Opening 5/4/13: Saturation Point @ Dutton

Opening 4/6/13: Charles Miller and Maria Walker @ Dedee Shattuck Gallery

Charles Miller and Maria Walker

curated by artist Henry McMahon

Read the exhibition essay by Henry McMahon HERE

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Dedee Shattuck Gallery

1 Partners Lane, Westport, MA

Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 10 – 5, Sundays, 12 – 5

Opening 2/23/13: Nonobjective @ Garvey Rita Art

Nonobjective: Selected Works by Peter Acheson, Jeff Briggs, Zbigniew Grzyb, Sol LeWitt, Joel Longenecker, Andrew Masullo, Alan Shields, Judith Trepp, and Maria Walker

Garvey Rita Art

February 23 – March 30, 2013

322 Park Road, West Hartford, CT

Thank you to the Belle Foundation!

I am honored to be a recent recipient of a Belle Foundation grant.

The Belle Foundation for Cultural Development “actively support the arts, humanities and education through recognition of creative efforts and visionary ideas demonstrated by individuals in these fields”.

Thank you to the Belle Foundation and to my anonymous nominator!

Opening 2/24/13: Performing Methods—in context @ CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles

Performing Methods—in context

curated by Chris Oatey

Featuring:
Amélie Chabannes
Marc Philip van Kempen
Joey Kötting
Pascual Sisto
Maria Walker
Joe Winter

in conjunction with Chris Oatey: Performing Methods

February 24 – March 31, 2013
Reception for the artists: Sunday February 24, 5 – 7 p.m.

CB1 Gallery

207 West 5th Street, Los Angeles, CA

Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 11 – 6; Sunday 1 – 6, or by appointment

One night exhibition 2/9/13: LOVE at The Willows

(collaboration, Maria Walker and Jonathan Allmaier)

LOVE
hosted by Emily Weiner φ Sharona Eliassaf

February 9, 2013, 7:00 to 11:00 p.m.

Featuring:
Laura Piasta ♦ Johan Björck
Ragnheidur Gestsdottir
Clare Grill
Saira Mclaren ‡ Mike Hein
Fran Hostrom
Meredith James × Jonathan Ehrenberg
Benny Merris Δ Alhena Katsof
Lucy Stein
Amelia Midori Miller ♥ Augustus Nazzaro
Kevin Stahl
Maria Walker ♡ Jonathan Allmaier
Guðmundur Thoroddsen ξ Arna Óttarsdóttir
Sharona Eliassaf
Michael Hix ☎ Emily Weiner

The Willows
Hosted by Sharona Eliassaf and Emily Weiner
37 Willow Street, Apartment 3, Brooklyn

Opening 1/5/13: Sideshow Nation @ Sideshow

Sideshow Gallery

Gallery Hours: 12 – 6, Thursday – Sunday

319 Bedford Ave, Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Rail review of “The escape from the banal…”

The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal 

full review: Brooklyn Rail Review

by Kara L. Rooney

“In the case of Maria Walker, the exposure of her painting’s traditional support—the wood frame that makes up its skeletal core—is translated into sculptural relief. She states, in a clever series of poems written for the exhibition catalog: “What are the Materials of painting? There is the wood. There is the cloth. There is the paint.”* Basic materials, direct in their simplicity and listing. Here the symbol set does not pretend to be that which it is not: it is truth. The transcription of this idea, Walker’s “Untitled Stand #2” (2012), is underwhelming, faded, awkward—fabulous. A signifier of the reality it strains, almost too successfully, to express.”

Opening 11/10/12: Temperature @ Projekt722

Temperature
Jonathan Allmaier, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Tatiana Berg, Mira Dancy, Jess Fuller, Ted Gahl, Rachel Klinghoffer, Arthur Pena, Matt Rich, Leigh Ruple, Joseph Sossi, Maria Walker

Projekt722
722 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY
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November 10 – December 9
Opening November 10, 6 – 9 PM

Opening 11/2/12: The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal @ NURTUREart

The escape from the banal everyday life to the world of the ideal
curated by Brooke Moyse

Jonathan Allmaier, Tamara Gonzales, EJ Hauser, Stephen Truax, Maria Walker

NURTUREart Gallery
56 Bogart Street, Brooklyn, NY

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November 2 – November 30
Opening Friday, November 2, 7 – 9 PM

I have several poems included in the publication for the show, which is viewable online by clicking HERE.

Artforum.com Critics’ Picks review of Four Rooms

Maria Walker

review by Christopher Howard

08.16.12-09.09.12 John Davis Gallery

The rugged, ragged work of the Brooklyn-based artist Maria Walker—painted wooden-slat constructions, acrylic-soaked canvases straining over irregularly shaped stretchers, and postcard-size frescos fused onto burlap and mounted on square panels—is well suited for the raw concrete rooms of John Davis Gallery’s gutted carriage house. With their tough, unfinished beauty, the fourteen pieces shown here evoke a romantic preoccupation with the passing of time yet are never overly sentimental. Walker’s work also feels nostalgic in light of recent art history, recalling in particular the elegant experimental approaches to painting from the 1970s (Elizabeth Murray, Ron Gorchov), and the manneristically mutilated work by Steven Parrino from the past three decades—but with much less angst

Her process is key to her work: The largest painting, Summer—Summer Solstice, 2011–12, involved a patient system of staining an unprimed canvas over the course of a year, pouring rich, diverse hues of paint inward from the stretcher bars’ bulky and mountain perimeter, with its dozen protrusions underneath the cotton. She produced the smaller, equally multicolored Calendar 1–65 (Skowhegan, ME), 2011, over two months, and the monochromatic baby-blue Birthday 32, 2012, even quicker, in a day, with a circle of twelve jagged blocks underneath the saturated fabric liner symbolizing a clock’s hours.

Walker acknowledges the source of her support materials by adding a figurative element—the tree—into many of her works, especially her three-dimensional structures. A painting of a barren grayish-brown trunk and branches, March Tree, 2011–12, is wrapped around a skewed stretcher that stands upright. The object casts a long winter shadow, composed of wooden slats arranged on the floor behind it, which are messily painted sky blue and leaf green. Another work, Return, 2011–12, abandons painting entirely: The artist removed an unsatisfactory canvas from its supporting brace, leaving behind a rough but elegant sunburst pattern to hang on the wall.

Interview with Painter’s Bread

Read my interview with Mike Rutherford of Painter’s Bread HERE.

 

Installation Images: Four Rooms at John Davis

 

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Opening 9/7/12: Floor Routine @ Bodega in Philadelphia

Floor Routine

Ethan Cook, Maria Walker, John Roebas

Bodega

253 N. 3rd St., Philadelphia

Opening September 7, 6 – 9PM

September 7 – October 21

Saturdays and Sundays, 12 – 4PM

Opening 9/8/12: HKJB @ Galerie Laroche/ Joncas in Montreal

Opening 8/18/12: Maria Walker @ John Davis Gallery

Maria Walker, Four Rooms

John Davis Gallery, Second Floor Carriage House

 August 16 – September 9

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 18, 6 – 8 PM

Also on view: Alison Fox, Leonid Lerman, JJ Manford, Deirdre Swords, and Stephen Reynolds

362 1/2 Warren Street, Hudson, NY

Hours: Thursday – Monday 11 – 5 PM or by appointment

Artist of the Week Interview at LVL3 Gallery

Thanks to LVL3 Gallery for the featured interview! :

Artist of the Week: Maria Walker

Opening 5/25/12: Homecoming @ Brown University

Homecoming: First Annual Alumni Exhibition

Brown University, List Art Center, 1st floor

May 25 – June 22

Opening: Friday May 25, 5 – 7

curated by Heather Darcy Bhandari ’97 and Ann Tarantino ’97

Jonathan Ehrenberg ’97, Orly Genger ’01, Kevin Kramp ’02, Maria Walker ’02, Saya Woolfalk ’01

Opening 4/20/12: Potential Images @ 1708 Gallery in Richmond

Potential Images

Ivin Ballen, Guy Ben-Ari, Michael DeLucia, Michael Dotson, Brendan Smith and Maria Walker

1708 Gallery, 319 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA

April 20 – June 9, 2012

1708 Gallery is pleased to present Potential Images. Curated by Emily Smith, Executive Director of 1708, Potential Images surveys current practices in contemporary painting, from a DIY aesthetic to an interest in new media. Featuring Ivin Ballen, Guy Ben-Ari, Michael DeLucia, Michael Dotson, Brendan Smith and Maria Walker, the works in Potential Images demonstrate both an embrace of the quiet and handmade and an awareness of the neo-baroque and the sublime. Underlying much of the work is an awareness of the history of painting and the theories and arguments that have accompanied this story.

1708 Gallery will host a preview on Thursday, May 3, with a Curator’s talk at 6:30. There will also be an opening reception on Friday, May 4, 2012. Potential Images will be on view through Saturday, June 9.

Opening 4/14/12: Immaterial Ergonomics @ Space 4 Art in San Diego

Immaterial Ergonomics

Brice Bischoff, Ryan Perez, Matt Sheridan, Maria Walker

Space 4 Art, 325 15th Street, San Diego, CA

April 14 – May 26, 2012

Opening April 14, 6 to 10 PM

Immaterial Ergonomics brings together four artists from both coasts who share an affinity for material transcendence. Their innovative, contemporary work represents a range of hybrid practices: sculpted canvases, painted videos, printed sculptures and digital processes, which turn traditional mediums on their head. The four artists share a goal: to head toward representational objects, only to sidestep the familiar at the last moment. And drift past. The work will be celebrated with an incredible reception that includes high-caliber music performance art by UC San Diego art teacher Michael Trigilio, and a one-night-only installation by San Diego artist Anna Chiaretta Lavatelli.

 

Installation images: Maria Walker, Sun You at Open Space in LIC

 

Opening 3/16/12: Maria Walker, Sun You @ Open Space

Maria Walker, Sun You

Open Space

March 16 – March 31

Opening: Friday, March 16, 6 – 9 PM

Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 12 – 6 PM

44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, NY 11101

View some installation images on KCLOG.

Opening 1/21/12: Domesticities @ Bull and Ram

Domesticities:

Meghan Petras, Maria Walker, James Hyde, Eve Latainer, Yevgeniya Baras, Susan Bricker

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Curated by Yevgeniya Baras

Cooking Performance by chef Angela Dimayuga

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Bull and Ram
270 Lafayette Street (corner of Prince and Lafayette in SoHo)
Suite 612, New York 10012

Opening: Saturday, January 21, 7-9 PM

January 21 – February 19, 2012

Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12 – 6

Gallery contact: 917-602-0684

Opening 1/7/12: Mic Check @ Sideshow

Mic : Check

Sideshow Gallery

January 7 – February 26, 2012

Opening: January 7, 6 – 9 PM

Gallery Hours: 12 – 6, Thursday – Sunday

319 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Over 400 artists included.

 

 

12/10/11: Freestyle at Joe Ballweg’s Studio

. “Freestyle” . Saturday, December 10,2011 . 6 pm – 10 pm
.Joe Ballweg Andrea Bergart Patrick Berran Tamara Gonzales Eric Hibit Denise Kupferschmidt Meghan Petras Matthew Phillips Red Paper Heart Allyson L Smith Jennifer Sullivan Hiroshi Tachibana Maria Walker Sun You Joe Ballweg’s studio 680 Woodward Ave, Ridgewood, NY Seneca Stop on M train; Myrtle Wyckoff on L

10/8/11 – 11/5/11: 001 | Ryan Kitson, Matthias Merkel-Hess, Maria Walker at Favorite Goods

001 | Ryan Kitson, Matthias Merkel-Hess, Maria Walker

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October 8 – November 5, 2011

Opening: October 8th, 7 – 10pm

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Favorite Goods

936 1/2 Chung King Road

Los Angeles, CA 90012

Fall 2011: Maria Walker Interviews Cordy Ryman for NY ARTS Magazine

Read my interview with Cordy Ryman from this summer:

NY ARTS Magazine, Fall 2011

In Conversation: Maria Walker Interviews Cordy Ryman

8/26/11 – 9/8/11: ABSTRACTED at DNA Gallery

ABSTRACTED: Peter Acheson, Elizabeth Gourlay, Peik Larsen, Sarah Lutz, Erik Schoonebeek, Maria Walker

August 26 – September 8, 2011
Opening August 26, 6 – 10 PM

DNA Gallery, 288 Bradford Street, Provincetown, MA 02657, 508-487-7700

Contact: Kevin Rita, kr@dnagallery.com

8/7/11: REFORMATION 2011 at Somerset County Jail, Skowhegan, ME

REFORMATION 2011

Opening August 7, 2011

View images of the Jail installation.

The participants of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture present their work in Reformation 2011. The exhibition takes place in two sites: the former Somerset County Jail curated by Michael Ruglio-Misurell and the former Convent Reformed Church curated by Kyla Chevrier

Opening 6/3/11: Out of Practice @ ARTBLOG ARTBLOG

Opening Friday, June 3 · 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Curated by Nudashank

ART BLOG ART BLOG, 508 W. 26th St. 11th Floor, New York, NY

SETH ADELSBERGER
CONOR BACKMAN
KATIE BELL
KADAR BROCK
MICHAEL DOTSON
ALEX EBSTEIN
SAM FALLS
TED GAHL
NOAM RAPPAPORT
CORDY RYMAN
MARIA WALKER

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“Out of Practice” draws parallels between work that reflects its own materiality, deconstructs its own creation, and refers directly to the studio environment in which it was created. This meta approach serves as the basis for finding new ways to experiment within the medium of painting- expanding its limits, while drawing from a rich history of influences. In realizing such direct combinations of canvas, wood, paper, and pigment, the works in this exhibition evince a formalist minimalism as vestige of the long hours spent alone in the studio.

Show runs June 3rd -June 18th
Hours: Wed. – Sat. Noon – 6pm
and also by appointment

6/4/11-6/5/11: Purple Nurple at Bushwick Open Studios

Saturday, June 4 noon to 8pm
Sunday, June 5 noon to 7pm

Bushwick Open Studios, above English Kills Gallery

114 Forrest St. buzzer #9

Brooklyn, NY

For this year’s Bushwick Open Studios, Pioneers of Inspiration presents, “PURPLE NURPLE”, a group show of purple artwork.

Participating artists include:

BROOKE MOYSE
JOE BALLWEG
GLEN BALDRIDGE
JONATHAN ALLMAIER
JAY GASKILL
JULIE TORRES
MARIA WALKER
RYAN DAWALT
JOY CURTIS
MIKE NOLAN
MIKE OLIN
ELIZABETH DEASY
DRE BERGART
LIZ AINSLE
and more…..

also on view, open studios of Joy Curtis and Mike Olin

Opening 5/27/11: Control Alt Delete curated by HKJB

HKJB is pleased to present . . .

 Control Alt Delete 

Benjamin King
Brion Nuda Rosch
Ernesto Burgos
Halsey Hathaway
Graham Collins
Jay Henderson
Lauren Luloff
Matt Jones
Maria Walker
Paul DeMuro
Stacy Fisher
Rob Nadeau
Vince Contarino
Tisch Abelow
Wayne Adams

840 Broadway (at Park Street), 3rd Floor, Bushwick, Brooklyn, 11206

J, M to Flushing Ave., or G to Flushing Ave.

One night only: Friday, May 27, 2011, 7-10 PM

HKJB.ORG

Opening 4/16/11: The Shape of Things to Come @ Nudashank

Opening April 16 at Nudashank:

Stacy Fisher, Tracy Thomason, and Maria Walker

Location: H & H Building, 405 West Franklin Street, 3rd Floor, Baltimore, Maryland

Review by Matt Smith on the New American Painters blog.

Installation images.

Opening 1/21/11: FAWC Visual Fellows Invitational

2011 FAWC Visual Fellows Invitational

January 21 – February 1

Fine Arts Work Center, Hudson D. Walker Gallery

Provincetown, MA

Opening 1/9/11: Paintings on view at John Davis Gallery

Three paintings on view at:

John Davis Gallery

362 1/2 Warren Street

Hudson, NY 12534

Opening 1/8/11: It’s All Good!!: Apocalypse Now, Sideshow Gallery

Sideshow Gallery

January 8 – February 20, 2011

Opening Saturday, January 8, 6-9pm

319 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn

Hours 12-6, Thursday – Sunday

Opening 12/1/10: The Psychoanalytic Self, at NYU Rosenberg Gallery

Rosenberg Gallery, New York University, 34 Stuyvesant St., NY NY

December 1 – December 13

Artists: Jessica Berry, Nora Hagert, Maria Kondratiev, Maria Walker

Opening Reception: Wednesday, December 1, 5-7 PM

Gallery Hours: Daily, 12-10 PM

View images of the show.

10/22/10: Cocktails and Dreams at the Laundromat

Cocktails and Dreams

Friday, October 22, 2010, 7-10 PM

The Laundromat

238 Melrose St., 4th Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11206

A one night group show featuring small works and art- or artist-inspired cocktails by the following artists:

Jon Allmaier, Liz Atzberger, Kimberly Brandt, Dan Bruce, Heather Cahill, Christopher Deo, Ben Godward, Walsh Hansen, Alexa Hoyer, Ianthe Jackson, Jake Lesher, Rebecca Litt, Sarah McDougald Kohn, Joe Nanashe, Joe Protheroe, Carl Randall, Kevin Regan, Bob Scheib, Rob Servo, Stephen Truax, Maria Walker

The show will coincide with Work that Beat, a night of openings at Bushwick galleries.

View images of the show.

Opening 8/27/10: thanks.frank.

thanks.frank.

Frank Bramblett has taught at Tyler School of Art for the past 38 years (1972-2010). As a small gesture of appreciation, a group of his former students will exhibit artwork made with Frank in mind.

August 27 – September 21, 2010

Opening reception:
Friday, August 27, 7-9

Gallery hours:
Saturday, 10am – 1pm
Tuesday, 5pm – 8pm

Artists include 3axap Bakc, Amy Lincoln, Angela Washko, Anthony Campuzano, Arden Bendler Browning, Austin Lee, Bridget Purcell, Christopher Ulivo, Colleen McCubbin Stepanic, Dorian Dean, Dustin Metz, Esmeralda Montes, Joe Piconi, Jonathan Allmaier, Joy Payton, Julia Schwardron, Katrina Mortorff, Kelly McRaven, Lauren Whearty, Liz Markus, Maanik Singh, Maggie Van Scoyk, Maria Walker, Megan Bartley Matthews, Michael Ambron, Rebecca Saylor Sack, Rebecca Vicars, Robert Goodman, Sarah McD Kohn, Sean McBride, Thomas Vance, Tony Lopez and Trenton Doyle Hancock.

The exhibition will take place at The Elkins Estate, a historic mansion neighboring the original Tyler School of Art.

View images of the show.

Opening 6/4/10: Drawing of the Year, Camel Art Space

Drawing of the Year

June 4 – June 27, 2010

Opening: June 4th, 6pm – 10pm (concurrent with Bushwick Open Studios)

Gallery hours: Weekends 12 -6 pm, or by appointment

Location: 722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11237

Drawing of the Year is an exhibition of works by artists who have shown at Camel over the past year. It is also celebrates the one year anniversary of Camel Art Space.

View images of the show.

Opening 4/3/10: Bushwick Shlacht!

Bushwick Shlacht!

Curated by Guillermo Creus with Marcel Huppauff and Tom Stanford

245 Boerum Street, Brooklyn, NY

April 3 and 4, 2010

Opening Reception: April 3, 6-10 PM

Includes work of over 60 artists, based on the concept of a battle/collaboration between painters.

Opening 1/9/10: It’s a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery

Sideshow Gallery

319 Bedford Ave., Williamsburg, Brooklyn

hours 12-6, Thursday – Sunday

Opening 12/11/09: Soft Edge, Camel Art Space

Soft Edge, curated by Hilary Doyle and Reid Hitt

Artists: Peter Acheson, Nora Griffin, Chris Martin, Anna Rosen, Rachel Salamone, Maria Walker

Opening: Dec. 11, 2009, 6-9PM

Camel Art Space: open weekends 12-6PM, or by appointment

722 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY

View images of the show.

Opening 12/3/09: Small Works Show, 440 Gallery

5th Annual Small Works Show, curated by Charles Long

Opening: Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, 6-9 PM

440 Gallery: 440 6th Ave., between 9th and 10th Street, Brooklyn, NY

10/24/09: This Beat Is Sick- Bushwick open gallery night

The new spot, Sugar, will participate in This Beat is Sick, a night of openings of Bushwick galleries:

Saturday, October 24, 2009, 6 – 10 PM

A Taste of Sugar features work by myself, Amy Lincoln, Helena Wurzel, Loie Hollowell, David Frye, and more…

Sugar Gallery: 449 Troutman St #3-5

Other gallery participants include:

Norte Maar, English Kills, Centotto, Factory Fresh, Grace Exhibition Space, Laundromat, Lumenhouse, Privateer, and Famouns Accountants.

Also check out Ianthe Jackson’s solo show, If Walls Could Talk, at Kevin Curran’s Laundromat.

Find out more information about This Beat Is Sick:

http://nortemaar.org/beatissick.htm

Opening 9/26/09: A Taste of Sugar

Inaugural Exhibition: A Taste of Sugar

9/26/09 – 11/07/09

Opening: Saturday, September 26, 6-9 PM

I will be part of the inaugural exhibition at the new Bushwick art space, Sugar. The space is run by artist Gwendolyn Skaggs. Come check out the show and space!

open Friday to Sunday, by appt. only

www.sugarbushwick.com

8/8/09: The Burger Show, Laundromat Gallery

The Burger Show
Saturday August 8th, 2008
6-10pm

The Laundromat would like to announce the first event of its 2009 season, “The Burger Show” an exhibition of artwork and conceptual hamburgers by Laundromat artists Chris Deo, Maria Walker, Jonathan Allmaier, Joe Protheroe, Ianthe Jackson, Sarah McDougald Kohn, Ben Godward and Liz Atzberger. The Burger show combines two of New York’s most beloved summer traditions: the group show, and the barbecue, for an evening of multi-sensory fun.

The artists will prepare burgers at the gallery, each designed with an art historical or conceptual theme. Visitors may purchase a burger made by the artist of their choice, and enjoy the exhibition, a mixture of drawings, paintings and sculpture.

The Laundromat Gallery
http://laundromatgallery.blogspot.com
238 Melrose St, 4th floor
Brooklyn, NY 11206
L train to Morgan
For more information call 347-623-3490

Read a review of the Burger Show:

http://c-monster.net/blog1/2009/08/10/juicy-burgers/#more-3934

Opening 7/10/09: Vox V, Vox Populi Gallery

VOX V

Friday, July 10 – Sunday, August 2

Opening: Friday, July 10 from 6 – 11 PM

This is Vox Populi’s fifth annual exhibition, this year juried by Ryan Trecartin, artist, and Larry Mangel, the founder of Cerealart.

The show features 51 national and international emerging artists. Nearly 100 individual works will fill the gallery in a playful, sprawling installation designed by Trecartin and Mangel.

VOXPOPULI Gallery

319 N 11th Street, Third Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
T 215 238 1236
F 215 238 1253
http://www.voxpopuligallery.org
Hours: Wednesday – Sunday 12-6 pm

Sideshow review

Read a review of It’s A Wonderful Life at Sideshow Gallery (with a mention of my painting) at anaba.blogspot.com.

Opening 1/10/09: It’s A Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

annual group exhibition
Sideshow Gallery
319 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn (between S. 2nd and S. 3rd)
opening January 10, 6-9PM
up through February 22

www.sideshowgallery.com