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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:   January 6, 2009

NEW EXHIBITION AT SCHOOL 33 ART CENTER

Two Person Juried Exhibition featuring Eun Woo Cho and Liz Ensz

Juried by Andrea Pollan

School 33 Art Center and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts are pleased to announce Two Person Juried Exhibition on Friday, January 9 through Saturday, February 7, 2009. The exhibition features artists Eun Woo Cho and Liz Ensz, and is curated by Andrea Pollan the director of Curator’s Office in Washington D.C.  The opening reception takes place on Friday, January 9, 2009 from 6-9pm, with a brief gallery discussion beginning at 7pm.  School 33 Art Center’s gallery, located at 1427 Light Street, is open Tuesday through Friday 10am-5pm, with extended hours on Thursdays from 10am-7pm and Saturdays 12-4pm. This free exhibition is open to the public and is part of School 33’s Open Call to Artists.

About the Exhibition & Selection Process

For the first time, School 33 has open its doors to support a larger artistic community by offering artists outside of the mid-Atlantic region an opportunity to participate in the dynamic programming that School 33 has built its reputation on for nearly 30 years. The two artists featured in this exhibition were carefully selected from more than 90 applications, submitted by artists from the United States and abroad. Participating artists were elected to exhibit at School 33 based upon their artistic merit and awarded a $500 honorarium to further recognize and support their creative practice. By attracting artists from outside the Baltimore region and exhibiting them with local artists, School 33 furthers its mission to highlight the strength of Baltimore’s cultural life, and to assist local artists in building a larger network, helping to advance their work beyond the local sphere.

About the Artists

Eun Woo Cho’s asserts her interest in identity politics, multiculturalism, artistic and political history, neo-liberalism, as well as our individual and collective realities through her diverse body of work.  Cho’s work co-mingles fashion, performance, installation, painting, video, photography, and the human body into architectural environments that activate a sense of hybridity, survival, migration, power, control, and liberation. Born in Seoul, Korea, and currently based in New York City, Cho has received numerous honors and awards in the visual arts and has been exhibiting her work extensively across North America, Europe, and East Asia since 2004.

Liz Ensz designs large scale politically-themed patterns that are inspired by the floral motifs and geometric structures typical of Islamic architecture and decorative art.  She utilizes these patterns as a metaphor for the conformity of people within a group, corporate globalization and enforced consumer assimilation.  Ensz currently resides in Baltimore, MD, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fibers from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2005. That same year she was awarded the prestigious Jacques and Natasha Gelman Travel Award to study Moorish design in Spain and has since exhibited her work in numerous venues across the United States.

About the Juror

Andrea Pollan is a multi-talented art industry veteran.  The curator, consultant and writer has organized more than 125 exhibitions of contemporary art both regionally and nationally and has written numerous catalogs and exhibition brochures. She has organized more than 125 exhibitions of contemporary art nationally and has written numerous catalogs and exhibition brochures. Pollan has managed a large corporate and several private collections. In 2004, after serving as exhibitions director at McLean Project for the Arts for 10 years, she opened an acclaimed curatorial space called Curator’s Office in Washington, D.C. It serves both as a curatorial office for offsite exhibitions and projects and a micro-gallery for diverse curatorial voices. In addition to onsite exhibitions, Curator’s Office participates in the international art fairs and organizes exhibitions offsite for museums, galleries, and arts organizations. Curator’s Office was identified in the December 2006 issue of Vanity Fair magazine as an important player in “The Art Universe.”

School 33 Art Center is dedicated to providing opportunities for artists through exhibitions, art classes, workshops, a Studio Artist Program, and special events. School 33 Art Center is a program of the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, Inc., and is supported in part by grants from the Mayor and the City Council of Baltimore, Provident Bank, Corrigan Sports / The Under Armour Baltimore Marathon, the Maryland State Arts Council, and through private contributions to School 33 Art Center.

For more information on School 33 Art Center, visit www.school33.org or call 410-396-4641.

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