My goals and aspirations as an artist are to express the universal themes of order, harmony, growth, beauty and transcendence that under gird the art most pre-conversion religious and spiritual traditions. These traditions frequently employed symbols, which often served as a “shorthand” way of communicating truths and teachings—the use of color, the… Read more »
“My passion as a sculptor is to capture the tension of motion – and my favorite subject is the grace and athleticism of the female dancer. I use variations in form, scale, and material to explore how we perceive the motion and the female body. The start is almost always sculpting a figure in wax…. Read more »
Bethia Brehmer is a professional artist (etching, copper fountains, oil painting) and has had over 60 one person shows. She participates in prestigious regional and national competitions, and is represented in private and corporate collections. “I was the only child of pacifist, vegetarian parents in Sheboygan, Wisconsin where these descriptive words were almost like a… Read more »
Ram Brisueno is a Baltimore based, self taught artist with a degree in English from UMBC. One day he took his poetry and began painting around, and literally on them. Ram considers himself a collagist focusing on form, color, and stories within his paintings using acrylics, watercolors, found objects and mixed media in a collage… Read more »
A longtime art teacher and counselor at Benjamin Banneker Academic High School in Washington, D.C. Francesca Britton has developed her own work while propelling the work of many young artists, incorporating current trends and new possibilities in image-making. Originally a painter of realism, Francesca now focuses on multi-media abstract art. Delving through her countless layers,… Read more »
My art is inspired by Nature and man’s relationship with Nature. One of my earliest influences as a child growing up on a farm in Southeastern Arkansas was the Rhythm and Blues music of the 1960’s. I did not have a voice for singing so that void was filled with drawings and paintings. When I closely… Read more »
Florencio Lennox Campello was born in Guantanamo, Cuba and studied art at the University of Washington School of Art in Seattle, Washington from which he graduated in 1981. For the last few years Campello has been refining a marriage of traditional narrative drawing with embedded digital technology components such as video, PowerPoint presentations, motion detectors… Read more »
Sheryll Cashin studied painting for years at the Corcoran School of Art, and was an active member of A. Salon, Ltd. artists’ cooperative (now known as DC Arts Studios) and in 1996 began selling large acrylic paintings of famous and ordinary African Americans. Early collectors of Cashin’s work included Peggy Cooper Cafritz, Ambassador Susan Rice… Read more »
Chas Colburn was born Rahway, New Jersey in March 1953. He received a degree in Business Administration from the Gardner School of Business in 1971 and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of Maryland in 1976. In 1979 he founded Chalco Metal Works, a custom metal working show in which he creates his… Read more »
Born in 1939 in a rural environment in Upstate New York, Bob Conge was introduced to painting while studying in the School of Art at Rochester Institute of Technology. After graduating in 1962, he continued his studies in the College of Art at Syracuse University where he received his MFA degree in painting in 1964…. Read more »
Born in Falls Church, Va in 1976, self-taught, contemporary artist Lea showed talent from an early age. A natural creative spirit, she spent time taking private art lessons with her mother at home as well as in the mountains of scenic West Virginia with her grandmother, both artists. These strong female influences helped mold and… Read more »
My work is inspired by, and created out of, found objects. I juxtapose old tools and other household items – books, bowls, cutlery, with a tactile evidence of history, and function. I transform them with a variety of media – wax, oil, gold leaf, dry pigment – and in doing so, create a new… Read more »
I was born in the 50’s in the Brookland neighborhood of Washington, D.C. This was my first of many landings into a community of Artists. Beginning with my father, Julius J. Dickerson, an Architect, and my mother, Ann Stewart a creative zealot, the adventures didn’t take long to construct. Around me there was a house… Read more »
Contemplation of time and mortality is not new in my work, but in Neither Mine Nor Yours there is a more inward approach. This series of sculptures uses the form of the self-portrait to investigate identity and my place in a world where the future seems more uncertain than ever. The uncertainty ever-present in life… Read more »
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