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IMAGES 2009
Robeson Gallery
HUB-Robeson Center
Penn State Campus
June 10 to July 12, 2009
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday
Extended Hours July 8 to 12.
July 8 to July 11; 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
July 12, noon to 5:00 p.m.
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Images, a juried mid-Atlantic regional exhibition for fine art and fine craft is now in its twentieth first year. Sponsored by the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Images has evolved into a well-respected show for both emerging and established artists. Images 2009 will hang in the Robeson Gallery on Penn State's University Park campus. The show will hang from June 10 to July 12, 2009.
JUROR
The Juror for Images 2009 will be Judith Hansen O'Toole, Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
The Westmoreland Museum of American Art was established as the Woods Marchand Foundation in 1949. The Museum opened its doors to the public in 1959 and its focus became the collection and exhibition of American and southwestern Pennsylvania art.
The Museum assembled a collection of works by significant American artists, concentrating on the mid-18th through the mid-20th centuries, including works by Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer, in addition to its well respected collection of works by southwestern Pennsylvania artists. The Museum has organized many important exhibitions, mostly recently Born of Fire: The Valley of Work, an exhibition focusing on the art, music, and history of Pittsburgh's Big Steel Era, which debuted at the Westmoreland in June 2006 before making its European travelling to Oberhausen, Germany in February 2007.
Holding degrees from the University of Minnesota, and The Pennsylvania State University,
Ms. O'Toole has published in the field of 19th and 20th American art in journals, museum catalogs, and books. Her work on George Luks includes the exhibition catalogs George Luks-Expressionist Master of Color: The Watercolors Rediscovered and George Luks: An American Artist. Columbia University Press published her most recent book, Different Views in Hudson River School Painting, in 2005.
O'Toole is a member of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council and the Pittsburgh Social Innovation Accelerator and has served on many boards and panels.
ESSAY FROM THE JUROR
Like an artist, a juror approaches objects from their own perspective and colored by their own history. Mine includes a stint as an art student at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design before I realized my talents were more suited to art history. I have a deep respect for people who make things. As an art historian, I am interested in 19th century landscape and still-life painting, the Ashcan School, and early 20th century minimalism. I am attracted to luminism and color theory.
As a juror, I look for strong composition, exceptional use of color (or the lack thereof), technical skill, works that are conceptually interesting, thought provoking or contemplative, and honest. I respond to work that stretches or removes boundaries. I do not believe in the separation of craft and “high” art so the coming together, especially in the fabric pieces submitted this year, of formalist and utilitarian (or potentially utilitarian) was wonderful to see. The lack of a good number of sculptors was, as in all exhibitions it seems, disappointing, but those who submitted works were strong. The abundance of 2-dimensional pieces was both invigorating and daunting.
My goal was to create an exhibition that is diverse in style and medium yet fundamentally cohesive in vision. Just as I choose a variety of styles and objects to live with within the sphere of my taste, experience and respect for objects, so have I tried to put together works for the visitors to this exhibition to enjoy.
Many thanks to all who participated.
Judith H. O’Toole
April 2009
2009 Images Winners |
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Best in Show
Catherine Day
McLean, VA
Ewell’s Funeral twisting figure
Revington Arthur Award for Excellence in Painting
Stephen March
Spring Grove, PA
Untitled (Paper Mill)
William D. Davis Award in Drawing
Barbara Metzner
State College, PA
In The Past
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Awards of Merit
Sandra Fine
New York, NY
Chinese Gallery #5
Christopher Wagner
Erie, PA
Finding Ones Legs Gone but Arms Long
James Gwynne
East Stroudsburg, PA
Morning Sky
Dominie Nash
Bethesda, MD
Stills From a life 30
Gordon Wenzel
Danville, PA
Confluence |
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2009 Images Artists |
Darryl Abraham
Naples, NY
Doves
mixed media
17 x 23
Night Stand
mixed media
28 x 17
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Leonette Adler
Virginia Beach, VA
The Pasture
oil painting
30 x 36
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Hope Alcorn
Pittsburgh, PA
Fuzzy Caterpillar
acrylic on industrial wool
36 x 47
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Jennifer Andrews
Astoria, NY
White Well
oil on linen
47 x 75
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| Amy Beeler
Oregon, OH
A Necklace for Jennifer
Sterling Silver
9 x 8
Eva's Fruit
sterling silver, freshwater pearls
11 x 7
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Augusto Bordelois
Berea, OH
They did what they had to do
oil on canvas
48 x 60
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Nancy Brassington
Bellefonte, PA
PA Houses
oil
44 x 66
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Carol Brooks
State College, PA
Nicole
photography
8 x 10
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Nancy Bruce
Yorktown, VA
Dry Well
mixed reclaimed paper
48 x 36
Straight & Narrow
mixed reclaimed paper
40 x 36
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Kathleen Burk
Ebensburg, PA
Triple Grid
colored pencil drawing
33 x 33
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 Catherine Day
McLean, VA
BEST IN SHOW
Ewell's Funeral, twisting figure
digital pigment print on fabric
33 x 36
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Marty Edmunds
Boalsburg, PA
"Aftermath"
oil on canvas
40 x 30
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|  Sandra Fine
New York, NY
Award of Merit
Chinese Gallery #5
pigment ink print
18 x 31
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Jonathan Gibson
Cincinnati, OH
Carrier #1
digital paper collage
48 x 40
Ascender #2
Digital Paper Collage
48 x 40
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Linda Goschke
Philadelphia, PA
Meadowlark (171)
photograph
10.25 x 17.5
Orange Rose 2
photographic digital capture
15 x 12
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 James Gwynne
East Stroudsburg, PA
Award of Merit
Morning Sky
oil on canvas
70 x 65
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David Hammaker
East Freedom, PA
North Star Laundry
Archival Pigment Print
22 x 30
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Sarah Harvey
State College, PA
\"My Country \
artist book
7 x 7
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Passle Helminski
Erie, PA
Forte
Tubular Knit
31 x 23
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Tom Hlas
Philadelphia, PA
Distant Thought
Acrylic on Wood Panel
8 x 8
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E Joan Horrocks
State College, PA
untitled
photograph
18 x 14
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Alison Howard-Levy
New York, NY
Street Fair - from the Truck
Archival inkjet print
16 x 21
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Robert Hunter
ColonialBeach, VA
The Glory that was Rome
Printing,Water Color,Colored Pencil, Ink
9 x 9
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Ruth Kempner
State College, PA
Suspensions
Mixed
14 x 11
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Sharon Lee
Port Matilda, PA
Thought Bubbles
acrylic on organic cotton canvas
38 x 38
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 Stephen March
Spring Grove, PA
Revington Arthur Award
for Excellence in Painting
Untitled (Paper Mill)
acrylic on canvas
32 x 72
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Darcy Meeker
Blacksburg, VA
Picasso Sister (AL)
hand tooled aluminum, oils
15 x 11
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 Barbara Metzner
State College, PA
William D. Davis Award in Drawing
In The Past
Charcoal & Pastel
22 x 30
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Nancy Moldofsky
Worcester, PA
As the Nights Grow Longer
Photography
19 x 26
Zacharias Creek
Mixed Media/Photography
19 x 26
Five Ancient Elements
Mixed Media
20 x 54
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 Dominie Nash
Bethesda, MD
Award of Merit
Stills From a life 30
fabric collage
79 x 79
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Thomas Norulak
Pittsburgh, PA
Roots and Branches
Etching
11 x 14
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Carol Oldenburg
York, PA
Atlanta Garden
Oil on Paper
30 x 40
Yellow Fields
pastel
38 x 30
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John Pacer
Allentown, PA
Nuclear Family
Oil on Canvas
28 x 28
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Peter Pepe
Boalsburg, PA
Understanding Front View
oak, walnut, metal, concrete
32 x 15
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| Terri Perpich
Vandergrift, PA
Vessel of Vessels
mixed media fiber
20 x 20
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Judith Plotner
Gloversville, NY
River Notes
Fiber Collage
25 x 51
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Shawn Quinlan
Pittsburgh, PA
Look, Dick. Look, Jane
Fiber/Quilt
37 x 47
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Sue Reno
Columbia, PA
Cold Cave
Fiber
34 x 38
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| Harriet Rosenberg
Boalsburg, PA
Homegirl 3
digital photography
20 x 16
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Alan Spevak
Millville, PA
Wind
digital photography
11 x 14
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| Bernadette Stillo
Philadelphia, PA
Silly Sally Spiral 'N Spout
Stoneware clay
12 x 13
African Rhythms Candle vessel
Terra Cotta Clay
10 x 4.5
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Danielle Stingu
Brooklyn, NY
Apprehension
Digital C-Print
40 x 40
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| Stuart Thompson
Whitney, PA
Moab: Land of the Arches
oil on canvas
24 x 30
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Nora Thompson
Whitney, PA
The Song Came and Went
Acrylic on canvas
21 x 17
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James Thurman
University Park, PA
Tectonic Plate 06-0803C detail
digital print
14 x 19
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Mare Vaccaro
New York, NY
Gray Ghost
photograph-digital c-print
16 x 20
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|  Christopher Wagner
Erie, PA
Award of Merit
Finding Ones Legs Gone but Arms Long
Driftwood, glass beads, milkpaint, and encaustic
9 x 25
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 Gordon Wenzel
Danville, PA
Award of Merit
Confluence
Giclee print on canvas
24 x 72
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