Category: Artist Interviews
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Category: Artist Interviews

Q&A interviews with the artists whose work is chosen by jurors as best in show in our monthly exhibits. Learn about the stories and the creative process behind these award-winning works of art from the artists who created them!

We asked artist Nada Abizaid, a graphic designer during the day, about taking ceramics classes and creating the piece that won the Dennis Davis…
“People say watercolor is unforgiving, which just means you have to enjoy risk and accident. I’m trying to get there.”…
Regulars in the Gallery will remember Gaetano Rando, or Guy, from the December 2011 solo exhibit “Transitions” featuring work by Guy and his son,…
“Adagios produce a different painting from Spanish Flamenco.”…
If you’ve been to the Torpedo Factory, you probably remember seeing sculptures like the one above in the studio of sculptor Tatyana Schremko, towering…
“It’s hard to separate a memory of an event from an image depicting that event.”…
“The final products of my mind are usually more representational portraits and figures … when I utilize more of my heart, it evokes an…
“I can trace my interest in printmaking to a college instructor who said my pen drawings reminded him of Albrecht Durer’s woodcuts. Over the…
“The pieces are a result of an inner impulse and do not depend on much premeditation or preparatory sketches. Throughout the drawing session I…
“Many of the Hudson River artists’ paintings were panoramas of the landscape used as a metaphor for the possibilities of this new country. Most…
Standing just under life-size on a four-foot high canvas, the figure in Watching Her is keeping an eye on visitors to the Gallery this…
At the Window was awarded the Sid Platt Watercolor Award in this month’s “Body Language” exhibit, open through November 4….
The painting that won the Dee Gee Watling Memorial Award for pastel this month had a dark mood and palette that caught juror Joann…
Created on a simple frame loom over a period of months, the tapestry above was awarded top honors in the September all-media exhibit. Juror…
Our popular landscape and sculpture shows, “’Scapes” and “Shapes,” garner entries from many of our talented artists, making competition for a spot on the…
Currently on view at the Target Gallery here in the Torpedo Factory, Ruth Gowell’s “Optical Studies” joins glass with fiber, straight lines with bent,…
Amid the wealth of abstraction in our July All-Media Exhibit, juror Jerry Coulter selected one piece for best in show: a photograph masquerading as…
The piece below, I Woke Up Crying, started as a charcoal drawing before being committed to an etching plate, and finally finding new life…
Among the stories, commentaries, and multi-layered messages in our June exhibit, “(CON)text,” one piece stood out to juror John James Anderson: A Common Thread,…
For our third and final interview with the award-winning artists in May’s juried group exhibit, we turn to Susan O’Neill, whose oil painting Thomas’s…
The second of three still lifes recognized with awards in the May All-Media Exhibit, the tall, colorful Cherry Blossoms by Paul Zapatka (below) is…
This month’s unofficial theme in the Gallery seems to be the treasure of the everyday, including Noah Williams’ “One Man’s Trash” exhibit and the…
Oil painter Dennis Crayon was first drawn to oil, he said, because of the long time it takes to dry and the appeal of…
One after another, visitors to The Art League Gallery this weekend stopped in front of the Best in Show award winner, pictured above, and…