Studio Montclair presents its 24th Annual Open Juried Exhibition “ViewPoints 2021” at Studio Montclair Gallery, Studio Montclair’s nonprofit gallery located in downtown Montclair from April 23 to May 28, 2021.
Congratulations to our 2021 Award Winners!
Phoebe M. Pollinger Best in Show Award
Shoshana Kertesz, “Portrait of Hannah Arendt, Philosopher”
Second Place
Francisco Silva, “The Benefits of Bias 2”
Third Place
Meaghan Bates, “Blueprint: America”
Honorable Mentions
Billy Dietz, “Kinky Pipes”
Emily Barnett, “I Can’t Breathe #2”
Harold Zabady, “Below NYC”
Honorable Mention sponsored by the Montclair Art Museum
Theda Sandiford, “Death By 10,000 Paper Cuts“
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 25, 2021 from 2-4:30pm.
ZOOM reception and Cash Awards: Saturday, April 24 from 7-8:30pm.
Eleanna Anagnos is a New York-based curator, lecturer, critic, professor and artist. Anagnos has been a Co-Director at Ortega y Gasset Projects, an artist-run gallery and curatorial collective located in Brooklyn, NY, since 2014. Her curatorial projects have been featured in the New York Times, Art in America, and the New York Observer, and, most recently, has been a visiting critic at the NARS Foundation and Brooklyn College. As an artist, she has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and has received numerous awards, grants, and residencies including the Rauschenberg Foundation Residency, Yaddo Fellow, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and the Grant Wood Fellow. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, Hyperallergic, Artsy, and Artnet. Ms. Anagnos earned her MFA in Painting from Temple University, Tyler School of Art, and a BA with honors and distinction from Kenyon College.
This year’s exhibit features 46 works selected from over 800 that were submitted. They reflect a vast range of mediums, materials, subject matter, and themes, but above all they comment on the difficulties we have faced during this singular year. According to juror Eleanna Anagnos, “Many works were executed with the skill and sensitivity of trained eyes and hands. While impressive, these were not always the works I chose. I chose artwork that either spoke to the difficulties we are facing right now with social distancing, loneliness, homelife, or the inequities and discriminatory practices of racial profiling which have become increasingly more evident.” Other works selected by Anagnos are distinctive due to their breaking of conventions within an art historical context. Among them are a pair of photographs that “read” as paintings, and a pair of Brutalist-inspired sculptures which defy expectations with their small stature and use of vivid color. Says Anagnos, “[Some] work I chose exhibited artists with promise and potential. My aim is to encourage these artists by including them in this exhibition.” Visitors to “ViewPoints 2021” will be richly rewarded with artwork from nearly every corner of the U.S. that will challenge and inspire them.
Participating Artists: Charlene Avery, Roxanne Baechler, Emily Barnett, Meaghan Bates, Amy Becker, Tina Bernstein, Martin Brief, Marieken Cochius, Michael Connors, Darby Dawid, Billy Dietz, Antoinette Ellis-Williams, Adam Erlbaum, Eva Marie Fitzsimmons, Bennett Gewirtz, Allan Gorman, John Gummere, Linda Brooks Hirschman, Valerie Huhn, Gerald Hushlak, Erin Karp, Robin Keller, Shoshana Kertesz, Ann Kraus, Paula Marino, Bud McNichol, Ruth Bauer Neustadter, Arianne Petersen, Marisa Picardo, John Power, Jack Quinn, Akil Roper, Rebecca Lea Rosenheck, Theda Sandiford, Mark Sengbusch, Francisco Silva, Stephen Spiller, Peter Tilgner, Rhonda Urdang, Miroslav Vrzala, Emily Woo, Harold Zabady.
Work by Meaghan Bates, Bennett Gewirtz, Paula Marino, Ruth Bauer Neustadter, and Mark Sengbusch is featured in our display windows.
