June 1-June 30, 2004

Juror: Rachel Rosenfield Lafo is Director of Curatorial Affairs at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, where she has organized over fifty contemporary art exhibitions and written corresponding catalogues over the last twenty years, among them Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art; Clara Wainwright: Quiltmaker and Celebration Artist; Joseph Wheelwright: Stone Heads and Tree Figures; Painting in Boston: 1950-2000; and Photography in Boston: 1955-1985. She has been a visiting critic, panelist, and juror for many organizations. Previously Lafo was a curator at the Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, and an administrator at the Center for Conservation and Technical Studies at Harvard University. She has taught courses in Museum Studies at Tufts University and Boston University.

Juror’s Comments:
It was a great pleasure to see the diversity of artwork submitted for this exhibition. Although most of the work is representational landscapes, still life and figure studies-there was a great deal of variety within those genres.

I looked for technical excellence, innovative approaches to subject matter and medium, and an independent sense of vision. It was refreshing to find so manyartworks that made me come back to them again and again.

Rachel Rosenfield Lafo
Director of Curatorial Affairs
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Lincoln, MA

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Mary Alice Arakelian Award for Best of Show
Lisa Reinke
Oil
Gravity Well
Like the emotion as expressed in the composition close-up view and color


H. Patterson-Hale Jr. Award for Excellence
Lynn Tornberg
Acrylic
Stonington
Clarity of light, saturation of colors





Institution for Savings Charitable Foundation Award
Robert Leanna
Watercolor/pastel
Motor Court
Beautifully Executed - thought it was a photograph! Great composition of colors and letters

N.A.I.D. Newburyport Area Industrial Development Award
J. Millen
Untitled
Felt Basket
I like the tilted opening, decoration both incised and applied



Photography Award
David Stackhouse
Color Photo
Cactus Star






Bruce Ellavsky Memorial Award for Painting:
Ellen Rolli
Route 6A
Acrylic
Juicy Paint

Newburyport Bank Award for Water-Based Media:
Beverly Mitchell
Watercolor
My Garden
Profusion of color and form

Strem Chemical Award
Linda Hirsch
Color Photo
Through the Lens Crafter
Wonderful capturing of shadows and mysterious space





3-D Award
Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
Mixed Media
Spirit Book #40
I like the combination of the branch with another organic material - paper

Pastel Award:
Catherine Meeks
Pastel
Red Barn Door
Grainy texture, cold light

Charlotte Roberts
Monotype
Cool Blue
Jazzy sense of color and pattern

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Paul Mozell
Color Photo
Betty's Bowls


Anne White
Oil
On the Steps

Jan Roy
Oil
Extremadora
Painting with gate and white pillars
Shadows and quality of light

Jane Woodman
Oil
Woods, Bradley Palmer
Intimate View of nature- interesting vantage point

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