Patterns Winner's Book - 2015

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Patterns - From Nature and Man Made 2015

Table of Content Grand Prize Winner 3, 4 Karen Swanker The Power

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Judges’ Comments

Gold 6 7 8 9

Art David Saucy Sausalito Kevin Jones Tired of Repeition Art David Guitars Bill Gleasner Beveled Glass

Silver 10 11 12 13

Joachim McMillam Tulip Country June Morrsion New Orleans Street Musicians Dawn Decosta A Tall Order Karen Swanker Isaac’s Gift

Bronze 14 15 16 17

Kaila Reinhardt Beams Tara O’Neill Mango Season June Morrison Welcome to the Jungle Dawn Decosta Graffiti Poppies

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Contest Details

HEART Award - Grand Prize

Inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell and Louise Nevelson, artist Karen Swanker creates assemblages from objects found on the street.

Whether walking or out on a bike ride, she picks up discarded, broken or dropped bits of plastic, metal, paper or wooden “treasures”.

She then paints the pieces with metallic colors or with a monochromatic color and assembles them in deep frames. The result is a fascinating creation of interwoven shapes and textures.

Titles for the pieces come from markings or text on one of the objects.

This art form is defined by Wikipedia as: A found object, in an artistic sense, indicates the use of an object which has not been designed for an artistic purpose, but which exists for another purpose already. Found objects may exist either as utilitarian, manufactured items, or things which occur in nature. In both cases the objects are discovered by the artist to be capable of being employed in an artistic way, and are designated as “found” to distinguish them from purposely created items used in the art forms.

On a deeper level, her work is a statement about the impact and amount of non-degradable objects put on the earth and the importance of recycling.

Karen Swanker Fine Art Artist

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Karen has been a summer resident in Driggs,Idaho for nine years and lives on Marco Island, FL during the winter. She is a retired computer graphics artist with a background in advertising.

Since retirement she has been involved in the art community both on Marco and in Driggs.

She is a board member of the Marco Island Foundation for the Arts - www.marcoarts.org.

Her work is currently represented at The Local Color Gallery on Marco Island, FL

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Karen Swanker The Power

Judges’ Comments: “Karen’s creation is powerful at two levels. The macro level invited my eyes to enjoy the overall pattern and color; and at the micro level, the detailed construction drew me in to appreciate the aesthetic beauty of her ‘found objects’.” ~ Pat Kaikini PkArchitectdesigns.com “Before this contest, I didn’t think about music as having artistic patterns, or the reflection in water being a pattern. The grand winner, Karen Swanker’s piece, “The Power” was amazing because of the number of facets of pattern..color, arrangement, and 3-dimensional layering.” ~ Denise Wauters ParadiseWebFl.com I was transfixed by the artist’s ability to rearrange and re-purpose a collection of toys. She forced me to evaluate the story through an unexpected new configuration of lines, shapes and patterns. At the same time, I couldn’t help but try to identify the original types of toys present. ~ Randall Kenneth Jones @randallkjones

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The HEART of the Artist

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Art David Saucy Sausalito

Kevin Jones Tired of Repetition

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Art David Guitars

Bill Gleasner Beveled Glass

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Joachim McMillam Tulip County

June Morrison New Orleans Street Musicians

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Dawn Decosta A Tall Order

Karen Swanker Isaac’s Gift

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Kaila Reinhardt Beams

Tara O’Neill Mango Season

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June MorrisonWelcome to the Junlge

Dawn Decosta Graffiti Poppies

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In the spirit of celebrating the love of art — the very purpose for the HEART AWARD — the theme for this competition was entitled:

“Patterns - From Nature and Man Made”

At the core of the HEART AWARD is the desire to celebrate the extraordinary work of these talented individuals and provide them well-deserved additional exposure so their work can be enjoyed by a larger audience.

Congratulations Winners!

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Randall Kenneth Jones

Denise Wauters

Pat Kaikini

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Founder / Executive Director

Guest Judge / Architect

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