[Opening / Closing]
Between East and West - Closing Reception

About This Event

Between East and West Exhibition (extended) and Salon Series
Closing Reception, Friday, July 17, 6-8 pm

Bearing the name of its 2008-2009 theme, Between East and West, Millennium Arts Salon presents a group exhibition featuring artists living and/or working in the US and abroad - in Europe and Asia, opening Saturday, March 28, 2009.

The artists include Rachelle Puryear (Stockholm, Sweden), Billy Colbert (Washington, DC), Bill Dallas (Oakland, California), Ann Bouie (Washington, DC), Bryan McFarlane (Boston, Massachusetts and Beijing, China), Sheila Crider (Washington, DC), Alonzo Davis (Baltimore, Maryland), Paul So (native of Hong Kong, lives in Washington, DC), and Barbara Blanco (Annapolis, Maryland).

Curated by Barbara Blanco, assisted by Janell Blackmon and L'Rai Arthur-Mensah, works in the exhibition hint of artists' influences beyond the East and West borders of the US -- for example, Ann Bouie and African beads; Alonzo Davis and Sheila Crider who both did residencies in China and Japan respectively, Paul So's native Honk Kong and urban U.S. experiences, Jamaican-born Bryan McFarlane, living in Boston with a studio in Beijing, Washington DC-born Rachelle Puryear and the natural terrain of Sweden, to give a few examples. Between East and West in some ways parallels The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, exhibited at theGuggenheim Museum in New York City, which highlights American Artists and Asian influences. But it by no means stops there, as Billy Colbert's figurative depiction of urban life in Washington and Baltimore and Bill Dallas's colorful and complex abstractions attest.

Please join us for the closing reception, Friday, July 17, 2009, 6-8 pm. There will be screenings and photograph presentations of MAS 2008-9 programs on the 2nd floor media room.

The exhibition frames the MAS 2008-2009 program season Between East and West, referring not only to the east and west borders of the continental US, but extending further east and west to Europe and Asia. This event is FREE and open to the public.