I like unusual and this work for the 2025 Women Artists of the DMV is that...

I've curated over 200 group art shows in the DC area since the mid 90s, and my formula for group shows is essentially nearly always the same, and a proven, successful, and bordering on brilliant technique: 

• the group show is a pyramid of artists at various points in their artistic career and development - blue chip, well-known artists; 
• a large set of well-known, mid career artists; 
• and the pyramid's wide and powerful base: a set of young (not simply in age, but perhaps also in artistic age - think of a 95 year-old artist who just started painting five years ago) artists who need the exposure and push that a well-attended, widely publicized, and wildly successful art show offers their young careers.

I was first seduced by Jenny Kanzler's work when I came across it at last year's Artomatic.  It stood out as different from the thousands and thousands of paintings at that fabulous show, which is a very unique accomplishment.  She will be one of the big hits of the 2025 Women Artists of the DMV survey show.

Prepare to be seduced and behold "Goat Girls - Sunday Afternoon," c. 2024, Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches.

Goat Girls - Sunday Afternoon
by Jenny Kanzler
c. 2024 Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches