b. 1974 Nova Scotia, Canada
Eric is an abstract "automatist" artist who works in a loose abstract gestural style throughout all his media, including stone. His paintings and other 2-D works are largely made without any plan other than to keep a constant reverence for composition and open mind. Often his compositions remain non-objective, but spontaneously works will evolve to become abstract figurative forms using a technique of layering paint.
Though I have been a city-dweller for many years now, the seeds for what inspires me were first planted in woods, fields, and mountains of Virginia, where I grew up. My mom is an artist and got me started experimenting in different media from a young age. Baltimore has been my home since 2010, and thankfully this city has its own share of natural beauty within and surrounding it.
Joan Marie Giampa, Art.D.
Joan Marie Giampa was born in Arlington, Virginia. She has a BFA in graphic design from James Madison University, an MFA in painting from the University of Maryland, and a Doctor of Arts from George Mason University. Joan has been exhibiting her work professionally since 1993 and has exhibited extensively throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States and Europe.
Baltimore based artist Becky Borlan engages in a multi-disciplinary practice that is grounded in playful, large-scale public art. Through her sculptures and installations, Borlan explores geometric form and color interactions, creating engaging and immersive experiences that challenge perception. Drawing from a wide range of materials, she experiments with perceived functionalities, proportions and color theory.
Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2021 graduate of the Intermedia+Digital Arts MFA at UMBC, and a 2021 Baker Artist Prize Awardee. Her works in video, performance, music, and painting have been exhibited across the U.S. and around the world, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art, and MIX NYC. She performs music as 50’♀ and as the front woman of the rock band Santa Librada.
Nature has long been the subject of Christine Neill's large mixed-media paintings. She grew up in New England and after initially studying Biologyat Skidmore College, graduated with a BS in Art She found it was a natural transition from the examination of living things in a lab to visualizing those processes as imagery in paintings and prints. She dates her interest in the effects of climate conditions to early studies of biotic habitats. She earned a MFA at MICA’s Hoffberger School of Painting, where she studied with Grace Hartigan.
Vanessa Renee Williams, a resident of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She is the very proud mother of one daughter, Lisa J. Locke, Esq.
DAEN ROSE is a contemporary artist from Kaneohe, Hawai'i on the island of O'ahu. He currently works and exhibits in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and other parts of the mainland East Coast. He creates oil paintings, drawings and other objets d'art that are hand-crafted and timeless.
Artist James Nyika paints the glowing atmosphere of cities across the world. As a child growing up in Kenya, he found art materials at the student bookshop and also borrowed just about every art history volume from the British Council library in Nairobi. "I checked out the same books over and over just to stare at the art, to try and understand how it was created," says James. With family encouragement to study engineering, James moved to the U.S. and immersed himself in science studies at Boston University.
A native of Maryland, Carol has lived in the Metropolitan DC area and now lives in Annapolis. Carol began her career as an accomplished art director/ graphic designer working at national advertising agencies. She started her own design business of 18 years and her primary client was National Geographic.