Outstanding work in the Penfield Art Association’s 2015 Spring Show was recognized at a awards ceremony and reception June 2. The one-week show at the Penfield Community Center featured 146 works by 55 PAA members.
Best of Show went to Erika Hutch for her pastel painting By the Water’s Edge (image shown above).
Best Small Work went to Doris Hooker for The Hare.
Best Portrait went to Cecilia Chang for Tom’s Stroke.
Juror’s Awards went to:
Teresa Barlis, Waterwax
Lisa Barzac, Portrait
Michael Gersh, Tuscan Memory
Kathy Houston, Downtrodden
Kathy Lindsley, Cold Snap
Marilyn Nosky, Nature Path Jewels
Ginny Palumbos, Lady
Denise Rizzo, Estella
Teri Silsby, Inspire
Kathy Wagner, Motif #26
Kathy Warren, Eliza’s Home; Enslaved Worker’s Home
Richard Watkins, Estella
George Weiner, Beach Near Provincetown
Rose Welch, Leaves on a Pool
Yeou-jih Yang, The Passage
Merit Awards went to:
Chloe Bennett-Larson, Deep Blue Sea
Alice Chen, Goldfish Searching
Karl Corder, Farm Scene
Debra Donnelly, Winter on the Hudson
Corky Geck, Forest Stream
Terri Geen, Grandpa’s Shed
John Heister, Hint of Spring
Jane June, Untitlted #2
David Munro, Watching Over You
Thinh Nguyen, Untitled #1
Suzanne O’Connell, Watching
Barbara Rice, Remembering Barnaby
Anne Sakmyster, Airborne
Fred Smith, Neon
Norma Weber, Rural Delivery
The judge for this year’s show is Western New York artist Catherine O’Neill. A watercolor painter, she has won numerous awards in local and national art shows and her work has been featured in several books and magazines. O’Neill is an exhibiting member of the Buffalo Society of Artists and the Buffalo Niagara Arts Association, and holds signature membership in a number of watercolor societies, including the American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society, the Transparent Watercolor Society of America, the North East Watercolor Society, the Rocky Mountain National Watermedia Society, Watercolor West, the Watercolor USA Honor Society, the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society and the Niagara Frontier Watercolor Society.
Chair of the show is Thinh Nguyen and co-chair is Ginny Palumbos.