Art Of Aging 2020
Art Exhibition Winners
Below are the biographies and/or artist's statements along with the artist's websites or emails.
Please visit the Art Of Aging exhibition page 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.
Linda McCord
First Place Winner
Linda McCord is best known for her figurative watercolors and acrylics. "In the 90's" is a series of transparent watercolors about her mother’s life after she turned 90 years old. McCord has shown glimpses of the things her mother enjoyed doing. Of this series McCord says, “I wanted to show there is quality of life after ninety years old.” Linda McCord has taken awards in numerous international competitions, and her work is in the collection of Coos Art Museum and Grants Pass Art Museum in Oregon, Lower Columbia College in Washington, Saint John’s Church in California and numerous private collections. Her work is published in several books, and she is a signature member of International Society of Acrylic Painters, California Watercolor Association, Northwest Watercolor Society, and Georgia Watercolor Society.
Sandy Sniffs Crabapple Tree
Photography
25 x 19
John Laue
Second Place
John Laue, a widely published, prize-winning poet, writer and photographer, has photos featured in local, national, and international magazines and juried shows.
Knowing
Digital Collage
12 x 12
Guy Munsch
Third Place
After years of working in cultural heritage preservation and as a curator while being a part-time artist, I am now able to devote all my energy to my artwork while splitting time living in both the U.S. and Thailand.
My preference is working in traditional mediums: oil and acrylic painting, graphite and pastel drawing and watercolor. In recent years I have combined traditional practice with digital art skills. For “Knowing”, I started with a hard copy photo reassembled into a collage and then added digital layers of color, lighting and focus. Digital techniques are simply another tool for artists and are a valuable skill set.
Michelle Bennett
Honorable Mention
The vehicle to investigate human existence in my work is through a combination of traditional drawing and painting techniques along with contemporary approaches. Layering unforeseen information like patterns disrupting imagery, I explore the relationships between figure and space. I interpret the human body and psyche through oil paint, and its relationship to flesh and form. To see human existence in its ugly or beautiful truths is something I wish to convey. I can not choose which is beautiful or which is ugly, for only the viewer can come away with their understanding of what is. I am only the artist; the creator of life on a surface, you choose to see the beauty or lack there of.