Baker Artist Portfolios

Bridget Z. Sullivan is an artist, gallerist, and educator whose work explores nature and the urban environment through a mix of digital photography, drawing, and painting. She exhibits in solo and group shows at venues such as Adkins Arboretum and Academy Art Museum on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; Hamilton Gallery, MaxGallery, MAP, School 33, and Gossip Girl Collective in Baltimore, Maryland; Blackrock Art Center in Germantown, Maryland; and WomanKraft Gallery in Tucson, Arizona. She has served as a National Park Service Artist-in-Residence in Acadia National Park and Catoctin Mountain Park and received three Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Grants. Sullivan also leads as president (since 2012) and curatorial director (since 2013) of the Hamilton Arts Collective | Hamilton Gallery in Baltimore.

Her creative process begins with meditative photography walks, capturing the essence of natural and urban environments. Sullivan’s work merges rich photographic imagery with painterly additions of color, text, and gesture, creating a dynamic interplay between digital precision and tactile mark-making. Her pieces reflect themes of life, death, health, and illness, encouraging viewers to engage with the deeper implications of their surroundings. Sullivan’s methods combine traditional and contemporary tools, blending digital imagery with materials like graphite, acrylic, gouache, and encaustic to produce evocative, layered artworks.