Sleight of Hand
Delicate magnolia branches dance around a doorway in the sprightly hall mural of an Alexandria home. Beckoning through the open passageway, an elegant, faux-painted…
Street Art
An enormous, abstracted fox leaps across one building. A stylized girl enigmatically dangles a key in one hand and an open-mouthed metal fish in…
Full Circle
Ben Marcin likes to tell the stories, real or imagined, behind each photograph he thoughtfully composes. Here’s one. Location: 4006 Pulaski Highway, Baltimore. Background:…
Creative Spirit
Each summer, experimental art comes to northwest Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. A city of 75,000 people rises in this unlikely spot for Burning Man,…
Core Values
Leaving a stretch of farmland along Maryland’s Eastern Shore, the car pulls up beside a workshop nestled beneath towering chestnut oaks. A frisky German…
Circle of Life
Artist Linling Lu, who left China in 2006 to study painting at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, now lives and works in…
Mixed Media
Whatever you see can be an inspiration,” artist Lisa Tureson says, and a tour of her home and studio in Oak Hill, Virginia, illustrates…
All In The Details
Of the 50,000 fabrics on the market today, each one may react differently when hung at a window—a fact noted with unruffled professionalism by…
Studio: Creative Dynamo
Taking a break from her busy schedule, Maggie O’Neill sits behind the desk in her second-floor studio overlooking DC’s fast-changing Shaw neighborhood. Along the…
Capturing the Light
The first time you see one of Loriann Signori’s landscapes in person, the contrast between vibrant color and soft shapes is riveting. The eye…
Full Immersion
Now 87, Yayoi Kusama has been creating avant-garde art since the 1960s, when she staged her infamous underground polka dot “happenings” on the streets…
Shore Style: Illuminating the Bay
In a tech-savvy world where GPS has made paper maps obsolete, Joseph Tarella has found a way to keep cartography alive. The New York-based…
On Display
WASHINGTON, DC Porcelania: East Meets West Cross MacKenzie Gallery, November 10 to December 8 Walter McConnell’s monumental assemblage of porcelain figurines—comprising Buddhas and more cast…
Drawing Board: Fine Furniture + Art
Skip Sroka was tapped to design the interiors of Norton Manor, a newly constructed estate in Potomac. He and the owners decided to embellish…
Art Studio: Warp & Weft
Driving east on Richmond’s 295 bypasses, the pace noticeably eases exiting onto Route 5. Along the winding, tree-shaded road, cyclists travel on a parallel…
A Shared Past
The painting of an unfurled flag is nearly complete. Artist Carol Rowan picks up a small brush and applies a fine line of blue,…
Nature’s Bounty
It’s anyone’s guess who will take up residence in the White House come January. But one thing is certain: His or her china options…
New Direction
Cool light filters through 20-foot-tall windows in painter Barbara Januszkiewicz’s Arlington studio. Light falls on gray walls and gleaming pipes, on concrete floors and…
Everyday Beauty
Some artists shape clay into dazzling objects, each one unique. Others put the material into practical service, producing art in multiples. Down-to-earth potter Mea…
Bygone Ways
Artist Andrew Wyeth once said, “Pick a subject and go deep.” Washington-based photographer Maxwell MacKenzie has done just that with his images depicting abandoned…