Nov. 18, 2015
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Artists from Huntington, Morgantown and Wheeling won the top prizes in the West Virginia Division of Culture and History’s 19th West Virginia Juried Exhibition, which opened Sunday, Nov. 8, at TAMARACK: The Best of West Virginia in Beckley.
The exhibit featuring, 119 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, mixed media and crafts created by 95 West Virginia artists, is cosponsored by the West Virginia Commission on the Arts. The public is invited to view the exhibit from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. in November and December and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. in January and February. The exhibit will remain on display through Feb. 21.
Ten pieces in the exhibit will be purchased and become part of the West Virginia State Museum’s permanent collection. Jurors John A. Hancock of Waynesboro, Va., and Lenore Thomas of Pittsburgh, Pa., selected Huntington artist Hanna Kozlowski-Slone’s In the Limelight, Morgantown resident Alison Helm’s Cyber Clash and Wheeling resident Robert Villamagna’s Captains of Industry as this year’s $5,000 Governor’s Award winners. In the Limelight also received the D. Gene Jordon Memorial Award, which is named for a former chairman of the West Virginia Commission on the Arts who died in 1989.
Artists receiving $2,000 Awards of Excellence include Mark Cline of Caldwell for Cross; Vernon Howell of Barboursville for Under Construction #2; Christine Rhodes of Parkersburg for Balancing Act; Randy Selbe of South Charleston for Tribute to the Lost Incas; Clayton Spangler of Charleston for Farms and Fences; Michael Teel of St. Albans for Friends of Fossilized Carbon; and Larry Weese Jr. of Ravenswood for The Vase Within.
An additional eight Merit Awards of $500 were made that are not purchase awards and do not become part of the museum’s collection. They include Chris Dutch of Charleston for Sacred and Profane; Robert Fisher of Charleston for One Eyed Tookie; Mary Grassell of Hurricane for Vandalia Vantage Point; Charly Jupiter Hamilton of Charleston for Rhoda’s Dirty French Dinner Party; Newman Jackson of Charleston for Sorrow Revealed; William Kubach of Clendenin for Elk River Frost Trees: 1 - 2 - 3; Morgan Richards of South Charleston for Ronald Briefcase for Silently Speaking Gratitude Collection; and Christopher M. Schultz of Bridgeport for Jeremy. (A complete list of exhibitors is attached.)
Many of the works on display are for sale and may be purchased through the close of the exhibition at Tamarack.
From its inception in 1979 until 2005, the West Virginia Juried Exhibition was presented at the Culture Center, State Capitol Complex, Charleston. In 2007, Randall Reid-Smith, commissioner of the WVDCH, decided to have the exhibition travel to the Parkersburg Art Center, sharing the best in art with yet another community in the Mountain State. “One of my goals has been to touch every part of our state with outstanding cultural events. We are delighted to have the opportunity to expand our outreach to the community by placing the West Virginia Juried Exhibition 2015 at Tamarack in Beckley,” he said.
The exhibition was at the Huntington Museum of Art in 2009, the Stifel Fine Arts Center in Wheeling in 2011 and at the Dunn Building in Martinsburg in 2013.
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History proudly presents this biennial event in partnership with the West Virginia Commission on the Arts and with support from the West Virginia Legislature, which appropriates funding for the exhibition’s awards. The $33,000 in award money constitutes one of the largest endowments for a single exhibition in the country.
Photos of the 18 award-winning pieces can be found at: http://wvculture.zenfolio.com.
For more information, contact Cailin Howe, exhibits coordinator for the division, at (304) 558-0220, ext. 128.
The division is an agency within the West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts with Kay Goodwin, Cabinet Secretary. Led by Commissioner Randall Reid-Smith, the division brings together the past, present and future through programs and services focusing on archives and history, arts, historic preservation and museums. For more information about the division’s programs, events and sites, visit www.wvculture.org. The division is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
2015 West Virginia Juried Exhibition Participants
Pamela Adams
Tallmansville
Young Poplar Dancing with the Wind
Stained glass
Dick Allowatt
St. Albans
Veneration
Collage on board
Lee W. Badger
Hedgesville
Sow Above, So Below
Cor-ten weathering steel
Steve Balcourt
Exchange
2 Windows, Peeling Paint
Photograph
Michael Beals
South Charleston
Awaiting Confirmation
Photograph
Audrey Beckner
Elkview
Abrasion
Pen and ink
Glen Berry
Genoa
Sorrow – (Resistance)
Photograph
Adrienne Biesemeyer
Alderson
Rain on the Lake
Hand-knitted scarf, ribbon, handmade poly-clay beads and pendant
Katie Bizanovich
Wheeling
84 Years of You
Photograph
Lee Ann Billups Blevins
Kenova
Blossom
Acrylic
Jean Boggess
Hurricane
Thinking of Sydney
Quilt
Laurie Cameron
Hillsboro
Stock Sale, Marlinton
Photograph
and
Clover Lick, WV
Photograph
Amber Carman
Huttonsville
It’s All Blue
Glass
Douglas Chadwick
Hillsboro
Greenbrier River, January
Photograph
Karen Chamblin
Belmont
Nasturtiums
Oil
Mark Cline
Caldwell
Cross
Oil paint, spray paint on fabric
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
John Coffey
Princeton
21 Cows
Watercolor on paper
and
Posted
Watercolor on paper
Chuck Conner
Spencer
Phillips 66
Photograph
Betsy A. Cox
Glen Dale
The Jury: Nora, Wilbur, Leo
Triptych: Ceramic tiles, copper wire, tin
Kevin Dalton
St. Marys
Tenderstance
Pastel on paper
Joyce Waltz Daniels
Charleston
Fracking Paradox
Mixed media
Ginger Danz
Fayetteville
Parking Lot Squall
Acrylic on canvas
Gabe DeWitt
Morgantown
Moonlight and Star Trails Over Jenkinsburg
Bridge
Photograph
and
Light Pillars over Morgantown
Photograph
Chris Dutch
Charleston
Sacred and Profane
Stained glass panel, leaded glass, kiln-fired paint
MERIT AWARD
Chris Dutch and
Robin Hammer
Charleston
Among the Shallows
Metal, wood, glass, paint
Harold K. Edwards
Charleston
They Always Want to Dance
Enamel paint, poplar, panel
Robert Fisher
Charleston
One Eyed Tookie
Wood, metal
MERIT AWARD
Tiera J. Floyd
Sutton
Engrained, Relationships: Cliff and Patty
Oil on wood panel
Jane Frenke
Berkeley Springs
Spheres LVII
Wall Hanging
Mary Grassell
Hurricane
Vandalia Vantage Point
Woodblock print, printed by hand on kozo
paper
MERIT AWARD
Charly Jupiter Hamilton
Charleston
Rhoda’s Dirty French Dinner Party
Acrylic
MERIT AWARD
and
Rhoda’s West Virginia Postcard
Acrylic
George Harper
Harrisville
Farmyard Geometry 3
Acrylic on canvas
Cheryl Ryan Harshman
Wheeling
Moons & Junes & Ferris Wheels
Clay monoprint
and
Bad Moon on the Rise
Clay monoprint
Alison Helm
Morgantown
Cyber Clash
Painted wood, glass, cast resin, mirrors, bent wood, LEDs
Seth Hill
Clarksburg
Webster’s Farm
Oil on canvas
Tom Hindman
St. Albans
Seneca Rocks
Camelopardalids Meteor Shower
Photograph
and
Laidley Towers, Charleston, West Virginia
Photograph
Vernon F. Howell
Barboursville
Reminiscence
Acrylic paint, ink, paper transfers
and
Under Construction #2
Acrylic paint, ink, paper transfers
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Newman Jackson
Charleston
Sorrow Revealed
Oil on canvas
MERIT AWARD
and
Sunday Distractions
Oil on canvas
Elizabeth Jaeger
Morgantown
Deep Time
Diptych: oils, acrylics, inkjet print, Plexiglas
Barrie Kaufman
Charleston
They Say It’s Stuck in the Pipes
Multi-colored woodblock print, handmade Asian paper
Michael Keller
St. Albans
Portal
Digital print
Alain Kieny
Parsons
El Camino de Angeles
Soft pastels
Amanda Knapp-Witt
Leon
Mabry Mill
Photograph
Hanna Kozlowski-Slone
Huntington
In the Limelight
Oil on hand-cut Arches paper
D. GENE JORDON MEMORIAL AWARD
William Kubach
Clendenin
Elk River Frost Trees: 1 – 2 – 3
Triptych: Photograph
MERIT AWARD
Keith Lahti
Chloe
6 Nesting Bowls
White stoneware clay, original glazes
and
Pitcher and 4 Matching Mugs
White stoneware clay, original glazes
Stephen Lawson
Morgantown
La Traversée à Pied
Handmade camera, film, print
Marietta Lyall
Lewisburg
So Many Pretty Colors, So Little Time
Acrylic on canvas
and
Is it Spring Yet?
Acrylic on canvas
Akemi Matsumoto
Vienna
Summer Meadows
India ink
Carol Mazurek
Huntington
Under the Sea
Photo collage, watercolors
Robin McClintock
Hendricks
Uphill to Work
Mixed media
Tammy McGraw
Beckley
Midnight on the Champs-Élysées
Photograph
and
Gullfoss Waterfall
Photograph
Eric McKown
Ravenswood
Deer at Dusk
Color pencil
Betty McMullen
Charleston
West Side . . . HOT!
Oil on canvas
Bill McWhorter
Elkins
Mundus Ardescit
Pastel painting
Sumeet Mehta
Dunbar
WOK – D Globetrotting Entrepreneur
Oil, acrylic, gesso on canvas
and
A Tactile Touch
Oil, acrylic, gesso on canvas
Michael C. Mendez
Martinsburg
Bunny Luv
Archival ink jet print
David James Miller
Davis
Thornapple
Photograph: mounted metal print
Connie Mae Moeller
Summersville
Railtown Reflection
Oil
Jeff Morehead and Becky Anderson
Mineral Wells
Three Creamery Cans
Giclée print
Marjory Moses
Elkins
Rise
Photograph
Nancy-Louise Mottesheard
Charleston
Orange Bubble Delight
Acrylic on canvas
Laura Moul
Milton
Out to Dry
Photograph
Zachery Orcutt
Parkersburg
Resurgence
Bronze, steel
Derek Overfield
Fairmont
Line of Succession
Acrylic and latex on canvas
Anthony J. Papa
St. Albans
Union Carbide Institute Plant View on a
Dreary Day
Oil on linen
and
Union Carbide/Dow’s Storage/
Distribution Site on the Kanawha River
Oil on linen
Janet Parker
Charleston
Yellow Ribbon
Oil on canvas
Steve Pavlovic
Morgantown
Malone 2014
Oil on canvas
Amos Perrine
Charleston
It’s Hard to be a Saint in the City
Photograph
Nic Persinger
Morgantown
Coffindaffer Crosses, Nicholas County, WV
Photograph
Brian Reed
Ivydale
Lotus Language
Ink, lotus root stamp, rice paper
Edward Rehbein
Beckley
Marr Branch Falls
Photograph
Christine A. Rhodes
Parkersburg
All Fall Down
Watercolor on TerraSkin synthetic paper
and
Balancing Act
Acrylic on watercolor paper
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Damon Rhodes
Parkersburg
First Snow
Photograph
and
Old Barn
Photograph
Morgan Richards
South Charleston
The ‘Marylou Clutch’ for Silently Speaking Gratitude Collection
Burnishable buffalo leather, creams, cow lining
and
Ronald Briefcase for Silently Speaking
Gratitude Collection
Burnishable buffalo leather, creams, cow lining
MERIT AWARD
Pat Roberts
Charleston
Aftermath
Mixed media
Steven Wayne Rotsch
Charleston
Gray Fox in Tree
Photograph
Christopher M. Schultz
Bridgeport
Jeremy
Oils, acrylics, spray paint, ink
MERIT AWARD
Randy Selbe
South Charleston
Tribute to the Lost Incas
Clay
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Debbie Kalt Sisson
Ripley
Face of Dolly Sods
Watercolor
Michael Sizemore
Athens
Typha Gigantus
Plate steel, copper sheet, bronze surface weld
and
Beacon V
Mixed media
Clayton Spangler
Charleston
Farms and Fences
Photograph
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
and
Meadowland
Photograph
N. David Stern
Charleston
Abstract #2
Photograph
Nicole Suptic
White Oak
Tongue-in-Cheek
Acrylic on canvas
and
Whimsical
Graphite
Regina G. Swim
Charleston
Rough Around the Edges
Clay
and
Summer Flame
Clay
Drew Tanner
Williamstown
Resolve
Silver, collodion, glass, velveteen
Michael Teel
St. Albans
Appalachia Gothic
Oil on canvas
and
Friends of Fossilized Carbon
Oil on canvas
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
Andrew Thorne
Buckhannon
Pathfinder
Bronze on walnut base
Robert Villamagna
Wheeling
Captains of Industry
Repurposed lithographed metal, found images, acrylic paint, nails on wood
GOVERNOR’S AWARD
and
Taking Coal for a Walk
Repurposed lithographed metal, found objects, nails on panel
Cindy Walton
Charleston
The Chartreuse
Oil on canvas
and
The Hammer In
Oil on canvas
Larry Weese Jr.
Ravenswood
Aztec Trace
Maple platter
and
The Vase Within
Chestnut, mulberry wood dye, wood burner
AWARD OF EXCELLENCE
John Wesley Williams
Renick
Live Edge Bubinga Console
Bubinga wood, wenge wood
35" x 47" x 22", $3,000
Kevin M. Woodcock
Elkins
Montrose Park Moonlight
Serigraph print
12" x 10", $350
Shir Wooton
Beckley
At River’s Bend
Soft pastels
35" x 16", $4,990
and
Huddled
Soft pastels
30" x 22", $1,980
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