November 7 – December 18, 2019
at Kathryn Schultz Gallery & University Place Gallery
Juried by Sarah Montross, Senior Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
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Reception | November 7, 6-8pm at both gallery locations RSVP
Awards will be announced at 7pm at University Place Gallery
Artist Talk | November 16, 11am-1pm at Kathryn Schultz Gallery RSVP
Presenters: Andrew Manning, Virginia Mahoney, Paul Weiner, Emily Manning-Mingle, Barbara Owen and Ellen Waitzkin
Why BLUE? For 20 years, the Cambridge Art Association has hosted a Fall exhibit, open to artists from the New England states, centered around a color – RED or BLUE, depending on the year. Both the success of the exhibit series, and the challenge to participating artists, lies in channeling the varied meanings of a color like BLUE. BLUE is more than a color. Past jurors for the color biennials include: Amy Sadao (ICA Philadelphia); Howard Yezerski (Howard Yezerski Gallery); the late Carl Belz (Rose Art Museum); the late Jane Farver (MIT List Visual Arts Center); Nick Capasso (Fitchburg Art Museum); Alise Upitis (MIT List Visual Arts Center); Katherine French (Catamount Arts); the late Joseph Ketner (Emerson Urban Arts); Vera Ingrid Grant; and Dan Byers (Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University).
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About our juror | Sarah Montross is Senior Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA where she organizes exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and commissions outdoor sculptural installations with leading contemporary artists in the park. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include the deCordova New England Biennial 2019 (2019), Screens: Virtual Material (2017), and All the Marvelous Surfaces: Photography Since Karl Blossfeldt (2019). From 2012-2015, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art where she organized exhibitions including Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas (exhibition catalogue published by MIT Press, 2015) and Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists (2013). She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Juror’s Statement | Blue light is a range of the visible light spectrum that we increasingly encounter due to the pervasiveness of computers, televisions, and LED lights. Emitting from our screens, blue light is criticized for disrupting our sleep cycles or damaging our eyesight. There is no doubt that blue light is all around us, brightening our indoor spaces and shaping our vision. Blue, in its wavelength form, is arguably the defining and disarming color of contemporary life and culture. In the realm of art and literature, blue is more often associated with memory and melancholy, used to articulate atmospheres of interiority. Electric and subdued, a palette for technological advancement and nostalgia, blue moves us forward in time while it is also the color of a distant past. The artworks chosen for this exhibition exhibit the wide range of possibilities that blue offers. From sculpture to cyanotypes, paintings to textiles, the work (and the presence of blue in each piece) pings a response from our unconscious. Across this exhibition, the color blue soothes while it also provokes.
Artwork in header courtesy of 2019 BLUE exhibiting artist, Judy Robinson-Cox.
AWARDS
Best in Show | Patricia Schappler, One Thousand and One Nights
Juror’s Choice | Emily Manning Mingle, the sky has cleared and it’s blue
Juror’s Choice | Astrid Reischwitz, Inheritance Portrait #3
Juror’s Choice | Peter R Root, Valeria and Olivier
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Exhibiting Artists
| First Name | Last Name | City, State | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price | Gallery Location |
| Katrina | Abbott | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Reef 1 | Glazed stoneware | 11 x 11 x 1.5 inches | NFS | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Kim | Alemian | Cohasset, Massachusetts | Ocean 6816—Emerging Bather with Predella | Oil on canvas | 40 x 30 x 1.5 inches | $7,400 | University Place Gallery |
| Nedret | Andre | Boston, Massachusetts | Harvest Moon | Oil on canvas | 36 x 60 inches | $4, 700 | University Place Gallery |
| June | August | North Hampton, New Hampshire | Immigration at the MFA Blue | Unique silkscreen | 2 x 35 x 50 inches | $1,700 | University Place Gallery |
| Dan | Brenton | Winchester, Massachusetts | Subconscious Messenger | Gouache and acrylic ink on paper | 27 x 1 x 21 inches | $900 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Nancy Hall | Brooks | Somerville, Massachusetts | Harbinger | Oil on canvas | 42 x 38 inches | $1,750 | University Place Gallery |
| Mark | Chadbourne | Brookline, Massachusetts | Sky Journey | Acrylic on canvas | 24 x 18 inches | $750 | University Place Gallery |
| Martha | Chason-Sokol | Brookline, Massachusetts | Blue Eyed Pink Alien | Beeswax on encaustiflex with oil paint sticks and stabilo wax pencil | 22 x 30 inches | $1,800 | University Place Gallery |
| Robert | Diebboll | Rockport, Massachusetts | First Day | Oil on linen | 32 x 38 inches | $5,800 | University Place Gallery |
| Cassie | Doyon | Bradford, Massachusetts | Empty Nest | Mosaic sculpture | 24 x 4 x 48 inches | $5,000 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Susan Greer | Emmerson | Dorchester, Massachusetts | Gone Home/Home Gone: Pantry | Acrylic on molded tyvek; mixed media and found objects | 32 x 28 x 5 inches | $3,800 | University Place Gallery |
| Kseniya | Galper | Quincy, Massachusetts | Katia and asteroid. The unknown | Oil on wooden panel | 12 x 12 inches | $2,000 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Ivana Damien | George | Quincy, Massachusetts | Planting Parcel in April Planting Parcel in April | Cyanotype contact print on cotton paper | 16 x 20 inches | $750 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Jane | Goldman | Somerville, Massachusetts | Deep Time 1 | Watercolor monotype | 36 x 28 inches | $2,000 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Kay | Hartung | Acton, Massachusetts | Pattern Layers 1 | Encaustic and pastel on paper | 18 x 21 inches | $750 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Loretta CR | Hubley | Nashua, New Hampshire | View from the Cave | Color ink etching and aquatint on archival paper | 30 x 24 inches | $700 | University Place Gallery |
| Wilson | Hunt | Roslindale, Massachusetts | Red Slash | Acrylic on yupo | 32 x 32 x 1.5 inches | $1,250 | University Place Gallery |
| Nicolas | Hyacinthe | Randolph, Massachusetts | Shade | Photography | 18 x 1 x 25 inches | $600 | University Place Gallery |
| Youngsheen A. | Jhe | Lexington, Massachusetts | Your Own Way | Oil on canvas | 40 x 30 inches | $6,500 | University Place Gallery |
| Barbara | Johansen Newman | Needham, Massachusetts | Woman with Pygmy Owl | Acrylic paint on wood, salvage and found objects | 5 x 27 x 31 inches | $2,800 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Lydia | Kinney | Greenfield, Massachusetts | Untitled | Acrylic on panel | 24 x 30 x 2 inches | $700 | University Place Gallery |
| Denise | Konicek | Winchester, Massachusetts | Oceanic Drain | Art quilt | 33 X 16 inches | $1,000 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Christine | Kyle | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Weighted | Ceramic, wood, beeswax, damar resin, pigment, wire, and a shoelace | 23 x 6 x 8.5 inches | $2,500 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Jen | Lamontagne | Quincy, Massachusetts | Sable Under the Blueberry Bush | Glass beads, polymer clay, embroidery floss and metallic thread on fabric | 4.5 x 4.5 x 1 inches | $325 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Steven M | Leahy | Weymouth, Massachusetts | Don’s 32 | Acrylic | .75 x 1.5 inches | $800 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Bette Ann | Libby | Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts | Blue’s Cafe | Ceramic shard mosaic and mixed media | 20 x 9 x 8 inches | $500 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| C. J. | Lori | Brookline, Massachusetts | Leaving the Stand | Oil on cradled panel | 16 x 20 inches | $2,500 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Robin | MacDonald-Foley | Stoughton, Massachusetts | Blue Stone Sky | Photography | 42.25 x 15 inches | $950 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Virginia | Mahoney | Brockton, Massachusetts | Hesitation | Reclaimed fabric, steel, ceramic, acrylic and graphite | 17 x 15 x 8 inches | $950 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Andrew | Manning | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Alter Ego | Oil on masonite board | 34 x 1 x 20 | $1,400 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Emily | Manning-Mingle | Brighton, Massachusetts | the sky has cleared and it’s blue | Repurposed clothing, dish towel, painting rag, bleach, fabric dye, thread, seed beads, button, and canvas on stretchers | 22 x 18 inches | $650 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Jeanne | Marklin | Williamstown, Massachusetts | Snowed In | Fiber | 33 x 25 inches | $1,200 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Taylor | Maroney | Bridgewater, Massachusetts | White Washing | Oil on canvas | 72 x 1 x 40 inches | $1,300 | University Place Gallery |
| Molly | McLaughlin | Hampton, New Hampshire | SoHo, 1980 | Fiber | 22 x 20 inches | $3,000 | University Place Gallery |
| Susan | Murie | Arlington, Massachusetts | Tempest | Cyanotype on cotton paper | 27.5 x 39 inches | $1,200 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Ted | Ollier | Medford, Massachusetts | Skygrid Time-Lapse: 20 March 2013 – 19 March 2014 | Video | 1:39:53 minutes | $2,400 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Andrea | Oseas | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Roadkill Can Quilt 3: She Shines | Aluminum cans on canvas | 48 x 48 inches | $4,000 | University Place Gallery |
| Barbara | Owen | Pawtucket, Rhode Island | Persistence, 2019 | Acrylic paint, wood, video | 30 x 32 x 11 inches | $3,500 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Matthew Peak & David Lee Black | Rockingham, Vermont & Wrentham, Massachusetts | Outside The Box: Poised On Point | Six framed archival pigment prints on an aluminum-railed cube | 48 x 48 x 84 inches | $9,999
Additional prints available at exhibition |
University Place Gallery | |
| Zoe | Perry-Wood | Lexington, Massachusetts | Karman in Trans Colored, Homemade Prom Dress, from Hanging in the Balance | Archival pigment print | 24 x 36 inches | $2,200 | University Place Gallery |
| Astrid | Reischwitz | Bedford, Massachusetts | Inheritance Portrait #3 | Archival pigment print | 14 x 20 inches | $700 | University Place Gallery |
| Elizabeth | Rennie | Revere, Massachusetts | Lasting Efforts | Mixed media on canvas | 20 x 16 x 1 inches | $525 | University Place Gallery |
| Beverly | Rippel | South Easton, Massachusetts | Table of Contents IV (Cape Ann Sunset) | Impasto oil paint on white oil | 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches | $800 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Judy | Robinson-Cox | Gloucester, Massachusetts | Ice Blue | Photograph | 27 x 20 inches | $400 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Peter R | Root | Hadley, Massachusetts | Valeria and Olivier | Oil on wood | 73 x 74 x 9 inches | $14,700 | University Place Gallery |
| Claudia | Ruiz Gustafson | Framingham, Massachusetts | Esos fueron los años (Those were the years) | Archival pigment print, Ed 1/10 | 21 x 21 inches | $500 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Noriko | Sakanishi | Portland, Maine | Another Thing | Acrylic & MM | 30 x 18.5 x 5 inches | $3,500 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Patricia | Schappler | Bedford, New Hampshire | One Thousand and One Nights | Oil on board | 48 x 36 inches | $4,800 | University Place Gallery |
| Robert | Siegelman | Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts | The Blue Room (Jay) | Photography | 17 x 22 inches | $1,100 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Katalina | Simon | Winchester, Massachusetts | Waiting | Archival pigment prints in editions of 15 | 16 x 22 inches | $550 | University Place Gallery |
| Carolyn | Sirois | Winchester, Massachusetts | blue hope | Anchor cement, mason cement, linen paper, book pages, plaster and books | 12 x 16 x 13 inches | $900 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Malgosia | Soltysik-Espanola | Boston, Massachusetts | Moon Chalice | Acrylic on canvas | 24 x 18 inches | $2,800 | University Place Gallery |
| Lucy | Sprayregen | Lincoln, Massachusetts | Trailing Oar | Oil on canvas | 18 x 36 inches | $1,800 | University Place Gallery |
| Margot | Stage | Eastham, Massachusetts | The Hoosic River Runs Through It | Metal on wood panel | 15 x 14 x 12 inches | $425 | University Place Gallery |
| Suzanne | Stumpf | South Natick, Massachusetts | Cones of Uncertainty | Porcelain and porcelain paperclay | 30 x 13 x 6.5 inches | $2,100 | University Place Gallery |
| Lorraine | Sullivan | Arlington, Massachusetts | Just Add Water | Found objects | 21 x 24 inches | $1,500 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Stephanie | Todhunter | Medford, Massachusetts | Channel 13 | Cyanotype print on heavy weight Arches paper | 18 x 25 inches | $300 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
| Shu-Lin | Tung | Cambridge, Massachusetts | Crying Glacier | Acrylic | 30 x 40 inches | NFS | University Place Gallery |
| Ellen | Waitzkin | Allston, Massachusetts | Goose Pond (Blue) | Archival inkjet print on cotton rag paper | 72 x 16 x 2 inches | $6,000 | University Place Gallery |
| Paige | Wallis | Malden, Massachusetts | In Her Element | Acrylic | 40 x 30 x 1.5 inches | $7,500 | University Place Gallery |
| Mary Carolyn | Webber | East Kingston, New Hampshire | In Neptune’s Realm | Collograph, stencil & monoprint | 24.5 x 28.625 inches | $990 | University Place Gallery |
| Paul | Weiner | Somerville, Massachusetts | Dan’s World | Digital photo print | 12 x 18 inches | $900 | University Place Gallery |
| Sharon | Whitham | Framingham, Massachusetts | What Have We Forgotten | Printmaking, monotype and oil on paper | 30 x 22 x 1 inches | $1,600 | University Place Gallery |
| Naomi | Zahler | Worcester, Massachusetts | Full Body Scan | Sculpture, photography and digital manipulation | 39 x 71.5 x 31 inches | $3,000 | Kathryn Schultz Gallery |
Have questions? Please email Assistant Director, Rebecca Schnopp at rschnopp@cambridgeart.org, or call us at 617.876.0246
Cambridge Art Association does not issue refunds.
All decisions/selections are made by the juror. All decisions are final.