During the mid-seventies David Knopp started working with plywood
as his medium. It was an accessible and inexpensive material to use in
the self-trained process of stack lamination. It became an expendable
resource to experiment with in creating forms.
As his work progressed he discovered the linear strata inherent in
the medium. Expressing movement with the "strata" became his aim.
Knopp creates flowing liquid lines that engage the senses as the eye
travels over the contours.
A lifetime Baltimore resident, Knopp attended Essex Community
David Friedheim’s mother was a painter and his father was a classical musician. He received his BA from the State University of New York at Binghamton and his MFA from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, MD. He has exhibited in many solo and group shows throughout the USA. He has built artwork on commission for private and public clients including such firms as Bill Graham Presents. In 1999 he was a founding member of The Crucible, a school devoted to linking the arts, industry and community in Berkeley, CA.
Lisa Sheirer is a visual artist, living and working in Frederick, Maryland. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Printmaking from West Virginia University, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture from The University of Notre Dame. Ms. Sheirer has been creating artwork for over 40 years.
Lou Joseph (b.1975) is a Baltimore artist working in painting, printmaking and installation. He is a project manager for the Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Arts and also director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore. He earned a BFA from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1998 and an MFA from Indiana University in 2004. He lives in the Radnor-Winston neighborhood with his wife Miriam and son Gabe.
Patrick M. Craig is a professor of painting and drawing at the University of Maryland. His gallery representations have included Gallery Plan B and Gallery K, Washington D.C., Gallery B.A.I. in New York City and Barcelona, Spain, along with Gallery ARS LONGA in Milanowek, Poland. His artworks reside numerous collections such as The Sidney and Francis Lewis Collection, the Washington Convention Center, George Mason University, George Washington University, along with the corporate collections of IBM, KPMG, Sallie Mae, The Artery Corporation, and The Washington Post.
Born and raised in Germany, Artemis Herber has studied Fine Arts at the University of Paderborn, Germany. She holds an MFA in painting. As an assistant professor she taught in the Psychology of Visual Perception at the University of Paderborn. With her MA Ed and MAT from the Seminar of Esslingen (Stuttgart) she taught until 2002.
Anne Cherubim is an abstract contemporary landscape painter. She works predominantly in acrylic. Her art is rooted in real life images and textures, with a modern abstraction, often in a limited colour palette. Anne’s other body of work is The Recycled Art Project, a series of limited edition digital paintings.
Carrie Fucile is an interdisciplinary artist and experimental musician whose work is frequently performative and collaborative. She is first and foremost a sound artist, but often incorporates movement and physical materials into her process. Her creative efforts interpret the effects of political power, technological shifts, and global economics on the human condition. Ultimately each piece explores traces of these events found in objects, architecture, and landscapes.
Maggie Gourlay works in screenprinting and papermaking to create both installation and two-dimensional work that explores the intersection of the natural world and domestic space. She is a recipient of DC Arts and Humanities Council art grants and other awards, and has had numerous solo and group shows with her work in several public and private collections. Gourlay is a current member of Sparkplug--sponsored by DC Arts Center--and Cultivate Projects, a platform for a contemporary redefinition of landscape.
Renee T. Lachman, holds an M.F.A. in painting from George Washington University, and a B.F.A. in painting and drawing from Philadelphia College of Art. She works in a variety of media - acrylic and encaustic paints, graphite drawing, sculpture and collage. She has shown widely in the Washington area and has exhibited in Philadelphia and New York. Renee taught at Montgomery College and was an artist/teacher with Maryland State Arts Council's AiE Artist-in-Residence Roster program.