LOS SOLOS SERIES First Friday of each month from September to March
Doors open at 8:00pm, shows start at 8:30pm, $6.
All Artists
Stephanie Barber 9/4/09
Stephanie Barber is a multimedia artist who creates meticulously crafted, odd and imaginative writing, films and videos as well as performance pieces which incorporate music, literature and video.
Barber has had numerous solo screenings of her film and video work including shows at MoMA, NY, Anthology Film Archives, San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, Chicago Filmmakers [...]
Melisa Putz 9/4/09
Melisa Putz is a dancer, choreographer and educator based in Philadelphia, PA. She is co-founder and artistic director of PIMA Group, a music and dance performance company founded in 2001. She received her dance training through the Professional Training Program at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio in New York City and received a full dance [...]
Lauren Bender 10/2/09
Lauren Bender lives and works in Baltimore, where she is co-Director for Narrow House, a publisher of experimental and avant-garde writing: http://narrow-house.blogspot.com/. Recent performances include the Stoop Storytelling Series at Center Stage in Baltimore (2009), Big Pink at the Baltimore Museum of Art, as part of the Franz West retrospective To Build a House You [...]
Trisha Baga 10/2/09
Trisha Baga is an amateur scientist based in New York. She is currently investigating the effects of particles of consciousness on particles of matter. Her lectures and demonstrations loosely focus on her research into the changing nature of light over the past 25 years, specifically through Madonna’s (the pop phenomenon) mediated documents on the process [...]
Merrill Feitell 11/6/09
Merrill Feitell’s first book, Here Beneath Low-Flying Planes, won the Iowa Award for short fiction. She has received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Byrdcliffe, Bread Loaf, and the Taos Writers Conference. Her short stories have appeared in many publications, including the Best New American Voices series and have been short-listed in Best American Short [...]
Maria Chavez 11/6/09
Born in Peru, avant-turntablist Maria Chavez currently resides in Brooklyn, New York. With a collection of new and broken needles that she calls “pencils of sound” and a selection of records, she harnesses the electro-acoustic sounds of vinyl and needle.
Chavez made her New York City debut in a duet with Thurston Moore, collaborated with Otomo [...]
Shana Palmer 12/4/09
Shana Palmer arrived in Baltimore, MD last May from Boston, MA where she received her Bachelor’s Degree in Painting at the Massachusetts College Of Art. She is a multidisciplinary artist and self-taught musician. Her solo music project Childe Bride is going on its third year with releases in the US and in the UK. Her [...]
C. Ryder Cooley 12/4/09
C. RYDER COOLEY is an interdisciplinary artist, musician and performer. Weaving together chimeric images with found props and forgotten objects, she creates cinematic performances and installation spaces. Ryder has participated in a wide range of public works, educational projects and international shows. Awarded Best Performance Artist of the NY Capital District in 2006 & 2007, [...]
Ayako Kataoka MOVED TO 3/5/10
Ayako Kataoka is a multidisciplinary artist originally from Tokyo. Born into a family of Buddhist priests and artists, she grew up immersed in an atmosphere of shaka drawings, chant depicted in japanese calligraphy, and the milieu of traditional Japanese temples.
Realized in sound, video, installation, and dance performances, her works are often embodied with her heritage dealing with the concept of bringing invisible [...]
Asimina Chremos 2/5/10
Called “a strong, elegant, long-limbed dancer who moves with a sense of stark drama and genuine lyricism” (Chicago Sun-Times), Asimina Chremos began her career with the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater in the early 1980’s and later forayed into studies with improvisation teachers such as Simone Forti and Ishmael Houston-Jones. Approaching dance as art, she creates abstractions, [...]
Jenny Gräf 3/5/10
J. Gräf, a dynamic improvisor and stalwart of the Baltimore freek music scene, creates vivid, compelling soundworlds using intuitive/primitive homebrewed electronics, guitar and voice. J. Gräf is one-half of the noise duos Harrius (with Chiara Giovando, two LP’s on Ehse Records) and Metalux (with MV Carbon, recordings on Hanson, Load and 5RC/Kill Rock Stars, etc). [...]
Samita Sinha 3/5/10
Trained in classical Hindustani vocal music, composer/ performer Samita Sinha uses the range of her voice together with electronics and multilingual text in solo performance and multichannel vocal pieces. Besides her solo work, Sinha has a duo project with Marc Cary called ANATOMY (electronic/ Hindustani/ jazz), uses her voice as an improvising instrument in jazz [...]