69th Members Prize Show, October 4 – November 2, 2013
At University Place Gallery
124 Mount Auburn Street
Gallery Hours and Information
Reception: Friday, October 11th, 5:30 – 7:30pm at University Place Gallery
Award Winning Artists
Juror Statement
It has been a pleasure to work with the CAA community and the many works of art submitted on the occasion of the 69th Members Prize Show. Having spent the day looking carefully at over 200 submitted artworks, which ranged in material, discipline and subject matter, I quickly became aware of just how diverse and committed CAA members are. It is clear the CAA has encouraged, supported, and fostered an important infrastructure in which artists can produce, participate and collaborate within Cambridge and Boston’s unique art world. The fact that this exhibition is in its 69th year speaks a volume within a country that does not always prioritize or support artists. I feel honored to have been asked to participate in this process.
The final works that were chosen are each engaged with contemporary art dialogues, some make pointed art historical references, and all offer rich entry points to an aesthetic conversation about art-making today. I was interested to observe the frequent use of abstraction as a visual language that was employed in a majority of the artworks – from photography, works on paper to painting and assemblage. Abstraction as a lens in which to interpret, reinterpret, think through and make statements both political and personal has a long held history as a radical language. In other artworks the figure is evoked as a bridge to capture temporality and humane nature. All of the works of this exhibition speak to a commitment to process, experimentation, the expanded gesture and a staunch dedication to making.
-Kate M. McNamara, Director and Chief Curator, Boston University
About our Juror
Kate McNamara is Director and Chief Curator at the Boston University Art Gallery. She is also a co-founder of Cleopatra’s, a Brooklyn-based project space. She received her M.A. at The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and a B.A. with Curatorial Concentration from Hampshire College, MA. Kate has held curatorial positions at MoMA PS1, New York; AIR Antwerpen, Belgium; and Participant, INC., New York. Read more about our juror in this interview with Big, Red & Shiny
69th Members Prize Show Artists
| Deedee | Agee | On the Couch | Monoprint | $500 |
| Kathy | Archer | As If It Had Never Been | Digital Photography | $600 |
| June | August | Pink Leda and Swan | Silkscreen | $975 |
| Brenda van der | Beek | Hidden | Oil | $575 |
| Chuck | Beisch | Sitges | Inkjet | $1,250 |
| Simi | Berman | Sogno d’ Italia | Oil and Graphite | NFS |
| Patricia | Berube | Brigette Reclining | Mixed Media | $2,000 |
| Blake | Brasher | Slow Dive | Acrylic | $8,500 |
| Mary Ann | Bushweller | The Sitter | Silver Gelatin | $375 |
| Richard | Chase | Life in Davis Square | Archival Inkjet | $195 |
| David | Covert | Wingersheek 3 | Acrylic | $900 |
| Sara | Cohen | Night Dancers | Lino Print with Pastel | $225 |
| Nancy | Crasco | Protoplasma | Gelatin Print | $250 |
| Glenn | Davis | Whisper to me… | Illustration | $400 |
| May | DeViney | Madonna’s and Monsters | Mixed Media | $1,600 |
| Tom | Diaz | The Insect Barn | Digital Photograph | $395 |
| Louise Morin | Dichard | A Conversation Between Gourds | Oil | $1,850 |
| Kate Urschel | Doss | Wardrobe #2 | Oil | $1,200 |
| David | Elmes | Chapin Field, Lincoln | Photograph | $375 |
| Irene | Fairley | The Great Divide | Wood Craving | $1,200 |
| David | Fallon | It’s a Wonderful Life | Mixed Media | $1,500 |
| Noelle | Fiori | Built to be Broken | Collage Mixed Media | $900 |
| Ed | Friedman | Chris, Machinist – Chelsea | Archival Digital Photograph | $250 |
| Erik | Gehring | Ranch Brook Abstract | Photograph-Archival Inkjet Print | $550 |
| Wally | Gilbert | Color Pencils – Japan | Digital Print on LED Light Frame | $1,200 |
| Joshua | Greenberg | Urban Abstracts, G III, NO. 28 | Photo Based Imagery | $750 |
| Lee | Griffin | The Deceit | Collage | $400 |
| Nancy | Hart | Re/Gen | Installation | NFS |
| Kay | Hartung | Cellular Interactions 6 | Encaustic & Mixed Media | $750 |
| Bob | Hesse | Moonrise, Readville | Photo, Metal Print | $400 |
| Wilson | Hunt | Sepia Study of 6 | Acrylic and Gouache | $600 |
| Elizabeth | Kellogg | With How Many Women Have You Gone Steady | Mixed Media | $395 |
| Christine | Kyle | Waver | Encaustic Eggshells and Vellum | $2,100 |
| Richard | Lapping | Sun Voyager, Reykjavik Harbor | Infrared Photography | $475 |
| Simon | Lejeune | Ventura Highway | Acrylic | $200 |
| Bonnie | Lerner | Harry and Ester at the Beach | Monotype | $500 |
| Robin | Levandov | No use In Crying Over Spilt Milk | Oil | $1,800 |
| Kevin | McCarthy | Dream Catcher: Dream of Progress | Sculpture | $1,200 |
| Patricia | Mahon | Some Days Are Perfect | Acrylic | $750 |
| Gloria | Merritt | Pulse Riaythm and Song | Digital Painting | $4,000 |
| Diane | Nelson | Blue Gateway | Acrylic | $180 |
| Suzanne | Papin | Short Circuit | Mixed Media | $350 |
| Richard | Perry | Milking 2 | Archival Inkjet | $400 |
| Rosalie | Post | Hunt St. Lot | Photography | $400 |
| Astrid | Reischwitz | The Sailing Boat: From the Bedroom Project | Photography | $425 |
| Sheila | Rice | Longing | Acrylic | $1,000 |
| Edwina | Rissland | Painter’s Tape | Archival Pigment Print | $625 |
| Judith | Robinson-Cox | World’s Largest Rubber Band Ball | Photograph | $350 |
| Ruth | Rosner | Pitch Woman | Plaster, Wire, Ash Clay, Found Rusted Metal | $6,500 |
| Karen | Rothman | Untitled | Oil | NFS |
| Conny Goelz | Schmitt | Book Shrine No 3 | Mixed Media | $880 |
| Kristin | Selesnick | Southbound | Oil | NFS |
| Alice | Shafer | The Vacant Room | Photography | $400 |
| Siri | Smedvig | Etude | Mixed Media | $550 |
| Janet | Smith | Ptown #269 | Photography | $135 |
| Kristin | Stashenko | Through the Looking Glass | Gouache | $1,000 |
| Brenda | Steinberg | Lithe Figure 5 | Mixed Media | $250 |
| Tom | Stocker | Nine Spots on a Rug | Acrylic | $6,400 |
| Lorraine | Sullivan | Lost in Translation | Mixed Media | $2,000 |
| Dayna | Talbot | Too Much Chatter | Encaustic, Charcoal and China Maner | $985 |
| Barbara | Trachtenberg | Pink Revolution | Mixed Media Painting | $1,000 |
| Aliza | Vaida | Maasai | Beads, Wood and Wax | $2,000 |
| Jan | Walker | Peggy Sue: At The Class Reunion | Mixed Media | $280 |
| Martha | Wakefield | If I Leave Now | Mixed Media | $985 |
| Karen | Watson | Elena | Silver Gelatin Photograph | $600 |
| William | Wexler | Shredded Blue | Photography | $375 |
| Annemarie | Whilton | Masked | Mixed Media | $400 |
| Patricia | White | River Trip #3 | Monoprint | $350 |
| Susan | Wood | Iguazu | Cut Paper | $500 |
| Zoe Perry | Wood | Jess + Brandon Halloween Dance | Archival Pigment Print | $1,885 |
| Phil | Young | Putney Series #3 | Acrylic | $800 |