Judge’s Comments
This powerful vertical composition preserves the details found in Ansel Adam’s photography of the American West. The silhouetted portrait of the double pines in the foreground holds equal reverence with the expansive landscape that presses the depth of field thousands of miles into the horizon. Similarly, the cerulean blue reflection of the peaks is reminiscent of Hokusai’s The Great Wave.
1st Place Photo: Zhuolin Wang, Ph.D.
Judge’s Comments
This black and white image of a lone preening waterfowl captivates the viewer with its natural form, color, and various surfaces. The photographer isolates the subject and its reflection slightly left of center amidst a field of black, providing a satisfying nod to photographic giants, such as Robert Mapplethorpe and Edward Weston.
Honorable Mention Art: Mark Oldland
Judge’s Comments:
This is a great example of economic use of color and brush stroke to express the barrage of rapids, bending tree limbs and agitated sky. While the composition hangs nervously on the salmon and cadmium horizon line that splits the length in half, the artist stacks the right side with a lush and darkening grove of green and black and the frenetic crash of white waves. It is a landscape that is a metaphor for an adventure without resolution, but instead, an important lesson on having a healthy respect for the journey.
3rd place Art: Nicole Seacord
Judges Comments:
These dolphins are both inspired by and emerge from the marbleized paint across the surface of the work. Their difference in scale, their proximity, and their implied eye contact depict an oceanic mother and child portrait. However, their simultaneously reflective and transparent skin maintain a surrealistic push and pull relationship between their positive contours and the negative swirls. Finally, I am attracted to the way their combined form exists in the rectangle like an undulating central heart with appendages that reach toward three of the four sides of our underwater viewfinder. They are buoyant and ebullient.
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