About

The Studio Visit (TSV) is a non-profit web journal that is vetted and curated by our team and contributors. We have a dedicated focus on contemporary visual artists and their process with the mission to advocate, collaborate and educate by focusing and supporting the importance of studio practice and process.

Started in 2008 as a a virtual public access forum, TSV introduces professional artists at work in their studios, speaking directly to their work through a dialogue with the writer. This intimate first-person view into the artistic process cultivates familiarity and appreciation of the intellectual and technical processes of art making. In 2010, TSV created an Art Critique Series bridging the online community with the physical, further emphasizing our mission of promoting the artist from the ground up – -in the studio – through dialogue and discourse with other artists. Please click on the Press link to read an article about this series.

TSV’s philosophy supports the idea that promoting the artist from the studio perspective leads to greater understanding and appreciation of the artistic process, the role of the artist, and in turn, the art object.

TSV functions as a conduit and serves its audience as a welcoming place in which to discover emerging, mid-career and established contemporary artists. It encourages national and international networking among area artists, art organizations, museums, and galleries as well as with wider ranging global art communities: connecting creators, curators, writers, and patrons while maintaining a collaborative and innovative spirit.

WHO WE ARE

TSV TEAM

Isabel Manalo is a visual artist, curator and educator based in Washington D.C. where her work is represented by Addison Ripley Fine Art. Her work straddles ideas of place, sensation, identity, geography, memory, nature and post-colonial history in the form of photography, painting, collage and drawing. She has taught at American University’s Department of Art for 10 years and serves on the Visual Arts Committee at District of Columbia Arts Center . She is the Founder and the Director/ Editor of TSV.
Victoria Greising is an emerging installation artist in Washington, DC. She works primarily with previously worn clothing and used fabrics. She is intrigued by the link of space and memory, and through her installations creates immersive and captivating environments. She graduated with her MFA from American University, and has exhibited her work both locally and internationally. Tori is, also, yoga teacher in the DC area. She is TSV’s Program Manager.
Champneys Taylor is a painter in Washington, DC. His work has been exhibited in Washington, New York City, Italy, Miami, and Kansas City. He is a Video Editor at TSV.
Joren Lindholm is an artist and writer, working in painting, printmaking and installation. His work is shown regularly in the Washington DC area and within an artist collective in New York City. His recent work is inspired by silk screening techniques and recollections from traveling abroad. He is a Video Editor and writer at TSV
Emily Biondo is an artist and writer living and working in Washington, DC. A recent MFA graduate of American University, her work combines sensory elements of audio, visual, and tactile media to create interactive installations. She is a Video Editor at TSV and will be covering the Baltimore region as a contributing writer.
Metasebia Yoseph is a freelance curator and multimedia artist living in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. in Art History at the University of Maryland – College Park. Metasebia works as the Creative Director for the Muse Collective and is pursuing her Master’s in Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University. She is TSV’s Curatorial Program Associate.

TSV CONTRIBUTORS

Brian Barr is an artist living and working in Detroit, Michigan. His work has been included in the Windsor Biennial at The Art Gallery of Windsor in Canada, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art Biennial, as well as notable galleries and museums in New York, Chicago, St. Louis and Washington D.C. He has been included in two exhibits at The Butchers Daughter Gallery in Detroit, and currently is an adjunct professor of Painting and Drawing at the College for Creative Studies.

Kristina Bilonick is a native Washingtonian who works with screen printing, found objects, video and other mediums to create installations that are often interactive. She sells her own line of screen printed apparel sold in local DC shops and most recently opened up a collaborative work space and studio called Pleasant Plains Workshop.
Lisa Blas Lisa Blas is a visual artist and visiting professor from Los Angeles, California, currently based in Brussels, Belgium. Her work, for which she travels extensively, is based on research in museum collections and historical archives. She utilizes portraiture, still life and site-specificity, in a variety of mediums (painting, photography, video and installation) to reflect upon the visual culture and social history of past and present.
Reuben Breslar is an interdisciplinary artist based in Virginia. His art combines elements of science fiction, biology, and art history to produce both playful and serious lamentations on the subjects of time and evolution. Reuben’s portfolio includes drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, research binders, and happenings.
Jonathan Bucci is an artist and curator living in Salem, Oregon where he works as Collection Curator at the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University. His artwork has been exhibited throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Pacific Northwest. He will be covering the great state of Oregon!
Eric Hope is a writer and curator based in Washington, DC. He was most recently affiliated with the Evolve Urban Arts Project, where he staged a variety of solo, duo and small-group shows aimed at showcasing DC-area artists lacking major gallery representation. He is currently working independently on a variety of artistic pursuits to promote the breadth of artistic creativity found in Washington, DC.
J.W. Mahoney is a Washington-based artist, writer, and independent curator, who serves as Washington’s Corresponding Editor for Art in America. He is currently an Affiliate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, and his work is represented by Curator’s Office, in Washington, where he’ll be exhibiting new work this coming spring 2012.
Heather McCaw is a painter currently working in Navarre, Florida. She has a degree in English literature from Ohio State University and a master’s degree from the American University of Beirut in gender in Contemporary Arab literature. She also studied art at the Columbus College of Art and Design and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. As a painter, McCaw explores visual complexity, paradox, and narrative through still-life arrangements. Her paintings were most recently exhibited at Dacia Gallery in New York City and artDC Gallery in Hyattsville, Maryland. In August 2011, she will be a resident artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia.
Deborah McLeod is an independent writer, curator and now the owner and Director of Chroma Projects Art Lab, a new contemporary art gallery in Charlottesville, VA. She is the former Exhibitions Director at The McLean Project for the Arts and she also wrote for the Baltimore City Paper. She covers the greater Virginia area.
Jiha Moon is an artist whose work is exhibited internationally and is a part of numerous museum collections including the Hirshhorn Museum, the Asia Society in New York, and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. She is represented in Washington D.C. by Curator’s Office, and Saltworks Gallery in Atlanta. Jiha will be writing about artists in the Atlanta area where she currrently lives and works.
Cory Oberndorfer is an artist and professor living in Washington, DC. His paintings, prints and murals are inspired by popular culture and nostalgia. His work is represented by G Fine Art.
Lauren Rice is multi-media artist based in Detroit, MI where she currently teaches at The College for Creative Studies and at Eastern Michigan University. She exhibits her work regularly and most recently a solo show at Transformer Gallery in Washington D.C. She received her MFA in Painting from American University.
Elise Richman is an artist and an Assistant Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. She will be covering the greater Seattle and Tacoma, WA area.
Rachel Sitkinis a painter, curator and writer from Baltimore, MD. Her work was featured in the 2010 New American Paintings MFA Annual. She is a regular contributor for FiberArts Magazine as well as at several Baltimore/DC area art and culture blogs. Rachel currently lives in Lima, Peru where she is conducting research and creating a new body of work.
Molly Springfield is a visual artist and occasional writer who lives and works in Washington, DC. Her work has been the subject of solo shows in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, and included in group shows in museums and galleries across the United States and Europe.