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20th Annual International Juried ShowPresented by Viridian Artists, Inc. June 30, 2009- July 18, 2009Reception: July 2, 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm1st place Leslie Sheryll, 2nd place Akiyuki Ina, 3rd place Harry Gonnella and Shaun Sewter, plus 23 other finalists.
Viridian Artists 20th Annual International Juried Show had almost 500 entries from all over the world from Turkey, Madagascar, Israel , Belgium and Dubai etc., as well as the US. As Elisabeth Sussman, Curator of the Whitney Museum and juror of the competition said : “Judging the entries of an international competition is for the juror an invitation to the unknown, the unanticipated and the unexpected ……..The task is to identify work of promise from a very large field. Undoubtedly, good work will go unnoticed, but hopefully, surprises and delights will be encountered. Spotting trends is a difficult task. The juror looks mainly for quality. But, if pressed, what I took away this year, was a tendency to embrace pop culture, mass media, and junk and to recycle it or reinterpret it to make an inventive art work ……. As a result of artists’ embrace of and absorption in the world they live in, this year’s exhibition feels extremely lively, upbeat, and audience friendly.” And the winners are: 1st Prize of $500 : LESLIE SHERYLL constructs "Urban Monsoon" of plastic bottles 2nd Prize of $200: AKIYUKI INA's "Trophy" is built of vinyl records 3rd Prize of $100: HARRY GONNELLA and SHAUN SEWTER a giclee "Blue Eyes" FINALISTS who will also exhibit: Lisa Bagwell /Jennifer Beinhacker /Jill Marleah Bell / Black Pinto Horse&Monte Yellow Bird Sr. Craig Blankenhorn / Steven Falk / Christian Faur / Elizabeth Fox / Stuart Friedman Eric Galandak / Sun-Young Jin / Kiseok Kim / David Lambert Andrea Land / Jason Lascu Nancy Legner / Kito Mbiango / Naoko Okabe Jean Pike / Beverly Rippel / Audrey Shachnow and Beverly Y. Smith. CD slide presentation Juror's Choice : Viridian Artists will also present a CD slide presentation of Runner-ups: Laurie Joan Aron / Marika Berlind / Rachel Burgess / Jane Carney / Peter DePelsmacker Lauren Ennist / Julia Fernandez Pol / C. B. Forsythe / Carla Hansen /Travis Head / Diane Huff Diane Hurwitz- Specht / Benny Katz / Maureen Kelleher / June Kim / Mali Lasker Debra E. Levie / Nic Lyons / Naz Shahrokh / Michelle Stone and Susan Trees. CD slide presentation Director's Choice The following were chosen by the Viridian Director, Barbara Neski: Niamh Butler / Sungmo Cho / Richard W. Dolan / Liz Alpert Fay / Victor Gontcharov Joleen Grussing / Marcella Hackbardt / Lannie Hart/ Brian Heeter / Selin Kocagoncu Marius Lehene / Jeane McGrail / Trudy Montgomery / Howard Myers / Meaghan Sorce Ty Smith / Kate Torgersen / Leslie Tucker / Ian Turner / Sabrina & Jeff Williams. VIRIDIAN ARTISTS ,INC. 530 West 25th Street #407 New York, NY 10001 Director: Barbara Neski Tues. - Sat., 10:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. Tel/Fax: 212-414-4040
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