A graduate of the University of Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and wonderful printmaker, Jane Kent works in an abstract idiom. She has been featured in numerous group exhibitions and solo shows in Boston and New York and has collaborated with such noted authors as Richard Ford and Susan Orlean on projects that merge text and image. She lives and works in New York City, and teaches printmaking at the University of Vermont.

An MFA graduate of Yale University, Steve Giovinco’s landscape photographs capture the rich textures and effects of light in different natural settings. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad, and he has been a recipient of a Yaddo Fellowship. He lives and works in New York City.

Ingrid Calame’s linear works are based on stains which she traces from city streets and sidewalks, later transferring the outlines onto her working surface. The tracings are laid over one another, resulting in a multi-layered composition which recalls Abstract Expressionist paintings. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

A graduate from Mount Holyoke College, Jane Hammond uses a diverse array of materials to create her mixed-media works. In addition to drawing directly onto the working surface, she also layers other materials onto the picture in an order dictated by her own instincts and associations. The work featured here is an amalgam of collage, paint, pencil, and other materials, yet retains a sense of intricate linearity. She lives and works in New York City. This particular edition was produced by Pace Prints, a leading fine art print publisher in New York City which has been setting standards for contemporary prints for nearly 40 years.

An Irish-born artist raised and educated in England and the United States, Sean Scully derives his style from the influences of conceptual art. His multi-layered panels of color reveal his affinity toward Minimalism, however the work is also focused acutely on the effects of layering and color juxtapositions. He lives and works in the United States.

Benjamin Edwards’ interest in consumerist culture and its effect on the spaces we inhabit is reflected in his imagined urban landscapes. He creates pictures familiar to the eye, yet original and at times foreboding in their crisp, science-fictionlike tableaux. He lives and works in Washington, DC.

Cedric Smith began his career after a chance meeting with an artist when he was working as a barber in Atlanta, Georgia. He launched his career and began exhibiting work thereafter. A self-taught African-American artist, Smith’s photographs of deliberately placed vintage snapshots which he finds in flea markets, within contemporary settings produce striking visual commentary on race in the South.

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