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Se Jong Cho
GRAVITY DAM
 

Se Jong Cho is an environmental engineer and self-taught painter who embraces science’s counterpoint: art and creativity. Cho’s work reminds us that all living things—plants, animals, and humans alike—are dependent on each other and on the power of the star we call the sun. The artist’s science background comes to the fore along with a sense of wonder about the miraculousness of all the systems that make up the planet’s flora and fauna, as well as our existence on this blue orb.

 

 

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Timothy J. Horjus
JUST LIKE WE PROMISED & LETS SPOON!
 

Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Timothy Horjus moved to Baltimore to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where he received a Post-Baccalaureate certificate. Timothy continued his education at the University of Maryland College Park, where he earned his M.F.A. in May 2010. While he was there he also received the Ann Truitt Fellowship, as well as the David C. Driskell teaching award.Timothy now divides his time between teaching at MICA, working in his studio practice, running his construction company, and spending time with family.

 

 

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Dirk Joseph
FRACTAL BEING, GROWTH & IMAGINATION
 

Born in Arima, Trinidad, Dirk Joseph arrived at JFK airport in Bermuda shorts during a snow storm at the age of three. His passion for art was stoked growing up in Brooklyn, New York. Joseph has been based in Baltimore since 2003. For the past 30+ years, he's worked as a visual artist, middle school art teacher, performing artist (puppetry and theater), and graphic designer. Joseph is still involved in facilitating community arts by partnering with some of Baltimore's community development organizations to make art with children, families, and elders in various locations and settings across Baltimore's communities.

 

 

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Ernest Shaw
MA

 

Ernest Shaw’s work definEs the duality of the African American experience, exhibiting this dichotomy through an array of media and concepts. The most prevalent aspect of Shaw’s work is his use and understanding of color and the figure. The figure in Shaw’s work is a continuation of a rich history of African and African American figurative art, and his use of color demonstrates a deep level of understanding of rhythm taught to him by several West African drum instructors. Shaw has lived most of his life in Baltimore, and comes from a family of visual and performing artists. Ernest is a product of Baltimore City Public Schools, where he graduated from the Baltimore School for the Arts, where he currently teaches.

 

 

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Sarah Tilton
IT SOUNDS LIKE MINGUS

 

Sarah Tilton is an abstract painter living and working in Baltimore, MD. She is best known for her bold and expressive large-scale paintings. Drawing inspiration from her background as a classically trained musician, Sarah works improvisationally to create paintings that represent feelings without names.

 

Will Shanklin
BLUE RINGED OCTOPUS
 

Will Shanklin is a Baltimore-based, self-trained artist who began drawing and creating at the age of 4 and has never stopped. His work is a vibration guided form of automatic drawing, polished and perfected with highly technical detail work. The result is a rich and vast world of colorful characters living and breathing within a psychedelic and surreal landscape, and an epic, complex storyline threading it all together. This “vibrational art” technique has led to the exploration of a huge array of styles and mediums, but within his signature look.

 

 

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Katty Huertas
THROUGH THE CANVAS

 

Katty Huertas is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Colombia and based in Washington DC. She holds an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Her work explores identity, folklore, and double standards, among other subjects. Inspired by maximalism, her work is full of detail. She combines analog and digital mediums such as painting, sculpture, fiber work, book arts, digital drawing, and animation.

 

She previously worked at Nickelodeon as part of the Launch Team and at NBC News as an editorial designer. Currently, she is a senior designer and art director at The Washington Post where she created the artwork for the Pulitzer finalist, and Webby award-winning podcast, Broken Doors.

 

 

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Jowita Wyszomirska
GROUND WATER (RED CREEK WV)

 

With an interdisciplinary approach to drawing, and projects ranging from site-specific drawing installations to video experimentations, Jowita Wyszomirska expands beyond the two-dimensional surface to explore edges of tangible and intangible of what cannot be seen with a naked eye. Her works on paper are often based on satellite imagery, maps, and weather data, as well as her own physical experiences of the landscape. To capture the motion and stillness of nature, her large-scale drawing installations provide multiple viewing points to sync the movement of the viewer’s body with the art. There is no one spot to take it all in and with every step, something changes or new things are revealed.

 

 

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Jenne Mateer
SOPHIA
 

Jenee Mateer holds an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a BA in Modern Studies/English from the University of Virginia . She is Professor of Photo Imaging  and Chair of the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education at Towson University. In addition to teaching at various colleges and universities, she has also worked as a video editor for Spot Video and Providence Pictures and as the Gallery Director for the Community College of Rhode Island. Many of her images are created through a process of layering of both original photographs and appropriated images. Her work has also included video installation and work with mixed media materials such as plaster, wax, silk and resin. Through these processes, she explores issues of desire, identity, gender and the complexity of language.

 

 

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Terence Hannum
MIRROR FADE
 

Terence Hannum is a Baltimore-based visual artist and musician who has used cassette tapes in his music (both solo and with the band LOCRIAN) and now as his material and subject in his visual art. He has an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and teaches Art Foundations at Stevenson University outside Baltimore.

 

 

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Amy Helminiak
THE MAJORITY JUST SAT AND WATCHED
 

Amy Helminiak is a multimedia artist who was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland where she started her pursuits in the arts under the direction of her father, a painter. After being awarded competitive arts scholarships she studied at The Maryland Institute College of Art and graduated with a BFA. She later continued her studies at a classical art atelier, The Schuler School of Art, focusing in painting techniques of the old Dutch masters and classical sculpture. Recently she graduated from Elisava School of Design and was awarded an MA in photography and design. 

 

 

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Elli Maria Hernandez
TIMEMOVESTOOFASTTOKEEPUP

 

Elli Maria is a Latinx, mixed-media artist based in Baltimore. She experiments across different mediums - blurring the lines between photography, painting, printmaking, drawing, collage, installation, and more - to explore themes of time, memories, identity, and trauma. Her distinct visual language is inspired by personal narratives/emotions, nature, & science. She invites viewers to explore imagery that is ambiguous and evocative while constructing their own meanings and interpretations.

 
 
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Minas Konsolas
BAIN DE SOLEIL
 

Minas Konsolas was born in Greece and has lived in Baltimore since 1976, where he graduated from the Maryland Institute, College of Art. He is the former owner of Minas Gallery, an outlet for poetry, both visual and verbal. The gallery, one of Baltimore's alternative art spaces, was a gathering spot for artists, writers and performers for twenty-two years. He subsequently sold his business and now works full-time from his studio in Charles Village.

 

Konsolas has participated in two public mural projects for Baltimore City, in Greektown and at the Farmers' Market. His work has also appeared in numerous literary journals, including Little Patuxent Review and Passager. His original artwork and reproductions are widely collected, locally, nationally and abroad.Konsolas is known for employing a variety of artistic styles and techniques, which allows his work to continually evolve. His constant focus is how light interacts with color and form.

 

 

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René Treviño
LOUVRE LION, AXIAL PRECESSION SERIES
Emily Uchytil
RAVEN
 

Emily Uchytil is a Baltimore-based oil painter with a love for ecology, entomology, and patterns. Emily started out painting room scenes with overlapping patterns, bold colors, human figures, and moody lighting. Her body of work now focuses in on the small spaces within those rooms — revealing what is hiding out on the ornate walls. In 2011, Emily came across hundreds of rolls of vintage wallpaper in a dusty dance hall in Thomas, West Virginia. The pattern-rich wallpaper quickly became her new canvas. The prints she offers are of her original oil paintings on wallpaper and are part of her ever-growing series of ecologically-themed work in the style of trompe-l'œil. Through the juxtaposition created when pairing realistic, nature-based imagery on human-made, decorative surfaces, she hopes to bring our relationship with these curious species into a more prominent position in our collective psyche. Her goal is to inspire the viewer to explore the symbolic relationships we hold on the natural world and appreciate the diversity of life around us.

 

 

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Magnolia Laurie
TO BE FURTHER YET CLOSER STILL
 

Magnolia Laurie was born in Massachusetts and raised in Puerto Rico. She received her BA in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College and her MFA from the Mount Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been awarded residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Creative Alliance in Baltimore, and the Jentel Foundation in Wyoming. Magnolia’s work has been supported with grants from the Creative Baltimore Fund, the Maryland State Arts Council Grants, the Belle Foundation, and a Mid Atlantic Creative Fellowship. Magnolia lives in Baltimore, MD, and is an Associate Professor at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.

 

 

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Karl Connolly
LEARNING TO SEE, FIELD 1
 

Originally from Ireland, Karl came to Baltimore in 1992 to study under Grace Hartigan at the Hoffberger School of Painting at MICA and has maintained a studio in the city ever since. Connolly’s work has been shown in many group and solo shows over the years at public, academic and commercial spaces. Notable venues include The Contemporary, Chrysler Museum, Penn Station NYC and The Walters Art Gallery.

 

 

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Alfonso Fernandez
LOS ENAMORADOS
 

Alfonso Fernandez is a painter born in Mexico City, currently living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Fernandez’s paintings are social, psychological, and personal investigations in which he brings to light the idea that borders can be blurred and overlapped in order to reconsider the associative societal labels assigned to us. Since moving to Baltimore, Fernandez says his paintings have evolved in response to navigating a new and unfamiliar city, taking on abstraction in the wake of unrest, representations of societal memory, and figuration through the loss of identity. Each of these artistic investigations are grounded in his experience of moving from Mexico to the United States and an effort to balance different cultures and languages, while handling the contested spaces of ethnicity and assimilation.

 

 

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Trace Miller
CUT FROM NATURE

 

Trace Miller was born in Western Pennsylvania and now resides in Towson, Maryland where he is a lecturer and assistant chair in the Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education at Towson University. Miller received a BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and an MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. His work has been exhibited extensively in the Mid-Atlantic region and is currently represented by Goya Contemporary.

 

 

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Ben Marcin
Museum of Fin Art, Houston
 

Born in Augsburg, Germany, many of Ben Marcin's photographic essays explore the idea of home and the passing of time. “Last House Standing” and, “The Camps”, have received wide press both nationally and abroad. More recently, Marcin has been exploring the myriad structures of the urban core in series like Towers, Street, Stairwells and Museums. His photographs have been shown at a number of national galleries and venues including the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Delaware Art Museum; The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA; The Center for Fine Art Photography in Ft. Collins, CO; The Photographic Resource Center in Boston; and the Houston Center for Photography. His work is also in several important collections including the Baltimore Museum of Art.

 

 

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