Chesapeake Gallery - Harford Community College

Juried by Jeffry Cudlin; Teaches Curatorial Practices at Maryland Institute College of Art and was the Director of Exhibitions at Arlington Art Center in Arlington, VA. He has also been a contributing writer to the Washington City Paper and Sculpture magazine, as well as a writer for the Washington Post.

One half century before the internet, amateur radio operators, or “hams,” built experimental radio stations in their homes called “shacks,” raised complex antennae systems and connected wirelessly into the ether, building peace through friendship and service. HPE 2 WRK U AGN SN is a design exhibition of over 550 QSL verification cards from the golden age of ham radio (1920-1980), presented and arranged by style. The cards exhibited were selected from a collection of over ten thousand amassed by the curator from hams operating all over the world. Operators created and exchanged their designs to represent themselves, express individual identities–and sometimes fantasies–while capturing and sharing distinctive technical information about their communication...

Maria Annegarn, Cris Cimatu, Heather Donahue, Donna Hepner, Karen Kohles, Kurt Tesnau, Sarah Syzmanski, Gretchen Walsh

When you ask a student about adjunct art instructor Marty Weishaar, who has taught both Painting 1 and Fundamentals of 2D Design at Harford Community College, the first thing they say is that he gives way too much work. And then they go on to say how much they enjoyed being in his class. After visiting his studio recently, I can see where this pattern comes from. He obviously drives himself to work on very ambitious projects. But everything he does has a serious sense of fun.

He is constructing a giant racetrack for toy cars to be shown in the Chesapeake Gallery. That’s fun already. But even better, it’s meant to be interactive— viewers will be able to shoot cars through his sculpture.

Marty’s new sculpture is a colossal creation of cardboard, spray foam, duct tape and colorful zip-ties—all functional materials you could find at a hardware store. It’s important to Marty that the work is both low-tech and functional. It’s important to him that the materials are not hidden or painted over, but that they stay true to their original form. One of the results of this low-tech hardware wonderland is that the viewer can’t help but be aware of the way it was made—and the effort and intensity that must have gone into creating this impermanent playful structure.

He will also be showing several new paintings in the Chesapeake Gallery—paintings that I can only describe as bright and shiny happy fun. He uses the language of gestural abstraction but with the brightest and shiniest colors he can find. Within the abstractions are imbedded symbols, such as houses and rainbows. The symbols are almost always ones of hope and promise.

Marty Weishaar is himself and artist of great promise. He only recently graduated with his Masters of Fine Arts from American University in Washington, DC, and has been exhibiting widely since then. He is also a resident artist at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance and has taught not only at Harford Community College, but also teaches full-time at New Hope Academy in Baltimore.

followed by a reception and music, featuring the After Hours Quartet, HCC's Jazz Artist's In-Residence.

The music recital will be held in the Chesapeake Theatre located in the Chesapeake Center at 3 p.m.

The exhibition opening* and jazz reception will immediately follow in the Student Center Globe Cafe.

Donation: $15 (Adults), $1 (17 and under), Free to HCC students. Tickets are required to enter any and all portions of the afternoon's events.

*There will be an additional exhibition reception February 2, 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m. in the Chesapeake Gallery. This is free and open to the public.

A reception will be held in the Student Center at the Harford Community College on October 15 from 6:30 – 8 pm. The gallery is open during the Student Center hours of 7:30 am – 7 pm Mon. – Thurs. and 7:30 am – 4 pm Friday.

Gale Jamieson
Artist Statement

I have always had a love for making things, particularly the process of making. It is alive; the interaction with the material is an ongoing conversation. If I listen well, history and memory resonate and relationships emerge. The passage of time leaves tracks in many ways.

I am drawn to indigenous cultures whose art, daily life, and customs are clearly connected to the natural world and their spiritual life. Through my work, I examine my belief system and look to define spirituality from personal experiences. Each piece is a story, a journal of moments, reflecting our culture and the human experience.

Handling and exploring the material is important to me. The material and its nature is source, not just the means. Often I work in traditional ways with untraditional materials, integrating natural materials with found, synthetic, and man-made objects. All of which reveal links to the human drama, and the piece then extends that dialogue out into the world. By changing the context in which an ordinary object is experienced, seeing the ordinary in a non-ordinary way, there can be a shift in perception.

Juried by Christine Seese, Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Coordinator of Transfer Admissions at the Maryland Institute College of Art

The music recital will be held in the Chesapeake Theatre located in the Chesapeake Center at 3p.m.

The Exhibition Opening and Jazz Reception featuring the After Hours Quartet, HCC's Jazz Artist's In-Residence, will immediately follow in the Student Center Globe Cafe

Donation: $15 (Adults), $1 (17 and under), Free to HCC students. Tickets are required to enter any and all portions of the afternoon's events.

"I photographed my son's room when he was home from college for the summer. Each panel follows the placement of one object, such as a pizza box or a remote control device, over a period of time. This work is about contemporary American disposable society, mass consumption, and male clutter."

Gail Rebhan is a Professor of Photography at Northern Virginia Community College. Her work is in many public collections including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, J. Paul Getty Museum and Polaroid Corporation. She produced an offset artist's book, Mother - Son Talk, and two ink jet artist's books: Dorothy in 2002 and Benjamin Franklin Primer Updated in 2001. Her work is included in several other books including the anthology Reframings: New American Feminist Photographers. Exhibitions include: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany; School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland. Rebhan has an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

Celebrations: African-American Portraits of Beauty
September18 - November 3, 2008
Including work from the collections of artist Larry "Poncho" Brown, Hosanna School Museum, Terrell Boothe and The Art of Love.
Curated by Sharoll Love, HCC full-time employee

Luncheon: October 16, 2008 with artist Larry "Poncho" Brown, 1:30 pm - 3 pm, SC Room 243
Reservations required 443-412-2224

Opening Reception: October 16, 2008 with artist Larry "Poncho" Borwn and music by Danton Whitley and Mosaic Sound, 6:30 to 7pm

Doubling Back:
Photographs and Sculpture by Jason Kalogiros
June 2 - September 9, 2008
Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Tuesday, September 9, 2008 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Curated by Ken Jones, HCC Full-Time Arts Faculty

The Chesapeake Gallery at Harford Community College is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of San Francisco, CA based artist Jason Kalogiros. The exhibition features a combination of recent photographic and sculptural works that embrace different methods of doubling and repetition which highlight the subjective nature of representation, memory, and history. The title of the exhibition -Doubling Back- refers to an idea of time, of progression and repetition, moving forward and coming back, of duplicating, of doing something again. Kalogiros pursues these concepts in his work through the use of pinhole photography, photograms, cast sculptures and repurposed objects.

Jason Kalogiros (b. 1975, New Brunswick, NJ) lives and works in San Fransisco, CA. He received his BFA from Tufts University and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2004, and his MFA from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA in 2008. Jason has had his work featured in numerous group shows nationally including exhibitions at Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC; GASP, Boston, MA; The Spare Room Project, San Francisco, CA; and The Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE. Later this year Jason's work will be featured in Bad Moon Rising II, at Boots in St. Louis, MO, curated by Jan Van Woensel and One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other Things, at Unosunove in Rome, Italy curated by Raimundas Malasaukas. Jason has been the recipient of a grant from the Dean's Discretionary Fund at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and a Delaware State Artists Workforce Grant among others. Jason's work has been discussed in the Boston based online arts journal Big, Red and Shiny, the Boston Phoenix, and the San Francisco Gaurdian.

Alphabet: An Exhibition of Hand-Drawn Lettering and Experimental Typography
March 6, 2008 to April 8, 2008
Opening Reception: March 6, 2008 from 6:30-8:00 p.m.

This exhibition was curated and organized by Post Typography, Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts, and Ken Jones HCC Full-Time Arts Faculty.

Post Typography is an avant garde anti-design movement conceived by Nolan Strals and Bruce Willen. They specialize in graphic design, conceptual typography, and custom lettering/illustration with additional interest in art, apparel, music, curatorial work, design theory, and vandalism. Their work has been featured in numerous design and art exhibitions as well as in print such as Ellen Lupton's books Thinking With Type and D.I.Y.:Design It Yourself; Metropolis magazine; Taschen's Contemporary Graphic Design.

Post Typography was asked to curate and design Alphabet for Artscape, a Baltimore City festival for the arts (one of the largest on the east coast) that takes place every July. 48 artists and designers conceived and interpreted the alphabet in inventive ways, ranging from graceful and polished to witty and unconventional. The 60 alphabets featured in Alphabet were created by artists in North America, Europe, and Asia, and represent work from both well-known typographers and designers as well as rising artists and students.

Joseph Hyde: The Enigma of Trees
November 15, 2006-January 3, 2007
Opening Reception: Monday, November 20, 2006 from 6:30-8:00 p.m.

Small Wonders
September 25 - November 3, 2006
Opening Reception: Monday, September 25, 2006, 6:30 to 8pm
Artist Talks with George Ferrandi, David McQueen, and James Reeder began at 7:00 pm
Curated by Heidi Neff

"Small Wonders" refers not only to the size of the work or the marvelous execution of detail in miniature, but also to the sort of magical moments in life that often go unnoticed. Like those moments, much of this artwork is small and subtle and begs to be looked at slowly and carefully. Some of the work in this exhibition transforms bits of trash into something beautiful or calls to mind scraps of memories or daydreams. It is often sad or nostalgic, or has an edge of dark fantasy to it, but it always leaves the viewer full of wonder.