Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 2
Media: Photo transfers on cradled birch which is framed
Artist Statement : This piece is part of a series of photo transfers, using parts of a whole in a different manner.

Dimensions: 6.25 x 6.25 x 1.25
Media: Sculpture
Artist Statement : My work in sculpture focuses on representations of concepts and qualities of humanness—the characterization of various universal emotions, sensations, thought processes, the embodiment of self-identity and manifestations of spirituality. With a background as a professional dancer, choreographer and competitive athlete, I employ the language of the human body as a means of creative expression. In sculpture I often use aspects and parts of the human anatomy to convey ideas in physical form. Working primarily in metal renders weight and material presence that I find particularly engaging. The physicality and three-dimensional visual aspect that comes from being a dancer are what attract me to this medium. Seeing my work I wish the viewer to find resonance and relevance of “being human” as I explore and express in physical form various facets, abstractions and iterations centering around tmind-body connection and the human experience.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 0.5
Media: Mixed Media (US Currency & Constitution)
Artist Statement : Ellis Angel is an activist artist. With a concentration in mixed media, more specifically paper weaving, Ellis seeks to reduce text and meanings to their basic parts in order to provide the viewer with a different reading of the theme. Using various texts Ellis provides a commentary, asks a question, or makes a subtle protest through the subversive nature of destroying something of value or juxtaposing texts together.

Dimensions: 11.75 x 11.75 x 1.5
Media: digitally painted - giclee print

Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 0.25
Media: Oil on Panel
Artist Statement : I work primarily in oils, though I began my art journey learning to watercolor at age 40. I take a painterly approach to my work, striving to capture the essence of my subjects with expressive brushwork and color filled light and shadows.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.75
Media: Oil on canvas
Artist Statement : I am primarily a figurative artist interested in motion, both psychological and physical. I also enjoyed painting beautiful vegetables as much as I enjoy painting beautiful people.

Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 2.5
Media: Mixed media encaustic
Artist Statement : This is an abstract mixed media encaustic piece on a wooden panel. It is part of a series exploring the ephemeral quality of living a life experience that is at once defined and intangible.

Dimensions: 11 x 11
Media: Print of digital collage on glossy photo paper. Includes: two original photographs, handwritten translations of the word “Beautiful” in 133 languages, typography, calligraphy.
Artist Statement : The photograph of dancers in this digital collage (used with permission and superimposed over that of a purple coneflower) was taken at Susan Campbell Park at the city dock in Annapolis, MD, as teens danced to the music of a public guitarist. Their joyful dancing, not hindered by self-judgement, was truly beautiful.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 0.5
Media: Lead, Paint on Wood Panel
Artist Statement : The piece was created by using different sizes of copper piping and then striking them with a mallet to leave an imprint into the lead. The impact also causes the lead to curl up from the strike so no two tiles will be exactly the same.

Dimensions: 8 x 8 x 2
Media: Oil and cold wax on panel
Artist Statement : Painting is experience, both for the maker and her audience, a shared exchange conveyed through a physical object, a work of art. The artist presents her own interpretation of being in this world. The viewer, in turn, takes in the physical object with eyes, but experiences it through the prism of an entire lifetime. As a painter, I connect with my deepest knowing and lay it bare as an offering to record a moment—or many—in time. I am ecstatic during this process. I am also ecstatic when that offering ignites a fire in the heart of another. This fire is akin to poetry; poetry that passes from the eye to the heart.

Dimensions: 8 x 8
Media: Acrylic on canvas board
Artist Statement : Working small and in Acrylic is a bit of a challenge for me. I was trying to paint outside from real life, this is a bush in my garden. I would like to try the Paint Annapolis next year.

Dimensions: 8 x 8
Media: Gel acrylic monoprint on rice paper with hand applied gold leaf

Dimensions: 6 x 6 x 1.5
Media: Mixed Media
Artist Statement : Honoring the fading craftsmen, the stone mason and brick layer who created the architectural beauty vanishing from our habitat landscape.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1
Media: Mixed Media: Ink and acrylic on multimedia art board mounted on cradled wood panel.
Artist Statement : Starting with the edges, I used ink to create an abstract background. Using a limited palette, created ambiguous forms to entice the viewer to create their own story as to what they are seeing. Some shapes may look familiar and some are just almost there, but we're not quite sure. I made an effort to use color, shape and line so that the eye of the viewer would move throughout the piece. Please look closely.

Dimensions: 4.5 x 4.5
Media: Acrylic Paint on Bathroom Tile
Artist Statement : As the title implies, I unfortunately get canker sores, which are quite annoying. It also just so happened that there were bathroom tiles in a pile of free art supplies...So naturally, while wielding a brush in hand, I painted it.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1
Media: Mixed Media/Mono Print Collage on cradled panel
Artist Statement : Using mono print, paint, and collage to create a unified abstract composition.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1
Media: oil on panel
Artist Statement : This silver cup was used to Christen numerous family members between the 1890's and the present day. When it is polished I love to see the reflections on it's surface. I placed it on one of my favorite rainbow colored cloths and it shone.

Dimensions: 12 x 12 x 1.5
Media: Digital photo on paper. Digitally edited on my Nikon D300 cellphone and edited with that same cellphone's photo editor. No AI's anywhere.
Artist Statement : First time shown. I've taken care of yard work in a lot of situations. From a suburban yard with St Augustine and live oaks to middle of nowhere country where we mowed the yard with a bush hog and two weed eaters. All during Alabama heat and humidity that can reach up to 100 degrees. In each situation the feeling was the same. There is a moment of satisfaction when you've finished. You clean up and settle into somewhere cool to ( hopefully) watch a ball game. It could be baseball. It could be college football. But it is always the best. This is an artist's proof.. One of a lot of experimentation. I actually didn't like it at first, but I framed it and hung it where I would walk past it every day. (Many of my photos are b&w and serious.) Then one day? I liked it. It was summer and more like my real life.

Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 2
Media: watercolor on paper mounted on wood panel with wax finish in 12 in x 12 in black floater frame
Artist Statement : Clinging to the flower, this butterfly also clings to life as its wings begin to lose some edges.

Dimensions: 10 x 10 x 1.5
Media: Acrylic
Artist Statement : This cellist appeared within the chaos of an abstract painting after attending a cello recital. The music and images of the cellists became engraved in my mind. Using a form of reductive painting, I carved her and her lovely cello out of the abstract shapes by painting the background in a more subdued color. The overall treatment of the subject and surrounding elements provides a sense of rhythm and movement, much like the beautiful music played by the cellist.