Juried Art Show
Welcome to the Summer 2020 Juried Art Show Digital Exhibition! Although I am sad that you are not able to visit the Arts Center to see this incredible exhibition in person, I hope that the videos and photographs provided will give you a little reprieve in the unusual times we’re experiencing. Please help me spread a little beauty by sharing this digital exhibit with your friends and loved ones.
Below you’ll find a “virtual reception” including a welcome from myself, a brief walk-through of the gallery space, the juror’s statement, and statements about why each award and merit recognition was selected. At the bottom, you can click through the gallery of individual photos.
– Alicyn Wiedrich, Art Curator
Virtual Reception
View the following videos on YouTube:
- Gallery Walkthrough
- Juror’s Statement
- Acquisition Award: “Tobacco Hanging” – Rebecca Watkins
- First Place: “Smart As A Hog (Æthelstan)” – Skye Rudin
- Second Place: “On the Breakwaters of a New Chapter” – Laurie Hoen
- Third Place: “Homeplace” – John Gay
- Merit Awards: “H.A.T.” – John Scrudder | “Hierarchy of Dominant Ambivalences” – Townsend Davidson | “June (30+1)” – Erin Rice | “The Birds were Singing and the Water was High” – Catherine Walker | “Stratigraphy of E. Margaret Panizzi, PhD” – Jonathan Cartedge | “From This Place…” – Charlie Brouwer | “Witch Bottle” – Melinda Fine
Want to learn more about the winners of the Juried Art Show? View the following artist-made videos about their winning pieces:
Juror’s Bio
Susan Alta Martin is photo-based artist, and an active member of the (re)emerging contemporary art community in Asheville, North Carolina. She is interested in how ideas about the economy and the environment are translated into the landscape and architecture. She reenacts the real-world processes by assembling images and objects into sculptural models. Martin is a recent recipient of the North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship. She has shown regionally, nationally, and internationally. Currently she teaches photography and the history of photography at Western Carolina University. Martin received a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of Arizona and an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Gallery
Photography by Liz Lord