Claire D'Alba

Claire D’Alba is an Assistant Curator with Art in Embassies at the United States Department of State.  She has worked both on temporary and on permanent exhibitions, including recent projects in Morocco, Gaborone, Tallinn, Beijing, Kigali, Panama, and Nicaragua.  Before joining the State Department, Claire completed her Master of Arts Degree at the University of Virginia, where she was the Assistant Director of the University’s Fayerweather Gallery.  She received her Bachelor of Arts from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Prior to her current position, she worked in philanthropic consulting at Campbell & Company and at the National Gallery of Art.

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ELIZABETH KENDALL
Vienna, VA

Cercana
2011
Ceramic
22” x 22” x 5”
Courtesy of the Artist
Retail Price: $1,500
Reserve Price: $700

EDUCATION:
MA, Smith College, Northampton, MA, 1983
 
SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
Strauss Fellowship, 2008
National Council on the Education of Ceramic Arts, Emerging Artist, 2007
 
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
Chroma Projects Art Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA, 2010
Cross MacKenzie Gallery, Washington, DC, 2010
Yixing Ceramics Museum, Yixing, PR China, 2005
The International Ceramic Center, Skaelskor, Denmark, 2003

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MAGNOLIA LAURIE
Baltimore, MD

A Desire to Communicate
2008
Oil on panel
18" x 18"
Courtesy of the Artist
Retail Price: $1,600
Reserve Price: $900

EDUCATION:
MFA, Mount Royal School of Art, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2007
PBA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, 2004
BA, Cum Laude, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, 1998

SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
Hamiltonian Artist Fellow, So Hamiltonian Artists, 2009-10
Bethesda Painting Award, Bethesda, MD, 2009
Individual Artist Grant, Creative Baltimore Fund, BOPA
Vermont Studio Center Residency Grant, MICA, 2007

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
Holding up, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC, 2010
Ground dwelling, York College of PA, York, PA, 2010
New Works: Magnolia Laurie, Hamiltonian Gallery, DC, 2010
Sticks and Stones, DRWR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2009

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PEPA LEON
Washington, DC

Untitled
2007
Mixed media on canvas
56” x 54”
Courtesy of the Artist and Reyes + Davis
Retail Price: $3,800
Reserve Price: $3,500

EDUCATION:
Parsons School for Design, NY
Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
Reyes + Davis Independent, Washington, DC, solo exhibition, 2010
Reyes + Davis Gallery, group show, 2009
Boston Properties, Jean Efron, Reyes + Davis, solo exhibition, 2009
Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, group show, 2008

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ISABEL MANALO
St. Louis, MO

Squiddy
2010
Photos, acrylic, and latex on mylar
40” x 40”
Courtesy of the Artist and Addison/Ripley Fine Art
Retail Price: $2,000
Reserve Price: $950

EDUCATION:
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT 1999
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1993
BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Madison, WI, 1990

SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Fellowship Award, 2008, 2009
New American Paintings, Juried Publication, 2004, 2006

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
U.S. Embassy in Bosnia, Collection Sarajevo, Bosnia, 2009
Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC, 2009
U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2007
U.S. Embassy in Nepal, Katmandu, Nepal, 2006

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KIMBERLY MANFREDI
Baltimore, MD

Galactic Soup (detail)
2010
Oil and drilling on wood
32” x 90”
Courtesy of the Artist and C. Grimaldis Gallery
Retail Price: $6,500
Reserve Price: $4,000

EDUCATION:
MFA, Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA, Baltimore, MD, 2009
BFA, Painting, MICA, cum laude, Baltimore, MD, 1988

SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
VCCA, Artists Residency, Amherst, VA, 2010 
Walter and Janet Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist, 2008, 2010
Nominee, DCCA Biennial Exhibit, 2009

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
Cells and Stars, New Paintings, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2010
185th Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy Museum, New York, 2010
Art Miami, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Miami, FL, 2009
Options 2009, WPA, Washington, DC, 2009

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JACLYN MEDNICOV
Chicago, IL

Earthed Fragments
2008
Acrylic and pen on paper
26” x 31”
Courtesy of the Artist
Retail Price: $1,250
Reserve Price: $950

EDUCATION:
BFA, University of Kansas, KS, 1999
Study Abroad, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1998
Summer Drawing Program, Parson's School of Design, New York, NY, 1997
Summer Drawing Program, Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 1996

SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
Residency, Vermont Studio Center, 2007
Television, Wanna B Productions, featured sculpture, 2005
Television, Six Feet Under, featured sculpture, 2005
Valley Institute of Visual Arts juried show, Los Angeles, CA, 2001

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
Studio 571, Chelsea, NY, 2010
Mixed Greens, Chelsea, NY, 2010
JK Gallery, Culver City, CA, 2009
Hangar Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2009

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EMILY SARTOR
Ancramdale, NY

Eastern Bluebirds
2010
Oil on canvas
32” x 42”
Courtesy of the Artist
Retail Price: $4,500
Reserve Price: $2,000

EDUCATION:
MFA, Painting, Pratt Institute, New York, 2002
BFA, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, 1998
University of Georgia in Cortona, Italy, 1996

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
Prospect 1.5, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2010
Massimo Audiello, New York, 2007
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, 2006
Massimo Audiello, New York, 2005

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JENNY SIDHU MULLINS
Washington, DC

Live Together, Die Alone
2009
Water-based medium on stretched paper
60” x 48”
Courtesy of the Artist
Retail Price: $2,200
Reserve Price: $1,900

EDUCATION:
MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, 2009
BFA, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, 2007

SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
Fulbright Fellowship Award, India, 2010
Hoffberger Graduate Fellowship Award, 2007
Micheal Frary Endowed Scholarship, 2006

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC, 2010, 2011
Options 2009, WPA, Washington, DC, 2009
Reyes and Davis Gallery, Washington, DC, 2009
Rosenburg Gallery, Baltimore, MD, 2008

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BETSY STEWART
Washington, DC

Natales No. 3 (River Suite)
2010
Acrylic and sumi ink on canvas
10” x 80” x 3 ½”
Courtesy of the Artist
Retail Price: $6,900
Reserve Price: $4,000

EDUCATION:
BA, American University, Washington, DC

SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
Juror’s Award, “Mid-Atlantic New Painting Biennial,” 2010
Fellowship Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 2003, 2004
Don Haug Memorial Award for Painting, Chautauqua Institute, 2000
Juror’s Award, Lake Placid Center for the Arts, 1998

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

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SOONAE TARK 49
New York, NY

Glorious!!
2008
Acrylic on canvas
30” x 30”
Courtesy of the Artist
Retail Price: $5,000
Reserve Price: $4,250

EDUCATION:
MFA, Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France, 1995 
BFA, Dongduk Women’s University, Seoul, Korea, 1990

SELECTED AWARDS/ GRANTS/ FELLOWSHIPS:
Selected New York City MTA, Arts for Transit Commission, 2009
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, New York, NY, 2009
New York City Percent for Art Commission, 2007
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY, 2007, 2001

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ COLLECTIONS:
U.S. Embassy, Seoul, Korea, 2009- Present
Gallery 135, Hudson, New York, 2010
Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA, 2010
OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY, 2008