CLAUDIA VESS

About the Artist

Claudia Vess 's work reflects the contemporary urban quotidian landscape.  She works in multiple media:  relief sculpture, printmaking, painting, and installation works.  She often uses contemporary objects either as part of the print matrix, as iconic subjects in paintings, and as connectors from 3-D existence to 2-D mind's eye pictography.   She is after "a conversational spark between the viewer and the work."  This interactive concept of art may have been influences by her work with Byzantine Art.   Vess exhibits locally and internationally, recently in DC, Berlin, Venice and Rome.  She has worked in community arts development and galleries (e.g. Artomatic, Gallery 10, Wonder Graphics,) museums (The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies) and is a gallerist at The Cabinet:Art.  She serves as the Group 93 Coordinator.  (MFA AU)   The American University (MFA), Smith College (AB), Leo Marchutz School of Painting and Drawing www.thecabinetart.com , www.ccvess.com