Krissy Downing

I first encountered Krissy Downing’s Surreal Paintings at Artomatic 2012, in Crystal City Virginia. She displayed a lovely triptych titled “The Stillest Night Series”. It showed an interior space, with small headless children and balloons.  Sadly, I...

Creating New Work

Do you like my encaustic doll dress paintings? Here is a photo of the works in progress.  One can see doll dresses laying on top of wax paintings. I am in the process of wiring the dresses to the painting board with buttons. Once this is done, I will add more glass...

Anita Boulan-Stromberg

The painting to the left is titled “Free Play”, and is a mixed media work by Anita Boulan-Stromberg. Ms. Boulan-Stromberg is visiting Virginia (and the Workhouse) from her home in Detroit. Here is a link to her website…  Anita . She creates...

Lisa Harkins

I love the work of Lisa Harkins . She combines iconic images, bits of foil, crystals, and lettering to make unique small collage paintings.  See her work at Artomatic, where she has a wall with thirty or so creations. Why such little pieces of art? She tells her story...

My walls at Artomatic

Just in case you were curious, here is a photo of my space at Artomatic . On the  leftmost wall  is my painting titled “Earthquakes and Suffragists”. On the rightmost wall is my new painting titled “Zombies and Suffragist.” Both works are...

Joe Dzikiewicz

Joe Dzikiewicz is showing a series of photographs at his show titled “Faces of Egypt” at Artomatic, 1851 South Bell Street, Arlington Virginia, from now until June 23, 2012. Check out his work on the fourth floor and look for a wall painted with a pyramid....