Landscape by Myra Lobel
(HUDSON, N.Y.) – The opening reception for the Columbia County Council on the Arts Annual Juried Art Show at the Hudson Opera House will take place on Saturday January 17, 2015, from 5 to 7pm. Works by three dozen regional artists are included in the exhibition, which was curated by Jack Shear, director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation.
Artists featured in this year’s juried show include Mary Breneman, Trace Rosel, Susan Levine, Peter Keitel, Myra Lobel, Michael O’Shea, Melanie Mintz, Kirsten Bates, Jeffrey Neumann, Ellen Jouret-Epstein, Denise B. Chandler, Debra Bilow, Claudia McNulty, Christine Hales, Brian Buono, Barbara Lax, Kevin Amer, Art Murphy, Gail Giles, Arlene Boehm, Ann Marie Rollins, Dragica Susanj, Patrick Milbourn, Jim Flosdorf, Jeremy Sachs-Michaels, Marlene Vidibor, Linda Horn, Sarah Sterling, Herb Rogoff, Keith Batten, Valerie Hoffmann, Reinhard Voigt, Marilee Sousie, Ken Tannenbaum and Janet Cooper. Media represented in the exhibit include photography, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, mixed media, fiber, installation and video works.
‘Cafe Breakfast’ by Melanie Mintz
Jack Shear, a resident of Spencertown, is the director of the Ellsworth Kelly Foundation and has worked as a photographer for over 30 years, concentrating on black and white portraiture. His work is in numerous museum and private collections. Publications to his credit are Four Marines and Other Portraits and Short Season. Exhibitions curated by Shear include Twice Drawn at the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York and Drawn from Artists’ Collections at the Drawing Center in New York City, which traveled to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Shear is a member of the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art and the Board of Directors for both the Foundation for Arts and Preservation in Embassies and the World Monuments Fund.
Cash prizes for ‘Best in Show’, ‘Second’ and ‘Third’ as well as a ‘People’s Choice’ prize will be awarded at the opening reception.
For more information call the CCCA at 518-671-6213 or visit Columbia County Council on the Arts.
(Images shown are representative of artists’ work but not necessarily included in the exhibit.)