Grace Lucarelli, Author at The Art Guild of Port Washington, Inc.

My “20/20” World: Photography Show, Juried Competition and Exhibition Feb 10, 2021-Mar 10, 2021

by Grace Lucarelli | Oct 14, 2020 | Homepage

My “20/20” World Photography Show, Online Juried Competition and Exhibition
On view: Feb 10, 2021 – Mar 10, 2021
Artists Online Awards & Reception: Wed, Feb 10, 7:30pm

Congratulations to the following photographers for acceptance to our online juried exhibit!

Linda Abrams – Still Life
Pratibha Agdern – Painted by the Rain
Hailey Arnold* – Lunch Box
Debra Baer – It’s Been Jarring
Henry Butz – French Horn
Erick Cisneros* – Point of View
Dan Cook – Social Distance
Ariana Cruz* – Lonely Soul
Mike DiRenzo – Red Dress at Dawn, Delicate Arch
Kathleen DiResta – Sea Cliff Isolation, Summer Getaway
John Drummond – Dangling Branches
Judith Feinman – United During Quarantine
Thomas Fitzpatrick* – A New Day
Adrianna Flores* – Sunshine
Heather Heckel – Elkmont Door
Jeff Holtzman- It must be 5 pm somewhere.
Randi Ilowite – Mel’s Sweet Sixteen
Annette Kasle – 20/20 Mother Moves In #10, 20/20 Family Picnic
Dan Kasle – 20/20 Garage Studio Portraits “Bill”, 20/20 No Hugs
Sue Kwasnick – We May Be Broken But We Still Reflect
Kirk Larsen – Waterdrop Dawn
Eleni Litt – Be Safe
Allyson Lovera* – Vain
Mark Mancher – Home Connection
Avrel Menkes – New Vaccine Dream
John Micheals – Hot Wired
Jeanne Millspaugh – Wanting Spring – Camellia
Maddy Mistretta* – Same Thing, Different Day, Wake Me When This Is Over
Shaylee Moreno* – Day’s End
Alyssa Nicolo* – All Good Things Come to an End
Loretta Oberheim – Around the Back
AndiMarie Ordonez* – Expectations Vs. The Creator

* High School Student

Denise Ortell – Feathers
Patricia Paladines – Love Heals
Liliana Parlakian* – Hidden Rainbow
Daniella Pedi* – Drowning
Jonathan Pellow – Snowswept
Jean-Paul Picard – BLM POP-UP Memorial, Hoboken #1
Ana Ramirez* – Red Climax
Hannah Ramirez* – Leaves
Allyson Rice – I Can’t Breathe, Covid Self Portrait
Lorraine Rilling – Inside
Jeffrey Rothburd – Wynwood
Steven Russo – Warmth
Jordana Sheinman* – Rays of Gold
Paula Sherman – june third sunrise
Phil Sievers – Ring of Kerry
Ilene Silberstein – Deer Pod
Steve Silberstein – Cold Hope
Susan Kozodoy Silkowitz – People At The Oculus
James Slezak – Orange
Barbara Socor – Texting, Step Lightly
Barbara Spivak – Looking Glass, Hydrangea
Alan Stein – Free Flight, Pier
Janet Susin – Holding Fast
Susan Tiffen – Covid Red Edged Hydrangea
Gianna Torgersen* – Overcoming Desolation
Elisa Triffleman – 2020 Foaming
Jane Tujak – Driftwood
Natalia Ventura – A Solitary Frog
Carol Weinberg – Stop Killing
Joan Weiss – There’s a Rabbit in the Office
David Wollin – Oxbow Bend, Dusk on the Danube
Trisha Wright – View From My Window

The Art Guild invites all photographers and artists, high school and older, to submit photography for consideration for My “20/20” World Photography Show, an Online Juried Competition and Exhibition.

What is your “20/20” vision? The past year limited our access to the world and posed unprecedented challenges. It also sparked our creativity. We photographed indoors; or, mask in place, we ventured out to capture new images. Perhaps past work came to mind and we used this time to review or revise it. Show us art that shines through a difficult time. Your work will be exhibited in an online gallery.

CRITERIA All photographic genre are welcome: portraits, landscapes, photojournalism, macro photography and composites. All work must be original. Submitted work must be the artist’s own. Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered.

JUROR OF AWARDS Award winning photographers Bill and Gen Rudock will serve as Jurors of Awards. With over 60 years combined photographic experience, they share a love and passion for photography, traveling, nature, and wildlife. Their knowledge and their reputations have made them sought after speakers, lecturers and workshop instructors.

ENTRIES

Digital submissions of up to three (3) images uploaded to our website (preferred method) or via email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org

be between 1MB and a maximum of 3MB each, and 1,000 pixels on their shortest side. To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com
label your images as follows: artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg)
You MUST change the actual name of the image file.
DO NOT UPLOAD IMAGES NAMED IMAGE.jpg or FULLRESOLUTION.jpg or similar.

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org– with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment.

If paying by check, download printable form

ENTRY FEE(S) Entry fees are payable online when you upload or by mailing a check or using Paypal as detailed below. Registration is required and fees are non-refundable.

Members: $25 (1-2 pieces)
Non-members: $35 (1-2 pieces)
High School Student members: $15 (1-2 pieces)
One additional entry: $10 (per person)
No more than 3 works per artist. Entry fees are non-refundable.

FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after January 20, 2021, either by email or here on the website. Notified artists should email a 1-page artist’s statement for inclusion in the online gallery.

AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions • Student awards will also be given, if appropriate.

LIABILITY & INSURANCE The Liability Waiver on the entry form must be signed by the artist submitting images for consideration. It is the responsibility of the participating artist to insure or self-insure any work submitted for inclusion in this exhibit.

AWARDS

1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions • Student Awards will also be given if appropriate.

CALENDAR & IMPORTANT DATES

DEADLINE: Monday, January 18, 2021 at midnight EST – Application, images and payment must be received.

ACCEPTANCE/REJECTION NOTIFICATION: After January 22, 2021, either by email or here on the website.

ONLINE EXHIBIT
• February 10, 2021 – March 10, 2021

ONLINE, VIRTUAL Artist’s Reception & Awards Ceremony
• Wednesday, February 10 at 7:30 pm

QUESTIONS & TROUBLESHOOTING

QUESTIONS Call 516-304-5797 or email info@TheArtGuild.org

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment.

Emailed images must include your name, contact information and the title, medium, value, and size in your email.

To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com

SELLING YOUR ARTWORK

Artwork may be sold directly by the artist with a suggested donation of 20% of the selling price from the artist to The Art Guild. Note, however, that sales may not be made at the exhibition. All work must remain on view for the duration of the exhibit.

We are listed on Photo Contest GURU – Photography Competitions Directory

ONLINE Mini Session Watercolor with Denis Ponsot Wed AM

by Grace Lucarelli | Oct 9, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

ONLINE MINI SESSION WATERCOLOR WITH DENIS PONSOT

3 Classes!

WEDNESDAYS, 10 am – 12 pm EST

Dec 2, 9, & 16
Fee for Fall Session: $99 Members / $135 Non-members

With over twenty years’ experience teaching, Instructor Denis Ponsot has designed this informative class to demonstrate all the “shop tricks” in watercolor painting. Both beginning and experienced students will learn to avoid common pitfalls and advance their abilities. The focus will be on students individually, helping them realize their full watercolor potential. Explore a variety of watercolor techniques with an emphasis on developing one’s own style. Includes demonstrations of color and design, wet on wet, and dry-brush techniques. Students choose to paint from still life arrangements, photos, or their own subjects.

“We look forward to the next class the minute each one is completed! He is engaging and informative….and shares all of his techniques, experiences and varied artistic expressions with the class while giving superb directives for the current work in progress.”

About Denis

Award-winning artist, Denis Ponsot has worked in all of the various media but prefers to work in watercolor. He also teaches watercolor painting, oils, mixed media, and drawing from introductory to advanced levels to children and adults.

He says, “Teaching is my greatest inspiration. The combination of teaching and painting has helped to make my artistic experience complete. Working with students is important to me because I enjoy helping them with their painting and drawing problems. I am able to encourage them to experiment with their own ideas. I take pleasure in helping my students expand their artistic horizons beyond their expectations.” Denis teaches at The Craft Students League and The Kids Club in Manhattan and at the Art Guild in addition to accepting commissions in watercolor, oil, and portrait painting.

Denis has developed watercolor portfolios in three areas: “Landscape,” “Flowers and Still Life” and “The Figure and Portraits.” His work can be viewed on his Facebook page @DenisPonsot or at www.denisponsot.com.

ONLINE Art of the Mark: A workshop in Abstraction with Laura Shabott and Alana Barrett

by Grace Lucarelli | Sep 25, 2020 | Past Classes and Workshops

ONLINE: The Art of the Mark: A workshop in Abstraction

with Laura Shabott and Alana Barrett

Friday, December 18th | 10am – 3pm
$125 Members/$160 Non-members

In this online course, we will discuss how mark-making is a fundamental part of abstract painting. You will study Hans Hofmann’s theory of push/pull, the precursor of Abstract Expressionism in a slide presentation, demonstration, and guided exercises that transform your range of mark-making. In the afternoon, we will move to hard-edge abstraction, with a slide presentation of contemporary artists, a demonstration, and guided exercises to learn this essential abstraction skill.

About the Blue Chair Series:

The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown is down the street from me. I was a week-long returning resident in a large bright studio with a huge roll of Fabriano paper and water-based paints. I made these abstracts prompted from a still life on the floor with cleaning equipment dipped in paint and wide brushes duct taped to broom handles. Later, I found out the room was a studio that Hans Hofmann used when he lived in Provincetown.

ABOUT LAURA SHABOTT

Artist Laura Shabott received a studio diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at TUFTS in 1995. Concurrently, she discovered Provincetown and settled there. About her art, Emily Mergel writes in Artscope Magazine “Shabott continually draws inspiration from abstract expressionist Hans Hofmann and breaks forms into their most evocative essentials…She seizes the opportunity to burst the gallery walls, speaking with intentional gesture in visual vocabulary all her own.”

Shabott has shown with Berta Walker Gallery, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Four Eleven Gallery, Provincetown Art Association and Museum and Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. She is represented by Berta Walker Gallery.

ABOUT ALANA BARRETT

Artist Bio: Alana Barrett is a recent graduate of the University of Miami, and she has a degree in Studio Art and a minor in biology. She is a multidisciplinary artist that works across a variety of two-dimensional and three-dimensional mediums, including painting, woodworking, electronics, and fabrics. Her work spans a variety of subject matter from robotic sculptures to hard-edged abstract paintings. All of her work, however, is united by playful spatial relationships and whimsical perspectives, as well as a re-engagement with an almost kindergarten style of learning through her curious nature and willingness to experiment. She is currently teaching at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, as well as the Lighthouse ArtCenter.

Artist statement: I paint to experiment, play, and discover. My studio practice is process-driven – in that I am more concerned with the process of discovering something new on the canvas than the end result. Teaching art has recently become a large part of my practice as well; it has helped me develop a sort of consciousness and vocabulary to the typically intuitive decisions I make as I paint, thus empowering me to dive deeper, play harder, and take bolder risks as I work. Her work can be viewed at: www.alanacbarrett.com Instagram: alanacbarrett

The Art of the Mark: Abstract Show, Juried Competition and Exhibition

by Grace Lucarelli | Sep 21, 2020 | Homepage

The Art of the Mark Abstract Show, Online Juried Competition and Exhibition
On view: Dec 3, 2020 – Jan 10, 2021
Artists Awards & Reception: Thurs, Dec 3, 7:30pm

Congratulations to the following artists for acceptance to our online juried exhibit!

Deborah Adler – Dance with Me
Phyllis Anderson – Roar, Slope #4
John Armstrong – 8.22.2020
Jo-Anne Behal – Textures and Lines, Circles of Life
Hannah Bouchard – Clenching, Closing
Ed Condon – Money Dreams
Joseph Cooke – Sunday In The Park, Keep Sailing On
Diane D’Agostino – Spring Delivery
Sheryl Renee Dobson – Shield of Faith
Dana Epstein – Ceremony
Karen Fagelman – 3 Women
Simon Fenster – Pandemic Hope
Ming Franz – Emergence
Anjali Gauld* – I Love You More
Alicia Gitlitz – Blue Craze, Dancing with the Stars
Marceil Kazickas, Complicated Logic
Karen Kirshner – Come to the Jamboree, All Angles
Joan Klein – Black and White Medley
Rosemary Konatich – Coney Island Colors I
Denise Kramer – Vertical Thoughts Grey and Red I, Vertical and Horizontal with Yellow
Anthony Lanza – Blue Jean Matrix
Laurie Levine – Outer Limits
Donna Litke – Sun, Moon, Wind, Earth
Danielle Livioti – Spread Love

*HS student artist

Isabelle Lopez – Kotara Calypso
James Mai – Winter Garden (rhombi 6,1,1,1)
Baruch May – New Day
Avrel Menkes – Garden Ladder
Barbara Miller – Loving the Rust, Indian Summer
Susan Morrison – April Rain
Shourabh Mukherji – Scultural Romance
Stephanie Navon-Jacobson – Industry
Loretta Oberheim – Identity
Lisa O’Connor – Breakthroughs, Cosmos
Alicia Peterson – Infinity
Randi Benum Roernes – Nebula Imagined 2
Howard Rose – Presence
Susan Rostan – Sunset
Linda Ruden – Floating Through It All
Ellen Hallie Schiff – Late October, Autumn
Barbara Spivak – House of Cards
Barbara Stein – Playful Shapes
Joan Stevens – Optimism
Chelsea Stewart – Hole
Hui Tian – Coronavirus 2020
Margo Vignola – Pond
Gaetana Zanzonico – Mystical Waters
Alyson Zeller* – Rainbow Way

The Art Guild invites all artists, high school and older, to submit artworks for consideration for “The Art of the Mark: Abstract Show” a Juried Competition and Exhibition.

Abstract art has its own language using color, form, shape, line, texture and marks . The marks you make as an abstract artist are intensely personal. Successful mark making can communicate ideas or emotions.

Which marks are yours?

CRITERIA All styles from non-objective to abstracted realism are welcome. All works must be original and have been created in the last five years. References used in the creation of the submitted work must be the artist’s own, or copyright-released for use in this work. Works previously exhibited at The Art Guild Gallery will not be considered.

MEDIUMS Included but not limited to: acrylic, charcoal, collage, colored pencil, ink, mixed media, oil, pastel, pencil, printmaking, sculpture, or watercolor. NO Photography, Copies, Master Copies, Reproductions OR Giclees.

JUROR OF AWARDS: Karli Wurzelbacher, PhD, Curator at the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY.

ENTRIES

If accepted, submitted images will be used for the online gallery. Try to photograph your image:

– in natural light
– unframed
– be sure that the image is straight
– there is no glare on glass or varnished surface

For tips on photographing your art, please click here for a tutorial by TAG member Steve Silberstein.

Digital submissions of up to three (3) images via email to artshow@TheArtGuild.org or uploaded to our website:

be between 1MB and 3MB each. To resize or compress your images, go to PICRESIZE.com
label your images as follows: artist’s lastname_firstname_entrynumber_title.jpg (ex: smith_john_1_beachsunset.jpg)
You MUST change the actual name of the image file.

If you have problems with the uploader, please email your images to artshow@TheArtGuild.org – with ALL contact information, image titles and mediums. We will invoice you for payment. Submission will not be included in curating without payment.

If paying by check, download printable form

ENTRY FEE(S) Registration is required and fees are non-refundable.

Members: $20 (1-2 pieces) or $30 (an additional piece).
Non-members: $30 (1-2 pieces) or $40 (an additional piece)
Student members: $10 (1-2 pieces) or $20 (an additional piece)
No more than 3 works per artist

FINALISTS The Selection Committee will review all entries and notify each artist as to the acceptance of the submitted work. The Art Guild has the right, in its sole discretion, to choose which eligible entries will be accepted to be exhibited. All decisions are final. Artists whose work has been selected will be notified after November 10, 2020, either by email or here on the website.

AWARDS 1st Place $300 • 2nd Place $200 • 3rd Place $100 • Honorable Mentions