Take (Smelly) Care
Art in Odd Places (AiOP) 2024:CARE
October 18-20,2024
AIOP is an annual festival that presents visual and
performance art in public spaces along 14th Street
in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River.
Curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek
Manager: Valentina Zamora. Producer: Robin Schatell.
Founder & Director: Ed Woodham. artinoddplaces.org
Concurrence:Refraction
September 27, 2024
showtime 7PM-10PM/ doors 6PM
Current Space 421 N.Howard St. 21201
The Chariot of the Gods(cosmic interference)
reGENERATE
September 12 – Saturday, November 2, 2024
Maryland Art Place 218 W Saratoga St. Balt.MD
Gallery Hours | Tues. – Sat. | 12 PM to 4 PM
Luxury Smells
Invisible Architectures \ Social Contracts
JUNE 13 2024, 6-8pm
Maryland Art Place
218 West Saratoga Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
House of LEDA
MIND ON FIRE
Enoch Pratt Central Library
MAY 31 2024, 6pm-8pm
400 Cathedral Street Baltimore, MD
more info: Final Fridays:Enoch Pratt Library
WILD CARD
SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW
September 7-11th, 2023 #1129
Opening Night Sept.6, 5-8pm
625 Madison Ave, NYC
more info: Spring Break Art Show
Little Patuxent Review
Publication launch June 25, 2023 3-5pm
Oliver’s Carriage House in Columbia MD
MIND ON FIRE
June 2 & June 3rd, 2023
Mind on Fire presents new works by composers
Bobby Ge and Sebastian Suarez-Solis,
an olfactory choral by Laure Drogoul
and Ami Dang performing music from her
most recent album-The Living Worlds Demands.
Current Space enter at 421 Tyson Street
Baltimore, MD 21201
more info:https://www.mindonfire.org/events
LUXURY GOODS
Recent works by Laure Drogoul
April 1 – May 28, 2023
Gallery hours:6:30-8:30pm on Saturday
April 1,15, 29 and May 13, 27 and 28th
performance at 7:30 with Liz Downing
WEST Gallery, 1407 W Madison Avenue,
Baltimore, MD 21217
Mason Exhibitions Gillespie
February 1 – March 10, 2023 : Opening Reception February 1 at 4-6pm
Gillespie Gallery of Art, Art & Design Building, 1st floor
4515 Patriot Cir, Fairfax, VA 22030
CAST/RECAST is recast again, moving to Mason Exhibitions Gillespie.
Participating Artists:
Rahne Alexander, Laure Drogoul, Cheryl Edwards, Heloisa Escudero,Maggie Gourlay, Veronica Jackson, Mira Hecht, Kay Hwang,Jessica Kallista, Maria Karametou, Isabel Manalo, Ceci Cole McInturff,
Meeting Ground (Susan Main and MJ Neuberger), Zia Palmer, Judith Pratt, LisaRosenstein, Nicole Salimbene, Asha Santee, Katherine Thompson, Jessica Valoris and Naoko Wowsugi.
This exhibition is presented in partnership with Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art (Tephra ICA)@tephra_ica and is curated by Alissa Maru in collaboration with Hannah Barco and Sue Wrbican@suewrbican
OCTOBER 14-DECEMBER 3, 2022
FEATURING: Rahne Alexander, Laure Drogoul, Cheryl Edwards, Heloisa Escudero,Maggie Gourlay, Veronica Jackson, Mira Hecht, Kay Hwang,
Jessica Kallista, Maria Karametou, Isabel Manalo, Ceci Cole McInturff,
Meeting Ground (Susan Main and MJ Neuberger), Zia Palmer, Judith Pratt, LisaRosenstein, Nicole Salimbene, Asha Santee, Katherine Thompson, Jessica Valoris and Naoko Wowsugi.
Cast/Recast, curated by Alissa Maru, fills the gallery at Mason Exhibitions Arlington with installations,sculptures,altars, manifestos, performance, paintings, photographs and a portal! Mason Exhibitions Arlington,
3601 Fairfax Dr, Arlington VA Hours: Wed-Sat 11am-4pm
more info:www.masonexhibitions.org
YOU EFF OH
MARYLAND ART PLACE
Septembr 22- November 19, 2022
Maryland Art Place presents YOU EFF OH, a group exhibition that addresses what artists think about extraterrestrial phenomena and how this topic influences, or may be realized in their work. The exhibition will take place at MAP running from Sept 22–Nov 19 at 218 West Saratoga St Balt. MD 21201
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 12 to 4 pm
more info:https://www.mdartplace.org/exhibitions
CURRENT SPACE
October 6, 7, 8 2022
When Will it End (Reboot) is an immersive psychedelic performance experience that queers a classic post-apocalyptic play, provides a space to find the humor in our collective trauma and does work. This full length evening has developed through divination with voices across diasporas and contexts….come be an active audience.
Current Space: Enter through the back at 421 Tyson Street
Doors at 7:30 Show at 8pm
Facilitated/Directed: Isa Leal
Performers: Peter Redgrave, Timo Kuzme, Deepa Mahadevan, Steve Smith
Composer: Sam Cooper Sculpture: Laure Drogoul
The 14Karat Cabaret: Rare and Sweet…Rotten to the Core
September 16 – November 13, 2021
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD 21201
The 14Karat Cabaret: Rare and Sweet…Rotten to the Core opens September 16th 2021. Opening reception 6-9 on the 1st floor gallery at Maryland Art Place. The14Karat Cabaret, was a performance project located at MAP for over 30 years. Directed and organized by Baltimore artist Laure Drogoul, the project was conceived as a place to experiment with new forms of art making and challenge expectations. The project presented hundreds of local, national and some international artists. The14Karat Cabaret exhibition at Map will feature ephemera, photos, posters, performing objects and video of the history of the project from it’s beginning in 1989. The exhibition runs through November 13th 2021. Gallery hours: 12-4pm Tue-Sat
In Plain Sight(site)
On-going performance series, co-curated by Laure Drogoul and Carly Bales.
The veils between worlds are thin and we can easily slip through. Participating artists conjure portals, to other realities in an inter-dimensional transit station. Shape-shifting between times and dimensions, these artists tease out visions that question our sight, embody the present impossible, transporting us into the unknown. Performances start at 7:30PM, Le Mondo 401 N.Howard St.Baltimore MD.
(dirty~clean)Cleaners
CURRENT SPACE
October 17- November 14th 2020
Laure Drogoul’s on-going project researching the after-life of human made materials related to routine and domesticity. (dirty~clean)Cleaners takes the form of an otherworldly dry-cleaning shop that reflects upon the many cleaners that dot our urban landscape. This is a storefront exhibition, physical distancing with masks on please. On three separate evenings the Gallery storefront windows and sidewalk will be activated. Performances start at 7:30pm. During the performance, otherworldly Sisyphean cleaning clerks endlessly fold, weigh and clean, clean, clean…
NEW CONSTELLATIONS:CONTEMPORARY NEON ART
September 26 – October 31st 2020
Curated by Cardinal Space, this exhibition takes place in public facing windows along a six block corridor of Bolton Street, from the 1800 to 1300 block, in the Bolton Hill neighborhood of Baltimore. All works in the exhibition will be visible each evening from 5-9 p.m. in their respective windows. This project format aligns with Cardinal’s in interrogating ideas about exhibition formats and the ways that art shapes space.Viewers are encouraged to take a walk along the six-block corridor of Bolton Street, as long as they feel safe and healthy, in order to view this exhibition.
more info – https://www.cardinalspace.com/new-constellations
Unnatural Causes: Art of a Critical Nature
The Carroll Mansion, Baltimore, MDApril 22-May 24,2020 opening Apr. 22. 5-8 p.m. (postponed due to covid-new date TBA)Unnatural Causes: Art of a Critical Nature, is a series of exhibitions and performances that focus on our impact on the planet. With more than thirty artists, Unnatural Causes spotlights the detrimental changes in climate and biodiversity. Our events bring together artists, conservationists, activists, and the public to direct us toward individual and collective action. Curated by 4Alarm Artists
Educate: A Charity Exhibition, Benefiting The Luminos Fund Christie’s New York, 7 – 11 February 2020
Opening Reception
7 February, 6:30pm – 9:00 pm
Christie’s, 20 Rockefeller Plaza, NYC, NY
more info:The Luminos Fund:https://luminosfund.org/
2019 aiop:INVISIBLE
OCTOBER 17-20, 2019
14th Street from Avenue C to the Hudson River
more info: http://www.artinoddplaces.org
SUPERHEROES
24 JULY — 17 AUGUST, 2019
Y:ART Gallery
3402 Gough St. Baltimore MD 21224
Opening Reception:Saturday July 27, 2019. 6PM – 9PM
(dirty~clean)CLEANERS
April 20 – May 11, 2019
Cardinal
1758 Park Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217
opening reception: April 20th 7-9pm
(dirty~clean) Cleaners is an immersive installation and uncanny dry cleaner shop composed of low density polyethylene (the clear plastic used to package “clean” garments). The work reflects on the ubiquitous cleaners of our urban landscape and draws on the history of Cardinal, which once housed a dry-cleaning business. The project emphasizes the growing environmental problem of LDPE plastic #4 and the use of perchloroethylene, a known toxin, to clean wearables. On-going performances will guide the visitor through the cleaning process.
Welcome toOurClayborhood
September 15 – November 3, 2018
opening reception September15thBaltimore Clayworks
5707 Smith Avenue
Baltimore MD 21209
more info: Baltimore Clayworks
FESTIVAL FOR CHANGE
Baltimore War Memorial Plaza
Saturday September 8,2018
12 – 4pm (rain or shine)
Y:ART Gallery
THE BRA SHOW
27 JUNE — 4 AUGUST, 2018
3402 Gough St. Baltimore MD 21224
Opening Reception: June 30th 6-9pm
THE BRA SHOW
The Illuminated Fountain of Extinction
Greater Reston Art Center
May19 – May 20,2018
Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival
Reston, Virginia
Pageantry and performances: May19 at 7-10pm and May20 at 1-3pm
The Illuminated Fountain of Extinction is a
Climate Change Pageant.
It is a community based participatory artwork based on time, temporal illusion and sustainability which invites the viewer to be a part of an on-going pageant of creatures of the past, present and future. Inspired by the search for the fountain of youth and the exotic flora and fauna of the illuminated manuscripts, the project raises environmental awareness and invites the participants to consider and revel in the natural and the post-natural world.
The Illuminated Fountain of Extinction is generously supported by Reston Community Center.
http://restonarts.org/fineartsfestival/
https://www.facebook.com/events/2192905027608912/
Grotto of the Never, Never, Never-Ending Neverland
April 6-8 2018
Bocce Courts at 902 Stiles Street,
Little Italy, Baltimore MD.
2018 Light City:Baltimore’s Festival of Light, Music and Innovation
Neighborhood Lights, an immersive public artist-in-residencyhttps://www.facebook.com/events/375830449559247/
October 6 – 29, 2017
Birdland and the Anthropocene
The Peale Center
Baltimore, Maryland
curated by Lynne Parks
http://www.thepealecenter.org/birdland-and-the-anthropocene/
July 2-August 4, 2017
The Dog and Pony Show
Area 405
405 East Oliver Street, Baltimore MD
curated by Cara Ober and Stewart Watson
more info: The Dog and Pony Show
June 2 – June 23, 2017
Artists for Truth
Space Camp Gallery
Exhibition Opening and Benefit Auction
Friday June 2, 2017 6:00pm-10:00pm
16 W. North Avenue, Baltimore MD
more info: Artists4Truth
March 31 – April 8, 2017
The Sweetness of Doing Nothing(Dolce far Niente)
2017 Light City:Baltimore’s Festival of Light, Music and Innovation
Neighborhood Lights, an immersive public artist-in-residency
Little Italy, Baltimore MD
December 2 – January 2, 2017
Georgetown Glow
Georgetown, WashingtonDC
http://www.georgetownglowdc.com/artists-map/
Like Fine Wine
October 7, 2016
Bodega Gallery
1501 Guilford Ave A100, Baltimore, MD 21202
https://www.facebook.com/events/1116163748470450/
July 28, 2016
The Way of Lead (.38 caliber)
performance 8:00pm
as part of
Borders, Boundaries, Barricades (Retrospective)
SpaceCamp
16 W North Ave, Baltimore MD
http://bmoreart.com/2016/08/history-family-weapons-sin-and-innocence.html
June 25, 2016
Lumen Festival
Located at Atlantic Salt Company’s waterfront industrial warehouse and dock, a site that houses road salt throughout the year. Produced annually by Staten Island Arts, in partnership with Atlantic Salt. Curated by Monica Valenzuela.
more info:
http://statenislandarts.org/lumen-2
https://www.facebook.com/events/1686297511647080/
May 21, 2016 – July 9, 2016
opening reception May 20 7-9pm
Enter State: Sensing the Natural World
Curated by Raquel de Anda
Washington Projects for the Arts
2124 8th Street NW
Washington DC 20001
more:https://www.wpadc.org/exhibitions/enter-state-sensing-natural-world
April 22, 2016 6-9pm on-going
Potty Training (for adults) and other Civil Duties
School 33 Art Center, Light Street, Baltimore MD.
Laure Drogoul presents a new performance as part of
The Way Out House- a Co-Lab(oration) installation in the Art Center’s 1st floor restroom.
The Way Out House
Co-Lab(oration)Project
February 12, 2016
School 33 Art Center
Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Award
Laure Drogoul and Amanda Burnham collaborate (in a public lavatory) as part of a Co-Lab project of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation at School 33 Art Center in Baltimore, MD.
The Way Out House:
An exploration of toilet culture and digestion, The Way Out House is a transporting sanctuary of banal ritual. The two artists together have collaborated to transformed the space of a typical public lavatory into a psychedelic powder chamber evoking the cyclical systems of both nature… and the Call of Nature.
opening reception Friday, February12, 2016 6:00-9:00pm
School 33 Arts Center, Light Street, Baltimore MD.
Teetering X Tottering (On The Brink)
InLight Richmond
November 13-14, 2015
organized by 1708 Gallery
Virginia Museum of Fine Art
Richmond, Virginia
1708 Gallery
Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting
Art in Odd Places
TONE
September 17- 20, 2015
Orlando, Florida
more info:http://www.artinoddplaces.org/orlando/
PENELOPE
August 28th, 29th at 8:00pm
August 30th 2015 matinee at 3pm
Theatre Project at 45 West Preston Street, Baltimore, MD 21201.
Tickets available at the Theatre Project on-line and at the door.
Tickets: $14 general admission, $9 artists and students with ID.
Pay at the Theatre Project with cash and receive a $2 discount on tickets!
June 26, 2015
Performance: 8:00pm-10:00pm
In conjunction with Borders Boundaries Barricades
You are cordially invited to SWAN SONG, a mobile karaoke room in a Funeral Car. Please come visit, lie down, sing a song, eulogize or simply listen. SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke) is an installation/performance by Laure Drogoul that takes place in the back of a hearse. Swan Song explores issues relating to the finite nature of the body.
The hearse will be parked in front of Gallery CA (near Green Mount Cemetery) at 440 E Oliver St, Baltimore, MD 21202 USA.
more info:www.baltimoreborders.com
THURSDAY APRIL 23
Opening Reception
6:00-7:30pm Panel Discussion with local scientists at the Windup Space (next-door to the exhibition). Please see panelist bios below.
8:00-10:00pm: Exhibition in the Ynot Lot (Charles and North Ave.)
Six of one, half a dozen of the……….. OTHER
performance
March 27, 2015
The 14Karat Cabaret
218 W Saratoga St, Baltimore MD
Art Guard(en garde)
Baltimore Museum of Art’s Gala:Party of the Century
November 15, 2014
8:30 – 12:00 AM
Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, Maryland
Performance
October 25-26 2014
Apparatus for Orchestral Knitting (in a Yurt)
musicalknitting.org
Fields Festival
Camp Ramblewood
2564 Silver Rd, Darlington, MD 21034
August 22-24, 2014
more info: Fields Festival Spectrum
The Gallery at CCBC800 S.Rolling Rd, Baltimore, MD
July 11- September 20, 2014
closing reception September 19th 6-8pm
more info:Spectrum
Pendulum(Oracle)
We’re All Strangers Here
E.M.P. Collective
June 27, 2014- July 25, 2014
closing reception July 25th 7-10PM
more info: We’re All Strangers Here
35-33-35
School 33 Art Center’s 35th Anniversary Exhibit
June 13-August 21, 2014
Opening Celebration: June 21, 2014, 3-6 pm
more info:http://www.school33.org/index.cfm?page=exhibits§ion=Upcoming&exhibitID=89
April 19-May 31st
ceramics, light, water micro-greens seeds (arugula, chia, cress and flax)
SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke)
December 13, 2013
in conjunction with The Amazing Johnny Eck Exhibition
You are cordially invited to SWAN SONG, a mobile karaoke room in a Funeral Car. Please come visit, lie down, sing a song, eulogize or simply watch and listen. SWAN SONG (After-Life Karaoke) is an installation/performance by Laure Drogoul that takes place in the back of a hearse. Swan Song explores issues relating to loss, death and the finite nature of the body. The hearse will be parked in front of MICA’s Fox Building1303 W Mt Royal Ave, Baltimore, MD 21217 USA.
Performance: 5pm-6:30pm
Laure Drogoul with guest performer Selena Schreyer.
Sheila & Richard Riggs and Leidy Galleries
131 W. North Ave. Baltimore, MD 21201
FatherSky/Shezilla
July 19-21, 2013
ongoing performances throughout the day
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June 8, 2013
12:00-3:30pm
Supernova Performance Festival
1213 Wilson Blvd. Rosslyn VA.
www.rosslynartsproject.com/supernova/getting-there
Salvage: A Waste of Materials, A Wealth of Art
Curated by Matthew Spalding
Baltimore Public Works Museum Building
751 Eastern Avenue Baltimore, MD 21202
Eastern Lights is included as part of the exhibit SALVAGE designed to raise awareness about the City’s Drive to 35: Baltimore’s Race to Reach a 35% Recycling Rate campaign.
more info: http://publicworks.baltimorecity.gov/Recycling/Salvage.aspx
March 9th 2013
Performance at AUX Performance Space
Philadelphia, Pa 8:30pm
Performance by Laure Drogoul with Joe Meduza:
MARCH 9, 2013
Expand your olfactory consciousness. You are cordially invited to a sensorial performance based on the sense of smell. This is a participatory experience with blindfolds, olfactory specimens and interactive media. This event is part of an on-going body of work about smell perception and memory, including an interactive Global Smell Map. http://www.olfactoryfactory.org/
More info and directions:
http://voxpopuligallery.org/calendar-event/2nd-saturday-uncanny-visions/
http://voxpopuligallery.org/info-about/#directions