Photography MFA candidate Aubree Ross has been selected to be an exhibiting artist in the Columbia Museum of Art's 10th Annual Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year Soireé and Silent Auction, on Friday, April 16, 2013 at the Columbia Museum of Art. For more information, go to: http://www.columbiacontemporaries.com/
Jurors
The jury panel is comprised of Museum representatives and regional arts professionals. 2013 Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year Jury members were:
Dr. Will South is the chief curator of the Columbia Museum of Art. He served as the chief curator at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio prior to joining the CMA in 2011. Prior to his role at the Dayton Art Institute, South was the curator of collections at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is known for its contemporary art exhibitions and collections. He holds a PhD in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with a focus on American art and a doctoral minor in Italian Renaissance. As a graduate student, South was named the Henry Luce Fellow of American Art. He is widely published as a scholar, is a popular guest lecturer and has taught art history extensively at the college level. South has curated national traveling exhibitions in American Impressionism and American modern art in addition to organizing exhibitions from museums’ permanent collections. He is contributor to the permanent collection handbook for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. South has been accepted into the Getty Leadership Institute for museum professionals and is a member of the College Art Association and the Association of Historians of American Art. http://www.columbiamuseum.org
Tom Stanley is an artist and chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Following his youth in Concord, N.C., Stanley attended college at Belmont Abbey and graduated with a B.A. in Art from Sacred Heart College. He received a M.A. in Applied Art History and a M.F.A. in Painting from the University of South Carolina in 1980. He has served on the faculties of Lyon College in Batesville, Ark.; Barry University in Miami, Fla.; and as the director of the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, N.C. He was the first director of Winthrop University Galleries from 1990-2007. As a curator, Stanley's projects have included Worth Keeping: Found Artists of the Carolinas for the Columbia Museum of Art and New South Old South Somewhere In Between for Winthrop and the Levine Museum of the New South. In recent years his own work has been widely exhibited, including at Artspace in Raleigh, N.C., 701 Center for Contemporary Art and IfArt in Columbia, S.C. His Floating series was exhibited at the South Carolina State Museum’s Triennial Exhibition and at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. His work was most recently included in Abstract Art in South Carolina, 1949-2012 at the South Carolina State Museum, and Tom Stanley Glossary: Untitled Paintings at Gallery 80808 in Columbia. http://www.winthrop.edu/cvpa/faculty/default.aspx?id=12826
Mary Walker is a painter and printmaker. Born in New York and raised in Tryon, NC, Walker exhibits regularly in the South and the Northeast. She lives on Johns Island outside of Charleston, SC and is the winner of numerous regional grants and residencies. Her work has been included in the IPCNY Spring/Summer exhibition in New York, the LaGrange National XXVII Exhibition, CHICKS at the Bascom, Reconsidering Regionalism at the Jule Collins Smith Museum in Auburn, Prints USA 2011 at the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri, and Naturalia Animalia an artist’s book exhibition in Sannicola, Italy. She is in several collections, including the Springfield Art Museum, the Lamar Dodd Collection, the Addelstone Library, and the Sol LeWitt Collection. Her work is in the recently published 100 Southern Artists.Walker was one of five artists chosen for New York Print Club’s showcase in December 2012. Walker is represented by the Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC and the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, MA. http://www.marywalkerart.com/
Awards
The Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year is selected by the panel of jurors and receives a $2,500 cash award, a Contemporaries’ membership and a Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year award to commemorate his/her achievement.
The People’s Choice award will be voted for by event guests the night of the soirée. The People’s Choice winner receives an honorary award and $300.
The Jasper State-of-the-Art Award is sponsored by the publishers of Jasper Magazine. ThisawardincludesaspreadinafutureissueofJasperandacashprizeof$200. All entries by artists who have not been featured in Jasper within the last 12 months are eligible for this award.
The jury panel is comprised of Museum representatives and regional arts professionals. 2013 Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year Jury members were:
Dr. Will South is the chief curator of the Columbia Museum of Art. He served as the chief curator at the Dayton Art Institute in Ohio prior to joining the CMA in 2011. Prior to his role at the Dayton Art Institute, South was the curator of collections at the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, which is known for its contemporary art exhibitions and collections. He holds a PhD in art history from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York with a focus on American art and a doctoral minor in Italian Renaissance. As a graduate student, South was named the Henry Luce Fellow of American Art. He is widely published as a scholar, is a popular guest lecturer and has taught art history extensively at the college level. South has curated national traveling exhibitions in American Impressionism and American modern art in addition to organizing exhibitions from museums’ permanent collections. He is contributor to the permanent collection handbook for the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas. South has been accepted into the Getty Leadership Institute for museum professionals and is a member of the College Art Association and the Association of Historians of American Art. http://www.columbiamuseum.org
Tom Stanley is an artist and chair of the Department of Fine Arts at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC. Following his youth in Concord, N.C., Stanley attended college at Belmont Abbey and graduated with a B.A. in Art from Sacred Heart College. He received a M.A. in Applied Art History and a M.F.A. in Painting from the University of South Carolina in 1980. He has served on the faculties of Lyon College in Batesville, Ark.; Barry University in Miami, Fla.; and as the director of the Waterworks Visual Arts Center in Salisbury, N.C. He was the first director of Winthrop University Galleries from 1990-2007. As a curator, Stanley's projects have included Worth Keeping: Found Artists of the Carolinas for the Columbia Museum of Art and New South Old South Somewhere In Between for Winthrop and the Levine Museum of the New South. In recent years his own work has been widely exhibited, including at Artspace in Raleigh, N.C., 701 Center for Contemporary Art and IfArt in Columbia, S.C. His Floating series was exhibited at the South Carolina State Museum’s Triennial Exhibition and at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. His work was most recently included in Abstract Art in South Carolina, 1949-2012 at the South Carolina State Museum, and Tom Stanley Glossary: Untitled Paintings at Gallery 80808 in Columbia. http://www.winthrop.edu/cvpa/faculty/default.aspx?id=12826
Mary Walker is a painter and printmaker. Born in New York and raised in Tryon, NC, Walker exhibits regularly in the South and the Northeast. She lives on Johns Island outside of Charleston, SC and is the winner of numerous regional grants and residencies. Her work has been included in the IPCNY Spring/Summer exhibition in New York, the LaGrange National XXVII Exhibition, CHICKS at the Bascom, Reconsidering Regionalism at the Jule Collins Smith Museum in Auburn, Prints USA 2011 at the Springfield Art Museum in Missouri, and Naturalia Animalia an artist’s book exhibition in Sannicola, Italy. She is in several collections, including the Springfield Art Museum, the Lamar Dodd Collection, the Addelstone Library, and the Sol LeWitt Collection. Her work is in the recently published 100 Southern Artists.Walker was one of five artists chosen for New York Print Club’s showcase in December 2012. Walker is represented by the Corrigan Gallery in Charleston, SC and the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, MA. http://www.marywalkerart.com/
Awards
The Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year is selected by the panel of jurors and receives a $2,500 cash award, a Contemporaries’ membership and a Contemporaries’ Artist of the Year award to commemorate his/her achievement.
The People’s Choice award will be voted for by event guests the night of the soirée. The People’s Choice winner receives an honorary award and $300.
The Jasper State-of-the-Art Award is sponsored by the publishers of Jasper Magazine. ThisawardincludesaspreadinafutureissueofJasperandacashprizeof$200. All entries by artists who have not been featured in Jasper within the last 12 months are eligible for this award.
