E2 REAL ART D.C.
Neckties or needlepoint? The 10 finalists’ work
In our search for the area’s most exciting, undiscovered artists, we asked readers to submit their work to our “Real Art D.C.” contest on
Washingtonpost.com. Since April, Galleries columnist Jessica Dawson has been scouring the submissions, and from the 4,000 images submitted, she chose 10 finalists. The finalists work with neckties, petri dishes and Bertoia chairs; they use Holga cameras, watercolor, needlepoint, video and pixels. Their subjects range from the inside of a Korean liquor store to the inside of the artist’s studio. Now it’s your turn. Go to
washingtonpost.com/realartdc to vote for your favorite. You’ll see more about the winning artist — more pictures, reporting and an online video — in the Oct. 27 issue of Style. Polls close Oct. 22 at 5 p.m.
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Kristina Bilonick
Age: 33 Studio: Northwest Washington
Bilonick’s work ranges from printed T-shirts, dresses and ties (at $15 to $20, they’re quite accessible art) to much-harder-to-sell installations, such as an outsize Great Lash Mascara tube. Her inspiration? A tattered black-and-white composition book in which she kept her most private thoughts — at age 9. Now it’s her source material.
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Adam Griffiths, a.k.a. Adam Dwight JUANA ARIAS FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Age: 27 Studio: Takoma Park Dwight makes gouaches and videos featuring figures that might populate gross-out comics, though they’re more civilized than that. Think Mr. Smithers from “The Simpsons” as drawn by Dr. Seuss. The artist thinks of them as open-ended character studies; the scenes prompt many more questions than they answer.
MICHAEL TEMCHINE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Chloe Watson
Age: 25 Studio: Area 405 building, Baltimore Watson plays with cardboard cutouts and then draws them, creating the ambiguous forms that wind up in her paintings. She also obsesses about wood and its iterations: the wood panel she paints on, the wood grain that she draws by hand and the faux wood of printed contact paper. She often combines all three in an artwork.
Jenny Yang
Age: 27 Studio: Southeast Washington Much of Yang’s work attempts to reconcile her relationships
with self and family. She based her photographic series “West Pratt Street” on the Baltimore neighborhood near her parents’ liquor store, where she befriended her subjects and gained their trust. “The store” is both a physical location and a psychic one, underpinning every image in the series.
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SUSAN BIDDLE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Joel D’Orazio
Age: 67 Studio: Bethesda D’Orazio transforms vintage furnishings into artworks by lacing found cables (like the ones from Comcast) and plastic tubing through the basket weaves and caning of mid-century chairs. The chairs sprout tentacles and dreadlocks; some look aerodynamic, others gangly. He also paints and sculpts.
Keinyo White
Age: 40 Studios: Northwest Washington and New Zealand White paints meticulous portraits, all in watercolor. He embraces the medium’s contradictions: He must work quickly — pigment dries fast — yet be patient. White’s latest pictures feature solitary figures framed in expanses of white paper.
DAYNA SMITH FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Lisa McCarty
Age: 27 Studio: Arlington Arts Center Chance rules in McCarty’s photo-based artworks. Her series “Florid Interiors” explores the complexities of her relationship with her grandparents and her own childhood: She shot the accumulated stuff in her grandparents’ cluttered Arlington home and later, in the studio, separated the emulsion from its backing and manipulated it.
COURTESY LISA MCCARTY
ASTRID RIECKEN FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Stephanie Booth
Age: 28 Studio: Alexandria Booth’s artmaking metabolizes her toughest experiences — from being a six-time bridesmaid to a recent car accident. Some of her work uses bridal party photographs from the weddings she’s attended; she transferred those black-and-white images onto cross-stitching fabric, censoring the eyes of all participants but herself.
Steven Silberg
Age: 35 Studio: Catonsville, Md. Silberg’s aim is the deconstruction of the 21st century’s most common visual currency — digital images. He breaks computer-based photos and video down to their tiniest element — the pixel — in what he calls “pixel lapse photography.” Silberg is also adding the element of time to a medium that usually captures a single static instant.
MICHAEL TEMCHINE FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Travis Childers
Age: 38 Studio: Fairfax Lifting images from newspapers with tape is a favorite strategy of Childers’s. He likens these impressions to how memory works — hazy, misremembered and without chronological clarity. He uses the images to make paintinglike panels and installations using Silly Putty and petri dishes.
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