“FACE TO FACE” National Juried Exhibition
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“FACE TO FACE” National Juried Exhibition
After a couple years of coping with the pandemic and the isolation that many have experienced, we have come to value face to face interactions with others. And many of us have encountered coming face to face with our own selves. JUROR: TaVee Lee, Transmission Gallery, Oakland “FACE TO FACE” IN-PERSON OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, May 14th 7-9PM EXHIBITION: May 14 - June 11, 2022 |
Purchase artwork through the “FACE TO FACE” On-Line Store:
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“Art is coming face to face with yourself.” - Jackson Pollock
“FACE TO FACE” ON-LINE ARTISTS TALK #1 recorded on Wednesday, May 18th
with Paul Benavidez, Dustin Bonivert, Robin Brownfield, Rachel Davis, Elizabeth Kendall, Johanne Marion,
Jill Nahrstedt, Gabrielle Rondell, John Sheridan, Siana Smith, Noga Wizansky, & Maria Zhalnina
watch at: https://youtu.be/MhpNGqwJMg4
“FACE TO FACE” ON-LINE ARTISTS TALK #2 recorded on Wednesday, May 25th
with Alexandra Beaumont, Penny Cagney, Naomi Stein Cooper, Merrilyn Duzy, David Enriquez,
Lucy Julia Hale, Michael Kesselman, Beverly Patterson, Paul Ransohoff, Jeremy Sutton, & Josh Wright
watch at: https://youtu.be/3TjdkaGwmYY
with Paul Benavidez, Dustin Bonivert, Robin Brownfield, Rachel Davis, Elizabeth Kendall, Johanne Marion,
Jill Nahrstedt, Gabrielle Rondell, John Sheridan, Siana Smith, Noga Wizansky, & Maria Zhalnina
watch at: https://youtu.be/MhpNGqwJMg4
“FACE TO FACE” ON-LINE ARTISTS TALK #2 recorded on Wednesday, May 25th
with Alexandra Beaumont, Penny Cagney, Naomi Stein Cooper, Merrilyn Duzy, David Enriquez,
Lucy Julia Hale, Michael Kesselman, Beverly Patterson, Paul Ransohoff, Jeremy Sutton, & Josh Wright
watch at: https://youtu.be/3TjdkaGwmYY
Order the "FACE TO FACE" National Juried Exhibition catalog at $35 each via Amazon at:
https://www.amazon.com/Face-Arc-Gallery
https://www.amazon.com/Face-Arc-Gallery
Juror's Choice Award Winners:
Xia Gao, Noga Wizansky, & Maria Zhalnina
Xia Gao, Noga Wizansky, & Maria Zhalnina
"FACE TO FACE" Featured Artists at Arc Gallery: Norman Aragones, Carrington Arredondo, Marsha Balian, Alexandra Beaumont, Paul Benavidez, Thuy Linh Bennett-Kang, Dustin Bonivert, Robin Brownfield, Jean-Marc Brugeilles, Penny Cagney, Naomi Stein Cooper, Daniel Crowe, Aubrey Davis, Rachel Davis, Merrilyn Duzy, David Enriquez, Jayne Foster, Xia Gao, Ellen Gust, Lucy Julia Hale, Molly Kaderka, Elizabeth Kendall, Michael Kesselman, Sue Lyttge, Stephen Mangum, Johanne Marion, Jill Nahrstedt, Beverly Patterson, Paul Ransohoff, Eric Rippert, Heather Rison, Randy Rocchi, Gabrielle Rondell, David Rothman, John Sheridan, Siana Smith, Sally Kristina Smith, Dobee Snowber, Jeremy Sutton, Noga Wizansky, Josh Wright, Jade Zabrowski, & Maria Zhalnina
selected images from the "FACE TO FACE" National Juried Exhibition:
"FACE TO FACE" On-Line Gallery Artists: Thuy Linh Bennett-Kang, Greg Borman, Susan Costes, Adele Crawford, Jimmy Descant, Ofra Fisher, Allegra Gibson, Lucy Julia Hale, Joey Jones, Molly Kaderka, Elina Kudryavtseva, Peter Lopez, Marcus Michels, Zoe Mosko, Pamela Pitt, Jude Pittman, Richard Poulin, Bill Prochnow, Paul Ransohoff, Jennifer Riggs, Randy Rocchi, Ari Salomon, John Sheridan, Amber Sibley, Sally Kristina Smith, Karen Worth
"FACE TO FACE" Juror's Statement:
I was pleased to be invited as the juror having had a keen interest in portraiture, narrative elements, and figuration for a very long time. That interest, along with a felt sense for the physical act of art making, informed my selections for “Face to Face.” From an appreciation for the sensation of handling fabric, tearing paper, meditatively applying just the right amount of burn, painstakingly painting in careful blended color or handling paint in broad, gestural movement, I found evidence of these physical components compelling. Even the feeling of containment on a small scale, such as a post-it note, or the rough freedom of larger brushstrokes motivated my desire to experience the work first hand.
There were quite a few variations on similar themes in the submitted work. For example, the obvious on-line/devices/virtual face to face theme, which is a delicious and fascinating theme. I favored works approaching this idea in different ways, from simple direct representation of devices as commonplace intermediaries to humor about selfie self-absorption. Sometimes the artist’s statement brought in an intriguing multilayered twist, such as choosing someone unknown to the artist, following them online as a practice in “knowing” them and then creating a “meaningful” face to face image. Implied is a complete lack of awareness the “real” person has of the relationship, though perhaps the posted images will find their way back through social media, “hey so-and-so – isn’t this you?” their other on-line “friends” ask, and so what at first glance is “just” a drawing becomes relational and interactive.
Several of the chosen works address more challenging concepts. With the pandemic as backdrop, shocking and painful world events called out for many to face legacies of shame, complicities, inequities, and grief. Intense, and not pretty. In some of the works the issue is obvious, in others a greater awareness of the subject matter might be necessary to take in the complexity or deeper nature of the conflict.
Throughout I endeavored to select a spectrum of human experience from the pieces at hand.
- TaVee Lee
I was pleased to be invited as the juror having had a keen interest in portraiture, narrative elements, and figuration for a very long time. That interest, along with a felt sense for the physical act of art making, informed my selections for “Face to Face.” From an appreciation for the sensation of handling fabric, tearing paper, meditatively applying just the right amount of burn, painstakingly painting in careful blended color or handling paint in broad, gestural movement, I found evidence of these physical components compelling. Even the feeling of containment on a small scale, such as a post-it note, or the rough freedom of larger brushstrokes motivated my desire to experience the work first hand.
There were quite a few variations on similar themes in the submitted work. For example, the obvious on-line/devices/virtual face to face theme, which is a delicious and fascinating theme. I favored works approaching this idea in different ways, from simple direct representation of devices as commonplace intermediaries to humor about selfie self-absorption. Sometimes the artist’s statement brought in an intriguing multilayered twist, such as choosing someone unknown to the artist, following them online as a practice in “knowing” them and then creating a “meaningful” face to face image. Implied is a complete lack of awareness the “real” person has of the relationship, though perhaps the posted images will find their way back through social media, “hey so-and-so – isn’t this you?” their other on-line “friends” ask, and so what at first glance is “just” a drawing becomes relational and interactive.
Several of the chosen works address more challenging concepts. With the pandemic as backdrop, shocking and painful world events called out for many to face legacies of shame, complicities, inequities, and grief. Intense, and not pretty. In some of the works the issue is obvious, in others a greater awareness of the subject matter might be necessary to take in the complexity or deeper nature of the conflict.
Throughout I endeavored to select a spectrum of human experience from the pieces at hand.
- TaVee Lee
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Juror: TaVee Lee, Transmission Gallery, Oakland
TaVee Lee has been the director, coordinator or on the curatorial team handling many exhibitions at a number of venues and galleries over the last 15 years. An artist herself, she has a lot of passion for supporting the vision of other artists in her current roles as the Transmission Gallery manager and as the Exhibitions Director at GearBox Gallery, both in Oakland, CA. As an artist, she earned a BFA in painting and printmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute and now explores more esoteric and unconventional work in her own art practice. - http://thetransmissiongallery.com/index.html |
