Gallery Director Award for Best in Show
Kathleen Best Gillmann, March Thaw
The Art League Award
Honorable Mentions
Rob Baker, Tidal Basin at Sunrise
Cecilia Capestany, Squirrel Study
Young Choi, Silence
Christine Dixon, Resolute Youth
Susan Green, Alta, Utah
Richard Moore, Winter Holly
Susan O’Neill, Expressive Man
“It is a very daunting task to jury an exhibition that has paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, and photographs. These are very different languages, and there are many different dialects within each language. So it is almost impossible for one person to have all the linguistic skills necessary to do justice to the task. As much as any juror can try to judge purely on the basis of quality, there is no way that his or her personal proclivities can help from entering into the equation. So, for those of you whose work was declined, please excuse my blind spots! I thought that there were a great number of very strong photographs, so it was good to see such a strong core of photographers at work in the school. As hard as jurying the exhibition was, jurying the awards was even harder.
The winner of The Gallery Director’s Award, March Thaw, is a very evocative snowy landscape with a great sense of space and atmosphere. I very much appreciated the abstraction of it—the open, white shapes in the foreground and middle ground, which really allow the painting to breathe. Construction, winner of The Art League Award, is a very ambitious painting, which I really appreciate. A cityscape with figures, cars, machinery, activity, weather—a very hard thing to pull off, and the artist did an admirable job. I admire anybody trying to pull together so many things in one painting. So thank you again for giving me this opportunity. Best of luck to everyone!”
— Juror Ephraim Rubenstein