Bridget Z. Sullivan

Work samples

Libero - from the series "Obstructed"

Libero, archival pigment print, acrylic, graphite, charcoal, pastel on fine art paper, 24 x 24 inches
Commission - from the series "Obstructed"

Commission, archival pigment print, acrylic, graphite, oil pastel on fine art paper, 24 x 24 inches
Most fortunate - from the series "For Our Sake"

Most fortunate, archival pigment print, acrylic, graphite, and pastel on fine art paper, 12 x 12 inches
Pax from the series For Our Sake

Pax, archival pigment print, acrylic, graphite, oil pastel on fine art paper, 12 x 12 inches

About Bridget

As an artist, gallerist and educator Bridget Z. Sullivan actively creates and presents her artwork, presents the artwork of other artists and investigates and invents new methods of art making using contemporary tools in her art practice. Sullivan exhibits in solo and group exhibitions including exhibits at MaxGallery, School 33 Art Center, MAP, Load of Fun Gallery, Make Studio, and Jordan Faye Contemporary all in Baltimore, Maryland; Blackrock Art Center, Germantown, MD, Greenbelt Art… more

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Hamilton Arts Collective | Hamilton Gallery - President and Curatorial Director

Since 2012 Bridget Z. Sullivan has served as the President of Hamilton Arts Collective and as the Curatorial Director of Hamilton Gallery, a 501.3c non-profit art education center located in the Hamilton-Lauraville Mainstreet commercial district in NE Baltimore. Leading a collective of 20+ artists on a volunteer basis, Bridget curates and installs 10 exhibitions annually, while serving as the gallery publicist, HAC administrator, and organization grant writer. Bridget's commitment as a HAC|HG volunteer is a demonstration of her commitment to Baltimore artists, the Baltimore art community and the neighborhoods of Hamilton-Lauraville in NE Baltimore where she and her family have been residents for over 30 years.

Hamilton Gallery is a cooperative gallery, artist operated, with bi-monthly exhibitions featuring the works of members as well as a bi-monthly guest artist and group exhibitions. Hamilton Gallery exhibits and supports fine art and fine crafts. The gallery maintains an active membership of local artists, and screens for new members on a rolling deadline basis. Hamilton Gallery supports both artists with a developed body of work, and emerging artists seeking to foster their artistic practice and to begin their careers. Hamilton Gallery artist members enjoy the right to guide gallery policies and participate in their exhibitions.

In 2023 Bridget wrote and HAC|HG was awarded 2 Maryland State Arts Council Creativity grants which funded 2 significant group exhibitions: Painted: Contemporary Realism in Maryland
curated by Grace Doyle October 2023 and Baltimore Assemblage and Collage: piece work and industry curated by Schroeder Cherry, Ed.D. April 2023. With grant funds Bridget designed and printed catalogs for these exhibitions.

The exhibition catalogs can be viewed here:

Painted: Contemporary Realism in Maryland curated by Grace Doyle

Baltimore Assemblage and Collage: piece work and industry curated by Schroeder Cherry, Ed.D

Hamilton Arts Collective | Hamilton Gallery is 100% volunteer run. HAC members enjoy each other and have fun exhibiting in the space. All are welcome!

view the HAC|HG website - www.hamiltonarts.org

Hamilton Arts Collective | Hamilton Gallery

panoramic view of Hamilton Gallery
Annual Student Art Exhibit

Annual Student Art Exhibition: Every March for 17 years Hamilton Gallery had hosted an exhibition featuring 7 neighborhood schools and home schooled kid's art K-12.
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Guest Artist Opening Reception held on the First Saturday of every month. Artists' Receptions held on the Third Sunday of every month.
Baltimore Assemblage: piece work and industry

Hamilton Gallery exhibition catalog for Baltimore Assemblage: piece work and industry

featuring guest artists: Ram Brisueno, Donald Edwards, Mary Opasik, Gina Pierleoni

featuring HAC artists: Jude Asher, Schroeder Cherry - curator, Linda Popp, Maxine Taylor and HAC artist members

Hamilton Arts Collective | Hamilton Gallery
May 5 – June 25, 2023
Artists' Reception Hamilton Gallery

Artist receptions are held on the third Sunday of the month. Guest artists and artists often speak about their work to visitors attending the reception.
Painted: Contemporary Realism in Maryland

Hamilton Gallery exhibition catalog for Painted: Contemporary Realism in Maryland

featuring artists: Lauren Petrick Brooks, Grace Doyle - curator, Temi Wynston Edun, Barbara Epstein Gruber, Matt Klos, Patrick Kluga, Ed Praybe, Cody Pryseski, Cindy Rivarde, Andrew Thorp and Keith Weaver

Hamilton Arts Collective | Hamilton Gallery
October 6 – October 29, 2023
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Artists' Reception at Hamilton Gallery.

For Our Sake

At the start of the pandemic I walked my neighborhood in NorthEast Baltimore for exercise and sanity. The walks evoked memories from different times in my life. The COVID pandemic began to turn the local, very local, environment into my subject and process of art making. My walks continued to reveal gems – natural and human made.

Through the fall and winter of 2020 I continued the daily walks. Only heavy rain or high winds kept me from walking. I found myself photographically foraging in my neighborhood. The varied and unique garages caught my eye. The garages became symbolic of memories and of the people from my past. Many of the garages are original to the homes and still have the materials used 50-80 years ago to build them. Their age and varying states of decay remind me of the garages from various times in my life.

Starting in fall of 2020 I began producing portraits of the garages, collecting them like mushrooms or insects. A garage is often a forgotten structure but steadfast and essential in their service to a home. Each of the garages tell a unique story. Through the work I reflect on the visual and symbolic significance of the subjects as they relate to my personal investigation of life and decay and the human experience as realized in health and illness.

That is what I call good company

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches
Sisters

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches
Send a picture of Mother

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches
I might be able to talk about it more

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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Like a Greek face pure in outline

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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For Our Sake

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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Battered but not Diminished

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

24 x 24 inches
Pax

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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Ride

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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Quick sighted to everyone's merits

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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Obstructed

In this body of work I investigate the frailty of life and health through meditative representations of Nature carrying on in life, death and rebirth. Field sites include North Rim of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, Schoodic Peninsula and Mount Desert Island, Maine. The media includes an archival pigment print with acrylic inks, oil pastel and graphite on fine art paper.

cleanse

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches
cauterized

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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Libero

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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Nook

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

24 x 24 inches

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Mollify

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

12 x 12 inches

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Pernicious

archival pigment print, gouache, acrylic, graphite, pastel on fine art paper

24 x 24 inches
Obstructed - from the series "Obstructed"

Obstrcuted, archival pigment print, acrylic, graphite, oil pastel on fine art paper, 24 x 24 inches

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Bridget Z. Sullivan with her artwork at Blackrock Art Center, Germantown, Maryland

Holdfast

This body of work originates with my time spent on Schoodic peninsula on the Atlantic coastline of Maine in 2014. I was selected to work as an Artist in Residence at the Schoodic Institute, a science and nature center, located in Acadia National Park, Maine.

Jordan - from the series "Holdfast"

Jordan, archival pigment print, oil pastel on fine art paper, 20 x 24 inches
Prospect

Prospect - archival pigment print, oil paint on Arches oil paper, 12 x 12 inches
Holdfast

Holdfast - archival pigment print, oil pastel on fine art paper, 24 x 20 inches
Little Moose

Little Moose - archival pigment print, oil pastel on fine art paper, 20 x 24 inches

Viewshed

Continuing with the investigation of Natural surroundings as refuge these works represent my continued study of sanctuary. Images a derived from field experiences at Cylburn Arboretum (Baltimore City), Adkins Arboretum (adjacent to Tuckahoe State Park, Maryland), and Catoctin Mountain Park (North of Fredrick, Maryland).

Lauraceae

archival pigment print with pastel on fine art paper 11x17”, 2013
Notch

archival pigment print with pastel on fine art paper 11x11”, 2014
Oak

archival pigment print with pastel on fine art paper 11x11”, 2014
Trout's Lair

archival pigment print with pastel on fine art paper 24x40”, 2013
Clyburn

archival pigment print with pastel on fine art paper 24x40”, 2014
Viewshed

archival pigment print with pastel on fine art paper 24x40”, 2014
Hierarchies

archival pigment print with pastel on fine art paper 24x40”, 2014

Ransomed

In the summer of 2012 I was selected to serve as the Artist in Residence at Catoctin National Park and Cunningham Falls State Park in the Catoctin Mountain area of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Maryland. My AIR National Park residency work focused on the flora and geology of the two parks. I spent my residency photographing in the parks, printing and drawing. I also presented two public interpretive demonstrations of my art making process. This body of work was featured in the solo exhibition entitled "Ransomed" installed August - September 2013 at Delaplaine Art Center in Frederick, Maryland. The Catoctin Mountains are 20 miles North of Frederick near Thurmont, Maryland.

Owens Creek, II

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 11x11", 2013
Trout's Lair

archival pigment print with pastel on fine art paper 24x40”, 2013
assage

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 17x11", 2012
Symbiotic Intention

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 24x20", 2013
Walk in the Woods

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 20x24", 2013
Witness

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 24x20", 2013
Rife

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 24x20", 2012
Gaping Maw

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 24x20", 2013
View

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 24x20", 2013
Vital Stain, II

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 20x24", 2013

Nature | Nurture: photographic pigment prints with pastel drawing

The "Nature|Nurture" body of work is represented in photographic mixed media pigment prints on view in this project presentation and also in the group of encaustic paintings presented in the next project.

Nature|Nurture Artist's Statement
I praise my children as they notice the minutiae in Nature, 'good eyes' I say. The skill of observation is being lost... I notice it in myself. I think I understand a place, yet when I arrive and spend time searching for details, I am most often surprised by what I learn. The subtle detail of life and death passes and we do not notice the treasures we trample or pass by. Through close observation I search for life and meaning in my surrounding environment. Our survival on Earth depends on our willingness to know and value the yeomen of Nature who live out their lives filtering the bay, decomposing the forest, and providing oxygen and food for our nourishment. Through my work I construct larger than life views of Nature using photography and scanography. It is only through careful study that all integral parts of Nature are revealed.

into the shadowland

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 18x15", 2011
mollified

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 21x24", 2011
sacrifice

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 24x21", 2011
bittersweet

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 24x21", 2011
arcade

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 18x15", 2011
low point

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 18x15", 2011
explorer's refuge

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 11x17", 2010
gift

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 21x24", 2011
slough it off

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 21x24", 2011
mitigation

archival pigment print, pastel, fine art paper 21x24", 2011

Watershed - photographic pigment prints with pastel drawing

Watershed represents a collection of images filtered through my close observation and presented in a form reminiscent of a naturalist?s journal. The resulting mixed media work represents my search for meaning through the observation of life around me. I create intimate views of nature using photography and scanography, and then draw and write directly on the large digital prints with water based pastels.

diptych: shoemakers' secret

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 40 x 28", 2009
edge of the storm, diptych

archival pigment print, fine art paper 28 x 40", 2009
coalesced here

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 12 x 36", 2010
identical syntactic constructions

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 12 x 36", 2010
remember me the way

archival pigment print, fine art paper 12 x 36", 2009
diptych: meet the darkness

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 40 x 28", 2009
diptych: plenty for all

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 28 x 40", 2009

Matter of Degree - photographic pigment prints with pastel dawing

Nature sustains infinite views of life and death. At every turn Nature is home to creatures out of human sight yet nonetheless essential to the ecological system. Far beyond our perceptions exist the yeomen of Nature, filtering the bay, decomposing the forest, and providing oxygen for us to breathe and food for our nourishment.

In the Matter of Degree body of work I search for evidence of these relationships and recount the significance of the minutiae in my mixed media digital images.

triptych: food for some

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 12 x 36", 2008
lessons II

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 12 x 36", 2008
Lessons I

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 12 x 36", 2008
holding close

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 12 x 36", 2008
it tickles

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 12 x 36", 2008
diptych: walking

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 24 x 36", 2008
lessons I

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 12 x 28", 2008
diptych: yoeman's legacy

archival pigment print, fine art paper, pastel 24 x 36", 2008

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