Archives: FINE ART 2020
Each month, the editors select their favorite entries in fine art (paintings, drawings, sculpture, illustration, etc.).
Thanks to all who shared their work.
Thanks to all who shared their work.
CLICK ON IMAGES to go to the artists' individual pages.
© Amy Bright Unfried
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Amy Bright Unfried is the November 2020 Featured Artist. She is a Wyoming-based sculptor who has exhibited nationwide in galleries and art centers from New England to Wyoming and Colorado. Her work has been selected for inclusion in many prestigious and selective juried art shows, including those of the American Artists Professional League, Allied Artists of America, the National Sculpture Society, the National Arts Club, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, the Salmagundi Club, The Pen and Brush Club, the Hudson Valley Art Association, and others. She has won dozens of awards, including the American Artists Professional League's Gold Medal, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's Horse's Head Award, and the Wyoming Capitol Art Exhibit's Purchase Award.
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© Jessica Baker
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Jessica Baker is a mixed-media visual artist based in Woodstock, NY. She creates thematic series of individual artworks and installations that explore the ephemeral nature of art. Her current series, Personal Meditations, is inspired by texts derived from Buddhist and related spiritual and philosophical teachings, along with humorous pearls of wisdom taught to her by a beloved T’ai Chi master. Jessica’s artwork has been featured in an interview for National Public Radio. Her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and internationally and is included in both private and institutional collections.
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© Despina Symeou
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Despina Symeou is the October 2020 Featured Artist. She is a London-based painter and printmaker. After studying fine art, printmaking and photography, Despina specialized in jewelry design and received her B.A. (Hons) from Middlesex University in North West London. Despina began showing her figurative work in 2010 with her solo show “Skin Shapes.” Since then, she has exhibited her work in and around London with the Printmakers Council, biannually with The Affordable Art Fair UK, and as a member of ArtCan, a nonprofit focused on artist collaboration. In 2018, Despina was shortlisted for The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Many of her paintings and prints are in private collections worldwide, and her etchings are held in the Victoria & Albert Collection Fund and the Scarborough Museum Trust.
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© Merrill French
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Merrill French is the September 2020 Featured Artist. She is an award-winning oil painter whose work has been widely exhibited in New York and Connecticut as well as Massachusetts. Merrill has received numerous awards, including the New Britain Museum of American Art’s People’s Choice Award (2019, 2020), several awards from the National Association of Women Artists, a Grumbacher Gold Medal (Kent Art Association), and the Salmagundi Club Award for Excellence. Her work is also included in the following permanent collections: Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (NJ), Adams & Company Real Estate in New York, NY (a 20 painting commission) and the Belfast Public Library in Maine.
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© Katharine L. McKenna
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Katharine L. McKenna is an award-winning artist and author whose luminous landscape paintings reveal a profound attachment to the natural geology and essence of place in her paintings of Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Utah and Arizona. Katharine's paintings are part of the permanent collections of the Rockwell Museum, the Museum of Northern Arizona, the Booth Museum, the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum and at the Desert Caballeros Museum in Wickenburg, AZ. Her book The Paleontologist's Daughter is excerpted in Sanctuary.
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© Debra Friedkin
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Debra Friedkin studied at The Art Students League of New York and Westchester Art Workshop. Her narrative mixed media collages, sculptures and metal assemblages are based on concepts of recycling and repurposing, deconstruction and reinvention. Debra is a juried member of the Salmagundi Art Club in New York City, where she serves on the Jury of Awards and the Admissions Committee. Other professional affiliations include National Association of Women Artists, Audubon Artists, and Williamsburg Art and Historical Center. An award-winning artist, Debra has widely exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the tri-state area.
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© Valerie Patterson
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Valerie Patterson is the May 2020 Featured Artist. She is an award-winning watercolorist based in New York. She recently retired from a 34-year career teaching art. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively throughout the United States in both group and solo exhibitions, including exhibitions at The Bond St. Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), The Visual Arts Center At Clarington (Ontario, Canada), The Dayton International Peace Museum (Dayton, OH), Monkdogz Urban Art (Manhattan), and many others. Her awards and recognitions are numerous, including Juror’s Award Of Excellence for the Annmarie Sculpture Garden and Arts Center National Juried Exhibition “Ebb & Flow: The Power Of Water” and several Awards Of Excellence and a Featured Artist Award from Manhattan Arts International.
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© Pennie Brantley
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Pennie Brantley is the March 2020 Featured Artist. She is a New York-based acclaimed artist. She has had an active career for forty years, exhibiting in museums, art centers and galleries. Among these are the prestigious Hyde Collection Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, National Arts Club in NYC, Paul Robeson Cultural Center at Penn State University, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Her work has been selected for important exhibitions by distinguished curators, including Director of the Guggenheim, Richard Armstrong, and others. Elected to the National Association of Women Artists based in NYC, Pennie has received many honors for her paintings, including the Leibowitz Award, NYC, and was awarded a grant from the NY Foundation for the Arts (NYFA).
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© Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell
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Zsudayka Nzinga Terrell is the February 2020 Featured Artist. She is a Washington, D.C.-based fine artist and mixed media designer, originally from Denver, CO.
Her work is largely composed of messages regarding the experience of the Black woman in America with themes of motherhood and culture. Zsudayka’s work has been included in exhibitions and gallery spaces throughout the U.S, and she is the recipient of several grants. She and her husband, James Terrell (who is also an artist), own Terrell Arts DC and work closely with nonprofits to develop youth art programming in their community. |
© Penny Dell
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Penny Dell was born in Mexico and grew up in Mexico City and Acapulco. She came to the U.S. at the age of thirteen. Penny is fascinated with the flexibility, experimentation, and the rich materials and technique of print processes. Penny’s works are in many corporate and private collections including Cablevision, Rutgers University and the New York Public Library. From 2005-2007 she served as President for the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA). She is a recipient of a 2019 Dutchess County Executive Arts Award (Individual Artist) which was based on her important contributions to the growth of Dutchess County's cultural life.
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