STUDIO #2 – Lauren Boilini
As a painter with a continual interest in the epic and immeasurable multiplicity of form, Lauren Boilini has begun a ballistic descent into abstraction with a finger-hold in representation. Lauren, a recent graduate of MICA's Mount Royal Graduate School, was born and raised in Indiana. She received her BFA in Painting and BA in Art History from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2006.

STUDIO #4 – Magnolia Laurie
One of four CA Resident Artists to appear in the 2008 Mid Atlantic edition of New American Paintings , Laurie received her MFA from the Mt. Royal School at MICA. In her minimal paintings, recently seen alongside a sprawling installation in Destructive Behavior at the Creative Alliance, stark landscapes are plotted with lines that carve out an existential space. www.magnolialaurie.com

STUDIO #5 – Michelle Hagewood
Michelle Hagewood holds a MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and works as a museum educator at the Walters Art Museum.  In a practice largely centered on drawing, Michelle is drawn to forms of architecture and technology that improve, threaten, or co-exist with the natural world.  By combining photography, drawing, and digital media she explores relationships between virtual, natural, and built environments—often delving into their utopic or dystopic potentials. www.michellehagewood.com

STUDIO #6 – Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum
Pamela Sunstrum was born in Mochudi, Botswana and grew up living in Africa and Southeast Asia. Her work alludes to travel as a way of understanding her own shifting, trans-national identity. Sunstrum’s work ranges from drawing and installation to video, projecting a sense of self that is at once immutable and ever-changing. In 2008, Sunstrum exhibited at Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum, the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, NYC’s Rush Arts Gallery, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia. pamelaphatsimosunstrum.com

STUDIO #7 – Rene Treviño
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. www.renetrevino.net

STUDIO #8- Guillaume Pallat
French Photographer Guillaume Pallat has been “embedded” in American and Baltimore culture for much of the past two years, producing images that capture orgies of billboards and other commercial signage, or the stark blue glare of police surveillance equipment. Pallat is a member of the collective Foto Povera, and lives at The Patterson with his wife Juliette Marchand and their 4 year old son, Virgile.