Details
Start Date
Tue, February 26, 2019 @ 10:00 AM
End Date
Thu, March 28, 2019 @ 5:00 PM
Location
The Cuyahoga Valley Art Center
Human Figure Exhibition
The subject matter of the displayed artworks are all related to the human figure. CVAC is excited reveal the breadth of interests and investigations from our participants within this juried exhibition. Our Juror TBA has the difficult job of jurying the submissions and selecting the Best of Show, Second-place, Third-place and honorable mentions of this exhibition.
This exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday, February 26th and runs through March 28th. Awards will be distributed as the winners are celebrated during the Human Figure Exhibition Artists Reception on Friday, March 15th from 5:30-7:00 PM. Patrons will have the opportunity to mingle with the artists, enjoy refreshments and hors d’oeuvres and purchase art during this free reception.
JUROR:
Prof. Patrick Melnick
Dean of Academic Affairs and General Education Department Chair
As the Dean of Academic Affairs at The North Coast College, Professor Melnick teaches Anatomy and Figure Drawing, History of Art, Idea Generation, and Neuroscience of Creativity. An instructor for more than 30 years, he earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Notre Dame. His career includes the production and coordination of numerous art shows, both locally and nationally. Professor Melnick worked as a curatorial assistant at the internationally recognized Zaks Gallery in Chicago. He also served as a judge on the board of Madison, Wisconsin’s National Endowment of the Arts Council. His broad range of expertise in a wide variety of knowledge domains has ensured him a unique position on the academic guest lecture circuit, which capitalizes on connecting previously unconnected things to explain creativity, insight, and solutions.
Winners:
| FIRST-PLACE
MARK GIANGASPERO STOW, OH Shelly Oil Based Media $800
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“Great technical skill merges with an uncomfortable if not horrifying reality. The beauty of human endurance, human survival, and human will is stunningly and confrontationally combined with the traditional portraiture of a Holbein.” – Patrick Melnick |
| SECOND-PLACE
ROBERT GOLDTHWAITE KENT, OH Voice of Reason Water Based Media $200
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“Picasso’s 1937 painting Guernica taught us the importance of abstraction and abstracting the human for: extreme emotions are able to be expressed more tangible. This particular work accomplishes that particularly well.” – Patrick Melnick |
| THIRD-PLACE
GERNA ISLEY TALLMADGE, OH Joshua Dry Media NFS
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“There are so many levels of audacity in this work. It’s pompous beyond belief in technique and style. Yet, the rendering of the 16th century doublet is pure abstraction juxtaposed with the realism of the face and ruff collar. The artist has boldly taken what we view as “passé” art and forced it upon us. Bravo.” – Patrick Melnick |
| HONORABLE MENTION
TERRIE HALEY AKRON, OH One With All Water Based Media $ 295
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“Beautiful richness of texture and color which alludes to something ethereal or alien-like with the amorphous humanoid forms and the vertical shaft of yellow countered by the “heavenly” scumbled white in two corners. Bach’s Fugue in D minor comes to mind.” – Patrick Melnick |
| HONORABLE MENTION
LINDA HUTCHINSON KENT, OH Winter is Long in Canada Oil Based Media $ 1,900
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“The simplicity of the pose, the simplicity of the compositions diagonal movement is countered beautifully with the complexity of layer: opacity and transparency, impasto and wash. Further there is the wonderful countering of warm and cool hues.” – Patrick Melnick |
| HONORABLE MENTION
TRICIA KAMAN CHAGRIN FALLS, OH On Her Tuffet Oil Based Media $1,800
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“This painting shouldn’t work, yet it does so beautifully. The mundane pose of the figure in the center of the canvas is a sure-fire death knoll. Then the artist does the impossible. The table, block-like pedestal, and design of the rug whirled around the figure creates a vortex of banality which takes the ordinary to a new place.” – Patrick Melnick |
| THE NORTH COAST COLLAGE AWARD
DON PARSISSON AKRON, OH The Danger and The Demons 3-Dimensional $400
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“The Cycladic head forms from 3,000 B.C., Brancusi’s Bird in Flight from 1928, and Anselm Keifer’s Lot’s Wife from 1989 all come together to form a baroque minimalist sculpture of isolation, vulnerability and transformation.” – Patrick Melnick |
Exhibition Catalog: 2019 Human Figure Exhibition Catalogue
Accepted Submissions:
| FULL NAME | CITY, STATE | TITLE | CATEGORY | PRICE |
| SAMANTHA BIAS | SILVER LAKE, OH | Spirited Away | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | NFS |
| SAMANTHA BIAS | SILVER LAKE, OH | Whispers of The Heart | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | NFS |
| JOSHUA CHULA | CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH | Death of Man | OIL BASED MEDIA | $300 |
| JULIA CLINE | BRECKSVILLE, OH | Sol Invictus | PHOTOGRAPHIC MEDIA | NFS |
| KYLE CROSSLAND | CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH | Of The Stars | MIXED MEDIA | $1,000 |
| KYLE CROSSLAND | CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH | Self Empowerment | WATER BASED MEDIA | $300 |
| JODY CROW | CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH | Child’s Play | OIL BASED MEDIA | $400 |
| SHEILA R DORRIS | CHAGRIN FALLS, OH | Ubiquitous Gaze | OIL BASED MEDIA | $4,500 |
| SHEILA R DORRIS | CHAGRIN FALLS, OH | After The Gardening’s Done | DRY MEDIA | $2,700 |
| ANN EMMITT | TALLMADGE, OH | Dreams Of Janis | DRY MEDIA | $500 |
| ANN EMMITT | TALLMADGE, OH | Lacey | DRY MEDIA | $450 |
| JEANNE FASHEMPOUR | MEDINA, OH | Soulmate | MIXED MEDIA | NFS |
| BARBARA LEIGHTON FAULKNER | HUDSON, OH | Cecilia | DRY MEDIA | $350 |
| MAGGIE FRAME | TALLMADGE, OH | Number 23 | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | $185 |
| MARK GIANGASPERO | STOW, OH | Shelley | OIL BASED MEDIA | $800 |
| ROBERT GOLDTHWAITE | KENT, OH | Dance | WATER BASED MEDIA | $200 |
| ROBERT GOLDTHWAITE | KENT, OH | Voice of Reason | WATER BASED MEDIA | $200 |
| TERRIE HALEY | AKRON, OH | One With All | WATER BASED MEDIA | $295 |
| TERRIE HALEY | AKRON, OH | Cold Day At The Geysir | WATER BASED MEDIA | $195 |
| KAREN HARCOURT | AKRON, OH | The Joy of Dance | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | $100 |
| KAREN HARCOURT | AKRON, OH | Ballet Shoes | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | $60 |
| JEANNE HENDERSON | BRECKSVILLE, OH | Dina | DRY MEDIA | $400 |
| JEANNE HENDERSON | BRECKSVILLE, OH | Dress Rehearsal | OIL BASED MEDIA | $800 |
| SALLY HESTON | BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OH | The Contemplator | DRY MEDIA | $400 |
| SALLY HESTON | BROADVIEW HEIGHTS, OH | Navy Sweetheart | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | $350 |
| JACK HICKSON | BARBERTON, OH | Me… Singapore 2015 | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | NFS |
| JACK HICKSON | BARBERTON, OH | “The World Was Hers for The Reading” Betty Smith | MIXED MEDIA | NFS |
| LINDA HUTCHINSON | KENT, OH | New Hat Old Mirror Old Self Same Old Self | MIXED MEDIA | $325 |
| LINDA HUTCHINSON | KENT, OH | Winter Is Long In Canada | OIL BASED MEDIA | $1,900 |
| GERNA ISLEY | TALLMADGE, OH | Joshua | DRY MEDIA | NFS |
| GERNA ISLEY | TALLMADGE, OH | Distinguished | DRY MEDIA | NFS |
| DON JEFFREY | AKRON, OH | The Fight | WATER BASED MEDIA | $200 |
| DON JEFFREY | AKRON, OH | Old Time Baseball | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | $75 |
| TRICIA KAMAN | CHAGRIN FALLS, OH | On Her Tuffet | OIL BASED MEDIA | $1,800 |
| TRICIA KAMAN | CHAGRIN FALLS, OH | Fancy Pants | OIL BASED MEDIA | $1,200 |
| DAVID KRANTZ | KENT, OH | Diane And Dave On Bongos | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | NFS |
| TOM MAYER | MOGADORE, OH | Simon Girty At Fort Laurens Oh 2018 | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | $200 |
| TOM MAYER | MOGADORE, OH | Civil War Followers | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | $250 |
| PATRICK MELNICK | THE NORTH COAST COLLAGE | Figure 1 | DRY MEDIA | NFS |
| PATRICK MELNICK | THE NORTH COAST COLLAGE | Figure 2 | DRY MEDIA | NFS |
| PATRICK MELNICK | THE NORTH COAST COLLAGE | Grandma Two Days Before Death | DRY MEDIA | NFS |
| SUSAN MENCINI | CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH | All For Love | WATER BASED MEDIA | $175 |
| JENNIFER NEWYEAR | RICHFIELD, OH | Cold Feet | OIL BASED MEDIA | $600 |
| DON PARSISSON | AKRON, OH | The Danger And The Demons | SCULPTURE | $150 |
| DON PARSISSON | AKRON, OH | You’re The One That I Love | MIXED MEDIA | NFS |
| ROXANNE RODWELL | AKRON, OH | Black Hat And Beads | OIL BASED MEDIA | NFS |
| ROXANNE RODWELL | AKRON, OH | Sunny Day Hat | DRY MEDIA | NFS |
| JEROLD SMITH | SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH | Standing Female | DRY MEDIA | $350 |
| JEROLD SMITH | SHAKER HEIGHTS, OH | Seated Male | DRY MEDIA | $350 |
| MARIE STEELE | AKRON, OH | Drawing For Repose | DRY MEDIA | $400 |
| KATHERINE STOKES-SHAFER | STRONGSVILLE, OH | Figure | MIXED MEDIA | NFS |
| KATHERINE STOKES-SHAFER | STRONGSVILLE, OH | Contemplation | WATER BASED MEDIA | NFS |
| CAROLYN THOMPSON | AKRON, OH | Male Nude | DRY MEDIA | $400 |
| CAROLYN THOMPSON | AKRON, OH | Brandy | DRY MEDIA | $250 |
| PATRICE VARZELLE | LAKEWOOD, OH | In A Corner | DRY MEDIA | $280 |
| CATHY VOGEL | WADSWORTH, OH | The Fair-Haired Boy | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | NFS |
| CATHY VOGEL | WADSWORTH, OH | The Engagement | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | NFS |
| RICHARD WILLETT | TALLMADGE, OH | Viola Da Gamba | WATERCOLOR MEDIA | $120 |
| RICHARD WILLETT | TALLMADGE, OH | Serenity | DRY MEDIA | NFS |
| BETTY J WOLFE | CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH | Angie | WATER BASED MEDIA | $700 |
| BETTY J WOLFE | CUYAHOGA FALLS, OH | Javon | WATER BASED MEDIA | $700 |