Image in header courtesy of BLUE 2021, artist Michèle Fandel Bonner
November 9 – December 17, 2021
Presented in two parts at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery & Online
25 Lowell Street, Cambridge MA
- Show 1: November 9 – 27, 2021
- Show 2: December 1 – 17, 2021
Juried by Dr. Jessica May, Managing Director of Art and Exhibitions with The Trustees, and Artistic Director of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (deCordova)
Opening Reception & Awards Presentation | November 12 (6:00-8:00pm)
Online Artist Talks | Edda Sigurdardottir and Wiley Holton (Watch the recording) | Mara Wagner and Sophie Rae (Watch the recording)
BLUE Pigment Talk, with Alison Cariens, Harvard Art Museums | Watch the recording
2021 Prize Winners
Best in Show: Mara Wagner, Begonia and Blues
Juror’s Choice: Wiley Holton, August Blues I
Juror’s Choice: Sophie Rae, Family Ties
Juror’s Choice: Edda Valborg Sigurdardottir, Where the Earth Meets the Sky I
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Catalogue created by staff of the Cambridge Art Association, 2021
Jasper A. Sanchez, Art Administration Intern
Kiley Richards, Operations + Marketing Manager
Why BLUE? For over 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. It is the color of trust, loyalty, cleanliness, and understanding. BLUE is more than a color. Past jurors for the RED & BLUE Biennials include: Joseph Ketner; Amy Sadao (Director, ICA Philadelphia); Howard Yezerski (Miller Yezerski Gallery); Carl Belz (Rose Art Museum); Jane Farver (MIT List Visual Arts Center); Vera Ingrid Grant (The Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African-American Art); Nick Capasso (Fitchburg Art Museum); Sarah Montross (deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum); Dan Byers (Carpenter Center for Visual Arts); and Layla Bermeo (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston).
AWARDS
One (1) Best in Show Award – $1,000 cash award
Three (3) Juror’s Choice Awards – $250 cash award
GENERAL INFORMATION
Artwork pick-up dates:
Show 1 December 3 (12pm – 4pm) & 4 (10am – 2pm)
Show 2 December 18 (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.
*BLUE 2021 will be presented as two (2) in-person exhibits in our Kathryn Schultz Gallery. The entirety of the exhibit will be featured online for the duration of the exhibition timeline.
About the juror: Dr. Jessica May, Managing Director of Art and Exhibitions with The Trustees, and Artistic Director of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum (deCordova).
In her new role, May will provide the direction and vision for art and exhibitions at The Trustees including serving as Chief Curator and Artistic Director for deCordova. Additionally, she will manage curatorial work at Fruitlands Museum and oversee the Art and the Landscape program, the Trustees’ site-specific commission of new art inspired by their landscapes.
May most recently served as Deputy Director and Robert and Elizabeth Nanovic Chief Curator at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, where she led the museum’s acclaimed reinstallation project, Your Museum, Reimagined, participated in a $15 million campaign to bolster the Museum’s endowment and reinterpreted the Winslow Homer Studio. She oversaw the Museum’s curatorial staff and led the opening of the Museum’s outdoor sculpture park. Prior to Portland, she served as associate curator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
May received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and her B.A. from Barnard College of Columbia University.
EXHIBITING ARTISTS
SHOW 1
| Last Name | First Name | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price |
| Andre | Nedret | Night Swim, Parrotfish over Seagrass | oil on canvas | 36 inches x 48 nches | $4,400 |
| Astolfi | Shannon | Spring Came Late | watercolor, ink, and graphite | 22 inches x 30 inches | $750 |
| Bader | Giliane | New Star Nursery | mixed media on birch panel with cold wax finish | 14 inches x 14 inches | $500 |
| Baum | Carol | Marking Time | water color, colored pencil | 28.5 inches x 35.5 inches | $1,500 |
| Cordner | Linda | Stratus | acrylic on canvas | 30 inches x 24 inches | $1,200 |
| Gilmore | Ania | Eleventh Home | tapestry; warp: cotton; weft: hand dyed indigo cloth; bamboo | 22 inches x 56 inches | $1,111 |
| Grabiner | Ellen | Blue Virus | variant digital image transfer on stone paper | 20 inches x 14 inches | $800 |
| Hartung | Kay | Tangled Blue | encaustic monotype, pastel on kozo | 17.5 inches x 11.5 inches | $650 |
| Holton | Wiley | August Blues 1 | acrylic and graphite on cradled wood board | 12 inches x12 inches | $450 |
| Hunt, Jr. | Wilson | Rocky Mountain High | acrylic on Yupo | 31 inches x 30 inches | $1,200 |
| Katz | Cynthia | Ten Weeks | cyanotypes on tea paper with thread | 39 inches x 39 inches | $1,200 |
| Kinney | Lydia | Beam | acrylic on panel | 24 inches x 30 inches | $1,000 |
| Lee | Tanya | The Wave | oil on gallery-wrapped canvas | 20 inches x 20 inches | $800 |
| Lord | Madeleine | Polar Melt | welded found steel | 21 inches x 26 inches x 16 inches | $1,200 |
| MacInnes | Arch | Untitled I | monotype | 12 inches x 8 inches | $250 |
| Mahoney | Virginia | Shield | reclaimed fabric, copper, food net, thread | 30 inches x 26 inches x 4 inches | $1,500 |
| McHaffie | Keara | Layering Up | spray paint, oil paint, and gold leaf on canvas | 16 inches x 20 inches | $200 |
| Morrison | Sarah | Winter’s Reservoir in Two Parts | monoprint | 24 inches x 18 inches | $450 |
| Novetsky | Diane | Walking Blues | acrylic on canvas | 60 inches x 54 inches | $8,500 |
| Novick | Steve | Iceberg | wood and paint | 3.5 inches x 7 inches x 3.5 inches | $1,000 |
| Piessens | Anne | Sisterhood | photocollage and ink | 11 inches x11 inches | $250 |
| Radwell | Laura | River Dusk | oil on canvas | 40 inches x 40 inches | $5,000 |
| Sakkaf | Iman | Outlook | acrylic on wood panel | 12 inches x 12 inches. | $275 |
| Siefer | Susan | Growing Pains | mixed media on canvas mounted on board, woven element | 48 inches x 36 inches | $2,600 |
| Sigurdardottir | Edda Valborg | Where Earth Meets Sky I | monotype hand-pulled print | 26 inches x 14 inches | $750 |
| Sisson | Jeanne | In My Winter Sea | monotype whole cloth quilt on linen stitched with linen thread | 20 inches x 36 inches | $1,350 |
| Stoney | Kimberly | The Less We Say About It, The Better | mixed media paint and collage | 8 inches x 8 inches | $250 |
| Stumpf | Suzanne | All the Little Cups of My Thoughts | sculpture (porcelain) | 3 inches x 19 inches x 13 inches | $1,800 |
| Whitham | Sharon | Cool/Uncool | monotype, oil on paper | 22 inches x 24 inches | $1,200 |
| Yi | Karen | Rivers and Roads 1 | monotype print with acrylic paint | 8 inches x 10 inches | $250 |
SHOW 2
| Last Name | First Name | Title | Media | Dimensions | Price |
| Arnold | Gordon | Natural Phenomena 1 (Blue series) | archival blue ink on watercolor paper | 12 inches x 9 inches | $75 |
| Behar | Becky | Still Life – Blue | archival pigment print | 39 inches x 27 inches | $1,200 |
| Bonner | Michele | Blue World | fiber | 36.75 inches x 36.75 inches | $750 |
| Brown | Krystle | 15,000 Days | 3 channel video | 7:50 minutes | $5,000 |
| Byrne | Susan | Grotta Mare | woodcut reduction print and collage, Akua ink on BFK Rives | 21 inches x 17 inches | $350 |
| Camargo | Annielly | Hay Más | cyanotype on coffee filters | n/a | $130 |
| Feltoon | Shelby | Dad with Flowers | cyanotype on paper | 7 inches x 5 inches | $3,000 |
| Gilbert | Moriah | It’s Progressive… | oil and acrylic on canvas | 48 inches x 68 inches | $3,000 |
| Ibanez | Silvina | Irrigation | oil on canvas | 35.5 inches x 23.5 inches | $2,500 |
| Imrich | Steven | SOMERVILLE 13 | oil on linen | 42 inches x 36 inches | $4,700 |
| Li | Elena | Bluebirds Symphony | papercuts and watercolor | 20 inches x 18 inches | $880 |
| Libert | Elizabeth | The Blue Bath (II) | archival pigment print | 20 inches x 15 inches | $950 |
| Rae | Sophie | Family Ties | acrylic on paper | 22 inches x 30 inches | $550 |
| Manning | Michael | Wachusett Reservoir | photograph | 24 inches x 24 inches x 2 inches | $1,200 |
| Mark | Tisha | Week 31 Seascape, 52 Seascapes in 52 Weeks Series | oil | 12 inches x 12 inches | $345 |
| Massari | Nate | Anhedonia | acrylic | 28 inches x 19 inches | $650 |
| McClure | Peggy | Liminal II | archival digital print | 13 inches x 13 inches | $200 |
| McGough | Katherine | Heidelberg Doorways | watercolor on paper | 13.25 inches x 11.25 inches | $250 |
| Murphy | Lisa | Herself | acrylics on canvas | 16 inches x 20 inches | $250 |
| O’Connor | Kat | Persephone’s Bath | oil on paper | 30 inches x 22 inches | $2,800 |
| Oates | Leah | Transitory Space, Nova Scotia, Canada # 106 | color photography | 11 inches x 14 inches | $500 |
| Papin | Suzanne | Bioestratigrafia | photograph | 8 inches x 14 inches | $200 |
| Peterson | Kathryn | Forest Bathing in Thetford | ink on paper | 11 inches x 14 inches | $700 |
| Prakkamakul | Ponnapa | Because It’s There | mixed media on paper with soil collected from site and rust from found object, wood and Lazy Susan | 36 inches x 36 inches | $1,750 |
| Pratt | Aimee | Memory Room II | flashe on hand-dyed canvas | 26 inches x 24 inches | $650 |
| Prellwitz | Wendy | Studio Moontide | oil on panel | 18 inches x 18 inches | $1,800 |
| Reischwitz | Astrid | Trapped | archival pigment print with unique embroidery | 21 inches x 26 inches | $2,540 |
| Rozenman | Alexandra | Falling in Love with Matisse (comment on a Blue Painting) | oil on canvas | 36 inches x 50 inches | $5,000 |
| Wagner | Mara | Begonia and Blues | collage; acrylic, painted papers, crayon | 18 inches x 24 inches | $1,260 |
| Wolejko | Bridie | The Blue Whale | mixed media collage | 24 inches x 36 inches | $1,000 |
Have questions? If you have questions after reviewing the above information, please email Associate Director, Candice Bancheri at candice@cambridgeart.org, or call us at 617.876.0246
Cambridge Art Association does not issue refunds for exhibition applications. Once submitted, changes cannot be made to any application. All applications must be entered via Submittable.
All decisions/selections are made by the juror. All decisions are final.
