Spring High Road Exhibit 2010

Spring Show 2010, High Road Gallery

12 E. Stafford Ave, Worthington, OH


www.highroadgallery.org

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	BEST OF SHOW
	Monika Leon
	“The Secret Garden”

FIRST PLACE	SECOND PLACE	THIRD PLACE
Sherry Mullet	Marianne Miller	Jeanie Coy Auseon
“Kilimanjaro”	“Afternoon Feeding”	“Windblown”
	HONORABLE MENTIONS

Ron Porta	Jules Knowlton	Laura Nash
“Dayton Street Vision”	“Fiesta”	“Grand Canyon Vista”

Barbara Rores	John Behling	Ernest Lockridge
“My Tomato”	“Red"	“Sedona Dusk”
JUDGES COMMENTS
Judge’s Comments and Award Winners: “Arts Alive in Technicolor” surrounds the viewer with a superabundance of saturated color. Too often, out in the world, we take color for granted; but, here, in the gallery, the rewards of the artists’ experimentation with this single element is at once fundamental and spectacular. After viewing this “technicolor” exhibition your world will never be the same again. The outstanding exemplars of color in action are: Best of Show: “The Secret Garden” (Monika Leon). Excellent technique and attention to detail in this digital photographic manipulation heightens the effect of color complexity and enriches our perception of the garden’s individual images. This piece is the “Energizer Bunny” of the exhibit and sets the tone for our technicolor journey. First Place: “Kilimanjaro” (Sherry Mullet). An oil and wax painting which excels in its ability to communicate the immutability and majesty of a natural wonder through subtle color and texture. Simple, elegant use of color. Second Place: “Afternoon Feeding” (Marianne Miller). Exceptional expression of a typical Ohio winter landscape. The “technicolor” characteristics of snow late in the day exceed the words to describe the endless bright color choices in its cool palette. Third Place: “Windblown” (Jeanie Coy Auseon). Color requires a surface to exist and the richly worked earthy colors and textures deepen our pleasure in this everyday occurrence of a playful breeze. Honorable Mention To understand color is to add dimension to our life. Therefore, these works not only add to our understanding but also exhibit skill, originality, and most importantly, commitment to the most compelling element: color. “Dayton Street Vision” (Ron Porta) twists our perception of how color defines space in a cityscape. “Fiesta” (Jules Knowlton) manifests the exuberant playfulness color imparts to 3D forms. “Grand Canyon Vista” (Laura Nash) reflects in large colorful shapes the vastness and abstraction of wide open spaces. “My Tomato” (Barbara Rores) reveals a Rubenesque tomato hidden in the undergrowth---a sensational discovery in its red richness/ ripeness. “Red” (Jon Behling) presents vertical light and dark shafts of color dancing across the surface imparting a tribal/ primitive feel to the forest. “Sedona Dusk” (Ernest Lockridge) enhances the mystical, magnetic effects of this spiritual location through complex monochromatic pigmentation. The viewer receives information, sensation and light through the artist’s energetic brush work. Congratulations to all of our award-winning artists! Judge’s Biography: Elizabeth Chrisman is a Columbus native and a graduate of St. Mary of the Springs (Ohio Dominican University) where she studied drawing and painting with Sister Eugene DeCleene, O.P. She also is a graduate The Ohio State University Graduate School with a M.A. in Art Education. Ms. Chrisman was the Department Chair of the Visual Art, Music and Theatre Departments at Upper Arlington High School. She taught in all media as well as Humanities, AP Art History and Studio Art, and initiated the Gifted and International Baccalaureate programs at the high school level. Elizabeth exhibits her work in numerous solo and adjudicated group exhibitions in Ohio and around the country. Her work has won awards including an Ohio Arts Council Award in the Fine Arts Exhibition at the Ohio State Fair. She is dedicated to the welfare of others and supporting artists and art programs. She regularly donates her work to fund-raising auctions such as the biennial “Art for Life”, the “Yart Sale” at the Columbus Museum of Art, the Ohio Art League’s “One Night Stand”, and most recently created the artwork for the “Columbus Dog Connection’s ” annual calendar. Ms. Chrisman has served as a judge for many art competitions and invitationals; most recently the Upper Arlington Cultural Arts Commission’s “Labor Day Art Show”.