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Category: Artist Interviews

Q&A interviews with the artists whose work is chosen by jurors as best in show in our monthly exhibits. Learn about the stories and the creative process behind these award-winning works of art from the artists who created them!

Pay a Visit to this Abstract Villa

“I love to problem-solve which is fun in abstract art because it is easy to create unpredictable situations.”…
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Sardar Aziz’s Cityscape in Flux

“I wanted to capture how we as humans build a city and then rebuild it, right from the ground up, again and again.”…
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Kathleen Best Gillmann’s Winter Landscapes

“My goal in painting March Thaw was to capture the briskness, barrenness, and beauty of this location.”…
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How “Natura Morta” Came to Be

Many artists have a back burner where they hold onto ideas for years. This one just took a little longer than most to make…
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Sarah Dax Solano: Blurring the Boundaries of Painting

Sarah Dax Solano is embarking on a new series that combines abstraction, realism, and a large format — and this painting is the first…
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Amy Sabrin, In the Moment

“One day, when the trees were that amazing golden greeny mustard color, I said, I just have to stop and paint it — so…
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Elaine Qiu: Painting as Calligraphy

“I believe every mark should have its own intention, and the way a mark is made is equally important as the final image.”…
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Octavia Frazier Feels the “Force”

“I like when people tell me they can recognize my mark in my artwork.”…
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BG Muhn on Contemporary North Korean Art

BG Muhn, painter and art professor at Georgetown, spoke at The Art League September 9, sharing his research on contemporary art and artists in…
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A Best-in-Show Painting That’s Wrapped Up in Red

“It was a challenge to create something that was monochromatic but interesting.”…
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Sally Davies, Playing With Water and Dots

Does “playing with water” refer only to the children in the picture? Or could it also be that Sally Davies is enjoying experimenting with…
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Wen LePore’s Unplanned, Unpredictable Paintings

This is a typical painting for me: It came from a mistake or unpredictability….
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Photographer Bob Friedman’s “Simplicity”

“The arrangement of graphic elements is often more interesting then the reality of the scene. And, the abstracts just simply look good.”…
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Taking a Second Look at Tess Olson’s Wild Landscapes

“It has to do with not knowing all the answers. I like not understanding a painting after one viewing.”…
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Andrea Cybyk: What’s On the Surface

“From a few feet away, you can barely see the words, much in the same way that we’re all ‘fine’ on the surface even…
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Paul Zapatka: Labor & Vision

“I wanted to prove that labor is as much a part of the artistic process as vision is.”…
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Jane Thomas’s “Raining Window”

There’s no more quintessential wet-weather experience than staring out a rain-streaked window, and that familiar scene is the subject of December’s award-winning watercolor by…
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What Sculptor Ann Ruppert Sees in Wood & Stone

If Ann Ruppert’s wood sculptures seem to have been grown, not carved — well, that all comes down to how each sculpture emerges from…
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Photographer Wil Scott on “Red Nude”

Red Nude represents the start of a new focus on people for Wil Scott, a photographer and art historian….
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Artist Beverly Ryan’s “Big Moves”

“Painting large excites me. It provides space for big moves, and requires a confident approach.”…
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Examining “The Artistic Frame”

Artwork was created especially for these frames, perhaps the opposite of what one might expect….
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Photographer Gloria Spellman: What the House Was Saying

“I was not sure of what the house was saying. Since I was unable to pinpoint what I wanted to convey, finding the right…
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Lizzy Lunday Paints the Complicated Relationship Between “Women and Food”

“These paintings … contradict everything that we’ve been taught as women to show of ourselves.”…
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Catherine Hillis: “Fresh, Moving Color”

Painter Catherine Hillis loves to capture a good story, so it’s not surprising that an exhibit like “Op-Ed” garnered her an award….
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