Joseph Craig English is an American artist predominantly known for his silkscreen prints focusing on street and landscape scenery of and about places around the Greater Washington, DC area. He currently resides and works in the historic community of Washington Grove, Maryland.
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Anne Silber
Born in New Jersey, Anne Silber studied at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and has lived and worked in the Boston area since 1977. Silber’s work has been shown in numerous one-person and group exhibitions around the U.S. and Europe, and her prints are included in many corporate and museum collections. Her work has also appeared on the sets of a large number of television series and major motion pictures.
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Andreas Nottebohm
Andreas Nottebohm
Andreas Nottebohm, born on October 13, 1944, in Eisenach, Germany, is a German-American artist and pioneer known for his groundbreaking work in metal painting. His career is defined by an innovative approach that combines polished metal surfaces, light, and color to create artworks that challenge traditional perceptions of depth and space. Nottebohm’s artistic journey began at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, where he studied under the surrealist painter Mac Zimmermann. He then deepened his knowledge of etching with Johnny Friedlaender in Paris and studied lithography in Salzburg, Austria. During this time, he began using metal as a medium and discovered the unique reflective and transformative properties of the material.
In 1978, Nottebohm held his first exhibition in the United States, where his work was highly praised by critics. This led him to settle in the San Francisco Bay Area, which remains his creative home to this day. A significant milestone in his career occurred in 1981 when NASA commissioned him to create official paintings for the first Space Shuttle mission of the Columbia. This collaboration established him as a visionary artist, seamlessly blending themes of science, technology, and the cosmos with his unique artistic techniques. Nottebohm is particularly renowned for using polished aluminum and other metals as his canvases. His process involves polishing, etching, and painting metal surfaces to create dynamic works that interact with light and change depending on the viewer’s perspective. His art evokes a sense of cosmic wonder and is often compared to the Op Art and visionary art movements.
Nottebohm’s works are featured in prestigious institutions worldwide, including the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, the Kennedy Space Center, the Crocker Art Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Museu de Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro. Over the course of his career, he has presented more than 100 solo exhibitions across Europe and the United States. In 2011, the University of Arizona honored him with a major retrospective that highlighted his innovative contributions to contemporary art. In recent years, he has collaborated with musician Pete Sears on a decade-long project that combines his metal artworks with experimental music, expanding the sensory dimensions of his art.
Nottebohm’s ability to transform metal into dynamic, light-reactive artworks has redefined the possibilities of this medium. His works bridge the gap between art and science, inspiring viewers to explore the interplay of light, space, and imagination. With a career spanning decades, Andreas Nottebohm has established himself as a true visionary, leaving a lasting impact on the art world.
He has had over 150 one-man shows. His paintings have been shown in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Smithsonian Museum and the Crocker Museum in Sacramento, Ca. Over the years the value of his artwork in one-of-a-kind original format has steadily increased. Crocker Museum curator observed that Nottebohm “teases the eye and challenges the mind.”
Active galleries: Laura Rathe Fine Art Modernism
Museum Show – University of Arizona
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Raj Bunnag
Raj Bunnag is a Thai American artist living and working in Durham, North Carolina. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2012 with an emphasis in Printmaking, and an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2022. Bunnag’s practice examines systematic racism inherent to the foundations of the United States, its institutions and domestic/global policies, through themes in the lineage of print. In his more personal work, he is researching the ideas and baggage that come with self-identity as the son of immigrants and what it means to be a non-white body existing in white spaces. He has shown work nationally and internationally as well as received numerous awards for his relief printed work.
Bunnag uses references from pop culture, news headlines, government policy and legislation, and historical research to take a searing look at the failures of the War on Drugs. Various illegal substances and major participants of the War on Drugs are represented as fantastical monsters in a style reminiscent of master printers such as Jacques Collet, Francisco de Goya, and others.
Whether it is teaching printmaking and drawing to Duke students or teaching local high schoolers, Raj finds his inspiration in spreading the gospel of print and educating people on how the printed world is still powerful in a digitally dominated society.
