OUR FALL 2021 ON-SITE EXHIBIT - "In This Together"
was held from September 20 to October 26, 2021
at the Greenfield Public Library
(5310 West Layton Avenue, Greenfield, Wisconsin, 53220).
We are back - up close and personal for our Fall 2021 exhibit! We are excited to be exhibiting once again in person and reaching out to our public...because as we learned over the last year, we ARE in this all together!
Here are the Award Winners from the exhibit:
Best of Show: "Mallard Ripple" by Judy Grochowski
First Place: "Troubles Brewing" by Christine Zylka
Second Place: "Resting" by Karen Brittain
Third Place: "In the Grass" by Mary Beth Drabiszczak
Honorable Mentions:
- "Garden Party" by Chris Behrs
- "Child's Dancer #43" by Debbie Callahan
- "Cottage Road" by Audrey Dulmes
- "Sunset Over the Fox" by Jeanne Panka
Artists' Choice Award: "Leaf Joy" by Julia Pagenkopf
To view the winning entries, click here.
Our judge for this exhibit was Chuck Weber, a Wisconsin artist who has had an astonishingly prolific career. In recent years, Chuck "has gained a national reputation as a portrait artist. He particularly enjoys the challenge of accomplishing a technical "likeness," yet not allowing that goal to diminish a vibrant, dynamic work of art. "Portraits are a passion for me. Pure, unadulterated joy. A joy I am hopeful shows in my work. I relish painting people in action, particularly children, who bring such vitality to everything they do, and accomplishing this in a contemporary impressionist style. Unlike traditional portrait poses, my oils are most often 'freeze-frames'; skewed and cropped, in blurred colors and dynamic poses that capture a 'moment in time.'" Find out more about his life and work HERE !
And here is a wonderful quote from Helen Frankenthaler from her recent biography, Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov:
"The uniqueness of my experience, the emotional inner life, the sensations and response to them -- how that all travels down my arms into my hands, and translates into gestures, drawing, marks and colors and patterns and shapes on the canvas or paper -- that is my art - unique, yet universal."
