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Award Winners:Tom Walkey
(BOS), Herb Goldberg (OSW/LBA), Annette Riskin (OSW), Nordia Kay
(HON), Millie quill (HON), Jerry Wishnow (HON), and Barbara Galvin
Lee (HON) Chairpersons: Patty Loynd
and Mike Haley
Committee: Susan Redfield,
Carolyn Thompson, Bob Sinclair, Christine Koretz
Judges
Chuck Ott, a native of South Jersey, developed
his interest in painting from watching his father work through many
a canvas. Chuck's curiosity in the visual arts has led him on a
journey through the obvious and to the extraordinary. After studying
printmaking at the Portland School of Art, Chuck ventured to the
Vermont Studio Center and then to Montana State University where
he completed his Masters in painting. For the past 6 years, Chuck
has taught at Montserrat College of Art. He previously taught at
Western Carolina State, Colgate University, the Munson Williams-Proctor
Institute, and Syracuse University. Chuck's primary interest in
painting resides in the manipulation of oils, encaustic, woodblocks,
and drawing while his subject matter ranges from geometric abstraction
to cosmic anomalies and the internal mechanisms of the human body,
especially the brain.
Benjamin Gross, an Associate Professor in the Salem
State College Art Department since 1997, earned a Bachelor of Fine
Arts from the University of Delaware and a Master of Fine Arts from
Cranbrook Academy of Art. His work has been shown in regional, national,
and international exhibitions, including the International Group
Exhibit of Contemporary Artists — Modern Printmaking Defined,
at the Awa Gin Plaza Gallery in Tokushima City, Japan; Gallery 401
in Providence, Rhode Island; Mangel Gallery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;
Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; Print Matters
— Invitational Exhibition at California State University
in Long Beach, California; and the Janice Charach Epstein Gallery
in West Bloomfield, Michigan. He has exhibited locally at Lynn Arts
in Lynn; OtisRein Gallery in Ipswich, Essex Art Center in Lawrence,
and the Shaunessey–Kaplan Rehabilitation Center in Salem.
Haig Demarjian, Assistant Professor of Art at Montserrat
College of Art and Salem State College, earned a Bachelor of Arts
at Middlebury College, Vermont; and a Master of Arts and Master
of Fine Arts in Printmaking and Painting at the University of Wisconsin
in Madison. Since 1991, Haig has exhibited extensively throughout
the United States, Canada, and abroad, with nine solo exhibitions
including his first museum show in November, 1994. He has received
numerous grants and awards with work represented in several international
collections, including the permanent collections of the Milwaukee
Art Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Panama, the International
Museum of Collage Montage and Assemblage in Mexico City, and the
University of Iowa Print Society Collection. Between 1999 and 2002,
he produced approximately 700 mixed media works. Documentation of
work from this period is visible online at OLTGASM! The Art
of Haig Demarjian, www.gis.net/~haigd.
Currently he is involved in two major projects: a series of paintings
and a long-term, time-based narrative piece. |
