Joseph Dum­b­acher and John Dum­b­acher

Joseph Dum­b­acher and John Dum­b­acher col­lab­o­rate to cre­ate works that tran­scend the typ­i­cal cat­e­gories of paint­ing, pho­tog­ra­phy and sculp­ture. They are fra­ter­nal twins born in Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana. While liv­ing on sep­a­rate coasts they col­lab­o­rate by tele­phone, email, fax and mail send­ing sketches and mod­els between stu­dios in Pasadena, Cal­i­for­nia and Wash­ing­ton, D.C.

They have exhib­ited locally at the Cor­co­ran Gallery of Art, Curator’s Office, Civil­ian Art Projects, Fuse­box and many other gal­leries. In Cal­i­for­nia, they exhibit at Patri­cia Faure Gallery. Their sculp­ture has been fea­tured fre­quently in The Wash­ing­ton Post, as well as the cov­eted High­brow / Bril­liant cor­ner of the New York Mag­a­zine Approval Matrix.

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Linda Hesh

Linda Hesh explores the rela­tion­ship between the per­sonal and polit­i­cal, iden­tity and mar­gin­al­iza­tion. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illi­nois. Grad­u­at­ing Suma Cum Laude from Uni­ver­sity of Illi­nois at Urbana-Champaign, she went on to receive her MFA from SUNY at New Paltz. She cur­rently resides in Vir­ginia. She has exhib­ited locally, includ­ing the Art Museum of the Amer­i­cas, Arti­sphere, Hamil­ton­ian and G Fine Art, as well as nation­ally in Berg­amot Cen­ter in Los Ange­les and Exit Art in New York City.

Her work is held in pub­lic col­lec­tions includ­ing the Los Ange­les County Museum of Art, Kin­sey Insti­tute and the Library of Con­gress. The New York Times, Wash­ing­ton Post and Philadel­phia Inquirer have reviewed her art. She was a Hamil­ton­ian Fel­low (2008–10). She is very con­scious of speak­ing to an audi­ence, declar­ing pri­vate mus­ings pub­licly to play with taboos or chal­lenge social norms.

Bar­bara Liotta

Bar­bara Liotta has exhib­ited locally at the Phillips Col­lec­tion, the World Bank, The Art Museum of the Amer­i­cas and the Katzen Art Cen­ter at Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity. Upcom­ing projects include a solo exhibit at the Cafritz Foun­da­tion Art Cen­ter and a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Wash­ing­ton Ballet.

She received an artist fel­low­ship from the DC Com­mis­sion on the Arts and Human­i­ties in 2010. From her artist state­ment: I make sus­pended sculp­ture using either translu­cent mate­ri­als or shat­tered stone. The work hov­ers in the space between the lyri­cal and the for­mal, the pow­er­ful and the melo­di­ous, the vio­lent and the beau­ti­ful.

Dalya Luttwak

Born in Israel, Dalya Luttwak lives and works in Chevy Chase, Mary­land. Her recent solo exhi­bi­tions include the Kreeger Museum, Wash­ing­ton DC (2011), the 54th Venice Bien­nale, Venice, Italy (2011), James Madi­son Uni­ver­sity, Har­ri­son, Vir­gina (2010) and the Katzen Cen­ter Arts Cen­ter, Amer­i­can Uni­ver­sity, Wash­ing­ton DC (2008/09).

ARTIST STATEMENT:
I have been work­ing since early 2007 on a series of sculp­tures depict­ing the root sys­tems of var­i­ous plants. The sources of these works are actual roots, which I lit­er­ally dig up out of the earth. Some­times I work from the roots them­selves, other times I pho­to­graph, Xerox or make draw­ings of them in order to fig­ure out how to phys­i­cally and aes­thet­i­cally make them into steel sculp­tures, how to con­nect the sep­a­rate parts, and how to hang the final con­struc­tions from ceil­ings, on walls, place them on floors or place them on build­ings in the great out­doors. The dra­matic trans­for­ma­tion of size, scale, and mate­r­ial lends the works metaphoric sig­nif­i­cance.

Pat McGowan

Pat McGowan is a sculp­tor cur­rently enrolled in the MFA pro­gram at the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land. McGowan is orig­i­nally from Scran­ton Penn­syl­va­nia where he received his Bach­e­lors of Fines Arts in 2009 from Key­stone Col­lege located in La Plume, Penn­syl­va­nia. While cur­rently resid­ing in Bal­ti­more, he is a sec­ond year grad­u­ate stu­dent in the stu­dio art pro­gram at Mary­land. McGowan works in var­i­ous mate­ri­als from cast metal to found objects. His cur­rent body of work deals with defin­ing spaces and cre­at­ing bar­ri­ers. By repur­pos­ing resid­ual con­struc­tion ele­ments like traf­fic cones and road bar­ri­cades he cre­ates ironic bar­ri­ers that are unsta­ble, improb­a­ble and have been removed from their orig­i­nal intention.

Yukiko Nakashima

Yukiko Nakashima was born in Hiroshima, Japan. She lives and works in New York City. She has exhib­ited locally in “Simul­ta­ne­ous Pres­ence” (2010) at the Ever­son House, Bal­ti­more, Mary­land and fre­quently in New York. Her child-size fig­u­ra­tive sculp­ture explores the lim­i­nal space between real and imag­ined expe­ri­ence, mem­ory and sur­real fan­tasy. In her words: As we age and increase our expe­ri­ences, we also are accu­mu­lat­ing name­less mat­ters within our body. They are feel­ings and psy­cho­log­i­cal states that can­not be ver­bally explained or sim­ply be digested. Those mat­ters are even­tu­ally sup­pressed and for­got­ten, dis­tort­ing our mind and psy­cho­log­i­cal body. There are also ephemeral moments that we wish not to for­get, but do nev­er­the­less lose their details as time passes. Those mat­ters and moments are like fad­ing pages of our auto­bi­og­ra­phy that retriev­ing them almost means dis­cov­ery of one’s own self. My inten­tion of visu­al­iz­ing such ambi­gu­i­ties is to first acknowl­edge their pres­ence, and then to give them atten­tions, so that they will not sim­ply fall in obliv­ion.

Adam Nel­son

Adam Nel­son was born in Clear­wa­ter Florida in 1979. He received his B.F.A. in inter­dis­ci­pli­nary sculp­ture from the Mary­land Insti­tute Col­lege of Art in Bal­ti­more Mary­land. After fin­ish­ing the B.F.A. pro­gram, Adam began work­ing as a habi­tat fab­ri­ca­tion spe­cial­ist at the National Aquar­ium in Bal­ti­more. Adam is cur­rently enrolled in the M.F.A. stu­dio arts pro­gram at the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land where he is teach­ing under­grad­u­ate level art classes and enjoy­ing the cur­rent projects he is work­ing on in his studio.

Recent exhi­bi­tions include: Indus­try Gallery, Wash­ing­ton DC, in con­junc­tion with Acad­emy 2011 Con­ner Con­tem­po­rary Art. From his artist state­ment: Through the use of mate­ri­als and phe­nom­ena such as plas­tic, light, and heat, I fab­ri­cate instal­la­tions and expe­ri­ences that impli­cate the var­i­ous aspects of explo­sions as vehi­cles for the way infor­ma­tion is rep­re­sented in the world. Explo­sions are a type of phe­nom­ena that occur nat­u­rally and man­made, with the effects of after­math lev­el­ing a phys­i­cal and cul­tural impact simultaneously.

Jef­fer­son Pin­der

The work of Jef­fer­son Pin­der has been seen in both solo and numer­ous group shows at var­i­ous venues includ­ing: The Stu­dio Museum of Harlem, the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hart­ford, Con­necti­cut, the Zacheta National Gallery in War­saw, Poland and the Smithsonian’s National Por­trait Gallery (RECOGNIZE! Hip Hop and Con­tem­po­rary Portraiture).

He showed new work in After 1968, a trav­el­ing exhi­bi­tion that orig­i­nated at the High Museum in Atlanta. Pin­der received his B.A. in the­atre from the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land, and stud­ied at the Asolo The­atre Con­ser­va­tory in Sara­sota, Florida before return­ing to receive his M.F.A. in mixed media (2003). Based in Chicago, Illi­nois, Pin­der is now an assis­tant pro­fes­sor at the School of the Art Insti­tute of Chicago.

Foon Sham

For the last twenty years, Foon Sham has pas­sion­ately pur­sued his love of mate­r­ial in his intri­cate wood sculp­tures, from their over­all com­po­si­tion to how each com­po­nent fits together. What dis­tin­guishes his recent work is that he has increas­ingly used the prin­ci­ples of design for their asso­cia­tive prop­er­ties to cre­ate a com­plex, syn­thetic poetry. New motifs, includ­ing reach­ing for the sky, fath­om­ing the prop­er­ties of light, and har­mo­niz­ing with nat­ural forms and forces, have emerged.

Sham was born in Macao, China and has been a pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land, Col­lege Park since 1990. He has fre­quently exhib­ited in the DC area, and inter­na­tion­ally in Hong Kong, Aus­tralia, Chile, Nor­way, and Canada.

Dan Stein­hilber

Dan Stein­hilber has had solo exhi­bi­tions at the Hir­sh­horn Museum and Sculp­ture Gar­den in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., The Bal­ti­more Museum of Art in Bal­ti­more, Mary­land, the Mat­tress Fac­tory in Pitts­burgh, Penn­syl­va­nia, and the Con­tem­po­rary Art Museum in Hous­ton, Texas. He is cur­rently prepar­ing a solo exhi­bi­tion for the Kreeger Museum in Wash­ing­ton DC this fall.

Foggy Bot­tom will pro­vide the DC site for “Cast Angels,” sculp­tures orig­i­nally cre­ated for Socrates Sculp­ture Park (2011) in New York dur­ing a res­i­dency spon­sored by the Wash­ing­ton Project for the Arts. He has been awarded artist grants from the DC Com­mis­sion on the Arts and Human­i­ties, the Joan Mitchell Foun­da­tion and a Smith­son­ian Artist Research Fellowship.

Blake Turner & Chongha Peter Lee

Blake Turner and Peter Lee, both stu­dents at George Mason Uni­ver­sity and mem­bers of the Float­ing Lab Col­lec­tive, will jointly cre­ate the new media instal­la­tion “Craig’s List Unrequited:”

Craigslist Unre­quited; or T4M4W4M4T is a reflec­tion upon the desires and fleet­ing chances that are a part of daily life in an urban land­scape. This response takes the form of a mul­ti­me­dia project uti­liz­ing text from the Missed Con­nec­tions sec­tion of craigslist.com. The sub­ject line of each post is extracted and pro­jected onto the pub­lic space, in real time. The extracted text cues a musi­cal com­po­si­tion scored from clas­sic love songs. The result is a poem and song com­posed of the triv­ial, dra­matic, obses­sive, vul­gar and mun­dane aimed at a uni­ver­sal fig­ure of desire that evolves in real-time.

Blake Turner has exhib­ited in the Wash­ing­ton Project for the Arts Auc­tion and Super Spe­cific, Fair­fax, Vir­ginia, 2010. From his artist state­ment: Since 2008 I have been exper­i­ment­ing with a vari­ety of medi­ums to address social con­di­tions in mar­gin­al­ized com­mu­ni­ties and broader soci­etal issues. Pri­mar­ily I work in the medium of response, ana­lyz­ing and respond­ing to the com­plex­ity of human inter­ac­tion. This approach allows for chance to prevail─to take a page from the Sit­u­a­tion­ist Inter­na­tional. I set out to dis­rupt the monot­ony of daily life, by inter­sect­ing ordi­nary peo­ple in their most mun­dane behav­iors. By imped­ing on the pub­lic space.

Peter Lee is a D.C-based new media artist who uti­lizes a mix­ture of video, pho­tog­ra­phy, graf­fiti and inter­ac­tive art to cre­ate inter­ven­tions into the pub­lic space. He is cur­rently gen­er­at­ing sev­eral col­lab­o­ra­tive art projects within the D.C. met­ro­pol­i­tan area.

Lena Var­gas De La Hoz

Orig­i­nally from Carta­gena, Colom­bia, Lena Var­gas De La Hoz has lived and exhib­ited in the Wash­ing­ton area since 2009. She was a Hamil­ton­ian Fel­low from 2009-11. She has exhib­ited fre­quently in Colom­bia, Aus­tria and locally at Con­ner Con­tem­po­rary, Arti­sphere, Hamil­ton­ian Gallery, the Aus­trian Embassy and McLean Project for the Arts.

From her artist state­ment: Moti­vated by my per­sonal expe­ri­ence as a Colom­bian migrant first in Aus­tria and now in the USA, the sub­ject of relo­ca­tion is intrin­sic to my recent work. … My work is an exper­i­ment of con­nec­tions between the object and space, the indi­vid­ual and the col­lec­tive, the sta­tic and the tran­si­tory, and between pri­vate and pub­lic space.