Creative Alliance

A love letter to Baltimore, built on a board.

For today’s BIG Show Art Spotlight, we’re featuring Never Board in Baltimore by Keaton Seal, a mixed media collage made on a reclaimed skateboard deck.

Covered in local stickers, tickets, logos, scraps, and city souvenirs, this piece feels like the contents of a Baltimore junk drawer turned into a shrine. The Aquarium, the library, the Orioles, the Ravens, The Lyric, Dreamers & Make-Believers, AVAM, Bmore Licks, and one very honest declaration: “Baltimore: Actually, I like it.”

Keaton Seal
Never Board in Baltimore
Mixed media collage on a reclaimed skateboard deck
32 x 8.25 in
$60

Available for purchase in The BIG Show, on view now through August 29 at Creative Alliance.

Come spot your favorite Baltimore reference, then take the whole board home.

A little square. A whole weather system of color.

For today’s BIG Show Art Spotlight, we’re looking at String Theory by Cathy Leaycraft, an 8 x 8 inch work made with photocollage and encaustic.

Warm orange gives way to green and blue. Dark triangular forms press in from the edges. A bright yellow shape floats near the surface like a seed, a sail, a signal, or something pulled from a dream. The piece feels suspended between landscape and abstraction, with just enough mystery to keep your eye moving.

Cathy Leaycraft
String Theory
Photocollage and encaustic
8 x 8 in
$185

On view and available for purchase in The BIG Show, Creative Alliance’s annual members’ exhibition, now through August 29.

Small scale. Big pull. Come see it in the gallery and take it home.

Today’s BIG Show spotlight is woven, knotted, layered, and full of quiet tension.

Featured Artwork:
Tim Keating
Decisions
Canvas, rope, cotton, wool, on wood
12 x 24 x 1.5 in
$400

With rope, cotton, wool, and textured strips crossing in every direction, Decisions feels like a map of choices made visible. Soft fibers push against structure. Loose ends interrupt the grid.

This piece is currently on view and available for purchase as part of The BIG Show, Creative Alliance’s annual members’ exhibition, running now through August 29.

Come see it in person. Follow the threads. Make it yours.

Today’s BIG Show spotlight is serving dinner plans, city light, and downtown joy

Featured Artwork:
Lin McNamara
The Sushi Place
Oil on canvas, 29 x 17 in
$825

With the glow and intimacy of a favorite neighborhood spot, The Sushi Place captures that small magic of being out in the world, tucked into a moment, and watching ordinary life become cinematic. It feels warm, familiar, and quietly alive.

This piece is currently on view and available for purchase as part of The BIG Show, Creative Alliance’s annual members’ exhibition, running now through August 29.

Come see it in person. Then maybe make it your next favorite place.

Today’s BIG Show spotlight has horns, shine, stripes, and golden confidence.

Featured Artwork:
Jill Rabbino
The Impala
Wood, paper mache, acrylic paint, gold and rose gold foil, Modge Podge
23 x 34 x 18 in
$2,500

With towering rose-gold horns, a radiant gold backdrop, and a body wrapped in electric bands of color, The Impala turns the classic trophy form into something joyful, strange, and gloriously alive.

This piece is currently on view and available for purchase as part of The BIG Show, Creative Alliance’s annual members’ exhibition, running now through August 29.

Come see it in person. Let it stare you down. Take it home.

Today’s BIG Show spotlight is blooming upward, outward, and very much on its own terms.

Featured Artwork:
Chloe Wroten
Feminine Growth
Acrylic paint, 22 x 28 in
$300

With flowers rising from the figure’s hair, a soft patterned background, and a pose full of strength and self-possession, Feminine Growth feels lush, tender, and powerful.

This piece is currently on view and available for purchase as part of The BIG Show, Creative Alliance’s annual members’ exhibition, running now through August 29.

Come see it in person. Let it grow on you, then take it home.