First/Inaugural OTA Emeritus Show
Friday, June 30, 2023 – Sunday, July 30, 2023
Opening reception Friday, June 30, 2023 4-7 p.m.
Off Track Art is open Friday and Sunday 12-4
and Saturday 10-4 or by special appointment.
Off Track Art's July show celebrates several former partners and their most recent work!
June 30, 2023 4-7 Off Track Art opening reception:
Nolly Gelsinger: Our artists’ cooperative Off Track Art was incorporated in 2009 by a great field of local energetic artists.
For the month of July, Off Track Art is checking in with some of our former partners who spent time with us in the recent (and not so recent!) past.
We refer to each one as a “Partner Emeritus” to honor their status. They are all dear to us and we appreciate how these partners helped to pave the way for the continued success of Off Track Art.
Specifically, we wanted to see how some of our former partners, who are involved in their former or new communities, are now using their outstanding creativity as their lives have evolved in additional directions.
We caught up with seven of them-their names may be familiar to you- and asked them to update their biography with us, bring any artwork they have been doing, display it on our lobby walls, and offer it for sale for the month of July.
The show runs from Friday June 30 until Sunday, July 30. Our visiting artists are: Sherrill Cooper, Kevin Dayhoff, Gail Elwell, Sarah Gawens, Thomas Sterner, Robert Waddell, and Pamela Zappardino!
ATTEND a FREE gallery reception to MEET THE ARTISTS Friday June 30 4-7 PM Gallery hours are Fridays 12-4pm, Saturdays 10am-4pm, and Sundays 12-4pm. In addition to this lobby show, see our ongoing display of 8 artist partners and 20 artist consigners!
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Kevin Dayhoff – June 25, 2023
www.kevindayhoffart.com
Text: (410) 259-6403 E-mail: kevindayhoff@gmail.com
First/Inaugural OTA Emeritus Show
Friday, June 30, 2023 – Sunday, July 30, 2023
Opening reception Friday, June 30, 2023 4-7 p.m.
Off Track Art is open Friday and Sunday 12-4
and Saturday 10-4 or by special appointment.
Kevin Dayhoff is a Westminster native who lives on Uniontown Road with his wife, Caroline Babylon. Dayhoff has been a self-employed artist and businessman since 1974 and has been exhibiting art since 1981. In the tradition of his friend and mentor The Rev. Dr. Ira Zepp, Dayhoff has served for many years as non-denominational multi-disciplinary fire, police, and military chaplain.
As a landscape designer, collage, mixed media assemblage, sculpture artist, writer, and photographer; he has had a life-long pervasive interest in color and spatial relationships and the juxtapositioning of incongruent objects.
After graduating from Westminster High School in 1971, he served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves for two years as he attended Elon College and served in the Civil Rights movement in the south - before leaving college in 1973 to pursue a career in writing and art.
In 1974, Dayhoff started farming; raising nursery stock; and started his own business as a landscape designer, contractor, and nurseryman. He retired in 1999.
In recent years, he has enjoyed exploring and utilizing technology - digital photography, the scanner, and the computer – as a creative process.
In 1981 Dayhoff had his first art show at the Theatre Project in Baltimore, followed by a group show. "Four at 409" at Gallery 409, in Baltimore in October 1982. It was in the 1982 time period that Dayhoff met Carroll County artists Linda Van Hart and Robert J. Waddell while he was exploring photocopier art.
In the past he has collaborated with a number of artist groups, including The Consortionists with Linda Van Hart and Robert J. Waddell from 1983 to 1989; the United Art Workers from 1989 to 1991 and most recently with Off Track Art from December 2008 to June 2013. He has displayed art at Western Maryland – McDaniel College on a number of occasions. Beginning in 1988, Dayhoff participated for many years in (幸円 良介 - Ryosuke Cohen’s long-running “Brain Cell” – “Fractal” series, from Osaka, Japan.
Dayhoff has been a short story and technical writer since 1968. Since 2004 he has been writing as a newspaper reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media in addition to a number of regional publications.
Dayhoff has been a member – and displayed art with the Carroll County Arts Council since its very early years. An avid historian and historic preservationist, Dayhoff was a Westminster elected official when the city purchased the Carroll Theatre in 2000 and adaptively renovated the building which reopened on April 6, 2003 as the Carroll Arts Center. He currently serves on the Arts Council board – and continues to actively pursue promoting art and cultural venues in an open, affirming, and inclusive community – and having murals and public art to be installed throughout Westminster.
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Kevin Dayhoff for Westminster Authority Caroline Babylon, Treasurer.
