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One: Opening Reception

Wednesday, May 27th | 6-8pm
One will be up from May 21, 2009 - July 2, 2009

Please join us for our debut gallery opening, One, featuring local artists Jessica Van Brakle, Kris Vandevander and TwoCan Collective (Emily C-D and Jessica Unterhalter). This collective of artists have one thing in common: connection. Whether it is community relationships, human presence or just connections to nature, these three artists have displayed their work in a way that brings everyone closer together; to become one.

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ARTIST BIOS

TwoCan Collective is comprised of Emily C-D and Jessica Unterhalter, resident artists of the Whole Gallery at the H&H Warehouse in Baltimore. A process of exploration, collection, and appropriation of found materials informs their work. Wandering the alleys of Baltimore’s most blighted neighborhoods has inspired them to construct distinctive relief murals that incorporate discarded metal, wood, and plastic objects with their vibrant painted designs. Last year while touring the crowded, colorful chaos of India, TwoCan created a series of collages made from found papers which they compiled into the self-published book Bananas. TwoCan also has a growing body of public mural work between them, their involvement in community art a natural outgrowth of a creative process concerned with transformation. No matter where they are or what they are working with, TwoCan Collective recreates society’s scraps into works of art that explore the tension between growth and decay. Visit C-D’s website here.

Jessica Van Brakle is inspired by her passion for construction cranes and an ongoing interest in nature, home, and the decorative. The work draws on her immediate landscape, making connections between these internal and external environments. Absent of human presence, there is an emphasis on the structures’ interaction with the domestic patterns and botanicals. Their entwinement and where they intersect- contrasting colorful, textural organic patterns, with the intricate geometric lines of the cranes. Van Brakle sees it as a balancing of familiar opposites: feminine with masculine, strong with fragile, industrial with organic. Visit Brakle’s website here.

Kris Vandevander Primarily focuses on the process of repetition he creates condensed paintings. Inspired by simplicity and order he explores mark making techniques similar to pointillism. His work is based on connections to nature and inspired by music. A native to Baltimore, Kris graduate from The Maryland Institute College of Art and has show his work throughout the city. See a video on Vandevander here.