IMAGES 2008
As is almost always the case with juried group shows, the work in Images 2008 is extremely diverse. People will see everything from traditional landscape painting and figurative painting to nonobjective abstraction to a wide range of photography to fiber art. That's the obvious thing that people can expect -- something for everyone's taste in media or subject matter.
But, speaking from the point of view of the juror, the work in Images 2008 is more impressive than I have found in other exhibitions of this nature. Because I try not to channel a particular point of view or make the selection of works conform to my own interests, hopefully the selected work reflects the wide range of the overall entries and therefore reflects the diverse nature of the art that's being made in the mid-Atlantic region right now.
There is a thread of heartfelt narrative running through the exhibition, and this is the aspect that most interests me, especially given the fact that the work overall is formally sophisticated. Viewers can see that these artists are expressing in visually inventive ways their encounters with human experiences such as the poignancy of place, home, natural environments and humanly constructed ones, visual and psychological patterns, and human relationships of love, loss, and social history. [Click here to read Dinah Ryan's Essay about the works.]
Dinah Ryan
Staunton, Virginia
June 10, 2007
Robeson Gallery, HUB-Robeson Center
June 11 – July 13
Tuesday – Saturday 11 AM to 3 PM
Sunday-Monday Closed
Extended Hours during the Festival
Wednesday, July 9 through Saturday, July 12 10 AM to 6 PM
Sunday, July 13 noon to 5 PM
Images accepts works in ceramic, fiber, and paper, in addition to the traditional fine art categories of drawings, painting, mixed media, photography, printmaking, watercolor, and sculpture. Artists must have their primary residence in Pennsylvania, one of the adjacent states, Virginia or the District of Columbia. While exhibition is regional in scope, it is a very large region. In fact, it includes over twenty percent of the population of the United States.
The works in Images 2008, our mid-Atlantic regional fine art and fine craft exhibition, will be selected by our juror, Dinah Ryan, the Director of the Staniar Gallery at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
Images 2008 is open to artists living in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Work entered in exhibition is to be no more than three years old.
Ms. Ryan is an art critic, curator, and writer with an interdisciplinary practice. In addition to serving as the director of the Staniar Gallery, she also directs Washington and Lee’s visiting artists program.
In 2005, she co-curated Adaptation Syndrome, an exhibition at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and the Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. This exhibition examined how painters respond in an era when almost anyone can create an arresting visual image.
Prior to joining the Art Department at Washington and Lee, she was on the English faculty at Principia College, where she established the track in creative writing in the English major.
Ms. Ryan holds the Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Virginia and has been a contributing editor for Art Papers Magazine since 1990. She contributes frequently to such publications as Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, ArtLies!, The New Art Examiner, and Fiberarts and serves frequently as a panelist, curator, and juror.
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Five Awards of Merit
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Best of Show
Revington Arthur Award for Excellence in Painting 
William D. Davis Award in Drawing
Viewers' Choice Award
Thomas Norulak
Nancy Middlebrook
Mary Vollero
Rebecca Swanson
Stephen March
Leonette Adler
Leonette Adler
Joel Anderson
Sofia Austin
David Bottini
David Bottini
Kathleen Burk
Jeff Edmunds
Patty Gallagher
Carol Goldberg
Carol Goldberg
Carol Goldberg
Sarah Harvey
Sarah Harvey
Passle Helminski
Passle Helminski
Gloria Hersch
Racheli Hilai
Tom Hlas
Linda Hutchinson
Catherine Kleeman
Stephanie Knopp
Stephanie Knopp
Stephen March
Jeffery Mathison
Diane Maurer
Katherine McNamara
Darcy Meeker
Frances Morris
Mary
James Mullen
Bob Nocek
Thomas Norulak
Thomas Norulak
AJ Nutter
AJ Nutter
Samual Oberter
Nancy Palfey
Terri Perpich
Dan Peterman
June Ramsay
Shannon Sims-Lewis
Shannon Sims-Lewis
David Stovall
Rebecca Swanson
Nora Thompson
Mare Vaccaro
Mary Vollero
Gordon Wine
Gordon Wine
Vincent Wojtas
Vincent Wojtas