FALL 2008 EXHIBITIONS

October Preview

MOLLIE GOLDSTROM - WORKS ON PAPER, INTAGLIO & DRAWING, October 2 -31, 2008.

This is Mollie Goldstrom’s first solo exhibition. A recent graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, her subject matter and resulting artwork resonate beyond her years. To have an artistic “voice” at this juncture in her life, to be a “storyteller” through her art, is an accomplishment that is unusual.

In her chosen mediums of intaglio and drawings, Mollie Goldstrom attempts to portray the “ambiguous space between opposing states of existence”. Referenced sources are popular folklore, personal myth, current events and environmental issues. Her work conveys a sense of whimsy while contending with allegorical, socio-political, and metaphysical challenges.

Revealed in such series as, Lumbering, or the Miscarriage of Use, Fail-Safe: Hunting and Gathering Spitzbergen, or the series, The Woods, they investigate ecological and global issues presenting universal concerns, which are subtly depicted at the most “local” or “everyman” level in her artwork. The artist reveals, through her intimate use of scale, stories of man’s relationship to nature. Our use and misuse of the environment are poignantly defined through this story-like manner in her art. This is the artist’s exception; to convey grave concerns with humble expression.

As her writings suggest on the subject of the seed library in Svalbard, “The purpose of the seed Library is to amass and catalogue all known cultivated seeds with the intent of recreating agriculture in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. Since their initial inception and subsequent construction, these collections of the world crop seeds have met frequent destruction at the hands of war, political unrest, and famine, as well as numerous natural causes. The building and holding of such a collection becomes a Sisyphean task, an allegory for human folly and futility, as it is human’s dual nature to collect and catalogue as well as disrupt and destroy, and it is the nature of seeds themselves to be dispersed and spread.”

Awarded, BFA , Magna Cum Laude, 2008, Mollie Goldstrom has received recognition awards for her fine art during her academic years. Her work is in the collection of the print curator of the Baltimore Museum of Art. We hope she will be recognized for many more years to come.


November - Postponed to a future date

STEINMETZ - SERIAL CONTEMPLATIONS - Works On Paper - 2001 to the present. November 7 - December 5, 2008. Ink with pen or brush, watercolor, razor scratches, pastel and colored pencil, are but a few of the chosen mediums.

The human condition - from the tragic to comic are explored through metaphor, allegory and interpretation. Artistic and calligraphic collaborative expression of Nikolai Gogol's "The Diary of a Madman" are boldly revealed in drawing and book form. Other series exhibited are Salome, The Faces, Timepieces, Orpheus and Eurypides, Steinmetz's work is notably in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts to name but a few.


Gurari Collections annually exhibits 3 - 6 individual artists work and/or thematic exhibitions built from the gallery's inventory. Select artists who have presented at Gurari Collections come from diverse and international backgrounds. American, Italian, French, Russian and German artists have successfully shown their work at the gallery. Topical exhibitions have included; "The Inventive Mind" inventions in creative design 17th -20th centuries; "Celestial Bodies" antique star charts to satellite photographs (from the mythic to current scientific investigations); "Masterpieces of European City Plans" including 18th century engraved wall maps of Paris, Rome and London.

Please look for more updates as new exhibitions find their way onto the schedule.