The 2022 Members Prize Show will be presented in our Kathryn Schultz Gallery. The entirety of the exhibit will be featured online for the duration of the exhibition timeline. The exhibition will be presented in two parts:
Show 1: March 1 – 19, 2022
Show 2: March 29 – April 16, 2022
Juried by Beth Kantrowitz, Beth is an independent curator and art consultant. Beth co-directs Drive-By Projects with Kathleen O’Hara and has curated a number of exhibitions in and around Boston and New York.
Five 2022 Member Prize Show accepted artists were selected for the Artist of the Year Award. All winning artists will be presented with their award at the Opening Reception held on Saturday, March 5 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm. To learn more and to save your spot, click here.
The five 2022 Member Prize Show‘s Artist of the Year awardees are as follows:
Paul Beckingham
Paul Beckingham is a contemporary realism oil painter based in New England.
His work tends to incorporate complexity and decay, often framed in dramatic light. Paul finds that capturing the effects of light in an ordinary scene elevates it to a compelling narrative.
Paul has been tutored by Mark Carder, Alex Tzavaras, and Chelsea Lang, and has paintings in private collections in the US, UK, Germany, Norway, and Finland.
Paul is represented by 13 Forest Gallery in Arlington, Massachusetts. His work will be shown in Show 2 of the 2022 Member’s Prize Show.
Website: www.paulbeckingham.com
Instagram: @paul.beckingham
Chelsea Bradway
Ever since she was a child she believed in wonder and whimsy. Chelsea was brought up to believe that women are powerful, alluring, intelligent, kind, and can do anything they set their minds to. In Chelsea’s photographs, she combines magical moments with women’s empowerment for every age.
To quote the rock band Queen, “Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. Open your eye, look up to the skies above.” What might be seen in the clouds above?”
Why don’t you step inside and find out?
Chelsea’s work will be shown in Show 2 of the 2022 Member’s Prize Show.
Website: www.allthingssparkleyphotography.com
Instagram: @all_things_sparkley_photo
Miren Etcheverry
During the pandemic and its associated restrictions, the distance between us has never seemed so great. These playful portraits reflect happy moments spent with them, while Miren is here and they are far away. Using old family photographs and combining them with recent photographs, she created Oh My Goddess! Her “Oh My Goddess!” series celebrates the women who have influenced her.
Most of them are in her extended family and are living full and active lives in southwestern France, where she is from. A few have passed, but their memories live on in her heart. During the pandemic and its associated restrictions, the distance between them has never seemed so great. Using old family photographs and combining them with recent photographs, Miren created “digital collages,” transforming these ordinary women, giving them a breath of new life, and capturing their lively spirits and dynamism. She conveys what is beautiful about them, reinterpreting that beauty, even transforming them into goddesses.
Miren comes from a long line of strong women. She has continued to surround herself with strong women. These women are her role models and the source of her own strength and feminist spirit. Indeed, they are her goddesses.
Miren’s work will be shown in Show 1 of the 2022 Member’s Prize Show.
Website: www.mirenetcheverry.com
Instagram: @etchephoto
Richard Hackel
Richard’s work seeks to bring new insight into how landscape exists and changes. He is interested in time, and how it changes the landscape predictably and surprisingly. Richard’s plan is to capture the unplanned and ultimately photograph the invisible.
His work will be shown in Show 2 of the 2022 Member’s Prize Show.
Website: www.richardhackel.com
Wiley Holton
Wiley Holton’s kaleidoscope paintings articulate the chaos and anxiety and depression that stem from her ADHD and, in depicting how her brain feels and functions, challenge the misconceptions and generalizations that people attach to this neurological disorder and mental illnesses in general. She explores the impact on her representation of chaos by intentionally breaking this geometric pattern by randomly placing and starting new centers of the kaleidoscope. She wants to provoke the viewer to question what they are seeing and not seeing amongst the smudged chaos. By playing with the contrast between the background and the lines themselves, she is demonstrating a complexity of vision, emotion, and experience. Her work is in numerous private collections across the country, as well as the permanent collection of the Colby College Museum of Art.
Wiley’s work will be shown in Show 1 of the 2022 Member’s Prize Show.
Website: www.wileyholton.com
Instagram: @artbywileyholton
We hope you can join us for the Opening Reception & Awards Presentation on Saturday, March 5 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm at the Kathryn Schultz Gallery.
To learn more about the exhibit and to see the full list of accepted artists, click here.