Blank panels for our 14th annual March150 exhibition are now available for purchase! All blank panels are $15 each. To purchase a panel, stop by Torpedo Factory Art Center. For more information about March150, check out our website (link in our bio)
March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center's annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support Torpedo Factory Art Center. This year, celebrate the 14th Annual March150 at a new location: Canal Center premiere Gallery (44 Canal Center Plaza) located on the river, north of the Art Center. This location is a new hub for cultural and artistic events in Alexandria and will provide March150 artists and visitors with a larger space to display and view the art. Join us in making this year the biggest March150 exhibition yet!
Blank panels for our 14th annual March150 exhibition are now available for purchase! All blank panels are $15 each. To purchase a panel, stop by Torpedo Factory Art Center. For more information about March150, check out our website (link in our bio)
March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center's annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support Torpedo Factory Art Center. This year, celebrate the 14th Annual March150 at a new location: Canal Center premiere Gallery (44 Canal Center Plaza) located on the river, north of the Art Center. This location is a new hub for cultural and artistic events in Alexandria and will provide March150 artists and visitors with a larger space to display and view the art. Join us in making this year the biggest March150 exhibition yet!
Blank panels for our 14th annual March150 exhibition are now available for purchase! All blank panels are $15 each. To purchase a panel, stop by Torpedo Factory Art Center. For more information about March150, check out our website (link in our bio)
March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center's annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support Torpedo Factory Art Center. This year, celebrate the 14th Annual March150 at a new location: Canal Center premiere Gallery (44 Canal Center Plaza) located on the river, north of the Art Center. This location is a new hub for cultural and artistic events in Alexandria and will provide March150 artists and visitors with a larger space to display and view the art. Join us in making this year the biggest March150 exhibition yet!
March150 Panel Sales
Mark your calendars 🗓 Blank panels for the 14th annual March150 exhibition start Monday, January 15! Open to all- A $15 fee per panel guarantees entry into the exhibition.
March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center's annual special exhibition and art sale, returns with all proceeds going to support Torpedo Factory Art Center. This year, celebrate the 14th Annual March150 at a new location: Canal Center premiere Gallery (44 Canal Center Plaza) located on the river, north of the Art Center. This location is a new hub for cultural and artistic events in Alexandria and will provide March150 artists and visitors with a larger space to display and view the art. Join us in making this year the biggest March150 exhibition yet!
For more information about March150, check out our website (link in our bio)
Blank panels for our 13th annual March150 exhibition are now available for purchase!!!
March150, Torpedo Factory Art Center’s 13th annual special exhibition and art sale, returns to Target Gallery with all proceeds going to support new exhibitions and programs. Enjoy a wide variety of art from local artists who donated the work on the gallery provided 10×10 panels. The size and price makes the works ideal for collecting.
All blank panels are $15 each. If you are a Torpedo Factory Resident Artist, Artist Pro Term, or a Member of a gallery in the Art Center, you qualify for a $5 discount*
*PLEASE NOTE: Gallery Members must have their name listed on the gallery's webpage on torpedofactory.org in order to qualify for the $5 discount.
To purchase a panel, stop by Target Gallery or give us a call!
For more information about March150, check out our website: https://torpedofactory.org/event/13th-annual-march150/
In Lauren Woods (@laurenwoodsart) video art and performance titled, “The Veil”: she begins and ends by finding and leaving the veil, which delicately floats through a tranquil forest of light and shadow.
Lauren writes, “This video is a visual meditation on the nature of time and the duality of our corporeal and spiritual existence. Are we only our bodies, or is there something intangible and mysterious to human presence? Do we travel on a linear path, on an endless wheel, or do we exist in an infinite variety of potentials happening eternally all at once? Are we solitary players or interconnected in ways we can’t always perceive? These questions have inspired myth, religions, rituals, and concepts of civilization throughout history; how do they invite us to think about our responsibility to each other and the spaces we inhabit?” Here’s a clip from Lauren’s video!
Lauren Wood’s video is on view in Studio 9 of the Torpedo Factory Art Center as a part of “Body Talk” through October 30. To view our online exhibition catalog: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
#bodytalk #selfportraiture #figuralwork #theself #artsalx #mydistrictart #ourdistrictart #igalx #igdc #torpedofactory #targetgallery #acreativedc #dcart #dmvart #artoftheday #eastcitydc #exhibition #laurenwoods #theveil #videoart #performance
Ash Hagerstrad’s (@jesusluvsmemes) work is a complex theatre of three separate GIFs, which artfully depict the uncertainty and anxiety of bodily health in the modern world. In her first video of the series, “Call Me Beep Me”, her character is depicted as a young woman waiting for notification of test results from her MyChart on “grim mobile”, her fictional cell phone carrier. Ash writes, “Call me beep me explores the anxiety of receiving health notifications on your phone and the moment of bodily merging with an electronic device that holds the answers to your fate.”
Ash’s second video in the series, “Dating Sim 1”, is a depiction of digital romance simulations. Some of the difficulties of dating are sensitively and subtly revealed through this video. As Ash explains, “Dating Sim I considers digital romance simulations with disabled bodies…featuring disabled women developed by men on 4chan…the final game was praised for its humanity and kindness…regarding the sexual aspects of the game…original sketches for the game were dehumanized and fetishistic…the words at the bottom of the screen are taken from a pickup line I received in a bar while holding my cane.”
The third video in Ash’s series, “Self-diagnosis”, explores the process of self help through medical diagnosis. In this video, the character is depicted as both a doctor, armed with a stethoscope; and as a patient, apparently dressed in costume, identified by the caption, “Doctor’s hate her”. The prompt at the bottom of the screen reads, “Enter your symptoms here:...”. As told by Ash, “Self-diagnosis explores the process of becoming both doctor and patient while exploring the body through the process of digital medical research.”
“Body Talk” is on view in Target Gallery and in Studio 9 the Torpedo Factory Art Center through October 30. To view our online exhibition catalog: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
#bodytalk #selfpor
The artist Dek (@dekdekson) creates for us a virtual world of living color through which he encapsulates the experience of longboarding, or “sidewalk surfing” on his board in his video, “New Trucks & Wheels/ Disintegrate”. The video begins by depicting the routine maintenance of replacing the trucks and wheels on the board, through which we are drawn into a more detailed view of the experience by the visualization of a rainbow of pixelated colors in this game styled virtual world, where the artist becomes the personification of his avatar. When the routine work of fixing the trucks and wheels is complete, we see him finding freedom from care as he rides away on his board. Relating this experience to us, he writes, “As I add new trucks and wheels to my longboard, the video image disintegrates into colors and pixels. The image returns to normal when I go outside and experience the freedom of riding the board.” Here’s a clip of Dek’s video!
To view our online exhibition catalog: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
“Body Talk” will be on view through October 30 in Target Gallery and Studio 9 of the Torpedo Factory Arts Center, with an exhibition reception this Friday, October 14 from 7-10PM. Stop by any day from 10AM-6PM to view the exhibition in-person.
#bodytalk #selfportraiture #figuralwork #theself #artsalx #mydistrictart #ourdistrictart #igalx #igdc #torpedofactory #targetgallery #acreativedc #dcart #dmvart #artoftheday #eastcitydc #exhibition #dek #newtrucksandwheels #disintegrate #videoart #longboarding
Jessica Valoris (@jessicavaloris) is filmed on a beach, carrying chains into the sea in her video piece, “Return”. Jessica writes, “‘Return’ is a movement meditation that references the connection between our bodies, the waters, and flight. Honoring the ancestors of Igbo Landing, and their return through the waters, this ritual of return echoes histories of fugitive practice and collective resistance.” Here's a clip of Jessica's video!
Jessica’s video is on view in Target Gallery as a part of our current group exhibition, “Body Talk”, on view through October 30. Stop by any day between 10AM - 6PM to watch the video in person, or check out our online exhibition catalog: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
Be sure to mark you calendars for our exhibition reception for “Body Talk”, which will be happening Friday, October 14 from 7-10PM, with an artist talk starting at 8PM.
#bodytalk #selfportraiture #figuralwork #theself #artsalx #mydistrictart #ourdistrictart #igalx #igdc #torpedofactory #targetgallery #acreativedc #dcart #dmvart #artoftheday #eastcitydc #exhibition #targetgallery #torpedofactory #jessicavaloris #return #video #performance
Jenna Alderiso (@poorlycutbangs) considers the body in relation to the “metaphorical landscape of an individual’s internal and external worlds” in her video, “The Body Keeps the Score”. Jenna writes, “The symbolism of the vessel as the human body, and the ocean as an uncontrollable force of nature, ask the performer to protect, adapt, and rebuild.” Here’s a clip from Jenna’s video!
Check out our online exhibition catalog to view Jenna Alderiso’s full video: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
Jenna Alderiso's video is also on view in Studio 9 of the Torpedo Factory as a part of "Body Talk", on view through October 30. Stop by and check it out!
#bodytalk #selfportraiture #figuralwork #theself #artsalx #mydistrictart #ourdistrictart #igalx #igdc #torpedofactory #targetgallery #acreativedc #dcart #dmvart #artoftheday #eastcitydc #exhibition #targetgallery #torpedofactory #jennaalderiso #mybodykeepsthescore #videoart #performance
Using stop motion animation and 3D imaging, Laurie Berenhaus (@laurie_berenhaus) explores the changes of her body over time in “Phenakistoscope_n1_Looped”, mimicking the appearance of the first ever stop motion animation device.
Laurie writes, “I began 3D scanning my body, in response to varied health challenges causing my weight to fluctuate dramatically between 2018-2019. The process of altering images through alternative photographic techniques and intuitive play was both cathartic and frightening. The following entries are a byproduct of deconstructing past selves, exploration and above all, a necessary purge to aid in regaining autonomy of one’s body.”
You can view Laurie's animation in "Body Talk", on view in Target Gallery through October 30. To check out the exhibition catalog, follow this link: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
#bodytalk #selfportraiture #figuralwork #theself #artsalx #mydistrictart #ourdistrictart #igalx #igdc #torpedofactory #targetgallery #acreativedc #dcart #dmvart #artoftheday #eastcitydc #exhibition #targetgallery #torpedofactory #laurieberenhaus #phenakistoscopen1looped #stopmotionanimation #animationart #videoart
Sarah Nance’s (@sarahenance) work “marseille tidal gauge aria” is a haunting vocal shroud composed from 130 years of tidal gauge data from the bay of Marseille, France, converted into individual notes and set to a poem from Rasu-Yong Tugen’s "Songs from the Black Moon". The result is an emotional aria, performed operatically. as each higher note reminds the listener of the dramatic change in the sea levels of the Mediterranean.
Sarah Nance’s performance is on view in Target Gallery through the 11th of September as part of our “Turning Tides” exhibition centered around the effects of and attitudes towards climate change. Stop by Target Gallery any day between 10AM-6PM to check out the exhibition.
Check out our website for more information about the exhibition: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
#targetgallery #turningtides #sarahnance #marseilletidalguagearia #video #sounds #singingart #songsfromtheblackmoon #rasuyongtugen #artsALX #artistspotlight #acreativedc #dcart #dmvart #artofinstagram #artoftheday #instaart #mydistrictart
Syd Lewin’s (@genderqueergargoyle) video work, “Porifera Utopia Now!” weaves together humor, personal experience, and the slow growth of the Antarctic glass sponge as “a guide to cripping the relentless march of capitalist productivity-oriented time – the cultural foundation which creates our current ecological emergency.” The theme of non-linear time is explored through the personal lens of the filmmaker and their profound difficulty in grappling with the imminence of the climate crisis in general. Here's a clip from Syd's video.
Syd Lewin’s work is on view in Target Gallery through September 11 as part of our “Turning Tides” exhibition centered around the effects of and attitudes towards climate change.Stop by any day from 10-6 to check it out!
For more information about the exhibition, visit our website: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
#targetgallery #turningtides #sydlewin #poriferautopianow! #videoart #antarcticglasssponge #video #underwaterlandscapes #artsALX #artistspotlight #acreativedc #dcart #dmvart #artofinstagram #artoftheday #instaart #mydistrictart
Our final artist spotlight for our pop-up video exhibition, “Through These Eyes”, is Nancy Wyllie!
Nancy Wyllie (@nancywyllie6) is an experimental video artist who uses her art to speak on issues of race and cultural identity. Her film “Getting Under Our Skin'' uses archival materials and candid one on one interviews to reveal the persistence of skin color bias. Wyllie’s film takes the viewer through the science, nature, history, and culture of color dating back to Ancient Egypt, and asks us to reconsider our perception of color and race as a means of coming to terms with centuries of misinformation and racial strife.
“Through These Eyes” is now on view through September 4th in Studio 9 at the Torpedo Factory art center. To view "Getting Under Our Skin" come visit Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays!
https://nancywyllie.com
@nancywyllie6
#throughtheseeyes #nancywyllie #gettingunderourskin #videoart #dcart #dmvart #artsalx #acreativedc #ourdistrictart #artoftheday #artofinstagram #instaart #artistoftheday #targetgallery #torpedofactory
Next up in our artist spotlight series for our pop-up video exhibition, “Through These Eyes” is Angelica Verdan.
Angelica Verdan is a Filipino American video artist deconstructing the idea of digital presence and how it manifests and functions differently than physical identity. Her film “To Be Fully Seen” is an introspective self-portrait that grapples with identity online and in real life. Verdan writes “I invite the viewer to reflect on their own identities and define, or redefine, who they are in all spaces”
“Through These Eyes” is now on view through September 4th in Studio 9 at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. To see Angelica's film, stop by Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays.
angelicaverdan.wordpress.com
#throughtheseeyes #AngelicaVerdan #ToBeFullySeen #videoart #dcart #dmvart #artsalx #acreativedc #ourdistrictart #artoftheday #artofinstagram #instaart #artistoftheday #targetgallery #torpedofactory
Chris Comb’s (@ccombsdc) time-based artwork “Clear Cut '' presents dwindling numbers on a sleek wall-mounted wooden face, integrating technology and natural material to offer a commentary on the connection between consumerism and the climate crisis. Combs explains that the work “suggests a connection between consumer demand for flat-pack furniture and deforestation” The rapidly decreasing numbers create an inescapable anxiety about the irreversible and continuous damage done to the climate.
Chris’s work is on view in Target Gallery through the 11th of September as part of our “Turning Tides” exhibition centered around the effects of and attitudes towards climate change. We will also have an exhibition reception next Friday, August 12 from 7-9PM during the Art Center’s August Late Shift.
For more information about the exhibition, check out our website: https://torpedofactory.org/partners/target-gallery/
#targetgallery #turningtides #chriscombs #clearcut #woodart #technologyarts #artsALX #artistspotlight #acreativedc #dcart #dmvart #artofinstagram #artoftheday #instaart #mydistrictart
Today’s spotlight artist from our pop-up video exhibition, "Through These Eyes", is Jessica Valoris.
Jessica Valoris (@jessicavaloris) is a multidisciplinary artist who seeks to create sacred spaces through her use of ritual performance, sound collage, and mixed media painting. She describes her film “Ode to Zipporah” as “the culmination of a month-long Black August practice of creating embodied poetry about Black liberation and fugitivity.” About the intention of her work, Valoris states, “My art is both balm and blueprint: mapping out pathways for the Black liberatory imagination and reviving recipes for collective care."
“Through These Eyes” is now on view through September 4th in Studio 9 at the Torpedo Factory art center. To see "Ode to Zipporah" stop by Studio 9 on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays or Sundays!
https://www.jessicavaloris.com/
@jessicavaloris
#throughtheseeyes #jessicavaloris #odetozipporah #videoart #dcart #dmvart #artsalx #acreativedc #ourdistrictart #artoftheday #artofinstagram #instaart #artistoftheday #targetgallery #torpedofactory
