Image in header courtesy of Deborah Peeples
Juried by Deborah Barlow
February 23 – May 4, 2023
25 Lowell Street, Cambridge MA
- Show 1 | February 23 – March 23, 2023
- Show 2 | April 6 – May 4, 2023
Artist Talks:
Material Considerations, Tuesday, March 21, 7:00-8:00pm on ZOOM Register here
with Kimberley Harding, Deborah Peeples, Susan Seifer, Danyang Song, Mara Wagner
Nature, Abstracted, Wednesday, April 26 from 7:00-8:00pm on ZOOM Register here
with Jim Kociuba, C.J. Lori, Jane Sherrill, and Wendy Prellwitz
Receptions:
Show 1: Friday, February 24, 6:00-8:00pm
Show 2: Thursday, April 13, 6:00-7:30pm
About our juror
Deborah Barlow is a Boston-based visual artist, writer, and curator of images and ideas. Deeply respectful of the intuitive and indefinable nature of creativity, Barlow nudges the verbal and the visual to move a bit closer to the numinous elsewhere. Fiercely independent, she is a free-form thinker and maker.
During the past 50 years she has had over 50 solo exhibitions and many group shows in museums, galleries, universities and institutions in the United States, Europe and the UK. Built by layering pigments, metallics and natural substances, her paintings mirror the complexity of a multi-dimensional world. Art News described her work by saying “one risks confounding the senses even before peeling back the first layer of brusque sensuality that clings to the surface of her paintings…a soulful, sympathetic sensibility that is rare to find in such an obsessive technician.”
Barlow has authored over 1500 essays on her publishing site Slow Muse (slowmuse.com), since its inception in 2006. In addition to artist monographs and reviews, she has contributed to publications and books on creativity, art making, business and entrepreneurship.
Her most recent project is Pell Lucy, a digital collective of international artists. Through purpose-built networks, Pell Lucy brings viewers into a full spectrum of artistic experiences that are intimate, inclusive and memorable.
Learn more at deborahbarlow.com
Juror statement
“What matters is the shape-making impulse, the emergence and convergence of an excitement into a wholeness.” Those words from the late poet Seamus Heaney are a useful mantra for making art as well as viewing it.
And what generosity is embedded in that wisdom. No mention is made of standards or credentials, right paths or wrong ones. It is just the simple admonition to pay attention to that primal impulse, the one that can lead to a wholeness.
Heaney’s words are an invitation into the artist’s terrain. It encourages the heart and mind to stay wide open, to feel at ease with the unknown, to rely on intuition and what is deeply personal. Welcome to the domain of creativity.
Jurying an exhibit is a similar journey. Every work submitted was carefully considered. I took note of the technical mastery, quality of execution, choice of media, how form and content were constructed. That critical assessment is a cerebral process, but it is not the only method for viewing art. There are so many ways to see and feel your way into a work.
Art is most fully comprehended when both thinking and feeling are brought to bear. My tendency is to lean more heavily into what I am experiencing outside the confines of language and linearity. When I approach a work of art, I am looking for something. Perhaps that something is a particular sense of presence that a work can possess. I do know that what that something is does not fall into the quantifiable, nor is it easily languaged.
The physicist Richard Feynman describes a burning log as the unfurling of many years of sunlight that has been stored in the wood. Works of art have energy stored inside as well. An artist invests hours to bring a work into form–envisioning, intentioning, decision making, mark making, reworking, honing all the parts into perfect balance. Then, when the piece is completed, it offers itself to the viewer. The power that is coiled inside unfurls when a connection is made.
Perhaps some unfurling will happen for you when you spend time with the art that has been chosen for this exhibit. And for those artists whose submissions were not selected this time round, I ask that you wear that lightly and stay with your own shape-making impulse. We are all part of a dynamic, fluid, ever changing landscape. That relentless impermanence is, after all, how the new keeps emerging.
2023 Artists of the Year
Tina Feingold, Monsoon
Kathryn Geismar, Mother Love
Wiley Holton, Rule of Thirds
Deborah Peeples, Forget All You Know
Jane Sherrill, Not So Fast
Exhibiting Artists:
SHOW 1
| First Name | Last Name | Website | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price | |
| Karen | Adrienne | karenadrienne.com | Sugar Kelp Shimmy | Monotype | Variable, 11 x 72 inches when flat | $1,500 | |
| Caroline | Anderson | @carolineinwarwick | carolineandersonart.com | All’s Fair | Acrylic and pumice on canvas | 20 x 24 x 1.5 inches | $850 |
| Lola | Baltzell | LOLART.COM | All Colors Make Me Happy – 2 | Mixed media encaustic mono print | 10 x 10 x 1.5 inches | $400 | |
| Hilary | Bruel | @hansonbruelart | https://hansonbruel.com | Storm Break | Mixed media, encaustic with thread and pastel | 14 x 11 x 0.75 inches | $400 |
| Gwen | Chasan | @gwen_chasan_art | gwenchasan.com | Madonna of Gun Culture 2 | Watercolor on yupo | 14 x 11 x 1 inches | $750 |
| Haleh | Fotowat | @halehfotowat | www.halehfotowat.com | Cellular Containment III | Oil on wood panel | 24 x 24 x 1.5 inches | $1200 |
| Erik | Gehring | @erikgehring | www.erikgehring.com | American Hornbeam | Archival pigment print | 20 x 26 inches | $425 |
| Kathryn | Geismar | @geismarart | www.kathryngeismar.com | Mother Love | Graphite on duralar with grommets | 30 x 24 x 0 inches | $1,725 |
| Paul | Glenn | www.paulevanglenn.com | San Juan Teotihuacán | Oil on canvas | 18 x 18 x 1.25 inches | $1,750 | |
| Mark | Heffley | @secondascentdesigns.com | www.secondascentdesign.com | A Disposition Against Waste | Recycled/upcycled rock climbing rope and polyester thread | 19.5 x 19.5 x 0.125 inches | $2,000 |
| Charles | Marburg | @charlesm210 | charlesmarburg.com | Blind | Oil on canvas | 24.25 x 36 x 1.25 inches | $4000 |
| Jackie | Melissas | @jackiemelissas | jacquelinemelissas.com | living the dream | Raku fired ceramic | 11 x 10 x 9 inches | $400 |
| Diana | Morse | Seasons Series – Greening | Gouache | 6 x 6 inches | $300 | ||
| Susan | Murie | @susanmurie | https://susan-murie-jva2.squarespace.com/ | After Party | Cyanotype on cotton/linen paper with hand applied cold wax and ultramarine pigment | 30 x 22 inches | $1,200 |
| Iris | Osterman | Reflection | Oil on canvas | 42 x 32 inches | $2,000 | ||
| Deborah | Peeples | @debpeeplesart | www.debpeeples.com | Forget All You Know | Encaustic on panel | 40 x 46 x 2 inches | $4,800 |
| Anthony | Pilla | La Terra Sicilia 2 | Woodcut | 13 x 19 inches | $500 | ||
| Sandra | Pilotto | Distant Memories | Inks, charcoal, graphite | 20 x 20 x 1.5 inches | $800 | ||
| Valerie | Richkin | @vrichkin_art | Secret Garden | Mixed media collage | 14.5 x 11 x 0.875 inches | $400 | |
| Lisa Gabrielle | Russell | lisarussellart.com | Intonation #513 | Oil on canvas | 12 x 10 inches | $3,500 | |
| Claire | Ryan-Robertson | Note | Mixed media, oil stick, stabilo, and pencil on paper mounted on panel | 24 x 18 x 1.5 inches | $600 | ||
| Pip | Shepley | @pip_shepley | www.pipshepley.com | Concrete Evidence | Archival pigment print | 24 x 18 x 1.5 inches | $475 |
| Jane | Sherrill | @janesherrillart | www.janesherrill.com | Not So Fast | Micron pens on layers of translucent Dura-Lar | 12 X 9 inches | $1,500 |
| Siri | Smedvig | @sirismedvig | www.sirismedvig.com | Nostalgia | Mixed media | 7 x 5 inches | $600 |
| Danyang | Song | @danyang.art | www.danyangart.com | Floating | Glazed stoneware, underglaze, glass | 7.8 x 9 x 6 inches | $5,000 |
| Brenda | Steinberg | Hawk Sighting | Oil on hardboard | 11 x 17 inches | $1,200 | ||
| Fleur | Thesmar | @fleurtdefrance | www.FleurTdeFrance.com | Lion Dance | Watercolor on paper | 22 x 30 x 0.1 inches | $2000 |
| Barbara | Trachtenberg | @barbara.trachtenberg | http://www.barbaratrachtenberg.com/ | Unmasked Man | Acrylic and tar gel on canvas | 20 x 20 x 1 inches | $800 |
| Mara | Wagner | @aberdeentreehousestudio | www.marawagnerart.com | Orange Teapot and Candlesticks | Acrylic paint, painted and found papers | 24 x 18 inches | $950 |
| Philip | Young | philipeyomg.com | Tuscan Memories | Acrylic | 30 x 30 inches | $1,000 |
SHOW 2:
| First Name | Last Name | Website | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price | |
| Paul | Beckingham | @paul.beckingham | https://paulbeckingham.com | Eryngium | Oil on ACM | 18 x 18 inches | $2,100 |
| Katharine | Boden | katharineboden.com | Untitled 1A | Photograph, archival inkjet print | 26 x 30.5 inches | $900 | |
| Lizi | Brown | lizibrown.art | Drip Check, Tarantula | Oil on canvas | 40 x 30 x 1 inches | $2,000 | |
| Barb | Cone | www.bconeart.com | Archaelogica No. 2 | Encaustic, graphite and oil stick on cradled birch panel | 36 X 26 X 2 inches | $1,800 | |
| Carlyn Marcus | Ekstrom | @carlyn8374 | carlynmarcusekstrom.com | Intertitial II | Woodblock print with chine colle | 18 X 18 inches | $1,200 |
| Tina | Feingold | tinafeingold.cm | Monsoon | Oil on canvas | 40 x 40 inches | $5,000 | |
| Remmi | Franklin | @remmifranklin | www.remmifranklin.com | Scrap Fish | Mixed media | 24 x 36 x 1 inches | $1,200 |
| Porter | Gifford | @porgif | portergifford.com | Beech Tree Alphabet | Pigment print | 16 x 20 inches | $600 |
| Christopher | Gill | @chrisgillart | chrisgillartist.com | Cave Modern V | Gouache on paper | 47 x 35 x 1.5 inches | $2,000 |
| Helen | Hankin | CHANGE | Mixed media | 7 x 7 inches | $300 | ||
| Darci | Hanna | @darci_hanna | Double Nudibranch | Acrylic on panel | 10 x 8 inches | $800 | |
| Kimberley | Harding | @kimberleyaharding | https://www.kimberleyharding.org/ | Ship of Dreams | Sticks, handmade paper and paper pulp, yarn, cotton cord, glue | 19 x 15 x 19 inches | $300 |
| Wiley | Holton | @artbywileyholton | www.wileyholton.com | Rule of Thirds | Acrylic and graphite on wood | 36 x 48 x 3 inches | $6,000 |
| Wilson | Hunt Jr | @wilsonhunt2 | www.wilsonhunt.com | Fabled Persuasion | Acrylic on yupo | 31 x 30 inches | $3,000 |
| Lydia | Kinney | @l.m.kinney | https://www.lydiamkinney.com | Gold | Acrylic on panel | 20 x 16 x 1.5 inches | $800 |
| Jim | Kociuba | @jimkociuba | JimKociuba.com | Maple Pollen | Acrylic on canvas | 48 x 36 x 1.5 inches | $2,600 |
| Judy | Laliberte | @heyjude4040 | The Color of Water | Photography | 17.75 x 24 inches | $450 | |
| Yvonne | Lamothe | @yvonnelamothe | rockislandcovearts.com | From My Bedroom Window | Watercolor | 29 x 23 x 1.5 inches | $850 |
| Joni | Lohr | @jonilohrphography | www.jonilohr.com | Layers I | Photography | 16 x 16 x 1 inches | $350 |
| C. J. | Lori | @c.j.lori | http://www.cjlori.com/ | Autumn Passing | Oil on canvas | 22 x 28 x 1.5 inches | $3,500 |
| Carol | Moses | @studio213art | carolmoses.com | on a river// secrets of a blue afternoon from weather | Oil on canvas | 10 x 40 inches | $4,000 |
| Abigail | Nelson | @abbynelson108 | abigail.nelson.arts@gmail.com | To Break the Stone 3 | Acrylic on canvas board | 10 x 8 inches | $400 |
| Wendy | Prellwitz | @wendyprellwitz | wendyprellwitz.com | Undercurrent #2 | Oil on panel | 36 x 24 x 2 inches | $4,800 |
| Susan | Siefer | @susansiefer_art | www.susanesiefer.com | Transparent | Canvas, plaster, mica, weaving, henna, adornments | 50 x 28 x 2 inches | $3,200 |
| Lynn | Simmons | www.lynnsimmons.com | Tangerine Blues | window frame, hardware cloth, sun-dried tangerine rinds, graffiti paint | 18 x 20 x 2 inches | $500 | |
| Carolyn | Sirois | @caro_siro | carolynsirois.com | blur of time | graphite / wood panels | 13 x 20 inches | $450 |
| Alan | Strassman | www.alanstrassmanphotos.com | Red and Black | Photography | 22 x 30 x 1 inches | $450 | |
| Niamh | Ultaigh | @niamhultaigh | Liminal Point | Acrylic on cradleboard | 13.25 x 13.25 inches | $1,650 | |
| Liz | Wilkinson | @lizwilkinsonpainting | https://sites.google.com/view/lizwilkinson/home | Shadow Chill | Acrylic on unprimed birch panel | 12 x 12 inches | $500 |
| Abby | Zonies | www.abbyzonies.com | Dancing in The Wind | Gouache and mixed media on paper | 29 x 42 inches | $3,200 |
ENTRY DETAILS & REQUIREMENTS
- All mediums accepted: 2D, 3D and video work.
- All artwork must be listed as for sale.
- Artwork must have been created within the past five (5) years.
- Work must be original, no reproductions.
- All work submitted must be available for the exhibition dates.
- Artwork that has been accepted into a CAA show within the past two (2) years will not be considered.
- All wall-mounted work must be wired or have D-rings for hanging (or note method of presentation upon entry). We do not accept sawtooth hangers.
- Diptychs/triptychs are considered as a single work and must be entered as a single JPEG.
- Artwork must not exceed 72 inches on the longest side.
- Total weight of wall-mounted work must not exceed 50lbs.
- All artwork images should be a maximum file size of 5MB.
- On the submission form we have provided a Frame/Presentation image field. This image is not required. In this field an artist can upload an image of their artwork in the frame, or a second, detail image. It will be added to the online portion of the exhibition to give viewers and potential buyers an idea of what the work looks like in person and installed.
- Artwork must be gallery ready. Read all of our Art Entry Information.
3D WORK REQUIREMENTS
- Total weight of 3D work must not exceed 100lbs.
- Total weight of 3D work that must be hung from the ceiling cannot exceed 10lbs
- Wall-mounted 3D work should be wired for hanging, artists must supply appropriate installation materials.
- The CAA has a limited number of pedestals. Pedestals can be reserved with CAA Staff upon acceptance. If artwork requires a pedestal of a specific size, the pedestal must be provided by the artist.
VIDEO REQUIREMENTS
- For accepted video work, the artist is responsible for providing all necessary display and viewing equipment, including, but not limited to: display monitor, DVD player, USB drive, mounting hardware, remote controls, batteries.
Fees:
- CAA Artist + Associate Artist + Lifetime Members: $15 for one (1); $30 for two (2); $35 for three (3)
- Student Members: Free
Please note: We have increased entry fees, effective January 1, 2023. This decision was made by our Exhibition Committee, and takes into consideration CAA’s rising operating costs. CAA continues to offer fee waivers to any artist experiencing financial need.
Deadline to submit | Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 5pm EST
Artist Notification* | Friday, February 10, 2023 after 5pm EST *All accepted artists will be posted on this webpage and emailed on the date listed.
Important dates:
- Show 1 Drop-Off* | Thursday, February 16 & Friday, February 17, 12pm-4pm, at Kathryn Schultz Gallery *Late drop-offs will not be accepted, no exceptions.
- Show 1 Opening Reception | Friday, February 24, 6-8pm
- Show 1 Pick-Up* | Friday, March 24, 12-4pm; Saturday, March 25, 10am-2pm at Kathryn Schultz Gallery *Artists who are not in contact with staff about a late pick-up within 7 days of the official dates will incur a $15 per week fee until the artwork is picked up. The fee must be paid before or at pick-up.
- Show 2 Drop-Off* | Friday, March 24, 12-4pm; Saturday, March 25, 10am-2pm at Kathryn Schultz Gallery *Late drop-offs will not be accepted, no exceptions.
- Show 2 Opening Reception | Thursday, April 13, 6-7:30pm
- Show 2 Pick-Up* | Friday, May 5, 12-4pm; Saturday, May 6, 10am-2pm *Artists who are not in contact with staff about a late pick-up within 7 days of the official dates will incur a $15 per week fee until the artwork is picked up. The fee must be paid before or at pick-up.
For any questions or concerns regarding artwork drop-off or pick-up, please contact Candice Driver, cdriver@cambridgeart.org
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Cambridge Art Association does not issue refunds, or allow for substitutions.
All decisions/selections are made by the juror. All decisions are final.
