Ethnicity Through
2023 Summer Juried Show
the
Eyes
of the Artist
2023 Summer Juried Show Jurors
Erika Land, M.A.Ethnographer, Artist, and Educator
Cheryl Harper
Artist and Independent Curator
Nina Guzmán
Executive Director of Alianzas De Phoenixville
Exhibiting Artists
Sarah Watkins-Nathan
Dawn Merritt
Z Kaplan
Birgit Raders-Eichinger
Kim Robbins
Lauren Silver
Marissa Georgiou
Frank Burd
Lauren Vargas
Lisa Smith
Janell Sampson
Oxana Kovalchuk
Gary Grissom
Maremi Andreozzi
Kirsten Cunningham
David Levy
Oscar Vance
Kimberly Stemler
Violet Alexandre
Erika Matyok
David Fuentes
Marlene Adler
Jacqueline Valenzuela
Thomas Murray
Jeremy Sims
Giulia Giordano
Debra Powell-Wright
Robin Brownfield
Jerod Mason
Henry Morales
DeJeonge Reese
Ronald Washington
Mindy Flexer
Laura Madeleine
Robert Reinhardt
Martha Knox
Brenda Rydstrom
Rickie Sanders
Ted Lutkus
Gail Morrison-Hall
Maxine Schwartz
Laila Wah
L. A. Feldstein
Alana Walters
Maremi
AndreozziHyers Sisters, 2022
Acrylic on canvas
$2,500
“The identities of my subjects to understanding the narrative. features are omitted from through the subject’s headdress, and body language that
subjects is paramount narrative. Facial from my work. It is headdress, jewelry that the story emerges.”
Z KaplanNFS
“I have been both incorporating tzedakah and another value, doikayt, meaning ‘hereness’ to invoke pieces that connect to my Jewish roots and others in a way that explores desires for grounding in a reality that is deeply diasporic. My boxes serve not only to honor both my identity and ethnicity but also to highlight ancestral forms of resilience and healing.”
Mourning Stones Tzedakah Box Wood fired recycled stoneware
Small Group of Participants, 2019
“The photographs presented here aim to demonstrate the power of looking in as an outsider, the transformative power of consciousness raising in building solidarity, and how simply looking can enable us to ‘see’ in ways we had not seen before.”
Rickie SandersNFS
Photograph
Henry Morales
Descansando
Dirt from my with acrylic newsprint ads NFS
Descansando (Resting), 2022
my parents’ front yard mixed acrylic and oil paint and junk ads we get in the mail on canvas
$500
“I’m Latino (Chicano) with a disability (Cerebral palsy) The work I’m submitting is a reflection of personal expression and identity, a person that deals with not only being Latino but someone that lives with a disability. All work submitted is done with my right side--the side that has Cerebral Palsy.”
Morales
David Fuentes Self, 2018
Watercolor
Lauren Vargas
The
Pollinators, 2022
Acrylic and spray paint on canvas
NFS
“The parent-child relationship is a particularly ripe place to explore ethnicity, both as a “fromness” and something that is passed down from your ancestors and as something you make together with your children as contexts change.”
“Ethnic identity has been important to me as an artist because it is essential for people to see themselves in a positive light. I have taken my lessons of learning to love myself as a Black woman in America and transferred them to canvas.
I have taken the opportunity to highlight the beauty in the things that the world has told me is ugly about Black women.”
Janell Sampson
Cloud 9, 2023
Acrylic on stretched canvas
$450
David Levy
Kalakua, Kilauea and Charlie, 2018
Acrylic and mixed media NFS
“The painting I submitted tells a story of my great grandfather who fled antisemitism in Europe in the mid 1800’s and landed in Hawaii where he built a small haberdashery business and eventually made clothes for King Kalakua, played poker with the King and won land on 3 islands.”
Birgit Raders-Eichinger
ELEMENTS, 2022
Mixed media acrylic collage
$1,500
“As a German immigrant, I used to ashamed of my accent. I enrolled in evening class to rid my speech of peculiar timbre... I now embrace identity and the rhythm of my speech a part of who I am. My painting...shows the smallest, fundamental components of language: letters.”
Raders-Eichinger 2022 collage
$1,500 to be in an of its my speech as painting...shows fundamental letters.”
Martha Knox
Stirring, 2021
Woodcut with chine collé
$500
“We grasp on to what has come before because it is readily available and familiar, but what has come before is not of now, and what is copied will never be the same as the original.“
Martha Knox
Chopping, 2021
Woodcut with chine collé
$500
Mindy Golden Oil on $1,200 “in order within connected within discovered of Jewish the world Divine,
Golden Spiral, 2018
linen mounted on canvas
$1,200
order to work, every single thing within a painting’s four sides must be connected to every single other thing within its borders. Recently, I’ve discovered this is a foundational principle Jewish mysticism, too: everything in world is an expression of the Divine, and therefore interconnected.“
Persimmons, 2022
Oil on canvas with block print
$660
“There are certain design elements we attribute to specific cultures. How does this idea of cultural branding translate to people? I can speak to this personally by my not looking Asian enough in certain situations and too Asian in others.”
Mindy Flexer
Kimberly Stemler
Robin Brownfield Mom and Dad, 2021 Mosaic art
$500
“The primary piece about my own ethnicity highlights the environment that I grew up in, which has bled into my own artwork. While I do lots of portraits and wildlife art, I also tend to gravitate toward issues of racial justice. “
“Like a patchwork pieces memories. I am able vision and tell an extra
Oil on canvasOxana Kovalchuk
Self-Portrait, 2022 canvas with collage elements
$2,100 patchwork quilt, I consist of pieces of preserved culture and memories. Through my collages, able to convey this complex tell stories, literally adding extra dimension to them with an array of mediums.”
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