Marty Weishaar: Sea I MADe IT
Rosenberg Gallery
In Sea I MADe IT, Marty Weishaar forms symbolic relationships between traditional and nontraditional materials with various historical approaches, such as conceptualism and intuitive abstraction. Connections are made between two-dimensional and three-dimensional projects, battle ships, systematic abstract paintings, diarist drawings, airplanes, and bridges.
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Goodbye, Hello, Farewell, 2011 cardboard and hot glue various dimensions Right
From the series The Black Road, 2010 marker, watercolor, and ink on vellum 10� x 8�
Made from cardboard, hot glue, tape, and house paint and ranging in size from one-foot to three-feet, scaled-down models of destroyers, aircraft carriers, tugboats, and sailing ships, drift on and over the walls. Small, mixed-media drawings on vellum; abstracted paintings on canvas, cardboard, and wooden text; and loopily painted white cardboard radio towers are all hung to cover the wall and extend to areas on the floor.
Studio Installation, Sea I made it, 2011, mixed media
On a separate wall hang large abstract acrylic paintings on paper. The paintings are displayed with cardboard text (See I MADe It, MARTY YOUR SO CRAFTY), framed vellum drawings, and Polaroid portraits of the artist. Geometric abstraction, paintings, and installation. Organized together, sharing space, each element evaluates, mirrors, and criticizes the other— there is no hierarchy of materials, or of symbols, or between drawing, painting, and sculpture, so each system points out the strengths and the pitfalls of the other.
Untitled (Kinetic Match-Box Car Track), 2009 foam, zip-ties, tape, toy cars, cardboard 15’ x 25’ x 10’
Sea I MADe IT is not just a play of craftily made projects, but an exercise in finding linear and nonlinear organizational strategies between high art and craft. It is an exhibition of the process, the product, and the attitude. It is a rearranging of the discourse between style and technique—text to ships to abstraction; sculpture to drawing to painting; high art and craft.
Marty Weishaar: Sea I MADe IT October 25 – December 4, 2011 (Gallery will be closed November 22-27 for Thanksgiving) artists’ Reception
Friday, November 11, 2011, 6-8 p.m.
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The Rosenberg Gallery is free and open to the public. The Rosenberg Gallery program is funded with the assistance of grants from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of Maryland and the NEA, and the Baltimore County Commission on the Arts and Sciences.
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(FRONT LEFT)
UNtitled, 2011, watercolor and marker on velum, 8’’ x 11’’
(FRONT Right) Marty
Go Home, 2009,
cardboard, hot glue, multiple drawings on paper with acrylic, ink, and marker, various dimensions