Annual Juried Show 2009
December 12, 2009 – January 30, 2010
This year’s Annual Juried Show at Abington Art Center includes just over 40 works of art by local and regional artists. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Victoria Donohoe says, “Overall, this is a show bound in an atmosphere of crackling vitality…” and she adds, “There are totally arresting paintings, impossible to forget.”
This year’s juror was Julien Robson, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). Robson relocated to Philadelphia in 2008 after eight years in Louisville, Kentucky where he was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Speed Art Museum and Adjunct Professor at the University of Louisville. A native of Scotland, Robson initially trained as an artist at Bath Academy of Art, and the Slade School of Fine Art in London before taking up curatorial positions at the University of Sussex and, subsequently, the University of Southampton, England.
artist: James Levell
artist: Laura Pritchard
artist: Joseph Reinhart
AJS 09 Award Winners
The Award Winners from Abington Art Center’s 2009 Annual Juried Show include:
Best of Show-Trustee’s Award • Joseph Reinhart “Golden Abe”
Jim Bachman Memorial Award • Maggie Mills “Solid, Liquid, Gas”
Yvonne M. Kelly Memorial Award for Mixed Media • Tom Herbert “Freeze Frame”
Calfayan Construction Award for Technical Merit • Ephraim Russell “Interferer (Executive)”
Calfayan Construction Award for Creativity • Laura Pritchard “Homage to Ramierez”
Honorable Mentions:
Frank Burd “Brattleboro”
Paul Gorka “Paint Junk Memorial”
Alison Willse “Hangman”
Mark Winicov “There”
