My work is primarily concerned with the collision of the visceral and the sublime. As a painter, I hope to convey a sense of awe for those messy moments in life where one can find the most transcendent experience in the most unlikely of places. My primary source of inspiration is my own weird and chaotic life. I have led a life of extreme privilege and unimaginable trauma and it is this binary dichotomy of decadence and depravity that most informs my work. I use colour, space, form and text to create a sense of drama and tension that I hope evokes a cathartic experience in the viewer. In this particular body of work I am exploring the idea of place and how we market our experiences. When we travel somewhere we often send postcards of generic landmarks but what we always remember are the things that would never be put on a postcard which I exactly what I am doing. Postcards of the real Baltimore as I and my friends have experienced it; dirty, grimy and often crazy, just how we like it.
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One of the first examples of portable art was found in the Paleolithic era.  Often they were objects believed to bring forth abundance and were passed on through generations.  This bull was created for our modern day and economic state and will yield wealth and prosperity.
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“Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock (Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory).” 
The ponds, tree hollows and icebergs in my paintings are my internal wilderness projected onto the external world. As an artist, I seek the intersection of myth and reality. The stories that form at these crossroads are distanced from real events to allow for critical analysis even as they address the psychological core of those events. In telling a story, I often manipulate and distort the real using lenses of fantasy, dream and theater. In this way, I aim at the emotional rather than the historical truth. The moments where surreal elements disrupt my daily reality are a source of continual inspiration. It is here, where myth meets mundane, that the potential for the fantastic is the greatest and my fears, desires and questions are able to play out on a fictional stage.
The realist imagery in my work is important to grant the viewer access to the scene, allowing them to assume the role of the lead character or the shadowy figure lurking in the corner. Similarly, I use beauty to engage the viewer and suspend them in the piece. Beauty raises the stakes -- heightening the contrast between the seductive and the darker elements of life and art. 
Having been raised by a horticulturalist and an entomologist and trained in scientific illustration, I have developed a deep-rooted interest in the signs and symbols of nature. My diverse background in the arts, including creative writing, film, theater, voice and dance, provides a wellspring of subject matter and methods for my visual work. My passion for literature has inspired many of my paintings. Often they stem from my own poetry or are new shoots on the stalks of old stories.

Life is an exploration, constantly searching for that something or someone to complete us. This innate feeling of isolation or yearning for compatibility is what we constantly wrestle with, stretching our own concepts of identity and association. I work with a variety of digital and analogue methods to create images that depict the feeling of isolation and desolation, pushing human presence almost completely out of the composition, leaving only a mere echo of our existence. My work deals with the psychological symbology that can represent feelings, experiences, or places that help us figure out where we belong, anchoring us to history and memories.  

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Throughout history, the flag has been a tool to identify and unify people, armies, and nations; they are carried into battle, laid to claim to new lands, and hoisted in ceremony.  This series of work celebrates the history of American flags and recontextualizes them to better reflect our modern needs.              Joseph Letourneau is a performance artist born and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He graduated with a BA from Vassar College in 2007 with a degree in Visual Art. In 2008 he received a PostBaccalaureate Certificate from the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he is also working towards his MFA at the Rinehart School of Sculpture. Joe's works focus on collaborative performances, often drawing from Americana, tweaking it with an odd, dark humor. These works have included dance, body art, collaborations with mice, and full-length plays.

Calder Brannock               Director                           calderbrannock.com
Jennifer Coster                                                        http://jennifercoster.net
Adam Junior                                                             http://adamjunior.com/
Benjamin Kelley                                                       http://benjaminkelleystudios.com/
Christina Martinelli                                                   http://christinamartinelli.com/
Wendy Tai                                                                http://wendytai.com/
Timothy Thompson                                            
Lauren Reynolds
E. M. Brooks