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BEST OF SHOW
Maumee River on the Rocks–Martin Chappuies
Juror's comment
Ambitious scale and acute observation are matched with an abstract design sensibility and coloristic restraint. No glitz, cliché or nostalgia, just the purity of transforming the mundane into a memorable visual experience. The art of getting us all to pay better attention.
FIRST AWARD
Toledo Harbor Lighthouse–Kenneth Jackson
Juror's comment
This veers toward the cliché but never fully gives in to it, leading to a deeply evocative scene that reminds us of the precarity and smallness of human endeavors in the face of the grand expanse of beauty and terror that nature has to offer.
SECOND AWARD
Signs of Spring–Kay Weprin
Juror's comment
Inventive in format and form this uses nature as a springboard for the imagination, reminding us that before it is anything else, a painting is always colored daubs of mud placed there by an active mind. This teeters right on the edge of description and pure abstract play of form and color. I love the way the garden emerges and then dissolves into painterly gesture and then reassembles and disassembles itself over and over again.
THIRD AWARD
Wetland in Blues– Salli Marti
Juror's comment
This is just a beautiful painting, and beautiful in pretty conventional ways. Not usually the kind of thing that I am drawn to, but I kept coming back to it. It is deceptively simple and disarming, but there is real sophistication in the color pallet, and the masterful layering of the various textures bring both light and space into existence simultaneously. There is an unselfconscious effortlessness in the paint handing. The final effect is open and breezy and refreshing like a walk in the woods.
HONORABLE MENTION
Clouds on the Trail–Anne Abate
HONORABLE MENTION
Swan Creek Oct. 9–Paul Brand
HONORABLE MENTION
Hancock Woodlands 2–Jennifer Sowders
HONORABLE MENTION
Currents–Kay Weprin
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