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MFA (Maryland Federation of Art) invites all artists to enter its 5th Street Scenes competition. Any original 2-D or 3-D work that depicts what resonates with you in towns and cities, large and small, will be considered. Works selected will be displayed online in MFA’s Curve Gallery, from February 15 to March 31, 2020. The exhibition chair is Wil Scott.
, Annapolis
American Summer
Amelia Arria
Digital Photography
20"x12"
Morning in Scanno
Amelia Arria
Digital Photography
24"x14"
She Had No Shoes
Elaine Frances Longtemps
Rope, paint, inkjet printing on cotton pieces sewn together, wood bench
40"x33"x33"
websiteTo the Rack
Denis Sivack
Photography: Digital capture, archival pigment print.
16"x20"
Mirror, Wall Figures
Denis Sivack
Photography: Digital capture, archival pigment print.
16"x20"
Black and Blue
Denis Sivack
Photography: Digital capture, archival pigment print.
16"x20"
Vertical
Michael Gouker
Ink on Bristol Board
9"x12"
Wooden Water Towers
Michael Gouker
Watercolor
11"x15"
Brooklyn Gas Station
Paul J Hitchen
Pen & Ink
9"x7"
Barcelona Cab Ride
Roslyn Racanello
Mixed: pastel,paint, metallic wax, glazes w photography
20"x26"
websiteSelf Portrait at Wawa
Roslyn Racanello
Mixed: pastel,paint, metallic wax, glazes w photography
32"x26"
websiteFortress
Mary Opasik
furniture, rake and door parts, aged metals, paint (Wall Assemblage)
19"x14"x5"
websiteGeorgetown II
Sandra Kauffman
Digital Photograph
17"x21"
Domino Sugars
Carol Elaine Ward
digital print
14"x19"
Toiling Up the Mountain (Reference Material Courtesy of CNSAS Italian Mt. & Cave Rescue)
Blandine Marguerite Broomfield
Oil
24"x18"
websiteRestaurant Reflection
Marilyn Lowney Johnson
digital photograph signed on fine art paper framed
17"x15"
websiteThe Market
Marilyn Lowney Johnson
digital photograph signed on fine art paper framed
17"x15"
websiteThe Cats on Park Street
Deirdre Tanton
Digital Art - Giclee Print on Archival Somerset Paper
11"x14"
websitePittsburgh, PA: Allegheny County Courthouse and Old Jail
Guglielmo Botter
Pen and Ink
14"x17"
websitePennsylvania Turnpkike
George Patrick Clagett
Pastel
24"x18"
NY Street
George Patrick Clagett
pastel
24"x18"
Cuba (1/10)
Nina Benashvili
Digital Photography
16"x11"
Morning Moon Over Miami
Frances Tomlinson
Pastel
14"x22"
Adam Davies studied painting before switching to large-format photography. Adam received an EdM from Harvard University and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a recipient of grants from the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the DC Commission on the Arts and has attended residencies at the Chinati Foundation, Creative Alliance, Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo. In 2015, Adam was named as Outstanding Emerging Artist at the DC Mayor’s Arts Awards and was the recipient of the Clarence John Laughlin Award. His exhibitions have featured collaborations with Los Angeles-based musician Alex Zhang Hungtai and Baltimore-based percussionist Adam Rosenblatt. He is currently working with two award-winning authors: Joan Wickersham on a project based upon the 17th-century Swedish shipwreck Vasa and Ivy Pochoda on an exploration of the annual wildflower bloom that borders the highways in downtown Los Angeles. In 2019 he presented his project, Reroutings, at the Mid-Atlantic TED Talk in Washington, DC.
It was an honour and a pleasure to jury Street Scenes and to work with the Maryland Federation of Art. When I think of the topic “street scenes”, my thoughts immediately go to images that surprise or reveal unexpected juxtapositions. Fundamentally, the street is a shared public space that encourages interaction and exploration. While it has structure, it is a place that cannot be controlled. From urban to rural imagery, I looked for submissions that made me curious and encouraged me to look deeper and more closely. I was drawn to works that had a strong sense of colour and design as well as to works that seemed to create a narrative. It was important that they had an inner cohesion, that all elements in the image or object made sense or supported the story. The selected works provide a diversity of imagery and points of view. They include images of streets that range from the chaotic to the deeply structured, from intimate, private stories to the massive and overwhelming spaces of the “bright lights” and the “big city”!