Zakee Kuduro
Miss Brenda, 2022
Oil on canvas
76 x 76 cm (29.921 x 29.921")

Marianne Mitchell
North Node, 2022
Oil on panel
24 x 24"

Artist Statement
Compelled by elemental polarities at the core of the cosmos, planet earth and human behavior, my work conveys the essence of opposing realities that when brought together, create a harmonious sense of wholeness that resonates with universal truth. The paintings are at once intuitively familiar yet definitively unrecognizable, and embody the reciprocity between our tangible existence and the intangible realm.

Artist Bio
Marianne earned a BFA in painting from Washington University in Saint Louis, with post-graduate work in Japan, China, and at the Vermont Studio Center. A Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Fellowship recipient, Marianne has shown work nationally in New York, Washington DC, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Denver, and internationally in Scotland and Germany. She was represented by the Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia for 19 years until the gallery closed in 2015. Her work hangs in many important collections including The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Pew Charitable Trust, and Sloan Kettering Cancer Research Center. Marianne's paintings are in private collections across the United States, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

Iwan (John) Nazarewycz
Noose (Untitled), 1993/94
Oil on birch panel
35-1/2 x 25-5/8"

Artist Statement
Painting for me is both a thanksgiving and a plea: gratitude for the act itself, together with a petition to find that hidden place where, in Samuel Beckett's words, "the magic necessity hides."

Rooted in Judeo-Christian themes such as sacrifice, redemption, and transformation, each piece holds a narrative, often one that is as much felt as understood. A narrative built on a scaffolding of geometry which has always served as my guardian against the arbitrary. It's a structure that keeps the work grounded in intention rather than indulgence; the enforcer that helps repel meretricious distractions that threaten the integrity of the forms.

Artist Bio
Painter John Nazarewycz earned a B.F.A from the University of Pennsylvania in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He showed with Larry Becker Gallery, Philadelphia, for over a decade, as well as with galleries in New York and Washington, DC. Nazarewycz's work has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; the Delaware Art Museum; and Woodmere Art Museum (Philadelphia, PA). His paintings are held in private collections throughout the country.

Andrea Calderise
Uncanny fireside at Indian Cove Campground, 2025
Oil paint on wood panel
Panel: 12 x 16"
Framed: 13 x 17"

Artist Statement

Andrea Bartine Caldarise is a contemporary landscape painter drawing inspiration from natural and built environments. Her studio practice investigates the psychological connection between landscape and people through visual storytelling. Caldarise uncovers the extraordinary hidden in plain sight through the exploration of landscapes, conversations, and research. Using the language of landscape, her art explores the tension between real and surreal encouraging viewers to question their surroundings.

There's a moment when you blink and your perspective shifts, the artwork is situated in that transitional moment. Encapsulated therein is an examination of movement, creating an experience for the viewer to feel that "each space seems like we've just arrived at the scene of...". Caldarise's paintings evolve over time, possessing a mutable yet distinct character - akin to the changing impressions one gets when revisiting a favorite book. The experience alters with each encounter, enriched by previous engagements. The paintings perform as an oculus, to utilize environments as entry points for open-ended narratives drawing on the collective consciousness. Layered with happiness, trauma, and inequity, landscapes function as mirrors of our present. By investigating various viewpoints--historical, personal, and imagined--we create empathy within our ever-changing world. These paintings are derived from experiences within the social and physical environments around us.

Caldarise's paintings are inspired by research trips to national parks, including Olympic, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, Big Sur, Petrified Forest, and Yosemite. Many of these works emerged from the artist's experiences, informed by research into geological history, ecological studies, and folklore among other research tangents. These artworks look closely at iconic vistas to delve into the emotions and histories of these distinctive environments.

Christopher Williams The Black Davinci
"Oil Study Series One", 2024
Oil on canvas
20 x 16"

Artist Statement
A study conducted on a Liberian woman with pink hair and traditional attire, examining the effects of wet oil on the Black skin.

Artist Bio

Christopher Adam Williams is a visual artist whose practice utilizes portraiture and figurative painting to convey complex narratives, including that of race and gender. Born in Oakland, California, Christopher's current studio base in New Jersey, where he resides with his wife. His drawings, paintings and films have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, television, museums and galleries, including The L Word Generation Q season 2 & 3, Root Division: Black artist fellow, Tunnels of the Mind (Times Square, NY), Crocker Art Museum (Sacramento, CA), Spark+Echo Arts (New York, NY), My Studio Gallery (Sacramento, CA) and The Golden One Center (Sacramento, CA). His art practice focuses on Black Joy- a spiritual feeling that has uplifted the African Diaspora through countless trials and tribulations in the quest for freedom and equity.

Christopher received his Bachelors in Fine Arts and Masters in Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute, where he was awarded Best in Show, MFA and a finalist for the Headlands Arts Center Graduate Residency. 2020 Winner of The Black Artists Fund Sower award and 2022 AICAD Fellow. Christopher is an Assistant professor at Moore College of Art & Design.

Deborah Gross Zuchman
Ode to Wolf Kahn, 2024
Oil on paper
Framed: 30 x 22.5"

Artist Statement
I greatly admire the simplicity of the paintings of Wolf Kahn and, of course, his use of color. After painting the landscape for many years (en plein air), I now work in my studio simplifying the landscape to (almost) abstraction. I want my work to relate the feeling of "being there."

About
I have been painting since attending The Philadelphia High School for Girls, Temple University (BA in Painting) and Goddard College (MA in Painting). I was an Art Demonstration Teacher for the School District of Philadelphia and, upon retirement, a Project Manager for the Mural Arts Program. I now spend my time painting, reading, swimming, cooking and meeting with friends and family.