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Krista Schlyer is a photographer and writer living in the Mount Rainier, Maryland. Her work has been published by BBC, The Nature Conservancy, High Country News, Ranger Rick, National Parks and Sierra. Schlyer is the author of three books including Continental Divide: Wildlife, People and the Border Wall, winner of the 2013 National Outdoor Book Award. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Sierra Club’s Ansel Adams Award for Conservation Photography and the 2015 Vision Award, from the North American Nature Photographers Association.
Visual artist that specializes in oil realism/surrealism/portraitures
Matthew McLaughlin is a mixed media artist and curator who explores the human relationship with their environments, specifically urban and suburban spaces. He received his BFA degree in Fine Arts from Ringling College of Art and Design in 2007 and his MFA degree in Printmaking from Arizona State University in 2011. Matthew has shown his work nationally and internationally and his work is in the collections of the Zuckerman Museum of Art among others. He has received numerous awards including the Maryland State Art Council Individual Artist Award in Works on Paper.
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