STUDIO #1 - Christine Sajecki
Christine Sajecki’s paintings, drawings and animations are inspired by moments of tension, beauty and oddity. Most of her recent work is done with encaustic (melted, pigmented beeswax), for which she’s become well known. Christine’s door is frequently open, and her encaustic painting classes are almost always full with artists learning the technique and enjoying the hospitality. www.csajecki.com

STUDIO #2 – Shodekeh (Dominic Bouma)
Designated “Best Sideman” in the 2007 City Paper, Shodekeh is one of Baltimore’s most free thinking (and hardest working) musicians. A beatbox artist, Sho’s instrument is his voice, and he collaborates with musicians of all genres, from hip hop mainstays such as KRS-One to the free jazz avant-gardists at the High Zero Festival. Shodekeh also provides rhythmic accompaniment to dance departments, and will be a guest artist for the second time at the 2008 American Dance Festival this summer. www.myspace.com/shodekeh

STUDIO #3 – Erin Cluley
Along with mixed media paintings, Cluley has fashioned installations using veils of handcut vellum referencing confessional screens.  Spare, elegant and suffused with eroticism, she navigates the terrain where desire and restraint embrace. With fellow resident John Moran, Cluley was featured in the Main Gallery exhibition Veils & Icons in December 2007.

STUDIO #4 – Magnolia Laurie
One of four CA Resident Artists to appear in the 2008 Mid Atlantic edition of New American Paintings, Magnolia recently completed her MFA from the Mt. Royal School at MICA. In her minimal paintings, stark landscapes are plotted with lines that carve out an existential space.

STUDIO #5 – Megan Hildebrandt
Working across a range of media – painting, performance, craft and more – Hildebrandt moved into The Patterson following her 6 month residency on the “art train,” which travels the country with studios and a gallery. From reimagining Mary Pickersgill and the making of the Star Spangled Banner, to her ongoing correspondence with the Pope, Hildebrandt combines a wicked sense of humor with innocent joy in the act of making things. She appears in the 2008 Mid Atlantic edition of New American Paintings.

STUDIO #6 – Jarrett Davis
Davis is a MFA graduate from MICA, whose work explores the complexities of Eastern and Western cultural signifiers from contemporary and historical sources. He is currently working on a series of paintings that combines traditional Korean Sowon architecture and European Gothic churches with explorations into depictions of Asian masculinity. He appears in the 2008 Mid Atlantic edition of New American Paintings.

STUDIO #7 – Rene Trevino
James Bond, Buffalo Bill, Cary Grant, Sitting Bull and Emiliano Zapata are among the iconic figures that René Treviño lovingly renders in his recent series of life-size graphite on paper drawings. Symbols of masculinity and ethnic identity, they don’t confront so much as they demand our adoration. Treviño is represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery and also appears in the 2008 Mid Atlantic edition of New American Paintings.

STUDIO #8- Chris Stewart
A poet and fiction writer, Stewart is working on her third novel and a collection of poems, having recently completed a poem sequence for which she built three-dimensional visual representations for exhibition. She teaches and mentors adult and teen writers, and inaugurated the Write Here, Write Now series of writing workshops at The Patterson, along with CityLit’s Gregg Wilhelm. Some of her publishing credits include Poetry, Ploughshares, Five Points and Blackbird.  www.therealwriter.com.