Lured by the thrill of the unknown and the beauty of maps, 38 artists create their own maps that bear the imprint of personal histories as well as actual sites. Ranging from the celestial and the terrestrial to the subatomic, the works explore such themes as borders, identity, and travel—both real and imagined, while charting fresh ways of locating our place in a world in flux.
October 3, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Kay Chernush, Mary Coble, Frank Hallam Day, Jason Horowitz, Lucian Perkins, and Athena Tacha
In contrast to the standards of the media and the fashion world, the exhibiting artists stake out alternative perspectives on feminine beauty. Their intent is to offer something different, unexpected, or ambivalent, something that problematizes the notion of beauty without merely bashing it.
Ellipse Arts Center + Washington Project for the Arts
October 2 – December 13, 2008
Imaging Food In Contemporary Photography
Sarah Tanguy samples fine art, commercial and documentary photographs of food to mine the humorous, overlooked and avoided in our culture.
Southeast Museum of Photography
May 24 – September 1, 2006
In this all-media, juried exhibition inspired by Dada and David Byrne, Sarah Tanguy features fifteen emerging artists who explore the fluid state of the fragmented self, globalized culture, and the emperiled environment.
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore,
March 14 – May 6, 2006
Sandy Skoglund
Enchanting the Real
In this 30-year survey, Sarah Tanguy explores the artist’s pursuit of food as a subject and her experimentation with a cross-disciplinary approach. In addition to two installations, the exhibition presents a selection of eye-dazzling photographs from the late 70s to the present.
COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, January 30 – April 12, 2004
Six Studies in Contemporary Photography
Nailya Alexander Gallery
May 25 – July 1, 2006
Liset Castillo, Justine Reyes, and Jose Ruiz
Join Sarah Tanguy in exploring the symbolic pathways of three artists, rich in personal and shared memory, and by turn, elegiac, critical humorous.
Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s College of MD
January 14 – February 15, 2008
Explorations in Contemporary Art
Curated by Sarah Tanguy
Food: it is life sustaining, a form of cultural expression, a part of big business, a challenge to dieters, a source of comfort, and a symbol of prosperity. As fast-food culture has taught us, the choices we make about food impact the health of individuals and the earth’s environment.
COPIA: The American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts
January 31 – May 12, 2003
What is it about sweets that keep us wanting more?
Why is professing a sweet tooth a confession as much as a source of pride?
In Sweet Tooth, 40 contemporary artists offer a variety of responses to these questions with artworks that play with ideas of sweetness, memory and obsession and experiment with unconventional materials. [...]
“The Square of the Hypothesis Equals Poetry.”—Anonymous
Since the fall of 1997, the American Center for Physics has hosted two exhibitions a year at its headquarters located on 24-acre wooded site in College Park, Maryland. From Dark Matter to Chaos Theory, the program loosely explores topics related to current trends in science and mathematics. An illustrated brochure with an essay by consulting curator Sarah Tanguy documents each exhibition, which features sculpture, painting, photographs, and works on paper by regional artists.
The Progress of Big Man: A Conversation with Ron Mueck
Reprinted from Sculpture magazine, July/August 2003
Australian-born, London-based Ron Mueck is as enigmatic as his sculptures—from a distended baby, which stuck to the wall crucifixion-style, bears a unnervingly intelligent demeanor far in excess of his age to a smaller-than-life, sick old woman, who inspired by a hospital visit to his wife’s grandmother, curls up in a fetal pose under a blanket. All of his works command an uncanny ability to [...]