Image in header courtesy of exhibiting artist, Roya Amigh
May 11 – June 25, 2021
Presented in two parts at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery & Online
Click here to see the exhibition online
- Show 1: May 11 – June 1, 2021 Click here to see the virtual tour
- Show 2: June 4 – 25, 2021 Click here to see the virtual tour
Juried by Alice Gray Stites, Museum Director and Chief Curator, 21c Museums
Virtual Opening Reception | Thursday, May 13, 6:30-7:30pm on ZOOM Click here to see the recording
About the juror | Alice Gray Stites is Museum Director and Chief Curator at 21c Museum Hotels. A multi-venue museum founded by collectors Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, 21c is located in Louisville, Cincinnati, Bentonville, Durham, Lexington, Oklahoma City, Nashville, Kansas City, and Chicago. Stites curates exhibitions, site-specific installations, and a range of cultural programming at all 21c Museum Hotels, and oversees the curation, maintenance, and conservation of a 3,500- works collection of contemporary art, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, VR and AR. In addition, 21c actively loans to and from the collection to domestic and international institutions. Between 2012 and 2020, 21c has commissioned twenty-five site-specific, permanent installations by artists from the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
21c also collaborates on arts initiatives with artists and other cultural and civic organizations worldwide. Under Stites’s leadership, 21c has engaged in collaborative exhibitions and programs with Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, North Carolina Museum of Art, Speed Art Museum, Crocker Art Museum, Creative Capital Foundation, FotoFocus, Creative Time, ArtPrize, Pen & Brush, For Freedoms, EXPO Chicago, and others.Since opening in Louisville in 2006, 21c has presented over 100 exhibitions. Recently, Stites has curated Hybridity: The New Frontier; Aftermath: Witnessing War, Countenancing Compassion; Seeing Now; Wild Card: The Art of Michael Combs; Dis-semblance: Projecting and Perceiving Identity; Albano Alfonso: Self-Portrait As Light; Labor&Materials, Fallen Fruit: The Practices of Everyday Life; The Future is Female; Truth or Dare: A Reality Show; The SuperNatural; Refuge; Wim Botha: Still Life with Discontent; and This We Believe.
Juror’s Statement | “I sit here and I look out the window at the night. I want to see a beam of light and I want to stand inside it. I want to look up at its source, and I want it to say: I promise you a mystery. I promise you peace. I promise you great visions. And I promise you a new superpower.”
Douglas Copeland, “We Weren’t Very Careful About What We Wished For.” In Art in the Age of Anxiety, edited by Omar Kholeif, Sharjah Art Foundation, 2020, p.128.
According to chronos, or the measurable, linear perception of time, more than a year has passed since we were swept into the maestrom of the pandemic, wherein we continue to reckon with uncertainty, inequality, and vulnerability. As reflected in the broad and thoughtful range of works submitted for consideration for the 2021 National Prize Show, artists today are looking forward and back, outward and inward, and searching more for which questions to ask, rather than what statements to make, about the transits and transformations they are experiencing. References to dreams abound, in both subject matter and imagery, though few of these depict idyllic realms: a single airplane floats against a pastel sky; images of staircases or scaffolding lead toward lighted but undefined spaces; collages combine flora, fauna, and decay, emphasizing—and embracing—mystery. The works that directly invoke COVID19 and the attendant isolation, innovation, fear, and widespread loss that continues also pose questions: how did this happen, who is responsible, and how and when will it end? Indeed, time itself seems to be interrogated in much of the work; a number of the artists investigate personal or collective history, both documented and imagined, to explore and reveal the complexity of cultural identity. Looking to the past for a way forward into a future that is still uncertain, yet more inclusive, these artists envision portals through new and old superpowers may emerge.
AWARDS
Best In Show | Hyeyoung Shin, Immeasurable
First Prize | Roya Amigh, Welcome and entertain them all
Second Prize | Lani Asuncion, The Local
Third Prize | Chelsea Bradway, Heroine
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EXHIBITING ARTISTS
Part 1: May 11 – June 1, 2021
| First Name | Last Name | State | Membership | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price | |
| Susan | Alport | Massachusetts | Artist Member | That Face, 2 | Digital print | 8 x 12 inches | $625 | |
| Kathleen Gerdon | Archer | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Aimless Inquiry | Polypropylene print on sintra under plexiglas | 24 x 36 x 2 inches | $650 | |
| Lani | Asuncion | Massachusetts | The Local | 6 year petrified pineapple, wood 2015-2021 | 15 x 5 x 5 inches | $1,600 | ||
| Deirdre | Barrett | Massachusetts | Strange Times | Digitally manipulated photo-collage | 14 x 12 inches | $320 | ||
| Judith | Clapp | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Hidden I | Inkjet photo | 11 x 14 x 2 inches | $200 | |
| Lisa Kyle | Clark | Massachusetts | Lost Keys | Oil on canvas | 24 x 20 x 1.375 inches | $2,300 | ||
| Online-only | Marieken | Cochius | New York | Element #2 | Collage with milkweed seeds, charcoal, oil paint and metallic paper on gessoed paper | 47 x 31 inches | $2,400 | |
| Dion | Dion | Missouri | surfaces XXII-Expressionist Landscape III | Oil and acrylic | 36 x 36 x 1 inches | $2,000 | ||
| Alison | Doherty | Massachusetts | Dreamscape | Giclee Hahnemühle Albrecht Dürer 210 Print, oil painting and photograph | 12 x 12 inches | $312 | ||
| Steven | Edson | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Leaving | Archival pigment print | 40 x 30 inches | $2,150 | |
| Madge | Evers | Massachusetts | A Liberal Herbarium: bleeding heart, bittersweet, rue, wild mustard | Mushroom spores on paper | 28 x 19 x .625 inches | $900 | ||
| Barbara | Fletcher | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | Look Deep Into Nature | Mixed media | 35 x 35 x 10 inches | $4,000 | |
| Cara | Gonier | Massachusetts | Extend | Acrylic on canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5 inches | $2,800 | ||
| Joni | Lohr | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | On the Summer Porch | Photograph | 16 x 20 x 1 inches | $350 | |
| Marina | Massidda | Massachusetts | The Outskirts | Oil on canvas | 23 x 35 inches | $480 | ||
| Vicki | McKenna | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Remains of Summer 2 | Photographic print: platinum/palladium with gum dichromate | 18 x 23 inches | $1,200 | |
| Jackie | Melissas | Maine | one year | Ceramic | 10 x 10 x 7 inches | $750 | ||
| Dorothy Amore | Pilla | Massachusetts | Artist Member | At Home | Digital composition | 16 x 16 inches | $475 | |
| Juan Francisco | Rojas | Massachusetts | Dreams | Photograph | 16 x 24 inches | $250 | ||
| Nancy | Schieffelin | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | Covid Winter | Ink jet photograph | 18 x 24 inches | $200 | |
| Pip | Shepley | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Enlightenment | Archival photograph | 24 x 18 x 1 inches | $475 | |
| Hyeyoung | Shin | Missouri | Immeasurable | Relief-based paper sculpture | 42 x 32 x 4 inches | $3,500 | ||
| Tyler | Sorgman | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | Safe House | Acrylic on stretched canvas | 36 x 36 x 1.5 inches | $2,000 | |
| Brenda | Steinberg | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Almost There | Oil on hardboard | 10 x 8 inches | $450 | |
| Ann | Strassman | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Coney Island I | Painting, acrylic on cardboard boxes | 75 x 24 x 24 inches | $15,000 | |
| JP | Terlizzi | New Jersey | Alfredo/Grandfather | Mixed Media: Archival Pigment Print with thread and artist’s blood specimen on microscopic slides | 14 x 14 x 1 inches | $1,500 | ||
| Barbara | Trachtenberg | Massachusetts | Dreaming of Valdobbiadene | Acrylic on canvas | 30 x 24 x 1 inches | $1,800 |
Part 2: June 4 – 25, 2021
| First Name | Last Name | State | Membership | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price | |
| Online-only | George | Afedzi-Hughes | New York | Colonial Heritage | Oil on canvas | 30 x 24 x 1 inches | $4,000 | |
| Roya | Amigh | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | Welcome and entertain them all | Paper, thread, lace, and pieces of cloth | 56 x 41 inches | $10,000 | |
| Dave J | Bermingham | Massachusetts | Good Looking (blk) | Domestic objects, fabric, machine embroidery, pearl bead, silver, monofilament, batting | 16 x 16 x 2.5 inches | $1,700 | ||
| Chelsea | Bradway | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | Heroine | Photograph on giclee fine art paper low texture | 24 x 30 inches | $575 | |
| Krystle | Brown | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Danger/Opportunity | Mix media on wood panel | 16 x 20 inches | $800 | |
| Martha | Chason-Sokol | Massachusetts | Artist Member | First Sister | 3 discarded plastic trays, discarded plastic containers, used packing paper, electrical tape, duct tape, artist tape | 20 x 10 x 10 inches | $500 | |
| Matthew | Conti | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | Stata Vibes | Archival inkjet digital photographic print | 20 x 16 inches | $250 | |
| Amalia | Galdona Broche | Kentucky | Student Artist Member | Flower Spirit | Beads, fibers, tinsel, jute and yarn | 31 x 38 x 33 inches | $1,250 | |
| Online-only | Shawna | Gibbs | New Hampshire | Movie Night, No. 3 | Archival pigment print | 16 x 20 inches | $600 | |
| Online-only | Angie | Huffman | Iowa | April | Oil on canvas | 10 x 10 x 1.5 inches | $425 | |
| Kathy | Jenkins | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Rise Alive | Monotype | 20 x 16 inches | $400 | |
| Susan | Kottler | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Gym Outdoors | Archival inkjet print | 18 x 24 x 1 inches | $395 | |
| Andromeda | Lisle | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Bear | Paper-clay and acrylic | 11x 4.5 x 8.5 inches | $980 | |
| Yair | Melamed | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Genuine Love | Pigmented ink | 27 x 21 inches | $250 | |
| Judith | Motzkin | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | All in the Same Boat | Ceramic – stoneware and porcelain | 9 x 18 x 20 inches | $1,800 | |
| Astrid | Reischwitz | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Inheritance Portrait #1 | Archival pigment print | 20.5 x 33 inches | $1690 | |
| Beverly | Rippel | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Red and Black Cap Gun | Impasto oil paint on canvas | 7 x 7 x 3 inches | $750 | |
| Carolyn | Sirois | Massachusetts | Artist Member | erased history | Mason cement, dried fruit rinds, found text, kozo paper and graphite | 42 x 13 x 36 inches | $800 | |
| Adrienne | Sloane | Massachusetts | Artist Member | An Incalculable Loss | Fiber | 32.75 x 20.25 inches | $1,200 | |
| Linda | Sok | Massachusetts | Associate Artist Member | Lions, Tigers, and Rabbits II | Cambodian silk, gold leaf and metal trinkets | 40 x 35 inches | $1,500 | |
| Michelle | Stevens | Massachusetts | From the Bedroom Window | Graphite on paper | 10 x 16 inches | $625 | ||
| Suzanne | Stumpf | Massachusetts | Artist Member | Half Lives | Porcelain | 3 x 23 x 14 inches | $1,800 | |
| Kim | Triedman | Massachusetts | Artist Member | The Overseer (II) | Collage on board | 12.5 x 9.5 inches | $625 | |
| Chantal | Zakari | Massachusetts | Powder Metallurgy | Archival inkjet prints + fabric print | 20 x 35 inches | $1,500 |
DATES & DEADLINES FOR ARTISTS
Artist Notification | All accepted artists will be posted on this webpage April 9, after 5pm. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE
Shipping Deadline | April 30
Drop-Off (Both shows) | May 7 & 8
*Early and late drop-offs will not be accepted.
Pick-Up (Both Shows) | June 26, 27 & 28
*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.
Pick-up & Drop-off appointments are REQUIRED. A sign-up link will be sent to artists via email.
Have questions? Please email Director, Erin Becker at ebecker@cambridgeart.org, or call us at 617.876.0246
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