Brian began his art career after he and his wife raised three sons and he retired from full time employment. Brian had been involved in the building trades and housing industry from 1972 until 2014. Since retiring, Brian has had the time to explore his interest in the arts, particularly in repurposing materials and in saving vintage plumbing and lighting parts and other materials from the scrapyard. In 2015 Brian was awarded a free booth in Baltimore’s Artscape festival as an “Emerging Artist”.
Bryan O’Neill is an intermedia artist in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his MFA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in Intermedia and Digital Art in 2019 and his BFA in photography at Towson University in 2016. Utilizing sculpture, photography, and performance to create work which explores intersections of mankind and Nature. Focusing on American ideas of wilderness, survivalism, manliness, and absurdity he explores the ecological thought and the performance of masculinity in the culture of the outdoorsman.
Mary Opasik has been working with found object assemblage for 28 years. Raised in Baltimore, she is a product of a postindustrial society whose streets and woods are littered with discarded materials. Opasik's affinity for repurposing is expressed in her sculptural art.
EXHIBITIONS
2017
Speak to Me, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
9th Annual NUDE, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Art of Engagement, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Rituals (member show), Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
Emulsion 2017, East City Art, Washington, DC
Recent Wood-Fired Figures, Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
2016
Love (member show), Studio Gallery, Washington, DC
Cartes Blanches, Washington Sculptors Group at the Delaplaine Center, Frederick, MD
Flesh + Bone II, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC
Off The Wall, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
2015
Katty Huertas was born in Bogota, Colombia. She completed her BA in Arts with a Minor in Art History from Florida International University and after living for four years in Miami, FL, she recently moved to the Baltimore area. Her work explores issues of female identity, obsession, double standars and animal rights. Katty works in a variety of mediums from digital illustration, to ceramics, painting and fiber work.
Sara Dittrich (b. Cincinnati, Ohio 1991) is an interdisciplinary sculpture artist who builds introspective experiences that shift perspective from passive seeing to active looking, from passive hearing to active listening.
A professional sculptor since 1976, Jay Hall Carpenter earned his reputation during 20 years as sculptor for the Washington National Cathedral. He created the original carver’s models for over 500 sculptures that adorn the gothic, limestone building. These sculptures include saints, angels, grotesques, and gargoyles. Many American churches have commissioned his work, as have the State Department, the Smithsonian, Canterbury Cathedral, and the New England Medical Center. Other clients include, the University of Missouri at St Louis, and the State of Maryland.
Cynthia O’Neill (1990) is a Baltimore based interdisciplinary artist who uses art as a method of healing, communicating and narrating personal journey. Illness and art have been constants in her life; survival and medical conditions often force her to consider anatomy when investigating how humans exist within the world. Through sculptures, body adornments, and installations her work explores consciousness, perception and the biology of the human condition with a variety of technology, biofeedback, human-made and naturally occurring materials.
Liz Miller is a second-generation fine artist. She creates hair sculptures, sculptural paintings, wearable art, performance art pieces, and film. Her films capture community members and herself performing while adorned with hair sculptures for meaningful transformative movement rituals. The concepts embodied in her work are social justice themes centered around the black experience in America; utilizing both history and Afro-futurism simultaneously balanced within. She considers her work to be a part of a broader black liberation strategy employing black joy and serious play.