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INTERNATIONAL VISIONS GALLERY and
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE
invite you to
celebrate
STAN SQUIREWELL
INTERCONNECTED
[OPENING RECEPTION]
this Saturday, March 19,
6.30-9.00pm
In Interconnected, Stan Squirewell
explores conditions revolving around the empowered and the powerless:
institutions and identity, categories as boundaries, and assimilation vs.
transformation. The very sharpness of digital media amplifies his
confrontational imagery. Traditionally trained, the artist adopted digital media
because its immediate, cathartic process "keeps up with my thoughts," and echoes
the frenzy of contemporary
culture.
We'll kick
off our Spring Season with Bombay Sapphire cocktails at the gallery, and our
neighbors at Medaterra will offer a special discount for gallery guests
all night long.
[The
Mystic Tree, pigment print (2010)]
Whether he is exposing the political figures, symbols and
systems that seek to overpower, or idolizing the subcultures that cultivate in
the midst of such forces, Squirewell's fusion of age-old stories with current
imagery emphasizes the circularity of it all. For each generation, "'They'
work to condition us in the social order of things," the artist says. The images
of Interconnected resonate with our quest for meaning and connection in
a world fueled by capitalist urgency.
Squirewell, a lifelong Washingtonian (b. 1978), earned his
MFA at the Maryland Institute of Art's Hoffberger School of Painting and
completed his undergraduate study at the Corcoran College of Art & Design.
Squirewell's gallery and museum exhibitions include International Visions
Gallery (DC), Rush Arts Gallery (NYC), Irvine Contemporary (DC), Parrish Gallery
(DC), Corridor Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), Flashpoint (DC), Warehouse Gallery (DC),
MOCA DC, Walters Museum (Baltimore, MD), Hampton University Museum (VA), Luther
College (Decorah, Iowa), Banneker-Douglass (Annapolis, MD), and Howard
University Blackburn Center (DC). Squirewell is in the public collection of the
David C. Driskell Center (College Park, MD) and the Reginald Lewis Museum
(Baltimore, MD). At Verge Art Fair - Miami (2010), he was selected by a jury as
Finalist in The Artisan Series, a nationwide competition aiming to discover the
next names in innovative art. In 2011, he was invited to exhibit at the
40th Annual Black Creativity Exhibition at Chicago's Museum of Science and
Industry. The artist currently teaches at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts
in Washington, where he began his artistic journey as a student in 1993.
Interconnected is on view March 19 -
April 23. An artist talk will be held on April 16,
2-5pm.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
The Dianne
Whitfield-Locke
Collection
Toke's Place
Misty Brown
Productions
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