Extraordinarily Ordinary
Art Exhibition Winners
Below are the biographies and/or artist's statements along with the artist's websites or emails.
Please visit the Extraordinarily Ordinary and contact the artists directly for purchase inquiries or to see more of their work.
Congratulations again to all the winners and thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Bah Bah Sheep
Sand & Shells
21 x 24
Anna Chan
First Place Winner
I have always enjoyed the occasional shelling while on vacation for prized seashell but I did never imagine my art would become a combination of treasure hunting and puzzle assembly. Covid lockdown reinvented many careers, mine included. A jewelry designer by profession, I found solace at my local beach in New York when there was little work and lots of creative energy. A year in and my garage is my playground full of sand and seashells. My bas relief sculptures are created using the basic sand castle method, sand mix with water and my two bare hands. It is only when all the seashells have found their place do I seal the piece. I intentionally seek out broken and undesirable seashells to showcase in my work. They are the true gems, every piece with a life story to tell. Together in a mosaic they are a force of nature, nothing ordinary. My work has been featured in numerous publications, notably My Modern Met and I have started showing my work in galleries.
Still LifeWith Redbud And Afternoon Sun
Photography
12 x 16
Martha Nance
Second Place
Martha Nance is a physician in Minnesota whose day-to-day work is somewhat dark. When she is not at work, and when she travels, she seeks out the brightness in small and ordinary things--like the tiny beam of sunlight illuminating a leaf on its way to dazzling her eye! Her nature photographs have been published in The Tiny Seed Journal, The Esthetic Apostle, Wanderlust, The Hopper, and Burningwood Literary Journal, among others.
The dynamic compositions and colors created by nature fascinate him. The ebb and flow of plant growth through the seasons, the art of natural erosion over the centuries, the beautiful chaotic placement of rocks by water and glaciers, the thousands of greens in trees and plants all offer vistas man has yet to create in any design studio.
Tea
Photography
13 x 19
Minnie Lucas
Third Place
Minnie Lucas is a fine art photographer who works with nature, portraiture, and scanned photos. She plays with shapes, lines, and color that she finds while working with nature. All these things, she discovers while hiking in the woods. With portraiture she works with people and animals and enjoys learning about their stories. She scans old photographs and manipulates them in different ways, too. In May 2020, she graduated from Columbus College of Art & Design with a BFA in photography. Currently, she works at Art Recovery Technologies (ART) of Columbus & SE Ohio as an art technician. She lives in the Columbus area in Ohio. Her work has been displayed at Shot Tower Gallery, Zanesville Museum of Art, J. Mane Gallery, and Cox Fine Arts Center.
Lorri Dixon
Honorable Mention
Lorri is an American artist living in the suburbs of Seattle, Washington. Her medium of choice is colored pencil. She began creating art in 2018 after raising her children, yet has already had her work juried into numerous prestigious national and international exhibits. She's also had numerous works published in various periodicals. Her favorite things to draw are "details!" She loves the challenge of seeking out tiny bits to capture, whether a small curl in a flower petal or the tiniest hair in a portrait. She also loves contrast in her pieces and strives to include the darkest blacks and brightest whites.
Derek Entwistle
Honorable Mention
My name is Derek Entwistle and am a proud Australian.
I’m currently living and working in Japan with my wonderful wife and am an avid, and rather prolific, digital photographer.
Japan, with it’s 4 distinct seasons, history and culture, offers a multitude of artistic opportunities. I enjoy trying to capture the beauty of a moment and then post processing the captured image to produce something interesting or intriguing.
I've been fortunate enough to be published in several books and have had images exhibited in several cities around the world including New York, Paris, Sydney and Melbourne.
I love what I do!
Melanie Faith
Honorable Mention
Melanie Faith likes to wear many professional hats, including as a poet, photographer, prose writer, professor, editor, and tutor. Her fine-art photograph is featured presently in the online gallery of PhotoPlace Gallery’s “The Poetry of the Ordinary” show. She also had work featured in the Don’t Take Pictures photo exhibition, “A Show of Hands,” earlier in 2021. During September-October 2021, her poetry will be featured alongside photography as part of the Film Shooters Collective’s “Ekphrastic Magic” exhibition at the Revela’t Analog Photography Festival in Barcelona, Spain. Her latest published book, Photography for Writers, is currently available. Learn more about her latest projects at: https://www.melaniedfaith.com/ , Melanie Faith Writer (@writer_faith) / Twitter, and Melanie Faith (@writepath99) • Instagram photos and videos.
Lindsey Morrison Grant
Honorable Mention
The stories of our experience, both comedic and tragic, are all that we leave behind. Whether they evolve into family lore from the retelling, are splashed on broadsheets by journalists, or internalized into a mantra of sorts, they are historical and, in the end, the sum of our lives. As I've learned to lean on my creative right-brain for problem-solving, self-soothing, and insight (allowing the critical left-side to lay fallow) I've found the stories of my life emerge in a diverse array of art forms. Whether poetic verse, poignant prose or surreal self-portrait, they all tend to tell a similar story of a rebellious and complex individual whose treasured legacy may just be buried beneath the assumptive surface. Thank you for providing this opportunity to share this pile of snapshots from that most eclectic journey. Namaste, Lindsey Morrison Grant BIO Self-identifying as a neurodiverse, two-spirit, elder storyteller deeply rooted in The Great Pacific Northwest, Lindsey Morrison Grant attributes success and survival, if not salvation, to a superlative support system, mindfulness practice, and daily creative expression in words, sounds, and images.
Margarita Henriksson
Honorable Mention
Artist /Designer.
Stockholm, Sweden.
Member of International Academy of Contemporary Art, Russia, and Swedish Association of Artist.
2016 - I began to participate in different international Art exhibitions /contest online and offline in Russia, France, Cyprus, China, Belarus, Denmark, Slovenia, Turkey, Italy, Sweden, Israel, Greece, Serbia, India, USA.
“…My parents are artists, and already from my childhood I was in love with Art. I am very interested to work in different styles of Art: digital, computer graphics, animated graphics, illustrations and paintings in vanguard, visionary and abstract style. I show the difference and beauty of our world: nature, history, people, theatre, cosmos, and situations which can happen with us. In my favorite mixed media art style – I created my own technique, which includes a photo, sketches, and computer graphic. In my works I experiment with different ideas: abstraction, cars, engines, geometrical figures, cosmos, sweets – everything, where I can use my fantasy and humor…”
Don James
Honorable Mention
I am a creator of abstract photographic images. I find inspiration in natural, industrial, and urban environments, being drawn to subjects that are rarely noticed by others. They are pieces of man-made structures, details of common objects, or short-lived fragments of nature that are continuously sculpted by the elements.
Abhishek Tuiwala
Honorable Mention
Abhishek Tuiwala (1994) is a Sculptor, drawing and installation artist with B.F.A. (Sculpture) from V.N.S.G.U., Surat, Gujarat; M.F.A. (Sculpture) from Pratt Institution, Brooklyn, New York. I have been part of many online and in-person exhibitions conducted worldwide in India, the United States and South Korea. Apart from that, I have attended various sculpture workshops on Clay Modeling, Moulding, Castings and carvings. I also received the scholarship, grants and many national and international awards for my work.
Artist Statement: Human life is the continuous processing of culture, ethics, gender and identity, which helps us understand people. Every human being is different yet the same. My compositions are the observation of people around me, including myself. I love to use humour as an element in my compositions to make my artwork more engaging and expressive. My keen observation teaches me many other things, like how a person deals with a situation and behaves in a given case or with a person. I keep myself alert and watchful in my routine life.
Deborah Zavon
Honorable Mention
Deborah Zavon lives and works in New York. She studied with various prominent artists art at NYU, The New School, The School of Visual Arts, The New York Academy of Art and the Art Students League where she is a life member. She has taught art in Maryland and Maine. She has conducted her own art and design business. Her work has shown in printed and on-line galleries and other sites and venues, Website: deborahzavon.com, “I have always enjoyed rendering the world around me. I find the human figure, capturing the thoughts, emotions of my subject most inspiring and fulfilling.”