Art As Memoir: Regional Juried Show

September 27-October 26
Gallery Hours: Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00-5:00pm

Congratulations to award-winners Fern Apfel (1st Prize) Philip James Palmieri (2nd Prize), Tom Fox (3rd Prize) and Betsy Jacks, Monica Miller Link and Linda McNutt (Honorable Mentions). Thanks to jurors Ian Berry and Sienna Patti for their thoughtful selections and insightful analyses. You can view this show online.

Artists living in Columbia County and nearby counties in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut submitted works based on a personal memory or memories. The subject could be people, places, objects, or events from one’s past, and work submitted could be in any artistic style (representational or abstract) or medium. The juried exhibit features 72 works by 48 artists in a range of media.including oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings, graphite and charcoal drawings, mixed media and collage, fiber art, printmaking, digital media, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. The exhibit was juried in a blind process by guest jurors Ian Berry (director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College) and Sienna Patti (founder of Sienna Patti Contemporary Art Gallery in Lenox, MA

“It was a pleasure to jury “Art as Memoir. I was struck by the honesty and variety in the work—some pieces felt like confessions, others like quiet reflections or fragments of memory,” says juror Patti. “Each artist approached the theme in their own way, using their materials to tell stories that were personal, layered, and deeply felt. Choosing was not easy, but it was meaningful. I’m grateful to have spent time with this work.”

The featured artists include Fern Apfel (Kinderhook, NY), Alison Bachorik (Albany, NY), Dorene Beller (Great Barrington, MA), Daisy Benardo (Lee, MA), Brian “Scout” Buono (Chatham, NY), Joan Burkhard (Stockbridge, MA), Robert Calame (Great Barrington, MA), Rebecca Katherine Conroy (Hudson, NY), Ellen Crimmins (Salt Point, NY), Stephen Dallmus (Shutesbury, MA), Krista Edlund Dalton (North Egremont, MA), Mary Delaney Connelly (High Falls, NY), Julia K. Dixon (Julia K Dixon, MA), Sarah Domoff (Albany, NY), Melissa J. Forbes (Philmont, NY), Tom Fox (Albany, NY), Tara A. Fracalossi (Valatie, NY), Peter Nicholas Fritsch (Copake, NY), Amy Gavaris (Chatham, NY), Douglas Gilbert (Williamstown, MA), Tom Gladd (Rensselaer, NY), Laurie Goodhart (Cambridge, NY), Betsy Jacks (Chatham, NY), Jude Kallok (Monson, MA), Irina Kaplan (Niskayuna, NY), Christine Kingery (Clifton Park, NY), Sue Muskat Knoll (Great Barrington, MA), Bruce Laird (Lee, MA), Judith G. Levy (Rhinebeck, NY), Monica Miller Link (Malden Bridge, NY), John MacGruer (Great Barrington, MA), Meagan Mason (Troy, NY), James McNamara (Stockbridge, MA), Linda McNutt (Hudson, NY), Nancy L. Meissner (Canaan, NY), Moira O’Grady (Chatham, NY), Philip James Palmieri (Loudonville, NY), Katherine Patterson (Chatham, NY), Andrew Pellettieri (Kinderhook, NY), Aleksandra Scepanovic (Woodstock, NY), Joel Schiller (Chatham, NY), Lizbeth Shelley (Copake, NY), Janelle Sing (Hillsdale, NY), Kara Smith (Sheffield, MA), Randy Swann (Hurley, NY), Betty Wilde-Biasiny (Olivebridge, NY), Nancy Wood (North Adams, MA), and Kenneth Young (Ghent, NY).