Juried by Nick Capasso, Director of the Fitchburg Art Museum | Exhibition Dates May 18 – June 23, 2017
Artist Talk June 1st from 12-2pm at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery
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Congratulations to our Award Winners
Best in Show, Ann Strassman
First Place, Silvi Naci
Second Place: Malcolm Davis
Juror’s Choice: Emily Brodrick, Peter Cohen & Tom Diaz
About our Juror: Prior joining the Fitchburg Art Museum, Nick Capasso was Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, MA, where he helped to reposition that institution to identify and forefront its unique asset, the Sculpture Park. Capasso worked for over 22 years at deCordova, where he oversaw a permanent collection of 3,500 objects, gallery exhibitions, and the outdoor sculpture park. He was also a member of the museum’s senior management team and served as deCordova’s Acting Director in 2007-2008. Capasso holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History and Geography from Clark University in Worcester, MA, as well as a Master of Arts and Ph.D. in Art History from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. He attended the prestigious Getty Museum Leadership Institute in 2011.
Click here to watch an interview of Nick Capasso at the Fitchburg Art Museum.
Click here to watch First Place Winner, Silvi Naci Video Work
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Exhibition Logistics for Accepted Artists, click here!
| Ahren | Ahrenholz | #6 -2008-2 | Wood, fabric, metal, paint. | 20″ X 20″ X 14 1/2″ | $12,000 |
| Louise | Arnold | Coming into the Country | Oil on Canvas | 18×36″ | $1,800 |
| Deirdre | Barrett | Totem | Digitall Manipulated Photograph | 72×12″ | SOLD |
| Michele Fandel | Bonner | Silver Anniversary | Tea Labels and Papier Mache | 22″ Sphere | $2,000 |
| Emily | Brodrick | Cactus Star | Knitted Acrylic and Wool Yarns, Polyfill | 60x60x12″ | $2,200 |
| Mary Ann | Bushweller | Palimpsest | Digital Image | 9×13″ | $400 |
| Marc | Clamage | Maxine | Oil | 18×24″ | $1,000 |
| Peter | Cohen | Praying Pink Man | Painted, Welded Steel | 24×18.5×64″ | $3,600 |
| Dawn | Colsia | Children of the Revolution | Archival Digital Image | 16×20″ | $450 |
| Barb | Cone | sgraffito no.2 | encaustic/ink/graphite on paper mounted on panel | 36×36′” | $4,800 |
| Warren | Croce | Fear Of Emptiness | Acrylic, oil stick, and graphite on canvas | 77×52″ | $4,000 |
| Malcolm | Davis | Sierra Nevada Railroad, Post 1996 | Latex on Hardboard | 40×46″ | $9,500 |
| Donna | DeLone | Delone1 | Digital Inkjet Print | 12×12″ | $300 |
| Tom | Diaz | The Very Large Array | Digital Photograph | 18×24″ | $395 |
| John | Doyle | na ba (cows) | Oil | 46×24″ | $2,000 |
| James | Dye | The Pillars of Leviathan | Dip pen and India ink on Bristol board | 19 x 24 | 6400 |
| David | Fallon | Letter Box | Ink, Acrylic Paint on Wood | 16x18x2″ | $800 |
| Helga | Felleisen | Ravel | Found Chair, Hand-Cut Vellum, Colored Pencil | Variable | $2,500 |
| Tanya | Fletcher | BlueTorso_II | Oil, Silver Leaf on Birch Under Textured Glass | 21×17″ | $2,500 |
| Kathleen | Florance | Tango #60 | Relief Ink, Litho Crayon on Lupo | 34×28″ | $1,800 |
| Remmi | Franklin | North Shore Fly By | Mixed Media | 20×40″ | $4,000 |
| Kathryn | Geismar | 5 Shapes, 2 Values, 4 Quartets (light) | Mixed Media on Paper | 35×30″ | $950 |
| Susan | Gilbert | Rootin Tootin Beth | Mixed Media | 27×23″ | $1,500 |
| Ania | Gilmore | Knowledge Inc. | Altered book: 1847 Webster’s Dictionary, thread. | 20×11″ | NFS |
| Conny | Goelz-Schmitt | Media Temple | Vintage Book Parts, Vintage Wood Legs | 15x12x9.5′ | $1,200 |
| Betsy | Gould | Weaving Series: Cloud I | Monoprint | 20×16″ | $1,500 |
| Rachel | Hammerman | Rungless Ladders | Ink on Paper | 9×12″ | $650 |
| Kay | Hartung | Bio Shadows I | Encaustic and Mixed Media | 20×20″ | $1,000 |
| Robert | Hesse | Unquiet City XXIII | manipulated photo, pigment on rag, matte laminate | 18×24″ | SOLD |
| Kate | Holcomb Hale | honey, syrup, tomato | paper, charcoal, acrylic paint and vinyl | 109x67x26″ | $3,500 |
| Alison | Horvitz | la macina 7 | acrylic on board | 12×12″ | $800 |
| Wilson | Hunt Jr | Partners | Acrylic Gouache on Yupo | 26×35″ | $1,850 |
| Leslie | Jardine | Pinwheels | Photography | 20×16″ | $300 |
| Debra | Jayne | After the Walker | Oil and Acrylic on Canvas | 30×40″ | $3,500 |
| Jim | Kociuba | Quaking Aspen | Acrylic on Canvas | 24×24″ | $1,800 |
| Mirela | Kulovic | Object | Candle Wax and Pencils | 11×11″ | NFS |
| Elizabeth | LaBarge | Teumessian Fox, 2013 | Charcoal, soft pastel and silver pencil on paper | 51×65″ | SOLD |
| Erica | Licea-Kane | In Between #1 | fabric, acrylic pigment, acrylic medium | 20×20″ | $2,500 |
| Robin | MacDonald-Foley | Patterns in Nature #3 | Archival Inkjet Print | 13×25″ | $750 |
| David | Magdalenski | IMG_3236 | Acrylic on MDF Board | 32×51″ | $4,500 |
| Yair | Melamed | Relaxing in Heaven | Pigmented Acrhival Print | 21×27″ | $350 |
| Gloria | Merritt | Bio Identity | Digital Painting on Canvas | 40×50″ | $3,800 |
| Alyssa | Minahan | Positive/Negative I | Acrhival Pigment Print | 20×25″ | $675 |
| Silvi | Naci | ONE [Furen] | Video, 2min 44sec | Video | $500 |
| William | Nourse | Glacier View | Photography | 28.6×17.5″ | $400 |
| Steve | Novick | Building (Slide) | Wood | 6.5x15x7″ | $1,000 |
| Daniela | Pasqualini | The Pond Series #5 | Mixed Media | 36×48″ | $950 |
| Jane | Paulson | My Mandalas | Paper | 21×20″ | $300 |
| Erick | Perez | Landscape 1 | Acrylic on Canvas | 28×40″ | $1,000 |
| Zoe | Perry-Wood | Ally, The BAGLY Prom | Archival Pigment Print | 36×24″ | $1,900 |
| Mimi | Reilly | Guanyin, Goddess of Compassion and Mercy | Acrylic on Canvas | 67×44″ | $3,750 |
| Constance | Sawyer | csawyer_1 | Graphite and Ink Drawing | 22×30″ | $1,000 |
| Ingrid | Scheibler | Untitled | Acrylic Mixed Media | 48×48″ | $3,800 |
| Nathan | Schneider | Amtrak View, NY2 | Photography | 10×15″ | $280 |
| On kyeong | Seong | Scent of Flower on Breeze I | stitchery, fabric and oil on canvas | 18×24″ | $2,000 |
| Brittany | Severance | Mom and Dad’s Room | archival inkjet print | 21×14″ | $400 |
| Pip | Shepley | Reflecting | Archival Photography | 27.5 x 22.5″ | $475 |
| Siri | Smedvig | Alchemy Sun | Mixed Media Paper Collage | $400 | |
| Sebastian | Smith | Untitled | Plywood, Paint, Threaded Rod | 96x96x24″ | $500 |
| John | Sproul | Four Three | Acrylic | 30×24″ | $3,100 |
| Gin | Stone | Artemis Capricornus | hand-dyed longline fishing gear and mixed media | 55x43x20″ | $9,600 |
| Ann | Strassman | Happy Birthday to Me | Acrylic on Cardboard | 67×34″ | $6,500 |
| Suzanne | Stumpf | Diatom | Sculpture | 6×3.5″ | $625 |
| Lorraine | Sullivan | Celtic Mobile Device | Found Objects, Paint, Gold and Silver Leaf | 28x16x11″ | $6,000 |
| Stephanie | Todhunter | Trish (Totally Digital) | Original Photo Backpaint onto Glass, Spraypaint | 22×29″ | $1,200 |
| Brenda | van der Beek | I Oversee | Mixed Media on Paper | 26×20″ | $1,450 |
| Paul | Weiner | Collectibles | Digital Print | 20×22″ | $1,500 |
| Mike | Wright | Sailor’s Delight | Found Painted Wood and Waterski | 53x40x4″ | $4,500 |
| Daniel | Zeese | Deer In Light Red Headdress | Taxidermy and Dyed Nylon Textile | 18x14x54″ | $6,000 |
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By Cory Shea
92 pages, published 5/22/2017
