Michael Berman
³My paintings reflect an ongoing drive to express the rhythms of our society, the emotions of life and the sublime energies that make up our everyday existence. Figuration and abstraction are equally important to me in that I try to walk a fine line between structure and improvisation. Experimentation is the key ingredient. As a result, I am always pushing my work into new arenas.²
Michael Berman has been actively painting in Washington for nearly 10 years. He has a BA from the University of Maryland and graduated from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Currently he maintains a studio in downtown Washington, DC. His most recent activities include alternative exhibitions and presentations in Washington, Philadelphia and New York. Berman is co-founder of the unique art organization Project BRASAS, is the chairman of the Eastern Market Arts and Crafts Association,and is co-chair of the Downtown Artists Coalition, formed in order to preserve and foster artist's studio space.
Solitude, mixed media on paper, 32" x 40", 1996
The Embrace Hand-embossed giclee print on Arches paper,
22²x 28², ed. of 100
Stevens Carter
"Over the last two decades I have always tried to diversify my artistic skills and vision. I understand this approach to my work often does not allow the public to comprehensively follow my career. I am comfortable with this. I am visual scientist and as the century ends I remain committed to my goals. As I stated twenty years ago I continue to explore the fears and inhibitions that control our minds".
Stevens Jay Carter is based in Washington, DC. He has held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the Pennsylvania College of Technology, and has received a Smithsonian Institute Fellowship and over twenty art residencies in the tri-state area. Carter has exhibited nationally, and has had several museum exhibits, including a solo exhibition at the Afro American Museum in Philadelphia. He has also designed book covers, video jackets and CD covers, and the interior of room 11A of the famous Carlton Arms Hotel in New York City.
Richard Dana
³My art embraces narration and the combining of abstraction and representation. I tell many different stories many different ways.²
Richard L. Dana has been exhibiting extensively in the United States and overseas for the past fourteen years. in both solo and group exhibitions. Most recently his work has been shown at Galerie Liedigk in Hamburg, the Antitesi Gallery in Rome and the Arlington Arts Center in Virginia. Notable venues for Danaıs work over the last decade have included the following solo shows: Troyer, Fitzpatrick, Lassman Gallery in Washington, DC; The A-3 Gallery and the New Jerusalem Museum in Moscow, Russia; the 17th Annual Cultural Festival in Asilah, Morocco; School 33 in Baltimore, Maryland; and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC. Group shows have included the Corcoran Gallery's regional biennial (Washington, DC) where he was a featured artist, the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, (Taipei, Taiwan), the Usbek National Museum
The Transcending Gesture, mixed media on canvas, 20" x 16"(1994)
Quiet Alert, oil on linen, 82² x 61², 1988
Judy Jashinsky
³The
painting Quiet Alert takes its title from the description of the attitudinal
state of the newborn. A woman floats in a deep blue tributary...surrendered
to the current, newly born, quiet alert, cleansed of judgment, she embodies
and instructs us in the necessary emotional prerequisites to any authentic
initiation...We are all candidates for initiationwhether we heed the
call is the issue....Jashinskyıs work does us all a service by inviting
us to marry the mystery again and again.²
--Caroline W. Casey, cultural mythologist
Highlights of Judy Jashinskyıs painting career include solo exhibits at the Artemisia Gallery in Chicago, the Washington Project for the Arts, , the Susquehanna Art Museum, and the Franz Bader Gallery and Gallery K in Washington, DC. Her major project since 1996 has been a traveling painting installation inspired by the life of Artemisia Gentileschi.
Kathy Keler
³Derived from a series of paintings I began in 1997, these new prints continue my exploration into the possibilities of the computer image as an expressive form. The medium is late 20th century, but I draw my inspiration mostly from medieval/early renaissance art and from surrealism. In fact, the computerıs ability to revise infinitely, without cost, has encouraged my tendency to refine and polish an image over a long period of time. This kind of meditative development is usually associated with art from an earlier age.²
Kathy Keler has been active as a visual artist in Washington since 1980, and has been creating computer prints since 1992. Showings of her work have included a group exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery and solo exhibits at the District of Columbia Arts Center and the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center. Keler has also been a frequent participant in artist exchange and residency programs, including projects in Budapest, Hungary, Lyon, France and Calcutta, India.
Late
Bloomer II, computer/mixed media print, 24² x 17², 1999