Baltimore, MD – Fresh on the heels of being a featured community exhibitor in Artscape’s inaugural SCOUT Art Fair, Make Studio is proud to announce its upcoming early summer events season, centered on Express Impressionist. This exciting exhibition is the first solo show by member artist Eddie Kil, whose arts practice has notably come into its own as he approaches 5 years of studio membership.

On view from May 31 – July 3, Express Impressionist highlights Eddie as an expressionistic translator who borrows modernist vocabulary (think Picasso and Van Gogh) whenever his mode, as it often is, is set within the impressionist realm of Renoir, Monet, and Sisley. Eddie enjoys interpreting 19th century French paintings; at the beginning of each project, he researches them on the internet or occasionally in a book. His color application is bold, occasionally even neon. The general softness of the originals is inverted by Eddie’s use of flat swaths of color and clean black delineations. The results brim with crisp, 21st-century freshness.

Make Studio will host a free gallery reception for Express Impressionist during June’s Art Around Hampden Third Thursday art walk, with live music and light refreshments, on June 19, from 5 -7 p.m. Details about complimentary programming, some in partnership with Baltimore Museum of Art, through the run of the exhibition will be announced soon on social media.