Grit

About

GRIT 

Curated by: Grace Doyle 

On View: December 19, 2024 – January 30, 2025

Reception: Saturday, December 21 | 4pm - 6pm

Location: 218 West Saratoga St. Baltimore, MD 21201 | 3RD FLOOR

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday | 12 PM to 4 PM 

Or by appointment contact: goxxipgirlcollective@gmail.com

XoXo Gallery is excited to announce GRIT, an upcoming exhibition at XoXo Gallery that celebrates contradiction, incongruities and visual tension in relation to material, texture, and scale. Grit is on view beginning Thursday, December 19 - January 30, 2025. 

Exhibition Statement: GRIT explores the misrepresentation and perception of materiality in art. This exhibition emphasizes artwork as an object and the importance of seeing and experiencing art in person. Not everything can be conveyed through a computer or phone screen. Each piece in the show pushes the boundaries of what we traditionally expect from mediums like painting, sculpture, photography, and beyond. Can an oil painting have a rough, tactile surface? Can a large-scale work feel intimate? Can a photograph take on the qualities of a painting? And how much presence can each piece command in space? This exhibition invites viewers to reconsider their initial judgment about materiality, its limitations and application.

Please join us on Saturday, December 21 from 4 PM to 6  PM for the opening reception of GRIT. XoXo Gallery is located at 218 West Saratoga St. Baltimore, MD 21201 on the 3rd Floor. 

About the Curator: Grace Doyle lives and works in Baltimore, MD, making oil paintings of people and plants. She holds an MFA from Towson University, an MBA from the University of Baltimore, and a BFA from MICA. Doyle also completed a residency in Norway under Odd Nerdrum. In 2023, she was a finalist in the Bethesda Painting Awards Competition and the Miami University Young Painters Competition. Doyle’s work has been published in New American Paintings and Create! Magazine. She has curated select exhibitions in Towson and Baltimore City.

About XoXo Gallery: 

Founded by twelve members of the Goxxip Girl Collective, XoXo Gallery is an up and coming artist-run space with a focus on curation. Committed to showcasing diverse exhibitions and programming, XoXo Gallery operates under a cooperative model, and challenges conventional perspectives, by fostering a platform for innovative artistic expression and incubation.

Exhibitions at XoXo Gallery change every six weeks, each curated by a different member of our collective. Our mission focuses on fostering community and encouraging collaborative partnerships. We invite inquiries and potential collaborations.

Located in the BROMO Arts District at 218 West Saratoga St. (Maryland Art Place), our gallery is situated on the 3rd floor.