About the Artists

The artists behind Real Gallery are a collective of emerging and established creators exploring reality and authenticity through material, form, and story. Their works range from sculpture, ceramic, collage, and everything in-between, all imbued with love and meaning.

Meet the Collective

Bria Sterling-Wilson

Baltimore-based photographer and collage artist whose vibrant, mixed-media works combine found imagery and textiles to explore the depth and diversity of the Black experience.

Kari Miller

Baltimore-based designer, printer, and entrepreneur whose vibrant letterpress work through Tiny Dog Press reflects her passion for color, community, and creativity.

Claire Whitehurst

Philadelphia-based painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose work draws from the landscapes of the deep South to explore queer space, religious iconography, and the interplay between image and object through vibrant form and color.

Nora Talbott

Towson-based sculptor whose work spans wood, fabric, ceramic, and found materials, creating pieces that range from playful forms like oversized ceramic thumbs to introspective, life-sized houses she can fit inside—each reflecting different stages of her life and her evolving sense of self.

Se Jong Cho

Blending her backgrounds in art and environmental science, this Baltimore-based painter explores the intersections of science, memory, and identity, using her work to bridge emotional and analytical ways of understanding the world and to inspire dialogue around pressing social and ecological issues.

Kelly Irvine

Blending inspiration from the Washington Color School with experimental staining techniques, this Baltimore painter creates vibrant, abstract color field works that explore the interplay of layered hues, contrast, and translucency to immerse viewers in dynamic, luminous visual experiences.