citylikeyou — Current — Baltimore by Mark Brown

The Current Gallery is an artist-run gallery and studio space located in downtown Baltimore. Current’s a great space for seeing contemporary art from the studios of young Baltimore based artists and likeminded artists from around the world.

Website
currentspace.com

Address
Current, Current, Baltimore, United States

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Current city: Baltimore

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Mark Brown is a Video Artist, DJ, and Curator living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. He’s spent the last decade inhabiting, running, and promoting some of Baltimore’s finest underground venues and cultural events. As a video artist his work embraces the Internet as both gallery and medium, creating new works from the cracks, glitches, and fall-out of digital realities. He currently curates a weekly music video and art video series for Berlin based Network Awesome called 120 Megabytes.

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