Michael Weiss is a Baltimore-based artist who uses traditional painting materials and methods to create contemporary images containing oblique, but not opaque content. He has exhibited widely throughout the region and his work is a part of numerous private and corporate collections.
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Andre Barnett recently participated in a group show in Annapolis, MD and was also included in the tenth anniversary of the Northern Arts District in Baltimore MD this past summer. His work has been featured in many group shows starting in 1996 to the present: New York, NY; Baltimore, MD; Washington, DC and Richmond, VA.
Education: Maryland Institute, College of Art (MFA, 1989; BFA, 1986) Recent Exhibitions: Solos Show - York Arts Center, York Pennsylvania: Lancaster Coounty Art Association, Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Nelson Fine Arts Gallery,Lexington, VirginiaPaper in Particular, Columbia College, Columbia, Missouri: American Juried Art Salon Online Exhibition, Plano Texas; Upstream People Gallery Online Shows, Omaha, Nebraska, Flips at Clipper Mill, Baltimore, Maryland, Rome Art Coterie, Rome Georgia; Fort Smith Art Center, Fort Smith, Arkansas; Westmoreland Arts and Festival Heritage, Latrobe, Pennsylva
EDUCATION: MFA, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD (1986); BS, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD (1982)
AWARDS: Franz & Virginia Bader Fund Grant, 2013, Loyola University MD Summer Research Grant, 2011, MD State Arts Council Individual Artist Award, 2013, 2002, 1996, 1995
Joan Cox (born 1969) is a figurative painter who focuses on painting intimate relationships between women. Growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, Joan navigated her formative years during a time when LGBTQ+ identities were often marginalized and silenced. Cox portrays the complex, dynamic, sensual, and loving relationships between women in her work. Her subjects are drawn from her immediate circle, featuring her friends and lesbian couples in her community. She fearlessly depicts herself and her wife, inviting viewers into their lives and personal narratives.
Jeffrey Kent was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His studio is in Baltimore, Maryland, where as, a visual artist and founder of the Sub-basement Artist Studios, is committed to communicating through creative expression, and his dedication to community service, ideals he learned as a youth. He learned the importance of sharing his time and knowledge, teaching to set goals and to recognize the possibilities within one's grasp. In 2003 Kent founded Sub-Basement Artist Studios a 12,000+ sq. ft.
Education: MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1995; BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1975. Recipient of Franz & Virgina Bader Grant 2017, Finalist Bakers Artist Awards 2017, Artscape 2017, Two person Show Harford community College 2016, Outdoor Sculpture Invitational 2016, Solo Show College of Southern Maryland 2015, Solo show University of Connecticut, 2014
Lania D’Agostino was born in southwest Michigan in 1957 where she was raised on Lake Michigan in a small town that received many families from Chicago for summer vacations. This influenced her drive to visit Chicago and the museums knowing that she would live in a large city one day. During one visit to the Chicago Museum of Art, D’Agostino saw an exhibit of George Segal and was forever changed. At the age of 16 she began experimenting with casting her friends and family in plaster, some of which she never heard from again.
Ellen Burchenal is an artist who works in painting and drawing. An instructor at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Burchenal has lived and studied in Italy, and she directs and co-teaches the MICA Summer Study program in Sorrento, Italy. She has exhibited and lectured in numerous galleries and universities throughout the region. Burchenal has received several Maryland State Arts Council Artist Fellowships, and she completed a public art commission “Undercurrent” in the Baltimore Shot Tower metro station in downtown Baltimore.
Biography- Mary Beth Muscara After working on the Baltimore City Mural Program in 1978 she lived in Mexico while studying painting and drawing at the Bellas Artes in San Miguel d'Allende. In 1989 she attended the School of Visual Arts in New York city for painting. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and non-profit spaces throughout the Baltimore-Washington, and mid-Atlantic region since 1983 including Maryland Art Place, Easton Academy of the Arts, the Anton Gallery, the New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, and the Gwinnett Fine Arts Center in Duluth, Georgia.