Lou Joseph | Hotel Indigo

On View: July 17 - September 18, 2026

Reception: Sunday, August 9 | Noon to 2 PM

Hotel Indigo | 24 West Franklin Street | Free & Open to the Public

Maryland Art Place, in partnership with Hotel Indigo Baltimore, is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Baltimore-based artist, Lou Joseph. The exhibition is on view at Hotel Indigo, located at 24 West Franklin St. from July 17 - September 18. A public reception will take place on Sunday, August 9 from Noon to 2 PM.

About the Artist:
Lou Joseph’s work primarily explores the process of building and tearing down paintings and constructions, working iteratively and in many layers. Shapes and patterns are added and subtracted through a range of methods—painting, drawing, airbrushing, collage, cutting, carving, woodworking, casting, sanding, and more—to produce a tenuous balance. In this process, there are hundreds of cast-off or failed paintings that are eventually cannibalized into newer artworks.
This ongoing cycle of creation, sorting, and reuse mirrors Lou Joseph’s voracious appetite for taking in the world around him, from art, comics, graffiti, and children’s colorful toys, to signage, patterning, and the natural world. Ultimately, his practice is about the daily push and pull of making work: a studio full of artwork, scraps, supplies, and tools in constant motion, held together by the joy of making.
Bio:
Lou Joseph is an artist and arts administrator based in Baltimore, Maryland. He is currently the Arts, Culture and Events Coordinator at Baltimore County Recreation and Parks department. Born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1975, he graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a BFA in painting in 1998 and received an MFA in printmaking from Indiana University in 2004. He continues an active studio practice, primarily working on painting and long-term collaborative projects, and has exhibited work in New York, Chicago, Venice, Berlin among others. From 2012 to 2022 he directed the Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, an artist-run nomadic art space, staging 36 large scale solo artists exhibitions, along with professional practice programming. He lives with his family in the city of Baltimore.

Please join us on Sunday, August 9 from Noon to 2 PM for a champagne reception at Hotel Indigo located at 24 West Franklin St.