ON VIEW IN GALLERY 194
Free, Fresh, and Forward-2024 MDAA Members Exhibit
A group exhibition by The Maryland Artist Anonymous Members (MDAA)
Gallery 194 I May 1 - June 6, 2024
Opening Reception: May 30, 2024 6- 8 pm
Artists grow together - feeding off the positive energy created through community, collaboration, and shared spirit. In a time where we are all separated by compartmentalized priorities, prepackaged options, and virtual meetings, it is crucial for artists to strive for a real connection to their art practice, their artistic peers, and their art goals. The Maryland Artist Anonymous (MDAA) aims to maintain open and healthy artistic connections. These connections are formed between members, between the artwork and viewers, and between career and the passion to create. This exhibition will showcase the many talents of The Maryland Artist Anonymous group (MDAA).
This exhibition is on view in our Gallery 194 from May 1, 2024 - June 6, 2024.
FEATURED ARTISTS:
Christopher Whitehead - Christopher Ray Whitehead is a classically trained artist who primarily works in painting, illustration and alternative media. He has studied and exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. His work focuses on the human form and the art is used to illustrate personal narratives and concepts. Christopher has a passion for teaching others about art and artmaking. He has taught art in public schools in California and Maryland. Christopher served as Youth Art Manager at the Worcester Art Museum for seven years. Christopher has also served as President Elect, President and Past President for the Massachusetts Art Education Association and the Maryland Art Education Association. Christopher has also designed and built the websites for both Massachusetts and Maryland Associations. He was recognized in 2012 as Massachusetts Museum Art Educator of the Year and in 2013 as Massachusetts Art Educator of the Year and in 2018 Maryland Art Educator of the Year. Christopher is currently the visual arts teacher specialist for Anne Arundel County Public Schools and Executive Artist of Infinity Pond Studios.
Jordyn Roemer - Jordyn Roemer is a mother, artist, and high school Art educator based out of Odenton, Maryland. She is a graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art with BFA and MAT degrees in 2006 and 2007, respectively. This body of work makes a shift from her previous paintings, by incorporating her photography as the basis for each piece. The gold leaf - a personal metaphor for the people and connections we maintain in our lives - continues to play an important role in these works, while suddenly becoming impacted and contorted by the very real environments with which they are being placed. Life is full of incredible - though often unpredictable - twists and turns, and navigating and finding the balance of it all is at the root of these artworks.
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Lauren M. Elfring - Lauren M. Elfring is a watercolorist and embroidery hobbyist. She is exploring methods to combine the two media. She enjoys hiking, camping, and incorporating nature into her art. As an elementary art teacher, Elfring incorporates her love of nature into the classroom.
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Katelyn Smith - Katelyn is a visual artist and educator, who currently resides in Baltimore, MD. She graduated from Towson University in 2011 with a BS in Art Education , and M.S in Curriculum & Instruction from McDaniel College. She is in her 12th year of teaching in Anne Arundel County Public Schools, and finds her true passion is teaching/working with children. Katelyn enjoys experimenting with many different mediums such as mosaics, paint, and ink. She recently has taken up mixed-media working with plants and abstractions with bright and bold colors
Erin Lehrmann - Erin Lehrmann is a maker, teacher and learner who lives and works in Baltimore. Her philosophy of teaching and artistic practice both center an amateur’s mindset-- an openness to exploratory play driven by inquiry and intrinsic motivation. This particular body of work celebrates chance encounters between wanderer and world in the perpetual pursuit of integration, connectedness, and wholeness.
[a Saturday eclipse]
Off I go, grasping at openings;
my chest yawning to engulf
the murmurings of the city.
Flickers that evade—
dancing through windows,
scrawling across the sidewalk,
erupting into confetti,
dappling the concrete,
seasoning the day.
Adrienne Ramey - Adrienne was born in southern DE and attended the University of Delaware. Here, she received her BFA in Painting in 2004 and began exploring the theme of toys which she still focuses on to this day. In 2005 she moved to Maryland to attend the Maryland Institute College of Art. At MICA, she earned her Master of Arts in Teaching in 2007. Adrienne has been teaching in Anne Arundel County for the past 15 years and is now the art department chairperson at her school.
Sherrard Bostwick - Using drawing, painting, photography, collage, print-making, fiber arts, and performance, Sherrard Bostwick offers multi-media perspectives of the many places and experiences of her life. She uses drawing to reveal what is deeply unmovable and enduring in a continuously changing and transforming world. Currently, Bostwick is teaching art in an elementary school helping to develop the joy and expressive abilities of the youngest artists. She has taught art in a variety of settings including colleges, art schools, museums, a youth detention center, and as a community arts developer for Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. She has been given the opportunity to exhibit widely in the many places she has lived as well as been recognized with awards and honors for her art, teaching, and leadership in the arts. Her education includes a B.A. in Studio Art from Hiram College, Hiram, Ohio and a M.F.A in Performance and Interactive Media Arts from Brooklyn College, CUNY ( City University of New York.)
