2015 Winter web - The New Jersey Watercolor Society
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2015 Winter web - The New Jersey Watercolor Society
Artists’ Roberta Carter Clark Winter 2015 Vol. 19, No. 1 Page 2 in memoriam: Roberta Carter Clark Page 2-3 Members in the News Page 3 Associate Members in the News Meet the Membership: Robert Sakson Page 4 2014 Open Juried Show Page 5 John Salminen Page 5-6 Remembering Henry Gasser Page 6 Calendar of Events Winter 2015 New Jersey Water Color Society www.njwcs.org PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Please take advantage this snowy winter in NJ, stay safe and warm inside and paint your next masterpiece for our 73rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition. Our venue will be The Middletown Arts Center, Middletown, NJ. The exhibition will run from September 28th through Sunday, November 1st 2015. Once again our reception will take place on closing day and participating artists will be able to take their paintings home following the reception. We begin 2015 with some very significant changes in the way things have been done in the past for NJWCS. Last year the Membership voted to accept digital entries for our Annual Open Juried selection process. The prospectus and additional information will be available in the spring. Our 73rd Annual Open Exhibition will allow our entering artists to enter up to two images per artist, but only one entry may be juried into the exhibit. The adoption of digital image entries offered another option for New Jersey Water Color Society in the selection process for paintings in our Annual Open Juried Exhibition. As you are aware our Jury of Selection has been a Jury of our Elected Members voted for by our Elected Membership. The selection of paintings for the show made from digital entries allows us to select a Juror of Selection from anywhere in the country. The Board has approved the appointment of an out-of-state impartial Juror of Selection for our 73rd Annual Open Juried Exhibition. I am pleased to announce that John Salminen AWS df, NWS will be our sole Juror of Selection in 2015. John creates beautiful representational as well as abstract works of art. Please read more about John in this newsletter. Our awards judging process will remain as in the past. Two AWS/NWS judges will award the paintings from the original, factual paintings after they are received. Thanks to our Awards Chair Pat Morgan and our generous donors we anticipate over $6,000 in all cash awards. We are aware that many issues may arise with these new concepts. We are here to help you and several board members will be available to answer questions or help out in any way we can. We also have added a learning center to our web site where you can find instructions and free programs to format your images. Be sure to visit the site often at www.njwcs.org . “We are at the cusp of a change in our industry when it comes to the process of jurying entries for the major exhibitions. The world is going digital”! This was a quote from the President of the Philadelphia Water Color Society in a 2006 newsletter. That was nine years ago. Change for NJWCS was only a matter of time. I hope you had a wonderful holiday season and wish you a safe, healthy, and successful 2015. Jinnie May Elected Members in the News: 2 Board policy for Member News is no more than 3 items per issue. Please submit in narrative form, and submit only once per newsletter cycle. The Editor reserves the right to edit submissions. Congratulations to all the NJWCS artists who had paintings selected for the American Watercolor Society's 148th Annual International Exhibition- April 6-25, 2015 at the Salmagundi Club, NYC; PAT DEWS AWS, JINNIE MAY, ROBERT NARDOLILLO, JOEL POPADICS AWS, LOIS SANDERS and STEVE ZAZENSKI AWS* Extra Congrats to Steve who became a Signature Member of AWS with this year's entry. JUDY BALLANCE has a drawing in the book titled, “Art Journey: Portraits & Figures” published by Northlight. The book was released in December 2014 and can be purchased at Northlightshops.com or Amazon.com LISA BUDD was honored to receive the Cotswold Industries Award in Garden State Watercolor Society's Exhibition, the Karl & Helen Burger Award in Audubon Artists Inc. Annual Exhibition, and the Loring Coleman Award in Allied Artists of America Annual Exhibition. MARYANN BURTON received the Jack Richeson Award in the North East Watercolor Society’s International Open Exhibition and attained Signature Membership status. She was awarded the Cynthia and Jerome Goodgal Memorial Award in the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Inc 118th Annual Open Juried Exhibition at The National Arts Club, and was juried in to the Grand National Exhibition of the American Artists Professional League and the Hudson Valley Art Association's 82nd Annual Juried Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club. MARGARET CRAWFORD will be opening, with four other artists, a co-op gallery called Le Petite Gallerie in Bluffton, South Carolina this February. JOHN CURCH‘S watercolor, Washday in Italy, took First place and Best in Show in the Union County Senior Art Show in June. It went on to compete in the New Jersey Senior State Show taking Third Place at Meadow Lakes in East Windsor. MARK DE MOS received the Winsor Newton Materials Award at the Allied Artists of America Open Juried Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in NESS GRAINGER was juried into the 125th Anniversary Exhibition of The National Association of Women Artists Exhibition at The Art Gallery of the Armory in West Palm Beach, Fl. KATHERINE GRAY had a painting accepted in the Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors at View in Old Forge, NY — August-October , and the North East Watercolor Society's 2014 Annual International Open Juried Exhibition in Kent, Connecticut in October. KEN C. HAMILTON was honored to be invited to show several paintings at the 2014/2015 China Qingdao International Watercolor Exhibition and very delighted to have the Qingdao Museum of Art purchase the painting, Forum of Nerva for their permanent collection! THERESA TROISE HEIDEL became a signature member of the Audubon Artists, Inc. after her watercolor "Atlantic Blue" was included in their 72nd annual juried exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, NYC in October. JINNIE MAY won the John Young-Hunter Memorial Award at the 100th Anniversary International Exhibit of The Allied Artists of America at the Salmagundi Club this November. With this entry she was accepted as an Elected Member in the AAA's water media category. This past fall she won the Winsor-Newton Award from the North East Watercolor Society's International Exhibition. Jinnie is having a solo show of her watercolors in The Starlight Gallery at the Mayo Performing Arts Center January 16-March 4, 2015. CHARLES MCVICKER won the Mark Sanstrom Gold Medal award at the National Painters in Casein and Acrylic exhibit at the Salmagundi Club this summer. DIANA MARTA’S watercolor Bottom Feeders was chosen for the inaugural exhibit of the new gallery at Community College of Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD, where she is on the adjunct faculty in September after it had been shown at the Ron Cubbison Memorial Exhibit Towson University, Md , Sept 2012. The chosen first of Mr. Cubbison's former students to receive a $7,000 travel award, which she used to visit the arts scene in Los Angeles plus a special exhibit. In Memoriam: ROBERTA CARTER CLARK, 90, of Little Silver, NJ, passed away on September 26, 2014. President of NJWCS 1979-81, member since 1975, actively supported the society in many ways, for the last decade plus in charge of organizing and printing the Juried Show Catalog. She was an elected member of the American Watercolor Society, Allied Artists of America, Garden State Watercolor Society, Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, Midwest Watercolor Society, exhibited with the National Academy and Rockport Art Association and appeared in several Who’s Who editions. Roberta was a nationally known and respected painter of the figure, with her own books How to Paint Living Portraits, (1990, North Light Books), and Painting Vibrant Children's Portraits (1993, NLB) have become standards also released videos. Roberta was featured in the American Artist Magazine (1993), Artist Magazine (1994) and Watercolor Magic (1995) plus included in several Splash books, and books by other renowned watercolorists (Gerald Brommer and Marilyn Phyllis Hughey et al). Her aim was to capture “the grace and vulnerability of women, sparkle of children and stalwart quality of men.” Her style was to work wet, fast and loose in order to create clean, transparent, juicy washes to enhance quality of her work. She was a treasure and will leave a great hole in our organization and our hearts. To see a video demo (EWCC) www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKERT-Ul2u8 ELECTED MEMBERS NEWS CONTINUED. ROBERTA OLIVER is having a solo show of her watercolors now through February at the High Mountain Presbyterian Church in Franklin Lakes. 3 LOIS SANDERS was awarded the Cecilia Cardman Memorial at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club's 118th Annual Open Juried Exhibition, National Arts Club, NYC, in December. She was awarded the Ampersand Art Supply Award at the North East Watercolor Society's 38th Annual International Exhibition, Kent, CT in October, with this third acceptance Lois earned Signature Membership. Meet the Membership Robert Sakson, AWS, df excerpted from Relying on the Tried and True, Watercolor Magazine Summer 2007, Stephen Doherty Robert Sakson has been at the top of his craft for a half a century. His background included sign painting and solid understanding of design. He is a recipient of the prestigious Dolphin Fellowship from the American Watercolor Society for those who have accumulated a number of points (awards) in their annual juried shows and a signature member of the Pastel Society of America as well as NJWCS and GSWS. Bob is a realistic artist, but the secret to his work is a firm abstract foundation. His work is an extenuation of a long tradition that inspired him, the New Hope School of Impressionist Painting, artists like Philip Garber, Harry Leith-Ross, John Folinsbee, William Smith and Nelson Shanks who regularly exhibited at the Phillips’ Mill annual show in New Hope and where he followed their work since the 1950’s. He is inspired by the same landscape, doing small plein air watercolors and sketches and taking reference photos and can work weeks gestating as the idea comes together and putting the final sketch on his full sheet, which he attaches to a board and works on a table in his studio. In this way he can work days or even weeks to create the final painting. He is also inspired by Andrew Wyeth saying “I am inspired to respond to what I see and record it with fidelity and expression.” He prefers 140# Arches rough that is soaked and tapes to have a flat surface, and maximum of control. He follows the traditional methods of laying soft wet and wet of sky and light values, then gradually building up darker layers using a limited palette of colors. He doesn’t rush the process and takes his time to get the most out of the subject. He has taught across the state inspiring the next generation of watercolorists. Associate Members News Please send in your news of getting into juried shows, awards, shows and any firsts, first exhibit, first juried show, first group show, first one person show… LINDA ARNOLD has her painting "Solar Energy " included in Chris Unwin’s new book Artistic Touch 6. She had a painting juried into the Garden State Watercolor Society Open Juried Show at the Capital Health Center in Pennington, NJ. MEDY BOZKURTIAN will have solo exhibitions of watercolors and oils at the Madison Avenue Gallery of the Morristown Memorial Hospital, January 18 - February 28 and the Ridgewood Library March 1 - 31. Medy was juried into the North East Watercolor Society’s International Show and the American Artists Professional League NY Grand National Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, NYC. JAMES FIORENTINO had a solo show featuring his Wildlife Art at Studio 7 Fine Art Gallery, 5 Morristown Road, Bernardsville, NJ in January. He received a feature article on the Front Page of the Newark Star Ledger on January 1st. The article covered the current show and a discussion of his career in wildlife and sports illustration. JUDI GILDEN has two paintings, October Gold and Harvest Light featured in the Creative Art Press watercolor book series, The Artist's Touch, edited by Chris Unwin (published 2014). “Harvest High” was juried into the Salmagundi Club’s 36th Annual Juried Non-Member Show, 5th Avenue, NYC. The. AtlantiCare Healing Arts Program purchased “Afternoon Delight” for the AtlantiCare Urgent Care Center, Egg Harbor Township, NJ. . ART KLEIN‘s full sheet abstract watercolor, “Untitled II” was juried into the 31st Annual Ellarslie Open Show, (juror-Kelly Baum, Curator at the Princeton University Art Museum) sponsored by the Trenton Museum Society at the Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie in the summer. Only 104 of over 400 works were accepted for the show, my first painting ever accepted into a museum show! JANE BRENNAN KOECK is having a solo exhibition of her artwork for the month of December at the Spring Street Art Center 145 Spring St. Newton, NJ. JANIS MCCRACKEN had solo shows of her watercolors, acrylics, and mixed media work at the Summit Library Parkersburg Arts Center in Parkersburg, WV in August and September. ISABELLA PIZZANO painting Zephyr was juried into the Annual 118th Open Exhibition at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, NYC, Dec. 2014 and achieved Signature Status. She will be exhibiting in a prestigious gallery in Lisbon, Portugal, March, 2015, chosen for an award: Premio Botticelli at the Casa Dante Florence, Italy, March 2015. Mel Stabin Watercolor Workshop May 4-7, 2015 $ 1075. single and $900. double Sponsored by Carroll Villa Hotel, Cape May, NJ Contact -Marie Natale at 609-214-9905 e-mail - [email protected] Includes Hotel 4 nights, Breakfast and lunch, workshop, parking, meet and greet reception on May 3rd (Wine and light Snacks) Food provided by the renowned Mad Batter Restaurant (Part of the Hotel) 4 NJWCS 2014 Open Juried Show-Middletown Art Center Mark de Mos Robert Nardolillo Philip Smallwood James Toogood Marie Natale Richard William Haynes Jinnie May Eileen Georgas Elizabeth Oberman Donna Roettger Michael Scherfen Tim Gaydos Edward Rabinowitz Acadia Judy Ballance John Wolff Thomas Wilczewski Nora Winn Lisa Budd Cecily Byk Marcia Rieff Michalyn Tarantino Joan McKinney Mark de Mos Robert Nardolillo Philip Smallwood James Toogood Elizabeth Ober- John Wolff Marie Natale Donna Roettger Nora Winn Madison Square Park Harbor Lights Bold at Heart Cape May in Winter Happy Hour Reflections Summertime Blues Providence 394 Hats The Taste of Summer Red Barn The Cavern Guide Fish House Road II Green Waters It’s Nice to Share Babs Watch Hill Harbor Togar Evening Hours Memento Downtown Coxsackie Gipetto’s Other Kids Non-Such Swaying Flowers Richard William Michael Scherfen Cecily Byk Tim Gaydos Marcia Rieff The Silver Medal of Honor The NJWCS Mary S. Lawrence Founder’s Award The Nummie Warga Memorial Award The Contessa Bonardi Award The Avery and Nina Johnson Award The Nicholas A. Reale Memorial Award The Virginia Fleugel Memorial Award The Andrew T. Kiszonak Memorial Award The Roberta Carter Clark Memorial Award The President’s Award The Norman Web Memorial Award The Pearl Worob Memorial Award The John C. Bermingham Award Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Award The Ridgewood Art Institute Award The Pat Dews Award The Eiko Kahn Award The Sonja Weir Award The Middletown Arts Center Award The NJWCS Award for an Associate Member The Kim Moonwater Morello Memorial Award The Saker Shoprites, Inc Jinnie May presented by Sandra Jones Eileen Georgas Edward Rabinowitz Michalyn Tarantino Judy Ballance Joan McKinney 5 JOHN SALMINEN,AWS b. Jan. 18, 1945 By Art Klein So you’ve never heard of this watercolor painter, right? Well, do yourself a favor and take a look at his website: www.johnsalminen.com …and I think you will be “blown away” as I was a few weeks ago when I first found out about him. (If you ARE familiar with him, read on anyway!) He is a member of the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, and has won more than 230 awards in national and international exhibitions. You can read his “bio” on the website, so I won’t repeat that here. What I want to emphasize are Mr. Salminen’s key thoughts about painting with watercolor. I found a video on YouTube in which Mr. Salminen states that he “spends more time dealing with value than anything else.” With that in mind, I sent him an E-Mail and said I wanted to spend a few minutes talking on the phone in order to expand on that thought for this article. That same day, Mr. Salminen graciously responded to my message and called me. He told me that he had just completed a workshop in Succasunna, NJ in October 2014 and suggested I get some feedback from Nina Harlan, who had been the organizer of the 4-day workshop. I followed up with Nina, and she commented that “John spoke of the importance of accuracy in drawing when attempting to create a believable illusion of reality….Using correct values is more important than color; a good painting will have values that range from 1 through 9 plus black.” Mr. Salminen also confirmed that in the workshop, VALUE was the dominant theme. He mentioned two thoughts on value: 1) The intent of value is to strengthen the composition and it can also add atmosphere and a sense of drama. 2) Varied values allow the artist to better capture time and place. John added that “we tend to be a little timid with the use of dark values; we use middle values more than anything else… Value represents shadow and light and that’s how we perceive the world.” My brief conversation ended when John said “The viewer’s eye will always seek the white,” and “Value does the work and color takes the credit!” Lastly, John recommended an old book by Ted Kautzky entitled “Painting Trees & Landscapes in Watercolor.” He said the book talks about the importance of the variation in value between the background, middle ground, and foreground. (I have not yet read this book, but I will look for it at my local library.) In closing, thanks again to Mr. Salminen for spending a few minutes on the phone with me, and I encourage everyone interested in watercolor painting to take a look at John’s website, and check out his videos on YouTube as well. You’ll be glad you did. En Pleine Air In Palm Beach Florida with Marie Natale February 23-26, 2015 3 days in West Palm and Palm Beach area 1 day on Hutchinson Island Escape the cold dreary winter and head south. Students responsible for their own accommodations En Pleine air in Naples, Fl, March 3, 2015 Indoor workshop Cape Coral Art League March 5-7,2015 Contact Marie for more information 609-214-9905 or e-mail [email protected] Remembering NJWCS Member Henry Martin Gasser, American (1909 - 1981) Painter, lecturer, teacher, illustrator and author, Henry Gasser was born in Newark, New Jersey on Oct. 31,1909. He lived, studied and worked in New Jersey for his entire life. A Master at watercolor and oil his work consisted of, in his own words, "everyday subjects that are available to most of us-street scenes, back yards, trees, old houses, etc I looked for them in front of houses, in backyards, public parks, and elsewhere". He also painted numerous harbor and fishing village scenes. His work demonstrated a sense of place and feeling that most could identify with. He often "exhausted a subject" which becomes evident when viewing the body of his work for many of his paintings are just slight variations of previously completed compositions. His Paintings also contain a great deal of what he called "solitary silence" created by chosen subject matter such as a "Coming Storm", "Night in the Park", "Shadows"... He felt that Design was very important and meant the difference continued on page 6 , ĞŶƌLJ' ĂƐƐĞƌĐŽŶƟŶƵĞĚĨƌŽŵƉĂŐĞϱ 6 between a mediocre work and a truly professional one. It is here where Gasser excelled, his work demonstrates a sense of composition that gained wide spread appreciation for his work. He got his background in art studying at the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art and the Grand Central School of Art. This was followed by study at the Art Students League of New York in the classes of Robert Bracman. He later studied privately under John R. Grabach. He was inspired by socially mined realist painters like continued on John Sloan and George Luks. He is represented in over fifty museum collections and numerous important private ones as well. Among the awards that Henry Gasser has received are the Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy, the Zabriskie, Osborne, and Obrig prizes at the American Watercolor Society, the Philadelphia watercolor club prize, the Allied Artists Gold Medal at Oakland, California and many others. He was a member of the National Academy of Design, the American Watercolor Society, the Royal Society of Art (Great Britain), the Salmagundi Club, the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington Watercolor Clubs and the New Jersey Watercolor Society. He was a life member of the National Arts Club, Grand Central Art Galleries and the Art Students League and others. He served as Director of the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art from 1946-54 then continued lecturing and demonstrating for most of the remainder of his life. He also wrote numerous books on painting. He died in Orange, NJ in 1981. 2015 Calendar of Events September 28th - November 1st 73rd Annual NJWCS Open Juried Exhibition Middletown Arts Center, Middletown , NJ November, 2015 Annual Associates’ Show Bernardsville Library, Bernardsville, NJ . Send Your Member News to: Editor: Mark de Mos email: [email protected] 7 Richlyn Court Morristown, NJ 07960 Home: (973)267-4363 Cell: (862)-812-7450 Information deadlines Summer, 2015 May 1, 2015 Fall, 2015 August 15, 2015 Spring, 2015 February 15, 2016 IF YOU WOULD LIKE A PRINTED MEMBERSHIP LIST Please contact our MEMBERSHIP CHAIR, Medy Bozkurtian [email protected] 19 Jackson Street, East Hanover, NJ 07936 Advertise in the NJWCS Newsletter Business Card Sized Ad: $25 for 2 issues Advertise a show, your website, your art related business. Call Mark at 862-812-7450 Save us a stamp Receive the color newsletter by email contact the Membership Chair or the Newsletter EditorPlease keep us appraised of any changes in your contact information (such as email address). PUT YOUR PAINTINGS IN THE WWW.NJWCS.ORG WEB GALLERY Send your 4 jpegs to Michael E. Scherfen at [email protected] or send photos or slides to 55 Ave. D, Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716
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