Loudoun Art Professor’s Work Featured at Baltimore Gallery

Cervidae, a solo exhibition featuring the works of Loudoun Campus Art Professor, Damon Arhos, is currently at the gallery Catalyst Contemporary in Baltimore. 

The exhibition includes paintings, sculptures, film and neon artworks all centered around a single icon: the deer. In this diverse body of work, Arhos contemplates his own actions and experience of conformity and ostracization through his early boyhood experience of hunting. These animals have come to represent the beginning of Arhos’s experience with societal acceptance and rejection through the lens of his own gender and sexuality.

Damon Arhos is an interdisciplinary artist from Texas who examines social contexts of gender and sexuality. Driven by an interest in portraiture, Arhos has developed diverse expressions of the self and of historical figures who have significance in the LGBTQ+ community. His large-scale portrait ‘Matthew Shepard Was A Target’ hangs in the Denver, Col., headquarters of the Matthew Shepard Foundation. More recently, he has modeled portrait paintings from hybridized digital collages.

The exhibition is open Wednesday through Saturday, from 12 p.m. until 5 p.m., until December 4.

Catalyst Contemporary is a fine art gallery focusing on contemporary art that tells stories. Located in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood, the cultural heart of the city, Catalyst forges relationships between artists, collectors and both creative and civic minded individuals. The gallery represents artists nationwide that tell dynamic and powerful stories.

Submitted by:
Charlene Wilkins, WO-Campus Community Outreach, CWilkins@nvcc.edu