ORDER AND CHAOS
Sensory art
REALCES explores the Sense of Touch: An Inclusive Experience
Dichotomy of Order and Chaos? Masculine and Feminine? Order is an explored territory, hierarchical, organized, known and understood. Creative order? Chaos is an unexplored territory where unawareness, misunderstanding and ignorance dominate. Creative source? Apollonian and Dionysian? Order, reason, organization? Emotions, feelings, intuition? Opposite and complimentary forces, from which deep, vital and grand interactions arise, with creative expressions that are the essence of transformation. The balance between these two forces is a dynamic challenge with constant and incessant adjustments, essential to our relation between present and future, translated as an unequal distribution of Order and Chaos, in an organized society of unequal beings. Does Chaos express the absence of order, structure and equilibrium? Does it signify rupture, disorganization, confusion, instability and unpredictability? Is it a departure point for a new Order? Change, creation, prosperity?
The complexity of today’s world with unpredictable and non-linear systems, with random and possibly disproportionate consequences, can be frightening and destabilizing in its unbridled expansion. However, it is imperative to admit that we have needs and it is our responsibility to grow, progress, evolve, prosper, and create with freedom – without barriers, fear, or restrictions. Without the restlessness of Chaos and its multifaceted, versatile, and multidimensional elements, we will not be able to achieve results or move forward, and ultimately our very survival will be at risk. Our perceptions about, openness to, and greater understanding of the importance of Chaos in the exploration, discovery and emergence of opportunities and in the development of transformations, allow us to reflect upon the reality of unpredictability and turbulence in our world, and the acceptance of paradoxes.
Chaos is an endless source of creativity from which Order may emerge and vice-versa. The Order of one may be the Chaos of another and vice-versa. It is undeniable that Order and Chaos are inevitable and inseparable elements. Achievement involves challenge and boldness on a potential path of equilibrium that eschews stagnation and determinism.
Eduarda Oliveira
Curator
Organization
AILD – Associação Internacional dos Lusodescendentes
Embassy of Portugal in the United States
Government of the District of Columbia
Curators
Elizabeth Casqueiro
Eduarda Oliveira
Supports
Commission on the Arts and Humanities
District of Columbia Office of Human Rights
EastBanc
Metropolitan Washington Ear
Exhibitions
Washington D.C.
Artists
Cheryl D. Edwards
Cheryl D. Edwards, an African American artist (b. 1954) in Miami Beach, Florida. She began her studies in art during 1987 in New York City in a class at the Art Student League taught by Ernest Crichlow. She has been living in Washington, DC for the past 31 years. Her medium is oil, ink, printmaking, mixed media, and acrylics. Edwards is a recipient of many awards and has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally.
Chinedu Felix Osuchukwu
Born in Washington, DC, to Nigerian immigrant parents, Chinedu Felix Osuchukwu spent his early years between DC and Nigeria. Osuchukwu graduated from Duke Ellington School of the Arts, received his BFA from Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, DC, and completed his MFA at Maryland Institute College of the Arts (MICA) in Baltimore. An accomplished artist and academic, he has been the recipients of many awards and shows his work in the US and internationally.
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Elizabeth Casqueiro
Elizabeth Casqueiro is a US-based visual artist from Portugal who is fascinated by the metaphors and meanings of human-made spaces, from cities and buildings to garden landscapes and public parklands. Her artwork explores the ways in which these spaces shape the narratives we embody and the identities we assume. She has degrees in fine arts and architecture and practices her art at her studio at the Jackson Art Center in Washington DC.
Heather Harvey
Heather Harvey is an American artist based on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and New York City. Born in Syracuse, New York in 1970, her multidisciplinary practice spans painting, drawing, sculpture, and site-specific installations. Harvey holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and is an Associate Professor of Art at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
Jacqui Crocetta
Jacqui Crocetta is a Washington, DC area artist. In recent years, her paintings and installations have been inspired by the ocean. In these works, Crocetta pays tribute to the awe and wonder she feels for nature, while responding to environmental concerns. The mindset of interconnectedness is the foundation of her practice. Crocetta is the recipient of several awards and grants, and her work is in private and public collections.
Kristina Penhoet
Kristina Penhoet has artistic training in Textiles, Sculpture, Environmental Design, and Architecture at the Otis College of Art and Design and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. She works with fibers and textiles using traditional and modern techniques to create abstract three-dimensional work. Since 2017, she has held solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions throughout the United States and Brazil.
Leonor Alvim Brazão
Leonor Alvim Brazão was born in Portugal, but spent her youth in Brazil where she studied visual arts, music, and dance. She obtained degrees in Visual Communication and Arts Education. Upon her return to Lisbon, Leonor started a career in advertising where she worked as an art director for several creative agencies. Currently, she lives in the US where she exhibits her artwork regularly. Brazão is the Curriculum Director of an art education company.
Mary Ann Schindler
Mary Ann Schindler lives in Easton, Maryland, and pursued a career in commercial illustration, art direction and design. She continues to investigate new ideas through experimental workshops and academic studies, and her forms of expression include painting, sculpture, assemblage and installation. She is drawn to combining disparate objects to hopefully illuminate ideas of understanding, empathy, and respect for the other.
Michael De Brito
Michael De Brito is a US-based Portuguese contemporary realist painter whose work reveals the profound nuances of culture, identity, memory, and heritage through intimate domestic scenes. Educated at Parsons School of Design and the New York Academy of Art, his work has been exhibited in the US. De Brito is the recipient of many prestigious awards.
Robert M. Johnson
Robert M. Johnson was born and raised in New England and lives on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. While he spent most of his career in technology, he always made art, mostly sculptural. Magnetism, gravity, lasers. illusions and found objects are often involved in the pieces he creates. He strives to make his artwork fun, bring a smile, and be interestingly different.
Susan Hostetler
After earning her BFA, Hostetler traveled to Germany to set up her studio and a hand papermaking facility. With later moves to Barcelona, then NYC, Hostetler continued working in both 2-D and 3-D media. After receiving her MAT from the Corcoran College of Art + Design, Hostetler began teaching at DC area museums and schools. Hostetler is the recipient of prestigious awards and reviews, and her work hangs in numerous private and public collections.
Wilfredo Valladares
Wilfredo Valladares is an award-winning, internationally recognized artist, educator, and curator. His artwork is held in collections across the U.S. and internationally. A full professor at Anne Arundel Community College, he holds an MFA from the University of Maryland, College Park; a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art; and a Pedagogy Degree from Normal Mixta Matilde Cordova Viuda de Suazo.
Works
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