Solo Exhibitions
Highland Center For the arts, Greensboro, Vt
Bennington Museum, Bennington, Vermont
Gango Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Knight Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Limner Gallery, New York, New York
Lucas Gallery, Telluride, Colorado
Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Swanson Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
Vermont Arts Exchange, N. Bennington, Vermont
Group Exhibitions
“26th Annual NBOSS”, North Bennington, Vermont, Summer 2023
“25th Annual NBOSS”, North Bennington, Vermont, Summer 2022
4Baltimore Office of Promotion & The Artshttps://www.promotionandarts.orgbopacommunications@gmail.com(410) 752-8632
10 E Baltimore St
Baltimore, MD 21202
United States
Dubbed the “Lewis Carroll of Baltimore” by internationally renowned artist, Grace Hartigan, Jessica Damen’s paintings speak to universal themes revealed through fairy tales, Biblical stories, contemporary and ancient Greek myths. Hartigan said of Damen’s paintings, “like William James she has a gift for psychology in her depiction of children. Her use of paint is both sensual and tough.”
Born in Lake Wales, Florida, Nechama Topper lived in Hollywood, Florida; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and she currently lives and works in Baltimore City. She attended Florida State University, earned her BFA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and her MA from Towson University. Having worked at the Aside Gallery Studios in the Station North Arts District, she now works in a private studio in northwest Baltimore City.
Erin Fostel spent her early years copying characters out of her brother’s comic books, and writing dramatic soap operas on her grandmother’s typewriter. A love for drawing and storytelling led her to the Maryland Institute College of Art. After graduating in 2004, she continues to explore visual storytelling through the act of drawing. Even though she appreciates that the world is full of amazing colors she enjoys pushing the tonal boundaries of charcoal, which is her primary medium. Her work has been included in local and international publications about drawing.
Exhibitions
Pulp Function, curated by Lloyd E. Herman, Fuller Museum, Boston MA, May 2007–January 2008, traveled through 2010
Patterns of Seeing, 2-person show, ArtSpace, Raleigh NC March–April 2007
Anna Fine Foer decided she was going to be an artist when she was 11-when she lived in Paris for a summer, visiting every museum and gallery. As a fibers student at Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts) she became fascinated by the relationship between maps and the land they represent, embarking on a lifelong interest in maps and collage.
Don Griffin was born in Washington, DC, and the younger of two children. His father worked for the Federal Government’s Defense Supply Agency. He was also an expert cabinetmaker. During the fifties he was a pioneer in the business of building Custom High Fidelity Speaker Systems. The Federal Government also employed his mother in the Pentagon. The family moved to Baltimore Maryland when Don was age three. As a child he discovered drawing and it stuck with him throughout his school years. He later studied at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
BFA from MICA, with painting major. MLA from Johns Hopkins University; author: Kent Island, The Land That Once Was Eden (Maryland Historical Society Press, 2002)
Graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art's Graduate Photo and Digital Imaging Program under Will Larson and Tim Druckrey. Bachelor's in Documentary Photography from Hampshire College. I teach Photography and Studio Art at the Friends School of Baltimore.