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Mare Nostra: Q & A with Andrea Limauro
Andrea is an artist and city planner born in Rome, Italy and based in Silver Spring, MD, just outside Washington, DC. Andrea’s work explores issues of migration and identity, the fleeting concepts of home and safety, nationalistic narratives, and gun violence in the US. His work has been exhibited in galleries throughout the DC metropolitan […]
I Love to Hate You: Q & A with Damon Arhos
Damon Arhos presents I Love to Hate You as an extension of his art practice, which seeks to expose the destructive nature of prejudice and uses his identity as a gay American as its frame. A native of Austin, Texas, Arhos explores how individual experiences influence gender roles, sexual orientation, and human relationships. A graduate […]
Nine Patch: Q&A with Olivia Tripp Morrow
Olivia Tripp Morrow received her BFA in sculpture at Syracuse University, graduating cum laude in December of 2012. Her most recent works are video and sculptural installations that address concepts relating to beauty, intimacy, memory, sexuality, and the commodification of women’s bodies. Morrow’s work primarily utilizes found and donated textiles as material, which are imbued […]
Measuring the Weight of Longing: Q & A with Gayle Friedman
Gayle Friedman is an artist who was raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She lives and works in Washington, DC. For the past decade she’s been a jeweler, teacher, and the founder of Studio 4903, a group art studio space. Friedman received a DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Fellowship Award in 2017. In addition to her […]
Objectual Abstractions: Q & A with Emilio Cavallini
English | Italiano A renowned fashion designer, Emilio Cavallini is known the all over the world for his innovations in stockings and hosiery. In a career spanning three decades, Cavallini has collaborated with design houses ranging from Mary Quant to Dior, Balenciaga, Alexander McQueen, and more. Beginning in 2010, he gave up designing for women’s […]
Drift: Q & A with Carrie Fucile
Carrie Fucile is an intermedia artist focused on sound, sculpture, installation, and performance. She has exhibited and performed at numerous venues in the United States and abroad including The Walters Art Museum, The Red Room, the (e)merge Art Fair, Vox Populi, VMK – Gönczi Gallery, and Casa Contemporânea. Recent honors include a 2016 Maryland State […]
Lines, Folds, Bends, and Matter: Q & A with Anne Smith
Anne Smith is a visual artist and teacher in Washington, DC. Her art practice spans disciplines of drawing, sculpture and printmaking to study variations on boundaries, paths, and divisions of space. Her subject matter has included her childhood home, the side of the road, and other spaces entirely made up or imagined. Smith is also […]
Ubiquitous Imagery: Q & A with Sarah Jamison
Sarah Jamison’s series, Ubiquitous Imagery, is inspired by the amount of time people spend absorbing images on their digital devices. Each piece is a tribute to scrolling through apps, a testament to the fact that through our perpetual media engagement, there is a universal visual language, where everything from cat videos to Kim Kardashian’s “Breaking […]
Cut Canvas and Quiet Beauty: Q & A with Alexandra Chiou
“Initially, I was drawn to the idea of primordial landscapes free of man-made structures. Over time, my interest in unexplored terrains has morphed into a fascination with the beginnings of life, and the connections we humans share with our surrounding geography—for instance, the parallel between rivers and the blood that flows through our veins, and the […]