41st ANNUAL
FABER BIRREN NATIONAL COLOR AWARD SHOW
Stamford Art Association Established in 1971, the Stamford Art Association is a nonprofit organization whose members include painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers. Our mission as a neighborhood arts organization is to provide a forum where emerging and professional artists can exhibit their work to the community and compete in juried shows.
Our world’s present strangeness necessitates an online presentation of the 41st Annual Faber Birren Color Award Exhibit. The conditions of our time no doubt inspired many of this year’s submissions—sometimes directly, other times more obliquely.
Several artists here seem concerned with topics of cosmic significance. Perhaps those themes crept to the surface, as the world changed from one moment to the next, and the works spoke back to their makers in the act of creation.
Conversely, many works express shades of intimacy, and sometimes a tinge of uncertainty. Whatever their themes, and however we interpret them, these artists engage color to stir emotions: subdued, vibrant, chaotic.
Exemplifying a rich diversity of palettes, this year’s selections offer various windows into the sheer possibilities of color, and its essential connection with content.
Michael Neumeister, Juror
Heidi Brueckner, 1st Place Siblings with Mudhouse, 2020 Oil, Acrylic and Paper on canvas, 34.5 x 42 inches
DL Simmons, 2nd Place Vlem, 2018 Printmaking, Acrylic on Wood, 80 x 128 inches
Tony Woolner, 3rd Place Ramas Story, 2018 Monoprint, 34 x 27 inches
Diane Cameron, HM Dreamworld, 2020 Monoprint, 16 x 20 inches
Lynne Arovas Woman, 2019 Water Soluble Oil Paint, 19 x 24 inches
Roxanne Baechler The Actor and the Clown, 2021 Acrylic on Canvas, 20 x 16 inches
Roxanne Baechler The Stranger, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 18 inches
Gay Bitter There’s a Pandemic and the West is Burning, 2020 Cotton Fabric, 35 x 38 inches
Heidi Brueckner Squatters Club, Cuba, 2021 Oil on Recycled Bubble Paper, 78.25 x 46.5 inches
Carey Conaway Crossing Over, 2020 Oil on wood
Cynthia Cooper Untitled (sunny days ahead), 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 38 x 56 ft
Carol DIxon Stained Glass Flower, 2021 Embroidery Thread on Felt, 13 x 13 inches
Mary Ann Glass St. John (Piero di Cosimo) 2021 Archival photo paper, matte, 12 x 12 inches
Gayle Gleckler Koi, 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, 36 x 24 nches
Ellen Gordon I’m Somewhere, 2021 Acrylic on Paint on D’arches Watercolor Paper, 30 x 40 inches
Diane Gubbay A Walk in the Woods, 2020 Photography on Aluminum, 30 X 24 inches
Lorie Gurian Tulip Detritus, 2021 Watercolor, 20 x 16 inches
Eddie Hall Descending, 2021 Acrylic on WIndow, 27 x 26 inches
Claire B Jones Whole Surface: Reaching 3, 2019 Cotton canvas and thread, 10 x 9 x 7 inches
Heather Jones Qianlong Vase (Emerald Green), 2021 Watercolor, grpahite and gouache on arches, 300 lb, 21 x 29 inches
Elizabeth Killgore Central Park, Lagoon,, 2021 Oil on linen canvas, 21 x 27 inches
Shweta Kohojakar Be Colorful Be You, 2021 Colored pencil, caran d;ache luminance on UArt board, 16 x 12 inches
Marcy LaBella Her Yellow Dress, 2020 Acrylic and crayon on canvas, 16 x 20 inches
Isabella Losskarn Will You Cut That Up For Her, 2020 Soft Pastel, 31 X 37 inches
Rina Naik Transcendence #1, 2021 Oil and cold wax on panel, 30 x 24 inches
April Dawn Parker Tell Me a Secret, 2019 Oil on linen, 40 x 74 inches
Catherine Picard-Gibbs Capture of Autumn, 2020 Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches
Gregory Presley Socializing in Ethiopia, 2018 Color photography, 14 x 21 inches
Gregory Presley A Man and His Cat, 2019 A Man and His Cat, 14 x 21 inches
Regina Quinn Before the Storm, 2021 Encaustic with oils and beeswax over watercolor on cradled panel 12 x 9 inches
Michael Scherfen Afghan Pashtun Tribesman, 2021 Watercolor, 20 x 28 inches
Franklin Silva Social Media, 2021 Oil on canvas, 16 x 13 inches
D.L. Simmons Saudade, 2018 Acrylic on canvas, 80 X 128 inches
Amrita Singhal Beasts of Burden, 2020 Oil, multimedia on wood panel, 20 x 20 x 2 inches
Amrita Singhal The Nocturne Player, 2018 Monotype, multimedia, 16.5 x 16.5 inches
Abbey Stace Lucid Dream, 2020 Plaster, acrylic media and oil, 48 x 36inches
Ceal Swift Schooleys Sunset, 2020 Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 30 inches
Beverly Tharp Suspension, 2021 Fine art paper, 15 x 19 inches
Marc VanDermeer Magic Lady, 2021 Chromian archival inkjet print on hahnemuhle photo rag paper 17 x 22 inches
Maxwell Wiesen A Study in Yellow, 2019 Oil on canvas, 32 x 26 inches
Nancy C Woodward Onlookers, 2021 Archival inkjet print on Epson hot press paper 31.75 x 27.75 inches
Tony Woolner Angkor Thom Bas Relief, 2018 Monoprint, 34 x 27 nches
Lauren Yandell Dusk, 2021 Painted on paper collage, 18.5 x 15 inches
Yujuan Zhai Winter, 2021 Watercolor on paper, 22 x 22 inches
Faber Birren National Color Award Show In 1980, Faber Birren, world renowned color consultant, author of 27 books on color, endowed the Faber Birren Color Award of $1000 for original and creative expression of color. The Faber Birren Color Award Show has grown from a regional exhibit to one of national scope, encouraging artists in all media. This competition is the only artistic event devoted exclusively to the use of color. This year the Stamford Art Association celebrates its 37th year of the Faber Birren National Color Award Show. Juror: Devon Zimmerman, Ph.D. candidate, formerly Director's Assistant at Pace, Modern and Contemporary Art Department Research Assistant at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and researcher at MoMA.
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