Gold Medal Show: 2010

Linda Vice

The 2010 Gold Medal Show
arrived a few weeks early this year.

Several notable prize winners from the past
were conspicuously absent
(perhaps to generously give everyone else a chance to win)

And the above is my pick for this year's winner.

Because, by comparison,
everything else in the show
just says "Painting" to me,
while this one
feels like a compelling
human presence.






Walter Monastyretsky


I also liked this one,
even if I prefer
to see attractive young women
depicted with their shirts off






Michael Van Zeyl


is certainly challenging himself
with complex arrangements like this one







Lois Raub

I wish this style
of simple, peaceful sculpture
were as prevalent today
as it was a hundred years ago











Stuart Fullerton














Diane Rath


Something about Diane's florals
seems so appropriate for funeral homes

which is fine by me
since I seem to be spending
more and more time in such places








Romel De La Torre

Nobody but Romel
dares to paint
such large, sun lit figures
appropriate to American Impressionism
c. 1910





I love this detail




Judith McCabe Renner
(detail)


I love this detail, too.
Very magical.










Stephanie Weidner












Ray Grzbielski

















Pamela Val Gibson












Linell Beaumont




















Keith Raub

















Jane Ellen Murray








George Freeman









George C. Clark










Diane Hynes




















Chad Aldrin













Clayton J. Beck III










Audry Cramblitt






Chris Miller



(note: these are, of course,
just my selections and opinions,
and are intended to be the first
rather than the last
words on this subject)
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Addendum:
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Sheila Wolfson

... and lo and behold
this was the winner
of both the Gold Medal
and
The People's Choice
Awards.


Which completely surprised me
on two counts.

First - because
the winners are usually
those which are hung
in the most conspicuous places
(above the fireplaces or opposite the gallery door)

Second - because
the winners are usually
paintings that I like.