Paint Exchange Recipients 1997
Following are the latest winners of the Liquitex Paint Exchange Program. Our selection jury thought that they had good ideas and as the work is completed it will be hung in the Liquitex Art Gallery.
DECEMBER 1997
Sharon Wiencek, Ohio University
Sharon spent last Spring touring Europe. While visiting the former concentration camp at Auschwitz, she conceived an 11-panel piece that will depict in an abstract/modernism way the atrocities and inhumanities that occured there during World War II. Sharon will be working on cardboard, a material she feels is humble and will let her convey the sense of fragility she felt while at Auschwitz.NOVEMBER 1997
Terri Covington Dilling, Georgia State University
Terri is planning to create a mixed media piece titled "Wing Beats", which will abstractly depict birds in flight and explore the joyful and mysterious essence of flight.
Estelle N. Hart, Georgia State University
Estelle plans to study rock formations in the Southeast and create semi-abstract artwork focusing on the textures and colors created in the interaction of the rocks and the changing weather and time cycles.OCTOBER 1997
Lucas Rau, Dutchess Community College (NJ)
Lucas plans to creat a multi-dimensional mixed media collage interpreting life through the eyes of a immigrant Gen-X'er adapting to life in the United StatesSEPTEMBER 1997
Andrea Seabridge, Mercer Community College (NJ)
Instructor: Mel Leipzig
Andrea would like to paint her mid-life crisis using various textures to create a tapestry effect detailing all the changes she is going through.AUGUST 1997
Donna Blumenfeld, Shimer College
Instructor: Nancy Rose
Donna plans to create a low-toned surrealistic painting about failed communications, crossed wires and broken lines.
Roberto Ferreira, City College of New York
Instructor: Leopoldo Fuentes
Roberto would like to create a pyramid which experiments with ambiguity through optical illusion by reversing the actual shapes of the angles he works with.JULY 1997
Jonathan Allen, Columbia College
Instructor: Archie Rand
Jonathan will create a series of paintings combining African and Carribean mask imagery with the repitition of geometric patterns and Persian architectural motifs.
Leslie Gabaldon, Art Students League of New York
Instructor: Bruce Dorfman
Leslie plans to create a painting depicting people's feelings when it rains. It will be an interpretational view of New Yorkers walking alone in the rain with a variety of umbrellas in different colors, textures, shapes and angles.JUNE 1997
Lillian Votta, Lee College
Instructor: Trina Cooper
Lillian plans to create a 24x36 painting of her interpretation of a young girl dancing on the ocean in synch with the rhythm of the waves.
William Tam, Savannah College of Art and Design
Instructor: Karen McVay, Foundations Department
William would like to emulate Pollack's style and technique with an Asian theme hoping to convey the "wingbeats" of a dragon.MAY 1997
Florine Demosthene, Parsons School of Design
Instructor: Howard MacCalleb
Florine would like to create a series of ten 8'x8' paintings that explore the Brooklyn cityscape experimenting with transparent gels and mediums to capture the mood of the city.
Lara James, Riverside Community College
Instructor: Bill Mitchell
Lara plans to take refrigerator art to a new level. She would like to paint a full size refrigerator in a variety of acrylic colors and textures (glass beads and gels) and then adhere different media to it.APRIL 1997
Lise Gervais, School of Visual Art, NYC
Instructor: Elaine O'Brien
Lise plans to paint a series of 16" x 16" paintings using the swirls and stripes found on the sides of tourist buses symbolizing speed and efficiency.
Sebastian Parks, University of Kentucky
Instructor: Carol Buhrmann
Sebastian would like to explore the space of micro and macrocosmos that speaks to the vast infinity of space through a 6' x 8' painting.
Barbara Heimsch, Mt. Mary College
Instructor: Charles Kaiser
Barbara would like to paint a 46" x 48" piece of masonite using images from the novel "The Law of Love" by Laura Esquivel. These images will be interpreted through a series of small interconnected squares and rectangles against one large painting.
Gayle Stanley, Mount Empire Community College
Instructor: Alice Harrington
Gayle would like to create a painting depicting coal mining life in Appalachia as a tribute to her roots. Her grandfather, father and husband were/are all coal miners.MARCH 1997
Noah Drost, University of Hawaii
Instructor: Ron Kowalke, Professor of Art
Noah plans to create a visual autobiography using 12 18x24 panels, each consisting of a memory or pivotal experience in his life, utilizing abstract, surreal or impressionist styles.
Devan Simunovich, San Jose City College
Instructor: Eve Page, Art Director
Devan's project will use early modernist/futurist style with an emphasis on life and composition entwining architectural motifs with elements of the human form.
Naomi Rose, Northwestern College of Art
Instructor: Jeff Olsen, Dept. Head
Naomi will paint a large figurative piece using the human form for inspiration.
Korey Wilson, Parsons School of Design
Instructor: Path Soong, Design Illustration
Korey will create a series of fashion illustrations using unconventional methods and textures utilizing various acrylic media.FEBRUARY 1997
Kelly Hart, University of Kentucky
Kelly plans to further develop her method of mixing oil paint with water based paint on large wooden panels.
Mia Pastore, Parsons School of Design
Instructor: Susan Stillman
Mia plans to create 14 9"x12" panels to illustrate a children's book tentatively entitled "Who Cares About Fish?". She plans to use a combination of media in a cartoonist style.
Michele Tanner, University of Illinois
Instructor: Rosalyn Schwartz
Michele plans to further develop her techniques utilizing acrylic paint and hopefully will enter her artwork in various shows and assist her in completing projects for Master's degree in Art Education.JANUARY 1997
Roland Thompson, Brigham Young University
Instructor: Robert Marshall
Roland plans to create 12 42" x 56" acrylic paintings fusing an expressionistic landscape and visual systems or rhythms. He will donate $1,000 from the sales of the paintings to the BYU College of Fine Arts Scholarship Fund.Award recipients from 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002
