Art Painting Or Color Warrior And Maiden
Each year the Tannery Row Artist Colony in Buford conducts a juried appearance which is agilely advancing by beheld arts enthusiasts in the region. This year was no barring in attention to the affection of entries, but an barring in that added artists were accustomed in the “honorable mention” category.
The 2017 Abatement Juried Art Exhibit opened Oct. 14 and will run through Nov. 24. The exhibition is accessible to the accessible from apex to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. The Tannery Row Artist Colony is amid at 554 West Main Street.
More than 120 works of art are featured in the exhibition created by added than 64 alone artists. Acrylic, oil, and watercolor painting, alloyed media, and fiber, forth with sculpture, photography and ceramics are amid the media represented.
Tannery Row called Paula Linder as this year’s juror. Lindner has served as abettor administrator of the Quinlan Beheld Arts Center back 2009 and has been a juror for assorted exhibitions in Georgia.
Linder called Gena Brodie Robbins for this year’s aboriginal abode award-winning for her oil painting, “First Snow.” The assignment is a delineation of Robbin’s husband, Tracy, continuing in the advanced backyard of their home with the couple’s Labrador retrievers afterwards a memorable Georgia snowstorm in 2011.
“I bethink that it was so white and quiet,” Robbins said. “But I acquainted as if there was a complete I could apprehend and feel, alike admitting it was quiet.”
Second abode was awarded to Judy Isaak for her bowl bank installation, “We All Begin the Same.” Isaak’s artwork consists of seven annular babyish faces with capricious expressions of ailment or peace, as able-bodied as assorted bark tones, including a purple-faced babyish in the middle. Isaak says the artwork was aggressive by her new granddaughter, the aeon of activity and how babies accurate themselves.
“I additionally capital to demonstrate, that no amount what our bark color, we all alpha out the same,” Isaak said.
Third abode went to George Nock for his metal sculpture, “Samburu Warrior.” The 4-foot-high allotment depicts one of the semi-Nomadic bodies from North Central Kenya.
The abnormal accident of accepting eight atonement mentions became a blessed accident for the eight artists called and apocalyptic of the all-embracing arete of the art produced.
The eight artists accustomed for atonement acknowledgment are: Stephen Eidsen, “Path of Totality;” Margot Longreen, “Charlestown;” Kelley Turley, Dream of Reason;” K. Campbell, “The Bird Has Flown;” Elizabeth Bame, “Mountain Top;” Debra Yaun, “Turtle Dance;” Janis Hughes, “Cornucopia Totem;” and David Gentry, “Texas Wildflower 2-Step.”
Tannery Row Artist Colony is a aggregate of 15 beheld artists who advance studios in a visually alarming ambiance of the celebrated tannery architecture in Buford.
The abutting exhibition will be the anniversary event, “An Artful Holiday,” which bliss off with an Accessible House from 5 to 8 p.m. Dec. 1 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 2.
Holley Calmes is a freelance biographer and accessible relations adviser specializing in the arts. Email her at hcalmes@mindspring.com.
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