chanan Delivuk, Shannon Young, and Jaimes Mayhew.

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 4-7 pm*
Artist Discussion: June 4, 2011, time TBD
Exhibition available by appointment at other times.
Email for directions or more information:
porchprojectsdc [at] gmail [dot] com

*Rain date: June 4 (in the event of bad weather, reception and discussion will be combined)

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Chanan Delivuk is an artist based in DC who is originally from Baltimore. She completed her MFA at George Washington University in 2010 and has recently shown her work in the Classroom 102 space at GWU, and at the Rice Gallery in Westminster, Maryland. Learn more at chanandelivuk.com.

Shannon Young lives and works in Baltimore. She earned her MFA in 2008 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has recently exhibited her work at the Wyman Arts Center and at the Evergreen Museum at Library, both in Baltimore. Learn more at shannyoung.wordpress.com.

Jaimes Mayhew is an artist also based in Baltimore. He received his MFA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 2010. During the past year, his work has appeared at Anne Arundel Community College and at Baltimore’s Annex Gallery. Learn more at www.enginesofthefuture.com.

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(images, from left to right: Chanan Delivuk, Mom’s Fridge, 2010; Jaimes Mayhew, Accumulation/Temporary Occupations, 2010; Shannon Young, Portable Gardens, 2009)

A Nest, a Shell, a Corner, a Drawer: Culminating Discussion with the Artists

The first Porch Projects exhibition is drawing to a close. Please join us on Thursday, March 31, 2011, for a last look at the show and a culminating discussion with the artists. This forum will be a chance for me, you, and the featured artists (Kendall Nordin, Magnolia Laurie, and Leigh Davis) to have a broad discussion about art issues, conceptual frameworks, and studio life.

We will begin the discussion at 7 pm. Arrive a bit early to view the show and mingle.

Email porchprojectsdc [at] gmail [dot] com to RSVP and for directions.

Porch Projects Presents: A Nest, a Shell, a Corner, a Drawer

"We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection."

"A nest—and this we understand right away—is a precarious thing, and yet it sets us to daydreaming of security."

-Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space

Porch Projects' inaugural show brings together the work of three artists working in the Washington region: Kendall Nordin (DC), Leigh Davis (DC/NYC), and Magnolia Laurie (Baltimore).  These artists explore the creation of makeshift or provisional structures and dwellings through diverse media, from painting and photography to installation.  They are interested in adaptive ways of existing in the world and in the idea of "home," wherever it can be found.

Opening Reception: February 26, 2011, 4-7 pm

Closing Discussion Group: March 31, 7 pm

Open by appointment at other times.

Email for directions or to schedule your visit:

porchprojectsdc (at) gmail (dot) com

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Kendall Nordin is an artist based in Washington, DC. Her installations and works on paper have appeared in Australia, Estonia, and locally at Container Space at George Mason University and in Arcade, a window exhibition at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center produced by the Washington Project for the Arts.

Learn more at www.kendallnordin.com

Leigh Davis is an artist splitting time between Brooklyn, NY, and Washington, DC. She has completed artist residencies around the country and shown her photography-and-video-based installations extensively in New York.  Her work will appear in the 2011 Solos this spring at the Arlington Arts Center.

Learn more at www.leighdavisprojects.com

Magnolia Laurie is a painter and installation artist living and working in Baltimore, MD. Her work has been shown throughout the East Coast, and she has been a Hamiltonian Fellow Artist since 2009. She recently presented a new series of paintings at Hamiltonian Gallery in DC.

Learn more at www.magnolialaurie.com

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Images, from left: photograph from The Brothers, Leigh Davis; detail of installation Kunstkammer or Dear Guest, if you should happen to knock something over, please put it back, Kendall Nordin; detail of installation It’s a Fragile Structure Between Us, Magnolia Laurie)