25: Target Gallery Celebrates Twenty-Five Years

Reception: September 13^th, 6-8pm; juror talk with J.W. Mahoney at 7pm

The Torpedo Factory Art Center’s Target Gallery presents 25, an exhibition celebrating the gallery’s twenty-fifth anniversary since their doors opened in 1987 as the Torpedo Factory’s national exhibition space. This all-media exhibition features work that responds to world events that have occurred over the past twenty-five years.

 The selected artists are: Joy Garnett (NY), Roscoe Wilson (OH), Douglas Moulden (MD), Angelique Brickner (SC), Joshua Emery (PA), Laurel Garcia Colvin (NY), Suzanne Coley (MD), Joni Gruber (AL), Margi Weir (MI), Linda Colsh (Belgium), Colleen Ellis (MA), Anne LaFond (NY), Kazaan Viveiros (VA), Web Bryant (VA), Paula D Everitt (PA), Shelley Lowenstein (MD), David Beers (MD), Angelika Piwowarczyk (IL), Daniel Kaufmann (WV), Miyuki Akai Cook (WV), Andrea Barnes (MD), Lee Sido (IL), Joseph and Katie Thompson (SC), Deborah Rockman (MI), Jan Rowland (MD), Tim Steele (SD), Phillip Chan (CA)

The juror for this exhibition was J.W. Mahoney, a writer and curator based in Virginia. About the work he selected, he says, “…What we see is a naturally new art, emerging beyond our last century, with questions, curiosities, and discoveries that are open both to nature and politics, to the strange and engaging significance of both the "real" world and that in our living imaginations…All of these pieces reflect both the vital passions and the deep inquiries that artists moving through the twentieth century are living fully into, in this next one...The artists in this show continually demonstrate how unimpeded new art's possibilities are - that, as an art culture, fairly world-wide at this point, we're all invited to witness both stark realities and transcendent visions, and sometimes both at once.”

J.W. Mahoney is a graduate of Harvard University, he has exhibited his work in the United States for over 25 years. He is currently the Washington Corresponding Editor for Art in America and a contributing editor for the New Art Examiner and he is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland.