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Artist Biographies:

Beth Cartland: uses a wide range of techniques and materials in her exploration of artistic expression. She combines a mastery of classic technique and an innovative view of our world, resulting in a collection of powerful works. Beth’s primary focus is on oil painting and collage, using mixed media. Beth studied art in a variety of places, from Germany to Texas, California to Rhode Island, and at institutions such as the Rhode Island School of Design. Cartland has an MFA degree in painting from The American University. Cartland has taught art for all ages from elementary school through adult, including classes with the Smithsonian’s Resident Associates Program. She lives and paints in Washington, DC.

Jeff Chyatte: is a Commissioned Sculptor whose works appear in private collections, galleries, museums, commercial buildings and municipalities. Venues include Smithsonian affiliate Ann Marie Sculpture Park, National Airport, the Art Museum of the Americas on the National Mall, Amazon Corporate Headquarters, Watergate Hotel and the entrance of the Strathmore Metro Station in Bethesda, MD.

David Ivan Clark: is originally from the plains of Western Canada, David graduated from Princeton University in 1983 and studied architecture at the Oregon School of Design from 1987 to 1989. With the exception of a brief apprenticeship with Jonathan Barbieri, Oaxaca, Mexico, he is self-taught as a painter and draftsman. His artwork is held in over one hundred private, public and corporate collections throughout the United States and Canada.

Robin Davisson: started her professional life as a biomedical scientist in the field of molecular physiology. Her work over nearly three decades contributed in major ways to our understanding of the control of the circulation in health and disease, relevant to disorders as varied as high blood pressure, heart failure and obesity. Dr. Davisson was honored with many major national and international awards by her scientific peers and was an endowed professor at Cornell University. Robin’s lyrical, process-driven work is rooted in eclectic curiosity and the material surprises she discovers working with her finely-developed visual vocabulary.

Chris Hayman: is inspired by the natural world, Hayman believes in a process of constant investigation. Trained early on as a classical pianist, Hayman has been greatly influenced by music in her life. In her paintings Christine Hayman concerns herself with space. She is interested in how forms are energized by the space around them, especially when incorporated into paintings with vivid contrasting color and thick painterly textures. Currently she resides in Northern California on a farm with livestock and beautiful surroundings which greatly influence her work.

Natasha Karpinskaia: is a Russian artist who studied linguistics at the University of Linguistics in Moscow before continuing her education in art history at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts. She also studied in the art history department at Columbia University in their PhD program and went on to share her expertise by teaching Western European art at New York Academy of Fine Arts. Karpinskaia is currently a full-time artist and teaches painting, mixed-media collage, and printmaking.

Brenda Kingery: was born into the Chickasaw Nation and educated in fine art painting and drawing, Brenda Kingery paints her heart. She combines her rural Oklahoma background with experiences of living in the Ryukyuan Islands of Japan, where she studied with master artists, artisans, and craftsmen. Additional travels in Mexico, Central America, and Uganda, where she worked with native people, are woven into the tapestry of all her works. Kingery's paintings are mixed media, sometimes acrylic and sometimes oil, with occasional additions of mica and small found objects, applied and hidden like secrets within many layers of paint. Her work, filled with life, movement, and memories, is a celebration of the shared history of indigenous cultures.

Matthew Langley: studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and The Corcoran School of Art. While earning his BFA at Corcoran, he studied under luminaries such as Gene Davis, Robert Stackhouse, Tom Green, and other members of the Washington Color School and the D.C. artistic community. The use of space and color in his paintings demonstrate Langley’s mastery as a colorist and reveal a higher sense of order and harmony. Combining poetic titles and nonlinear visual narratives, with each work Langley creates a contemplative space that encourages the viewer to observe, consider, and reflect. Now based in Manhattan, Langley’s work continues to garner local and national attention, recently appearing in publications including Art in America, New York Magazine, Southern Living, The Washington Post, The Washington City Paper, Elan Magazine, DCist, and The Bowie Star.

Lindsay Mullen: is celebrated as a post-impressionist artist in her native United Kingdom and is closely associated with the island of Menorca, where she has lived and worked for most of her adult life. An accomplished colorist, influenced by Turner and Monet, her palette and compositions reveal a refined sensitivity to the light and climate of the various locations in which she has lived and worked. She has won numerous painting awards for work that now hangs in the Museum of Menorca, Consell Insular de Menorca and many public and private collections.

Jim Perry: received a BA in sculpture from Bard College, where he studied with sculptor Jake Grossberg and painters Murray Reich and Jim Sullivan. He began his sculpture career in the early 1970s in New York City where he exhibited extensively, and in 1975 was included in the Whitney Biennial. In addition to his work as an artist, Jim had a 28-year career as a graphics editor at The New York Times. He left The Times in 2008 to return to making sculpture full time. Since then, Jim has had solo exhibits at the Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ; Gremillion & Company Fine Art, Houston, TX (2011, 2013); Morpeth Contemporary, Hopewell, NJ (2010.) and the Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ. He maintains studios in Northeast Pennsylvania and central New Jersey.

Madeleine Sargent: is a DC-based artist whose artwork explores the relationship between complexity and color. She graduated from Wesleyan University in 2019 with a BA honors degree in Studio Art and Government. Working in a variety of mediums, she is a multidisciplinary artist whose focus is painting and photography. Madeleine is an active member of the DC arts community through her involvement with DC Arts Studios and position as Gallery Manager at Calloway Fine Art & Consulting in Georgetown. She also works with various DMV artists to photograph artworks for digital submissions and exhibitions.

Karen Silve: creates intuitive and deliberate acrylic paintings unfold through layers of lush colors, aggressive brushwork and drips pushing and pulling off the sides of her canvases. Her paintings are based on momentary synaesthetic impressions of interactions with nature; a synergy of the amorphous profusion of Silve’s surroundings. She focuses on experiences, discovering life’s little moments of energy and inspiration. Silve has exhibited her work extensively in solo exhibitions including at the Portland Performing Arts Center, the Forsyth Center Gallery at Texas A&M University, the Visual Art Center of Northwest Florida, the Tuscaloosa Performing Arts Center, and the West Linn Public Library in Oregon. Recently, her artwork has been acquired by two large art collections, one of which specializes in female mid-century abstract expressionist artists.

Brian Story: is DC artist who originally hails from Tennessee. He was drawn to art at a young age and spent much of his teens traveling in Europe exploring the great museums of the Old World. His interest in the arts continued in his formal education where he studied Art History at the University of Richmond, and later attended the University of Georgia’s Historic Preservation Program. Each piece is a separate journey, an exploration of movement and color. He approaches every piece as experimental with as much interest and joy in the process of creation as the final outcome. When he’s not busy painting, he spends much of his time working in a Georgetown art gallery leading design consultations and helping to curate exhibitions of fellow artists.

Colin Taylor: takes a new approach to landscapes and paints semi-abstract works, which express a personal emotional response to the natural world: “I am interested in the possibility of, and processes involved in the transfer and transformation of personal and individual experience to a visual image”. According to Taylor, these paintings reflect a convergence of experiential impact where tensions and competing recollections and emotions are played out during development and in the presented image. Through the use of a combination of media (oil, pastel, and charcoal on canvas) and a rich palette, Taylor’s application of vigorous mark-making and swirling brush strokes redefines the physical space of a landscapes’ mass into the individual perception of a place.

Judith Vivell: was born in California, attended the University of California at Berkeley where she received her BA in The History of Art. After graduation she spent an year and a half in Colombia, South America, where she studied with Edgar Negret the great Colombian sculptor, at the University of Los Andes. For the first part of her career Vivell was an abstractionist, working with mixed media, but always tethered to the real world. The work is about nature, though it owes much to the lessons of her early years as an abstract painter. The concern with either lush color or constrained color (the feeling that it is her choice), the often-large format, and the fascination with scale and spatial dynamics. These things attest to her early training. And there is an attraction to the monumental, but also a fear of the cliché.

Elise Wagner: was born in Jersey City, NJ in 1966 and is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Elise is a 2015-16 recipient of The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. For several years, the main focus of her work has explored her fascination with contemporary scientific discovery, specifically that in physics and astronomy. Living in the Pacific Northwest has had a profound impact on her work which is made evident by the many references to topographic, geologic and cartographic surfaces. Through her use of the ancient medium of encaustic, Elise employs a certain alchemy with her materials; continually navigating within them the contradictions between the chaos and unpredictability of nature and science’s heroic efforts to understand our universe and changing climate through the wonders of its exploration. 

Graceann Warn’s academic background is in urban design and classical archaeology. In 1985 she decided to take a leap of faith and become a full time artist. She started out as an oil painter but throughout the 1990’s became best known for her assemblages. In 2000, a 16 month long commission to design sets for a major opera production led to a shift in medium and scale in her studio work. Since that time she has primarily been painting on wood panels using oils and encaustic. The present work reflects the structural logic of her architectural beginnings as well as her abiding interest in archaeology and science. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is in the collections of Yale University, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, US Embassies in Nairobi, Sarajevo and Nepal, Pew Charitable Trusts and many others.