ANNUAL
JURIED SHOW
2008
National Juried Show:
PAINTING AS PRESENCE
Juror: William Bailey
May 9 - June 27, 2008
Opening Reception: Fri,
May 9, 5:30-7:30
An additional
reception will be held as part of the Audubon Arts on the Edge
Coordinated Gallery Openings on Saturday, June 7, from 4 to
7 pm.
Creative Arts Workshop presents Painting
as Presence, a national exhibition revealing some of the
richness and diversity of painters working today. Juried
by William Bailey, Kingman Brewster Professor of Art Emeritus,
Yale University, Painting as Presence features seventy-nine
artists from across the country “seeking to bring life
and presence from inert materials,” according to Mr.
Bailey. The exhibition of eighty-five total works will
be on view in the Workshop’s two-story Hilles Gallery
from May 9 to June 30 and an opening reception will be held
on Friday, May 9 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. An additional
reception will be held as part of the Audubon Arts on the Edge
Coordinated Gallery Openings on Saturday, June 7, from 4 to
7 pm.
The jurying process for Painting as Presence was
highly selective with over 1100 entries submitted by 383 artists. Mr.
Bailey truly examined each entry over the course of two days
and the diversity of the exhibition varies with styles and subjects,
ranging from realistic landscapes, portraits, and still lifes
to abstract works that focus on the spatial context, movement,
and color. Each artwork has its own presence in the exhibition – one
painting focuses on the process of painting, another expresses
mortality and pain, yet another deals with the aesthetics of
surface. Together, the works present an interesting palette
for the show.
Creative Arts Workshop holds a national
juried exhibition each year to showcase the work of emerging
and established artists from across the nation, highlighting
its mission of fostering creativity through participation in
and appreciation of the visual arts.
PRIZEWINNERS
& HONORABLE MENTION
William Bailey selected two prizewinners
to share a two-person exhibition at Creative Arts Workshop in
2009: Helen Byler (West
Haven, CT) and Carrie Mae Smith (West Tisbury,
MA). He also awarded six Honorable Mentions in order to
recognize the tremendous quality of the work in Painting
as Presence: Julia Coash (New Haven, CT), Bryn
Gillette (New Milford, CT), Marsha Goldberg (Highland
Park, NJ), Willard Lustenader (Greenwich, CT), James
Swainbank (Torrington, CT), and Brian Washburn (New
York, NY).
LOCAL ARTISTS WITH TIES TO CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP
CAW is pleased to note that prizewinner Helen Byler (West
Haven, CT) is a faculty member in the Drawing & Painting
department at CAW and former head of the department, and honorable
mention recipient Willard Lustanader (Greenwich,
CT) has been a member of the CAW faculty. A number of additional
participating artists have also had ties to CAW and a number
of them continue to: Binnie
Birstein (Weston, CT), Eileen Carey (Milford, CT), Eileen
Eder (Guilford, CT), Josh Gaetjen (New Haven, CT), Jean
Galli (Branford, CT), Kathy Kane (East Haven, CT), Peter
Rumbin (Hamden, CT), and Deirdre Schiffer (Branford,
CT).
FROM THE JUROR
Almost four hundred artists from
all over the country submitted eleven hundred entries for this
exhibition. Their paintings
reflected a wide range of attitudes, conventions, and sensibilities. Our
selection process required two days of intense looking and I
studied the same works again and again in an attempt to create
an exhibition of both quality and diversity. There was
a great deal of good work – more than the space allowed
me to include. Finally, only seventy-nine artists could
be accepted. I congratulate them and also wish to praise
and encourage many others whose work had to be eliminated. Here’s
to the magic of painting and to those who pursue the transcendent
form.
-Juror William Bailey, Kingman
Brewster Professor of Art Emeritus, Yale University.
ABOUT
THE JUROR
William Bailey was born in Iowa in
1930. He attended the
University of Kansas from 1948 to 1951, served in combat with
the U.S. Army during the Korean War, and later studied painting
with Josef Albers at Yale University, where he received a BFA
in 1955 and MFA in 1957.
Mr. Bailey has had solo exhibitions
in museums and galleries throughout the United States and abroad. His work can be
found in the permanent collections of museums such as: Museum
of Modern Art, New York, The Art Institute of Chicago, Hirshhorn
Museum, Washington, D.C., Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York, and the Yale University Art Gallery. He was awarded
a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1965 and an Ingram Merrill Fellowship
in 1975. In 1982 he was elected to the National Academy
of Design and in 1986 to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He
is also a member of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, Rome.
Mr. Bailey taught at the Yale School
of Art for many years and is now Kingman Brewster Professor
Emeritus. In addition
to his teaching at Yale, he has taught at Indiana University,
Cooper Union, Southern Methodist University, and the University
of Pennsylvania.
He is the subject of two monographs, William Bailey by
Mark Strand, Abrams, NY, and William Bailey by John
Hollander and Giuliano Briganti, Rizzoli, NY.
William Bailey lives and works in
Connecticut and in Umbria, Italy. His most recent exhibition
was at the Betty Cunningham Gallery in New York, October and
November 2007.
PAST JURIED SHOWS
2007:
Ceramic Abstraction: Exploration and Evidence,
juried by Paula Winokur, internationally renowned ceramic
artist
2006:
Particular Places, juried
by Bernard Chaet William Leffingwell Professor of Painting Emeritus
Yale University School of Art
2005:
Close to Home, juried by Jacquelyn D. Serwer, Chief Curator
of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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