BALTIMORE, MD (June 29, 2023)—The Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) announced today that it has acquired more than 100 objects and suites during winter and spring 2023. The broad range of works reflect the BMA’s ongoing commitment to diversify its collection across time, media, and culture; to bring forward new and under-recognized voices from across the globe; and to uplift artists with ties to Baltimore and the surrounding region...
...Among the rich selection of works by artists connected to the Baltimore region are paintings by Linling Lu and Zéh Palito; mixed-media works by Charles Mason III, Devin N. Morris, Lavar Munroe, and Elizabeth Talford Scott; works on paper and photographs by Bernhard Hildebrandt, Zoë Charlton, Louis Fratino, and Elena Volkova; and sculpture, garments, and jewelry by Joyce J. Scott. The BMA also acquired objects by Omar Ba, Darrel Ellis, and Elle Pérez, who were featured in recent exhibitions, as well as works by Larry W. Cook Jr. and Steffani Jemison from the critically acclaimed presentation A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration.
Linling Lu. One Hundred Melodies of Solitude, No.222. 2022. Linling Lu (b. 1983, Zunyi, Guizhou Province, China) is one of the most formidable painters working in Baltimore today. While recently the subject of solo exhibitions at Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (2022) and The Phillips Collection (2023), the BMA is among the first institutions to collect her work, advancing the museum’s mission to support excellent work by artists with deep ties to the region. Lu began her ongoing series One Hundred Melodies of Solitude in 2010. Scaled in relation to the body in space, these circular paintings comprise concentric bands of color in complex harmonies, which suggest a progression of sound while also absorbing the viewer in an optical investigation of each specific hue.
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