Barbara Friedman

Barbara Friedman

Carl Clark

From the Woman Series: Sunday Morning While Considering a Decisive Moment, 1991

 From the Woman Series: Sunday Morning While Considering Perserverance, 1991

Major Carlton L. "Carl" Clark is an internationally exhibited artist. Carl's medium is social documentary photography. He is also a freelance editorial photographer. Carl is multilingual and has traveled to Europe, Asia, South East Asia, Africa, Central America, and Canada. During the first of two tours of duty in Vietnam he converted to Buddhism. Buddhism, Roy DeCarava, world travels, African ancestors, fine art training, spirituality, women and two and a half years of combat influence his Art. Clark holds a B.A. degree in sociology from The University of Nebraska and a B.F.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland. His graduate level courses include; Education, Economics, International relations, Counseling Psychology, and Management principles. 

Jenny Brake

 

The Ship

 

 

City Map

Jenny Brake is a long time resident of the West End, Washington, DC. Ms. Brake is mainly an abstract painter whose paintings depict a directness and strength that match her no nonsense approach to living. Her commitment to creative work began at an early age, she studied at the Corcoran and at the Smithsonian under Trinka Simon. For several years she has painted weekly with two other local Washington artists – Debra Naylor and Barbara Pace. The three return in some degree to the roots of Foundry Gallery which was created in 1971 by three women who rented studio and exhibition space in the Duval Foundry building in Georgetown

John J. O'Connor

Average Monkey

 

Double Bad

John J. O'Connor works mostly with colored pencil and graphite, creating abstract and elaborate pieces packed with geometric designs and a wide range of color.  He was born in Westfield, MA in 1972. John proceeded to attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He then received his Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute. Then he continued to pursue his Master of Theory, Criticism, and History of Art at Pratt Institute as well. He obtained hisBA from Westfield State College

Ryan Mrozowski

 

Parachutes

The Cloud

Ryan was born in 1981 in Pennsylvania. He received his MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute
and his BFA in Painting from The Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Robert E Cook Honors College. He works with acrylic paints and depicts slightly surreal scenes, providing interesting compositions and insights into things that are often unnoticed.

Joshua Stern

Joshua Stern was born in New York in 1957 and continues to live and work there today. Stern works with mixed media in order to create art that communicates and delves into deeper issues of the human condition. One of his projects involves a series of wooden frames filled in by all things beaver. For example the "Leave it to Beaver" frame pictured above.

Erika Ranee

Erika Ranee's paintings featured above serve to represent a critique on the "bling" culture, along with the sex trade. She uses a lot of saturated colors and her paint marks are supposed to be symbolic of inherent sexuality. 

Michael Behle

Michael Behle Artist Statement:

"I see the deformed/grotesque quality in the paintings as a point of reference. As in traditional portraiture, there is a figure captured for our contemplation. Information is offered, but in these works the information gets mixed and convoluted. We gain a sort of assurance in thinking that there is that grotesque out there and we are not a part of it (a sort of better him than me attitude). But, upon further contemplation on the subject, the question arises, “What, if anything, sets us apart?” How quickly could we become that form of disparity? "

Jill Freedman

Jill Freedman is a document photographer who has has work featured in the MoMA. Ms. Freedman's segment entitled Here and There is an eclectic selection of urban photographs taken from the late 1960s onwards. The photographs illustrating Here and There were mostly culled from diverse New York City environments i.e. dance clubs (Studio 54, Roseland), art gallery happenings (Soho), and general exhibitions of natural and staged street life. The exhibition also includes images of popular parades, solitary protests, organized manifestations and urban traffic (both equestrian and automobile).

Timothy Goodman

 

 

Timothy Goodman was recently asked to do this installation in a famous hotel, he is best known for his cartoon-like art. 

Sabrina Ward Harrison

  

Sabrina is currently 29 years old and has published several books including "Brave on the Rocks" and "Spilling Open," she is currently working on the "The True Living Project." She seeks to express herself through her journals and collages, a mix of photographs, materials and her own words. 

Dana Harel

Cock Fight

Cock Fight: Detail

Crocodylus niloticus

Dana was born in Tel Aviv and grew up watching her father and grandparents paint during their leisure time. She studied architecture and completed her degree at the California College of the Arts in Oakland. The profession of architecture did not appeal to her, however her studies did lead her to realize the connection between buildings and the human body. In turn, this connection linked back to nature. She eventually ditched architecture completely and focused on human subjects. Her current series "Kin" focused on the connection between the human body (specifically hands) and animals. 

David Fullarton

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi 

The title of this piece is a Latin phrase meaning "Thus passes the glory of the world" 

David creates bright and humorous art by filling his notebooks with phrases, receipts, instructions and other random scraps. He collages text, images and numbers in order to create vibrant works that display his cheeky outlook on life. Often his works gently mock human foibles and capture the irony of life.  He attended art college in his native Edinburgh and worked for ad agencies in Scotland before moving to the Bay Area in 1995. Currently, he lives in San Francisco with his wife Lisa and their two children. 

Anthony May

Anthony May’s artist statement:

A process is taking place. We are mortal. We will pass on. What then?

The creative work I have been doing in the last 5 years has centered almost solely around this narrative. It is rich territory for me, as it allows so many areas for exploration. Religion, its strange amalgamation of diversity and sameness, versus science, with its ability to pry sensible solutions from seemingly impossible questions. I am intrigued by the colossal structures and stories humans have constructed through the ages with hopes of minimizing the distance between earth and the heavens, many having been assembled through great sacrifice and pain in order to make a difference on what Carl Sagan has called “a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam.”

Painting and collage have been the most logical way for me to explore and confront what it is to be human and therefore, mortal. I enjoy working with materials that have lived their own lives in one distinct capacity, retired, and have come together in support of another cause.

As a whole, I want my work to read as an account, much in the way a diary or sketchbook chronicles the ongoing saga of what it is to be human.

Carolyn Meyer

Carolyn draws her inspiration from the buzz of the streets in the Bay Area. She does not focus on realism, but instead tries to capture the emotions that flood her as she watches the sun rise over the bay, or walks down a street. She combines traditional techniques with modern subject matter, creating a textured, somewhat abstract city or landscape.

Ellie Brown

Ellie Brown is best known for her photography and altered books. Ellie spent ten years photographing her sisters as they grew up and searched for their identities. She did a project in which she explored how the men she was involved with impacted her life, negatively or positively. For each man she was with, there is a book, embodying the way the man mad her feel. The collection is known as the Lovers Books series.

Brian Taylor

Brian Taylor was born in Tuscon, Arizona. He received his B.A. Degree in Visual Arts from the University of California at San Diego, and M.A. from Stanford, and his M.F.A from the University of New Mexico. Brian is known for his explorations of alternative photographic processes including, mixed media, handmade books and 19th century techniques. He is currently a professor of Art and Design in the photography program of California State University, San Jose.