So I have just about finished the middle panel of the triptych.

Show datesApril 2-23: Artists & Makers (11810 Parklawn Dr Suite 210, Rockville, MD 20852).

Opening reception Friday, April 4th, 5-8 PM and an artist talk the next day Saturday, April 5th, 1-2 PM

Continuing to make hard fought progress.

Spotlight on the Artist 2/11/25: Norman Lewis (1909 – 1979) was an American painter, scholar, and teacher. Lewis, who was African-American and of Bermudian descent. He was an abstract expressionist who used representational strategies to focus on black urban life and his community’s struggles.

Spotlight on the Artist 2/9/25: Lilian Thomas Burwell (born 1927) is a Washington, DC sculptor and painter whose shaped paintings often blur the line between the two disciplines. Her artwork uses abstraction to create a personal response to the natural world. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilian_...

Spent a lot of time in the welding studio Saturday. Working stones into the creatures. Leaving the studio at 10:30, I wondered why I have to be so weird. Stones are incredibly hard to bend metal around, at least for me.

Spotlight on the Artist 2/8/25: Wael Shawky was born in 1971 in Alexandria Egypt and continues to work and live there. Shawky is another Neo-conceptualist dealing with national identity and religion. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wael_Sh...

Spotlight on the Artist 2/7/25:

Betty Blayton-Taylor is best known for her works often described as “spiritual abstractions”. Her abstract methods created a space for the viewer to insert themselves into the piece, allowing for self-reflection.

Spotlight on the Artist 2/4/25: Charles Alston. An active figure in the Harlem Renaissance, Charles Alston created vital representations of black experiences and figures during the middle of the 20th century with his paintings, sculptures, and illustrations.

Spotlight on the Artist 2/21/25: Mildred Thompson. was an American artist. Critics have related her art to West African textiles and Islamic architecture; they have also cited German Expressionism, music (jazz & classical), astronomy, spiritualism and metaphysics as important aspects of her work.

Spotlight on the Artist: Dina Griffin 1/31/25
Dina Griffin has been the president of Interactive Design Architects (IDEA) since 1999, and has designed many buildings in Chicago including the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently working on the Obama Presidential Center.

Spotlight on the Artist: Arghavan Khosravi

Arghavan Khosravi ⁠is an Iranian artist who currently lives and works in New York. Her heritage influences her work a lot, she uses textiles from Iran, and reflects on women’s status in her native country and her own feelings of dislocation from it.

Spotlight on the Artist:

Belkis Ayón was a Cuban printmaker who specialized in the technique of collography. Ayón created allegorical collagraphs based on Abakuá, a secret, all-male Afro-Cuban society. Her work is often in black and white figures set against dark, patterned backgrounds.

Spotlight on the Artist:Chéri Samba.
Chéri Samba is a painter based in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is known social commentary. his art. Samba’s art frequently featuring himself and often tackles themes such as social inequalities. princeclausfund.nl/awardees/che...

Spotlight on the Artist:
German Artist, Albert Oehlen.

Albert Oehlen exaggerates and distorts the traditions of abstract painting, breaking all the rules in order to discover how those customs work.

www.thebroad.org/art/albert-o...