Tatyana Fazlalizadeh is an African-American and Iranian artist originally from Oklahoma. She has recently been acclaimed for her project Stop Telling Women To Smile which has had a national presence. Her paintings are heartfelt portraits both of herself and people in relaxed situation in her life. The painting of “James” seems mid thought in intense conversation. Fazlalizadeh’s self portraits capture her strength as a woman which is also what sparked the Stop Telling Women to Smile project.
Stan Squirewell was born and raised in Washington, DC and currently lives and works in New York, NY. His artistic training began at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. Since graduating he has continued his tutelage under many of DC’s legends including artists Michael Platt and Lou Stovall.
Mr. Squirewell, is a painter, photographer, installation and performance artist. His work is multilayered and his subject matter tackles themes such as: race and memory through mythology, sacred geometry and science. He draws his inspiration from theory books, science fiction movies and novels, avant-garde jazz and indigenous storytelling.
He is a (2007 MFA) graduate of the Hoffberger School of Painting where he studied with the late, Grace Hartigan. Mr. Squirewell is the first winner of the Rush Philanthropic and Bombay Sapphire Artisan series. He has performed with Nick Cave (SoundSuits) at the National Portrait Gallery and Jefferson Pinder with G-Fine Arts. He is privately and publically collected, his works are in the Reginald Lewis Museum, the Robert Steele Collection and recently acquired by the Smithsonian for the African American Museum (2015.)
STANLEY SQUIREWELL
Born 1978, Washington, DC
Lives and works in Washington, DC & New York, NY
(202) 390-4151
stansquirewell@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2006 Maryland Institute College of Art, Hoffberger School of Painting, MFA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Interconnected, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
2010 Kaleidoscope, UMC Art Council, Washington, DC
2005 Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC
2004 The Art of Squirewell, National Visionary Leadership Project, Washington, DC
The 20th Year Celebration, Black Entertainment Television, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Art Society of Trinidad and Tobago, Thru Comtemporary, Port of Spain, Trinidad
The Boston Printmakers North American Print Biennial, The Lunder Arts Center at Lesley University College of Arts & Design, Cambridge, MA
Badass Art Man!, African American Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Sheroes + Womanist, Flash Point Gallery, Washington, DC
Flux Fair, Harlem Flux, New York, NY
Scope Fair, Rush Philanthropic, New York, NY
Alchemical Vessels, Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Washington, DC
2014 Prizm Fair, Miami Basel, Miami, FL
Ceremonies of Dark Men, DCCAH, Washington, DC
Emergence, Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
Black and White, Art in Flux Harlem, New York, NY
2013 Crowns, The Fridge DC, Washington, DC
No Strings Attached (Delusions of Grandeur Collective), 39th Street Gallery, Mt. Rainier, MD
2012 Art in Embassies (Nick Cave Performance), National Portrait Gallery, Wash., DC
Peoples Ping Pong Party, Present Company, Brooklyn, NY
New Works, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
Ben Hur (Performance), Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
Untitled, Guichard Gallery, Chicago, IL
Neekid BLK Gurls, Rush Arts, New York, NY
King Me, The Fridge, Washington, DC
Ben Hur (Performance), G-Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Black Creativity, Science and Industry Museum, Chicago, IL
2011 Sacred Reflections, David C Driskell Gallery, College Park, Maryland
2010 Artisan Series, Bombay Sapphire & Rush Arts/ Miami Basel, Miami, FL
Artisan Series, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
Signs, Symbols & Words, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
BHME, Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA
BHME, Cornerstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Bowie State University, Bowie, MD
2009 Black, DCAC Gallery, Washington, DC
Fotoweek DC, Washington, DC
Transformations: New Directions in Black Art, MICA, Baltimore, MD
Mixed Messages, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
Manifest Hope, Irvine Contemporary/DC Gallery, Washington, DC
Black Migration: Movements in context, Community and Faith, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
2008 Transformations, New Directions in Black Art, Gateway Gallery, Baltimore, MD
More Than You Know, Parrish Gallery, DC
Off Color II, Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Off Color I, Rush Arts Gallery, NYC, NY
Giving Birth to Dreams, AM Radio & Scion House, Baltimore, MD
Free for All, MOCA DC, Washington, DC
2007 Off Color, Diaspora Vibes Gallery, Miami, FL
Anonymous, Flash Point Gallery, Washington, DC
Revisiting the Ancient, Walters Museum, Baltimore, MD
Print Impressions 07, Sowebo Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Art Basel, Logo Gallery (Design District), Miami, FL
2005 New Power Generation, Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA
2004 30/30 Homage to Inspiration, Duke Ellington Gallery, Washington, DC
Summer of the Cicada, The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
Windows of My Past, Howard University (Blackburn Center), Washington, DC
11th Annual Afro-American Artist Exhibition, Marlboro Gallery, Prince George’s County, MD
Art Silver, Martin Luther King Library Gallery, Washington, DC
Why Jazz, Banneker Douglas Museum, Annapolis, MD
RESIDENCIES
2015 Artist in Residence, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Vermont Studio Center Artist Residency
CURATORIAL DEVELOPMENT
2014 Ceremonies of Dark Men, DCCAH-5×5 Projects, Coordinator, Washington, DC
2009 Mixed Messages, International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC, Co-Curated
2005 At Freedom’s Door, Reginald Lewis Museum/Baltimore historical Society, George Ciscle
AWARDS/GRANTS
2015
- Jamaica Flux: Workspace and Windows, Jamaica Center for the Arts & Learning, Jamaica, NY
2013
- First Place, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series National Competition
2006 – 2007
- Recipient, Tom Miller Scholarship for excellence in the Arts, Baltimore, MD
2005
- Recipient, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Grant, Washington, DC
SELECTED PUBLIC JURIES
2013 Community Arts Grants, DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities
2005 Seasonal Arts Calendar, (AARP) Association of American Retired Persons
WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2013 Permanent Collections, Smithsonian African American Museum, Washington DC
2010 Permanent Collections, Dr. David C. Driskell Center, College Park, MD
2008 Permanent Collections, Reginald Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD
PUBLIC MEDIA
2012 Live Internet Presenter, TedEx DC, Nothing New Under the Sun
2009 Guest Speaker, WAMU 88.5 FM, Art Beat Hosted by: Stephanie Kaye featuring Margaret Paris
2005 Panelist, Visionary Leadership Project, featuring Faith Ringgold
Pablo Martínez Monsivaís is the son of a migrant laborer and the first of his siblings to be born in the United States. He grew up in Chicago’s Mexican-American community of Little Village, where he was immersed in its particular immigrant experience. After graduating with a degree in photography from Columbia College, he began his career as a summer intern for his hometown newspaper, the Chicago Sun-Times. At the end of the 13-week internship, at the young age of 24, the paper hired him as a staff photographer. There he worked on many local stories and covered everything from parades to politics, from food to fashion and fires, and sports.
Since the fall of 1998, Pablo has been a staff photographer for the Associated Press’ Washington Bureau, where he primarily covers the office of The President and the administration. In 1999 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for team coverage of the impeachment during the Clinton Administration. Pablo has received awards from World Press Photo, The White House News Photographers and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.
Richard Kurtz’s work has a frenetic energy and bold style that recalls graffiti yet includes a variety of unlikely materials such as glitter, bits of straw, frayed newsprint, sheet music, maps, gift cards, and other related materials. Even though he is not left-handed, he draws with his left hand in an attempt to be more open and connect with the more intuitive side of his brain. He commented on the his b/w boxer series by stating, “ For me, the image of the boxer is a warrior – a hero. We all have to fight to remain conscious and present. It’s like in life, you blink, you loose.”
Jim Morin was born January 30, 1953 in Washington, D.C. He started drawing cartoons at the age of seven, taking as his initial influences the work of Walt Disney, Jay Ward, and Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbera.
The social and political upheaval during the 1960s prompted an interest in current events. While attending college at Syracuse University, he combined both interests and started drawing editorial cartoons for their student newspaper, the Daily Orange.
Upon graduation, Morin began his editorial cartooning career at the Beaumont (TX) Enterprise and Journal and the Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch. In December, 1978, he joined the staff of The Miami Herald.His cartoons are syndicated internationally by King Features. Jim Morin’s many honors include the 1996 Berryman Award from the National Press Foundation, 1992 National Cartoonist Society Award, Overseas Press Club Awards in 1979 and 1990, and numerous others. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1977 and 1990. Morin is the author of three books: Famous Cats, Jim Morin’s Field Guide to Birds, and a political cartoon collection, Line of Fire.
Charles Trainor started his career as a photographer during the middle years of the last century in Miami. Trainor, a former Marine serving in WWII and the Korean conflict, started photographing the changing landscape of Miami that seem to become the crossroads of people who had major influences in our culture and history. His image of JFK was so compelling the Kennedy family requested a copy of the image, the large format photos of Elvis Presley performing in Miami in 1956 have become iconic and considered some of the best of “The King” in his early years. In 1964 Trainor covered the Miami leg of the British invasion, The Beatles arrived in Miami and the collection is one of the most complete of their visit to Miami. His image of Cassius Clay in the backyard of a Miami home boxing with kids is a unique image, it’s a pure photo of “The Greatest” before his victory over Sony Liston, it’s a rare moment not to be repeated. Trainor’s worked appeared in Sport Illustrated, Life Magazine, POST Magazine, Der Spiegel and more.
Mansa, born in Miami, is a product of Miami-Dade’s magnet programs. Home was a very different place than school. At home in the early 80’s he watched as his stepfather grappled with crack addiction. In school Mansa began to navigate the dichotomy of these two worlds. He began to use Art as a place to question these contradictions around him. Though he graduated from the esteemed New World School of the Arts, Mansa still had to avoid the ever-present temptations of gangs and drugs. Despite watching a number of his friends dabble in the drug trade, some even falling to gun violence along the way, the temptation to follow in this illicit life path for Mansa was real.
After battling depression following the death of his mother, Mansa again looked to painting. He explored auto-biographical tropes in his Mother/Son series. Logically, Mansa began to explore his relationship with his father in his work. It seemed painting was becoming his saving grace. Looking at his own life Mansa saw that through Art he had been able to accomplish more than his peers around him; namely, he had managed to graduate college and avoid the label of felon, two things his siblings had been unable to achieve.
As Mansa questioned the relationships between Sons and Fathers and ideas behind the worship of ‘the hustler’ in hip-hop’s urban culture, he was able to draw closer to his brothers and father. This was a fleeting joy. Unfortunately on Easter Sunday, Mansa would lose his father to cancer as well. Mansa received his notice of acceptance to Yale the night before his father’s funeral.
Wesley Clark grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and currently resides in Hyattsville, Maryland. He received his BFA from Syracuse University in 2001 and his MFA from George Washington University in 2012. Clark has been exhibiting his works since 2003 showing in Washington D.C., Baltimore, New York, Chicago, Atlanta, and Philadelphia. His works can be found in collections here in the US as well as Germany and Japan.
S. Ross Browne studied Communication Art and Design at Virginia Commonwealth University and Photography at The Corcoran School of the Arts. He is also an alumnus of The Miller School of Albemarle in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has taught art and design for inner city and at risk youth for the Fresh Air Fund of N.Y.C, Weed and Seed, Project Ready and Art 180 of Richmond, VA. He was also an instructor for the Resident Associate Program at the The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. During his tenure as the Art Specialist for the VCU Health System, Ross practiced art therapy for and taught art to his various patients with an emphasis on pediatric hematology/oncology, infectious disease and brain injury patients. He is also an illustrator and graphic designer with a long and varied list of clientele. Ross continues to paint and write out of his studio in Richmond, Virginia. In a review of the exhibition Art Fusion in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Special Correspondent, CeCe Bullard wrote; “Browne, always intense and direct, explores the many faces of the American experience in a variety of media, each of which he uses effectively.” S. Ross Browne is the recipient numerous awards and honors, has been featured in various local and national media. His work was recently acquired by the internationally recognized Virginia Museum of Fine Art and is in the collection of international, national and local institutions.
Amber Robles-Gordon, is a mixed media visual artist. She primarily works and is known for her use of found objects and textile to create assemblages, large-scale sculptures and installations. Her work is representational of her experiences and the paradoxes within the female experience. Robles-Gordon has over fifteen years of exhibiting, art education, and exhibition coordinating experience. She completed her Masters of Fine Arts from Howard University in November 2011, where she has received annual awards and accolades for her artwork. Since, her exhibitions and artwork has been reviewed and/or featured in the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Washington Informer, Examiner, WAMU American University Radio, WPFW 89.3, MSNBC the grio, Hyperallergeric, Ebony.com, the Miami Herald, Huffington Post, Bmore Art Magazine, and Callaloo Art & Culture in the African Diaspora.
She has exhibited nationally and in Germany, Italy, Malaysia, London, and Spain. In 2010, Robles-Gordon was granted apprenticeship to create a public art installation with the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, D.C. Creates Public Arts Program. Robles-Gordon was also commissioned to create temporary and permanent public art installations for numerous art fairs and agencies such as the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, DCCAH, Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association (NVFAA), Humanities Council of Washington, D.C., Howard University, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and the Washington Projects for the Arts.
Throughout her career, she serves as an advocate for the Washington, DC area arts community. As of November 2004 through July 2012, Robles-Gordon has been an active member of the Black Artists DC, (BADC) serving as exhibitions coordinator, Vice President and President. Robles-Gordon is also the Co-Founder of Delusions of Grandeur Artist Collective. In 2012, Robles-Gordon was selected to present for the Under the Influence competition as part of the 30 Americans Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Additionally, she has been commissioned by the Smithsonian Anacostia Museum, Luther College, WETA Television, Al Jazeera, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Howard University, David C. Driskell Center, the Phillips Collection, the African American Museum in Philadelphia and Mc Daniel College to teach workshops, give commentary, and or present about her artwork. Most recently, Robles-Gordon has been selected for the Centro Cultural Costarricense-Norteamericano, Back the Roots, Teaching Residency in Limon, Costa Rica.