John Bohl (Baltimore, MD) mines images for his paintings from everywhere imaginable, including stills from YouTube videos, vintage print advertising, and sometimes photos taken in his Baltimore home and studio. He takes recognizable and sometimes disparate images and manipulates them until they nearly shed their meanings. The newly distilled results feel all at once impersonal & intimate, provocative & subdued, inappropriate & well mannered.

Phaan Howng (Baltimore, MD) creates lush theatrical paintings and immersive installations that tease a post- human ecological condition. Working within either the tradition of floral still life or landscape, Howng’s aggressively lurid botanical visions seem are ready to escape the confines of the canvas, either threatening, satirical, or darkly seductive.

Ed Istwan (Baltimore, MD) produces geometric works that appear at first glance to be about pleasing arrangements of color, taking cues from 20th-century color theory or current decorative trends. This easy classification holds up until they are contextualized in these gallery spaces as exaggerated vertical columns. These works possess the very real compositional capability of directional road signage, steering the viewers’ roving eye into overlooked gallery corners.

Magnolia Laurie (Baltimore, MD) paints delicate yet forceful landscapes. Her beautifully detailed works reference the continued human need to create or build, while hinting to its escalating negative impact. Alternating between melancholic and hopeful, one can’t help feel the shifting ground move when witnessing her loaded yet barren pastoral compositions.