Studio Artists
The artdc.com studio have excellent artists. We’re pleased to share creative space. We feel inspiration developes out of interaction. Currently we work in two studios. One on NY Ave., I N.E. DC 20002, the other on Baltimore Ave., in Hyattsville, MD 20781. We’ve named them Studio 20002 and Studio 20781 . The artists are:
Stephen Mead: Painter and fine wood worker
Steve wearing his studio protective chapéu
Steve Mead is a fine wood worker and abstract expressionist painter. He takes all of his projects to a new level pushing beyond any hurdles in his way. He paints large with energy and a great deal of ingenuity. While he works with traditional stretched canvas, he also moves beyond removing his works from the traditional rectangle to include shapes representing objects or other forms. Steve is also the founder and owner of the Windmill Gate Company. The Windmill Gate Company provides hand-crafted gates, fences, decks, arbors, pergolas, sheds, and other garden structures to the Washington, D.C. Metro Area. Steve has completed a great deal of painting and woodworking in this studio. .
Jennifer Bishop: Painter
Jennifer Bishop
Jennifer Bishop has worked and lived in the DC area for the past years. She is fascinated with religious iconography, chickens, old newspapers, construction sites, and T.S. Eliot. Her paintings and mixed-media collages tell multi-layered stories about the ideas, relationships, and personal myths that lie beneath the surface of everyday things. Jennifer originally hails from Dallas, Texas, and earned a B.F.A. in painting from Cornell University. To find out more about her art work, please visit Jennifer’s online portfolio.
Bill Pabst: Mixed media and electronic collage artist
Bill at the Studio
When he was learning about computers and de-mystifying the internal parts and processes, he noticed a complex beauty in the colors and patterns of the circuit boards. The textures and gold lines of the electronics can look like little cities or river deltas or many things to different people. And yet they all evolved in purely functional contexts, never intended to be seen or have any visual purpose. Putting them in arrangements on the wall, combined with meaningful images, can hopefully provoke us to see something more in what might otherwise be taken for granted as meaningless details in soul-less machinery.
Jesse Cohen: Photographer working in alternative process
Jesse working the kinks out of a print washer in the studio
Jesse Cohen is an artist in the DC metro area. He is a photographer using alternative processes mixing silver gelatin, cyanotype, gumbichromate, digital techniques, and more. In Jesse Cohen’s Washington, DC studio 35mm, Large Format, and Ditigtal technologies are all utilized to produce original images. Durring the day, he works in Molecular Biology / parasitology at Georgetown University, where he finds a strong similarity between lab work and Art.
While in his spare time, he is meticulously developing an organization to aid the development of a stronger personal network between DC metro area artists.
Cheryl Edwards – Painter
Cheryl Edwards in her gallery
Cheryl D. Edwards was born in Miami Beach, Florida. She began her studies in art during 1990 in New York City in a class at the Art Student League taught by the late, Ernest Crichlow. She has been living in Washington, DC for the past 13 years. Cheryl has exhibited in many shows in the Washington, DC area. Gallery representation: Washington, Works on Paper; Meroe Gallery (Baltimore, Md.) ; Wohlfarth Galleries (DC and Provincetown, Mass) ; and Daily Original Online Gallery. She has recently participated in the United States Congressional Art Contest for Students as Judge for Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton; invited to participate in theFlorence Biennale, Florence, Italy, in December, 2009; and was a winner in the Enclave Art Show. She also exhibited in the Sketch Book Project, a traveling group exhibition (Washington, DC; Brooklyn, NY; Chicago, Illinois; Philadelphia, PA; Atlanta,GA; Boston, Mass.) (2009).
Lisa K. Rosenstein – Painter / Mixed media artist.
A mixed media painting produced by Lisa K. Rosenstein in the 20781 art studio.
Lisa K. Rosenstein lives in Washington DC. She graduated with an AFA from the Corcoran in 2007 and has been working hard on her art career ever since. She has shown her art throughout the metro area, from area art league juried shows, to coffee shops, to independent galleries. Her work is in the District of Columbia Artbank, the Enclave collection of Silver Spring and many private collections up and down the East Coast. Primarily an abstract painter she also enjoys photography, collage and textile work as well as writing the occasional poem.
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Michiko Tanaka – Artist
Freelance artist for 12 years. Favorite medium = oil paint. She’s worked in every medium from glass to printmaking to Japanese pottery.
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