ARTIST STATEMENT & CV

I paint to center myself, and to share the beauty of a place with others. When I go for a walk and take photographs, I try to elicit the energy of a place by sketching using exercises from figure drawing. Then I develop and finish the painting in the studio.

I paint in acrylic, sometimes collaging with metal (see “Enchanted Forest” or paper (see “Meditators Make the Weather”. These paintings were painted entirely from my imagination.

My work has been shown in several venues in Washington, DC. And New York City, and hangs in private homes throughout the US.

Formal Art Education

Studio Courses in Drawing and Painting at the Corcoran College of Art + Design, 2002-2004

Exhibits

• Touchstone Gallery, Washington DC, 2014, 2015 and 2017

• Hera Hub, Washington DC, 2015 and 2018

• Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York, 2016

• Waverly Street Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland (Featured Artist)

• Tuckahoe Recreation Center, McLean, VA 2019

• 50th Annual Labor Day Art Show, Glen Echo Park, 2019

• SR/A Interior Design, La Collection, Bethesda, Maryland 2019

• Collection of the Association of Municipal Water Agencies, Washington DC 2021
  

Publicity and Lecture

• ArtExpo New York. 2018 Exhibition

• Artispectrum, Agora Gallery. Inclusion of my images and brief bios in two editions: May and November 2021

• “Why Paint Landscapes?” Reporting on Waverly Street Gallery, Artist Sundays seminar 2018, Montgomery County Sentinel, Barbara Trainin Blank