CURRENT EXHIBITION
Earth,Wind, &.Fire
Apr10–May24
Apr 10–May 24
Earth, Wind & Fire National Show Juried by Carl Belz
Sponsored by Image Resolutions, Inc.
National show of themed works selected by Rose Museum of Art Director Emeritus, Carl Belz
Dillon Gallery: Spring Forward—Dana Barunas, Rita Berkowitz, Andrew Kusmin, Christine Pienciak Peters, Karen Pinard
OPENING RECEPTION: April 10, 6–8 pm
| Participating Artists—see below for Prizes and Juror Comments | ||
| Susan Ahearn Rita Barbano Kevin Belanger Bart Blumberg Michael Brown Gary Carlson Elizabeth Carter Keith Conforti Jean Connolly Nancy Connolly Donald Cooper Pamela DeJong Bud DeLory Susan Denniston Mark Dierker Russell duPont James Ear |
Jack Foley Drew Gaffney Susan Gallagher Darlene Gillan Law Hamilton Andrew Howard Ginger Jensen Dave Kendrick Angela Kleis Jennifer Langhammer Dana Levine Carolyn Kami Loughlin Rhonda Melo Claudine Metrick Filipe Miguel Frank Moccaldi |
Bruce Muirhead Paul Murray Camille Neville Terri Nickerson Petrea Noyes Karie O’Donnell Thomas Pickarski Beverly Rippel Edward Shmunes Karen Shulman Billy Tackett Paul Theriault Alix White Patricia White Timothy Wilson Carol Wontkowski |
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etching, 22 x 18 in $500
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mixed media, 18 x 18 in $1200
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JUROR'S COMMENTS
1st Prize: Godzilla, Billy Tackett— Godzilla’s enjoyed many incarnations since his cinematic appearance in 1954, but none as singularly appealing as this highly accomplished, colorful portrait. I was totally surprised and floored by it, even made to forget momentarily the monster’s devastating atomic breath.
2nd Prize: Gravity of Fire, Drew Gaffney—Abstract art bespeaks freedom, for artist and viewer alike, but the best of it recognizes that freedom meaningfully exists only within limitations, thus the balance between spontaneity and order in this painting. As in life, so in art.
3rd Prize: Hull Windmill, Darlene Gillan—It’s said that a good picture is worth a thousand words. In front of this one, I found myself thinking, “How much for one that says it all?”
AWARDS OF MERIT
Wild Wind, Elizabeth Carter - Seasoned art lovers sometimes worry, they think today’s artists don’t know how to draw. I chose this drawing to suggest they think again.
Striped Smokestacks, Bruce Muirhead - This bleak and forbidding yet compelling industrial landscape would provide a perfect setting for a bleak and forbidding yet compelling Joyce Carol Oates short story.
Into the Day, Beverly Rippel - A new day welcomes us with radiant light and color, its spread warmly embracing us, its promise signaled palpably in the white at its heart.
Red Sea White Wave, Patricia White - Is that white wave also a cloud or a mountain? And that red sea, are those sailboats upon it? The abstract and the real here combine,
each ambiguous, each holding our attention.
HONORABLE MENTION
Fire Light, Susan Ahearn
Wine Country, Bart Blumberg
Birches, Maine, Russell DuPont
Sunset at White Sands, Andrew Howard
Broken Umbrella, Angela Kleis
Jetty, Jennifer Langhammer
Locust, Filipe Miguel
Earth, Petrea Noyes
Hills and Caves of Ice, Thomas Pickarski
Forest Fire, Montana, Timothy Wilson
May 29–Jul 12
Dynamic Conversations—curated by Chris Rifkin
Fine craft furniture paired with distinctive two-dimensional works
Dillon Gallery: Gallery Artist Showcase
OPENING RECEPTION: May 29, 6–8 pm