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Sanchez
Art Center presents its annual Bay Area Annual Juried Exhibition
opening October 30. The Bay Area Annual includes 43 artworks
selected from 418 works entered by 141 California artists, and will
fill the Main and West Galleries. Five of the 30 exhibiting artists
will be selected to receive a $100 Juror’s Award. The exhibit extends
through December 5, 2009. The opening reception will be held Friday,
October 30, from 7 to 9 pm, with music provided by the harp duo
of Shawna Spiteri and Portia Diwa from the group Triskela.
The
distinguished juror for the 2009 Bay Area Annual is JoAnne Northrup,
who was appointed as the San Jose Museum of Art’s Katie and Drew
Gibson Chief Curator in November 2008 after serving as Senior Curator
from 2001 to 2008. From 1995 to 2001 she was Curator, Exhibits and
Collections, at the de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, and
from 1992 to 1995 she held a curatorial position at the Norton Simon
Museum in Pasadena, California. Northrup has curated numerous exhibitions
that fuse popular culture and contemporary art, including Un/Familiar
Territory; Domestic Odyssey; Girl Power! Laurie Long; Heavenly Bodies;
and the nationally touring exhibitions Jennifer Steinkamp
and Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon (2008), and has
produced numerous catalogues and books at San Jose Museum of Art.
Northrup will give a Juror’s Talk on Saturday, October 31, at 11
am.
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2009 Bay
Area Annual Juried Exhibition |
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Accepted
Artists |
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Elizabeth
Bennett
Ingrid Brook-Kothlow
Iris Charabi-Berggren
Andrew Ek
Thomas A. Ekkens
Kathleen Elliot
Lin Fischer
Peter Foley
Fred Holle
Tanya Lin Jaffe
Donna Anderson Kam
Henrik Kam
Alice Kelmon
Mike Kimball
Myles Kleinfeld
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Andrew Leone
Ellen Little
Liz Maxwell
Elizabeth Medrano
Mary Medrano
Don Monkerud
Nila Oakes
Jeffrey Obser
Cynthia Rettig
Tamara Staser-Meltzer
Deanna Taubman
Ted Vasin
Sharron Walker
Pat Willard
June Yokell
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The
artworks shown above won awards in the 2008 Bay Area Annual,
which was juried by Maria Medua, Director, SFMOMA Artists Gallery.
Looking clockwise from the upper left, they are:
Sarah HaBa, Plastic Bag of Strawberries
Adrienne Allebe, Mutiny
Michael Brennan, Synapse
Antonia (Tuppy) Lawson, Bikini Trio
(center) Cinne Worthington, Newcomer
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