Current Space is proud to present Evil Eyes, Curses, and Floating Computers, an exhibition of works by Jackie Milad and Tom Boram. Please join us for the opening reception!

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Exhibit Runs: February 11 - April 15
Gallery Hours: Fri & Sat 1-5pm or by appointment.
Location: Current Space, 421 North Howard Street, Baltimore, MD

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A vivid accumulation of fabric and sound, footage and paint, pours out in layers of experiences and artifacts. In Evil Eyes, Curses, and Floating Computers, Jackie Milad and Tom Boram immerse us in a maximal, colorful world. There are a million guiding influences – media, culture, and personal history – collaged together through improvisation and fragmentation.

Milad’s source materials include years of drawings, cut up and recombined, including renderings of Egyptian and
Mesoamerican objects and past performances. Boram’s videos question reality and technology through durational
performances and systems of chance.

This exhibition spills from canvas and screen and blurs the boundaries between their pieces. A seed? An eye? A dream? A body, a landscape, a crowd? An answer? A question?

“...if magic could be real, most of it would come out like a thought that you have that’s so strong that it pours into reality”
—Piero Boram

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Jackie Milad is a Baltimore City-based artist whose mixed-media abstract paintings and collages address the history and complexities of dispersed cultural heritage and multi-ethnic identity. She has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally. Select exhibitions include Harvey B. Gantt Center (Charlotte, NC), Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore, MD), The Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD), The Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD), Academy Art Museum (Easton, MD), Arthur Ross Gallery University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), Luis De Jesus Gallery (Los Angeles, A), Museo de Arte de Mazatlan (Mazatlan, MX).  Milad is a multi-year recipient of the Individual Artist Grant from Maryland State Arts Council. In 2019 she was named a Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize Finalist and a Robert W. Deutsch Foundation Ruby Grantee. This year Jackie received the Municipal Art Society of Baltimore City Travel Prize to conduct in-depth research on the Egyptian antiquities held at the British Museum and Petrie Museums in London. 

Her work is included in several public collections, including, Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Library, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Academy Art Museum, GLB Memorial Fund, Robert W. Deutsch Foundation, Pizzuti Collection and Meta (Facebook) Open Art Program. The Baltimore Museum of Art recently selected Jackie Milad to create new work in dialogue with Fred Wilson’s Artemis/Bast (1992). The exhibition with the BMA will be Milad’s first at the Museum. The exhibition will open to the public at the end of April. Milad received her BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and her MFA from Towson University. She is currently represented by SOCO Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina. Jackie serves as a faculty member in both the Curatorial Practice and Studio Arts MFA programs at Maryland Institute College of Art.

Tom Boram is a musician, multi-media artist, educator and Baltimore native. His work is often about complex systems and how he (and people generally) struggle to have healthy and/or meaningful relationships to technology. He has spent the last 25 years focusing on electronic synthesis in improvisation, free jazz and noise music contexts. His video and installation artworks have been featured in such places as Artist Television Access in San Francisco and Maryland Film Festival in Baltimore. He has performed and improvised with musicians all over the world and is a founder of Baltimore’s High Zero Festival of Experimental Music.

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Current Space is an artist-run gallery, studio, outdoor performance space, and garden bar; nourishing an ongoing dialogue between artists, activists, performers, designers, curators, and thinkers. Operating since November 2004, we are committed to showcasing, developing, and broadening the reach of artists locally and internationally.

Programs at Current Space are made possible in part by supporting members like you; the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization; the generous contributions of The Maryland State Arts Council; The Creative Baltimore Fund, which is a grant program funded by the Mayor’s Office and the City of Baltimore; and the Robert W. Deutsch Foundation.