UPCOMING

EXHIBITION

OPENS DECEMBER 13, 2013

@ CREATIVE ALLIANCE

Jordan Faye Contemporary is thrilled to have two of our

artists presenting their work in Neither Here Nor There.

Kate MacKinnon and Donald Edwards two-person

exhibition is in the Main Gallery at the Creative Alliance
at The Patterson. This amazing non-profit multi-use art
center is located at 3134 Eastern Avenue in Baltimore,
Maryland. Their galleries are open Tuesday - Saturday
11am - 7pm.
Please join us in celebrating these newest bodies of
work by Kate & Donald with an Opening Reception on
Friday December 13 from 5:30 to 7:30pm.

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@ THE
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3134 Eastern Avenue Baltimore, MD 21224

Opening Reception :: Friday December 13 / 5:30 - 7:30p

Mark Your 2014 Calendars

Gallery Talk :: Saturday January 11 @ 1pm

About Neither Here Nor There
The Creative Alliance at The Patterson is pleased to present the two-person exhibition,
Kate MacKinnon & Donald Edwards: Neither Here, Nor There, on view December 13,
2013 - January 18, 2014. The reception for the artists will be held on Friday, December
13th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. The exhibition is free and the public is warmly invited to attend.
Neither Here, Nor There represents the first time Kate MacKinnon and Donald Edwards
have exhibited together, despite having known each other for over two decades, and even
once having shared a studio space. Artistically unique unto themselves, their work has
found a common ground in the subject and site of landscape.
For this exhibition, Creative Alliance Resident Artist, Kate MacKinnon, creates abstract
paintings with references to nature and landscape, though the surfaces belay any
tendency towards a natural appearance. The glossy, slick surfaces, rich with color, often
explore the picture plane with an emphasis on formal considerations. Recalling long road
trips, and the flattening of landscape that passes by the car window, MacKinnon here
explores the tension and romanticism embedded in that flattening process. The result is a
series of paintings that are seamless and smooth, representing an overwhelming sense of
the familiar, imbuing a sense of dj vu within the viewer of perhaps having visited once
before. Kate MacKinnon received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Massachusetts
College of Art in 1992 and her Masters of Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of
Art in 2003. Kate's paintings have been widely exhibited throughout the United States and
are in the collections of Maryland General Hospital, Hilton Hotels Corporation, as well as
numerous private collections.
Donald Edwards is an artist, collector, and hoarder living in Baltimore. Edwards is known
for his sculptural collages of found objects, wrapped tightly in wire. Usually dedicated to
making objects from popular culture from these collections, he turns his eye in Neither
Here, Nor There towards the layers of earth one might see in a cross-section of the earth's
crust. His giant, site-specific, sculptural construction centered in the middle of the gallery
will reflect on contemporary society's impact on the layer of the earth's crust in which we
currently reside. His process involves collecting material from thrift stores, yard sales, out
of dumpsters, from free stuff left on the side of the road, and saving things from work and
home that would have otherwise gone to the landfill. He strings objects and wraps detritus
together with twine, yarn, and wire salvaged from abandoned electronics to make new
objects from old parts. These reinvented forms are made of all the disposable products
that litter our homes, streets and lives. His work draws attention to "our fetishization of
consumer culture." Neither Here, Nor There will be a rare opportunity to see the artist play
with a significantly expanded terrain. Donald Edwards grew up in the artist colony of
Provincetown Massachusetts and received his BFA from the Massachusetts College of art
in 1993. Edwards' work has previously been exhibited in several venues in Provincetown
and in Baltimore.

Kate MacKinnon and Donald Edwards are represented by Jordan Faye Contemporary,
Baltimore, MD. The Creative Alliance at the Patterson is located at 3134 Eastern Avenue.
Gallery Hours there are Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 7pm.

Statement from Kate MacKinnon

In January of 2009 I drove across the country from Baltimore to Portland Oregon. I was
accompanying a friend who was moving to start a new job in ten days.
We spent eight days in her Prius, stopping only to refuel and stretch our legs (while
walking her Italian Greyhound), and finally after twelve hours of driving daily, to sleep.
When I wasn't behind the wheel, I was documenting the landscape in hundreds of photos.
Looking at the images after the trip was over; I was fascinated by these endless vistas that
were quite often interrupted by this man-made geometry. Road signs, trucks, trains, all this
jarring stuff in my way. When you are constantly moving, you don't get to frame the
perfect shot!
These images have been playing in my head for almost four years. The dramatic
landscape of the Southwestern leg of our travels, but more importantly the interesting
juxtaposition of those man made interruptions became the genesis of these paintings.
My work in Neither Here Nor There is a response to the shapes and colors of those

images, but also an exploration of the polarity of illusionistic space and the twodimensional picture plane.

images :: details from works by both Kate MacKinnon & Donald Edwards
second image, detail from one of Donald Edwards wall sculptures

Currently on view at Jordan Faye Contemporary ::

Kate MacKinnon
POST-ARCADIA
THE END OF THE
WORLD AS WE KNOW
IT. Kate MacKinnon
contemplates environmental
crisis in formally austere
paintings and drawings
by Maura Callahan

Recently Kate's solo

exhibition, Post-Arcadia,
received an excellent
review by Baltimore's
City Paper.
click here to read her review
& here to see the work.
image :: Kate MacKinnon, Post-Arcadia, 2013, oil on canvas over panel, 36 x 40 x 3
inches
Post-Arcadia is on view at Jordan Faye Contemporary through Dec. 21, 2013.

About Us
For more information about our gallery program, contact:
Jordan Faye Contemporary

823 Park Avenue Baltimore MD 21201

Tel: 443.955.1547 curator@jordanfayecontemporary.com
Visit our website: www.jordanfayecontemporary.com
Hours :: Tues - Thurs 10 - 1p & 3 - 6p / second & third Saturdays Noon - 5p & by appointment
NOTE :: We hope you had a lovely holiday this past weekend. We had been closed for the
Thanksgiving Holidays and we will re-open on Wednesday Dec. 4 at 10am.