Installing Blood Weather -- Becky Alprin & Lauren Boilini

Creative Alliance at The Patterson
3134 Eastern Ave Baltimore, MD 21224 www.creativealliance.org

Opens Feb 26 w/ FREE Celebration concert. On view Feb 26 Mar 27

As observers of human activity, Lauren Boilini and Becky Alprin view the world from opposite ends of the telescope. Boilini, who transforms the gallery with a single massive painting covering 2000 square feet, is known for epic canvases—her mark making intense, all encompassing, and fast. She places herself, and the viewer, at the center of the action, like the jostled referee in a boxing match. Alprin, on the other hand, takes the long view. Epochs are compressed and conflated in her fragmented sculptures, which recall both archeological digs and architectural models, recognizable as the fractured cities we live in. As close and passionate Boilini is, so Alprins work is pointed and analytic; together, they expose a startling cross section of forces that make and unmake the world every day.



Artist-in-Residence Lauren Boilini was born and raised in Indiana, received her BFA in Painting and BA in Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2006, and currently teaches painting at MICA. Becky Alprin exhibits internationally, is the recipient of a 2009 MD State Arts Council Grant and a 2009 Baker Artist Awards Peoples Choice Award, and was a 2008 finalist for the Sondheim award. Both graduated from the MICAs Mt. Royal Graduate School in 2008.
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