Friday, May 28, 2010

Congratulations!

Results of the Judging:

Drawing
1st Marlene Bezich, “Emily”
2nd Doris Nickerson, “Night Blooming Cereus”
3rd Rob Giordano, “Tree of Life”
HM Sally Pezza, “Etudes in Pencil”

Miscellaneous
1st Muriel Musarra, “North Shore Cliff”
2nd Chris Taylor, “What do you think?”

Mixed Media
1st Letty A. Damm-Norjen,
“Sailing on Blue Bay”
2nd Ted Stamatelos, “Beneath”
3rd Willet Ryder, “Virgin Gorda House”
HM Lester Sprague, “Textured Focus”
HM Eddie Rehm, “National Healthcare”

Oil/Acrylic
1st Daveen Herley, “Walking Dunes”
2nd Mary Samuels, “Flowerfield”
3rd Pete Juszczuk, “Summers End”
3rd Andrea Lee Pisacano, “Under the Sea”
HM Dolores Szigethy, “No Apologies to Cezanne”
HM Muriel Musarra, “Meadowcroft Garden”



Pastel
1st Rita Swanteson, “Soulful”
2nd Marlene Bezich, “Mattituck Estuary”
3rd Roberta Gugliotta, “Dried Hydrangeas”
HM Susan Brooks, “Wetlands”

Photography
1st Joel Furman, “Winter Quilt”
2nd E. Louise Maciere, “Birthday Roses”
3rd William Hafener, “55 # 2”
HM Nicholas Delihas,
“Inspired by Stamatelos,# 2”

Printmaking
1st George Wybenga, “American Scenes”
2nd Rosamaria Eisler, “Party Time”
3rd Rosamaria Eisler, “Breaktime”
HM Letty A. Damm-Norjen, “The Model”

Sculpture
1st Dwight Trujillo, Untitled
2nd Nina Giordano, “Abstract Portrait”

Watercolor
1st Br. Gerard Cormier, “Sails in the Bay”
2nd Lorraine Rimmelin, “Stick Docks”
3rd Jeanne Salucci, “Two Tied Up”
3rd Rita Swanteson, “Dreamscape”
HM Mary Bouzianis, “Pleiadan (Pitcher Plant)”


BEST IN SHOW: George Wybenga, ”American Scenes” (Printmaking)

Our Judge: Pam Brown, Director of the Anthony Giordano Gallery at Dowling College
www.pamjbrown.com

BIOGRAPHY

Pam Brown received her B.F.A. from Alfred State College of Ceramics in New York, and her M.F.A. from Mason Gross School of Art, Rutgers University, in New Jersey. She also studied at Rhinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, and the Fine Arts Work center in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts, a New Jersey State Visual Artist Grant, and, more recently, a Special Opportunity Stipend (SOS) from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Her large-scale public sculptures were installed at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, NY, Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, NY, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, NY, Long Island University in Brookville, NY, the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, TN, and the Chesterwood Preservation in Stockbridge, MA. Her most recent solo exhibitions were at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, VA, the Fayerweather Gallery at the University of Virginia, and the Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, NY. Additionally, Pam has exhibited her small-scale sculpture in New York and throughout the eastern U.S. for the past 20 years. Presently, she teaches sculpture and is the director/curator of the Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College, in Oakdale, NY.