The May Show Opening Reception: Friday, May 4 at 5:00 p.m. Exhibit remains through May 27, 2012 Gualala Arts Center

The May Show, a juried art exhibition, will open Friday, May 4, in the Burnett Gallery at the Gualala Arts Center with a reception at 5:00 p.m.. The distinguished juror of The May Show is Melissa E. Feldman, a writer and correspondent for Art in America.

The May Show exhibition presents outstanding visual art and artists without regard to the type of media. The opening reception will feature with music, champagne, strawberries and chocolate. The May Show exhibit will continue on display through May 27, 2012.

The Third Annual May Show will be quite an event this year. Artists submitted 106 pieces in a variety of media. Begun in 2010, The May Show complements Gualala Arts' highly successful unjuried annual summer art festival, Art in the Redwoods. The goal is to offer an intimate juried event which would attract participation by both local artists and those outside the area using any medium. The top three winners will receive $2,250 in prize money during the opening night reception for the public and the artists.

Curator Doug Patterson is assisted by committee members Tom Eckles, Sue Friedland, Russ Hardy, M.D., Barbara Kelley, Hall Kelley, and Cornelia Renynolds.

This year's juror is Melissa Feldman, currently an independent curator, art critic, and writer for art publications. After attending the Institute of European Studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, she received an M.A. in Modern Art from the Institute of Fine Art at New York University. Her career has included positions at the Bess Cutler Gallery, the Marian Goodman Gallery in New York and the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania. She also spent five years living in Glasgow and London working on exhibitions of international contemporary art.

In conjunction with the show, Feldman will deliver the Hardy Lecture on the Visual Arts, entitled Afterglow: Rethinking California Light and Space Art, on Thursday, May 3, 7:00 p.m. at the Gualala Arts Center. The lecture will identify California's brand of minimalism developed in the late 1960s and '70s as a leading influence on current generation West Coast artists.

Previous years' jurors were Lucinda Barnes, Chief Curator of the Berkeley Art Museum, and Stephanie Hanor, Assistant Dean and Director of the Mills College Art Museum.

The range of last year's winners highlights the diversity of media this event attracts. Marion Patterson's first prize entry "Antarctica Warming" was a monochromatic photograph with oil overlay. "Really Rococo" by Ann Berger , the second place selection, was a ceramic sculpture, and Jan Fogel's third place "Scrum" was an abstract painting.

The May Show 2012 Award Winners

"Gorilla"
by Heidi Endemann
First Place

"Untitled #2"
by Hal Fogel
Second Place

"Protect Me"
by Ron Bolander
Third Place

Works accepted for
The May Show 2012

Artist		Title
Bill Apton		Shown Me A Sign II
Bill Apton		Wind Borne
Ann Berger		Walled City
Ann Berger		Embers
Ron Bolander		Protect Me
Janice Carrell		Gualala Beach
Martin Covington		Black Tree
Martin Covington		Monet 2
Tom Eckles		Subtle Sunset #3
Heidi Endemann		Gorilla
Heidi Endemann		Grisaille #2: Lost in Translation
Heidi Endemann		Grisaille #3: It's Dutch
Hal Fogel		Untitled #2
Jeanne Gadol		Standing Proud
Craig Gilliland		Transition
Sharon Greensfield		Arches
Sharon Greensfield		Golden Rods
Doric Jemison-Ball		Dysfunctional Teapot II
Doric Jemison-Ball		Dead Duck IV
Doric Jemison-Ball		Pig
Barbara Kelley		Happy Land
Barbara Kelley		Light Field
Alan Lant		River Lovers
Arna Means		Pandora's Vessel
Arna Means		Two Nudes (Titillation)
Molley O'Leary-Klier		Old Soul
Molley O'Leary-Klier		Blackbird, Blackbird
Denise Otterson		Pacific Splendor
Josh Schechtel		Winter Afternoon
Terry Solomon		Tracy's View of Yellowstone
Craig Tooley		Ancient Oak Surveys Snow
Marie Van Elder		Sea 1
Marie Van Elder		Sea 3
Jim White		Moon Setting and Shadow
Jim White		Yosemite Falls and North Star

The Gualala Arts Center, located at 46501 Old State Highway in Gualala, CA,
is open weekdays 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and weekends from noon to 4:00 p.m.
Please call (707) 884-1138 for more information, or email info@gualalaarts.org.

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