February 27 – April 27, 2024
Presented at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery & CAA @ University Place
Opening Reception + Awards Presentation | Thursday, February 29 from 6-8pm
Juried by Mike Carroll, Owner and Director of the Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
GENERAL INFORMATION The 2024 Members Prize Show is open to all current members of the Cambridge Art Association (CAA) – including Artist, Associate Artist, Student, and Lifetime. Please note that the Members Prize show 2024 will be presented at two galleries: Kathryn Schultz Gallery and CAA @ University Place. Artists cannot choose which location their piece will be exhibited.
About the Juror
Mike Carroll is an artist who also writes and speaks on art, studio practices and exhibition spaces. He has exhibited widely throughout the Northeast and has had studios in Boston, Provincetown and Florida. His work is in numerous collections and has been written about in Art New England and Provincetown Arts, and artScope among other publications.
Carroll has been a gallerist in various forms for over 25 years. He attended Emerson College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston until he became involved in Boston’s then thriving underground scene. He ran the live performance and video section at The Boston Film Video Foundation when video was in its black and white reel to reel infancy. Carroll opened his first gallery, The 11th Hour, near Boston’s South Station where he produced early exhibitions by Mark Morrisroe and performances by Human Sexual Response, Jack Smith and The Clam Twins, among others. Since then he has woven his own art making practice with fine art presentation in a variety of ways. He was the Executive Director at Provincetown’s Schoolhouse Center from 1997 through 2004 and has been the owner of the Schoolhouse Gallery since 2005 where he is well known for presenting the finest in collaboration and new thought in the gallery and at a variety of outside exhibition projects.
Juror’s Statement
First, I’d like to thank Erin Becker, Candice Driver, and the fantastic artists that sent images of their work in for this call.
A bit of history: I’ve lived a life dedicated to the act of looking, to what occurs when we are opened up by an image in place and by the ideas and communities that gather around these moments of awakening and undoing. As a willful and rebellious young person I had no preconceived ideas about this dedication but pursued with feral hunger the next way to feel something and to connect with the love I felt for my fellow makers. Looking back, I can see this as a path and story but was often bewildered, impassioned, bored, confused, frustrated, and overjoyed along the way. I depended on other makers and lookers to tell me who I was and what I was doing, the results of which appeared to me in exhibitions, concerts, gatherings, in dialogue and in finished artworks. Always I was driven by something intangible and muscular, possibly love, and I remain in love with intimate dialogues, small communities, and regional associations like the CAA that are connected to the daily lives of individual makers while recognizing the reverberating impact that the made thing can have in material culture and society.
To look fairly at the works that were offered here I began with that gift that was given to me by friends, associates, and educators along my own way; that of visibility and articulation. Artists and their allies who advocate for each other, whether by supporting or challenging, create visibility and articulation for each other and contribute to a larger and necessary visual literacy for everyone. I see visibility and articulation as opposite to oppression and abuse, and so as vital for our time.
So how to attempt to acknowledge these factors while looking at digital submissions? How to incorporate this newish screen language into the act of looking at so many beautiful works? It was a daunting and joyful task met with urgency and hesitation, and then with softness and appreciation.
The juror has two jobs, I think. First, the agreement is to look closely and carefully, to be open-minded and fair. One must find the actual thing of each piece, the causes and conditions that make it what it is, and then to decipher whether it is most alive for the terms it has set for itself. The second job of the juror is to become transparent, to recognize one’s own history, flaws, skills, influences, seductions, passions, and preferences and to give them the weight they deserve in front of each work of art. Every curator has just seen a great film, read a great book, has a crush or been crushed and all of this is still on their mind and in their body when they look at work, but they must hold these personal holographs gingerly and see each thing as it is.
So I hope this exhibit is a thread of the things that felt most alive and were best stated for what they are. And I hope that all the members of CAA will continue to practice, to participate, and to build a society within our larger society that insists on making, on looking, and on the good results of both.
Exhibit Programs
Opening Reception + Awards Presentation | Thursday, February 29 from 6-8pm
Artist Talk | Thursday, April 11 from 7-8pm. Pre-registration is required via Zoom.
KATHRYN SCHULTZ GALLERY EXHIBITORS:
| Last Name | First Name | City | State | Website | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price | |
| Alport | Susan | Brookline | MA | “BOSton” | Digital print | 8″ x 10″ | $325 | ||
| Anderson | Caroline | Warwick | RI | @carolineinwarwick | www.carolineandersonart.com | The Earth Has Bubbles | Acrylic, pumice, and modeling paste on canvas | 48″ x 36″ x 1″ | $1,800 |
| Andrews | Cynthia | Framingham | MA | First Encounter Light | Oil | 14″ x 11″ | $250 | ||
| Asbridge | Bayda | Worcester | MA | @bayda’s art | www.baydasart.com | Wish I Were A Bamboo | Arabic calligraphy of a quote about the glory of bamboo on one side and an Asian Brush painting of bamboo on the other side. | 18″ x 28″ x 10″ | $2,250 |
| Bachner | Sharon | Swampscott | MA | @cohesionmosaics | www.cohesionmosaicstudio.com | Beach Stones II | Polymer clay, embossing powder, limpet shells, fused glass beads mounted on nylon standoff pillars. Background is crinoline fabric and linen on wood. | 25″ x 19″ x 1.5″ | $1,360 |
| Balzer | Julie Fei-Fan | Watertown | MA | @balzerdesigns | www.juliebalzer.com | What He Told You | Acrylic paint, oil pastel, collage, pencil | 20″ x 16″ x 0.75″ | $850 |
| Banks | Jim | Cambridge | MA | www.jimbanksartist.com | Georgia I | Pastel on paper | 20″ x 14″ | $1,200 | |
| Beeby | Cicek | Providence | RI | Misreport | Mixed media (acrylic and embroidery thread) on paper | 20″ x 16″ | $400 | ||
| Beinecke | Anne | Cambridge | MA | @anne_beinecke | www.annebeinecke.com | Ephemera | Acrylic, pencil on cruelty-free watercolor paper | 14″ x 20″ | $1,500 |
| Bruel | Hilary Hanson | Needham | MA | @hansonbruelart | www.hansonbruel.com | Evening Sun | Encaustic with thread and pastel on wood | 24″ x 18″ x 1.5″ | $1,100 |
| Burke | Mary Lynn | Lexington | MA | @mary.lynn.burke | www.marylynnburke.com | Just the Thought of Being With You | Oil on canvas | 24″ x24″ | $1,450 |
| Hannon | Fay Lamson | Cambridge | MA | Playing Chess with Grandpa | Oil on canvas | 11″ x 14″ x 1.5″ | $1,500 | ||
| Hartung | Kay | Acton | MA | @kayhartung | Geocolor 9 | Encaustic on wood | 31″ x 19″ x 1″ | $3,500 | |
| Heffley | Mark | Concord | NH | @secondascentdesigns | www.secondascentdesign.com | Everything’s Derivative | Climbing rope, glue, 2 – 22+” Emt tubes one at the head the other at the Knee. No vertical supports | 33″ x 23″ x 44″ | $22,500 |
| Howard | Brianna | Waltham | MA | @briannahowardstudio | www.briannahowardstudio.com | Silken | Latex polymer and acrylic on panel | 10″ x 8″ x 2″ | $460 |
| Judd | Alison | Brookline | MA | @alisonjudd.art | www.alisonjudd.com | Did You Draw Yet? | Oil on canvas | 20″ x 16″ x 1.5″ | $1,800 |
| Kelley | Ryan | Byfield | MA | @wirebyryan | www.wirebyryan.com | Pioggia Di Rame II | Sculpture | 22″ x 16″ x 6″ | $1,900 |
| Kinney | Lydia | Greenfield | Massachusetts | @l.m.kinney | www.lydiamkinney.com | Guts | Acrylic on canvas | 30″ x 24″ x 1.5″ | $1,000 |
| Madar | Lilac | West Roxbury | MA | @lilacmadar | www.lilac-madar.com | Japanese Trio | Assemblage on stamp, magnifying glass | 24″ x 4″ x 4″ | $1,450 |
| Mitchell | William | Cambridge | MA | @billymitchellphotos | www.williammitchellphotography.com | Fork | Photography | 21″ x 18″ x 1″ | $300 |
| Motherwell | Jeannie | Cambridge | MA | @jmotherwell | www.jeanniemotherwell.com | Making Claims | Acrylic and ink on Yupo | 11″ x 11″ x 2″ | $1,700 |
| Mullen | Joan | Newton | MA | @jnmamu | www.joanmullen.com | Cover III | Mixed media | 6″ x 13″ x 9″ | $1,800 |
| Murie | Susan | Boston | MA | @susanmurie | www.susan-murie-jva2.squarespace.com | Stellar | Cyanotype with selective toning | 31″ x 45″ | $2,400 |
| Nelson | Diane | Brighton | MA | Inland Sea | Acrylic on panel | 11″ x 9″ x 1.5″ | $275 | ||
| Ollier | Ted | Medford | MA | @mindhue | www.mindhuestudio.com | Random Chroma Bands Type C/p Grid 361 | Digital print | 18″ x 18″ x 1″ | $400 |
| Peeples | Deborah | Cambridge | MA | @debpeeplesart | www.debpeeples.com | Variance | Encaustic on panel | 30″ x 34″ x 2″ | $2,700 |
| Peterson-Davis | Nick | Boston | MA | @Nickpetersondavisartist | www.Nickpetersondavis.com | All of Us Together | Oil paint and canvas | 20″ x 26″ Framed | $1,950 |
| Rabkin | David | Cambridge | MA | @davidrabkinart | www.davidrabkinart.com | Winter Silence on the River | Archival inkjet print set in poplar | 13″ x 28″ x 4″ | $700 |
| Rajput | Maithili | Boston | MA | artbymaithili | www.artbymaithili.com | Aethon | Mixed media; cement, concrete, strings, threads, styrofoam, bamboo and wire | 20″ x 5″ x 6″ | $250 |
| Sakkaf | Iman Aurora | Concord | MA | @auroradaze22 | www.imanaurorasakkaf.com | Duende | Acrylic on wood panel | 10″ x 10″ x 1.5″ | $275 |
| Samuelson | Gail | Sherborn | MA | @gailsamuelsonphoto | www.gailsamuelson.com | Dark Morning | Archival inkjet print | 21.5″ x 15.5″ x 1″ | $900 |
| Simmons | Lynn | Worcester | MA | @lynnsimmons.studio | www.lynnsimmons.com | Bye-Gender | Deconstructed wooden parlor chairs | 35″ x 17″ x 24″ | $1,800 |
| Smedvig | Siri | Concord | MA | @sirismedvig @sirismedvigart | www.sirismedvig.com | Certainty Beyond Logic | Mixed media | 7″ x 5″ | $500 |
| Starr | Martha | Charlestown | MA | @MarthaStarr2 | www.MarthaStarr.Art | Everything Alexandra Taught Me | Mixed media (painted paper, monoprints, paint pen, paint wash, on corrugated cardboard) | 40″ x 32″ x 0.5″ | $1,500 |
| Stocker | Tom | Boston | MA | @stockertom | www.tomstockerartist.com | Stocker_Tom_ l”Orangerie | Acrylic on canvas | 24″ x 20″ | $850 |
| Strassman | Alan | Weston | MA | www.alanstrassmanphotography.com | Let’s Go | Photography | 22″ x 30″ x 1″ | $450 | |
| Stumpf | Suzanne | South Natick | MA | @suzannestumpf | www.ceramicsatthebarn.com | Resting Place | Sculpture (porcelain) | 9″ x 26″ x 19″ | $4,500 |
CAA @ UNIVERSITY PLACE GALLERY EXHIBITORS:
| Last Name | First Name | City | State | Website | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price | |
| Ahearn | Susan | Hingham | MA | www.susanahearnart.com | September | Oil | 36″ x 48″ x 1.5″ | $3,800 | |
| Arnold | Louise | Concord | MA | @louisearnoldart | www.louisearnoldart.com | Moss Glen Falls, Stowe, VT | Oil on canvas | 48″ x 30″ x 2″ | $4,000 |
| Batchelor | Jim | Brookline | MA | www.jpbatch-art.com | Jakarta Sinking | Contoured wood panel, transferred aerial photo, acrylics | 18″ x 36″ x 1″ | $600 | |
| Bousquet | Sally | Hingham | MA | @srbousquet | www.sallybousquet.com | In With the New | Archival inkjet print | 19″ x 25″ x 1″ | $600 |
| Brasher | Blake | Lowell | MA | www.blakebrasher.org | Directions for Making Birthday Party Invitations | Acrylic collage marker on canvas | 60″ x 48″ x 1.5″ | $4,840 | |
| Carter | Michelle | Cambridge | MA | www.michellecarterpaints.com | Skirting on the Surface | Mixed media on panel (acrylic paint, found paper, inkjet photo transfer, acetate) | 16″ x 12″ x 1.5″ | $850 | |
| Diebboll | Rob | Rockport | MA | @robdiebboll | www.robdiebboll.com | Tide and Fog | Oil on linen | 34″ x 34″ | $4,600 |
| Elizabeth | Jocelyn | Peabody | MA | @jocelynelizabeth_studio | www.jocelynelizabeth.com | Searching for the Truth | Acrylic, collage, and mica flake on canvas | 30″ x 30″ x 1.5″ | $1,350 |
| Fallon | David Ellsworth | Quincy | MA | @fallon2432 | www.davidefallon.com | 14th Streets Blues | Acrylic paint and paint markers on cavas | 27″x23″ 1″ | $1,500 |
| Gill | Christopher | Somerville | MA | @chrisgillart | www.chrisgillartist.com | Flag for a New Planet | Gouache on paper | 47″ x 55″ x 1″ | $3,800 |
| Gomez | Jose | Brookline | MA | www.waamart.org/artist_page/jose-gomez/ | Interface | Pigment inks on organic acid free paper. Craft Glue. Linen adhesive tapes. | 30″ x 16″ | $3,000 | |
| Gordon | Donna | Cambridge | MA | @donnagordon8994 | www.donnasgordon.com/visual-art-1 | Carol with bonsai, 2023. | Alternative process transfer image. Two image transfers, one on top of the other. Made with inkAid transfer film and transfereize. Printed on kitakata rice paper. | $1,600 | |
| Harrod | Nancy | Cambridge | MA | @nkharrod | www.Nancyharrodart.com | Worlds Collide | Acrylic, water soluble graphite, painted paper collage | 52″ x 52″ | $1,250 |
| Holton | Wiley | Medford | MA | @artbywileyholton | www.wileyholton.com | Budding | Acrylic and colored pencil on wood | 36″ x 48″ x 1.5″ | $5,800 |
| Imrich | Steve | Cambridge | MA | @steveimrich | www.steveimrich.com | CRACK 5 | Oil on linen | 22.5″ x 21″ x 1.25″ | $2,500 |
| Leaf | Carolyn | Winchester | MA | Beyond The Garden Gate | Oil on canvas | 42″ x 32″ x 1.5″ | $2,500 | ||
| LeWinter | Renee | Somerville | MA | Patterns Have No Permanence 2 | Mixed media | 19.5″ x 25.5″ x 3″ | $2,000 | ||
| Lori | C.J. | Brookline | MA | @c.j.lori | www.cjlori.com | Winter Communion | Oil on canvas | 24″ x 36″ x 1.5″ | $3,900 |
| Marburg | Charles | Hadlyme | CT | @charlesM210 | www.charlesmarburg@me.com | Identity, Memory, Dislocation | Oil on canvas | 21.5″ x 26″ x 1.25″ | $3,500 |
| Miller | Ann | Carlisle | MA | www.annmillergallery.com | The Calvary | Oil on panel | 22″ x 22″ x 1″ | $2,300 | |
| Millis | Amanda Case | Arlington | MA | @amandacmillis | www.amandacasemillis.com | Fog Over the Meadow | Oil on linen | 15″ x 18″ (16″ x 19″ framed) | $1,750 |
| Novetsky | Diane | Somerville | MA | @dianenovetsky | www.dianenovetsky.com | Rosy Fingered Dawn | Acrylic on canvas | 36″ x 48″ x 1.5″ | $4,500 |
| Palazzolo Loparo | Erin | Brookline | MA | @loparoerin | www.epl-art.com | Devotion I (Immersion) | Drypoint etching + gouache monotype + collage on Somerset paper | 21″ x 17.5″ x 1.5″ framed (floated inside mat, framed with museum glass and white wood frame) | $1,100 |
| Prellwitz | Wendy | Cambridge | MA | @wendyprellwitz | www.wendyprellwitz.com | Luminescent Portal #1 | Monotype on Arnhem paper | 22″ x 13″ x 1″ | $2,800 |
| Riccardi | Victoria | Newton | MA | @victoriariccardistudio.com | www.victoriariccardistudio.com | Betwixt | Mixed media | 24″ x 36″ x 1″ | $1,900 |
| Russo | Kelly | Scituate | MA | @kelly_russo_art | www.kellyrussoart.com | Rise and Shine | Acrylic and mixed media on cradled wood | 24″ x 24″ x 2″ | $850 |
| Sazer | Lisa | Waban | MA | www.lisasazer.com | Beach Bound | Acrylic paint on canvas | 30″ x 30″ x 2″ | $950 | |
| Scheibler | Ingrid | Newton Centre | MA | @IngridScheibler | www.IngridScheibler.com | Full of Sound and Fury | Acrylic and mixed media | 48″ x 48″ 1.5″ | $3,850 |
| Shepley | Pip | Belmont | MA | @pip_shepley | www.pipshepley.com | Camera Obscura – Waiting for Snow | Archival pigment print, archivally framed | 18″ x 24″ x 1.5″ | $475 |
| Temple | Matt | Needham Heights | MA | @matt.temple_photos | Over the Bounding Main | Inkjet print | 16″ x 20″ x 1″ | $350 | |
| Trachtenberg | Barbara | Newton Highlands | MA | @Barbara.trachtenberg | www.barbaratrachtenberg.com | The Boat | Acrylic on canvas | 18″ x 36″ x 1.5″ | $1,890 |
| Wagner | Mara | Cambridge | MA | @aberdeentreehousestudio | www.marawagnerart.com | High Tea | Painted and found paper collage | 26″ x 28″ | $1,000 |
| Zhelezov | Yefim | Arlington | MA | @yefimzhelezovart | www.yefimzhelezov.com | Still Life with Mackerel | Scratchboard graphics | 16″ x 16″ x 1.25″ | $720 |
| Zieff | Mark | Sudbury | MA | @markzieffart | www.markzieff.com | The Scarecrow | Colored pencil on Canson paper | 19.5″ x 25.5″ | $2,100 |
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Deadline to submit | Friday, January 12, 2024 at 5pm EST. We cannot accept any late submissions.
- Artist Notification* | Wednesday, January 31, 2024 after 5pm EST *All accepted artists will be posted on this webpage and emailed on the date above.
- Drop-Off* | Friday, February 16 from 12-4pm and Saturday, February 17 from 10am-1pm at Kathryn Schultz Gallery and CAA @ University Place*All artworks must be delivered in-person. We cannot accept shipped artworks. Late drop-offs will not be accepted, no exceptions.
- Pick-Up* | Friday, May 3 from 12-4pm and Saturday, May 4 from 10am-1pm at Kathryn Schultz Gallery and CAA @ University Place *Artists who are not in contact with staff about a late pick-up within 7 days of the official dates will incur a $15 per week fee until the artwork is picked up. The fee must be paid before or at pick-up.
AWARDS:
Every year CAA awards 5 Artist of the Year Awards, which come with a 1-year membership to CAA and a $250 prize.
- Jose Gomez, Interface
- Kay Hartung, Geocolor 9
- Lydia Kinney, Guts
- Charles Marburg, Identity, Memory, and Dislocation
- Gail Samuelson, Dark Morning
Image in header courtesy of 2023 Members Prize Show artist, Wiley Holton
Have questions? If you have questions after reviewing the above information, please email Associate Director, Candice Driver at cdriver@cambridgeart.org, or call us at 617.876.0246
Cambridge Art Association does not issue refunds for exhibition applications. Once submitted, changes cannot be made to any application. All applications must be entered via Submittable.
All decisions/selections are made by the juror. All decisions are final.