28th Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibit

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Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition

MCILROY AND HOLZHAUER GALLERIES AUGUST 29 - OCTOBER 16, 2020

2020 Best in Show Winner

Irene Pentelis

MATTIE KELLY Northwest Florida State College

www.MattieKellyArtsCenter.org | artgalleries@nwfsc.edu | 850.729.6044

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28th Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition About Our Judge Ndubuisi “Endy” Ezeluomba, Ph.D. Francoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art

This year’s juror and judge of prizes was the esteemed Ndubuisi “Endy” Ezeluomba, PhD., Francoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art at the New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) where he manages NOMA’s significant collection of traditional African art, which is considered one of the most important in a public museum in the United States. Dr. Ezeluomba began his work at NOMA after serving the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond as the Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Research Specialist in African Art. In this role, Ezeluomba collaborated with the institution’s conservation department to probe beneath the surface of the objects in the museum’s collection. Before his time in Virginia, Ezeluomba served as a consultant on the Elusive Spirits: African Masquerades exhibition at the Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, and worked on the Harn Museum curatorial team that produced Kongo Across the Waters, examining 500 years of cultural exchange between the Kongo, Europe, and the United States, showing the rise of Kongo as a major Atlantic presence and the transmission of Kongo culture through the transatlantic slave trade into American art. Ezeluomba received a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Florida, Gainesville, specializing in historic African shrines. Ezeluomba has contributed to multiple publications and journals, including Routledge Encyclopedia of African Studies, Agents of Space: Eighteenth-Century Art, Architecture and Visual Culture; Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism; Black Art Quarterly; and has presented at numerous international conferences.

Juror Statement Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, August 2020.

The 28th Emerald Coast National Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition is an assembly of forty works, representing a diverse, exceptional cohort of upcoming artists. This exhibition features notable pieces, including ceramics, sculpture, painting, drawing, printmaking, and photography.

Collectively, the works on view highlight these emerging artists’ exceptional abilities and provide a glimpse into the minds of truly creative, conceptually strong minds.

As our world is bedeviled by COVID-19 pandemic, the fallout from the social justice protests that started at the wake of the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and spreading across the globe, we have truly been engrossed with a lot this year. This exhibition serves as the reflection of the career trajectory of the selected works. The works are chosen to reflect upon the current social, political situation that the nation and the world is dealing with. It also looks at the products of these budding artists, who in the next few years will blossom to enviable heights. And no doubt this year’s exhibition showcases artistic styles that fuse traditional skills with contemporary vision.

As a curator of African art (historic and contemporary), selecting pieces that demonstrated a relentless determination to realize one’s vision was at the forefront of my mind when choosing the art on view. It was important within this exhibition to represent a well-rounded variety of mediums, conceptual frameworks, and narratives in an effort to engage all of our senses. By doing so, I hope the viewer also explores how within each work of varying media and form, exists a range of roles an artists can have in today’s society. A clear takeaway from this competition is how the artists are not only mere observers and recorders, but also activists, innovators, and creative problem solvers within everyday life.

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28th Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition Best In Show

Satyr Gazing 30x22 inches, Ink and colored pencil on paper | 2020 Irene Pantelis, Bethesda, MD

About the Artist Irene Pantelis is an interdisciplinary artist living and working in the Washington D.C. area. Grounded in abstraction, her drawings, videos and installations portray people, natural formations and maps, weaving together mythology, history, ecology, immigration, daily life and fantasy, finding renewed relevance in the universality of human subjectivity. Born to a multinational family, she lived as a child in Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil and New York City, before settling near D.C as a teenager. A former labor lawyer, she earned her Bachelors and her Masters in Fine Arts degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park. Her work is held in private collections and has been exhibited primarily in the United States, earning her the American Landscapes, Sadat Art for Peace and Visualizing Migration awards.

The Artist’s Statement on the Piece “Satyr Gazing started with splashes on the paper of the most fundamental of elements—water. Comprising most of our beings, indispensable to our survival, yet a formidable destructive force at times, water created a pattern on the paper, on which I drew gesturally the portrait of an ancient Greek satyr. This mythological character was a goat-man nature spirit that followed Bacchus, the god of wine and debauchery. While drunk and rambunctious, he also had a great sense of intuition and loyalty, and could deliver pearls of wisdom. In my drawing, the water’s expressive power transformed my mark-making, dubbing the initial narrative into a story anew about the satyr still in us all—that animal nature that is all very human, that human thing that is all pretty much nature, that captivating sensuality of our ambiguous temperaments.”

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28th Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition 2nd Place

Neptune Freeze 39x27 inches, pastel on paper | 2019 Racheal Homack, Mary Esther, FL

2nd Place

Jailbreak 29x18x22 inches, Bronze | 2019 Jeff Jones, Niceville, FL

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28th Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition 3rd Place

Self-Portrait in the Time of Coronavirus 20x16 inches, watercolor on washi paper | 2020 Annette McGuire, Pueblo, CO

3rd Place

Know Center 12x36 inches, oil paint on canvas | 2020 Alexandra Giannell, Bloomington, IN

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Dreaming the Sea 36x24 inches, encaustic, pan pastel, and oil sticks on cradled board | 2019 Tera Fujan, Shalimar, FL

Honorable Mention

Never Ever Give Up 14x12 inches, intaglio on paper | 2020 Lynnette Black, St Paul, MN

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28th Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition Honorable Mention

Buses and Cars 38x26 inches, digital photograph on paper | 2020 Ian Fagan, Pensacola, FL.

Honorable Mention

The Flyer, Inspired by Sam Maloof 46x26x46 inches, wood | 2020 John Raeburn, Coffee Springs, AL

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28th Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition Honorable Mention

Dawn at Saint John’s Point 36x36 inches, oil paint on canvas Caro Dranow, Danbury, CT

Honorable Mention

Oak Garden 36x24 inches, digital photograph on paper | 2020 Randy Traynor, Tallahassee, FL

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I Had a Cough That I Couldn't Shake 15.5x18.5 inches, mixed media on paper | 2020 Brandin Baron, San Francisco, CA

Pavane pour une Infante Defunte 15.5x18.5 inches, mixed media on paper | 2020 Brandin Baron, San Francisco, CA

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Open Circle Rising 47 inches tall, 8 inches in circumference, Stainless steel | 2019 Richard Bauer, Shalimar, FL

Forbidden Entrance 32x34 inches, intaglio on paper | 2020 Lynnette Black, St Paul, MN

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Intertwine 32x22 inches mixed media on fiber paper | 2019 Jennifer Ditona, Virginia Beach, VA

All that Sails 20x34 inches mixed media on illustration board | 2019 Michael Fagan, Pensacola, FL.

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Cold Bay 20x34 inches, mixed media on illustration board | 2019 Michael Fagan, Pensacola, FL.

August 20x20 inches, acrylic paint on canvas | 2019 Jonathon Fisher, Atlanta, GA

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Lost and Found 24x18 inches, acrylic paint on panel | 2019 Jonathon Fisher, Atlanta, GA

Homage 16x12 inches, Oil paint on canvas | 2019 Pam Folse, Fort Walton Beach, FL

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Textured Village 16x20 inches, digital pigment print on paper | 2020 Julia Gary, Huntsville, AL

Turmoil 16x20 inches, digital pigment print on paper | 2020 Julia Gary, Huntsville, AL

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Panopticon 24x48 inches, oil paint on canvas | 2020 Alexandra Giannell, Bloomington, IN

Cells are not Our Building Blocks 24x48 inches, oil paint on canvas | 2020 Alexandra Giannell, Bloomington, IN

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Made in China 12x12 inches, oil paint on canvas | 2020 Patti Gillespie, Hurricane, UT

Spring Snowflake 28x28x3 inches, mixed media on canvas | 2020 Racheal Homack, Mary Esther, FL

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Duke's Tree 14x11 inches, mixed media on canvas board | 2019 Amy Huwa, Niceville, FL

Coquette 11x17x22 inches, Bronze | 2019 Jeff Jones, Niceville, FL

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Reference for Corporal Funishment 12x12 inches, oil paint on wood panel | 2020 Nicholas Kalemba, Orlando, FL

Phoenix Rising 21x29 inches, watercolor on paper | 2020 Michele Kimbrough, Marianna, FL

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Escape 21x29 inches, digital photograph on paper | 2019 Dottie King, Pensacola, FL

Can You Find the North Star?

26x19 inches, digital photograph on paper | 2019 Dottie King, Pensacola, FL

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Beach with Raven and Crow 12x12 inches, acrylic paint on canvas | 2020 Lynette Henderson, Chatsworth, CA

Distance 16x20 inches, digital photograph on paper | 2020 Gina McGhee, Shalimar, FL

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Delicate Serenity 18x24 inches, Pastel on paper | 2020 Jessica Mincy, Fort Walton Beach, FL

African Beauty 18x24 inches, oil paint and gems on canvas | 2019 Jessica Mincy, Fort Walton Beach, FL

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My White Hat 15x18 inches, oil paint on canvas | 2020 Charles Pierce, Blountstown, FL

Dreamy 6x2.5x2 inches, ceramic | 2019 Denise Quirk, Pensacola, FL

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One Race 28x21 inches, acrylic paint on canvas | 2020 Carrie Raeburn, Coffee Springs, AL

Director statement ECN 28, 2020 Thank you!

On behalf of the Mattie Kelly Arts Center, I would like to thank all of the artists who applied for the 28th annual Emerald Coast National juried exhibition. This year saw emerging artist applicants from across the country. Although I did not judge the show, and the theme is open, I especially enjoyed noticing the artwork that artists choose to share in this particular moment. Overall the applications communicate a desire for connection. To make this exhibition more accessible, the Emerald Coast National is available online for the first time at www.ECN28.org The website will be live for the duration of the gallery exhibition. Special thanks go to our distinguished juror, Ndubuisi C. Ezeluomba, Ph.D., who so thoughtfully adjudicated this show. Thank you to the Humanities, Fine and Performing Arts Division at NWFSC for support of the exhibition. Thank you to the Emerald Coast community for your abiding support of the arts.

J. Wren Supak, MFA, MHR Gallery director, MKAC, NWFSC

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28th Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition UPCOMING GALLERY EVENTS 2020-2021 28th Emerald Coast National annual fine arts exhibition August 29, 2020- October 16, 2020

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Arnie Hart Juried Student Exhibition & Arts Faculty Exhibition March 26-- May 3, 2021

Visit The galleries are open to personal visitation in low numbers. The artwork has been spaced further apart than usual to encourage physical distancing.

Appointments are recommended but not required. Guests will wear masks.

We have a limit of five persons per gallery, or fifteen persons in the building at a time. To make an appointment, please call 850-729-6044 or email artgalleries@nwfsc.edu. Entry is free and everyone is welcome!

Board of Trustees Brian S. Pennington, Chair Lori Kelley, Vice Chair Shane Abbott Craig Barker Charlotte Flynt Reynolds Henderson Major General Don Litke, USAF Retired Major General Thomas “Rudy� Wright, USAF Retired Dr. Devin Stephenson, President

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