Frances Wertimer is a Baltimore-based multi-media artist originally from New York City, with roots in New Orleans as well. Her work is driven by a desire to heal from and interrogate misogynistic cultural tropes such as the Madonna/Whore complex, as well as archetypal study, psychology, myth, spirituality, and the pursuit of justice. Frances has exhibited work in New York City, Baltimore, New Orleans, and has multiple works held in private collections in the United States, Canada, and the Netherlands.
"Seeing Things, Personal Devices"
Medium: Four-Channel Electronic Video Installation
Year: 2015
"Seeing Things, Headscarf"
The 4-channel video installation “Seeing Things, Headscarf” produces ambiguity through simultaneous random juxtapositions of a woman donning a scarf. Conceptual art, quad-screen, and fashion challenge stereotypes: Who decides when scarves are fashion, when they signify devotion, - repression? Riffing on the popular video "100 ways to tie a scarf", “Seeing Things, Headscarf” sources include Audrey Hepburn wearing scarf-and-sunglasses in "Charade", Hijab, bridal veils, the Virgin Mary.
“Seeing Things, Headscarf” is a 4-Channel video installation: Final cut pro manipulated video recordings; Quad-video-switcher (signal splitter) distributes 4 DVDs/DVD /players. Each quadrant of the screen displays a version of the same video, asynchronous and non-linear. For flatscreen or projection.
“Seeing Things, Headscarf” involved performance and collaboration, and is part of a series created to protest Trump’s Muslim ban and systemic post-9/11 ethnic profiling of Muslims. This series [videos, installations, site-interventions] is informed by living and teaching in Morocco, activism and a Catholic girlhood.
“Seeing Things, Headscarf” is a 4-Channel video installation: Final cut pro manipulated video recordings; Quad-video-switcher (signal splitter) distributes 4 DVDs/DVD /players. Each quadrant of the screen displays a version of the same video, asynchronous and non-linear. For flatscreen or projection.
“Seeing Things, Headscarf” involved performance and collaboration, and is part of a series created to protest Trump’s Muslim ban and systemic post-9/11 ethnic profiling of Muslims. This series [videos, installations, site-interventions] is informed by living and teaching in Morocco, activism and a Catholic girlhood.
Medium: Four-Channel Video Electronic Installation
Year: 2018
Chyna has been a competitive artist since the age of 5, and she was selling custom paintings to her community by the age of 10. Throughout high school, she continued to develop her skills through lessons from professional artist mentorship, and workshops; and even enrolled in a pre-college program at the prestigious Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). At just 16 years old, Chyna taught herself digital design and quickly secured a job as a graphic designer at Damon Foreman's Music Academy, where she honed her craft and created her first professional advertisements.
Caroline MacKinnon is an artist, writer and educator based in Takoma Park, MD.
Her hand-built ceramic sculptures and gouache paintings are inspired by humankind’s connection to the cosmos. The Canadian-American artist has exhibited her work at Rhizome DC, the Montpelier Arts Center in Laurel, MD, the District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC), GWU’s Luther W. Brady Gallery in the Corcoran Flagg building in downtown Washington, DC, the Brentwood Arts Exchange in the Gateway Arts District in Prince George’s County, MD, as well as in other regional galleries and art centers.