The May Show Opening Reception: Friday, May 6 at 5:00 p.m. Exhibit remains through May 30, 2011 Gualala Arts Center

Congratulations to the Winners!

"Antarctica Warming"
Marion Patterson
First Place

"Really Rococo"
Ann Berger
Second Place

"Scrum"
Jan Fogel
Third Place

The May Show, a juried art exhibit, will return to Gualala Arts Center for the second year with an opening Friday, May 6 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. through May 30. The purpose of this exhibit is to showcase outstanding visual art and artists without regard to the type of media.

The exhibit is being organized with the advice of a number of local artists locally and from the Bay Area and with input from several museum directors and curators. When the exhibit's format was being developed, the first question that needed to be answered was "what is art and what kinds of visual art should be allowed into the show." Is art just painting? Sculpture? Photography? What about woodworking? Multimedia?

This was not an easy question to answer last year, but the committee concluded that again, artists would be allowed and encouraged to enter anything they deem visual art. The pieces selected for the exhibit will depend only on the quality of the work and the juror's concepts of art. Again there will be no fixed media categories and no restrictions on entries, other than size of the pieces and no film, installation or performance art.

The distinguished juror for the first May Show was Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator of the Berkeley Art Museum. This year's juror will be Stephanie Hanor, Assistant Dean and Director of the Mills College Art Museum. She graduated from Tulane University, received an M.A. from the University of Minnesota, and a PhD. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin.

Ms. Hanor began her career as Assistant Curator of American and Contemporary Art at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin and, prior to coming to Mills College, was the Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego.

She has organized numerous exhibitions by a number of emerging as well as internationally known artists. At San Diego, she curated a major traveling exhibition devoted to contemporary Latin American and Latino art. Her scholarly interests include exploring the relationship of sound and vision.

In addition to judging the show, Ms. Hanor will give a talk entitled Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling as part of the Gualala Arts Lecture Series the night before the opening.

Artists enter their work only by digital images. The deadline for the entries will be February 1, 2011, and artists will notified of the juror's decisions in March 2011. There will be monetary prizes for the best three works selected for the show; first prize $1,000, second prize $750, third prize $500.

The opening reception for the public and participating artists will be on Friday, May 6, 2010 and the exhibit will run through May 30, 2011.

Registration forms may be downloaded or picked up at Gualala Arts Center.

Works accepted for
The May Show 2011

posted March 31

Title	Artist	City
untitled	Bill Apton	Gualala
untitled	Bill Apton	Gualala
The Diver	Bridget Beaudry Porter	Gualala
Filtered Light	Bridget Beaudry Porter	Gualala
Really Rococo	Ann Berger	The Sea Ranch
Tuscany	Ann Berger	The Sea Ranch
Smart Aleck City Girl	Hollynn D'Lil	Graton
Sun Water	Hollynn D'Lil	Graton
Macro Life	Tom Eckles	Gualala
Nature's Carpet	Tom Eckles	Gualala
Branch Series	Richard Elaver	Boone, NC
Sandstone Glyph I, Del Mar Point	Frank Field	The Sea Ranch
Dawn's Light, Del Mar Point	Frank Field	The Sea Ranch
Flowers/Fruit	Hal Martin Fogel	The Sea Ranch
Scrum	Jan Fogel	The Sea Ranch
Garden	Jan Fogel	The Sea Ranch
Soaring 4/25 Edition	Jeanne Gadol	The Sea Ranch
Trunk Harmony 4/25 Edition	Jeanne Gadol	The Sea Ranch
Stretch	Andrew Geissler	Olympia, WA
untitled	Christine Gilbert	The Sea Ranch
Flue	Jenne Giles	Oakland
Grid 3	Jenne Giles	Oakland
Cosmic Egg	Bruce Jones	Gualala
Spring Rains	Anne Kessler	Point Arena
Piano Rhapsody	Ralph Matheson	Gualala
Star of David	Ralph Matheson	Gualala
Transmutation	Jim Meilander	Gualala
Freetone Barn & Silo	Janet Moore	Bodega Bay
Red Juice Jar	Janet Moore	Bodega Bay
Veiled Half Dome	Sharon Nickodem	Gualala
Sunlit Rain	Sharon Nickodem	Gualala
Antarctica Warming	Marion Patterson	Anchor Bay
Midnight	Susan Routledge	Gualala
Wrapped Figure	Susan Shaddick	Gualala
Married Rock in N. California	Takayuki Shimada	La Canada
Coastal Fog	Victoria Vedell	San Francisco
Corner of the World	Jim Vickery	Manchester
Redwoods, Lagunitas Creek	John Wall	San Francisco
Panchas Bar, Yountville, CA	Peggy Zink	Gualala

The Gualala Arts Center, located at 46501 Old State Highway in Gualala, CA,
is open weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and weekends from noon to 4:00 p.m.
Please call (707) 884-1138 for more information, or email info@gualalaarts.org.

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