Artist’s Bio ~ Pat Dennis In 1975, Pat Dennis began painting in Nyack, NY, at the birthplace and boyhood home of American Realist painter, Edward Hopper. One of her first influences was as working assistant for Sari Dienes on “The Land,” an artists’ community in Stony Point, New York. Neighbors Robert Rauchenberg and John Cage would drop in on Sari and Pat for ground chicken bones and spinach lunches. A very strongly opinionated artist, Dienes constantly gave Pat lessons on art making and on being an artist.
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As a little girl growing up in Baltimore City, McKinzie enjoyed doodling, creating characters, and making her own storybooks out of folded printer paper and bus ticket stubs.
In 2003 she graduated from Towson University with a BA in Illustration. At Towson she discovered the process of linoleum block printing, which has since become her medium of choice, although she also works in pen and ink, watercolor, acrylic, oils, and colored pencils. Her illustrations reveal her sense of humor and love of detail and storytelling.
Lillian Hoover earned her BFA from the University of North Carolina, Asheville and her MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Her paintings are included in several public collections including Baltimore Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Art Museum, and DC Commission on Arts and Humanities. In 2020, Hoover received a Pollock-Krasner Grant.
Emma Elizabeth Downing is a painter, singer, songwriter and performance artist. She found her musings while growing up in the family hospitality business; a pink motel along highway 280, the Heart of Dixie Motel in Alabama. Much of her work is informed by the customers, landscape and her mother, who worked and sang constantly. In 1983 E.Liz received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from the Maryland Institute, College of Art and studied under the great painter, Grace Hartigan.
Jayoung Yoon is a New York-based artist born in South Korea. Select exhibitions in the USA include Bronx Museum of the Arts, Here Arts Center, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New Bedford Art Museum, Ohio Craft Museum, and Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, Korea. She was awarded Ora Schneider Regional Residency Grant, the BRIC Media Arts fellowship, and the Franklin Furnace Fund.
Reading the work of great poets has always been important to me. My experience, as a young reader, of how a word or a grouping of words could create and shape a visual image is still with me. And looking back, probably suggest, why now, I am often drawn to using image with and text in my work in photography.
Raised in the Chicago area, Heidi Neff earned her MFA in painting and drawing from University of Iowa in 2002. Neff's work has consistently explored the ongoing search for meaning through spiritual and physical connection. She exhibits her work at Amos Eno Gallery in New York, NY and in alternative spaces around the country. She is a professor of art and design at Harford Community College in Bel Air, Maryland, where she lives with her husband, Paul Chuffo, and their two amazing children.
Lynne Parks was born and raised in Northern Virginia and she has lived in Baltimore, MD since 2003. She has a BA from Hollins University with an independent major in creative writing/theater/film studies. Through found abstract photography she addresses facial difference. As Outreach Coordinator for Lights Out Baltimore, she raises awareness about avian conservation issues through her work as a practicing artist and curator. Lately, she has focused on the loss of birds from building collisions via photography, site-specific installation, and sound.