LONG BEACH ISLAND FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS AND SCIENCES 2025 WORKS ON PAPER
2025 WORKS ON PAPER
Welcome to 2025 Works on Paper
Saturday, May 17Sunday, July 6, 2025
“Works on Paper” 2025, the 27th National Juried Competition and Exhibition, launches our summer season at the Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences.
The variety of media eligible for submission to this exhibit included drawing, painting on paper, hand-pulled prints, photographic prints, digital works on paper, and paper constructions. All the artwork submitted was required to be completed within the past two years. Artists from forty-two states submitted their artwork for review by the juror. We are pleased to present the artwork of seventy artists who hail from twenty-seven states across the US.
The visual experience of seeing a work of art with our own eyes is unmatched as we experience in real-time: scale, color, texture, and light. Exploring the artists’ personal themes, their vision and imagination transcends two-dimension representations seen on screens and in print.
The Works on Paper exhibit provides the opportunity to acknowledge the talent, innovation and individuality of seventy artworks and the intangible relationship that forms between the work and the viewer.
Thank you to all the artists whose work we applaud today. They have provided us with reminders of the beauty, complexity, abstraction and a moment in time of the visual world around us.
The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences was established in 1948 as an institution whose mission was to foster the highest level of the arts and to bring artists, educators, and patrons together to celebrate art as a passion and a driving, influential cultural force.
This year we are honored to have as our juror Samantha Friedman, Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. We are truly grateful to her for providing her exceptional expertise to select the artwork for this exhibition and for the awarding of prizes. We thank her for her support and her curatorial vision.
Special thanks go to Tracey Cameron, Katherine Whitlock and Sophie McClellan for the design and creation of this catalog. In addition, we are grateful to LBIF’s Gallery Staff and the Art Exhibition Committee members who work tirelessly to organize and present robust and diverse art exhibitions, lectures and programs each year.
Daniel la Kerner Executive Director
The Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts & Sciences
Cover art and detail (above): 2024 First Place Award, Arran Harvey. Museum Crowd. Painting on paper
Catalog design: Tracey Cameron
Juror’s Statement
Samantha Friedman is Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC. Her accomplished career and extraordinary insights, knowledge and experience in the realm of Drawings and Prints are unmatched. She has organized or co-organized such exhibitions as Georgia O’Keeffe: To See Takes Time (2023); Cézanne Drawing (2021, with Jodi Hauptman); Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury (2020-21); Lincoln Kirstein’s Modern (2019, with Jodi Hauptman); Dadaglobe Reconstructed (2016, with Adrian Sudhalter); Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs (2014–15, with Jodi Hauptman and Karl Buchberg); Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration (2012); and Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance (2009, with Jodi Hauptman). In addition to authoring catalogues for these exhibitions, she produced a special-edition facsimile of one of Ellsworth Kelly’s sketchbooks for his 2023 centennial celebration and is the author of Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction Blue (2022) for MoMA’s One on One series and the children’s books Matisse’s Garden (2014) and What Degas Saw (2016).
The outpouring of submissions for Works on Paper 2025 is a testament to the sheer aliveness and diversity of drawing, printmaking, photography - and related digital or dimensional explorations - for artists working today. Whether engaging with centuries-old etching techniques or experimenting with digital technologies, embracing the immediacy of pencil on paper or adopting the camera’s mediated lens, the selected artists adapt their chosen materials to reflect unique ways of considering the world. Abstraction abounds in subtly calibrated constellations of form and color; some works are characterized by meticulous patterning and others by a muscular sense of dynamism. At the same time, the figure persists: singly or in groups, reflecting the various joys and vulnerabilities of human experience. Though each work here is singular, connections proliferate among them, gathering these artists’ distinct voices into visual community.
Samantha Friedman
Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), NYC.
Works on Paper
1 David Avery, California
As a practitioner of traditional black and white etching, I often draw inspiration from the master etchers and engravers of the past 400 years. My pursuit of detail is not technical display for its own sake, but is rather an attempt to increase the expressive qualities an image is capable of conveying.
2 Gary Barton, Utah
My collages feature years worth of personal notes and sketches. Using correction tape, white-out, and markers to redact text, the works evoke themes of memory, privacy, mystery, the hidden, information accuracy, and the nature of meaning.
5 Susan Bencarcik, Delaware
I am inspired by organic forms: their contour, color, and range from abstract to representational. My ideas stem from both my work as a gardener and my experience as a printmaker and surface designer. I think a lot about patterns, filigree, topography, layers and silhouettes. .
3 Bob Bechtol, New York
My work explores visual and contextual balance through the tension of opposing elements. Each painting emerges through processes of replacement, dissection and reconfiguration. This approach is informed by philosophical and spiritual theories of opposition and is conceived as meditative observations of the world around us.
OR Etching, relief, graphite, gouache and hand printed collage on Hahnemuhle Copper plate
2 Works on Paper
4 Diana Behl, South Dakota
My work identifies parallels of image-making and cultivating a garden, uniting past and present through story and emotional care. The title is a reference to my location at the time of my father’s death, an event which led to my exploration of both intergenerational loss and intergenerational horticulture.
6 Chris Bunney, New York
As a photographer, I am fascinated by the evanescent beauty of the natural world and the way light, form, and texture combine to reveal its hidden depths. This work is an exploration of these fleeting moments, captured in the vast and shifting landscapes of White Sands National Park. Through these prints, I seek to reveal the lasting essence of a place, while recognizing the subtle forces that continuously shape it.
7 Keith Buswell, Nebraska
I draw inspiration from different trees around my community in Lincoln, Nebraska and other meaningful locations. My arboreal imagery acts as a symbolic language to reflect human interconnection: we need our farmers, teachers, and artists just as a forest needs its trees.
Becalmed Etching
Personal Notes Reused, Reorganized, and Redacted Collage and mixed media
Vector Charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, and paper on panel
Haiku
Acrylic gouache
LImen Silver gelatin print
Boys Town Etching
Artists
8 Janet Cass, Pennsylvania
My photographs are of more than water, sky, and saltgrass – they are of light, awareness, and presence. Kayaking is a uniquely intimate way of experiencing the day’s light and finding joy in my art. While photographing, I also collect trash from NJ’s coastal waterways, and I hope to make a difference with both my art and my actions.
9 Natalie Christensen, New Mexico
In 2014, I moved from Kentucky to New Mexico, and was immediately drawn to the distinctive Southwestern light. I was interested in the way that light and shadow could spark complex narratives, and quickly became aware that these isolated moments in the suburban landscape were rich with metaphor. As a psychotherapist, I learned the art of asking questions, and this work is an extension of that open-endedness.
10 John Cinco, New York
I have long been interested in the improvisatory nature of art, the exploration of chance, and the impulse towards order in the creative process. Simultaneously, I have a parallel aspiration to achieve the sublime in art, without which I feel that a work can lose its meaning.
11 Bob Conge, New York
I have come to understand that the face we present to the world is rarely the one we see in the mirror. A portrait must express more than a mere likeness – it should be as unique as the individual and pulse with the vitality of the life they have lived.
12 Jonah Criswell, Missouri
My drawings and paintings mimic dreams: they are improvisational, candid, and humorous. I approach my work like a writer approaches their narratives and I hope that it reflects both the beauty and fragility of life.
13 Zoraye Cyrus, Florida
My work explores identity, belonging, Afro-Caribbean diaspora, and the ever-expanding experiences of blackness. I combine personal family photographs with colonial-era archives, resulting in large-scale portrait drawings that encapsulate not only the depicted individual, but the entire tapestry of history, emotions, and experiences that shape the person depicted.
To Hold Gravity and Time
14 Andrew DeCaen, Texas
Eating and other food-centric rituals inform my work. We eat our meals with varying awareness of its significance, and I find myself curious about the space, time, and manner in which we eat, prepare, and acquire our meals. My original perception of these moments is often interrupted or distracted, so I return to them with an open and curious mind.
Worlds Within Worlds Photograph printed on archival fine art paper
Suspended Animation Digital photograph
Existential Lottery Color pencil and crayon
Portrait of Nietzche Etching, edition of 5
Lately Things Have Been Difficult Acrylic on paper
What is True? (3) Charcoal on paper
Lithograph and screenprint
Works on Paper
15 Hannah Demma, Nebraska
As a papermaker, I engage in a direct, intimate conversation with my materials through a meditative, arguably monotonous process. This repetition allows me to slow down, immerse myself in the rhythm of the work, and connect with the world around me. Visually, my work draws inspiration from the geometric patterns in quilts and vintage textiles, as well as patterns from the natural world.
16 Nicole Di Fabio, Washington DC I use art as a means of exploration, challenge, discovery, and reflection. I most commonly depict humans and food, as both are ubiquitous but complex. I hope that my art communicates the inherently human process of nourishment while acknowledging the emotional complexity of the relationship between food and body.
17 James Dormer, Colorado
While the essence of my creative work is rooted in nature, it is not an attempt to portray the local landscape or its inhabitants, but rather, it is an abstraction of my experiences. Much of my work is arrived at through memory, automatism, and the subconscious.
18 Leonard Duffy, Vermont
Growing up on a farm in the 1940s, I learned about practical mechanics, building, and self-reliance. Meanwhile, my childhood days in my grandmother’s Philadelphia frame and print shop exposed me to the world of art. My work is informed by my balance between frequent travels and maintaining a farm in Vermont.
19 Kobe Elixson, Texas
My work grows out of a patchwork of brambles and weeds: the interwoven questions of religion, relationships, and societal roles in the 21st century. Struggling to find an understanding of myself, the process of carving away from wood serves as a metaphor for the carving away of the inauthentic – the repetition and refining of printmaking as a meditative refining of myself.
20 Andrea Ferrigno, Illinois
My work is informed by systems extracted from mathematics, science, and related philosophies. Often I begin with Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, then allow my intuition to take the lead. Recently, I have been gravitating towards figuration, but still want the forms to be ambiguous, allowing the viewer to form their own interpretations.
21 Susan Frankel, Illinois
This work expresses the delight I feel when moving around my living spaces. I do not see these as figurative illustrations, but rather a synthesis of this experience as geometric groupings, colors, and lines, resulting in a rhythmic description of what I have seen.
All Wrong Turns Colored pencil on paper
PM49p Colored pencil on paper
Over Time
Homemade abaca paper with colored pencil
Berlin Paper, weaving, pen, pastels
Orange Peel Gospel Woodcut relief
Streeter’s Thicket Lithograph
BUS STOP AT THE COLORED SCHOOL (1947 Remembered) Oil and mixed media
Artists
22 Richard Gilles, California
The streets of San Francisco had always been full of energy and movement until the pandemic and subsequent lockdown. In the years following the lockdown, the energy is starting to return. Through my photographs I hope to capture the renewed energy on the streets.
23 Lydia Gladkova, New Jersey
It takes a lot of destruction to create my paper sculptures. I build by layering plastered paper into fragile forms, as if assembling a puzzle. As I build, gravity prevails and the paper structures collapse, but with each collapse comes a reinvention of the ensemble. After many interactions, the result is a paper sculpture that stands tall and strong on its own.
24 Bret Gonden, New Jersey
My work explores the dynamic forms and compositions found in the natural world. Currently, my thematic focus revolves around the fluidity of water, the vastness of space, and the conceptual undercurrents that tie these elements to our broader understanding of existence. Each layer of paint is an exploration, and aims to evoke connection and reflection.
25 Mille Guldbeck, Ohio
Driven by my love of natural science, I explore how flawed perception shapes our understanding of the world. My work depicts alternate realities shaped by human error and misunderstanding, resulting in images that seek to embody the desire to shape and understand the world around them.
26 Yen Ha, New York
My work uses repetitive, small-scale gestures to build landscapes based on the memory of time and place, referencing the tenuous relationship we have with the natural world. The drawings are assembled from individual sheets to form vast scenes of mountains, seascapes and natural forms.
27 Kelly Hartigan Goldstein, California
My meticulous and contemplative hand-cut newspaper collages merge compositions from smaller, everyday moments with broader social discourse and political debates. Language and meaning find me in a word search of found poetry and polarizing views.
28 Amellia Hausmann, Tennessee
My work is about observing and finding meaning in what are often brushed off as “everyday” moments. It is like people watching, but through frozen moments in photographs from a different time. The subjects fade in and out, like a memory.
Walking #7
Archival inkjet print
Geometry of Dance
Colored construction paper and Elmer’s glue
Emerita Season
Acrylic on Canson Aquarelle paper
Casein and pigment on paper
Conversations with Guests Oil paint on archival oil paper
Life Span of a Whim - Inner Critic - WSJ 12.28-29.2024 Analog hand cut newspaper, collage, lazy susan
NGC-5235
Ultra fine Sharpie on paper
Works on Paper
29 Joseph Heathcott, New York
My work explores urban landscapes, focusing on how people shape and are shaped by built environments. I am particularly drawn to the crystalline yet ephemeral urban moments, revealed in fragile grounds and fleeting signals. The whole of a city is unknowable, so I explore its traces.
30 Dusty Herbig, New York
This work is a graphic representation of how the language in the U.S. Constitution is cleverly manipulated to serve corporate-political agendas. My hope is to shed light on how documents are scrutinized to implant and extract convenient perspectives, and question the projected value of words on a piece of paper.
31 Joseph Holsapple, Texas
My current body of work depicts people at play – board games, performances, make-believe – within narratives that explore human relationships and the passage of time. These narratives are intentionally elusive, with layered imagery and fragmented spaces evoking a sense of disconnection and a world suspended in time.
32 Raluca Iancu, Iowa
While technology enhances our lives, it also causes vulnerability through over-reliance. My recent work examines the graceful curves of the infrastructure, such as overpasses, which are a marvel of technology yet contribute to inequity by dividing cities and ecosystems. In this work, I imagine a world where technology leads to an uninhabitable environment.
33 Kevin Jacobs, California
Working out the kinks from womb to tomb.
34 Erin Karp, New Jersey
My work is a meditation on calm and an expression of my curiosity. Photography is a way for me to slow down and breathe in my surroundings amidst chaos, finding beauty in an oftentimes ugly world. I find elegance in architectural details and embrace fleeting moments of light and shadow that make my heart sing.
35 Rebecca Kautz, Wisconsin
My allegorical work uses psychoanalysis and personal history to explore identity, belonging and place. It is largely influenced by my rural Midwest upbringing, where feelings of estrangement stem from childhood trauma and a dysfunctional family. Installed by my father in the 1970s, the woodstove is a witness, being a central character in the family room of my childhood home.
Towers Flowers Collage
Stencil Series 2 Lithography
Outside Games
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Tiburtino 2
Mokuhanga (Japanese water-based woodcut print)
Tapenado, Sevilla (ed. of 15) Photograph, archival pigment print on matte paper
Heirloom
Soft pastel and wax crayon on Stonehenge paper
The Matchstick Mixed media
Artists
36 Megan Klco Kellner, Michigan
Parenting is an isolating and intimate, humiliating and empowering, joy-filled and exhausting experience. I build collages from discarded paintings, my children’s drawings, and various scraps from around our home. In an era where my mind feels constantly pulled in many directions, the medium of collage feels uniquely able to hold these simultaneous truths on one page.
37 Amanda Kralovic, New York
Water has always been a safe space for my thoughts, feelings, and emotional conflicts. The manipulation of water has been a reference for my recent works, where I am creating a visual language through the human body’s physical and emotional relationship to the world around us.
38 Dean Kube, Missouri
It is life’s imperfections that are my greatest source of inspiration: mistakes, bumps, and blemishes are what makes life rich with texture and ambiguity. By working through each painting in layers and embracing uncertainty, my process mirrors the struggles of everyday life.
39 Ashley Kuhn, Pennsylvania
My work explores the tension between structure and chance, using layered compositions of intuitive mark-making and precise geometry to explore myth, memory, and psychological terrain. Influenced by surrealist traditions, I lean into ambiguity and metaphor, creating images that reject a clear narrative and allow for emotional pondering.
40 Sophie LaBell, New Jersey
After being diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease in 2022, I recognized that healing takes place at a cellular level. Fascinated by microbes and the unique designs that happen on agar plates, my current body of work consists of various micro-environments filled with bright colors and repetitive mark-making.
41 Laura Lemna, Colorado
I use the act of painting and the languages of abstraction to record various speeds of decision making. Gestural marks are revised and adjusted through wobbly geometric design, reflecting awkward and earnest ways of producing, problem-solving, playing, and presenting ideas and images.
42 Rita Maas, New York
This work evolved during a period of temporary hearing loss, which left me profoundly aware of the sounds that surrounded me. I began meditating, during which I made marks corresponding to the sounds I heard without looking at the drawing. Surrendering the composition to chance and switching senses, the drawings are a testament to my auditory experience.
Clutter
Watercolor and mixed media
Overpowering Relief
Two Monoprint, Akua ink on archival paper
Meditation I
Graphite and oil on paper
Cellular Explosion Acrylic, marker, and pen
Untitled 4 Acrylic on paper
Lasdon Arboretum, June 14, 2023 Graphite on Rives BFK Paper
Works on Paper
43 Emily Mann, Michigan
My work explores the tension between order and chaos and the relationship between geometric and organic shapes through surreal landscapes. By following the strict compositional rules set by myself, I use these landscapes to process my own place in this world and the vast complexity of life.
44 Craig Marcus, Pennsylvania
Born and raised in Pittsburgh, I earned my BFA in Painting and Printmaking before earning an advanced degree in software engineering. In addition to working professionally as a painter, graphic artist, printer, and software engineer, I have designed and built custom furniture and cabinetry since 1992.
45 Jo Margolis, Pennsylvania
I have found endless fascination with calligraphic shapes, textures, and patterns. There is something exciting about the unpredictable forms that may appear in text, and I try to channel this in my work. Using pattern, shape, and space, I am building my own visual language where nothing is random and nothing is wasted.
46 Andy Mattern, Oklahoma
Hiding on the backs of some long-forgotten photographs are “ghost” images: faint traces of other photographs from being pressed against the surface for decades. These apparitions are a side effect of platinum photography, a medium which declined before the First World War. In this project, I reanimate these ghost images as modern platinum prints, returning them to their original forms.
47 Elizabeth McMahon, New York
Embracing the creative potential in uncertainty, I use collage to build precarious visual moments that are suffused with whimsy and joy. I select, cut, and rework hand-painted paper, altering the materials with stitches, markers, and patterns. The final product is fueled by both intuition and my lifelong study of color and composition.
48 Larinda Meade, Maine
My work explores the textures and shapes of the Maine landscape, capturing a sense of quiet and calm by walking through nature. Through sketching, snapshots, and layered printmaking techniques, I translate my experience of the natural world into visceral marks that invite the viewer into a shared moment of reflection.
49 Anna Moore, Illinois
Ode to the French Tart!
I think of each shape and color as having its own flavor, scent, and texture. The powdery and fragile nature of the soft pastels reflect light while imparting depth, movement, and a surprising vulnerability. Using mathematical ratios to divide a page into a grid of harmonious parts, I then deconstruct it into abstract shapes and playfully reassemble it.
Take It All In, Give It
All Up
Copper plate etching on Rives BFK Paper
Arcane Wars Archival inks on paper
Amitie Ink on handmade paper
Ghost No. 68
Platinum print
Hot to Trot Painted paper collage
Restless Soft ground and drypoint etching
Cherry Tart at the Odeon, NYC 1980’s Soft pastel on paper
Artists
50 Jacobb Nichol, New York
My work explores identity and memory within my family as we process the aftermath of my brother’s imprisonment. Using photography, I confront the emotional weight of love, grief, and uncertainty, as my brother contemplates this next chapter of his life and the decisions that led to it.
51 Ocean Ocean, Washington
My text-based drawings are created by repeatedly overlapping the same phrase until the writing becomes illegible. While the eye can try to make sense of the text, eventually it will surrender, abandoning the communicative function and drifting into realms of the illegible and unspeakable.
52 Mio Olsson, New York
My work explores the tension between the flatness of drawing and its potential for expansion into the three-dimensional. Using shapes like circles and ellipses, I am interested in navigating the relationship between representation and abstraction.
53 Julia Paul, Virginia
This drawing belongs to a series that explores my evolving identity through midlife, depicted through spare marks and tonal washes that portray ordinary, often unnamed daily activities. My drawings act as quiet, personal reflections and serve to reveal the nuanced complexity of identity over time.
54 Alyson Provax, Oregon
Language is a framework for our lives and an outlet for our individual and collective feelings and ideas. Everything we know, we know through our own perception, and any attempt at description will be incomplete. While we may struggle to communicate life’s totality even to our closest companions, these attempts at communication are what is central to feeling home in this world.
55 Wren Ross, New York
These vessels are structural “works on paper,” combining two-dimensional drawing with three-dimensional form. Inspired by offerings left at the Temple of the Delphic Oracle, I incorporate coins, wood ash, smoke stains, and prints to create reliquary-like objects. The questions posed at the Delphic oracle – of truth, safety, decision making, and love – remain relevant today.
56 Eric Schaeffer, New Jersey
I find that there is beauty in snapshots of everyday scenes. While I used to shoot on black and white film, the portability of my smartphone allows me to carry it everywhere and easily shoot whatever catches my eye, like overlooked scenes of buildings and streets.
Who am I Photographic print
Letting go is all we have to hold on to Ink on paper
Untitled (screen roll) Colored pencil and pencil on paper
Looking for a Pot Graphite and acrylic on paper
Untitled (I know it’s not about this) Letterpress on Hahnemuhle Copper plate warm white paper
Pythia South Papier-mache and mixed media
LA Side Walk Photography
Works on Paper
57 Julian Schaevitz, New York
I am a self-taught artist, best known for my signature cartoon style. As a transgender man, I lean into surrealism to explore the impossible in conversation with my identity. With much of my work being autobiographical, I make art to grow and reflect, and as an act of resistance.
58 Beth Shadur, Illinois
My current series, The National Park Project, addresses the pristine and beloved parks that preserve our valued landscape and nature. I look into the history, culture, usage, beauty, and impact of climate change on a variety of parks that I have hiked.
61 Janice Stanton, New York
I seek to create something revelatory and blur the lines between painting, photography, and collage. Using found objects, pieces of my own photographs and drawings, and text, I invite the viewer to consider both the physical object and its conceptual significance.
59 Robert Silance, South Carolina
Photography, for me, is a process of visually editing the world. I aim for form and content to be indistinguishable, making the photograph not just a picture of something, but an object in itself. The meaning of the image is exactly as it appears.
62 Zachary Stensen, Wisconsin
My work explores the transitional point where a series of marks coalesce into an understandable form, blurring the boundaries between the virtual and material worlds. I create drawings that hover between illusion and form, filtering and reassembling fragmented sensory information into narratives that challenge us to question our collective understanding of the world.
63 Clark Stoeckley
Blending motifs from stained glass, psychedelia, science, street art, and sacred geometry, this meditative work reflects a search for harmony amid external chaos. I aim to offer a visual escape from the often distressing world around us, shaped by both deep introspection and spontaneous doodling.
60 Sarah Smelser, Illinois
Though I employ the language of abstraction, I consider myself a landscape artist. While walking, I think about how landscapes are organized, and how plots, fields, land masses, and bodies of water might appear from above and fit together. The resulting images are orderly and deliberate, yet reference conflict between what is living, fabricated, or in control.
The Two Juls Colored pencil and pen on paper
Thrust (Antelope Canyon) Watercolor
Born Here Photography
Untitled 86 Mixed media collage
Fire Box Graphite on paper
Unraveled Utopia Ink and colored pencil
Artists
64 Robert Tomlinson, New York
Each print of my Disorderly Conduct series is unique, and is informed by the last paintings of Dubuffet and my grandson’s energetic drawings.
65 Jennifer Tungol, New Jersey
I like to photograph scenes that are overlooked, tucked in a far corner or hidden in plain sight. I find that there is beauty in getting lost in the labyrinth of the everyday and everywhere. Life can be unpredictable, and I derive joy from revealing that truth through my photography.
66 Rachael Van Dyke, Michigan
Growing up in a large Italian family where emotions and energy were high, I learned early on to create quickly, work collaboratively, and not become too attached to my work. Though it is easy to become attached to a particular mark or area, I allow the layers to transform for the sake of the narrative. I paint without judgement and allow my critical eye to participate when I finally step back.
67 Christian Wechgelaer, New York
By blending drawing, printmaking, and digital techniques, I explore how images affect our ability to remember and rationalize selfhood. In these montages, I reference the fragility of memory and identity, in an era marked by overstimulation.
68 Geoff Weiser, New Jersey
This work belongs to a series of photographs of vintage currency from around the world. I crop the images and manipulate scale to focus on the intriguing compositions found on demonetized bills, which I have collected in my travels.
69 Lisa Wilde, New York
A lifetime of experiences is what moves me to make art. I began painting seriously only five years ago, when I semi-retired from teaching at a second-chance NYC high school. My approach is not about a preconceived style, but finding the style that best expresses my thoughts and emotions as I transcend realism.
70 Mario Zucca, Pennsylvania
Though I have over two decades of experience as an illustrator for major corporations, I am most fulfilled by my self-directed projects. My series, Philly Eats, showcases my artistic take on Philadelphia’s iconic restaurants and bars, further cementing the love I have for my hometown.
Disorderly Conduct Ink on silver gelatin print
Vintage Takayama Photograph on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Digital Pearl aper
au marché (At the Market) Auvillar, France
Acrylic on paper
Inkjet print, colored pencil, carbon transfer
Cien Colones (Costa Rica) Digital photgraphy
Identity Crisis Oil on gessoed paper
Philly Eats: Pho 75 Digital (MacBook Pro, Wacom Cintiq tablet, Adobe Photoshop)
1st Prize
Museum Crowd
Acrylic on paper
Juror
Kim Conaty, Chief Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC.
My work is often a simple observation of space or a group of people. A large part of my process involves choosing images to work from and cropping and arranging them to create a composition. Images may suggest a narrative but can also be snapshots of mundane, everyday rhythms.
2nd Prize
Arran Harvey Kate Hopkins Works on Paper
Painted Weaving No. 12
(Thank You, EmmaLee)
Watercolor and graphite on Arches hot press
My work explores the intersection between creative labor and the viewer’s experience. The watercolor paintings are initially inspired by the microscopic scales that cover butterfly wings and embrace the innate restorative qualities of biophilic patterns and biophilia. The work has since become a deep commitment to the process itself.
3rd Prize
Queer Objects
Pen, ink, and graphite on paper
Honorable Mention
#2 Ink on paper
My work intertwines personal and political narratives to reflect my Queer identity amidst 1980s homophobia and the silence of AIDS. Influenced by the Prinzhorn Collection, I blend Queer history with childhood obsessions and fuse text, pattern, and imagery to evoke humor, nostalgia, rebellion, and obsessive self-expression.
Bobby Abate Lynne Tobin 2024 Awards
I am inspired by the materials, rhythms, and patterns found in domestic work, and in crafts traditionally associated with women, such as stitching, mending, and weaving. The repetitive patterns created with string and rope are reminiscent of textiles-- like threads on a loom woven together on paper.
Threads
Peggi Einhorn Award
The Annual Works on Paper First Prize Award
Peggi Einhorn, a former LBIF Board member, enjoyed a life-long love for creating and studying art.
Peggi passed away in February 2023, after a two year battle with brain cancer. Her family established this annual first prize award for the Works on Paper exhibition in celebration of Peggi’s creativity, generous spirit and uncommon grace.
After a college major in Art History, Peggi first worked in museums (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum and The National Endowment of the Arts) before embarking on successful careers in banking at J.P. Morgan Chase and in philanthropy as the C.F.O. of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Peggi loved to draw and illustrate almost anything in her line of sight—from candid caricatures of her co-workers, to memorable scenes from far flung vacation spots, to LBI’s natural beauty. But Peggi’s favorite art form was life drawing—nothing was more interesting to her than capturing the complexity of the human form. Over the past 20+ years, Peggi enjoyed many of the art classes and exhibitions at LBIF, including participating in a recent LBIF faculty student art exhibition. Having the bay, the ocean and the arts all just a short bike ride from her Harvey Cedars home made LBI Peggi’s perfect place.
About the LBIF
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The LBIF has continued this vision by offering thousands of classes, workshops, exhibitions, and educational programs to the community. Since its first season, the LBIF has committed itself to the enhancement of the creative arts and the physical sciences, and though it began as a seasonal operation, the LBIF has grown into a year-round organization providing a place for learning, free expression, and the exchange of ideas and understanding. The LBIF invites all visitors and residents to participate in the many programs and activities offered in its 77th year on LBI!
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2025 Index
1. David Avery, California
2. Gary Barton, Utah
3. Bob Bechtol, New York
4. Diana Behl, South Dakota
5. Susan Benarcik, Delaware
6. Chris Bunney, New York
7. Keith Buswell, Nebraska
8. Janet Cass, Pennsylvania
9. Natalie Christensen, New Mexico
10. John Cinco, New York
11. Bob Conge, New York
12. Jonah Criswell, Missouri
13. Zoraye Cyrus, Florida
14. Andrew DeCaen, Texas
15. Hannah Demma, Nebraska
16. Nicole DiFabio, Washington D.C.
17. James Dormer, Colorado
18. Leonard Duffy, Vermont
19. Kobe Elixson, Texas
20. Andrea Ferrigno, Illinois
21. Susan Frankel, Illinois
22. Richard Gilles, California
23. Lydia Gladkova, New Jersey
24. Bret Gonden, New Jersey
25. Mille Guldbeck, Ohio
26. Yen Ha, New York
27. Kelly Hartigan Goldstein, California
28. Amellia Hausmann, Tennessee
29. Joseph Heathcott, New York
30. Dusty Herbig, New York
31. Joseph Holsapple, Texas
32. Raluca Iancu, Iowa
33. Kevin Jacobs, California
34. Erin Karp, New Jersey
35. Rebecca Kautz, Wisconsin
36. Megan Klco Kellner, Michigan
37. Amanda Kralovic, New York
38. Dean Kube, Missouri
39. Ashley Kuhn, Pennsylvania
40. Sophie LaBell, New Jersey
41. Laura Lemna, Colorado
42. Rita Maas, New York
43. Emily Mann, Michigan
44. Craig Marcus, New York
45. Jo Margolis, Pennsylvania
46. Andy Mattern, Oklahoma
47. Elizabeth McMahon, New York
48. Larinda Meade, Maine
49. Anna Moore, Illinois
50. Jacobb Nichol, New York
51. Ocean Ocean, Washington
52. Mio Olsson, New York
53. Julia Paul, Virginia
54. Alyson Provax, Oregon
55. Wren Ross, Utah
56. Eric Schaeffer, New Jersey
57. Julian Schaevitz, New York
58. Beth Shadur, Illinois
59. Robert Silance, South Carolina
60. Sarah Smelser, Illinois
61. Janice Stanton, New York
62. Zachary Stensen, Wisconsin
63. Clark Stoeckly
64. Rpbert Tomlinson, New York
65. Jennifer Tungol, New Jersey
66. Rachael Van Dyke, Michigan
67. Christian Wechgaeler, New York
68. Geoff Weiser, New Jersey
69. Lisa Wilde, New York
70. Mario Zucca, Pennsylvania
