Philadelphia Sketch Club’s Absolutely Abstract Opening Reception and Awards
Sunday 11-16-2008 2-5:00 PM
Juror Lecture by Hitoshi Nakazato “Eat This, and Have a Cup of Tea“, Friday 11/14 8:00 PM
Gallery Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 1 – 5:00 PM
Absolutely Abstract Exhibition Committee:
Deborah Riccardi, Chair
DoN Brewer, Co-Chair
William H. Patterson, III
William Taylor
Yeoun Lee
Dorothy Roschen
Deborah Horsting
Lois Schlachter
M. Bruce Vieth
Pat Wilson-Schmid
James Bongratz
Steve Iwanczuk
Rik Viola
Ben Cohen
Dr. Dick Goldberg
Sy Hakim
Lynn Matheos
Joyce Mansfield-Devine
Jurors
Cameron McMillan and Hitoshi Nakazato
Exhibitions Committee Co-Chairs:
Lois Schlachter and Stephen Iwanczuk
Philadelphia Sketch Club President
Bill Patterson
Executive Director
Barbara Murray
Catalog of Artists
1. Untitled, Eva Meyer – Inkjet print. $200
2. Hair, Eileen Eckstein – Scan & Digital $100
3. Patty’s Hat, Pat Hill – Oil$750
4. Think Tank, Lois Schlachter – Acrylic $600
5. Opus 7, Arlene Arons – Mixed Media$175
6. “Crassula”, Michael G. Young – Acrylic, Mixed Media. $500
7. Saturn’s Wing, Susan Ellis – Photomicrograph $125
8. Dancing in the Street, Rose Marie Strippoli – Acrylic $1,200
9. Circle Series #7, Katy Lin – Oil on Canvas$450
10. Kudzu, Merle Spandorfer – Pulp Painting $900
11. Apprehension vs Dread, Douglas Smith – Black & White Giclee $165
12. August II, Jack Myers – Acrylic on Masonite, gesso $350
13. The God Circuit, David Foss – Acrylic$900
14. light being (Rick Selvin), DoN Brewer – Digital Photograph $350
15. Low Light, William Montgomery – Giclee $675
16. My Garden, Anne Martin – Oil on Canvas $950
17. Orifices III, Eileen Ballerino – Pastel $700
18. End Cut, William Montgomery – Giclee $675
19. Dakota Winter, Nancy Alter – Collagraph $900
20. Origins, James F. Watkinson – Pencil & Ink on Book Covers $1,500
21. In Repeat, Abby Schmidt – Melted Crayon $400
22. Conflagration Self-Portrait, PJ Foster – Oil Mixed Media Collage $20,000
23. light being (Anne D’Harnoncourt), DoN Brewer – Digital Photograph $200
24. Light and Shadow, Naomi Rubin – Water-Based Ink Hand-Pulled Print $425
25. Tracey Love 1, Douglas Smith – Hand Colored Black & White $165
26. Ecollage #40, Marlene M. Robinson – Mixed Media $450
27. Things That Matter, James Moss – Acrylic on Canvas $500
28. Population Sample, Karen Steen – Mixed Media $500
29. The Reef, Ben Cohen – Watercolor/Metal $250
30. Firepie, Lisa Lawinski – Acrylic & Crayon $900
31. Receiving Your Qualities, Michelle Marcuse – Digital print $2,000
32. Black & White (K)not, David Foss – Acrylic $450
33. River, Daniel Buchler – Mixed Media on Board $250
34. Colander Lattice, Hunter Stabler – India Ink and Graphite $1,800
35. Figment, Andrew Werth – Acrylic on Canvas $800
36. Black Fragments, Emily Brett Lukens – Ink $450
37. Flutter, S. Mallary Johnson – Pencil on Paper $300
38. Abstractions in Shades of Orange, James F. Watkinson – Pencil & Ink on Bookcovers $1,200
39. Earliest Landscape, M. Bruce Vieth – Oils $275
40. Passing Through, Romano Zamprioli – Acrylic $950
41. Untitled, Naomi B. Rubin – Mixed Media $395
42. Great Day for Lizards, Jane Hilles – Acrylic on Paper $160
43. Fishing, Emma Ehrenthal – Watercolor $800
44. Musical Score, Language Drawing Series, Pamela Birmingham – Ink on Mylar $1,000
45. Cognitional Abstracts, Mina Smith-Segal – Watercolor $295
46. Final Examination, Michael G. Jerista – Mixed Media on Canvas $550
47. Parade, Margo Tassi – Mixed Media $400
48. Iron, Ben Cohen – Watercolor/Graphite $500
49. New Space I, Joanne Bosack – Oil $1,800
50. Distance Radience, Richard Hamwi – Watercolor, Ink Collage $5,000
51. 71-44, Roger LaPelle – Drawing $700
52. Midnight Jewels II, Arlene Renee Finston – Encaustic $1,500
53. Lush, M. Frank Rush – Oil $425
54. Remains of the Day, Arthur B. Ostroff – Oil pastel $425
55. Bushkill Falls, Deborah Riccardi – Oil on Canvas $1,250
56. The Swamp #2, Jessica Milby – Etching $180
57. Growth Series: Maple Tree, Heather Siple – Gelatin Silver Rayogram $300
58. Emerging, Woody Carter – Pastel $400
59. Rulying?, Carolyn K. Coyce – Acrylic $600
60. Burning Man, Cynthia Groya – Cinecolle Etching $350
61. Sunday Dot-to-Dot, Judy Engle – Color Photo From Paper Negative $450
62. Topographic Calligraphy, Lee Muslin – Color Photograph $175
63. Rust 2, Neal Knobler – Photograph $150
64. Orvieto Copper, Elizabeth Bard – Digital Photograph $225
65. Conundrum, Karen Frank – Acrylic $500
66. The Fiery Tilt, Jed Williams – Mixed Media on Board $250
67. Tone Poem 2, Myra Ryan – Pastel $350
68. Late Autumn, Dorlynn Starn – Ink on Paper $500
69. Channels #1, Laura Marconi – Oil on Treated Paper $700
70. Relentless Passion, Sandi Neiman Lovitz – Acrylic on Canvas $1,700
71. Blue Rush #1, Rai Delnoce Senior – Inkjet Print $150
72. Jean’s Night, Favi Dobo – Oil $600
73. Tumult, Harvey Alpert – Mixed Media $900
74. Gate, Harold Venable – Acrylic $950
75. Mandela #2, Bob Minnick – Acrylic $100
76. First Fig, Clifford E. Bailey – Oik on Canvas $400
77. Maze, Scott L. Dickson – Acrylic, Pencils on Tin $200
78. Candy Coated, Melissa Quinter – Mixed Media $250
79. Verdant Complex 100, Bill Cechak – Oil $1,200
80. Snacks Time, Katy Lin – Acrylic on Canvas $450
81. Rothrock’s Red Gum, Susan Ellis – Photomicrograph $125
82. Stroll, Mark Weber – Oil, Graphic $300
83. Colony, Karen Steen – Mixed Media $500
84. Flight, Marlene M. Robinson – Watercolor $100
85. Tree Pattern, E. S. Holmes – Black&White photo plus Enhancement $350
86. Scent of an Angel, Michelle Marcuse – Digital print $2,000
87. Ce n’est absolument pas concret – This is Absolutely Not Concrete, William Taylor – Photograph $150
88. Scrittura, Love Letter Series, Pamela Birmingham – Ink, Mylar, Xerox Transfer $800
89. Abstract #2, Ron Morley – Oil $250
90. Ensnared, Carole J. Meyers – Monotype $800
91. Junctures, Mark Weber – Oil, Graphic $600
92. She Hoisted One Pastel Sheet to the Wind, Judy Engle – Collage $450
93. Wood & Fabric, Jess Joern – Oil $850
94. Boundaries, Cara Liguori – Graphite/Colored Pencil $750
95. Metalic Universe, Eileen Ballerino – Mixed Media $900
96. Morse Code, Lee Muslin – Color Photograph $175
97. Pompeii, Italy, Don Camera – Chromagenic Print. $0
98. Into the Woods, Frances Du Bon – Gouache $200
99. Gentle Reminders, Sandra Benhaim – Mixed Media on Birch $975
100. Circumambient Love, Rick Nicholas – Mixed Media $850
101. Vessels, Evalyn F. segal – Digital $200
102. Lotus Exotica, Bonnie Randall – Mixed Media $450
103. Wave, Cynthia Groya – Cinecolle Etching $350
104. Remains of the Season, Marie Davis Samohod – Acrylic $400
105. Asia, Arlene Arons – Mixed Media $175
106. Open Your Mouth and Close Your Eyes, Lynn Costomivis – Collograph. Board, Gesso $1,300
107. Fanfare, Arnold Winkler – Digital Composite $260
108. Joyous Color, Frances Du Bon – Gouache $400
109. Winterscape, Elizabeth Wilde – Mixed Media $250
110. Gold Rush #1, Rai Delnoce Senior – Mixed Media $150
111. Autumn Abstract #2, Christine Leinbach – Acrylic $250
112. Can’t let Go, Joan M. Palmer – Oil on Canvas $400
113. White Spots with Ink, Emily Brett Lukens – Ink $450
114. Plate, Robert Solomon – Wax, Canvas Pigment $1,800
115. Stream Ripples, Arthur B. Ostroff – Etching $185
116. Effulgence, Karen Frank – Acrylic $500
117. Cove II, Lisa Lawinski – Acrylic & Crayon $425
118. Key West, Michael G. Jerista – Acrylic $1,275
119. Edge of the Woods, Jane Hilles – Gouache $300
120. Untitled, Donna Quinn – Mixed Media on Canvas $875
121. Painting: Red Rock, Brian Boutwell – Oil on Canvas $300
122. Father Sky, Mother Earth, Sarah Baltzell – Film, Photoshop $300
123. Poseidon’s Possession, Carole J. Meyers – Monotype $880
124. PODS, S. Mallary Johnson – Pencil on Paper $300
125. Insect, Gail Bracegirdle – Watercolor and Collage $325
126. Bell Painting, Cameron McMillan
127. Hiroshima Series #1692, Hitoshi Nakazato
Jurors Biographies
Cameron McMillan
Originally from Indiana, Cameron McMillan has been teaching and showing her work on the east coast for 20 years. She has a B.F.A. from Indiana University, a Post-Graduate Diploma from the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, and an M.F.A. from Yale University. Cameron has received a Ford Foundation Grant and two Andrew Grant Fellowships. She has taught at Georgetown University, American University, Rowan University and a number of art schools in Washington, D. C. and the Philadelphia area. Her paintings are large mixed media pieces inspired by her love of color, walking in the woods, and deep connection with the figure. She received The Cultural Incentive Grant for a recently completed mural and the Bucks Foundation Grant. She also was a curator for shows and wrote two catalogs. The one she is the proudest of is the “Women Mentoring Women” Show at Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
Artist’s Statement:
“I paint all the things in life that move me. Sometimes these are events or images that cause me pain and sometimes these are events or images that give me great joy.”
Bell Painting, Cameron McMillan
Hitoshi Nakazato
Born in Tokyo 1936, received his BFA Tama Art University; M.S., University of Wisconsin and MFA, University of Pennsylvania. He lives in NYC. He has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Japan, and Europe. He is presently working on “Young New York Poets and Hitoshi Nakazato&#xu201D; Exhibition in Hiroshima that is opening August 6, 2009. He also has a one-man show at the Machida International Print Museum, Tokyo in 2010. Hitoshi is an internationally known Master printmaker and painter. Hitoshi taught for forty years at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania. Other honors include the John D. Rockefeller III Fund (1967); Creative Artists Public Service, NY (1975); Japan/United States Consortium for Environmental Planning and Design Education (1982). Solo exhibitions include Erikson Gallery, Philadelphia (1999); Gallery Kuranuki, Osaka, Japan (1998); Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo (1993, 1982, 1979,1977)
Public Collections :
Museum of Modern Art, NY, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, Pennsylvania Academy of Fines Arts, Phila., Hyogo Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan, Brooklyn Museum of Art , NY, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, Tochigi Museum of Art, Utsunomiya, Japan, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, Takamatsu Museum of Modern Art, Takamatsu, Japan, Shizuoka Museum of Art, Shizuoka, Japan, Setagaya Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan, Okayama Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan, Ohara Museum of Modern Art, Kurashiki, Japan, Wakayama Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan, Japan Foundation, Kokusai Koryu Kikin, Tokyo, Japan, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, Tikotin Museum of Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Ibaragi, Japan
Artist’s Statement:
“New possibilities may dwell outside what is known. Believing that the Line Outside Series would lead me there, I continue to paint the homage to Sengai who had reached the Terra Incognita. (Sengai, written as Monk on Cliff or Line Outside) The Monado Series is based on the idea that all the philosophers since the Greeks painted pictures of the universe applying Monadology or elementology. On this concept, painting is about building my own micro-cosmos with paintery elements.” Hitoshi Nakazato on April 10, 2007.
Hiroshima Series #1692, Hitoshi Nakazota
Figment, Andrew Werth – Acrylic on Canvas
Junctures, Mark Weber – Oil, Graphic
The Fiery Tilt, Jed Williams – Mixed Media on Board
Black & White (K)not, David Foss – Acrylic
light being (Rick Selvin), DoN Brewer, digital photograph
Abstract photography @ PSCs Absolutely Abstract
Philadelphia Sketch Clubs Annual Absolutely Abstract 2008.
Philadelphia Sketch Clubs Annual Absolutely Abstract 2008.
71-44, Roger LaPelle – Drawing
Candy Coated, Melissa Quinter – Mixed Media
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