Ghazal Atarod
Ghazal Atarod, an Iranian painter and photographer, began her creative journey in the United States in 2019. She not only passionately creates art but also shares her expertise as a college art teacher. Her recent works portray feminine narratives, emphasizing the pursuit of fulfillment through unity. In her paintings, the themes of home, trees, women, and cats convey a profound message of encouragement, hope, and peace for the future.
Ram Brisueno
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 of styles, textures, and sculptural objects and details layered within unique and hidden narratives. Ram has lived in New York and Baltimore showing his work in a number of galleries, venues, and private collections.
Josef Kardell
Originally from Nantucket, MA, Josef Kardell has been living in Baltimore for several years, creating art in multiple forms including electronic music, short film, poetry, painting and drawing. Having graduated from Peabody Institute with a degree in Music Composition, Josef turned toward daily painting practice during the pandemic, citing mental health benefits of making art and the “visceral need to move.” Described by some as “controlled chaos,” Josef’s unique style of painting is abstract but precise, and frequently recalls nautical themes from his childhood.
Sonny Lacey
I am fascinated by the light on manmade objects. Water, wind and reflection are wonderful things to chase. Richard Estes and John Berkey are inspirations to me, and the continually changing city and ocean is a fantastic supply source.
Matt Muirhead
I create fantasy paintings and prints that feature Baltimore cityscapes, animals, and local landmarks. I use screenprinting in my work and strive to make sure each piece is unique and fun.
Katie Rickman
Painter Katie Rickman earned her BFA in painting and her Master of Arts Teaching at Maryland Institute College of Art.
Her ideas come spontaneously as something catches her eye: clouds, reflections, light hitting a form, the curve of a road, the haze of distant space, or fluid movements- and she strives to capture these glimpses to share with others.
Suzanne Rivera
Suzanne Rivera records her environment in staccato brushstrokes, reminiscent of Van Gogh, capturing the changing light. Her palette’s clean color displays the scene’s vibrancy, and short directional strokes communicate the essence of wind and water.
Born and raised in Mexico City, Suzanne started painting at age 11 under tutelage of a student of Diego Rivera. She was nominated “Woman of the Year” by the Latino Art Museum and currently resides in Baltimore City.
Rebecca Waring
From a deeply artistic family, Rebecca is the granddaughter of a Maryland Institute graduate, class of 1924. Early in her own artistic journey, Rebecca sought traditional training in classical techniques and has incorporated these traditional drawing skills into works that hover between the realist and the abstract. Her work has been in many galleries throughout the DMV area as well as commissioned across the United States.
Kristin Wiebe
Influenced by Matisse and Gauguin’s bold and emotive colors and shapes, I try to disconnect from strict realism without losing an image’s central theme. My paintings are inspired by people and sights from my previous work abroad, and now from my new home
in Baltimore, which is just as colorful and troubled as anywhere else in the world.
Amelia Taylor Wolfe
Amelia Taylor Wolfe is a lifelong Marylander with a BA in Fine Art from Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, MD. She specializes in loose and expressive representationalism, while maintaining realism and fidelity to the scene. Amelia’s still-lifes refer to 17th Century Dutch vanitas paintings – collections of objects with worldly, transient value. Her subjects are traditional vanitas objects that evoke time, vice, and intellectual achievement, in combination with overtly gendered objects, such as hair products and perfume bottles.