EVENTS |
The Elbert Weinberg
Prize |
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Elbert Weinberg Prize is awarded from time to
time to recipients who demonstrate excellence
in Weinberg’s mediums of graphic and plastic
expression, as well to artists who have demonstrated
a refined aesthetic sensibility in other media.
The prize was created in memory
of Elbert Weinberg, a Prix de Rome-winning
sculptor.
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The Elbert Weinberg
Prize for Excellence in Drawing and Painting
Awarded to Lisa Wagner |
Lisa Wagner, a fine artist working in charcoal, watercolor,
and oil, has won an Elbert Weinberg Prize for her
work in painting and drawing.
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"Brothers
of Christ--Soviet Union"
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"Brothers
of Christ--Rwanda" |
From
a series of 22 drawings, |
White
charcoal on brown paper
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"A Little Bit of Happiness" Oil
on linen, 18 x 24"
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"Inner Silence" Oil on linen,
24 x 30"
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for me is a language--a subtle tool with which
I can explore the meaning of my relationship
with myself and with the world. I paint the ambiguity
of the relationships with ourselves and others.
We live under a veil of deceptive appearances,
where almost nothing is what it seems to be and
few intentions are pure. A moment of beauty and
order within myself, or with another, is a treasure.
Often I portray these themes in the relationship
between things— investing fruits, flowers,
or ordinary objects of everyday life with their
own individuality, and letting them tell their
story.
The power of beauty is primary
for me. No matter how serious my theme, I cannot
but express it through the ravishing effects
of light, color and form in the physical realm.
I have always been drawn to techniques
that capture luminosity. I like to build up
multiple layers of translucent watercolor,
and to explore the old master oil glazing technique
where many delicate layers of paint create
jewel-like tones. Often when I draw I use only
white charcoal on dark paper, so that the ground
creates the shadow, and the drawing is finally
composed only of light..
to contact Lisa Wagner: lisa(at)arttechweb.com |
Elbert
Weinberg Prize for Excellence in Sculpture, Drawing,
and Landscape Architecture
Awarded to Peter Bochenek |
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Peter Bochenek, sculptor,
graphic artist and landscape architect,
has won an Elbert Weinberg Prize for
his work in sculpture and drawing.
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"The
Queen" |
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In addition
to Bochenek’s work in the plastic
arts, Harold Lindenthal, trustee of
the Weinberg Turst, stated that the
Trust took into consideration “the
profoundly meditative landscapes and
gardens that Bochenek has created in
the Hamptons, the San Francisco Bay
Area and in North Carolina. It is rare
that someone excels in all three art
forms."
More information
about Peter Bochenek is available at www.pbassoc.com
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