Sweaty Eyeballs: Hands of the Artists
Art Exhibition at Area 405 Gallery - August 22 - September 12, 2025
Curator - Alexi Scheiber
Art Exhibition at Area 405 Gallery - August 22 - September 12, 2025
Curator - Alexi Scheiber
Poster Design - Emerson Goheen
Opening Reception - August 22
5:00-9:00 PM (Artist Talks at 7:00 PM)
405 E. Oliver Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
In this year’s Sweaty Eyeballs gallery showcase, entitled “Hands of the Artists,” animators from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and beyond were invited to share animation-adjacent artwork ready to spill over from the screen and into the gallery. The assembled works span techniques throughout animation history from the earliest motion toys to contemporary video art. Many works reveal the art of the process: with frames, puppets, and production artwork. Throughout the gallery you will see the marks of the artists’ hands– fingerprints into clay, scissors through paper, markers over live action frames– permeating the work and grounding it in tactility.
Artist Screening - September 5
7:30-9:00 PM
Join us for a selection of short films by artists in the exhibit. Marelen Acevedo Soto will be video dj-ing a version of her piece “The Portal is Open.”
Sweaty Eyeballs Afterparty - September 12
9:00-11:00 PM
Come celebrate the culmination of the Sweaty Eyeballs festival for 2025 as well as the closing reception of the “Hands of the Artists” Gallery.
Curator Bio:
Alexi Scheiber is an experimental animator, educator, and curator based in Baltimore. Her work has been shown in over two dozen film festivals worldwide. She recently completed her MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts at UMBC, where she received the RTKL fellowship for her outstanding work. Alexi earned her BFA from MICA in 2018. Her undergraduate thesis film A Love Letter for the End of the World received honors from Krakow’s International Green Film Festival and the Adobe Achievement Awards.
Artists:
Marelen Acevedo Soto
Mary Budnitz
Rieko Chacey
Jim Doran
Eric Dyer
Jake Fried
Zoe Friedman
Catherine Frizzell
Lolo Gem
Taylor Goad
Emerson Goheen
Eva Grandoni
Amy Lee Ketchum
Ghazal Mojtahedi
Aaron Oldenburg
Alexi Scheiber
Lynn Tomlinson
Caleb Wood
Stephanie J Williams
5:00-9:00 PM (Artist Talks at 7:00 PM)
405 E. Oliver Street, Baltimore, MD 21202
In this year’s Sweaty Eyeballs gallery showcase, entitled “Hands of the Artists,” animators from Baltimore, Philadelphia, and beyond were invited to share animation-adjacent artwork ready to spill over from the screen and into the gallery. The assembled works span techniques throughout animation history from the earliest motion toys to contemporary video art. Many works reveal the art of the process: with frames, puppets, and production artwork. Throughout the gallery you will see the marks of the artists’ hands– fingerprints into clay, scissors through paper, markers over live action frames– permeating the work and grounding it in tactility.
Artist Screening - September 5
7:30-9:00 PM
Join us for a selection of short films by artists in the exhibit. Marelen Acevedo Soto will be video dj-ing a version of her piece “The Portal is Open.”
Sweaty Eyeballs Afterparty - September 12
9:00-11:00 PM
Come celebrate the culmination of the Sweaty Eyeballs festival for 2025 as well as the closing reception of the “Hands of the Artists” Gallery.
Curator Bio:
Alexi Scheiber is an experimental animator, educator, and curator based in Baltimore. Her work has been shown in over two dozen film festivals worldwide. She recently completed her MFA in Intermedia and Digital Arts at UMBC, where she received the RTKL fellowship for her outstanding work. Alexi earned her BFA from MICA in 2018. Her undergraduate thesis film A Love Letter for the End of the World received honors from Krakow’s International Green Film Festival and the Adobe Achievement Awards.
Artists:
Marelen Acevedo Soto
Mary Budnitz
Rieko Chacey
Jim Doran
Eric Dyer
Jake Fried
Zoe Friedman
Catherine Frizzell
Lolo Gem
Taylor Goad
Emerson Goheen
Eva Grandoni
Amy Lee Ketchum
Ghazal Mojtahedi
Aaron Oldenburg
Alexi Scheiber
Lynn Tomlinson
Caleb Wood
Stephanie J Williams