2009 Annual Visual Art Exhibit of the Cheshire Art League of Cheshire Connecticut

Past Exhibitions

2009 Annual Visual Arts Exhibit
May 9 through June 6, 2009

Location:
Mary Baldwin Room
Cheshire Public Library
104 Main Street, Cheshire, CT.

Exhibit Date(s) & Time(s):
Receiving: Saturday, May 9th ~ 10:00 to 12:00 AM
Hanging: Saturday, May 9th ~ 12:00 to 2:00 PM
Judging: Saturday, May 9th ~ 2:00 to 4:00 PM
Reception and Awards: Wednesday, May 13 ~ 6:30 to 8:45 PM (Awards at 7:30 PM)
Exhibit: May 9 - June 6, 2009
Exhibit Critique (Meet the Juror): Saturday, June 6 ~ 1:00 to 3:00 PM
Pick Up Work: Saturday, June 6 ~ 3:00 to 4:30 PM

Guest Juror:
Power Boothe

Power Boothe, Dean of the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, is a recognized abstract painter. He has had twenty solo exhibitions in New York and his work is rerpesented in many public collections, includng the Metroplotan Museum, The Guggenhiem Museum, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art.

Boothe has designed sets for Obie Award-winning productions, collaborated as a visual artist with choreographers and musicians, and he has been the recipient of numerous NEA Inter-Arts grants. In 1975 he was awarded a National Endowment fir the Art Artist Fellowship for painting and in 1985 a Guggenhiem Fellowship for painting.

Exhibit Awards
First Prize: $150.00
Second Prize: $100.00
Third Prize: $75.00
Honorable Mention: $50.00
Best Photo: $50.00
Images of Cheshire: $50.00
...various other awards sponsored by local businesses.

Download Files:
Prospectus
Entry Form
Entry Form (...Images of Cheshire)

Award Recipients

"Pairs on Table with Curtain" Oil Pastel Anne Arnstein	First Prize: "Excellent balance of bold color, physical intensity and dynamic expression." - Power Boothe
"Country Barn" Oil on Canvas Tom Rosa	Second Prize: "Fresh, confident integrity, color, gesture, form on a wonderful dance across the canvas." - Power Boothe
"On a Country Road" Pen & Ink Tony Ruggiero	Third Prize: "Horses in their environment presented with a wonderful sense of place. The pointillistic approach slows down time and creates a timeless atmosphere." - Power Boothe
"Madeira, Portugal" Oil on Canvas Julie Russitano	Honorable Mention: "I thoroughly enjoyed the transition from man-made geometric construction to nature and the forces of ocean - a complicated dynamic relationship." - Power Boothe
"Blue Cadilac" Photograph Jack Bussmann	Best Photo: "Strong image, unusual color relationship, intense and playful." - Power Boothe
"Ives Farm" Acrylic Tom Mayer	Images of Cheshire: "Bold, fresh, direct touch, brush to paper – color and form – abstract and very much alive." - Power Boothe
"Empty Bed" Pastel Christine Ivers	Richard Cheverlette I Award: "Thoughtful, haunting image contrasting a warm inside and a cold outside – wonderful balance of light and dark." - Power Boothe
"Early Spring Inspiration" Mixed-Media Karen Prendergast	Richard Cheverlette II Award: "Wonderful black and white patterns, surprising shapes and playful relations. It felt like a musical ensemble." - Power Boothe
"Wolf" Pastel Scott Colacrai	Jerry's Artarama Award: "An uncanny image, deeply moving face of a wolf, deceptively simple, but suspended in a gaze with the viewer – demanding compassion? fear? help?" - Power Boothe
"Earliest Spring" Watercolor Carla Koch	Barker Specialty Award: "Direct, fresh approach. Wonderful sense of space and atmosphere. Thoughtful, considered touch." - Power Boothe
"Green & Gold" Watercolor M. Levitt	C.P.F.A Award: "Thoughtful, inventive and mysterious. Art heals by transforming what may appear to be disconnected and in disorder, into a new pattern and felt coherence." - Power Boothe
"Three Brown Pairs" Watercolor Elizabeth Scott	Artsplace Award: "The three pears hold their own with a strong presence. Each has a range of color that flows from pear to shadow to white paper that is its own landscape." - Power Boothe

Exhibition Volunteers

Receiving:	Joan Shackford, Angela Orsene, Ann Hearn
Exhibit Sign:	M. Levitt
Judging:	Joan Shackford
Hanging:	Tom Mayer, Paul Miller, Kate Themel, Ann Hearn
Refreshments:	Ann Hearn