DATES:  Aug. 13- Aug. 25, 2010  

OPENING: RECEPTION: Friday, August 13, 2010. 6:00pm - 9:00pm 

LOCATION: Sub Basement Gallery, 118 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201 

Tough Guy combines 20 male, working artists from Baltimore, Chicago, New York and Internationally. An opening reception hosted by Jeffrey- Subbasement Artist Studios and curated by Eli Walker, will be held Friday, August 13 between 6:00 to 8:00pm.  And please make all event hours the same 6-8pm. Thanks,

The show includes 20 male, studio artists involved in a wide range of Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Sound, Video, Performance, Installation and Printmaking. Among the artists are: Jerome Acks, Josh Ammon, Colin Benjamin, Evan Bogess, Brendan Carroll, Sangho Choi, Matthew Fischl, Ethan Greene, Drew Griffith, Andrew Holmquist, Ben Horns, Matthew Jensen, Leo Kaplan, Jeffrey Kent, Chris LaVoie, Diego Leclery, Joshua Lefchick, Patrick Rios, Anthony Romero, Camilo Sanin and musical performance by MEAH!. Refreshments will be offered at the opening and many of the artists will be present to discuss their work.

In an effort to both perpetuate the discussion of gender roles in the arts and to disclose the artist-as-male stereotype, curator Eli Walker was asked to bring together a show that consisted entirely of male artists. Without falling for the hackneyed tropes of ironic, sensitive-male aesthetic nor the passive aggressive, faux-naiveté dude art; the work was chosen from artists’ studios made over the last year as a true representation of their practice. This approach lends itself to investigate what it means to be a male artist today. Are men levied upon their Modernist counterparts after the wake of Post-Modernism? Has the long, evolving Feminist Movement liberated them from patriarchal form like photography did for painting? Is gender as definable as it once was now that we have a progressive understanding of sexual identity and gender association? Tough Guy proposes these questions by exhibiting a cross examination of 20 contemporary male artists and their individual interests.

The Subbasement Artist Studios is a for profit exhibition space run by resident artist Jeffrey Kent. Call for appointment at (410) 659-6950 or via email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . It is located in the sub-basement of the The Atrium condominium building in Market Center, 118 N Howard St, Baltimore, MD 21201.