News from the Art League Plein Air Painters

The Art League Plein Air Painters, a group we last heard from when they visited Norfolk, took New York by storm this month, with three members’ works accepted to the American Artists Professional League 83rd Grand National Exhibition. The show is running through tomorrow, November 11, at the Salmagundi Club.

Lynn Mehta under her award-winning Appalachian Valley.

Jill Banks, Lynn Mehta and Jean Schwartz were in the show, and Lynn’s painting, Appalachian Valley, won the John Collins Memorial Award. Congratulations!

"Small Works" opening reception tonight

After a busy week of receiving, jurying, and hanging, the opening reception for “Small Works” is tonight, in The Art League Gallery, from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. Out of over 900 pieces entered, under 300 were selected by juror Jordan Faye Block as part of the exhibit, which runs November 9 – December 5.

Specimen One, 3-D mixed media collage by David Alfuth

The huge number of submissions is evidence of an active arts community, and that energy is on display in all media from a diverse group of artists — the only thing the works of art have in common is their high quality and small size.

 
The result is a treasure trove of an exhibit, with something intriguing around every corner — the curious, the inspiring, the personal, the humorous, the sensational.

Solange, a work in alabaster by Ann Ruppert

Two pieces were selected to win this month’s awards: Cabin 2 by Everitt Clark, a silver gelatin contact print, won the Eleanor Boudreau Jordan Award, and Variation, a collage by Theresa Esterlund, won the first-ever Anne Banks Collage Award.

Cabin 2 and Variation

More photos of “Small Works” after the jump:

Hippo Hiding in the Grass, Trinka Roeckelein
Studda Baba: Waiting and Studda Baba: Friends, Claudia McBurney