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The Gallery
at Mercer County Community College has announced the award winners
for "Mercer County Artists 2009." The exhibit,
which runs through April 9, features 78 works by 64 artists who
live, work or study in Mercer County. Sixty works are two-dimensional
and 18 works are three-dimensional. Featured art was selected from
more than 200 works submitted.
According to
Gallery Curator Tricia Fagan, most art media are represented, including
oils, watercolor prints, ink drawings, colored pencil, ceramics,
wood, handmade paper, acrylics and mixed media. This annual exhibit
is a collaboration between the college and the Mercer County Cultural
and Heritage Commission. The Gallery is located on the second floor
of the Communications Building on Mercer's West
Windsor campus at 1200 Old Trenton Road.
This year's
juror was Kristen Accola, director of Accola Contemporary Art Gallery
in New York City and recent past exhibition director and curator
at the Hunterdon Museum of Art in Clinton, NJ. Prior to working
as a curator, Ms. Accola served as assistant to the director of
Lefebre Gallery in Manhattan for 15 years.
Winner of the
Utrecht Art Supplies Best in Show is Salvatore Damiano of Trenton
for his acrylic painting, "Iconica." Damiano receives
a $300 gift certificate from Utrecht Art Supplies, located in Cranbury.
The Juror's Choice Award goes to Lucas Kelly for "Hot Hail"
(oil on linen).
Honorable Mentions were awarded to seven artists including: Joanne
Amantea of Princeton for "Remember When"; Janet Felton
of West Windsor for "Breakfast at Mercer County Park";
Bill Hoeflich of Trenton for "Parallel World"; Ronald
A. LeMahieu of Princeton for "Pot (Raku) #1"; Matt Lucash
of Hamilton for "A Majestic Apparition of Death"; Kyle
Stevenson of Hamilton for "Bed Room Lights"; and Ewa Zeller
of Trenton for "Beginning."
Winners of Purchase
Prizes, selected by representatives from the Mercer County Cultural
and Heritage Commission, are Dee Gozonsky of West Windsor for "Havin'
Fun"; Jadwiga Jedrejczyk of Trenton for "Space";
Concetta A. Maglione of Princeton for "Mercer County Park Treeline";
and Mary Ann Weisser of West Windsor for her watercolor, "Mill
at Walnford."
Weisser received
a second award for "Mill at Walnford" from the West Windsor
Arts Council. The Council awarded an Honorable Mention to Al Chasan's
oil stick painting, "A Good Man."
Each year for
more than three decades, the Mercer County Artists show has featured
some of the region's most talented artists. Works in all media except
for photography (which is featured in a separate county show) are
exhibited by both well-established and emerging artists. This exhibit
is supported, in part, by the Mercer County Cultural & Heritage
Commission, through a grant from the County Board of Freeholders
and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State.
Gallery hours
are Tuesdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Wednesdays,
9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.; and Thursdays, 10 a.m. to
3 p.m. For more information visit the Gallery website here
or call (609) 570-3589.
MCCC faculty member Kyle Stevenson received an Honorable Mention
for "Bed Room Lights" (oil).
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