ART POP
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local musicians pushing the boundaries of pop music
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local visual artists exhibit showcasing their newest works
in real life paintings & sounds
get off the internet. see human beings make beautiful sounds and paintings in real life.
f**k the phone, disconnect it, trash that s**t
sliding scale 2$-$25
all proceeds go towards the artists
if you want to showcase your work in this exhibit please email ezekiella@juunni.com
read more about each artists here
juunni:
juunni; pop music in real life created by the sensational and daring underdogs of american music and performance.
members; ezekiella and yvonne mont martin have spent years building live audio_visual experiences that leaves your soul fragmented, your heart raw, and your visual imagination riveting.
the two started their relationship through sharing poems, stories and songs. one day after silently making films in the cold northern woods of minnesota, ezekiella came to yvonne with a note summarizing a concept where a deer walked through the audience in a music venue. it was this moment they realized they wanted to push the boundaries of live music. [though without the deer]
shortly after agreeing to this ambitious project, yvonne quickly became engrossed in this work, falling behind in school, and dropping out. the two went on to create and produce many live projects in small bars and diy music venues throughout the united states. during this time they would learn to conceptualize a canvas where they could paint their performances on in these spaces.
searching for more community and collaboration, yvonne and ezekiella moved to the east cost. soon after moving, the pandemic forced them into isolation where they decided to build an off grid school bus and engineer a studio inside. they would end up in the country side of maryland living in cow fields and farmland where they wrote music endlessly and farmed for money and food. you can hear this dichotomy take shape in the music they began creating. exploring the space between natural and digital sounds, pulling back and forth at each other like the constant tug between a digital loneliness and a connected human experience.
from the effects of deep isolation and poverty, the two reached a point of discouragement. their songs were not living up to ezekiella’s high standards and yvonne had no money to source materials for their sets. the two felt they had only the option of giving up, or to dive as deep as they could into their work. for the next couple of years ezekiella would spend every single day teaching herself mix-engineering, while yvonne sourced trash materials for their sets from the nearby farms, harvesting garbage, cleaning it, and piecing a production set together. every night yvonne would come home from the cold barn they worked in covered in dust and sit in the car listening to ezekiella’s mixes, neither of them being fully ready to say their education was complete.
it was after years of relentlessly pushing past their creative and physical limits they would emerge with their debut single “u i”
Strawbalien:
Strawbalien is an underground artist based in Baltimore MD. She makes hyperpop, techno/rave and indie-soul music. Strawbalien has been releasing music for over a year now, creating musical atmospheres for all kinds of people to shine & feel comfortable being themselves.
Musume:
MUSUME swims against the tide of her classical training by pairing experimental production and sound design with heartfelt melodies and motifs that call back to her early days practicing Chopin and Beethoven. MUSUME lives between stylistic worlds and feels at home with seemingly conflicting forms of musical expression
Yawoada:
Kumasi, Ghana - born, Winchester, Virginia - raised and Baltimore, Maryland - based, Yawoada creates art focused on estrangement, isolation, intimacy, desire, separation, and chaos. Drawing from her perspective as a black trans women who grew up in a religious doomsday cult, she turned to visual art as a way to explain and express her experiences with isolation, gender dysphoria, religious trauma, dissociation, and chronic pain at a time when she had difficulty using words. . She contrasts the sometimes dark, chaotic, and adult themes of her work with bright colors, bold shapes, and 'kids' media. Her favorite media to work with are crayon, ballpoint and gel pen, block print, and embroidery.
Persephone Hopper:
Persephone Hopper (b. 1997, New York) is an artist living and working in Baltimore, Maryland.
She studied classical oil painting at the Fine Arts Atelier of Union Square. Currently she works painting oil portraits and murals.
She enjoys using traditional techniques in experimental ways.
Ian Parsons:
Ian Parsons graduated from St. Mary’s College of Maryland with a degree in Studio Art, minoring in philosophy, in 2023. There he was awarded the “William Thomas Rowe Endowed Scholarship” for his drawings from life, and participated in multiple group exhibitions. Since then he has transitioned his work from printmaking and drawing to photo and found object collage. He has exhibited in group shows in Washington DC, Sandy Spring MD, and most recently had his first solo exhibition “Constellations” with Riverworks Art Center in Poolesville MD.
Buppy:
buppy is a self taught multi media artist who creates visuals to process trauma. their main focus is on painting, sculpture, and photography. buppy's art depicts the polarizing experiences of trauma by using divine and dreamlike motifs intertwined with violence and terror. buppy lives happily and heals in baltimore with her wife and pet doves.
Alena Lattik:
Alena, is a Baltimore based artist with a background in illustration and design. Working in ink, pencil or watercolor, she primarily depicts plants, animals, people, and surreal shapes and patterns. Recently she has been experimenting with paper making from a mix of natural materials and recycled paper. The product is richly textured backgrounds that are ment to mirror the dence drawings on top of them.