"A sense of wonder" speaks to how Leslie Goldman creates: developing characters and landscapes drawn from memory and folklore, a childlike curiosity and the senses - crafting visceral works that give the viewer’s imagination room to explore.
Leslie predominantly works with oil paint, graphite, pastel, ink and wax; building up, sanding down and scratching into layers to create a dreamlike atmosphere.
Artist: Dawn Farmer
Birth: 1970 Washington, DC
Often Known for: Mixed Media Artistry & Special Effects Makeup Artistry
Methods: Drawings, Easel Paintings, Murals, Special Effects Art & Sculptures, Character Makeup Artistry
Mediums: Charcole & Pastel paints, Colored pencils, Acrylic oil, Water color paint, Latex, Costume makeup, variety of texture materials
Style: Photo Realism, Hyper-realism Representation, Abstract Designs
Subjects: Animals/Zoological, Figures/Figurative, Genre-Human Activity, Still life, Special Effects face & Body Makeup
A cultural nomad with many roots I have lived my life at the intersection of cultures. Serendipity brought me to Rockville where I now live and create art.
A multi-media artist with a background in photography and trained in classical oil painting, I have been moving into installation art over the last decade. I transform my photo-based images into interactive and immersive installations often environmental in scope. Playful, they unapologetically appeal to our sense of wonder and invite the viewer into a contemplative space.
As a resident of Prince George's County, Winston W. Harris earned printmaking degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University, (BFA) and Howard University (MFA). (2022-2023 Key-Holder Artist in Residency Program at Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, (2016-2017) Finalist Artist: Purple Line Transit Partners Project and Sandy Spring Museum (Guest Artist Program).
Lamar Jones, (b. 1989) is an American painter, whose work reflects contemporary life from a black American's perspective. Through portraiture and mixed media, Jones depicts energetic celebrations of black existence in leisure. His paintings meet somewhere between realistic depiction and raw abstraction, incorporating text, motifs, and symbols rendered on canvas.
I’m a failed physics professor and fiction writer, turned artist only after trying to fit my love of magic into more traditional boxes. What most compels me about being an artist is the calling for authenticity, championing merit in a disposable world, and digging in the dirt for clues to what holds us together.
M.C. Pratt is a native of Baltimore who works in oils, watercolor, mixed media and occasionally installations and stone. She lives and works in Allegany County, MD with her husband and 2 dogs. With a dual BS in Art and Philosophy, and an MEd in art education, she teaches in a variety of public and private venues while pursuing a life robust with painting, exhibiting and writing. As Director for Art Education for the Evergreen Heritage Center, Mt.
I am a life long artist and Marylander. I draw, sculp and oil paint.
In April 2018, I submitted a community grant to MSAC for 8 benches by 8 artist to be located on 8 business for the public to enjoy in Historic Stevensville. The project was call 'Benches of the Shore' in Queen Anne's County, Maryland.
Aziza Afzal is a queer, multi-racial artist residing in Maryland. She creates art in many mediums, such as performance, adaptation, script-writing, painting (murals), linocut and intaglio printmaking, drawing, jewelry-making, design, collage, and puppetry.
The First Latino Olympic Artist for the USA Jesse Raudales