Cathy Abramson

Cathy Abramson maintains a studio at Artists & Makers Studios 1 in Rockville, MD, and she is a gallery artist at District Arts, a commercial gallery in Frederick, MD. In 2018, she participated in The Doors of Make Room and was featured in a segment on WUSA9 about low income housing and art. In 2017, she completed a three-year program in traditional painting techniques at the Compass Atelier in Rockville. In 2016, she was listed as a Finalist in the Portraits/Figures category of The Artist’s Magazine Annual Art Competition. She spent most of her career working as Art Director for NOVA Research Company where she designed publications and exhibits for the National Institutes of Health. In 2005, she illustrated Wild Washington: Animal Sculptures A to Z, and in 1997, Simple Secrets of Parenting: Easy as ABC. For a number of years, she co-owned Grapevine Graphics, a local graphic design firm. She began her career in graphic design and editorial illustration, working as the art director for The Washington Monthly, a political magazine. She has been exhibiting in solo and juried shows throughout the Mid-Atlantic region for the past 25 years and has work in many public and private collections.