70TH ANNUAL ARTIST MEMBERS EXHIBITION
Guild Hall’s 70th Artist Members Show is the oldest non-juried exhibition remaining on Long Island. This important exhibition allows Guild Hall to directly connect with the artistic community that support and inspire our arts institution all year long. Art critic Linda Yablonsky will be the 2008 Members Show Judge. For 2008, the show has been organized into two parts due to the restoration of the John Drew Theater and less gallery space. However, it means more opportunity for artists since there will be two of every prize awarded. Exhibition organized by Michelle Vertucci, Curatorial Assistant/Registrar.
Linda Yablonsky is an art critic for Bloomberg News who also writes for The New York Times, Style Magazine, Art and Auction, ART News, Elle Décor. She also has a popular presence in the “Scene & Herd” column of Artforum.com. Yablonsky is the author of The Story of Junk: A Novel and she is at work on a second book. She lives in New York, where she teaches at School of Visual Arts.
EXHIBITION AWARD WINNERS
Top Honors Carolyn Conrad
Best Abstract Tracy Harris
Best Representational Work:
Martha Ferguson Marsha E. Gold Gayer
Best Photograph Mary Ellen Bartley
Best Work on Paper Mary Boochever
Best Sculpture William Heppenheimer
Best Mixed Media Marilyn Church
Catherine and Theo Hios
Best Landscape Award Grant Haffner
HONORABLE MENTION Carol Hunt
HONORABLE MENTION Joan Kramer
HONORABLE MENTION Mary Ellen Doyle
HONORABLE MENTION Rae Ferren
HONORABLE MENTION Alexander Gianis
HONORABLE MENTION Linda Capello
HONORABLE MENTION Roisin Bateman
HONORABLE MENTION Claire Heimarck
HONORABLE MENTION Mary Daunt
HONORABLE MENTION Gail Baxter Cohen
HONORABLE MENTION Ellie Kahana
HONORABLE MENTION Phyllis Kriegel
SATURDAY, MAY 10- JUNE 7
MEMBERS SHOW (LAST NAMES A – L)
OPENING RECEPTION ON SATURDAY, MAY 10 4-6 PM
Award recipients will be announced during the opening reception.
The two top Honors winners will each be awarded a solo exhibition at Guild Hall which will be given within a timely fashion according to the needs of the Museum. The Winners of the Catherine and Theo Hios Landscape Award will each receive a check for $250. Additionally, there are awards in the following categories: Best Representational Painting, Best Abstract Painting, Best Sculpture, Best Work on Paper, Best Mixed Media, Best Photograph and numerous Honorable Mention citations.
Public Programs
Saturday, April 5th 3:00pm
Questions for the Curator An opportunity to ask Guild Hall Museum Curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield the questions that are on your mind.
Saturday, April 12th 3:00 pm
Meet the Winners of the 70th Annual Artist Members Show, M- Z
Curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield interviews winning entrants while touring the show.
Meet the Gallery Directors
Saturday, May 17th at 3:00pm
An opportunity to ask the Local Gallery Directors the questions that are on your mind.
Meet the Winners of the 70th Annual Artist Members Show, A - L
Saturday, May 31st at 3:00pm
Curator Christina Mossaides Strassfield interviews winning entrants while touring the show.
Above programs are Free with admission to the museum.
All Guild Hall Museum programming is made possible in part through the generosity of Dorothy Lichtenstein, Lucio and Joan Noto, and Ruth Muelle, and with public funds from the NY State Council on the Arts, a state agency; Suffolk County Department of Economic Development, and the Town of East Hampton.
Guild Hall is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
