BLUE 2019

BLUE 2019

November 7 – December 18, 2019
at Kathryn Schultz Gallery & University Place Gallery
Juried by Sarah Montross, Senior Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
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Reception | November 7, 6-8pm at both gallery locations RSVP
Awards will be announced at 7pm at University Place Gallery
Artist Talk | November 16, 11am-1pm at Kathryn Schultz Gallery RSVP
Presenters:
Andrew Manning, Virginia Mahoney, Paul Weiner, Emily Manning-Mingle, Barbara Owen and Ellen Waitzkin


Why BLUE? For 20 years, the Cambridge Art Association has hosted a Fall exhibit, open to artists from the New England states, centered around a color – RED or BLUE, depending on the year. Both the success of the exhibit series, and the challenge to participating artists, lies in channeling the varied meanings of a color like BLUE. BLUE is more than a color. Past jurors for the color biennials include: Amy Sadao (ICA Philadelphia); Howard Yezerski (Howard Yezerski Gallery); the late Carl Belz (Rose Art Museum); the late Jane Farver (MIT List Visual Arts Center); Nick Capasso (Fitchburg Art Museum); Alise Upitis (MIT List Visual Arts Center); Katherine French (Catamount Arts); the late Joseph Ketner (Emerson Urban Arts); Vera Ingrid Grant; and Dan Byers (Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard University).

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About our juror | Sarah Montross is Senior Curator at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA where she organizes exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and commissions outdoor sculptural installations with leading contemporary artists in the park. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include the deCordova New England Biennial 2019 (2019), Screens: Virtual Material (2017), and All the Marvelous Surfaces: Photography Since Karl Blossfeldt (2019). From 2012-2015, she was the Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art where she organized exhibitions including Past Futures: Science Fiction, Space Travel, and Postwar Art of the Americas (exhibition catalogue published by MIT Press, 2015) and Breakthrough: Work by Contemporary Chinese Women Artists (2013). She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Juror’s Statement | Blue light is a range of the visible light spectrum that we increasingly encounter due to the pervasiveness of computers, televisions, and LED lights. Emitting from our screens, blue light is criticized for disrupting our sleep cycles or damaging our eyesight. There is no doubt that blue light is all around us, brightening our indoor spaces and shaping our vision. Blue, in its wavelength form, is arguably the defining and disarming color of contemporary life and culture. In the realm of art and literature, blue is more often associated with memory and melancholy, used to articulate atmospheres of interiority. Electric and subdued, a palette for technological advancement and nostalgia, blue moves us forward in time while it is also the color of a distant past. The artworks chosen for this exhibition exhibit the wide range of possibilities that blue offers. From sculpture to cyanotypes, paintings to textiles, the work (and the presence of blue in each piece) pings a response from our unconscious. Across this exhibition, the color blue soothes while it also provokes.


Artwork in header courtesy of 2019 BLUE exhibiting artist, Judy Robinson-Cox.


AWARDS

Best in Show | Patricia Schappler, One Thousand and One Nights
Juror’s Choice | Emily Manning Mingle, the sky has cleared and it’s blue
Juror’s Choice | Astrid Reischwitz, Inheritance Portrait #3
Juror’s Choice | Peter R Root, Valeria and Olivier


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Exhibiting Artists

First Name Last Name City, State Title Media Dimensions Price Gallery Location
Katrina Abbott Cambridge, Massachusetts Reef 1 Glazed stoneware 11 x 11 x 1.5 inches NFS Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Kim Alemian Cohasset, Massachusetts Ocean 6816—Emerging Bather with Predella Oil on canvas 40 x 30 x 1.5 inches $7,400 University Place Gallery
Nedret Andre Boston, Massachusetts Harvest Moon Oil on canvas 36 x 60 inches $4, 700 University Place Gallery
June August North Hampton, New Hampshire Immigration at the MFA Blue Unique silkscreen 2 x 35 x 50 inches $1,700 University Place Gallery
Dan Brenton Winchester, Massachusetts Subconscious Messenger Gouache and acrylic ink on paper 27 x 1 x 21 inches $900 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Nancy Hall Brooks Somerville, Massachusetts Harbinger Oil on canvas 42 x 38 inches $1,750 University Place Gallery
Mark Chadbourne Brookline, Massachusetts Sky Journey Acrylic on canvas 24 x 18 inches $750 University Place Gallery
Martha Chason-Sokol Brookline, Massachusetts Blue Eyed Pink Alien Beeswax on encaustiflex with oil paint sticks and stabilo wax pencil 22 x 30 inches $1,800 University Place Gallery
Robert Diebboll Rockport, Massachusetts First Day Oil on linen 32 x 38 inches $5,800 University Place Gallery
Cassie Doyon Bradford, Massachusetts Empty Nest Mosaic sculpture 24 x 4 x 48 inches $5,000 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Susan Greer Emmerson Dorchester, Massachusetts Gone Home/Home Gone: Pantry Acrylic on molded tyvek; mixed media and found objects 32 x 28 x 5 inches $3,800 University Place Gallery
Kseniya Galper Quincy, Massachusetts Katia and asteroid. The unknown Oil on wooden panel 12 x 12 inches $2,000 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Ivana Damien George Quincy, Massachusetts Planting Parcel in April Planting Parcel in April Cyanotype contact print on cotton paper 16 x 20 inches $750 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Jane Goldman Somerville, Massachusetts Deep Time 1 Watercolor monotype 36 x 28 inches $2,000 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Kay Hartung Acton, Massachusetts Pattern Layers 1 Encaustic and pastel on paper 18 x 21 inches $750 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Loretta CR Hubley Nashua, New Hampshire View from the Cave Color ink etching and aquatint on archival paper 30 x 24 inches $700 University Place Gallery
Wilson Hunt Roslindale, Massachusetts Red Slash Acrylic on yupo 32 x 32 x 1.5 inches $1,250 University Place Gallery
Nicolas Hyacinthe Randolph, Massachusetts Shade Photography 18 x 1 x  25 inches $600 University Place Gallery
Youngsheen A. Jhe Lexington, Massachusetts Your Own Way Oil on canvas 40 x 30 inches $6,500 University Place Gallery
Barbara Johansen Newman Needham, Massachusetts Woman with Pygmy Owl Acrylic paint on wood, salvage and found objects 5 x 27 x 31 inches $2,800 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Lydia Kinney Greenfield, Massachusetts Untitled Acrylic on panel 24 x 30 x 2 inches $700 University Place Gallery
Denise Konicek Winchester, Massachusetts Oceanic Drain Art quilt 33 X 16 inches $1,000 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Christine Kyle Cambridge, Massachusetts Weighted Ceramic, wood, beeswax, damar resin, pigment, wire, and a shoelace 23 x 6 x 8.5 inches $2,500 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Jen Lamontagne Quincy, Massachusetts Sable Under the Blueberry Bush Glass beads, polymer clay, embroidery floss and metallic thread on fabric 4.5 x 4.5 x 1 inches $325 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Steven M Leahy Weymouth, Massachusetts Don’s 32 Acrylic .75 x 1.5 inches $800 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Bette Ann Libby Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Blue’s Cafe Ceramic shard mosaic and mixed media 20 x 9 x 8 inches $500 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
C. J. Lori Brookline, Massachusetts Leaving the Stand Oil on cradled panel 16 x 20 inches $2,500 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Robin MacDonald-Foley Stoughton, Massachusetts Blue Stone Sky Photography 42.25 x 15 inches $950 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Virginia Mahoney Brockton, Massachusetts Hesitation Reclaimed fabric, steel, ceramic, acrylic and graphite 17 x 15 x 8 inches $950 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Andrew Manning Cambridge, Massachusetts Alter Ego Oil on masonite board 34 x 1 x 20 $1,400 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Emily Manning-Mingle Brighton, Massachusetts the sky has cleared and it’s blue Repurposed clothing, dish towel, painting rag, bleach, fabric dye, thread, seed beads, button, and canvas on stretchers 22 x 18 inches $650 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Jeanne Marklin Williamstown, Massachusetts Snowed In Fiber 33 x 25 inches $1,200 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Taylor Maroney Bridgewater, Massachusetts White Washing Oil on canvas 72 x 1 x 40 inches $1,300 University Place Gallery
Molly McLaughlin Hampton, New Hampshire SoHo, 1980 Fiber 22 x 20 inches $3,000 University Place Gallery
Susan Murie Arlington, Massachusetts Tempest Cyanotype on cotton paper 27.5 x 39 inches $1,200 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Ted Ollier Medford, Massachusetts Skygrid Time-Lapse: 20 March 2013 – 19 March 2014 Video 1:39:53 minutes $2,400 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Andrea Oseas Cambridge, Massachusetts Roadkill Can Quilt 3: She Shines Aluminum cans on canvas 48 x 48 inches $4,000 University Place Gallery
Barbara Owen Pawtucket, Rhode Island Persistence, 2019 Acrylic paint, wood, video  30 x 32 x 11 inches $3,500 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Matthew Peak & David Lee Black Rockingham, Vermont & Wrentham, Massachusetts Outside The Box: Poised On Point Six framed archival pigment prints on an aluminum-railed cube 48 x 48 x 84 inches $9,999

Additional prints available at exhibition

University Place Gallery
Zoe Perry-Wood Lexington, Massachusetts Karman in Trans Colored, Homemade Prom Dress, from Hanging in the Balance Archival pigment print 24 x 36 inches $2,200 University Place Gallery
Astrid Reischwitz Bedford, Massachusetts Inheritance Portrait #3 Archival pigment print 14 x 20 inches $700 University Place Gallery
Elizabeth Rennie Revere, Massachusetts Lasting Efforts Mixed media on canvas 20 x 16 x 1 inches $525 University Place Gallery
Beverly Rippel South Easton, Massachusetts Table of Contents IV (Cape Ann Sunset) Impasto oil paint on white oil 12 x 12 x 1.5 inches $800 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Judy Robinson-Cox Gloucester, Massachusetts Ice Blue Photograph 27 x 20 inches $400 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Peter R Root Hadley, Massachusetts Valeria and Olivier Oil on wood 73 x 74 x 9 inches $14,700 University Place Gallery
Claudia Ruiz Gustafson Framingham, Massachusetts Esos fueron los años (Those were the years) Archival pigment print, Ed 1/10 21 x 21 inches $500 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Noriko Sakanishi Portland, Maine Another Thing Acrylic & MM 30 x 18.5 x 5 inches $3,500 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Patricia Schappler Bedford, New Hampshire One Thousand and One Nights Oil on board 48 x 36 inches $4,800 University Place Gallery
Robert Siegelman Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts The Blue Room (Jay) Photography 17 x 22 inches $1,100 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Katalina Simon Winchester, Massachusetts Waiting Archival pigment prints in editions of 15 16 x 22 inches $550 University Place Gallery
Carolyn Sirois Winchester, Massachusetts blue hope Anchor cement, mason cement, linen paper, book pages, plaster and books 12 x 16 x 13 inches $900 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Malgosia Soltysik-Espanola Boston, Massachusetts Moon Chalice Acrylic on canvas 24 x 18 inches $2,800 University Place Gallery
Lucy Sprayregen Lincoln, Massachusetts Trailing Oar Oil on canvas 18 x 36 inches $1,800 University Place Gallery
Margot Stage Eastham, Massachusetts The Hoosic River Runs Through It Metal on wood panel 15 x 14 x 12 inches $425 University Place Gallery
Suzanne Stumpf South Natick, Massachusetts Cones of Uncertainty Porcelain and porcelain paperclay 30 x 13 x 6.5 inches $2,100 University Place Gallery
Lorraine Sullivan Arlington, Massachusetts Just Add Water Found objects 21 x 24 inches $1,500 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Stephanie Todhunter Medford, Massachusetts Channel 13 Cyanotype print on heavy weight Arches paper 18 x 25 inches $300 Kathryn Schultz Gallery
Shu-Lin Tung Cambridge, Massachusetts Crying Glacier Acrylic 30 x 40 inches NFS University Place Gallery
Ellen Waitzkin Allston, Massachusetts Goose Pond (Blue) Archival inkjet print on cotton rag paper 72 x 16 x 2 inches $6,000 University Place Gallery
Paige Wallis Malden, Massachusetts In Her Element Acrylic 40 x 30 x 1.5 inches $7,500 University Place Gallery
Mary Carolyn Webber East Kingston, New Hampshire In Neptune’s Realm Collograph, stencil & monoprint 24.5 x 28.625 inches $990 University Place Gallery
Paul Weiner Somerville, Massachusetts Dan’s World Digital photo print 12  x 18 inches $900 University Place Gallery
Sharon Whitham Framingham, Massachusetts What Have We Forgotten Printmaking, monotype and oil on paper 30 x 22 x 1 inches $1,600 University Place Gallery
Naomi Zahler Worcester, Massachusetts Full Body Scan Sculpture, photography and digital manipulation 39 x 71.5 x 31 inches $3,000 Kathryn Schultz Gallery

Have questions? Please email Assistant Director, Rebecca Schnopp at rschnopp@cambridgeart.org, or call us at 617.876.0246

Cambridge Art Association does not issue refunds.
All decisions/selections are made by the juror. All decisions are final.