Artist Caroline DiNunzio looks at prints |
l-r: Kathleen Moore, Visual Arts Coordinator, Endicott College; Carolyn Letvin, MGNE Exhibition Chair; Dwight Pogue, Juror; Susan Denniston, President, MGNE |
Students and faculty engage in animated discussions |
Joyce Fearnside reports (along with a few observations from others woven in):
Given a unique exhibit space, Dwight Pogue, Smith College Professor of printmaking and drawing, juried a most diverse MGNE show. The exhibit is in the spacious and gracious Carol Grillo Art Gallery, the entrance to the new Center for the Arts at Endicott College in Beverly, MA. This gallery leads to two other art galleries and a hallway with classrooms. Students and faculty, who pass our prints daily, came to the opening to ask questions of the exhibiting artists.
The awards reception, held on Thursday evening, October 29, was attended by 75 - 100 people. Our juror gladly spoke about each of his choices for the MGNE awards:
Three honorable mentions were awarded:
Ric Haynes had an intriguing composition with strong collaged photos above and below two stocky monotype figures. His piece is titled “Partners”. The combination of both strong and delicate rolling gestural marks of “River Time” by Kate Higley caught the juror's eye. Two brightly colored flower vases, “Roommates” by Judith Greenberg, displayed much texture and beautiful color choices.
The third place winner was featured on the post card: “Radiolairia” by Jill Parsisi. It demonstrates fine technique, creative craftsmanship, and the ability to arrange each paper sculpture into a cohesive whole.
“Shirt of Honor” by Fran Henry Meehan, is a large print, demonstrating mastery of working large, and evoking a Plains Indians and photo realism feel that appealed to our juror.
First prize was awarded to Ann Guliani for her fluid “Palm Anatomy”. It demonstrates the essence of the best of monotype by playing fluid black ink gestures wiped away in places, to allow white paper, black ink, and all shades of gray to be seen in the print.
Overall, the exhibit shows great diversity; from graduated rollups to chine colle, from gelatin prints to collagraphs, from ethereal to concrete, from prints on handmade paper to prints on plastics, from figurative to abstract, from nuanced to bold: all educational. MGNE should be congratulated.
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