BMA Salon featuring Catalyst Contemporary
As published via the Baltimore Museum of Art:
This year, The Necessity of Tomorrow(s) series is extending beyond museum walls to provide direct support to artists, galleries, and communities based in Baltimore. These experiences were created to balance the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic by offering financial support and visibility to artists and businesses and creative opportunities to community members who do not have ready access to digital content.
In BMA Salon, we invited several Baltimore-based galleries and collectives to curate digital exhibitions. Explore the virtual galleries on this site, and if you’re able, be sure to support them! All transactions will be conducted by the individual galleries, who will keep all proceeds from sales.
The Necessity of Tomorrow(s) series was established to imagine new futures that embrace social justice, equity, and creative practice. What future(s) can you dream up? We hope the artistic visions presented here will spark your imagination. The Necessity of Tomorrow(s) is generously sponsored by Suzanne F. Cohen and the Cohen Opportunity Fund.
Catalyst Contemporary is a fine art gallery in Baltimore, focusing on contemporary art that tells stories. Located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood—the cultural heart of the city, Catalyst forges relationships between artists, collectors, and both creative & civic-minded individuals. The gallery represents artists nationwide that tell dynamic and powerful stories.
Damon Arhos (b. 1967) is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, curator, and social activist whose work explores and unfolds queer culture. Arhos seeks to promote love and acceptance while investigating social and political environments surrounding gender and sexuality.
Arhos creates installations that reference popular culture while infusing themes that reflect his identity. He frequently uses repetition, appropriation, and mundane situations to explore multifaceted concepts. In addition to drawing, painting, and collage, he uses installation, video, and other media as means of expression.
Driven by an interest in portraiture, he has developed diverse expressions of the self and of historical figures who have significance in the LGBTQ+ community. His large-scale portrait "Matthew Shepard Was A Target" hangs in the Denver, Colorado headquarters of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. More recently, he has employed digital photography to merge self-portraits with those of diverse role models, using the resulting images as inspiration for paintings.
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